Two Essays I An Inquiry Into The Nature Of The Numerical Contractions Found In A Passage On The

by James Orchard Halliwell

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: J.W. Parker, 1839. Slim 8vo, 18 pp. Disbound and now stitched in plain brown paper wrappers titled by hand. Faint stain to final page; very good. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps, whose entire life was dogged by financial problems and accusations some apparently fairly well based of theft and fraud. His life was well chronicled by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.From

• Binding: Wrappers

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