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[MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE]. MURPHY, Robert (1806-1843), GREEN, George (1793-1841), STOKES, George Gabriel (1819-1903), WHEWELL, William (1794-1866), HOLDITCH, Hamnet (1800-1867), et al. Collection of 24 First Edition Mathematical or Scientific Papers Bound in One Volume. Cambridge and London: various publishers, 1831-1877. 4tos. Illustrated with charts and views. Most with its own title-page. All bound in nineteenth-century half brown calf over brown cloth boards, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, burgundy and green gilt morocco lettering labels, five raised bands (rebacked with new spine, some minor wear, minor soiling to boards, new endleaves, some occasional foxing, some pages with ink or pencil markings in text, original front blank with manuscript list of contents in a near-contemporary hand). Fine. FIRST EDITIONS OF THESE MATHEMATICAL OR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, 13 ARE INSCRIBED BY THE VARIOUS AUTHORS. Some of the titles included are: THE RESOLUTION OF ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS, SECOND MEMOIR ON THE INVERSE METHOD OF DEFINITE INTEGRALS, THIRD MEMOIR ON THE INVERSE METHOD OF DEFINITE INTEGRALS, THE RESOLUTION OF EQUATIONS IN FINITE DIFFERENCES, ON THE NATURE OF THE TRUTH OF LAWS OF MOTION, ON THE REFLECTION AND REFRACTION OF SOUND, ON THE CRITICAL VALUES OF THE SUMS OF PERIODIC SERIES, SYMBOLIC FORMS DERIVED FROM THE CONCEPTION, and more.