Hilbert David (1862 1943) Grundlagen der Geometrie

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Hilbert, David (1862-1943) Grundlagen der Geometrie. Large octavo offprint from the journal, Festschrift zur Feier der Enthullung des Gauss-Weber-Denkmals in Göttingen; 92 pages, text in German, illustrated with numerous text diagrams; bound in period textured green cloth spine with marbled paper boards, spine titled in gilt, very good, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1899.

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First edition of Hilbert's Foundations of Geometry containing the first printed appearance of his axioms, which serve as the modern foundation of post-Euclidean geometry.