Category: Mathematics

The Key to Reed's New Guide Book, and the quantities from the Nautical Almanac for working the questions in the edition for 1872.

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Sunderland, Thomas Reed and Co. : 1870

Seller ID: Books012574

Condition: Good

134 pages. Loss of paper over board front and rear. Occasional foxing and marginalia. Pastedowns and free endpapers stained and full of calculations in pencil. Worn but sound.
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Generators and Relations in Groups and Geometries

By: A. Barlotti, E.W. Ellers, P. Plaumann, K. Strambach eds.

Price: $186.05

Publisher: Dordrecht - Holland, Kluwer Academic Publishers : 1991

Seller ID: Books013016

ISBN-13: 9780792311614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xv, 447 pages. Former owner's name top right first leaf, else unmarked.
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The Lognormal Distribution with special reference to its uses in economics

By: Aithchison, J. and J.A.C. Brown

Price: $103.36

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1966

Seller ID: Books006527

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xviii, 176pp. No.5 in The University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics Monographs; Dustjacket spine sunned, previous owner's name to title page
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Image for Solid And Spherical Geometry And Conic Sections: Being A Treatise On The Higher Branches Of Synthetical Geometry, Containing The Solid And Spherical Geometry Of Playfair; The Projections Of The Sphere And Conic Sections Of West; With Perpendicular ...

Solid And Spherical Geometry And Conic Sections: Being A Treatise On The Higher Branches Of Synthetical Geometry, Containing The Solid And Spherical Geometry Of Playfair; The Projections Of The Sphere And Conic Sections Of West; With Perpendicular ...

By: Bell, A. [Andrew]

Price: $406.55

Publisher: Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers : 1837

Seller ID: Books011295

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Title continues: With Perpendicular Projection And Perspective And Vaious Improvements And Additions. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind, with gilt titles to front and spine. General light soiling to cloth, foxing to endpapers, paper toned, marginal stain to page 27, final three leaves creased. Binding is sound.
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Image for Eaton's Commercial Arithmetic for Schools, Academies, Colleges, Bankers, Merchants, and Mechanics, embracing an extensive course both in practice and theory

Eaton's Commercial Arithmetic for Schools, Academies, Colleges, Bankers, Merchants, and Mechanics, embracing an extensive course both in practice and theory

By: Bryce, T. A. and A. H. Eaton

Price: $937.50

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., J. & A. McMillan : 1869

Seller ID: Books014720

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

369 pages. Publisher's black cloth blind embossed, with copper titles to spine. Predation to joints not affecting stability of the binding; bold offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked. 8.4 x 5.5 inches.
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Image for An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics; Designed as a Text-Book for the University Examinations for the Ordinary Degree of B. A.. Part I: Statics; Part II: Dynamics of a Particle

An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics; Designed as a Text-Book for the University Examinations for the Ordinary Degree of B. A.. Part I: Statics; Part II: Dynamics of a Particle

By: Cherriman, J. B. [John Bradford]

Price: $3,100.79

Publisher: Toronto, Maclear & Co. : 1858

Seller ID: Books011407

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

92 pages, two folding plates. Continuously paged; Part II with separate title page also dated 1858 - as is the author's preface to each Part. Preface to Part I begins: "This Treatise contains the text of the Lectures which I have delivered for some years past in University College". Leather backstrip perished; covers holding by original cloth bands. Cover label: Cherriman's Elementary Mechanics / Price $1.00, beneath which the contemporary inscription of one Geo. S. Goodwillie at University College, Toronto. Scarce in any edition, Worldcat shows no holdings for this first edition of 1858.
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Image for Dilworth's Assistant : Adapted to the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States. Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical.

Dilworth's Assistant : Adapted to the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States. Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical.

