Daniel Adams

Second revised edition of one of the most popular mathematical textbooks in the early United States, with extensive contemporary figuring.

• Daniel Adams (American).
• Leominster, Massachusetts: Adams & Wilder, 1802.
• Quarto.
• 216 pages, collated complete.
• Includes various charts throughout.
• Contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf, "Isaac Farley his / property bought January 12 / 1804 of Leonard Whiting price 5/3 / the twentieth year of his age."
• Bound with original sheepskin-backed marbled boards.

"What will be a man's wages for 6 months, at 43 cents per day, working 5 1/2 days per week?"

"Judged by the number of editions produced, The Scholar's Arithmetic attained second place in popularity among the arithmetics published in America in the period from 1800 to 1825," says historian Louis C. Karpinski (133). He further notes that, though Daniel Adams included blanks under the problems for readers to do their own sums, "thrifty New Englanders continued to use" the text, even after past pupils filled them with figuring (Karpinski, 134). This copy is a prime example of a student using all the space afforded to them to work out the solutions to copious math problems.