Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

214 c FREGE, GOTTLOB. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, begriffsschriftlich abgeleitet. Volume 2 (of 2). xv, [1], 265, [1] pages. 8vo, 272x174 mm, original wrappers, soiled, cover edges chipped, bottom of spine discolored; contents generally clean; largely unopened. Stamps of the Bibliothèque Mathématique de l’Université de Genève on titles and elsewhere in text. Jena: Hermann Pohle, 1903 [800/1,200] first edition of Frege’s attempt to derive the laws of arithemetic from a system of logical axioms. The first volume was published in 1893. Pages [253]-263 contain an appendix in which he sought to rectify the contradiction in the first volume discovered by Bertrand Russell. 215 c GIUNTINI, FRANCESCO. Speculum astrologiae. Woodcut portrait of the author facing page 1; numerous natal charts in text. [6], 320; 103, [13] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 237x170 mm, early 19th-century mottled sheep gilt, joints cracked, cords intact; soiling and marginal restoration on title and last leaf not affecting text, occasional light dampstaining in blank lower outer corners, wormtrail causing some text loss through approximately the last 25 leaves. Lyon: (Pierre Roussin for) Filippo Tinghi, 1573 [800/1,200] first edition of a comprehensive treatise on practical astrology, including tables of celestial movements based on the observations of Copernicus. Caillet 5692; Riccardi I, 609; Thorndike VI, 130-33. 214 215