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OBSERVATIONS ON THE NOTATION EMPLOYED IN THE CALCULUS OF FUNCTIONS by Babbage, Charles

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Title: OBSERVATIONS ON THE NOTATION EMPLOYED IN THE CALCULUS OF FUNCTIONS
Author: Babbage, Charles
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Cambridge: J. Smith, 1820. Very good.. Presentation copy, inscribed to a mathematician and fellow co-founder of the Astronomical Society, of Babbage's major early-career paper on mathematical notation. Before Babbage invented the first mechanical computer, he had already distinguished himself as one of the most innovative mathematicians of his lifetime. "Observations" was "quite a remarkable paper," showing by unimpeachable mathematical calculations the reasons for his chosen system of notation for the calculus of functions. The notation of a mathematical theory is fundamental to its progress: without a usable system, the true potential of a theory remains by default unrealized. In other words, a great mathematical innovation cannot be great until it can be properly communicated through notation. In this paper, Babbage has put forth a compact and muscular system of notation for his biggest purely mathematical innovation, the calculus of functions. This 1820 paper is bound in early wrappers with a few further Royal Society papers, including another foundational work in Babbage's early mathematical career, his 1815 "Essay Towards the Calculus of Functions [part I]." The calculus of functions was "undoubtedly Babbage's major mathematical invention" (Dubbey 51). While studying at Cambridge, Babbage realized that the patriotic dispute between Newton and Leibniz as contemporaneous inventors of calculus had led English education into staleness: Europeans continued to build on Leibniz's system of notations for calculus, while Cambridge mathematicians required rote memorization of Newton's work. Many of Babbage's earliest published mathematical treatises on the calculus of functions, including those here, not only brought the English approach up to date, but sought to innovate further in the field - essentially, the first substantive mathematical innovations by an Englishman since Newton. Babbage's calculus of functions, an area of mathematics he essentially invented, "has possibilities that have been little explored even in modern mathematics" (Dubbey 51). The 1820 "Observations" was published the same year that Babbage, along with 13 others, founded the Astronomical Society of London (soon to be renamed the Royal Astronomical Society). Among its founding members was Babbage's friend Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, a professor of mathematics who was almost certainly the recipient of this presentation copy. Gregory and Babbage were part of the committee charged with developing the by-laws of the society the same year. It was, in fact, Babbage's activites with other Astronomical Society members that led to his first proposal to develop a difference engine for accomplishing large masses of calculations without error. When Babbage successfully constructed his first engine in 1823, the Astronomical Society presented him with a gold medal, and "this may have given him the encouragement he needed to go ahead with the task of constructing a much enlarged difference engine" (Dubbey 182). When Babbage sought government funding for what would be the first mechanical computer, Gregory wrote Babbage in full support of the idea: "The application of machinery to the purposes of computation, in the way you have so happily struck out [...] cannot fail" (quoted in Dubbey 183). Presentation copies of Babbage papers are quite scarce, let alone examples from a formative time in his career - at the peak of his innovations for pure mathematics, and on the cusp of the world-changing mechanical ones that would earn him the nickname "father of the computer." 11'' x 9''. Early drab paper wrappers. [2], 14; 389-454, [8] pages. Ink inscription, "Dr Gregory / from the author" to title page. Bound with: AN ESSAY TOWARDS THE CALCULUS OF FUNCTIONS 389-423 pages; A.P. Wilson Philip, SOME ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE RELATION WHICH SUBSISTS BETWEEN THE NERVOUS AND SANGUIFEROUS SYSTEMS, 424-446 pages; errata 447; INDEX TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1815, [8] pages. Small shelf label to front corner of upper wrapper, pencil notation "1820"; some pencil annotations to margins, including mathematical calculations. Spine extensively repaired and reinforced with shallow chipping to fore-edges. Some browning and foxing to first imprint, else clean. Housed in custom quarter goatskin clamshell box.

IN AND OUT OF CENTRAL AMERICA: And Other Sketches And Studies Of Travel by Vincent, Frank

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Title: IN AND OUT OF CENTRAL AMERICA: And Other Sketches And Studies Of Travel
Author: Vincent, Frank
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this early Progressive-era travel guide through Central America, stopping at major cities and ports - with a surprisingly large section devoted to Cambodia. 5.25" x 7.25" Original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, quetzal bird design stamped in red, black, yellow and gilt to front board. Grey topstain. Includes black-and-white portrait frontispiece, 15 full-page black-and-white photographic plates, and three maps - two printed in color (one folding) and one in black and white. [8], 246, [2] pages. Previous owner name to front pastedown. Minimal soiling to boards and toning to pages, with minor bumping to spine ends. Plates clean and bright. A sharp copy.

