Elements Conic Sections by Simson Robert, Used (15 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1804 Bell & Bradfute worn leather bound new edition with 14 x fold outs (antiquities sedction).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 294 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 177pp. Full leather binding. Gilt titles on red background on spine. Wear to spine leather but titles are legible. Binding secure, spine straight, corners worn. Front hinge tender. Previous owner's name on both front endpapers, along with drawings made in reference to content from the book. Pages otherwise unmarked, with scattered very slight foxing. Volume contains 14 folding plates, clean and intact. Book.

New edition, revised and corrected. A good copy in contemporary leather binding with some wear at spine ends and board tips. Gilt bands on spine. Apart from previous owner's name and date a nice clean copy internally. 253pp. 14 folding plates.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. (translated from the latin original for the use of students of mathematics), Edinburg, printed for James Dickson, and William Creech, 1792 (second edition), rebound in modern cloth with title on red label, about 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches, 284 pages, with 14 folding plates. Cover is very fine but the leather label seems older than the cloth (probably the original) so it shows some wear. Interior is excellent ; very clean, tight and solid, showing some very minor foxing at end, a very light tanning to pages, but no mark, inscription, annotation or underling. All plates are present and in fine condition. A nice copy of this rare book. WARNING ; additional postage will apply for shipping out of North America (parcel weights about more than 1 pounds), please ask directly to seller before command. Thanks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 255 pages. All 14 foldout plates present. Missing half-title page. Hinges firm. Externally wear so Fair Only, Internally Good plus. Loosely laid in 1987 invoice for £70 from a Bristol bookshop.

8vo. pp. 3 p.l. (incl. directions to the binder), 255. half-title wanting? 14 folding engraved plates. later quarter calf (rebound 1897) (front joint cracked, rear joint rubbed, stain to lower title, abrasion to imprint with loss of 2 letters). bookplate of the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers, gilt crest on lower spine & rubberstamp on verso of last leaf). First Edition of the English Translation of the first three books of Simson's Sectionum Conicarum Libri V (1735), an introduction to the treatise of Apollonius of Perga on the subject of conic sections. Simson was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1711 until 1761, during which time he counted among his pupils Colin Maclaurin, Matthew Stewart and William Traill, all of whom later occupied chairs of mathematics in Scottish universities. It was to mathematical scholarship that Simson made his most significant contribution, particularly with respect to the early Greek geometers (Euclid, Pappus of Alexandria, and Apollonius of Perga).

Leather_bound. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. First American edition. "Translated from the Latin Original, Carefully Revised, Corrected and Enlarged". Original binding of full calf, spine ruled in gilt, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 177 pp, binder's directions with publisher's advert on verso, fourteen folding plates. A tight example, some rubbing to the binsing and some scuffing at the outer edges; lacking the first of two front blanks. Internally clean with just a bit of light foxing to the first few leaves.

The first American edition of noted 18th-century British mathematician, Robert Simon's ELEMENTS. and, according to Karpinski, the first American work on conic sections. "In 1735 Simson published 'Sectonium Conicarum Libri V'.which he partly intended as an introduction to the treatise by Apollonius of Perga on the subject. Simson had an aversion to the algebraical treatment of 'conics' that was prevalent, and in his own work returned to the 'purer model of antiquity,' deducing the properties of the various curves without the aid of sumbols" - DNB. OCLC records a printing in Glasgow of 1775, translated by A. Marshall and notes two subsequent 1804 American editions. KARPINSKI, MATHEMATICAL WORKS PRINTED IN AMERICA THROUGH 1850, p.156. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7270. OCLC 11832972, 2320540. DNB, pp.287-88. 278,[2]pp. plus fourteen folding plates. Contemporary tree-calf, gilt morocco label. Contemporary ink signature on endpapers. Slight chipping to spine label and front board, joints worn and tender. Light, even tanning, Plate V and one signature loosely laid in, minor offsetting from plates. A good copy.