拍品 746
  • 746

BABBAGE, PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER, LONDON, 1864, PRESENTATION COPY, ORIGINAL CLOTH

估價
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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描述

  • Passages from the life of a philosopher. London: Longman, Green [&c.], 1864
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo (225 x 138mm.), wood-engraved frontispiece (of Babbage's Difference Engine No.1), 4pp. "List of Mr. Babbage's printed papers" at end, original green cloth, unopened

來源

M. Mignet, presentation inscription; bought from Esplin, 1989

出版

Tomash & Williams B49 (note); Origins of Cyberspace 84; Randell 1979 p.108; Van Sinderen 77

Condition

a good copy
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拍品資料及來源

A PRESENTATION COPY IN FINE CONDITION, inscribed to François-Auguste Mignet (1796-1884), permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut de France: "To Monsr Mr Mignet Member of the Institute of France from the Author".