BABBAGE--GREAT EXHIBITION AND GREENWICH ROYAL OBSERVATORY, 2 VOLUMES

i. [The Art Journal]. The Industry of all nations… illustrated catalogue. London: Virtue, [1851], FIRST EDITION, 4to, numerous illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges, [T&W B66], some damp-staining, slight splitting at gutter, binding worn and soiledii. Sheepshanks, Richard (1794-1855). A letter to the board of visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr Babbage… London: Barclay, 1860, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, presentation copy inscribed by the editor (“Isaac Fletcher | from | Miss Sheepshanks | August 1864.”) on verso of front free endpaper, original morocco, top edge gilt, [T&W S105; Origins of Cyberspace 80], some browning and spotting, binding worn

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