[Hand-Colored Etching/Aquatint] Fore's Marine Sketches. Plate 2. The Royal Navy. H.M.S. Fairy. Dryad. Portsmouth Harbout The Victory Saluting Her Majesty by Harris, J., engraver. After Thomas Sewell Robins

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Title: [Hand-Colored Etching/Aquatint] Fore's Marine Sketches. Plate 2. The Royal Navy. H.M.S. Fairy. Dryad. Portsmouth Harbout The Victory Saluting Her Majesty
Creator: Harris, J., engraver. After Thomas Sewell Robins
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Fores [Fores Sporting & Fine Print Repository & Frame Manufactory], 1851. First Edition. Fine. A magnificent naval print, beautifully composed, beautifully hand-colored, soothing and pleasant to the eye, depicting a naval ship on its last days saluting Queen Victoria who was on the Royal Yacht with her consort. Adding a piquancy to the artwork is the detail of the naval ship, de-masted, with the crew's laundry hanging to dry. The Royal Yacht is in the distant background. On a fairly thick card sheet measuring 56 by 68 cm. The engraved depression is 43 by 53 cm. The pictorial area, not including title or captioning, is 31 by 46 cm. There are a few, far from conspicuous, light fox marks. We can not imagine a copy being cleaner than this one.

LE CABINET DU DOCTEUR CALIGARI [THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI] (1922) French book by Ciné-Collection

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Title: LE CABINET DU DOCTEUR CALIGARI [THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI] (1922) French book
Author: Ciné-Collection
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ciné-Collection. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Paris: Ciné-Collection, 1922. Vintage original book, 9 x 6 1/4" (24 x 16 cm), pictorial wrappers, 64 pp. Wrappers lightly scuffed and creased, near fine. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is almost certainly the first great horror film. It made a huge impression worldwide at the time of its release, both as a very striking early example of German expressionist cinema, and also as an influence on many horror films which would follow. This book has extensive illustrations from the film. A search of the WorldCat database yields only two libraries owning an example of this book, and I found no other examples available online for purchase.

Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations by CALDER, Alexander; Jean-Paul SARTRE, and James Johnson SWEENEY

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Title: Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations
Author: CALDER, Alexander; Jean-Paul SARTRE, and James Johnson SWEENEY
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog
Description: Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter.

Tragic Magic by Brown, Wesley

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Title: Tragic Magic
Author: Brown, Wesley
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Random House, 1978. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 169p. Original yellow boards backed in black cloth. dj. 20 cm. Semi-circular brown stain on right edge of front free endpaper which is also nicely INSCRIBED by Brown ("To Yvette, who gave me encouragement and my first opportunity to read my work at the Liberty House way back in 1969. Love, Wesley 6/12/79"). Former owner's name ("Yvette Le Roy") also on front free endpaper. His first novel. We don't know what Brown would have read at Liberty House in 1969 -- perhaps something about the Black Panthers or the Vietnam War.

Motorpsycho! (Original pressbook for the 1965 film) by Russ Meyer (director, screenwriter); James Griffith, Hal Hopper (screenwriters); Haji, Alex Rocco, Steve Oliver, Holie K. Winters (starring)

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Title: Motorpsycho! (Original pressbook for the 1965 film)
Author: Russ Meyer (director, screenwriter); James Griffith, Hal Hopper (screenwriters); Haji, Alex Rocco, Steve Oliver, Holie K. Winters (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: California: Eve Productions, 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. The final film in Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle (1964-1965), or "Gothic" period, as Meyer puts it, a series of sexploitation films shot in black and white, with powerful and vengeful female characters, male impotence, and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. One of the first films to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in a Vietnam War veteran. Six pages, saddle stitched, 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall.

REPLY TO THE ATTACK OF REV. R.J. BRECKINRIDGE, UPON THE LOUISVILLE PRESBYTERY, AND DEFENCE OF THE "DECLARATION AND TESTIMONY," MADE IN THE SYNOD OF KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 16, A.D., 1865. BY...PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LOUISVILLE by Wilson, Samuel R.

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Title: REPLY TO THE ATTACK OF REV. R.J. BRECKINRIDGE, UPON THE LOUISVILLE PRESBYTERY, AND DEFENCE OF THE "DECLARATION AND TESTIMONY," MADE IN THE SYNOD OF KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 16, A.D., 1865. BY...PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LOUISVILLE
Author: Wilson, Samuel R.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Louisville: Hanna & Duncan, 1865. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 52pp. Some wrapper bleed onto title page [not obscuring text], old perforation stamp at blank lower margin of title page. Text lightly age-toned, a few spots, Good+. Breckinridge had been a strong Union voice in Kentucky during the Civil War. He sought, soon after War's end, to disqualify the secessionists from holding office in the reconstructed Presbyterian Church, on the ground that they were "unqualified, unfit and incompetent" to do so. Battle is joined, and the issues sharply disputed by Wilson in this "general denunciation against the northern Presbyterian Church" [Coleman]. FIRST EDITION. Coleman 1127.

Merry's Book of Puzzles by Robert Merry, ed

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Title: Merry's Book of Puzzles
Author: Robert Merry, ed
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Condition: Good. Toned with some soiling, worn, small tear with minor loss to upper wrapper. Spine chipped with approx. one third missing a
Description: New York, New York, 1857. Good. Toned with some soiling, worn, small tear with minor loss to upper wrapper. Spine chipped with approx. one third missing at foot.. A very "merry" book of puzzles for Victorian children, originally appearing in the children's periodical Merry's Museum. Includes 382 puzzles with an answer key in the rear, and illustrations throughout. Most are riddles or word puzzles, but there are also many delightful rebuses. Cover illustration shows a boy and a girl on either side of a floral arbor, with children playing together in the distance with jacks, dolls, and marbles. Single vol. (7.25" by 5"), pp. 96, in original illus. wrps. No. 84: Why is green grass like a mouse? A: Because the cattle eat it, and the cat'll eat it.

