Five Theses as a Math Textbook

[Bamberg]: Typis Joannis Georgii Klietsch, Almae Universit. Typog., [1768]. In Latin. 4to. 201 x 173 mm (8 x 6.75 in.). [8], 23, [1] pp. Engraved coat-of-arms on dedication page, woodcut head-piece, initial, and tail-piece. Blue ink stamp on title page: ​“Franziskanerkloster Dettelbach.”

Contemporary quarter-calf with shelf label to spine.

VD18 10569502

Math dissertation covering algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.

[Bound with]:

Oberkamp, Philip Joseph von. Specimen praxeon geometricarum campestrium ad theoreseos accuratae lumen exactarum. Dissertatio mathematica Una Cum Subjectis Thesibus Ex Mathesi Pura Elementari. Ad majorem Dei O.M. gloriam B.V. Mariae & SS. tutelarium honorem praeside P. Joanne Jacobs, Soc. Jesu, AA. LL. & Philosophiæ Magistro, & in Alma Bambergensium Universitate Mathematum Professore Publico & Ordinario, Publico Tentamini Subjicit illustris ac generosus dominus Phillippus Josephus de Oberkamp AA. LL. & PHilosophiæ Baccalaureus, Physicæ, Ethicæ, & Matheseos Auditor, Defendetium Primus Babergæ Aula Academica, Die XII. Augusti, Anno MDCCLXIX.

[Bamberg]: Typis Joannis Georgii Klietsch, Almæ Universitatis Typographi., [1769]. In Latin. 4to. [12], 80 pp., 2 folded plates. Woodcut head-piece, initials, and tail-piece. Page 74 misnumbered ​‘47.’

Not in VD18

Math dissertation on geometry. With two folding leaves of plates packed with diagrams illustrating the numerous problems described in the text. OCLC reports only five locations, none outside of Germany.

[Bound with]:

Stenglein, Georg Franz Xavier. Specimen praxeon geometricarum campestrium absque pretioso instrumentorum apparatu solo baculorum, perticarum, funis aut catenae metatoriae subsidio exercendarum. Dissertatio mathematica altera. Una cum subjectis thesibus ex mathesi pura elementari. Ad majorem Dei O. M. Gloriam B. V. Mariae & SS. tutelarium honorem praeside P. Joanne Jacobs, Soc. Jesu, AA. LL. & Philosophiæ Magistro, & in Alma Bambergensium Universitate Mathematum Professore Publico & Ordinario, Publico Tentamini Subjicit prænobilis ornatus ac eruditus dominus Georgius Franciscus Xaver. Stenglein, Ducauracensis, AA. LL. & Philosophiæ Baccalaureus, Physicæ, Ethicæ, & Matheseos Auditor, Defendentium Secundus Bambergæ in Aula Academica, Die XIX. Augusti, Anno MDCCLXIX.

[Bamberg]: Typis Joannis Georgii Klietsch, Almæ Universitatis Typographi., [1769]. In Latin. 4to. [10], 18, 18 pp., 1 folded plate. Woodcut head-piece, initials, and tail-piece.

Mathematics dissertation on the use of geometry to measure height, distance, and area with simple tools. A folded engraving contains numerous illustrations of the problems discussed and depicts various aspects of the built and natural environment that an architect or surveyor might want to measure: buildings, rivers, houses, and crop fields. OCLC reports only one location outside of Germany.

VD18 10569499

[Bound with]:

Guttenberg, Philipp Gottlieb. D.O.M.A. Dissertatio analytica, qua praecipuae proprietates linearum secundi ordinis, quas sectiones conicas appellare solemus, investigantur. Quam cum selectis ex mathesi pura et ad geometriam campestrem applicata propositionibus, praeside P. Ioanne Iacobs, S.I. AA. LL. et philosophiae magistro, et in alma Bambergensium Universitate professore publico et ordinario, facultatis philosophicae assessore et h.t. Decano, publico tentamini exponit per illustris ac generosus dominus D. Philippus Theophilus L.B. de Guttenberg, AA. LL. et philosophiae baccalaureus, eiusdemque et matheseos in annum secundum auditor, defendentium primus. Bamberae in Aula Academica, die XVI. Aug. Anno MDCCLXXIII.

[Bamberg]: Typis Ioannis Georgii Klietsch, Almae Universitatis Typographi., [1773]. In Latin. 4to. [16], 48, [8] pp., 1 folded plate.

Mathematical dissertation on conic sections. Includes a folded leaf with an engraving illustrating 16 figures. OCLC reports only one location, in the US.

Not in VD18.

[Bound with]:

Jacobs, Johann. [De dimensione quarundam superficierum curvilinearum ac corporum inde genitorum].

[Bamberg]: [Klietsch], [1773]. In Latin. 4to. [14] pp., tables, woodcut tail-piece.

Imperfect: Wanting title page.

Mathematics thesis presented on August 30, 1773. The author presents numerous ways of measuring the surface area of different shapes with curved borders. The title page is missing but the ink has offset onto the verso of the preceding leaf, allowing the work to be identified.

Not in VD18, though we note one copy at the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (OCLC #633390337); OCLC gives a second location at Bayerische Bibliothek but no copy is listed in their catalog.