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• Numerals
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• Symbolism of numbers -- Early works to 1800

• Excellency of numbers. (London : Printed by Humfrey Lovvns for Iohn Parker, anno Domini, 1624), by William Ingpen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vazhni͡eĭshie ieroglify dli͡a chelovi͡echeskago serdt͡sa (V Morskoĭ tipografii, 1816), by Karl von Eckartshausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. (London, : Printed for Hen. Brome at the signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1658), by Thomas Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vẹ-hịshav lo ha-kohen (Be-vet uvi-defus Itsik ̣ben Davịd, 1783), by ha-Kohen Abraham ben Jehiel Michal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Goralot (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Goralot] (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Awfāq (Al-Qāhirah : Matbaʻat Dār Iḥyāʼ al-Kutub al-ʻArabīyah, ʻĪsá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, [1900?], 1900), by Ghazzali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. (London, : Printed for Hen. Brome at the signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1658), by Thomas Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Whereas Samuel Ravenshaw, of London, bookseller, above three years ago, during the then session of Parliament, did publish a short paper, by way of advertisement, touching a large and copious argument, the which for near 16 years last past he has been prosecuting; ... ([London : s.n.], 1695), by Samuel Ravenshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ghāyat al-murād fī wafq al-aʻdād (Columbia University Libraries, 1462), by Ṣūfī Kamāl Tustarī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, by David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski (page images at Cornell)
• The origin of letters and numerals, according to the Sefer Yetzirah (P. Mordell, 1914), by Phineas Mordell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aritmetica delle nazioni e divisione del tempo fra l'orientali (G. Biasini, 1786), by Lorenzo Hervás (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposé des signes de numération usités chez les peuples orientaux anciens et modernes (L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1860), by A. P. Pihan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hindu-Arabic numerals (New era printing company,), by Edward Raymond Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Number stories of long ago (Ginn, 1919), by David Eugene Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hindu-Arabic numerals (Ginn and Company, 1911), by David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of Arabic numerals in Europe, exhibited in sixty-four tables (Clarendon press, 1915), by George Francis Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the genealogy of modern numerals. ([Trübner and Co.], 1882), by Edward Clive Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of figures. (Burroughs Adding Maching Co., 1933), by Louis Charles Karpinski and Burroughs Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• On numerals as signs of primeval unity among mankind. (Trübner & Co., 1873), by Robert Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• How numerals are read; an experimental study of the reading of isolated numerals and numerals in arithmetic problems ... ([Chicago], 1922), by Paul W. Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two essays. I. An inquiry into the nature of the numerical contractions, found in a passage on the abacus, in some manuscripts of the geometry of Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boetius. II. Notes on early calendars (J. W. Parker; [etc., etc.], 1839), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman numerals, typographic leaves and pointing hands; some notes on their origin, history and contemporary use. (The Typophiles, 1942), by Paul McPharlin and N.Y.) Typophiles (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numbers. ([Colortex publications], 1933), by Louis Charles Karpinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• How numerals are read; an experimental study of the reading of isolated numerals and numerals in arithmetic problems (University of Chicago, 1922), by Paul W. Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the papers of the late Thomas Wright Hill ... (J.W. Parker and Son, 1860), by Thomas Wright Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Geschichte der Typischen Zahlen in der deutschen Litteratur des Mittelalters (Druck von E. Glausch, 1902), by Wilhelm Knopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the letters and figures (O. Brewer publishing co., 1905), by Hubert M. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numerorum apud veteres Aegyptios demoticorum doctrina, ex papyris et inscriptionibus nunc primum illustrata ... (Gaertner, 1849), by Heinrich Brugsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Number puzzles before the log fire, being those given in the Number stories of long ago. (Ginn, 1919), by David Eugene Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Geschichte der Einführung der jetzigen Ziffern in Europa durch Gerbert : eine Studie (Mayer & Müller, 1892), by H. Weissenborn, Charles S. Peirce, and Pope Sylvester II (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hindu-Arabic numerals (Ginn, 1990), by David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Zahlen und Zahlworten bei den alten Ägyptern und was für andere Völker und Sprachen daraus zu lernen ist : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte von Rechenkunst und Sprache (K. J. Trübner, 1916), by Kurt Sethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numbers and numerals; a story book for young and old (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1937), by David Eugene Smith and Jekuthiel Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The number story. (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1960), by Herta Taussig Freitag and Arthur H Freitag (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sulle cifre arabiche, attribuite fino a'giorni nostri agl'Indiani, ma inventate in un paese più rimoto dell'India. (G. Pirotta, 1813), by Giuseppe Hager (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementa matheseos purae. (apud J. Altheer, 1831), by Johan Frederik Lodewijk Schröder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes de chiffres arabes. Avec des exemples et un grand tableau. (Chez les principaux libraires et marchands d'estampes, 1845), by Léon Chauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabets, numerals and devices of the Middle Ages (London : William Pickering, 1843., 1843), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Graecorum notis numeralibus. (ex officina L. Handorff, 1886), by Johannes Wilhelm Gustav Woisin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von zahlen und zahlworten bei den alten Agyptern und was für andere völker und sprachen daraus zu lernen ist. Ein beitrag zur geschichte von rechenkunst und sprache (K.J. Trübner, 1916), by Kurt Sethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entdeckte Uralphabet. (A. Bonnier, 1856), by J. L. Studach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur les chiffres arabes, leur origine, leur forme et leur emploi. (Grassart, 1883), by J. B. Réveillaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• A key to the Navaho orthography employed by the Franciscan fathers. The numerals "two" and "three" in certain Indian languages of the Southwest ([Washington? D. C.], 1911), by John Peabody Harrington and Franciscans. St. Michaels (Ariz.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparative information-handling performance with symbolic and conventional Arabic numerals : verbal and motor responses (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1957., 1957), by Earl A. Alluisi, Hugh B. Martin, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, and Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legibility of segmented versus standard numerals : a review (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1967., 1967), by Terrence K. Gibney and Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Factors affecting the frequency of various final digits (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1954., 1954), by Jerome Cohen, Virginia L. Senders, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, Aerospace Medical Laboratory (U.S.), and Antioch College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Number stories of long ago. (Washington : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1962., 1962), by David Eugene Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabets & numerals (T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904), by A. A. Turbayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, by David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski (Gutenberg ebook)

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