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1956. Budapest, (1956). 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt. 425 pp., many plates and maps.

1828. Stuttgart und Tübingen, Cotta'schen, 1828. Later fullcloth. 113,(3) pp. Some contemporary underlinings and notes in pencil. First edition. A second part was issued in 1830 in Münster.

1826. München, E.A. Fleichmann, (1826). 4to. Contemp. marbled boards. Spine and part of covers a bit faded. 72 pp. Very light browning and a few scattered brownspots. First edition. Baader was one of the first railway-ingenieurs in Germany and he constructed the first railway in Bavaria.

1822. London, Cambridge University Press, 1822. 4to. In recent paper wrappers. Extracted from the "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", Volume 1, bound with the title-page of the volume. Fine and clean. (2), (63)-76 First appearance of Babbage paper on the notation employed in the Calculus of Functions."Babbage's major Contribution to mathematics was his calculus of functions, which he became interested in as early as 1809 and continued to develop during his years at Cambridge. Babbage presents his major ideas on the subject in the above two papers, published in the "Philosophical Transactions" in 1815 and 1816. "It can be said with some assurance that no mathematician prior to Babbage had treated the calculus of functions in such systematic way...Babbage must be given full credit as the inventor of a distinct and importent branch of mathematics" (Dubbey 1978, 90). Elsewhere Dubby states that his new scheme would serve as a generalized calculus to include all problems capable of… Read More

1855. Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855. 4to. Extract, bound in new full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of brownspotting, otherwise a fine. [Babbage:] Pp. 557-560. [Entire issue: (3), 538-63 pp.]. Scarce first publication of Babbage's early report on the difference engine, which had been built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard, based upon Babbage's own designs. "In 1854 Babbage's ideas came to the attention of George and Edvard Scheutz, a father and son from Sweden. After reading a description of the Difference Engine (by Babbage), they designed and built their own version. This machine was smaller and lighter than the engine conceived by Babbage. They used gears and levers that would have been suitable for the mechanism of a clock. In contrast, Babbage used technology that would have been appropriate for a steam engine. Babbage's engine, if completed, would have filled a room. The Scheutz engine sat nicely on a table and looked like a complicated music box.… Read More

1815. (London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815 and 1816). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part I. and 1816 - Part II. Having both titlepages to the parts. Pp. (2),389-446 and (2),179-256. First titlepage with a stamp on verso. Otherwise fine and clean. First printings of Babbage's main mathematical contributions."Babbage's major Contribution to mathematics was his calculus of functions, which he became interested in as early as 1809 and continued to develop during his years at Cambridge. Babbage presents his major ideas on the subject in the above two papers, published in the "Philosophical Transactions" in 1815 and 1816. "It can be said with some assurance that no mathematician prior to Babbage had treated the calculus of functions in such systematic way...Babbage must be given full credit as the inventor of a distinct and importent branch of mathematics" (Dubbey 1978, 90). Elsewhere Dubby states that his new scheme would serve as a generalized calculus to include… Read More

1819. (London, W. Bulmer & Co.), 1819. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX.", pp. 249-282. First edition, the journal printing, of one of the importent works in pure mathematics, which occupied Babbage from 1815-20. The item offered is the authors 5th work."Babbage brings his great powers of inventiveness to this subject (i.e. infinite series) but like many of his contemporaries, appeared insensitive to problems arising out of convergence, and accepted unquestionably several absurd results." (Dubbey 1979, pp. 135-36). - Hook and Norman No 24.

1822. London, Cambridge University Press, 1822. 4to. In plain white paper-wrappers with title-page of journal volume pasted on to front wrapper. In "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", Volume 1. Fine and clean. Pp. (63)-76 First appearance of Babbage paper on the notation employed in the Calculus of Functions."Babbage's major Contribution to mathematics was his calculus of functions, which he became interested in as early as 1809 and continued to develop during his years at Cambridge. Babbage presents his major ideas on the subject in the above two papers, published in the "Philosophical Transactions" in 1815 and 1816. "It can be said with some assurance that no mathematician prior to Babbage had treated the calculus of functions in such systematic way...Babbage must be given full credit as the inventor of a distinct and importent branch of mathematics" (Dubbey 1978, 90). Elsewhere Dubby states that his new scheme would serve as a generalized calculus to include all problems… Read More

