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Rechnungsmethoden, die sich auf Eine Erweiterung des Grössenbegriffes Grunden. Dissertation zur...
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Rechnungsmethoden, die sich auf Eine Erweiterung des Grössenbegriffes Grunden. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Venia Docendi bei der Philosophiscehn Fakultät in Jena

by Frege, Gottlob

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Jena: Friederich Fromann, 1874 First edition of Frege's qualifying dissertation for his job teaching at the University of Jena. Very scarce. Self-wrapper, with reinforcement strip at spine. Quarto. This item is printed on acidic paper , which is lightlybrowned around the edges. The last leaf is beginning to chip at the top, with notext loss. A very good copy of an extremely fragile pamphlet. This is one of the rarest of Frege items. We have been able to locate only the Smithsonian copy and the copy at Brown. "In 1873 Frege received his doctorate in philosophy at Göttingen with the thesis Ueber eine geometrische Darstellung der imäginaren Gebilde in der Ebene. The following year at Jena he obtained the venia docendi in the Faculty of Philosophy with a dissertation entitled "Rechunsmethoden, die sich auf eine Erweitung des Grössenbegriffes gründen," which concerns one-parameter groups of functions and was motivated by his intention to give such a definition of quantity as gives maximal extension to… Read More
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Bazaar: Wanderings in Various Bazaars. Accompanied by Prints. Together with an edited Poem by...
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Bazaar: Wanderings in Various Bazaars. Accompanied by Prints. Together with an edited Poem by Sarojini Naidu

by Allix, Susan

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[London:] Susan Allix, 2013 One of fourteen copies. Now out of print. The whole is enclosed in a binding of silk, leather and painted paper over boards, with endpapers and doublures of hand made paper. The spine is leather with the silks and paper arranged on the boards, and the 'floating' headband is made to accommodate the variationsin pages. The title is lettered in wide spacing in coloured foils on the front board. Each book is different in colour and design, and is enclosed in a dark blue cloth box. 55 x 42 cm. . The eight prints are etchings with aquatint and hand-coloring and lino-cuts, printed on Barcham Green mould-made paper. Text hand-set in Optima, Roman and Italic, with titling in Roman Open, printed on Zerkall paper. The decorative papers were made by hand in Sanganer, India. As new. Bazaar is a book large in format, noisy in colour, and crowded with textures and patterns. It contains a collection of observations on the experiences of visiting these chaotic, vibrant and expressive… Read More
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The Song of Solomon. With etchings and aquatints by Susan Allix. Privately printed and illustrated.
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The Song of Solomon. With etchings and aquatints by Susan Allix. Privately printed and illustrated.

by [ Allix, Susan ]

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[London: 1977]. Hand bound by Susan Allix in green Oasis, with colored onlays to a floral design, with tooling in gold and blind. In matching green felt-lined clamshell box. . Quarto. 13 1/4 x 10 1/4." . Twenty-one original etchings and aquatints, hand printed by the artist on BFK Rives mould-made paper. Letterpress printed in Bembo Italic. A fine copy. Susan Allix's second book, one of fifty copies, signed by her.
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De evangelica praeparatione. [Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.
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De evangelica praeparatione. [Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.

