Mathematics
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Raman, C. V.
Bulletin of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. 1-15.
Calcutta, The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 1909-1918. Fifteen parts in two. 8vo (23.4 x 17.1 cm). Uniform burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spines.
Read more[Leibniz] Grotefend, C. L.
Leibniz-Album aus den Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Hannover.
Hannover, Hahn, 1846. Folio (45.3 x 29.5 cm). [vi], 28 pp. With a nice engraved portrait of Leibniz and one wood-engraving of his house in Hannover. Very nice and highly unusual red velvet binding with elaborate, gilt decorated, embossed decorations and letterings.
Read moreJung, M. B.
De wijnroei- en peilkunde, gemakkelijk en eenvoudig voorgesteld, voornamelijk het werkdadige dezer wetenschap, door vele voorbeelden opgehelderd, ten dienste van ambtenaren bij de in- en uitgaande regten en accijnsen.
Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1842. 8vo (23.1 x 13.8 cm). Half-title, title page, 173 [viii, 164, 3] pp. Original blind wrappers.
Read moreBessel, F. W.
Astronomische Untersuchungen. Erster Band [AND] Zweiter Band. [Complete].
Königsberg in Preussen, Gebrüder Bornträger, 1841-1842. Two volumes in one (26.5 x 21.9 cm). 4to. viii, 314; iv, 308 pp. Contemporary style marbled boards. Red morocco label with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreByrne, O.
New and improved system of logarithms, with a table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 100,000, and by differences, from 1 to 10,000,000. The calculations have been recently made, and afterwards compared with the tables of Callet, Hutton, Vega, Briggs, Gardiner, Taylor, and Babbage. To which is added, an account of the origin, nature and use; and their application to several subjects to which they appertain. Also, an index, containing tables of trigonometrical formulae, (the notation entirely new and simple.)
London, William Day, Lithographer to the Queen, and Queen Dowager, 1838. Tall folio (40.7 x 25.9 cm). Half-title, title page, [vii]-xii, 106, [i] pp.; nine double-sized, partially hand-coloured tables; a few hand-coloured text figures; mounted tabs. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with triple gilt bands; front board with rectangular ruled morocco label with gilt ornamental borders and title. Edges speckled red.
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