[Drop-head title:] Some remarks on logarithms apropos to their tercentenary
by OCAGNE, M[aurice] d'
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1915]. 175-181pp, [1]. With two plates. Stapled into contemporary purple wrappers. A crisp copy. The first offprint edition, extracted from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1914, of a paper by French mathematician and founder of the field of nomography Philbert Maurice d'Ocagne (1862-1938) marking the tercentenary of John Napier's invention of logarithms. . First offprint edition. 8vo.
Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24009
- Title
- [Drop-head title:] Some remarks on logarithms apropos to their tercentenary
- Author
- OCAGNE, M[aurice] d'
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First offprint edition
- Publisher
- [Government Printing Office]
- Place of Publication
- [Washington]
- Date Published
- [1915]
- Keywords
- Mathematics
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Offprint
- A copy of an article or reference material that once appeared in a larger publication.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...