May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
SAUNDERSON, NICHOLAS. The Elements of Algebra . . . To which is prefixed, An Account of the Author's Life and Character. Engraved portrait and 9 plates, all but one folding. [24], xxvi, [4], 360; [2], 363-748, [32] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, cover corners worn through, Volume 1 front cover detached; scattered ink blots and minor stains, Volume 1 has hole in a few preliminaries causing varying text loss, insignificant worming in blank outer margins toward end of Volume 2. Cambridge: University Press for Mrs. Saunderson et al., 1740

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posthumous first edition. Saunderson (1682-1739) was a blind professor of mathematics at Cambridge.