first edition
1809 · Philadelphia
by Simpson, Thomas
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1809. First American Edition based on the Eighth London Edition. Very near fine in a contemporary full leather (sheep) binding with a gilt stamped, red leather title label on the spine and gilt stamped rules on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/4 inches with what was probably a book plate on the front paste down, a dampness stain on the upper edges of the first three pages (which includes the title page with no intrusion of that stain to the printed text) and with a five digit number stamped in blue at the lower edge of the first page to the Author's Preface. The pages of the text block are uniformly tanned with age and do not show any foxing. 400 pages of text and illustrated with algebraic expressions and geometrical illustrations. The full title reads: "A Treatise Of Algebra: Wherein the Principles Are Demonstrated, And Applied In Many Useful And Interesting Inquiries, And In The Resolution Of A Great Variety Of Problems Of Different Kinds. To Which Is Added, The Geometrical Construction OF A Great Number Of Linear And Plane Problems, With The Method Of Resolving The Same Numerically." (Inventory #: TB28728)