A Book of Curves by E. H. Lockwood - 1967

Chicago IL: American School of Correspondence, 1921. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Set of four books, parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the course. Preserved in each book is the certificate of completion (certified exam grade form, from the school) of the previous owner (circa 1921). He passed the course. All are intact with some general wear. Typed name of previous owner attached to endpapers of each book. Some beginning binding weakness. Red hardcovers with some wear and age toning, edge bumps, etc. All together a nicely preserved complete set of this coursework.

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.

(Première série) 100 expériences. 246 pp. 21,3x15,3 cm. Librairie Larousse, Paris, s.d. (c.1890)
--- Cloth-bound, with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Edgewear and discolouration on covers. Tight binding. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. Illustrated with engravings.
--- Arthur Good (1853 - 1928), ingénieur français des Arts et manufactures, a écrit, à la fin du xixe siècle, sous le pseudonyme de Tom Tit, des articles hebdomadaires dans "L'Illustration" sous le titre " La Science amusante ", illustrés par des gravures de Louis Poyet. Ces rubriques hebdomadaires proposaient des explications concernant des expériences de physique exécutées à l'aide d'objets usuels, des démonstrations de théorèmes géométriques connus à l'aide d'objets divers, des récréations ou jeux scientifiques, de petits travaux d'amateurs, des tours de ficelles…

Academic Pr, y. 1983-11. 123634806. Good. Previous owners name in pencil on first end page

Materials Research Society, n. Apr-90. 155899047X. as New. Materials Research Society as new

Chicago IL: American School of Correspondence, 1921. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Set of four books, parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the course. Preserved in each book is the certificate of completion (certified exam grade form, from the school) of the previous owner (circa 1921). He passed the course. All are intact with some general wear. Typed name of previous owner attached to endpapers of each book. Some beginning binding weakness. Red hardcovers with some wear and age toning, edge bumps, etc. All together a nicely preserved complete set of this coursework.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., 1897. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, black coated endpapers. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, spine a little rolled and darkened with some minor wear at the ends, contents slightly toned. A very good copy. First edition, first printing. Author Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was the daughter of a rector who encouraged her interest in mathematics. At eighteen the logician George Boole became her tutor, and she wrote later that it was his book on logic which made her fall in love with him. In 1855 they were married and moved to Cork, where he was teaching. George encouraged Mary "to attend his lectures and improve her knowledge of mathematics. He read his book on differential equations to her, altering it until the language was completely clear to her" (Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science). Following George's death, Mary became a matron at Queens College and developed an interested in mathematical education. "Her collected works,… Read More

Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.

(Première série) 100 expériences. 246 pp. 21,3x15,3 cm. Librairie Larousse, Paris, s.d. (c.1890)
--- Cloth-bound, with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Edgewear and discolouration on covers. Tight binding. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. Illustrated with engravings.
--- Arthur Good (1853 - 1928), ingénieur français des Arts et manufactures, a écrit, à la fin du xixe siècle, sous le pseudonyme de Tom Tit, des articles hebdomadaires dans "L'Illustration" sous le titre " La Science amusante ", illustrés par des gravures de Louis Poyet. Ces rubriques hebdomadaires proposaient des explications concernant des expériences de physique exécutées à l'aide d'objets usuels, des démonstrations de théorèmes géométriques connus à l'aide d'objets divers, des récréations ou jeux scientifiques, de petits travaux d'amateurs, des tours de ficelles…

Academic Pr, y. 1983-11. 123634806. Good. Previous owners name in pencil on first end page