📚 Foundations

Books with foundations on their catalogue record, first published between 1832 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject foundations in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,355 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The construction of buildings	Robin Barry	1958	34
	Naive Set Theory	Paul R. Halmos	1960	18
	Civil Engineering	Alan Williams	1999	17
	Grundlagen der Arithmetik	Gottlob Frege	1950	16
	The foundations of geometry	David Hilbert	1902	14
	Grundlagen der Geometrie	David Hilbert	1903	13
	Foundation design and construction	Tomlinson, M. J.	1963	13
	Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations	David F. McCarthy	1977	13
	An essay on the foundations of geometry	Bertrand Russell	1897	11
	The Number System	H. A. Thurston	1956	11
	The axioms of descriptive geometry	Alfred North Whitehead	1907	10
	Number, the language of science	Tobias Dantzig	1930	10
	Foundation analysis and design	Joseph E. Bowles	1968	10
	The foundations of mathematics	Paul Carus	1908	9
	Principles of foundation engineering	Braja M. Das	1984	9
	Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik	Gottlob Frege	1884	8
	Analysis, Design and Construction of Foundations	Y. M. Cheng	2020	8
	Foundations and foundation walls	Frederick Baumann	1879	7
	Foundations of geometry	Karol Borsuk	1960	7
	Soils and foundations	Cheng Liu	1981	7
	Foundation Design	Donald P. Coduto	1993	7
	O logice matematycznej i metodzie dedukcyjnej	Tarski, Alfred.	1941	6
	Theory of arithmetic	Peterson, John A.	1963	6
	Soil mechanics	Michael John Smith	1967	6
	Foundations of three-dimensional Euclidean geometry	Izu Vaisman	1980	6
	Operative masonry	Edward Shaw	1832	5
	A new look at arithmetic	Irving Adler	1964	5
	Canadian foundation engineering manual	Canadian Geotechnical Society. Foundations Committee.	1978	5
	Foundations on rock	Duncan C. Wyllie	1992	5
	Geotechnical Engineering	V.N.S. Murthy	2002	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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