Mathematics Practical Use, First Edition (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The pages are clean and bright. The binding is tight. The covers look great with only superficial creasing. There are sparse markings on the first few pages. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Barnes & Noble, 1962. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new with a hole punch in the front cover to the contents page, and light edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. xii, 168, 42, 112 pages. Original publisher's cloth backed boards over which has been pasted a covering of plain cloth. Lacks all before title page. Portions of the mathematical tables have been fingered and soiled. An entirely uncut copy. A very sound working copy or one that could be re-bound to advantage.

First edition. xvii, [1], 398pp. With a half-title and eleven engraved folding plates. Uncut and largely unopened in contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Sylvester Lord Glenbervie to FEP. A crisp copy of the first edition of Church of England clergyman Samuel Horsley's (1733-1806) primer on the fundamental principles of mathematics in three parts, 'Arithmetic of Fractions', 'Trigonometry, plane and Spherical', and 'Projections of the Sphere'. The tracts were first composed 'without any design for publication, for the use of a young Gentleman, a Student of Christ-Church' and afterwards 'given to the University of Oxford.' Horsley additional notes that 'this volume is to be considered also, though first published, as the Third and last in the order of the subject, of Three Volumes of Elementary Geometry, to be issued one after another, with all convenient speed, from the University Press'. Sylvester Douglas, first Baron Glenbervie (1743-1823), British politician and lawyer, sometime Chief Secretary for Ireland (1793-1794). Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second issue. 8vo (23 x 14.5 cm): (6) (title, dedication, advert, index), viii, 408, 32pp. Numerous copper-engraved illustrations extending into the margins. Lack front free endpaper. Good copy in contemporary calf backed boards, ends of spine worn. The pages are uncut which is important in this book as many of the copper engraved diagrams extend well into the margins beyond the text block. The only other copy of this book I have seen was cut with loss to parts of these diagrams. Thomas Malton the elder (1726-1801) was an architectural draughtsman. His more common book "A Compleat Treatsie on Perspective" was first published a year later in 1775. This appears to be a second issue when compared to the Bodleian copy. Two further booksellers are listed in the publication details, and some of the errata in the Bodleian copy have been corrected in this copy. - To see our full mathematics stock click on"Mark Westwood Books PBFA" and see Mathematics in the list of catalogues.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION; leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (22cm x 13cm x 3.5cm), pp. [2], xxiii, [1], 410, (2). English text. Bound in contemporary half leather, with marbled paper-covered boards, initial and terminal blanks present, illustrated the engraved plates, tables and charts throughout. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the spine sympathetically re-backed. Some light browning and toning, but the textblock largely well-preserved copy. Previous owner signatures to front pastedown and fep. An extremely rare work.