1. Haugh, J.J.

Higher Arithmetic for the Civil Service, Intermediate, and National Teachers’ Examinations. Comprising also Solutions of the most difficult questions set to Canditates for the Lower Division (the late Class II), Excise, Customs and other Civil Service Departments; the Intermidiate Examinations (three grades); the Teachers’ Examinations (since 1872); the Royal University Examinations (since its inception), and the Bank of Ireland Examinations with Numerous Recent Examination Papers.

Second Edition. Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1888. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. VI, 222 pages. Hardcover. Modrn blue cloth with title to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occational ink stains, marks and notes throughout the book. Includes the rare Errata Leaf with a manuscript entry (probably by Haugh himself). The Preface to the second edition is dated (in print) by Haugh in Monkstown, Dublin, 1888.

2. Williamson, Benjamin / [Conner, Richard].

Inscribed Association – Copy of: “An Elementary Treatise on The Differential Calculus, containing ‘The Theory of Plane Curves’, with numerous examples. [Inscribed and signed by irish Mathematician Benjamin Williamson to fellow Trinity College Mathematician, Richard Conner: “R.M.Conner with B. Williamson’s best regards” / Including one minor manuscript annotation by Richard Conner on page 264.

First Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. Octavo. XII, 343 pages. Hardcover / original cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Last 8 pages with some fraying and paper-loss. Rear pastedown rubbed. Otherwise with some rubbing but in good, firm condition. A very rare example of an ealy association copy between two irish Trinity mathematicians of the 19th century.

3. [William Westropp Roberts – Mathematician Trinity College Dublin 1870] – Mill, John Stuart / [Provenance: William Roberts, Trinity College Mathematician, being W.R.W. Roberts (1850-1935), son of Mathematician Michael Roberts from Carrigaline, County Cork].

A System of Logic – Ratiocinative and Inductive. Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.

Seventh Edition. In Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1868. Octavo. Volume: XVIII, 541 pages / Volume II: XV, 555 pages. Hardcover / Original, absolutely stunning Trinity College Dublin Prize-Binding with the University Signet in gilt to all four boards (see images). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: “William Roberts” Mathematician with two price-labels from Trinity college stating: “Ingenuo magnaeque spei Adolsecenti Guilielmo Roberts Schol. [William Roberts, scholar] propter insignies in Mathematicis. Progressus in Classe secunda Praemium hoc Literarium. Primi Ordinis dederunt Praepositus et Socii Seniores Collegii Sacrosanctae et Individuar Trinitatis juxta. Dublin, Examinatione habita initio Termini S. Michaelis, A.D.1870.” [Translates: “A young and promising young man, William Roberts, [William Roberts, scholar] for his distinctions in Mathematics. Progressed in the second Class, this Literary Prize. First Order, given by the Provost and Senior Fellows of the College of the Holy and Individual Trinity, near Dublin, Examination held at the beginning of the Term of St. Michael, A.D. 1870.”]. With several text-markings and manuscript – annotations by Roberts.