ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA: ON THE BASIS OF M. BOURDON: EMBRACING STURM'S AND HORNER'S THEOREMS. REVISED AND RE-WRITTEN BY CHARLES DAVIES, LL.D., . . . (Spine title: "Davies' New Bourdon.")

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[i-ii], v-xiv, [15], 16-406 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 13.5cm. Original full calf leather binding; some soiling and staining to boards with scuffing and wear along edges particularly at corners and along rear board's top edge; slight splitting along front and rear joints but with hinges firm, 2.75cm chipping at spine heel with 2cm loss at head, spine's black leather title label chipped with some loss to gilt lettering. Edges toned; obtrusive pencil notes and calculations on several initial and rear leaves; occasional pencil notes and marks to interior pages; toning to pages 290-291 from old laid-in note paper; chipped corners to front free endpaper and front flyleaf and to pages 405-406 and rear free endpaper. Evidently missing pages iii-iv or possibly issued without. Binding remains firm. A good antiquarian copy. 19th century math textbook by Charles Davies (1798-1876) whose distinguished academic career cumulated with appointment as emeritus professor of higher mathematics at Columbia College, now Columbia University, in 1865.

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ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA: ON THE BASIS OF M. BOURDON: EMBRACING STURM'S AND HORNER'S THEOREMS. REVISED AND RE-WRITTEN BY CHARLES DAVIES, LL.D., . . . (Spine title: "Davies' New Bourdon.")

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New York and Chicago: A.S. Barnes and Company [A.S. Barnes & Co.], [1873].

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