Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
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WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1226 EUCLID’S ELEMENTS, with Dissertations to encourage their Critical Examination, as the most effectual means of establishing a Juster Taste on Mathematical Subjects, than that which at present prevails, by JAMES WILLIAMSON, pr., Fellow of Hertford College, with diagrams, 2 vols. 4to., old calf, or, old hf. calf, 10s 6d Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1781-8 ‘A strictly literal translation, containing thirteen out of the fifteen books generally ascribed to Euclid.’ 1227 ELEMENTS: the first 6th and the llth and 12th Books, chiefly from the Text of Dr. SIMSON, designed, by means of Symbols to facilitate the Acquirement of Geometry, by JACKSON MUSPRATT WILLIAMS, pr., 8vo. cl., 3s 1829 1228 ELEMENTS, Books I-VI, XI and XII, from the Text of ROBERT SIMSON, M.D., ed. in the Symbolical Form, by R. BLAKELOCK, diagrams, obl. 8vo. cl., uncut, 4s 1831 With large margins to allow for the working-out, of problems. 1229 NEw EDITION, diagrams, 12mo. cl., 2s (p. 6s) 1860 1230 ELEMENTS, chiefly from the Text of DR. Smmson, with Notes, Geometrical Exercises, and Intro. on the History of Geometry, by ROBERT POTTS, first edition, diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4s Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1845 ANOTHER Copy, with Appendix, containing Additional Notes, a Tract on Transyersals, and Hints for the Solution of Problems, etc.—2 vols. 8vo. cl., uncut (Appendix sewn), 6s ibidem, 1845-7 ‘The merits of his edition of Euclid consisted in a clear arrangement and division of the ecmponent parts of the propositions, and in the admirable collection of notes.’—D. N. B. — NEw EDITION, corrected and improved, diagrams, 8vo. cl. (some ink-marks), 3s 6d 1861 ScHOOL EDITION, diagrams, feap. 8vo. cl., 2s (p. 4s 6d) 1872 , The First VI Books of the ELEMENTS of, in which COLOURED DIAGRAMS and SYMBOLS are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners, by OLIVER BYRNE, printed by Whittingham, with numerous coloured illustrations, cr. 4to. cl., g.e. (somewhat foxed) ; SCARCE, 1131 1232 1233 1234 at. as W. Pickering, 1847 1235 ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY [Books I-VI, XI-XII], edited by HENRY MARTYN TayLor, F.R.S., vignettes, thick 12mo., cl., 2s 6d University Press, Cambridge, 1895 1236 — ELEMENS, expliquez d'une maniere nouvelle et tres-facile, avec l’usage de chaque proposi- tion pour toutes les parties de Mathématiques par [C. F. M.] DECHALLES, S$.J., nouvelle 4d., par JACQUES OZANAM; with numerous folding plates, large 12mo. fine copy in contemporary calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 7s 6d 1730 : EUCLIDE MEGARENSE .. . Solo Introduttore delle Scientie Mathematice,'diligentemmente rassettato, et alia integrita ridotto, par NICOLO TARTALEA [TARTAGLIA], con una ampla exposi- tione dello istesso tradottore di nuovo aggiunta, ecc.; with numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. sound clean copy in contemporary limp vellum (RARE), £1. Is Venetia, G. Bariletto, 1569 ‘Travail estimé. Les deux traductions dont s’est servi Tartaglia sont celle de Campano et celle de Bart. Zamberto.’—- Brunet, who does not mention the above edition. 1238 — ELEMENTI della GEOMETRIA PIANA, Libri VI, nuovamente illustrati [per STEFANO ELIA]; with diagrams, sm. 8vo. old vellum, 3s 6d f Napoli, 1736 THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION: Die SEcusS ERSTE BUCHER EUCLIDIS | vom anfang oder grund der Geometrj. In welchen der rechte grund | nitt allain der Geometr] (versteh alles kunstlichen | gwisen | und vortailigen gebrauchs des Zirckels | Linials oder Richtscheittes und andrer werckzeiige | so zu allertaj abmessen dienstlich) sonder auch der fiirnemsten stuck und vortail der Rechenkhunst furgeschriben und dargethon [sic] ist. Auss Griechischer sprach in die Teiitsch gebracht | aigentlich erklirt ee . durch WILHELM HOLTZMANN ; with diagrams, folio, gothtc letter, old boards (partly browned, title mounted, and some ll. mended); RARE, £1. Is Basel, J. Kiindig, 1562 THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF EUCLID. : CLAVIUS (Christophorus, S.J.) COMMENTARIA in EUCLIDIS ELEMENTA GEOMETRICA, et in SPHARICA THEODOSH, quibis accessit explicatio Sinuum, Tangentium et Secantium cum Canonibus. TRACTATIO TRIANGULORUM rectilineorum et sphericorum. Omnia, correcta et aucta ; with numerous diagrams, folio, old stamped vellum (some ll. browned), £1. 5s Moguntice, 1612 Lasr AND Best Epition of the most esteemed of the older editions and commentaries of Euclid. —:; GIORDANO (Vitale) EUCLIDE RESTITUTO, overo gliantichi Elementi Geometrici ristaurati, e facilitati ; with numerous diagrams, folio, parchment, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 1237 1239 1240 1241 HBus:, 9s Loma, 1680 1242 : SCHEMATA GEOMETRICA, ex Euclide et aliis, Tabulis A‘neis expressa in Usum Tironum; 47 plates, obl. 4to. hf. calf, 4s i Oxon., Typ. Clar., 1806 1248 EULER (Johann Albrecht), Paullus FRISIUS, et Laurentius BERAUD: DISSERTATIONES SELECT, quee ad Imp. Scientiarum Petropol. Academiam An. 1755 misse sunt; cium ELECTRICI- TATIS CAUSSA et THEORIA, Premio proposito, quereretur; with plate, large 12mo. boards (rare), 8s 6d Petropoli, 1757 1244 EULER (Leonhard) L’ARITHMETIQUE RAISONNEE et DEMONTREE: Ouvres posthumes; trad. par DANIEL BERNOULLI, corrigée et considerablement augmentée par J. L. LAGRANGE, 8vo. old calf gilt, with bookplate of Dr. Richard Congreve (Positivist), 10s Berlin, 1792 COMMENTATIONES ARITHMETICA COLLECT, auspiciis Acad. Imp. Scientiarum Petropol. edd. P. H. et NIcoLAUS FUSS ; insunt plura INEDITA, TRACTATUS de NUMERORUM DOCTRINA Capp. XVI, aliaque, 2 vols. roy. 4to. hf. bound, with auto. of Prof. Rh. Lipschitz (SCARCE), £2. 2s Petropoli, 1849 Including an ‘ Eloge’ by Nicolas Fuss, and an ‘Index systématique et raisonné des ceuvres arithmétiques d’Euler’, contained in the above 2 vols. (pp. 29) by Bouniakovosky and Tchebychev. 1246 — LETTERS toa GERMAN PRINCESS, on Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy, trans. by HENRY HUNTER, D.D., with Original Notes, and GLossAry of Foreign and Scientific Terms, plates, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf (joints of v. I cracked), with bookplate of Joseph Guilt, F.S.A., 5s 1795 1245
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