BABBAGE, H.P. THREE ITEMS

i. Babbage, Henry Prevost (1824-1918). "Babbage's analytical engine" [in:] Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  vol. 70, no. 6, April 1910, pp.517-520, London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1910, 8vo, original pale pink wrappers, (bought from Yelm), [T&W B68; Randell 1979 p.108], wrappers torn and detached, backstrip tornii. Babbage, Henry Prevost. "On the mechanical arrangements of the Analytical Engine of the late Charles Babbage, F.R.S.", [in:] British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Bath in September 1888. London: John Murray, 1889, pp.616-617, 8vo, original cloth, (Bath Guildhall Library, bookplate; bought from Judea Pearl, 1997), [T&W B258 and B69, F76, H96; Randell 1979 p.108 (for B69)], upper cover partially detached, binding slightly worniii. Merrifield, Charles Watkins (1827-1884), et al. Report of the committee...appointed to consider the advisability and to estimate the expense of constructing Mr. Babbage's analytical machine, and of printing tables by its means. [in:] Report of the Forty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Dublin in August 1878, pp.92-102. London: John Murray, 1878, original cloth, (bought from Stern, 2006), [not in T&W; Origins of Cyberspace 90; Randell 1979 p.152], hinges starting8vo (3 volumes)

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