Goethe's Sammtliche Werke
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Half antqiue calf, red edges (with binder's instructions pencilled in on ffep). Provenance: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Benjamin Pierce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics, served as the college librarian, was director of the U.S. Coast Survey from 1867 to 1874, and the father of philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce.
Charles Henry Davis (January 16, 1807 - February 18, 1877) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, serving primarily during the American Civil War, and with the United States Coast Survey. "When on leave in Cambridge, Davis studied mathematics with Benjamin Peirce, preparing him for his future scientific pursuits. In 1842 he married Peirce's sister-in-law, Harriette Blake Mills, whose father was a U.S. senator.' (ANB). One of their children, Anna Cabot Mills Davis, married U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 260387
- Title
- Goethe's Sammtliche Werke
- Author
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Format/Binding
- 799 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to
- Book Condition
- Used - Half antqiue calf, red edges (with binder's instructions pencilled in on ffep). Provenance: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Stuttgart und Tübingen
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- German | Harvard | Mathematics | Naval | Philosophy | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Literature; History, Travel & Geography; Philosophy & Religion;
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