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ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
Written by Solomon Lefschetz.
Stock no. 2119422
Published by Cushing-Malloy Inc; American Mathematical Society. 1955. Very good condition.

American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications Volume XXVII. Large format. PhotoLithoPrinted by Cushing-Malloy Inc. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Spine is a bit browned. Partial splitting to rear joint. Foxing to outer page edges.

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THEORY OF MATRICES
Written by Sam Perlis.
Stock no. 2119280
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc.. 3rd 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth; gilt title to spine on red title box. A concise and clear treatment of the theory of matrices with emphasis on the basic ideas rather than particular applications. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is scuffed; creased with some chips and nicks; a little loss.

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FINITE GENERALIZED QUADRANGLES
Written by S.E. Payne; J.A. Thas.
Stock no. 1811359
Published by Pitman. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Research Notes in Mathematics 110. Representing a complete treatment of finite generalized quadrangles from a combinatorial and geometric point of view. Red cardwraps. 312 pages including index. ISBN: 0273086553. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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TAYLOR EXPANSIONS AND CATASTROPHES
Written by T. Poston; I.N. Stewart.
Stock no. 1811344
Published by Pitman Publishing. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Research Notes in Mathematics 7. Red cardwraps. 168 pages including index. Five papers concerned with various aspects of Taylor series expansions in relation to catastrophe theory. ISBN: 0273009648. Small nick to vertical edge of rear cover else fine.

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PRINCIPLES OF DYNAMICS
Written by Rodney Hill.
Stock no. 1811331
Published by Pergamon Press. 1st 1964. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Presenting dynamics as a classic model of the scientific theory. Red cloth, blue title block to spine with gilt title. viii and 191 pages including index. Corners slightly bumped. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 1811329
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Boards lightly mottled at edges. Text block a little grubby. 1.5cm x 6.5cm cut from top of front endppaer. Minor foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Boards slightly bowed.

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INTRODUCTION TO GALOIS GEOMETRIES
Written by Beniamino Segre.
Stock no. 2119051
Published by Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei. 1967. Almost very good condition.

Paperwraps. Volume VIII. Introduction in Italian, rest of content in English. Covers are creased. A few page edges are uncut.

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THE GEOMETRY OF DETERMINANTAL LOCI
Written by T.G. Room.
Stock no. 2119041
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1938. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The book contains 3 parts. Part I - Looks at Manifolds Defined by Matrices of General Form; Part II: Manifolds Defined by Matrices of Special Forms; Part III: Determinantal Quartic Primals In Space of Four Dimensions. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned. Some marks and scuffing to covers. Light page browning and some foxing.

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DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL FIGURES
Written by I. Pal. Illustrated by I. Pal.
Stock no. 2119039
Published by Hungarian Technical Publishers. 1962. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine. Many diagrams that will 'come to life' using the 3D glasses in pocket at rear of book. Foxing and marks to covers. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a little surface paper lifting to front board. Page browning; a little foxing. 3D glasses are still present to pocket in rear.

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GEOMETRICAL INVESTIGATIONS ILLUSTRATING THE ART OF DISCOVERY IN THE MATHEMATICAL FIELD
Written by John Pottage; Stillman Drake.
Stock no. 2119037
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc.. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An age-old dialogue resumes when the author resurrects Galileo's characters Salviati, Sagredo and Simplicio to dramatize the often imperfect but ever creative world of mathematical thought. ISBN: 0201057336. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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THEORY OF RECONSTRUCTION FROM IMAGE MOTION
Written by Stephen Maybank.
Stock no. 2118967
Published by Springer-Verlag. 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Springer Series in Information Sciences. This book presents the mathematics underlying the reconstruction of camera motion from the movements of points in the camera image. It describes recent work employing mathematical methods drawn from linear algebra, projective geometry, algebraic geometry, the theory of transversality and the theory of least-squares approximation. This book is a good starting point for anyone interested in the application of different mathematical techniques to the rapidly expanding field of computer vision, especially in the areas of vehicle guidance, robotics and remote sensing. ISBN: 0387555374. Light wear to corners. Foxing to outer page edges.

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STUDIES IN GEOMETRY
Written by Leonard Blumenthal; Karl Menger.
Stock no. 2118966
Published by W.H. Freeman and Company. 1st USA 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Written for graduate students in mathematics and for professional mathematicians, this book deals with four related geometric theories rather than presenting a survey of geometry. ISBN: 0716704374. Browning to cover edges. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is fadeed to spine, with edge-creasing and a few closed tears and chips.

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