CALCULATING MACHINES AND INSTRUMENTS, SIX VOLUMES

i. Pressler, Maximilian Robert (1815-1886). Mathematische und Polytechnische Brieftasche mit Ingenieur-Messknecht. Dresden: Woldemar Türk, 1864. 8vo, third edition instruction manual, original green wrappers, instrument in slip opposite, original black morocco gilt, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Theodor Ackermann Antiquariat, Munich, 1989, Catalogue 765, item 1214), [T&W P110], instruction manual with second half of gatherings starting (some loose), browning, binding rubbed with some loss ii. Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Catalogue officiel des collections du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, troisième fascicule. Paris: E. Bernard, 1906. 8vo, later binding, (I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003), historian of science, book label and signature; bought from Morgan, 1989), [T&W C169; Instruments in print 55]iii. Michel, Henri (1885-1981). Introduction à l'étude d'une collection d'instruments anciens de mathématiques. Antwerp: De Sickel, 1939. 4to, no. 155 from an edition of 300, portrait frontispiece and numerous plates throughout, original wrappers, (bought from Rogers Turner, London, 1994), [T&W M100; Instruments in print 53], minor soiling to wrappers iv. Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Catalogue du musée. Section A: Instruments et machines à calculer. Paris: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 1942. 8vo, frontispiece and numerous plates, one folding map, original wrappers, [T&W C168; Origins of Cyberspace 546; Randell 1979 p.184], minor browningv. [Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini (1917-1981)]. Catalogo degli strumenti del Museo di Storia della Scienza. Florence: Olschki, 1954. 8vo, plates (1 folding), half calf, spine gilt, marbled endpapers, [T&W B195], some restoration to folding platevi. Gröndahl, Boris (editor). Die Entstehung des Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum.The Creation of the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum. Berlin: 1996. 4to, parallel German and English, original printed wrappers, [not in T&W]

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