Frances Marguerite Clarke

Thomas Simpson and His Times

New York: s.i., 1929. Very Good. Item #46384

New York: s.i., 1929. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; x,215pp.; frontispiece. Moderate rubbing along cloth margins, hairline crack to front hinge, contemporary gift inscription to title page and ownership signature to rear endpaper; later ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown. Overall Very Good and sound.

Rather uncommon study of the life and works 18th century mathematician Thomas Simpson (1710-1761).

Price: $125.00