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By: ALEKSANDROV, A. D., et al., eds.
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Cambridge, MA:, The MIT Press, (1977).: 1977
Seller ID: S9388
Second edition, second printing (paperback issue). 3 volumes. 8vo. Various pagination. Figs., tables, bibliog., index. Pictorial wrappers. Ownership signature of Joseph Juarez. Very good. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Stanford:, Stanford University Press, (2002).: 2002
Seller ID: BL1744
ISBN: 0804732604
First printing. 8vo. xv, 293 pp. Illustrations, index. Blue cloth, white stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. Rare in jacket. ISBN: 0804732604 First Edition. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles:, University of California Press, 1994.: 1994
Seller ID: S12953
ISBN: 0520081439
8vo. x, 291 pp. Index. Maroon gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN 10: 0520081439 View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Washington, DC:, Mathematical Association of America, (1994).: 1994
Seller ID: S11581
ISBN: 0883850885
Series: MAA Notes no. 34. 4to. xxvii, 209 pp. Illus. figs. diag.; owner's ink inscription ffep, 2 minor ink marginal notes (p. xxv), Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0883850885 / 0-88385-088-5 View more info
By: ARCHIMEDES (ca. 287-212 B.C.); PEYRARD, Francois (trans.; 1760-1822).
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: Paris:, Francois Buisson, 1807.: 1807
Seller ID: S10222
4to. xlviii, 601, [1] pp. Engraved frontis., half-title, 2 engraved folding plates, 1 folding chart, errata, numerous woodcut text illus.; some browning, occasional foxing. Modern antique-style half brown calf over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped red leather spine label, gilt-stamped spine panels. Fine. RARE. FIRST EDITION. Peyrard was the librarian of the Ecole Polytechnique from 1795 to 1804 and is best known for his translations of Archimedes and Euclid. Falling into serious disagreement with the military governor of the school, General Lacuee, Peyrard fell from favor and his po... View more info
By: Archimedes, ca. 287-212 B.C.
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Paris:, Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard, (1960).: 1960
Seller ID: S10223
Second edition. Two volumes. 4to. lix, [1], 374 (+374 a-c); (375)-763 [1] pp. Frontispieces, numerous diagrams, index. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Scarce. The collected works of Archimedes as edited by Paul Ver Eecke. View more info
By: ARNOLD, B. H.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ:, Prentice-Hall, 1962.: 1962
Seller ID: S9967
8vo. 144 pp. Black cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Fine. View more info
By: BALL, W.W. Rouse (1850-1925).
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York:, Dover, n.d.:
Seller ID: S11582
Reprint of 1908 edition. 12mo. xxiv, 522 pp. Index. Printed wrappers; ink initials on cover, rubbed. Bookplate of Barnabas Hughes, ex-library stamps on title. Good. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Barcelona:, From the Author, 1990.: 1990
Seller ID: BL4146
4to. 83 ff. Spiral wrappers. Very good. "My study consists . . .of some parts of a manuscript of Onofre J. Novellas (1787-1849), a local mathematician, in which I have found some influences of Hoene-Wronski's philosophy of mathematics." View more info
By: BARR, Stephen.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York:, Crowell, (1965).: 1965
Seller ID: S3552
Sm. 8vo. 164 pp. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket with small chip at bottom edge. Very good. View more info
By: BARR, Stephen.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York:, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1965).: 1965
Seller ID: S3628
208 x 145 mm. 8vo. [x], 164 pp. Figs. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Cambridge:, Harvard University Press, 1927.: 1927
Seller ID: S1200
8vo. vii, 209 pp. 29 figs.; top corners crushed, affecting corners of pages. Original green cloth; 1 inch tear at hinge top. Good. FIRST EDITION. A work on differential equations based on Poincare's theorems. First Edition. View more info
By: BATEMAN, Harry (1882-1946).
Price: $275.00
Publisher: In: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume XXI. Cambridge:, University Press, 1912.: 1912
Seller ID: S3077
280 x 229 mm. 4to. Pages 123-128; 171-196; 257-280. [Entire volume: vi, 481 pp.] Full brown cloth; lightly freckled, spine ends frayed. Blind stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. Very good. FIRST EDITIONS. "General theories had little attraction for Bateman; he was a master of the special instance. Much of his work consisted of finding special functions to solve partial differential equations. . .. Bateman's most significant single contribution to mathematical physics was a paper (1909) in which, following the work of Lorentz and Einstein on the invariance of the equations ... View more info
By: BELL, E. E.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oxford, et al.:, Pergamon Press, 1966.: 1966
Seller ID: S10099
8vo. 47-109 pp. Plates, figs. Printed wrappers; spine frayed. Library stamp on front cover. Good. View more info
By: BELL, Eric Temple (1883-1960).
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York & London:, McGraw-Hill, 1945.: 1945
Seller ID: S9013
Second edition. 8vo. xiii, 637 pp. Notes, index. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York:, Dover, (1969).: 1969
Seller ID: S9091
Reprint. 8vo. xiii, 166 pp. Figs., bibliog., index. Pictorial wrappers. Ownership signature of Dexter Strawther. Very good. ISBN: 48662210X View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Basel, Switzerland:, Birkhauser, 1987.: 1987
Seller ID: S11037
ISBN: 3764312130
Series: Die Gesammelten Werke der Mathematiker und Physiker der Familie Bernoulli. 8vo. xxvii, 457 pp. Frontispiece, index. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth, dust-jacket; rear jacket a bit smudged. Bookplate. Very good. ISBN: 3764312130 View more info
By: BESSEL, Franz Friedrich Wilhelm.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: [Berlin]:, [c. 1822].: 1822
Seller ID: S11042
Offprint. 8vo. 6 pp. Original blue wrappers; spine ends slightly chipped, rear cover slightly stained. Very Good. RARE. Bessel (1784-1846) was a German astronomer "whose works laid the foundations for a better determination than any previous method had allowed of the scale of the universe and the sizes of stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies." He determined the positions of over fifty thousand stars, and was the first to correctly measure the parallax. "Much credit for the final establishment of a scale for the universe in terms of and terrestrial distances, which depends vit... View more info
By: BEZOUT, Etienne.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Paris:, Chez Courcier, "L'an VIII de la Republique francaise" [c. 1799].: 1799
Seller ID: S11043
Vol. four (of six) only. "Nouvelle edition." 8vo. viii, 356, [2] pp. Five fold-out plates. Quarter gilt-stamped leather over brown paper-backed boards, purple place-keeping ribbon; spine edges rubbed, left edge slightly cracked. Very good. View more info
By: BION, Nicolas (circa 1652-1733).
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London:, Holland Press, (1972).: 1972
Seller ID: S6727LV
Tall 4to. (viii), 325, [ads 1] pp. 30 plates. Black cloth, dust-jacket; corners bumped, jacket sunned and chipped. Ownership signature. Very good. Reprint of the Second and best English Edition. Translated from the French by Edmund Stone. The superb plates illustrate many fine instruments, including the telescope, quadrant, sun dial, compass, the pendulum clock, various astronomical instruments, and much more. See: DSB, II, pp. 132-133. View more info
