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Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1996] Sandpiper Books edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983 One of 850 copies, signed by the author. Designed and produced by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. Full natural linen with spine stamped in brown. Marbled paper sample affixed to front cover. Quarto. With tipped in frontispiece, six tipped in marbled paper samples, seven pages of color illustrations showing forty-five examples of marbling and 3 pages of b/w plates, plus three pages of black and white illustrations. Front fly-leaf a little foxed, otherwise a fine copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Binding extremities rubbed, bookplate. A good, clean copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1930] First edition of the author's first book. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket repaired with tape on inside near head of spine.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931 First edition. Charcoal cloth with gilt spine. Octavo. A few light ink marks on front free endpaper. Very good+ in price-clipped, lightly soiled d.j.

Rome: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, [1962] Two volumes, consisting of a manuscript facsimile with seventeen full-page illustrations in gold and colors, blue and red initial letters, and text in Latin, and a text volume with six black and white illustrations. Both volumes are quartos. The facsimile pagination is [2], [4], [42] pp. and the pagination for the text volume is [5]-97, [1, blank], [+1, colophon]. Facsimile in full vellum with leather ties. Text volume in printed white paper wrappers with minor creasing to spine and upper corners.. A fine set in a slightly worn clamshell case. Petrus de Ebulo (Peter of Eboli, flourished 1196-1220) was a monk, court poet to Henry VI (Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily), didactic versifier, and chronicler who wrote in Latin. His flattering work Liber ad Honorem Augusti, written in Palermo, was dedicated. De Balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum was a medical text by Ebulo written in the thirteenth century. It was the first work about the baths in the… Read More

New York: Maurice Inman; London: Maggs Bros., 1932 Second edition, revised. One of 250 copies, pinted on Worthy Aurelian all-rag –paper, signed by the author. Half navy leather over blue cloth boards, gilt spine. . Quarto. Spine ends rubbed, front hinge cracking, but sound. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. Jacket is faded at spine, and has some light chipping around the edges. In very good slipcase, with some chipping and soiling.

A description of the special-purpose wartime punched-card calculators originally developed by IBM for the United States Army. . The complete issue, in original printed wrappers. Octavo. Library rubberstamp on front wrapper. Very good. The first two machines of this type, were built during the war for the Aberdeen proving ground, were delivered in December 1944, and were in operation during the last eight months of the war…For comparison with the I.B.M. Sequence Controlled Calculator at Harvard this machine is limited in internal storage capacity, number of significant figures, and flexibility of sequencing; on the other hand, multiplying speed is about twenty times as great."

The complete volume, in original green printed wrappers. Octavo. Library rubberstamp on front wrapper, otherwise fine. "From 1940 to 1944 Eckert served as director of the United States Nautical Almanac Office (USNAO) at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where he set up a computation laboratory similar to the one he had left at Columbia. One of his chief tasks at the USNAO was to develop and compute tables for the American Air Almanac, a navigational tool used by the United States armed forces. Eckert devised punched-card methods of generating the tables and a mechanical method of proofreading, using the comparing device on the punched-card reproducer, that insured the absolute accuracy of the tables. These methods are outlined in Eckert's paper, which also contains his account of an improved table-printing machine designed by IBM and installed in February 1945" (Hook and Norman, 577).

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1964] First U.K. ed. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in lightly soiled very good d.j.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1982 Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1950 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Cloth bubbled on front cover. Otherwise very good.

Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1972 One of 200 copies printed at the Plantin Press of Saul and Lillian Marks. . Marbled green wrappers, beige printed label. Three-hole pamphlet stitch binding. Inscribed to by the author on the front free endpaper in green ink by the poet and Mel Edelstein, her husband. . 4.5 inches by 5 inches. . A fine copy. Eleanor Edelstein's poetry has been collected in chapbooks by presses like the Magpie Press in Los Angeles and included, alongside poems by Allen Ginsberg and Robert Penn Warren, in a 1964 anthology commemorating the seventy-seventh birthday of Marianne Moore. Her husband, Mel Edelstein (1925-1996), was a senior bibliographer and resource coordinator for the Getty's Center for the History of Art helped the Getty Museum build a collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque festival books. He is also the bibliographer of Wallace Stevens.

