First edition, first impression, of Russell's third book, based upon his first set of lectures at Cambridge University. Russell wrote this work on Leibniz in the years between his mathematical masterworks, Foundations of Geometry (1897) and Principles of Mathematics (1903). After the publication of Foundations of Geometry, he was elected to a six-year prize fellowship that enabled him to follow his own research unhindered by teaching obligations. Laid in is Russell's clipped signature pasted under a black and white reproduction of his photographic portrait.
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