Two Essays. I. An inquiry into the nature of the numerical contractions, found in a passage on the abacus, in some manuscripts of the geometry of Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boetius. II. Notes on early calendars.
London: J.W. Parker, 1839. Slim 8vo, 18 pp. Disbound and now stitched in plain brown paper wrappers titled by hand. Faint stain to final page; very good. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps, whose entire life was dogged by financial problems..... More