拍品 737
  • 737

BABBAGE, TABLE OF THE LOGARITHMS, LONDON, 1844

估價
800 - 1,200 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108000... Stereotyped. Fourth impression. London: John Murray, 1844
8vo, late nineteenth-century half morocco, marbled boards, tear to front endpaper, slightly browned

來源

unknown nineteenth-century owner with cropped ownership signature on title page, further notes in same hand in text and on dedication page ("Chas Babbage died Oct 21, 1871, aged 79. I.B.F. met him in London in 1851"); The Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, donated to Franklin Institute Library of Philadelphia, book-label, stamp on title page; bought from Pickering & Chatto, London, 1988

出版

Tomash & Williams B58; Van Sinderen 33 (cited)

Condition

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