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MATHEMATICS -- Abraham G. KÄSTNER. Geschichte der Mathematik seit der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschaften bis an das Ende des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Göttingen: 1796-1800. 2 volumes, 8°. Lacking half-titles. Library cloth (worn, joints fraying). Provenance: Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society (stamp on spine and throughout text). -- Moritz CANTOR. Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik. Leipzig: 1894-1901. 3 volumes, 8°. Second edition. Half morocco (very rubbed, two spines defective). -- John NAPIER. The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms ... and a Catalogue of the various Editions of Napier's Works, by William Rae MacDonald. Edinburgh & London: 1889. 4°. Original cloth. -- And 13 others of related interest, including Taylor's The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England (1954); Catalogue of the Library of the Statistical Society (1884); Rose's The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics (1975); Thomas-Stanford's Early Editions of Euclid's Elements (Bib. Soc. 1926). Cajori's A History of Elementary Mathematics with hints on methods of teaching (1896). (21)