Search Results: Mathematics from Milestones of Science Books

Altona: Hammerich, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In: Schumacher's Astronomische Abhandlungen, 1825, 3. Heft, pp. 1-30, Altona, Hammerich- und Heineking'sche Buchdruckerey. Whole volume: 3 parts (Heft 1 to 3), all published, 1823-25, 8vo. (228 x 178 mm), [4], 58, [2] pp.; [6], 112 pp.; [4], 100 pp., with 3 of 12 engraved plates only (lacks all 9 plates in part 2). Contemporary cloth (soiled, foot of spine damaged, head of spine heavily bumped), pages browned (titles stronger) and somewhat soiled, repair to lower margin of plate 3 of part 3, minor, mainly marginal dampstaining to vol. 2. The Gauss paper is complete in itself. --- Kirchner 3475. - Peschel, Gesch. der Erdkunde S. 669. ADB XXXIII 32. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a prize essay by "The Prince of Mathematics" who also devoted much of his time to astronomy and magnetism. The problem solved here is the method of conformal mapping allowed surfaces… Read More

Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, par les soins de Jean Anisson, 1696. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (249 x 190 mm). [20], 181 [3] pp, including first blank, final imprint leaf, title-engraving of French royal arms, 11 numbered folding engraved plates, engraved allegorical head-pieces (one by Le Pautre), engraved tail-piece by G. Audran, engraved initials, woodcut tailpiece, one signed PLS (Pierre Le Sueur). Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered and gilt-decoated in compartments (boards and extremities worn, corners bumped and scuffed, head of spine chipped). Text and plates generally very clean and unstained, light browning and occasional minor spotting to text, author's name added in script to title. Provenance: Collegii Regii Sem. Episcop. Argentin. Soc. Jesu (inscription at bottom of title-page); Lycee Imperiale Strasbourg (stamp to title-page and a few text pages). All in all a fine copy. ---- Norman 1345; Honeyman… Read More

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1723. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum tertii ordinis. [bound after] Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Equite Aurato. Editio Ultima. Cui accedit. Amstalodami: Sumptibus Societatis, 1723. 4to (248 x 193 mm); 2 parts in 1 volume, [26], 484, [8]; [12], 107, [1] pp. Title pages with vignettes (of the first part printed in red and black), 3 engraved folding plates, many tables in the text. Contemporary full leather, spined with gilt morocco label and 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments (hinges strengthened, upper and lower spine repaired, extremities worn, corners bumped), red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers. Internally only little browned, very minor occasional spotting and soiling. Very good, internally fresh and wide margined copy of a rare edition. ---- Gray 12; Wallis 12, Sotheran, Second Supplement I, 5672. - The… Read More

Leiden: Joh. and Herm. Verbeek, 1732. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (247x193 mm.), [8], 344 pp., including title-page with engraved device, printed in red and black and 13 folding engraved plates. Little occasional spotting and browning to text and plates, a few ink stains and annotations in pencil, little worming to lower gutter of first pages not affecting text. Contemporary calf (board corners, hinges and spine ends restored, boards scratched and rubbed). Provenance: Ticket of S. Kearney, bookseller to front pastedown, old inscription "John Seymoure" to title page. Good copy. ---- Babson 204; Wallis 279; Honeyman 2330. Third latin edition, published of Newton's lectures on algebraic notation, arithmetic, the relationship between geometry and algebra, and the solutions of polynominal equations delivered while Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University (1669-1702). The first edition was edited by Newton's successor in the… Read More

Cologne: [Heirs of Heinrich Quentel], 1511. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (204 x 140 mm). 20 unnumbered leaves, gothic type, woodcut diagram on title, large woodcut of the HolyTrinity by or after Lucas Cranach the Elder on title verso, full-page woodcut of arms of Cologne on last page. Signatures: A-E4. Author and printer according to VD16, print year from colophon. Early 20th-century vellum-backed boards with German lettering in manuscript on spine (light dust soiling and browning, inner front hinge partially cracked). Stubs of old index tabs present. Very light browning of text, title-page trifle dust soiled in margins, tiny single wormhole througout, light dampstain to outer fore-margin of few pages. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit (his sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1974, lot 57); Laurence Witten Rare Books, Monroe, CT (Catalogue 6, item 10; bought from Diana Parikian, Oxford, 1989, Catalogue 42, item 40, £700); Erwin Tomash (bookplate to… Read More

Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneisen, 1713. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to (210 x 170 mm). [4], 35 [1], 306 pp. Woodcut title device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams in text, 1 folding plate with woodcut diagrams and 2 folding letterpress tables. Signatures: [pi]2 a-d4 e2, A-2P4 2Q2. Final section on tennis and errata bound-in at front. All pages uncut. Contemporary carta rustica, brown marbled paper spine, hand-lettered paper spine label, original untouched endpapers (slight chipping of spine label, short tear to lower cover, a little chipping at lower joint, minor dust-soiling to cover and paper edges). Minor even browning of text and woodcut plate, lower blank corner of leaf c2 torn, light pale dampstaining to lower corner of first 8 leaves and a few leaves elsewhere, occasional very minor spotting, small wormtrack at upper blank margin of first 5 leaves. Provenance: small sticker of bookseller H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück at rear… Read More

Venice: Filippo di Pietro, for Johannes Cordubensis, 1480. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 13 Nov. 1480. 4to (203 x 150 mm). 216 (of 224) unnumbered leaves. 35 lines, Gothic letter, 2- to 8-line initial spaces. Bound without first blank leaf a1 and final blank leaf y4 as well as the 6 leaves of final gathering 2a of the Logica brevis nova. Signatures: a-v8 A-E8 F6 x8 y4 (-a1, -y4). Bound in 17th century Italian carta rustica, spine titled in manuscript, authors name added in ink on front cover, original endpapers (spine water-stained and damaged by worming, minor chipping at foot, ties gone, dust-soiling of covers). Several leaves preserved uncut at lower and fore-edge; a few short contemporary annotations in faint ink at beginning, foliation added in manuscript throughout. Internally quite crisp and clean throughout, with very minor browning of text (4 leaves of gathering k more heavy); fol. k7 with clean tear at upper corner (no loss); leaves… Read More

Cordoba: for the author by Pedro Arias de la Vega and Domingo Acosta, 1735. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in one volume. [56], lxxxxv, 442, [204] pp., woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, letterpress tables, title to second part, general index at end. Signatures: §-14§2, ¶-24¶2, A-F4, G8, I-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Zzz2, Aaaa-Zzzz2, Aaaaa-Lllll2, A-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Eee2. [Bound with:] SERRANO, Gonzalo Antonio. Geometria selecta, theorica, y practica, con methodo sylogistico mui especial, para facilitar la inteligencia, y demonstracion de los theoremas, y problemas mas excelentes, y utiles para astronomos, cosmographos, geometras, arquitectos, ingenieros pilotos, y otros artifices. Cordoba: printed for the author at la calle del Cistèr, 1736. [6], 56 pp., including half-title, preliminary leaf of introduction, woodcut initials and diagrams. Signatures: [pi]2, A-C4, D-L2. Two works bound in one. Folio (301 x 205 mm).… Read More

Paris / Cambridge / New York: Hermann & Cie. / The Technology Press / John Wiley & Sons, 1948. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (253 x 165 mm). 194, [2] pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in red and black (wrappers a trifle dust-soiled, lower corner of front wrapper with small dog-ear, slight unobtrusive chipping at foot of spine). Text crisp and clean troughout with just a little age-toning. A near fine copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. DSB XIV, p. 347: "[Wiener] has contributed to popularizing a way of thinking in communication theory terms" (DSB). Important contribution to computer technology. The book sees itself as a theory of communication and control processes in machines and living organisms. It is less suitable as a systematic reference work, but it contains important impulses for the architecture of modern calculating machines. - Visit our website to see more images!

Nürnberg: Johann Petreius, 1539. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (195 x 143 mm). [8], 126, [2] pp. Signatures: A-R4. Bound in 18th century German half-calf, blind-tooled spine with 4 raised bands, sprinkled paper-covered boards, blue-dyed edges (slight rubbing to extremities, inner upper hinge repaired and first endpaper renewed). Little dust-soiling and browning of title-page, very minor occasional spotting, faint brownstain to first gathering, oversized woodcut diagram on p. 63 shaved at fore-margin, 3 further woodcuts elsewhere only very slightly affected from trimming, but generally crisp and clean throughout. ---- VD16 S 3115; Honeyman 2795; Graesse, VII, 308; M. Friedman, A History of Folding in Mathematics, p. 67/68; Fleur Richter, Die Ästhetik geometrischer Körper in der Renaissance, Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 60-61. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. The Geometria is one of the oldest treatises on geometry published in the German language.… Read More

Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 1532. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 22 Nov. 1534. Two works in one volume. Folio (323 x 208 mm). 79 (of 80, lacking blank) and 55 (of 56, lacking blank) unnumbered leaves. Signatures: A-E6 F4 G-N6 O4 (-O4); a-k6 (-k6). Gatherings b to k of second work misbound after gathering A of first work. First title with 8-line verse to the reader above Dürer's woodcut monogram, gothic letter, text in single and double columns, more than 150 mostly full-page woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Unsigned leaves a4, e6, f6, i5 split from bifolio and attached to a3, e5, f1, i4 respectively to gain folding leaves (as called for). Errata on k5v. Bound without the final blanks O4 and k6. 19th-century half vellum, spine with hand-lettered paper label (slightly soiled and rubbed). Internally only very little age-toned, a few ink smudges, occasional brown spotting, staining and finger soiling, light dampstaining to lower blank… Read More

Brescia: Giovanni Battista Bossini, 1760. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (285 x 203 mm). xxiv, 208 pp. Allegorical engraved frontispiece by Giampiccoli, also containing the author's portrait in oval, engraved vignette on title-page, large copper-engraved initials, two folding engraved plates. All pages uncut. Contemporary carta rustica (little browned and soiled, corners bumped and scuffed). Little browning and spotting in outer margins, but generally a clean and crisp copy. Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ---- Riccardi I/1, 383:1; Roller-Goodman I, 261; Honeyman 779; Sotheran I, 7079; Cicognara 484 - FIRST EDITION of Cristiani's comprehensive scientific presentation of the history of surveying. Cristiani (1731-1811) was an architect, engineer and mathematician. His present work refers to Galileo, Newton, Castelli, Leibniz, Riccioli, Snell a.o. "Tutte le opere di questo sommo matematico, e ingegnere sono da' tenersi in pregio fra… Read More

Rome: apud Mascardum, 1679. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (141x75 mm). [12], 283 [5] pp., including separate half title to Archimedes' Opera, final blank and 8 folding engraved plates at end. Contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves a little browned. Provenance: Bibliotheca Podolin (ink inscription to title). Good copy of a rare work printed on strong paper. ---- Bibliotheca Mechanica, p.42; Riccardi I, 44; Smith, History of Mathematics, I, 368; DSB II, p.308-9 (Florence ed.). - The Rome edition of Borelli's treatise on conic sections, published in the year of his death. "His edition of book V, VI, and VII of Apollonius' conic sections first appeared in Florence in 1661. In 1672 Borelli was forced to fly Messina with a price on his head as the result of political upheavals there; his redaction of Maurolico's edition of Archimedes, in press at that time, was confiscated by the hostile regime. Borelli was also responsible for an edition of… Read More

Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (341 x 223 mm). [12], 282 pp., including half-title, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater, final blank leaf Qq4, numerous woodcut and typographic text diagrams throughout. Signatures: pi2 a-b2 A-G2 H-Z4 Aa-Qq4. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, spine with 6 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered red morocco label in second compartment, red-sprinkled edges, original endpapers (boards rubbed and scratched, joints partially split but cords sound, wear to extremities, corners bumped). Light pale dampstaining to first 4 leaves, leaf a2 of prelims with paper repair of tears (without loss), very minor occasional spotting, generally quite crisp and clean throughout. Provenance: Sir William Beauchamp Proctor* (his armorial bookplate with motto "tria juncta in uno" to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION of Scarburgh's… Read More

Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1746. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Essai sur les Probabilités de la Durée de la Vie Humaine; d'où l'on déduit la maniere de déterminer les Rentes viageres, tant simples qu'en Tontines: Précédé d'une courte Explication sur les Rentes à terme, ou Annuités... Paris: Guerin Bros., 1746. Finely engraved arms in vignette at head of dedication. 22 Tables in the text. vi, [2], 132, [32], i-xxii, [1] pp. [bound with]: IDEM. Addition a l'Essai sur les Probabilités de la Durée de la Vie humaine... avec quelques Listes ou Ordres de mortalité du genre humaine. Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760. [5], 5-32 pp., 1 folding table. [bound with]: (-). [Drop-title]: Objections faites à M. Deparceiux... sur son Livre des Probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine; avec les… Read More