Naarashauki: The Female Pike by MANNIKKO, Esko

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Title: Naarashauki: The Female Pike
Author: MANNIKKO, Esko
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Condition: Fine in burgundy leatherette boards with a photographic plate affixed to the front cover.
Description: Oulu, Finland: Esko Mannikko / Kavela Kustannus Oy, 2000. Fine in burgundy leatherette boards with a photographic plate affixed to the front cover.. First Edition. Square quarto. Images of rural Finland, self-published. A postcard, SIGNED by the photographer, has been laid in. (Parr / Badger, v2, 78-79; Open Book 338).

THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS and UNDER THE DEODARS by Kipling, Rudyard

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Title: THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS and UNDER THE DEODARS
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
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Description: 1891. Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, n.d. [1892]. Original maroon cloth, beveled. First Combined Edition, later issue (with Lovell Coryell, rather than United States Book Co., as the publisher). These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series, Allahabad; John Lovell issued each in wrappers in 1890 in his "Westminster Series," before combining the two in the present volume (U.S. Book Co. in 1891, Lovell Coryell in 1892). This would be a fine copy were it not for the slight fading of the maroon spine -- almost unavoidable for this color. See Richards A42 note; Stewart 50. This is the George Barr McCutcheon copy, with his bookplate, housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.

HANBOK: THE ART OF KOREAN CLOTHING [Signed] by Yang, Sunny

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Title: HANBOK: THE ART OF KOREAN CLOTHING [Signed]
Author: Yang, Sunny
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781565910829
Description: Elizabeth, New Jersey: Hollym International Corporation, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 212 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Heavy rubbing and scuffing to dust jacket. Writing on front cover. General shelf wear to boards. Front board warped. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Shelved in Fashion. 1412437. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

UNIVERSIDAD MENSUAL DE CULTURA POPULAR. NUM. 22, TOMO IV

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Title: UNIVERSIDAD MENSUAL DE CULTURA POPULAR. NUM. 22, TOMO IV
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional, 1937. b/w plates, wrps. Devoted to art, architecture, literature, cinema published by the University. In 1929, when the University became autonomous, the concept of extension of culture was incorporated into the university mission, and the University created various agencies and dependencies with the purpose of extending university cultural heritage to Mexican society. The then rector Ignacio García Téllez supported the foundation of the Center for Social Action of University Students - whose headquarters was under the directorship ofSalvador Azuela until 1938 -, on which various cultural outreach centers depended. The creation of the Universidad de México magazine dates back to this period. Contains many important articles by and about emerging artists and writers. Published T. 1, no. 1 (feb. 1936)-t. 5, núm. 29 (jun. 1938). No. 24-29 includes a separately numbered section with title Cuadernos de arte. no. 1-6, each also with a distinctive title./ Supersedes Universidad de México, issued 1930-33; superseded by Universidad de México, issued 1946-59. SPECIAL ART SECTION: Imagenes Oleos de: Agustín Lazo, Roberto Negro, Juan O'Gorman y Rufino Tamayo.

GUIDA AL RINASCIMENTO IN ITALIA by Zeppegno, Luciano

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Title: GUIDA AL RINASCIMENTO IN ITALIA
Author: Zeppegno, Luciano
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Condition: Very Good
Description: No Place: Arnoldo Mondadori. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Arnoldo Mondadori, (1974). First Edition. Numerous color photographs, small bump on bottom of front cover, all else Very Good no DJ .

Delicious Home Drinks Made with Horsford's Acid Phosphate, Pure Fruit Juices and Sugar by Rumford Company

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Title: Delicious Home Drinks Made with Horsford's Acid Phosphate, Pure Fruit Juices and Sugar
Author: Rumford Company
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Providence, RI: Department of Home Economics of the Rumford Company, 1947. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 4 1/2 x 3 1/4; pp. 2-16; stapled blue & red wraps, titled and ruled in black; ]minor wear to wraps; very good to near fine condition.Established in the mid-19th century, the Rumford Company would becomem known for manufacturing chemical food additives, intended to increase the nutritional value of foods. One of their trademark products was Horseford's Acid Phosphate, and the current booklet contained various non-alcoholic cocktails prepared with it, including Currant Jelly Phosphate, Bryan Crush, and so on.

Anarchy, Order, and Integration; How to Manage Interdependence by Starr, Harvey

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Title: Anarchy, Order, and Integration; How to Manage Interdependence
Author: Starr, Harvey
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ISBN: 9780472086276
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, faded at the spine, bumped at the edges. Grey cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the top edge, clean internally.

Webster's American Military Biographies

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Title: Webster's American Military Biographies
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780877790631
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 548pp. Corners a little bumped else near fine in modestly rubbed, very good or better modestly edgeworn dust jacket internally reinforced with tape.

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