Boston et al. Pearson, [2013]. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 409, [1]; pictorial boards, fine. This book "is designed to introduce readers to the overall themes and methodology of mathematics through the detailed study of one particular facet: number theory." More
London: printed for the Society by Mead & Powell, 93, Whitechapel, 1839. 16mo, pp. 37, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Founded in 1800, the Methodist Sion Chapel was in the notoriously squalid Whitechapel section of London. Not in OCLC. More
Paris: Bobee et Hingray, 1832. 8vo, pp. [4] ads, [2], iv, 210; orig. blue wrappers, paper label on spine; edges curled, moderate wear, good or better. Contains grammar instruction, exercises, dialogues, sample letters of commerce and a long table of verbs. Popular manual, first appearing in the 1700s and in..... More
Manchester: S. Johnson; Liverpool: T. Johnson, 1839. 12mo, pp. 360; woodcut vignette on title-p., contemporary full speckled calf neatly rebacked, new morocco label on spine. Includes selections from The Rambler, The Adventurer, The World, and The Gentleman's Magazine, as well as poetry by Elizabeth Carter, Hannah More, Mathew Prior, and..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, [2001]. Large 8vo, pp. 96; 88 illustrated puzzles; printed paper covered boards; fine, dust jacket near fine with a touch of sticker residue. More
Camborne: An Lef Kernewek, 1968. Third edition, 8vo, pp. 34; text printed from typescript; original yellow printed wrappers, rust stains around staples, general light shelf wear, previous owner's ink notes throughout, including upper cover. Introduction by E.G. Retallack Hooper. OCLC locates one copy in the United States, at Brigham Young..... More
New York: H. D. Robinson, 1835. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 198; original terracotta muslin-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. An alphabetical list of nearly 200 words evoking philosophic discussion. An alphabetical list of nearly 200 words evoking philosophic discussion. Some of the entries are as long as 4..... More
New York: Unknown, 1847. First edition; 12mo; pp. [3], 4-198; illustrated with an occasional diagram; original blindstamped brown cloth with spine stamped in gilt; very good with occasional spotting and a tiny dampstain to the lower cover. Gift inscription dated Denver, 1925 on the front free endpaper. An attempt to..... More
Tiverton: Gregory, Son, & Tozer, [1892]. 8vo, pp. 394, [2]; genealogical charts; original plum cloth, gilt-stamped spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings; spine faded to brown, corners a bit bumped; later (1906) inscription to the Society on ffep, else interior fine. More
Cambridge and Boston: George Nichols and B. B. Mussey and Co., 1848. First edition 12mo, pp. v, [3], 136; original black cloth, paper label on spine; text in Greek and English; mild staining, spine sunned, text clean and sound; bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason. E. A. Sophocles was a native..... More
Walworth: printed by J. Packer, Albion Place, [1835]. 16mo, pp. 22, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers and donors. Not in OCLC. More
Washington City: printed and published by Anderson and Meehan, Columbian Office, 1822. First edition, 8vo, pp. 31, [1]; uncut; stitched, as issued; wrappers wanting; very good. This copy given to David Choate by Thomas Sewall in in Essex, Mass., with a note in ink to that effect. Sewall was a...... More
Providence: E. L. Freeman & Son, state printers, 1871. 8vo, pp. 14. [2]; self-wrappers, side-stapled, as issued; lightly soiled, very good. More
New York: William R. Jenkins, 1888. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], iv, 185, [3]; 15 (ads), [1]; text in English, pin yin, and hanzi, cloth backed burgundy paper boards, boards rubbed and bumped, text clean and sound. Intended to help both students of Cantonese and English, with hanzi glosses for..... More
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. printed for the author by G.M. Davison, 1822. First edition. 8vo; pp. 423, [3]; illustrated throughout with numerous diagrams, tables, and charts; original calf, spine ruled in three compartments with a red morocco label; very good with a recent address label on the front pastedown and an..... More
[San Francisco]: Springer, [2005]. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 227, [3]; diagrams in text; yellow paper covered boards; pen annotations in text, top edge damp stained, good. Part of the Undergraduate texts in Mathematics series. More
Stockport: printed by James Lomax & Sons, Underbank, 1840. 16mo, pp. 12; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Long account of Joseph Myer, Esq., treasurer of the Stockport Sunday School, and his 50-year tenure. Stockport is a market and industrial town just southeast of Manchester. University of Manchester..... More
Pittsburgh: Johnston & Stockton, 1848. 12mo, pp. 203, [1]; original leather-backed blue paper-covered boards; boards soiled and worn, lower part of upper boards worn away, tidemark on second half of text, owner's marks on endpapers, good and sound. A popular and much reprinted mathematical instruction book. Stockton 230 for first..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 2 volumes, large 4to, pp. xxii, [2], 368; 452; portrait frontispieces, plates throughout; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, light shelf wear, volume 2 upper cover a...... More
Berlin: Siegfried Mittler, 1869. 12mo, removed from binding, pp. [4], 41; 33 plates of stenography; edges dyed red, green wrapper residue near spine, good and sound. Stolze's version of shorthand was first published in 1841 and was one of two commonly used systems throughout the German-speaking region. His son Franz..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., [1948]. First edition, 2 vols., 12mo, xviii, 123, [1]; text illustrations; full tan cloth, signed by the author on free endpaper of vol. 1, with ownership signature of Rodney T. Hood; fine in chipped and suntoned dust jackets. A classic introduction to the topic, which..... More
Andover, [Mass.]: Gould and Newman, 1834. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 256; original cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards; printed label on spine; ink ownership inscription of Robert Hitchcock on front free endpaper, pencil inscription of Ebenezer Alden Jr; covers slightly rubbed; board edges and spine extremities scuffed; textblock toned; otherwise very..... More
Des Moines: F. W. Palmer, State Printer, 1864. 8vo, pp. iv, 118, [2]; fine copy in original tan printed wrappers. Includes an act to authorize the teaching of German, or other language, in the common schools; an act prohibiting the exclusion of the Bible from the schools of the state;..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 280, [8]; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine a bit toned, extremities rubbed from shelf wear; front joint somewhat weak, else interior mostly fine. More
[n.p.]: Mathematical Association of America, [2012]. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 271, [1]; printed paper boards; fine. "A showcase of some of the best activites and student outcomes of the Institute. Based on 26 essays and eight additional pieces, concerning a wide variety of mathmatical tidbits, teasers and treasures." More
