Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
RUSSELL, BERTRAND, third Earl. The Principles of Mathematics . . . Vol. I. xxix, [1], 528, [6] pages, including half-title. 8vo, 240x164 mm, original cloth, minor wear, slight blistering on covers; pencil underscoring and marginalia in German throughout, small tape repair in gutter of page xiii, adhesive remnants in lower half of rear pastedown. Ownership inscription of the philosopher and historian of mathematics Dietrich Mahnke (1884-1939) dated June 1939 on front pastedown, noting that the marginalia are those of the previous owner, Professor Friedrich Kunke. Cambridge: University Press, 1903

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first edition, limited to 1000 copies. all published of Russell's first book on the logical foundations of mathematics, the first in English on the subject. Blackwell & Ruja A5; DSB XII, 12.