by Eusebius Caesariensis

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The sixth and final fifteenth-century edition of Eusebius's Prep
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Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 10 November, 1500 The sixth and final fifteenth-century edition of Eusebius's Preparation of the Gospel, first published by Jenson in 1470. . Nineteenth century half vellum over boards, covered with printed leaves from an incunabulum. . Folio. Complete with the final blank. Woodcut initials throughout. Covers lightly soiled, bookplate removed from front pastedown, first leaf with contemporary ownership inscription. With early fabric tabs or remains of fabric tabs at twelve places in the text. A very good, clean copy, preserved in modern brown cloth clamshell slipcase. The Preparation for the Gospel is a significant work by Eusebius Caesariensis (AD 260/265 – 339/340), who is best known for writing the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, complete from the time of the Apostles to his own time. The Preparation is an introduction to Christianity for pagans, in which the author attempts to prove the excellence of… Read More
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Opera quae extant. Magno ingenii acumine scripti; Pyrrhoniarum hypotyroseon(Greek) Libri III....
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Genevae: Sumptibus Petri & Jacobi Chouët, 1621 First edition of the original Greek of the collected works of Sextus Empiricus, the single most import author in the history of skepticism, whose writings determined the course of modern thought, influencing such pivotal thinkers as Bruno, Montaigne, Descartes, Hume an Hegel. Sextus Empiricus's three known works are the Outlines of Pyrrhonism and two distinct works preserved under the same title, Against the Mathematicians, one of which is probably incomplete. Contemporary calf. Gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Folio. Text in double columns, in Greek and Latin. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, covers show some wear and a few scuff marks. Light browning throughout. Old library rubberstamp and embossed stamp on title-page. A very good copy. As the only Greek Pyrrhonian sceptic whose works survived, he came to have a dramatic role in the formation of modern thought. The historical accident of the rediscovery… Read More
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Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the...
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Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the relation of Logic and Mathematics.

by Jevons, William Stanley

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First edition of Jevons's rare second book and his first on logi
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London: Edward Stanford,, 1864 First edition of Jevons's rare second book and his first on logic. . Original blue pebble-grain cloth, paper labels on spine and front cover. . Small octavo. Labels a bit chipped,spine darkened, but a very good copy. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. "This was a period of rapid development in symbolic logic, primarily influenced by the work of George Boole and Augustus de Morgan. Following the lead which they had given, Jevons developed a system of what he called 'combinational' logic, which incorporated yet significantly simplified and improved upon the algebraic approach and notation used by Boole and De Morgan in attempting to set out the laws of reasoning. This system was essentially a logic of terms or classes, based upon a principle to which Jevons gave the name of 'the substitution of similars'… New Palgrave Dictionary.
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Nuovo Lume: Libro di Arithmetica…Con uno Breve Trattato di Geometria...Composto per lo...
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Nuovo Lume: Libro di Arithmetica…Con uno Breve Trattato di Geometria...Composto per lo Acutissimo Prescrutatore delle Archimediane & Euclidiane Dottrine.

by Sfortunati, Giovanni

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First edition of this treatise on arithmetic for merchants. Sfor
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[Venice: Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino,], 1534 First edition of this treatise on arithmetic for merchants. Sfortunati, whose dates are not recorded, was a Siena-born teacher of arithmetic who worked through much of Italy and Sicily. His book, which went into at least six more editions by the year 1568, was influential, being one of the main sources for Tartaglia's General trattato de' numeri et misure, which has been called the best treatise on arithmetic to appear in the sixteenth century. Contemporary limp vellum, modern paper spine label, later front endpapers. Quarto. Title within a woodcut border, divided into four panels. Title printed in black and red. Text with many mathematical calculations printed in the outer margins. Title a bit soiled, lower margins of first three leaves with repaired worming, lower outer corner of some leaves with an old, faded dampstain. a few light brown stains. Still, a very good copy of a rare book. Riccardi emphasizes the rarity of the first edition: "Questa… Read More
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A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By...
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A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By Travellers Including Observations by Cyrus the Younger, Vitruvius, Columella, Goethe, Aurangzeb, Edward Lear & Others. With Painted Prints, Collages, Photographs, and Descriptions.