1823. Edinburgh, William & Charles Tait / London, Longman, etc, 1823. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh" 9, pt. 1 (1821). Leaves reinforced in margin. Pp. (6), 153-177, 337-352. First Edition of Babbage's only paper on probability. "In this paper [Babbage's] concern was primarily mathematical, and we will find considerable skill in the manipulation of functions and polynomials. [...] The major interest in this particular paper [is] the ingenious use of algebra to solve probability problems, especially the devices using the coefficients of polynomials and the roots of unity" (Dubbey, The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage, pp. 141-42).Erwin Tomash B22

1855. (Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 41, No 15. Pp. (537-) 563. (Entire issue offered). Babbage's paper: pp. 557-560. Some faint, mostly marginal brownspots. First printing of this importent paper being babbage's report on the Scheutz differnce calculator, explaining its functions by way of his own notations."Babbage's report on the differnce engine built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheuts (1785-1873) and his son Edvard (1821-81), based on Babbage's own designs.... In 1854 the Scheutzes took their engine no. 2 to England in the hopes of marketing it. There they were introduced to Babbage, who received them with great friendliness and showed a lively interest in their work. Babbage devoted two whole days to investigating Scheutz' engine for which he had much praise, especially for the way they had succeeded in building it with the funds at their disposals.... As part of his effort to promote the… Read More

1826. London, Taylor and Francis, 1826 4to. In plain white paper-wrappers with title-page of journal volume pasted on to front wrapper. In "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", Volume 2, part 1. . Fine and clean. Pp. (217)-225 + the pasted on title-page. First printing of the early mathematical paper. Erwin Tomash B14.

1826. (London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 250-265 and 4 engraved plates. Some faint dampstains to plates. One plate with a small tear, no loss. the same plate some creasing at upper part, verso of plate somewhat soiled. Page 261 with some marginal brownspots and some soiling. The other leaves clean and fine. First appearance of a main paper in the history of Computing Science in which Babbage set forth some of the basic principles that guide modern computers."Babbage's first publication of his system of mechanical notation that enabled him to describe the logic and operation of his machiness on paper as they would be fabricated in metal. Babbage later stated that: "Without the aid of this language I could not have invented the Analytical Engine; nor do I belive that any machinery of equal complexity can ever be contrived without the assistance of that or of some other equivalent language. The Difference Engine No.2...is… Read More

1819. (London, W. Bulmer & Co.), 1819. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX.", pp. 249-282. Broad margins, clean and fine. With the titlepage to the volume Part II. First edition, the journal printing, of one of the importent works in pure mathematics, which occupied Babbage from 1815-20. The item offered is the authors 5th work."Babbage brings his great powers of inventiveness to this subject (i.e. infinite series) but like many of his contemporaries, appeared insensitive to problems arising out of convergence, and accepted unquestionably several absurd results." (Dubbey 1979, pp. 135-36). - Hook and Norman No 24.

1808. Paris, Barba, An XIII (1808). 7 cont. hcalf. Back rubbed. Spine ends with a small taped volumenumber. Occasionally brpownspotted. With 27 engraved portraits.

1805. Small 8vo. Bound in 7 later hcloth, gilt backs. Stamp on htitles and on verso of titles. With 23 engraved portraits of Napoleons generals.

1829. (Paris, Crochard, 1829). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 , tome 40, Cahier 2. With halftitle to vol. 40. Pp. 113-224 a. 3 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Babinet's paper: pp. 166-176 a. 1 plate. First appearance of the paper in which Babinet expounds his importent law, stating the formula that holds between diffraction and diffraction pattern in optics. The principle plays an important role in antenna design and Babinet’s principle is particularly interesting to consider in this case where the metasurfaces and their complements can be regarded as variations on a folded dipole antenna array and patch antenna array, respectively. Babinet was together with Fresnel one of the pioneers in the development of the new optics, the wave-theory of light."An early proponent of the wave theory of light which had recently been perfected by Fresnel and Young, Babinet devoted much of his research to extending its applications. His first published paper on… Read More

1817. Brest, L'Imprimerie de Michel, 1817. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (8),VII,498,(2) pp. Textillustrations in woodcut. clean and fine. First edition.

1730. Genova, Matheo Garvizza, (ca. 1730-) 1756. Small 4to. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (6),346;336;(2),383 pp. Faint dampstain to last leaves in volume II. First edition. With the Supplement-volume published years later.

1920. Pisa, Francesco Mariotti, 1920. Small folio. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. 21 pp. Limited to 36 copies. With 3 large handcoloured woodengraved initials and 1 woodcut-illustration.

1951. Paris, Montaigne, (1951). 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, back-wrapper is missing and spine is worn, uncut. 256,(1) pp.