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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS - SURVEYS, 20 WORKS IN 23 VOLUMES
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- A collection of 20 works in 23 volumes, comprising:
i. Suter, Heinrich (1848-1922). Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Zurich: Orell Füssli & Co., 1873-1875, 2 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding plates, re-backed retaining original spine, (bought from Jonathan Hill, 1994), [T&W S218], spotting, hinges startingii. Boyer, Jacques (born 1869). Histoire des mathématiques. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, engraved plates, re-backed retaining parts of original wrappers, [T&W B219], iii. Ball, Walter William Rouse (1850-1925). A short account of the history of mathematics. London: Macmillan and Co. 1901, 8vo, third edition, red cloth gilt, previous ownership inscription, [T&W B83], spotting and browning, hinges slightly starting, boards with minor soiling iv. Smith, David Eugene (1860-1944). History of modern mathematics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1906, 8vo, fourth edition, enlarged, green cloth, spine gilt, [T&W S134], minimal spotting and browning confined to endpapersv. Fink, Karl (1851-1898). A brief history of mathematics. Translated by Wooster Woodruff Beman (1850-1922) and David Eugene Smith (1860-1944). Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1910, 8vo, third revised edition, original red cloth gilt, [T&W F7]vi. Cajori, Florian (1859-1930). A history of mathematics. New York: Macmillan & Company, 1913, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, later issue, original blue cloth, spine gilt, [T&W C5], spine sunned vii. Ball, Walter William Rouse (1850-1925). A primer of the history of mathematics. London: Macmillan and Co., 1914, Small 8vo, fourth edition, 14 pp. publisher’s catalogue, green cloth boards, [T&W B82], boards slightly soiledviii. Cajori, Florian (1859-1930). A history of mathematics. New York: Macmillan, 1919, 8vo, second edition, revised and enlarged, original red cloth, spine gilt, [T&W C6], spine sunned ix. Smith, David Eugene (1860-1944). History of mathematics. Boston: Ginn and Co. 1923-1925, 8vo, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, original red cloth, [T&W S133], spines faded x. Sullivan, John William Navin (1886-1937). The history of mathematics in Europe. London: Oxford University Press, 1925, small 8vo, FIRST EDITION, later impression, portrait frontispiece, original red cloth, sections of original dust-jacket pasted in at front and rear, [T&W S214]xi. Archibald, Raymond Clare (1875-1955). Outline of the history of mathematics. Lancaster, PA: Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 1932, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, pictorial boards with title label, [T&W A91], minor browning, residue from removed book-label, boards slightly soiled, spine cracking xii. Smith, David Eugene and Ginsburg, Jekuthial Smith. A history of mathematics in America before 1900. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1934, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket, [T&W S145]xiii. Sarton, George (1884-1956). The study of the history of mathematics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936, 8vo, first edition, red cloth, spine gilt, [T&W S15], p.9 torn edge with some loss to margin, spine sunned xiv. Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960). The development of mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945, 8vo, second edition, original red cloth, spine gilt, [T&W B128]xv. Struik, Dirk Jan (1894-2000). Concise history of mathematics. New York: Dover Publications, 1948, 2 volumes, small 8vo, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, tan cloth, [T&W S207], browning, boards soiled xvi. Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960). Mathematics. Queen and servant of science. London: Bell, 1952, 8vo, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, original green cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket [T&W B130], dust-jacket with some wear and chipping xvii. Ocagne, Philibert Maurice d’ (1862-1938). Histoire abrégée des sciences mathématiques. Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 1952, 8vo, second edition, paper wrappers, [T&W O19], bumpedxviii. Eves, Howard Whitley (1911-2004). An introduction to the history of mathematics. New York: Rinehart, 1953, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original green cloth printed in white and black, [T&W E23], boards slightly soiled xix. Coulson, Charles Alfred (1910-1974). The spirit of applied mathematics. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 28 October 1952. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953, 8vo, original grey wrappers printed in blue, [T&W C190]xx. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Historical Accounting Literature. London: Mansell Information, 1979, 4to, reprint, two additional supplements loose, tan cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, [not in T&W]
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