TEXTBOOKS, MOSTLY ENGLISH, 12 VOLUMES

i. Butterworth, Edmond (d.1814). Butterworth's young arithmeticians instructor containing specimens of writing. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1815, 4to, engraved throughout, contemporary boards with modern red morocco spine and corners, (bought from Schulz-Falster, 1998), [T&W B306], spotted, boards rubbedii. Fisher, George. The instructor; or, young man's best companion: containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic [&c.]... new edition. London: Dean & Munday and T. Tegg, [advert leaf dated 1822], woodcut frontispiece, one engraved plate, modern half calf, [T&W F74]iii. Lardner, Dionysius (1793-1859). The first principles of arithmetic and geometry. London: Longman, [&c.], 1835, original cloth, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Michael Phelps, 1976), [T&W L30], binding repairediv. Idem. The cabinet cyclopaedia... a treatise on arithmetic... new edition. London: Longman, [&c.], 1836, engraved additional title, contemporary red half calf, (Charles William Hamilton, bookplate; bought from Michael Phelps, 1993), [T&W L31]v. Nesbit, Anthony (1778-1859). A treatise on practical mensuration. York: Thomas Wilson for Longman [&c.], 1840, a few engraved plates, contemporary half roan, [T&W N22], spotting and soiling, binding wornvi. Thomson, James Bates (1808-1883). Key to Thomson's treatise on arithmetic. Belfast: Simms and McIntyre, 1844, contemporary calf, [not in T&W], binding markedvii. Wallace, J. A key containing solutions of all the questions in Gray's introduction to arithmetic... new edition. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1856, green advert slip tipped in, contemporary calf, [not in T&W]viii. Byrne, Oliver (1810-1880). The young dual arithmetician... second edition. London: Spon, 1871, last section printed in red, original cloth, [T&W B318], binding wornix. Whittaker,  Edmund Taylor (1873-1956) and Robinson, George. The calculus of observations. Glasgow: Blackie, 1924, folding tables, original cloth, [T&W W45]x. Norris, Earl Bertram (1882-1966) and Smith, Kenneth Gardner (1873-1940). Shop mathematics part I. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1924, original cloth, [T&W N45]xi. Haney, John D. The expert calculator. New York: Platt & Nourse Co., n.d., original cloth, [T&W H13]xii. Welchman, William Gordon (1906-1985). Introduction to algebraic geometry. Cambridge: University Press, 1950, original cloth, [T&W W23]

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