MATHEMATICS WHITEHEAD (ALFRED NORTH) AND BERTRAND RUSSELL. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., FIRST E...

MATHEMATICS WHITEHEAD (ALFRED NORTH) AND BERTRAND RUSSELL. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, pages slightly brittle throughout, volume 1 first leaf of introduction detached with lower right section raggedly torn out (no loss of text), long arc tear in upper margin touching text of final 5 leaves (4 touching text, final leaf a blank with some loss); volume 2 with 12 leaves (pp.xix-p.8) loose, loss to lower fore-corner of pp.240-420, and smaller loss to several others; Volume 3 with short marginal tears to a few leaves, a few single wormholes to opening and final leaves in volumes of volumes 1 and 3, publisher's blue cloth, worn especially at extremities of spines, sprinkled white paint spots on lower cover of volume 1 [Norman 1868], large 8vo (260 x 170mm.), Cambridge, at the University Press, 1910-1912 Footnotes: RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA , which 'formed the greatest single contribution to symbolic logic for the time', in which the authors posited that 'mathematics is a part of logic, so that a separate philosophy of mathematics does not exist, a view contradicting the Kantian doctrine that mathematical proofs depend on a priori forms of intuition' ( ODNB ). Only 750 copies of the first volume were published, but it is thought volumes 2 and 3 were only printed in runs of 500 copies. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com