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DE MORGAN, Augustus. A Budget of Paradoxes (Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the 'Athenaeum'). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872.

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[vi], 511[1] pp. Contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine, raised bands, rubbed. First edition.

DE MORGAN, Augustus. A Budget of Paradoxes (Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the 'Athenaeum'). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872.

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DE MORGAN, Augustus. A Budget of Paradoxes (Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the 'Athenaeum'). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872.

[vi], 511[1] pp. Contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine, raised bands, rubbed. First edition.

Edited by Sophia De Morgan and published the year after her husband's death. He had a love of puns, and all ingenious puzzles and paradoxes, which makes some of his books, especially his 'Budget of Paradoxes' (1872) as amusing as they are learned. Leslie Stephen in Dictionary of National Biography.

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Author DE MORGAN, Augustus.