Julius Plucker [ Pluecker ]
Theorie der Algebraischen Curven
RARE FIRST EDITION
Landmark Work on Algebraic Curves
Herbert McLean Evans Ex Libris Bookplate
Plucker Formulas

1839

Julius Plucker

Theorie
der
algebraischen Curven,
gegründet
auf eine
neue Behandlungsweise der analytischen Geometrie.

Bonn: bei Adolph Marcus, 1839. Rare First Edition with engraved fold-out table at the back.

Important work and highly regarded work in the field of Geometry containing the famous 'Plucker formulas'.

With the Ex Libris bookplate to front pastedown of Herbert McLean Evans (designed by artist Dorothy Payne for Evans). Evans was an American anatomist and embryologist, most famous for his co-discovery of Vitamin E. Evans was also a bibliophile, known for his collection of rare and milestone books of science:

 https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/herbert-mclean-evans/

The majority of the Evans collection was later purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald and added to his vast, famed collection:

https://www.ias.edu/library/rare-book-collection-and-rosenwald-collection

The volume also bares the signature of William E. Story, dated 1879. Story was a noted American mathematician, also of John Hopkins.

Bound in gilt stamped red leather over marbled boards with 5 raised bands and marbled inner boards.

103/4 x 85/8 inches

6 preliminary pages, xv, 256 pages, 6 blank end pages. Complete with engraved fold-out plate at the back.

Condition is very good with exteriors showing wear and rubbing, and a 1 inch chip to the lower leather spine. Interior pages show some foxing throughout, otherwise fine.

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