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Familiar Illustrations of the Language of Mathematics or a New picture-Alphabet for Well Behaved Undergraduates W.A.G
London Ackermann and Company 1850 First Edition W.A.G.
"Familiar Illustrations of the Language of Mathematics or a New picture-Alphabet for Well Behaved Undergraduates - Wherein a Ray to Illumine Ther Path is Transmitted Through Nine Plates of a Rare Medium by Means of the Eccentrical Pencil of W.A.G." - 9 plates of caricature, anastatic prints (transfer lithographs), each c.250 x 320mm., light spotting and surface dirt, some creasing, chipping and short tears to sheet edges, original printed wrappers, similarly chipped and creased, oblong folio. A fifth of cover present but detatched, not affecting cover illustration, else good. very light foxing. An edition of 9 caricature plates each with 9-12 drawings of comical depictions mathematics and geometry and physics terms. For example, the caption ’Producing a Line’ has a drawing of a pensive poet desperately trying to come up with his next sentence. ‘Addition and Subtraction’ has a drawing of a man being pick-pocketed. ‘Extraction of a Root’ has a man being examined in a dentist’s chair. ‘Elimination of an Unknown Quantity’ depicts a man being physically removed from an establishment. Ackermann, 1850. Extremely rare early comic book reminiscent of Topffer and Wilhelm Busch. please e-mail for more pictures.
Price:
3926.47 USD
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