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MATHEMATICS]. BOLYAI, Jnos (1802-1860). "The Science Absolute of Space," translated by George Bruce Halsted (1853-1922), extract from: Scientiae baccalaureus , Vol. I, No. 4, pp. [203]-260. [Austin, 1891]. 8 o. Later wrappers. First Edition in English, journal issue. An offprint of Halsted's translation was published at the same time which contains the phrase: "Reprinted from Scientiae baccalaureus..." Norman 260. -- GRASSMANN, Hermann (1809-1877). Die Wissenschaft der extensiven Grsse oder die Ausdehnungslehre ein neuer Zweig der Mathematik dargestellt . Leipzig, 1844. 8 o. Contemporary half sheep gilt. FIRST EDITION. Kline, pp. 782-85; Norman 932. -- MARKOV, Andrei Andreevich (1856-1922). O nekotorykh prilozheniiakh algebraicheskikh nepreryvnykh drobei [in Russian]. St. Petersburg, 1884. 8 o. Original printed gray wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Norman 1442. -- SYLVESTER, James Joseph (1814-1897). On a Theory of the Syzygetic Relations of Two Rational Integral Functions , offprint from: Philosophical Transactions , part III for 1853. London, 1853. 4 o. Disbound. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author on the title-page. Norman 2044. -- SYLVESTER. Another copy (uninscribed), bound in original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Norman 2045. -- VON NEUMANN, John (1903-1957) and Oskar MORGENSTERN (b. 1902). Theory of Games and Economic Behavior . Princeton, 1944. 8 o. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of one of the foundation works of econometrics. Norman 2167. (5)