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JF Ptak Science Books Post 2082
From the warehouse comes this lovely find: a manuscript notebook of a combination of elementary and slightly advanced mathematics, kept by a young person, written around 1840. It is a beautiful work, and given that it is only about 100 pages long, it is a surprisingly and refreshingly thorough review of the mathematical necessaries of the mid-19th century.
