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The Calculus of Observations: A Treatise on Numerical Mathematics
by Whittaker, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son Limited. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1954. Fourth Edition. Hardcover; Nineteenth Printing. Green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; bottom board edges abraded; owner's stamp & inked and pencilled notes on front paste-down & front free endpaper; leaf edges, outer leaves browned. Dust jacket rubbed at extremities; edges chipped; surface foxed & soiled; price label affixed to front flap. ; Black & white tables & charts, three are fold-out. ; 8vo; 397 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51887
- Title
- The Calculus of Observations: A Treatise on Numerical Mathematics
- Author
- Whittaker, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; Nineteenth Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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