by Allix, Susan

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[London:] 2015 One of seventeen numbered copies. . Green and yellow-gold morocco illustrated with a yellow-dotted vine pattern and an engraved copper leaf inlay that has been oxydised to give it a dark coloring. The artist notes that each binding in this edition is slightly different. However, two constant themes connect them all - a predominance of green, and leaves that have been cut out of copper, engraved, then oxydised to make them dark; pages are joined together and, for strength, the book is sewn on linen tapes laced into multi-layer boards; the endbands are of pierced leather in colors that reflect those used on the boards. The book comes in a green cloth box with a black-lettered paper label. Large, thick quarto. Illustrated with prints and photographic reproductions; there is frequent use of lino cut with etching in the prints, and they painted with watercolor, gouache, acrylic or colored ink. The paper is mould-made Velin Arches. Other papers are colored Bugra Butten, blue and green rag… Read More
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Rationale Divinorum Officiorum..
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Rationale Divinorum Officiorum..

by Duranti, Guillelmus [or Durandus, William, or Durand, Guillaume].

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Strassburg: [Johann Pruss], 1486 Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over oak boards. . Folio. Text in double columns, Gothic type. Rubricated throughout, including a 6-line initial letter with a page long flourish on a4 (folio 1). Binding a bit soiled, spine with old white paint. Lacking fore-edge ties. Two line title with old inscriptions of a Salzburg cloister, The Convent of St. Peter, and of "Domus S. Missionis Benedictinae Schwarzachii." GTwo leaves with a few lines inked out (censored) on folio 245 and 249. Text with some contemporary marginalia. A very clean, wide-margined copy. Guillelmus Duranti (ca. 1237-1296) was a "canonist and one of the most important medieval liturgical writers." He studied at Bologna under Bernard of Parma and then taught at Modena. He spent most of his life in the service of the Pope. This is his most famous work, first published by Fust and Schoeffer at Mainz in 1459. It was reprinted at least forty times before 1500. Its eight books contain a detailed account of the… Read More
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Through Closed Doors. 7 Paraclausithyra. Theocritus, Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Horace, Catullus,...
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Through Closed Doors. 7 Paraclausithyra. Theocritus, Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Horace, Catullus, Propertius. With Photographs of Italian Doors and accompanying Prints

by Allix, Susan

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[London:] Susan Allix, [2005\ One of twenty-one copies, this being number seven. Signed and numbered in pencil by the author on the colophon. Quarter black goatskin over Japanese wood veneer paper-covered boards. The wafer thin wood has been printed, stained gray, air-brushed in soft red and black and wax polished. Paper and reversed goat skin onlays in black, gray, magenta, and green. Black Japanese paper doublures and the endpapers have cuts outs onto a doorway printed onto the flyleaves. . Folio. Twenty-six photographs, of which sixteen are black and white and ten are in color. Twenty of the photographs are full-page. Among the photographs are a series of prints: seven etchings, one lino-cut, and one woodcut. There is also stencil, air brush, and crayon work and some titles are printed on gray Japanese or Zerkall papers. The photographs are printed, with the text, on Somerset pure cotton printmaking paper using archival inks; this combination of ink with uncoated paper ensures a long life for the… Read More
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Moralia sive exposito in Job
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Moralia sive exposito in Job

by Gregory I, Pope

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[ Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ] Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over oak boards. Covers with ornate panels and floral borders. With the original engraved brass bosses on corners of both covers and in centers of both covers. Brass catches, but lacking the fore-edge clasps. Spine with four ruled raised bands. Folio. Text in double columns, rubricated throughout in red and blue. The decorative two-line title is from a woodcut. Contemporary ink manuscript notes on front pastedown, occasional contemporary ink marginalia. Remains of a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, used as binder's waste, in front and back. Occasional dampstaining and other staining, especially near the end. Pin hole worming, moderate at front and back sections, but mostly absent in the middle, touching text, but with no loss of legibility. A good and interesting copy, well-suited to teaching purposes, being in its original binding, with most of its original brass fittings, with text marginalia, and with the binder's waste evidence… Read More
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Rudimenta Mathematica. Haec in Duos Digeruntur Libros, Quorum prior Geometriae Tradit Principia...
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Rudimenta Mathematica. Haec in Duos Digeruntur Libros, Quorum prior Geometriae Tradit Principia seu prima elementa, una cum rerum & variarum figuraru[m] dimensionibus..