Paris: de l'Imprimérie de H. Agasse, An VIII de la République, [1800] First French translation, abridged of Eden's State of the Poor, originally published in 1797. . Rebound in half vellum over marbled boards. . Octavo. A very good, uncut copy, with the original wrappers bound in. A disciple of Adam Smith, Sir Frederick Morton Eden (1766-1809) embarked on his investigation of the living conditions of the poor after witnessing the harsh effects of the high prices brought on by the war in 1794-5. He published his results in three volumes, "the first containing a description of the condition of the laboring classes and an analysis of its causes, the other two the supporting facts in the form of parochial reports on the administration of workhouses and houses of industry, friendly societies, and other charitable organizations, with a lengthy series of appendixes, including tables of prices and wages and a list of works on poverty and its alleviation…Eden's own work, notwithstanding its originality,… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1844 Third edition, the last one published during Maria Edgeworth's lifetime and with her final corrections. The first edition was published in two volumes in 1820. For this edition, the two volumes were compressed into one and Maria Edgeworth, while leaving her father's portion of the work untouched, rewrote her own contribution in order to give only what was necessary to complete the view of her father's life and character in as few words as possible. Brown cloth decoratively stamped and ruled in blind with a gilt-lettered spine. Octavo. Engraved frontisportrait of Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Three plates of engravings by Henry Meyer. Binding extremities lightly worn. Front hinge slightly cracked, but sound. The occasional minor tear or chip. Pencil notation on p. 486. Pencil inscription on front flyleaf. A remarkably fine, bright copy, rare in this condition, in the original cloth. Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) was an educational writer, engineer, and the father of… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson.. 1798 First edition of Maria Edgeworth's first publication, produced with her Lunar Society father. Muirhead calls this "the most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between…Locke's Thoughts …and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861" (The English School, 57). The Edgeworths were the preëminent disciples of the educational theories of Rousseau in England. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine, tooled in compartments, olive morocco label, edges stained red, brown paper endpages. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight wear to boards. Two volumes in one, thick quarto. Illustrated with one diagram and two folding plates. Both joints starting to crack, but sound. Itermittent very light foxing, slight offsetting to plates. Early armorial bookplate, ink signature dated 1872 on a preliminary blank. A very good copy. Possibly a large paper copy, with wide margins. "In the preface to Practical Education the authors stated that… Read More

New-York: Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1832-4 Harper's Stereotype Edition, possibly the second American edition. Slade lists American editions published in 1822-5 and 1835-6. Contemporary half black calf over marbled boards, gilt spines. . Twenty volumes, bound in ten, twelvemo. . With engraved titles and frontispieces. Fore-edge of back cover of the first volume rather worn, minor wear to boards otherwise. Light foxing throughout, as usual. A good, attractive set. Maria Edgeworth's tales for children and education theories were very popular in America as well as Britain and Ireland.

London: Printed for R. Hunter...and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt spines with black leather labels. . Three volumes, twelvemo. Issued without half-titles. Old ownership signature in each volume, a little very light foxing, light dampstain at lower corner of several pages in Volume III, never affecting text. Overall a very good, clean copy "The first of these tales, Harrington, was occasioned by an extremely well written letter, which Miss Edgeworth received from America, from a Jewess, complaining of the illiberality, with which the Jewish nation had been treated in some of Miss Edgeworth's works" (preface). In Harrington, the Christian hero is in love with a Jewish woman.

A Genève: Chez Manget. J.J. Paschoud. Et à Paris. MagimeL.. An VIII [i.e. 180?]. First French edition of "the most important work on general pedagogy toappear in this country between…Locke's Thoughts…and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861" (Muirhead, The English at School, p. 57). The fifty-page translator's preface contains a significant discussion of Maria Edgeworth's views on education, as well as an explanation of the liberties he has taken with the text. Pictet had a lengthy correspondence with Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Contemporary calf over paste-paper boards, gilt spine. Octavo. Two small tears at top of spine, front joint starting to crack. Intermittent light dampstain at top edge. A good copy overall. Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755-1824) was a Swiss rural economist. He wrote a Picture of the Present Condition of the United States of America (1796) and a Treatise on Agriculture. He was one of the editors of the Bibliothèque Universelle, in which he published a translation of Maria… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1811 Third edition of "the most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between…Locke's Thoughts…and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861" (Muirhead, The English at School, 57). This edition, like the second, was revised by the authors, as enumerated in the "Advertisement to the Third Edition." It contains additions and omissions, and the chapter on Arithmetick has been revised. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spines stamped in gilt. . Two volumes, octavo. . With one plate in Volume I, opposite p. 56, and two folding plates at the end of Volume II. Light dampstain to lower edges of covers, extending to text occasionally. A good copy. Maria Edgeworth's sister Anna Beddoes' copy, signed by her on the front pastedown of Volume I, and on the title-page to Volume II. She later gave the volumes away, adding in the first volume "to C.H. Blandford "This book…has a real value in the history of education. Mr. Edgeworth's interest in the subject… Read More