Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FREGE, GOTTLOB. Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, begriffsschriftlich abgeleitet. Volume 2 (of 2). xv, [1], 265, [1] pages. 8vo, 272x174 mm, original wrappers, soiled, cover edges chipped, bottom of spine discolored; contents generally clean; largely unopened. Stamps of the Bibliothèque Mathématique de l'Université de Genève on titles and elsewhere in text. Jena: Hermann Pohle, 1903

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first edition of Frege's attempt to derive the laws of arithemetic from a system of logical axioms. The first volume was published in 1893. Pages [253]-263 contain an appendix in which he sought to rectify the contradiction in the first volume discovered by Bertrand Russell.