By: Dilworth, Thomas; James Gibbons

Price: $1,033.60

Publisher: New York, Hurtin & McFarlane : 1798

Seller ID: Books012571

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

x, [4], [1]-228 pages, with folding table. Preface signed: James Gibbons. New-York, August 22d, 1798, in which he acknowledges the superiority of Dilworth's work and its success in America. But, "its usefulness has been somewhat diminished in this great commercial country, by not having been particularly adapted to the federal money, currencies, and commerce of the citizens of the United States." Old paper repair along spine. Front board detached, front free endpaper lacking. Tanned and foxed, but legible. The folding plate has been mis-folded (creased) and has a 2" closed tear. 1" closed tear...
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Image for Arithmetic] in the Plainest and Most Concise Methods Hetherto Extant. With New Improvements for Dispatch of Business in all the Several Rules. As Also Fractions Vulgar and Decimal Wrought Together after a New Method that Renders both easy to be Understood

Arithmetic] in the Plainest and Most Concise Methods Hetherto Extant. With New Improvements for Dispatch of Business in all the Several Rules. As Also Fractions Vulgar and Decimal Wrought Together after a New Method that Renders both easy to be Understood

By: Fisher, George

Price: $241.17

Publisher: Glasgow, A. Duncan and Company : 1772

Seller ID: Books012515

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

324 pages. Leather worn, leaves toned and dampstained; binding is sound. Early ownership inscriptions of George Frederic Belvidere "School Master at Windsor in Nova Scotia" 1792-1795 [p.170], and on title page at Lunenburg NS 1796-1812. "George Fredk. Belvidere flourished in Lunenburg, as school-master, in the early part of this century. He was an English-man, had once been a British officer, and was a strict disciplinarian. The "oaken towel," as he called his instrument of correction, did for him what he esteemed good service on the aching palms of refractory school-boys. He was well educated...
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Mental Arithmetic, Part 1

By: Fraser, Chas. G

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Educational Publishing Co. : 1910

Seller ID: Books014895

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

110, [2] pages. "School Helps Series". The 1910 issue of this 1899 work. "The complaint that business men are making of the lack of accuracy and thoroughness in the rising generation, would indicate a lack of system in presenting the subject of arithmetic, or insufficient drill to firmly ground the principles presented" [preface]. Pencil to covers verso, first and final leaf. Sadie E. Urquhart signature to title page. Paper backed linen covers curled and creased. Cover pulling from staples but remains well attached. Staples rusted but secure. 6.4 x 4.5 inches.
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Image for Introduction to the National Arithmetic on the Inductive System Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods in Which the Principles of the Science are Fully explained and Illustrated [Greenleaf's Common School Arithmetic]

Introduction to the National Arithmetic on the Inductive System Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods in Which the Principles of the Science are Fully explained and Illustrated [Greenleaf's Common School Arithmetic]

By: Greenleaf, Benjamin

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Boston, Robert S. Davis : 1874

Seller ID: Books008881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

330 pages plus 3 leaves of ads at rear. Leather spine with titles in gilt; pictorial paper covered boards, with most of the paper rubbed off edges. Two blank endpapers present both at front and rear. Binding sound and hinges sturdy. "New electrotype edition, with additions and improvements." No inscriptions.
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What is the New Maths?

By: Holt, Michael

Price: $75.80

Publisher: London, Anthony Blond : 1967

Seller ID: Books007427

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

100 pages. Light wear to jacket; inscribed by the author to Zed Dienes.
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Image for Howard's California Calculator, The Newest, Quickest and most Complete Instructor for all who desire to be "Quick At Figures." The Business Man's Faithful Assistant, the School Boy's Companion and Friend

Howard's California Calculator, The Newest, Quickest and most Complete Instructor for all who desire to be "Quick At Figures." The Business Man's Faithful Assistant, the School Boy's Companion and Friend

By: Howard, C. Frusher

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Francisco, C. Frusher howard : 1877

Seller ID: Books005692

Binding: Card cover wraps

Condition: Fair

94 pages. Covers soiled, chipping and splitting to spine. Portrait frontispiece. Foxing throughout. Sewn binding is sound with no loose pages. Early doodle of two birds with banners in pencil to front endpaper.
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Image for Kerr's Book-Keeping: An Elementary Treatise, Designed As a Text Book for Schools, Academies, and Business Colleges; For Use in the Counting Room and For Private Study

Kerr's Book-Keeping: An Elementary Treatise, Designed As a Text Book for Schools, Academies, and Business Colleges; For Use in the Counting Room and For Private Study

By: Kerr, S.

