LEFFLER, Anna Carlotta, Duchess of Cajanello.

Sonya [Sofia] Kovalevsky. A Biography by... And Sisters Rajevsky Being an Account of Her Life by Sonya Kovalevsky. Translated by A. de Furuhjelm and A.M. Clive Bayley. With a Biographical Note by Lily Wolffsohn.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. "Authorized edition". 8vo. x, 377, (3) pp. Publisher's green buckram, gilt to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece portraits of the author and subject, Fading to the spine, else very good. A pioneering Russian mathematician, the book includes a translation of Kovalesky's own fictionalised account of her and her sister's early life. Item #33832

Price: £60.00