by Muenster, Sebastian

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First edition of Muenster's final published work, lavishly illus
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Basel: [ H. Petrus 1551], First edition of Muenster's final published work, lavishly illustrated. The text of the first part deals with geometry largely as applied to surveying and ballistics. The second part starting at p. 69 is an extensive treatise on sundials and horology. Some of the woodcuts are attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. Contemporary vellum boards, title in manuscript on spine, later silk ties. . Folio. Two parts in one. . With the blank leaf A6 and the errata leaf, with woodcut illustration meant to correct the cut on p. 145. Lacking the double-page folding woodcut, which is supplied in good facsimile on old paper. Large woodcut on title-page. showing surveyors at work, numerous woodcuts in text, woodcut printer's device on the verso of the errata leaf. Boards soiled and discolored, endpapers browned, some toning to title-page and text, old faded dampstain at inner margin in some sections. Overall a good, clean copy. Old armorial library bookplate (Bibliotec. Collegii Valkend).… Read More
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Sounds of the Night: The American Indian and the Owl.
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Sounds of the Night: The American Indian and the Owl.

by Frasconi, Antonio

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[South Norwalk, CT: Winter 1994-1995] One of ten copies, signed, printed by Frasconi on Hosho and Arches paper, brown Hosho endpapers. Earth tones represent the native Americans, contrasting with night-time colors of deep purple, black and silver. Frasconi's books are overprinted, adding layer upon layer of color, giving the prints a three-dimensional quality. Full color woodcut wrap-around cover. Slipcase covered with an additional woodcut, xylographic label. . 9 1/2 x 12." . Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. Full-age portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full-page owl in purple and black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding with a double-spread of rthe land and sky at night. Slight wear along joints, otherwise a fine copy. OCLC lists one copy only, at the University of Utah.
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Tierbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten
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Tierbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten

by Nissen, Claude

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One of 200 sets. According to the colophon in the text volume, 1
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Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A.,Antiquariat; München: Robert Wölfle, Antiquariat; Olten: Weiss-Hesse, Antiquariat, 1968 One of 200 sets. According to the colophon in the text volume, 100 of the copies were in German and 100 were in English, though a search of OCLC mentions only German language copies and reports six in North America (Cornell University, The California Academy of Sciences, Harvard, National Library of Medicine in Maryland, The University of Wisconsin, and Noble and Greenough School in Massachusetts), all of which seem to be in German. This item is accompanied by a quarto text volume, 108, [+1, colophon] pp., with errata slip. It has black-lettered orange wrappers and is placed in a pocket on the inside of the case. . Large folio, 19 " x 14 ". . Illustrated zoological leaves from sixty different books with engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs of a variety of animals, including two incunable leaves and others, some of which have been hand-colored, each matted, fully labeled, and laid into… Read More
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Paper Botanists: Cultivators of Artifice.
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Paper Botanists: Cultivators of Artifice.

by Hodgson, Barbara and Claudia Cohen.

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[ Vancouver, British Columbia:] Byzantium, 2022 One of twenty regular copies. Ten deluxe and six hors commerce copies were also produced. Signed by Hodgson and Cohen on the colophon. . 8 x 12 in. With approximately 140 sample leaves of herbaria, drawings, and prints, plus a folder with extra oversized sample leaves from eleven different sources. The leaves originate from broken volumes of botanical texts from the last 350 years or were created by the authors for the present book. The prints include woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, photographs, marbling, and more. Explanatory text accompanies the imagery. The last five pages of the book comprise a comprehensive annotated bibliography. The text is set in Fournier, printed with a handpress on dampened Arches at by Rollin Milroy Heavenly Monkey in Vancouver, BC. Bound by Claudia Cohen in green leather over green-and-white striped pastepaper boards. Leather titled and tooled in gilt. Enclosed in a matching green leather and pale green cloth… Read More
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