Price: $68.91

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., J. and A. McMillan : 1884

Seller ID: Books013168

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

viii, 109, [1] pages; with adverts to front and rear endpapers. General soiling to cloth, and occasionally within. Front hinge split but binding remains sound. Lower half inch of front endpaper cut away; old signature of Marry C. Trenholm at Acacia Villa Seminary [Horton, NS].
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Image for Solutions Of The More Difficult Exercises And Examination Papers In The Canadian Edition Of Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic [spine title: Key to Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic]

Solutions Of The More Difficult Exercises And Examination Papers In The Canadian Edition Of Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic [spine title: Key to Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic]

By: Kirkland, Thomas and William Scott

Price: $475.45

Publisher: Toronto and Winnipeg, W. J. Gage and Company : 1879

Seller ID: Books008242

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, 195 pages. Third Edition stated on title page; entered according to Act ... by Adam Miller & Co. in 1879 on colophon; Preface dated 1879. Boards warped though binding and hinges are sound. Signature in pencil to front endpaper, else free of inscription. A remarkably clean example of this uncommon work.
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We Use Our Hands

By: Kite, Eilene

Price: $93.75

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press : 1968

Seller ID: Books007425

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

32pp. "Basic numeral association and physical coordination in verse. For use in in kindergarten and other child groups." (from the dust jacket). 8.25 x 5.5 inches.
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Key to Crosby's Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant...

By: Maynard, Samuel

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans : 1854

Seller ID: Books006800

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

208 pages plus 12 page publishers' list of school-books at rear. Please see photos for contents. Embossed cloth with spotting and lightly sunned spine. The volume remains well bound. Hinges sound; endpapers present. Clean, unmarked interior save for two signatures of Christian Grimm, Springfield, Annapolis County Nova Scotia and one more recent on front endpaper. Johann Christian Grimm, son of Christian Paul Grimm and Catherine Elizabeth Grimm, born 1814 near Zweibrcken, ended up teaching school in Lunenburg and Annapolis Counties, Nova Scotia. Uncommon first edition. Full title reads: Key to ...
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Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability

By: Pearson, E.S. and M.G. Kendall

Price: $117.14

Publisher: London, Charles Griffin & Company Limited : 1970

Seller ID: Books006523

ISBN-13: 9780852641934

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

481 pages. A collection of twenty-nine papers and an appendix with "Summary of contents of Karl Pearson's lectures on the History of Statitics in the 17th and 18th Centuries"; previous owner's name stamp to title page, dust jacket chipped and worn.
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. [The Virtual Laboratory]

By: Prusinkiewicz, Przemyslaw; Astrid Lindenmayer

Price: $103.36

Publisher: New York, Springer-Verlag : 1990

Seller ID: Books013621

ISBN-13: 9780387972978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 228 inches. Light thumbing to fore-edge; binder's creases to spine; else as new.
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The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis

By: Roff, Derek A,

Price: $137.81

Publisher: New York, Chapman and Hall : 1993

Seller ID: Books013863

ISBN-13: 9780412023910

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 535 pages, spine sunned, previous owner's name to half title page
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Image for Treatise on the Art of Measuring; Containing All That is Useful in Bonnycastle, Hutton, Hawney, Ingram, and Several Others Modern Works on Mensuration; to Which Are Added Trigonometry... Surveying; Gauging... Problems in Mechanics

Treatise on the Art of Measuring; Containing All That is Useful in Bonnycastle, Hutton, Hawney, Ingram, and Several Others Modern Works on Mensuration; to Which Are Added Trigonometry... Surveying; Gauging... Problems in Mechanics

By: Ryan, James

Price: $130.92

Publisher: New York, Collins & Hannay - White, Gallaher & White -, James Ryan : 1831

Seller ID: Books009512

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

344 pages. Full sheep rubbed; gilt title on label to spine. Elegant old signature to front free endpaper; light pencil inscription to rear free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout. Binding sound and hinges secure. Full title is: Treatise on the Art of Measuring; Containing All That is Useful in Bonnycastle, Hutton, Hawney, Ingram, and Several Others Modern Works on Mensuration; to Which Are Added Trigonometry with Its Application to Heights and Distances: Surveying; Gauging: and also the Most Important Problems In Mechanics.
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Category: Mathematics