Lot 826
  • 826

HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS, GREECE AND ROME, 9 VOLUMES

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200 - 300 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 7 works, comprising:
i. Delambre, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (1749-1822). Über die Arithmetik der Griechen. Translated by Johann Josef Ignaz von Hoffmann Mainz: Florian Kupferberg, 1817, 8vo, FIRST GERMAN EDITION, 1 folding table, original blue wrappers re-backed, (bought from Schulz-Falster, 2001), [T&W D29], browningii. Smith, David Eugene (1860-1944). Mathematics. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1923, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Edward T. Newell (president of the American Numismatic Society 1916-1941), original blue cloth, [T&W S136], bumped iii. Nicomachus of Gerasa. Introduction to arithmetic. Translated by Martin Luther D'Ooge (1839-1915). New York: Macmillan Company, 1926, 4to, FIRST EDITION, original green cloth, spine gilt, [T&W N38], minor browning and wear, bumped iv. Apollonius of Perga. Conics, Translated into English from the Greek by R. Catesby Taliaferro. 1939, 4to, 3 volumes, typescript, cloth-backed wrappers, spine label, previous ownership annotations in pen and pencil, [not in T&W], wrappers worn v. Reidemeister, Kurt (1893-1971). Die Arithmetik der Griechen. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1940, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original green wrappers, [T&W R64]vi. Neugebauer, Otto (1899-1990). The exact sciences in antiquity. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1951, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, 14 photolithographic plates, original cream wrappers printed in black and red, uncut, [T&W N25], wrappers worn and browning vii. Hunger, Hebert (1914-2000) and Vogel, Kurt (1888-1985). Ein Byzantinisches Rechenbuch des 15. Jahrhunderts. Vienna: Böhlaus, 1963, 4to, 1 folding table, 25 loose folding tables, original yellow wrappers, previous ownership inscription in ink on upper wrapper, modern folding cloth box [not in T&W]

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