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EUCLID.
Elementa Geometriae. 1482
£150,000
First edition of 'the oldest mathematical textbook still in common use today' (PMM) and one of the earliest printed books with geometrical figures. The text is the standard late...
Chancery folio (305 × 207 mm). Recently rebound in full brown calf by Richard Smart of Old English Bindery, spine gilt in compartments, 5 raised bands, concentric... Read more
MORLAND, Samuel, Sir.
The description and use of two arithmetick instruments. 1673
£20,000
First edition of the first book in English on a mechanical calculating machine, and the first separate work on the subject since Napier's Rabdologiae (1617). Nothing more of any...
Small octavo (143 × 90 mm). Modern period-style sheep by Bernard Middleton, double gilt rules, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait... Read more
MOIVRE, Abraham de.
The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probability of events in play. 1718
£6,250
First edition of de Moivre's early and important contribution to the calculus of games of chance and probability theory. His introduction contains an overview of main concepts such...
Quarto (259 × 204 mm). Contemporary tree calf, skilfully rebacked to style, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved vignette on title page, engraved and woodcut... Read more
PORTA, Giovanni Battista della.
Magiae naturalis libri XX. 1589
£5,000
First edition of the complete text in twenty books of Della Porta's major work. Giambattista della Porta (1538–1615) is one of the most interesting figures of early modern...
Folio (296 × 217 mm). Nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled sides, vellum tips. Woodcut title border incorporating lynx at head, author's portrait on verso,... Read more
WHITEHEAD, Alfred North, & Bertrand Russell.
Principia Mathematica. 1925–27
£4,750
Second edition. The first edition of Principia mathematica, the greatest single contribution to symbolic logic for the time, appeared in 1910–13 in a lopsided publication: 750...
3 volumes, octavo. Original publisher's dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cream endpapers. Ownership inscriptions dated December 1932 on front free endpapers.... Read more
EUCLID.
The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements translated from the text of Heiberg 1908
£3,500
First edition thus, rare. "In this edition the notable tenth book on irrational magnitudes was for the first time rendered into English in an intelligible form; and Heath justified...
3 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, sides with two-line border blocked in blind. Folding frontispiece, line diagrams in the text... Read more
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis.
The Game of Logic. 1886
£3,000
First edition, first impression, with the original paper counters and game card in their original envelope. A lovely copy of the book that was Carroll's attempt to introduce formal...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, black coated endpapers. With the original counters. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase and... Read more
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Contributions to the History of Cryptography. [mid-1970s]
£1,500
Unmarked as such, but from the collection of Dr. Carl H. Meyer, co-designer of the Data Encryption Standard (DES); holder of 15 patents in the field of cryptography; author of the...
7 volumes, quarto (291 × 206 mm). First 6 in vari-coloured buckram backed textured paper boards, the last in blue full buckram, titles gilt to spines. Largely... Read more
MOORE, Sir Jonas.
A Mathematical Compendium; 1705
£1,250
Fourth edition. Moore had been involved with the management of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital; his notes were edited by his Ordnance second clerk, Nicholas...
Duodecimo (132 × 79 mm). Contemporary dark calf sewn on four cords, blind-panelled sides, red speckled edges. Folding plate, engravings in text, mathematical... Read more
MULLIGAN, P.
The Independent Navigator, or Mariner's Best Companion. 1828
£1,000
First and only edition. As suggested by the sub-title, Mulligan - who styles himself "Teacher of Navigation and Mental Astronomy, by a New and Approved System" - suggests that he has...
Octavo (214 × 132 mm). Original publisher's half sheep on reddish boards, paper label to the upper board. Folding table laid on linen as frontispiece, tables to... Read more
FABYAN, George.
The Keys for Deciphering the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon, 1916
£325
First edition, uncommon. Cotton heir Col. George Fabyan established his Riverbank Laboratories at Geneva, Illinois in around 1914, as a research facility to pursue his various...
Quarto. Original buff cloth, lettered in black on the upper board, together with a cross keys device. Profusely illustrated, one folding plate, many full-page... Read more
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. 1956
£275
First Edition First Impression. Although intended as the second part of the author's Philosophical Investigations this imposing and interfacia printing a - brilliantly edited work -...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front pastedown otherwise an excellent copy in somewhat tanned dust... Read more
TARSKI, Alfred.
Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics. Papers From 1923 to 1938. 1956
£125
First edition, first impression and the first appearance in English of "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages" one of the most important works of logic and analytic philosophy...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket... Read more
BELL, E. T.
Men of Mathematics. 1939
£65
Second edition.
Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Contemporary brown calf prize binding, spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, crest and double line ruling to boards gilt,... Read more
MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic. [c.1890]
£60
Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred books.
Octavo (185 × 120 mm). Contemporary burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate to front... Read more
