Russell (bertrand)

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry

1897 · 00007991 — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 7 viii-xvi 201 3 pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine double-rules blind-stamped to top and bottom of spine double-ruled blind-stamped border to both boards. Russell was one of the principal founders of analytic philosophy and one of the 20th centuries most important thinkers in philosophy of language logic and philosophy of mathematics. Russell won the Nobel Prize and was also well-known as a pacifist and an advocate for numerous progressive causes. Blackwell & Ruja A3.1a. A very presentable copy of Russell's first primarily philosophical book presaging his important work in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A Very Good book with rubbing and light wear to the extremities owner's name written on front pastedown and stamped on the free front endpaper and half-tilte page. Cambridge University Press hardcover books