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printing up to 1830. The more general treatises on bibliography like 

 those by Graesse and Hain and Copinger also touch this field, although 

 of necessity only incidentally. 



Aside from these there have been some purely national works like 

 the " Bibliography of the Lowlands " of the mathematical and physical 

 sciences by Bierens de Haan and the " Biblioteca Mathematica Italiana," 

 by Pietro Eiccardi. Professor Smith's " Kara Arithmetica " contains, 

 for the period which it treats, more titles of Italian works than does 

 Eiccardi and more German than does Murhard or Eogg. In general, 

 we may say, it is more complete for its specialty than any of the bib- 

 liographies hitherto published. The " Eara Arithmetica " may be said 

 to be, with the exception of slight additions, the final bibliography of 

 this field. It may safely be predicted that for centuries to come no 

 other authority will appear to contest its claim to first place. 



