拍品 710
  • 710

ANALOG COMPUTERS, 11 VOLUMES.

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300 - 500 GBP
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描述

  • A collection of 11 volumes, comprising:
i. Willers, Friedrich Adolf (1883-1959). Mathematische Instrumente. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1926, first edition, small 8vo, original green cloth, (bought from Elgen, Rockville, Centre, NY, 1998), [T&W W81; Origins of Cyberspace 407]ii. Meyer Zur Cappellen, Walther (1902-1985). Mathematische instrumente. Leipzig: Akademische Verlaggesellschaft, 1949, third edition, 8vo, original boards, (bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1980), [T&W M98; Randell 1979 p.152 (this 1949 edition); cf. Origins of Cyberspace 793 (edition Leipzig 1944)]iii. Willers, Friedrich Adolf (1883-1959). Mathematische Maschinen und Instrumente. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1951, first edition, 8vo, original blue wrappers, dust-jacket, (Franz Leopold Alt (1910-2011), one of the founders of the Association for Computing Machinery, who served as its third president (1950-1952), his inkstamp on dust-jacket), (bought from Scientia, Arlington, MA, 1994), [T&W W82; Randell 1979 p.174]iv. Couffignal, Louis (1902-1966). Les machines à penser. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952, first edition, 8vo, 2 photographic plates, original wrappers printed in red and black, glassine wrapper, modern folding cloth box, [T&W C189; Origins of Cyberspace 550; Randell 1979 p.122], browning v. Korn, Granino Arthur (1922-2013) and Korn, Theresa M. Electronic analog computers (D-c analog computers). New York: McGraw Hill, 1952, first edition, 8vo, original black cloth, spine gilt, [T&W K67; Origins of Cyberspace 759]  vi. Raymond, François-Henri (1914-2000). Le calcul analogique: principes et contribution à une théorie générale: Recueil de conférences données en mai 1952 à l'Institut national pour les applications du calcul à Rome. Rome: Société d’Electronique et d’Automatisme, c.1953, 4to, original wrappers, previous ownership signatures in ink on front cover and title-page, [T&W R16]vii. Soroka, Walter W. (1908-1995). Analog methods in computation and simulation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954, first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, [T&W S165]viii. Couffignal, Louis (1902-1966). Denkmaschinen. Stuttgart: Gustav Kilpper, 1955, first German edition, 8vo, original red cloth, dust-jacket, [T&W C187], some spotting and loss to dust-jacketix. Wass, Charles Alfred Alan (1911-1989). Introduction to electronic analogue computers. London: Pergamon, 1955, first edition, 8vo, original red cloth, [T&W W15]x. Paynter, Henry Martyn (1923-2002), editor. A Palimpsest on the Electronic Analog Art. Boston: Philbrick Researches, Inc., 1955, first edition, 4to, original paper wrappers, [T&W P30; Origins of Cyberspace 830], boards slightly soiledxi. Korn, Granino Arthur and Korn, Theresa M. Electronic analog computers (D-c analog computers). New York: McGraw Hill, 1956, second edition, 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt, [T&W K68]

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