Lot 794
  • 794

VON FOERSTER (EDITOR), CYBERNETICS - CONFERENCE ON CYBERNETICS, 5 VOLUMES

Estimate
200 - 250 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 5 volumes on the Conference on Cybernetics, comprising:
i. Cybernetics. Circular causal, and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the sixth conference March 24-25, 1949, New York. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1950. 8vo, contemporary light green cloth, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in, (Princeton University, library label; bought from Morgan, 1988), [T&W V33; Origins of Cyberspace 556]ii. Cybernetics. Circular causal, and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the seventh conference March 23-24, 1950, New York. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket, (bought from Horizon, 1998), [T&W V34; Origins of Cyberspace 557], minor browning to dust-jacketiii. Cybernetics. Circular causal, and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the eighth conference March 15-16, 1951, New York. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1952. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket, (bought from Brainbooks, 1998), [T&W V35; Origins of Cyberspace 558], minor chipping to dust-jacketiv. Cybernetics. Circular causal, and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the ninth conference March 20-21, 1952, New York. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1953. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket, (bought from Eric Korn, 1993), [T&W V36; Origins of Cyberspace 559], dust-jacket soiled v. Cybernetics. Circular causal, and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the tenth conference April 22, 23 and 24, 1953, Princeton, NJ. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1955. 8vo, original green cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket, [T&W V37], dust-jacket with minor chipping

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