London: John Murray, 1851. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (221 x 140 mm). xvi, 231 [1]; [3], 376-391 [1]; [3], 2-11 [1] pp., including half title and appendix of two reprints bound in by publisher, 1. The Eleventh Chapter of the History of The Royal Society, by C.R. Weld (London: Richard Clay, 1849) and Mr. Babbage Calculating Machine, by De Morgan (from: The Athenaeum, London, October 14, 1848); four pages of adverts by Babbage at end (undated). Original publisher's blindtooled green cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt (binding weak, spine sunned with upper joint partially split at head, head of spine frayed, corners bumped), original yello endpaper, all pages uncut, a few pages crudely opened. The appendix smaller in size. Text with light even age-toning, half-title and advert pages with faint foxing, a few pencil marking in text. Provenance: William Parsons, 3. Earl of Rosse, Birr Castle (presented to him by the author and inscribed on half-title "To the… Read More

London: Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, 1847. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (236 x 186 mm). [7] viii-xxix [1], 268 pp. Including half-title, four-line woodcut initials, color diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow and black. Contemporary three-quarter calf over cloth, spine-ends and raised bands with gilt-decoration, gilt-lettered red morocco spine-label, original blue endpapers (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Some pale brown spotting of text as usual*, minor age-toning of paper, but in all a better-than-average, crisp and clean copy. ---- FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF BYRNE'S SPECTACULAR RENDERING OF EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY USING FOUR-COLOR PRINTING, AND "THE MOST ATTRACTIVE EDITION OF EUCLID THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN" (Oechslin). The stark use of primary colors was envisaged by Byrne as a teaching aid. "Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four line initial engraved on wood by Mary Byfield: the rest of the page is a unique riot of red,… Read More

Bologna: Clementi Ferroni, 1653. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (228 x 164 mm). [16], 543 [1] pp., half-title, woodcut publisher's device on title, woodcut diagrams in text, historiated woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces, some mispaginations. Contemporary limp vellum, ink-lettered spine, original endpapers (head of spine frayed, vellum over upper hinge partially split, light soiling and rubbing, binding partially cracked between pp. 542/43, first flyleaf trimmed to half width). Text with some uneven browning, occasional minor spotting, small hole in title-leaf not affecting text. Provenance: Francesco Gonnella (old signature on title page extended onto paper patch which replaces former signature), further inscription dated 1711 on title verso; Tito Gonnelli (signed on front pastedown). A very good, wide-margined copy in untouched binding of its time. ---- Norman 419; Cinti 250; Honeyman 650; Riccardi I 325. RARE SECOND ENLARGED… Read More

Leiden: Jean Maire, 1649. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (204 x 156 mm). [12], 336, [4] pp., including final blank leaf, title printed in red and black, woodcut text diagrams, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Signatures: *4 **2 A-2T4 2V2. Bound in contemporary vellum with yapp edges, ink lettering on spine, blue sprinkled edges, original endpapers (vellum cleaned except for hand-lettered spine area, slight bending of lower board). Text with light even browning, occasional pale waterstaining to outer margins. Provenance: Ex Bibliotheca Viennensi (stamp and old ink monogram to title). ---- RARE FIRST LATIN EDITION. Although the original French version was published some years earlier, it was this Latin translation by Frans van Schooten which disseminated Descartes' treatise to the scientific community in Europe. Descartes originally published La Géométrie as an appendix to his Discourse on Method (1637) which he had entrusted to the same printer, Jean Maire. The… Read More

Rome: Francesco Zanetti, 1581. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (321 x 228 mm). [16], 654, [2] pp. Signatures: [cross]8 A-E6 F8 G-GGg6 HHh8. Engraved title, several woodcut diagrams and tables in text, decorated and historiated woodcut initials. Colophon and printer's woodcut device on final leaf 3H8r. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (vellum soiled and browned, closed tear across spine, label removed from lower part of spine). Occasional minor spotting of text, dent at upper right margin through the first 130 pages well outside text area, top corner of leaf Kk6 torn not affecting text, few pages with light browning and foxing, but generally quite clean and bright. Provenance: Turin, Minorites of St. Thomas (library stamps on first page of dedication and inscription on free front endpaper). A very good, unstained and unmarked copy in untouched original binding. ---- Adams C-2098; BL/STC Italian p. 126;… Read More