Trigonometry, Signed (4 results)

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 2017. Near Fine book. 8vo., 40 pp., bound in publishers stiff illustrated wraps. INSCRIBED to fellow poet Kelly Cherry inside front cover. Text is clean and unmarked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth, First Edition, 102pp. Signed by author to title page. Condition: Very Good Minus. Pages age-toned. Some marks to covers. Lucien Augustus Wait (1846-1936) was a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. The book covers "Plane Trigonometry" and "Spherical Trigonometry". OCLC 85199547. Signed by author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original leather spine and plain boards, about 100 leaves with manuscript exercises, examples, problems in plane trigonometry and surveying. Crude color drawings illustrate several of the surveying problems. Signed "Robert L. Rogers, Highlands School, March 7, 1837." Moderate scuffing and soiling to covers, 1 leaf loose, else about very good Apparently a complete basic course in trigonometry and land surveying. Cursive handwriting is neat and text and geometric figures are laid out in a careful and aesthetic pleasing manner. An interesting example of early nineteenth-century educational practice. Provenance: part of a group of materials from a local estate with ancestral family connections to the Rogers of Highlands, Maryland (other addresses include Marriottsville and Forest View).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised and Improved with Additions of Villa and Schoolhouse Architecture. H. Austin, Architect, and Henry Barnard, Esq Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Burnham 1845. 15 x 11.5", 96pp, 50plates plus frontis, marbled eps, full leeather, well worn, spotted, rubbed, warped, corners bumped & worn, spine label chipped with some lettering missing, front inner hinge cracked, water stained, foxing, ink inscription, tissue guard at frontis torn, smudging, stains, tears, creased corners, majority of plates with tears, last few blank pp have pencil architectural drawings. Bad, sad shape, but still scarce. Signed by Author(s).