Rara arithmetica. A catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI with a description of those in the library of George Arthur Plimpton of New York

by David Eugene Smith

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1908. First edition limited to 150 copies signed by Plimpton copy no. 3 , 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiii, 3 , 252; 10 , 253-507, 1 ; title pages printed in red and black; 9 plates, 246 facsimiles in the text; original full parchment, gilt-stamped on upper covers and spines, t.e.g., the others uncut; the covers rather soiled but the binding is sound and the text block is clean. An important bibliography. This copy inscribed by

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