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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Cowperthwait, Desilver, & Butler, 1855. xvi, 338 pages. A rare book written by the first Superintendent of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. This copy is from the library of Leonard A. Slater, a native of New Kent, Virginia and surgeon in the Confederate Army, and bears Slater's signature on both the front cover and the front free endpaper. Slater graduated from Lynchburg College in 1856, and the date October 24th 1855 as well as a Lynchburg, Va. inscription that accompany his signature suggest that he used this textbook as an undergraduate. A class schedule in ink on the rear free endpaper appears to be in Slater's handwriting. The solution to a problem written on 19th century lined blue paper tipped onto page 109 may or may not be in Slater's hand. At some point the book was professionally sympathetically rebacked with the original leather title patch retained. The book is clean and tight, with some edgewear and bumped and rubbed… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945. xi, 214 pages. Blue cloth binding. Coolisge traces the development of the Greeks' interest in this subject and renewed interest beginning in the seventeenth century. The book is clean and tight, with some wear at corners of covers; spine is slightly faded along with sone color leaching; previous owner's embossed address on front free endpaper; pages very lightly toned. Nicer than it sounds and still a very good copy of this scarce work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.