Sometimeshttp://www.reddit.com/r/math turns has some wonderful curiosities on its frontpage. Several users have math texts from the mid to late 1800s and posted a few images. As it turns out, each text has been digitally archived and can be viewed for free by anyone with an internet connection and a PDF reader. The discussions about typesetting, mathematical notation, and mathematical exposition (writing style), was interesting. Below are some highlights.
Plane and solid geometry by George Wentworth (1899)
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discussion thread
full text on Internet Archive
A treatise on differential equations by George Boole & Isaac Todhunter (1865)
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discussion thread
full text on Internet Archive
Elements of Algebra By George Roberts Perkins (1852)
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discussion thread
full text on Google Books
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