Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Consideration of Various Points of Analysis, offprint from Philosophical Transactions, first edition, bookplate to front pastedown, very occasional light spotting, front endpaper loose, some cracking to gutter, upper hinge starting, later C19th cloth-backed boards, extremities chipped, 4to, 1814.

⁂ Rare separately-paginated offprint of Herschel's account of the 'calculus of operations,' which formed a major part of the programme of reform promoted by the group of Cambridge mathematicians, which included Babbage and Herschel, who called themselves the 'Analytical Society.' From the library of, Marcus Nathan Adler (bookplate); Adler (1803-1890) was the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1845 until his death, probably the most prominent nineteenth-century rabbi in the English-speaking world.