SCHEUTZ DIFFERENCE ENGINES, 5 WORKS

i. [Dudley Observatory]. Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, August 28, 1856. Albany, New York: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1856, (Weinreb Collection, Bloomsbury, 28 October 1999, lot 99, Erwin Tomash), [T&W D68], lacking wrappers, some dampstaining throughoutii. Hough, George Washington (1836-1909). "The Swedish tabulating machine of Mr. George Scheutz" [in:] Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Dudley Observatory for the year 1863. Albany, New York: J. Munsell, 1864, original wrappers, [T&W H170], tears and loss to wrappers together with adhesive tape repairiii. Williams, F.J. [Pehr Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) and Scheutz, Edvard (1821-1881)]. "The Swedish calculating machine at the General Register Office, Somerset House" [in:] Companion to the Almanac; or, Year-book of general information for 1866. London: Knight and Co., [1865], original cloth, (bought from Pickering & Chatto, 1986), [T&W W84; Origins of Cyberspace 86; Randell 1979 p.175], binding worniv. Hough, George Washington. "The Swedish tabulating machine of G. & E. Scheutz" [in:] Annals of the Dudley Observatory, vol. 1, Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1866, numerous plates (several folding), later cloth, (bought from William & Victoria Dailey, 1987), [T&W H171; Archibald, Scheutz, no. 22; Randell 1979 p.181], several tears, some sections of plates detached, library stampsv. Ekelöf, Stig (1904-1993). Les machines mathématiques en Suède [offprint from:] Acta polytechnica - Electrical Engineering Series, vol. 4, no.1. Stockholm: Erlanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1951, original wrappers, (bought from Gerhard Renner, 1990), [T&W E4]

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