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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Euclid and his Modern Rivals. London: Macmillan, 1879. 8o. Modern red calf gilt, original cloth bound in at end. Provenance: H.A. Barcley (gift inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the Dodgson: "Rev. H.A. Barcley with the author's sincere regards, March 27/79." "One of the outstanding examples of serious argument cast in an amusing style ... this is the most elaborate mathematical work produced by Dodgson" (WMGC 128). Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a comic work in which a mathematics lecturer debates the Elements with the modern rivals, but each is routed by strength of logical argument. The modernizers include A.-M. Legendre and J.M. Wilson. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 128.
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Euclid and his Modern Rivals. London: Macmillan, 1879. 8o. Modern red calf gilt, original cloth bound in at end. Provenance: H.A. Barcley (gift inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the Dodgson: "Rev. H.A. Barcley with the author's sincere regards, March 27/79." "One of the outstanding examples of serious argument cast in an amusing style ... this is the most elaborate mathematical work produced by Dodgson" (WMGC 128). Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a comic work in which a mathematics lecturer debates the Elements with the modern rivals, but each is routed by strength of logical argument. The modernizers include A.-M. Legendre and J.M. Wilson. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 128.

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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll"). Euclid and his Modern Rivals. London: Macmillan, 1879. 8o. Modern red calf gilt, original cloth bound in at end. Provenance: H.A. Barcley (gift inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the Dodgson: "Rev. H.A. Barcley with the author's sincere regards, March 27/79." "One of the outstanding examples of serious argument cast in an amusing style ... this is the most elaborate mathematical work produced by Dodgson" (WMGC 128). Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a comic work in which a mathematics lecturer debates the Elements with the modern rivals, but each is routed by strength of logical argument. The modernizers include A.-M. Legendre and J.M. Wilson. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 128.

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). An Elementary Treatise on Determinants with their application to Simultaneous Equations and Algebraical Geometry. London: Macmillan, 1867. 4o. Modern red calf gilt, original cloth bound in at end. FIRST EDITION. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 57. (2)

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