Search Results: Titles starting with A from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

1922. [Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. The A B C of business: Adding, bookkeeping, calculating. N.p., [May 1922]. Unbound brochure. [6]pp. Illustrated. 287 x 222 mm. Light soiling. Includes a list of British and Irish businesses that "have proved the efficiency of Burroughs machines." Origins of Cyberspace 239. .

London: BBC, 1960. Bagrit, Leon. The A.B.C. of "electronic brains." [London:] British Broadcasting Corporation, [1960]. Original pictorial wrappers, light wear at spine, a few marginal tears. 47 [1]pp. Text illustrations. 229 x 188 mm. VG. The text of six talks on computers broadcast on the radio by the BBC. Origins of Cyberspace 449.

London: J. Jones, 1789. Plate: 207x140 mm. Margin: 230x158 mm. Light foxing around the edges, some soiling.

New York: T. Audel & co, 1901. First edition. Homans, James Edward (1865-1949). ABC of the telephone: a practical and useful treatise for students and workers in telephony, giving a review of the development of the industry to the present date, and full descriptions of numerous valuable inventions and appliances ... New York: T. Audel & Co., 1901. xvi, 335pp. including frontispiece portrait of Alexander Graham Bell. 190 x 125 mm. Black cloth, gilt lettering to the front and to the spine. Very good. First Edition. Signature to front free end paper of "A. W. Hopkins" dated 10-24-1901. "As is indicated by the title, this book is an elementary and general treatise. It deals with the telephone industry and the leading features of its development to the present time, in such a fashion and in such language as to enable the student and the non-professional reader to derive an intelligent idea of broad facts and general principles" (p. vii). OCLC cites only one other copy. 51041.

1825. Autograph letter signed from Scottish philosopher William Hamilton (1788-1856), professor of logic and metaphysics at Edinburgh University, and author of "Philosophy of the Unconditioned," in which he developed the principle that for the human finite mind there can be no knowledge of the Infinite.

1875.

Paris, 1871.

1846.

Paris, 1857.

Manchester, 1826.

Auteuil, 1813.

Brighton, 1876.

London, 1823.

London: HMSO, 1801. [Rickman, John (1771-1840).] Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and the increase or diminution thereof." 2 vols. in 3, folio. [4], 503; [2], 509-547, [1], 13; [4], 459, [1], 13pp. The final 13 pages in Vol. I, part 2 duplicated in Vol. II. [London: His Majesty's Stationery Office], 1801-2. 322 x 198 mm. (Vol. I, part 2 measures 304 x 203 mm.). Half calf, marbled boards ca. 1802; Vol. I, part 2 in modern half calf to match; slight wear and darkening to spines. Very good set apart from some soiling in Vol. I, part 2. Engraved armorial bookplate of Tory politician John Pollexfen Bastard (1756-1816) in two of the three volumes. First Edition of the First English Census. Rickman, a British government official and statistician, drafted the bill that became the 1800 Census Act, which established for the first time a… Read More

London: House of Commons, 1822. [Rickman, John (1771-1840).] Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" . . . Folio. [2], xxxv, [3], 551, [3], 160pp. Folding table on p. xv. [London;} House of Commons, 1822. 334 x 207 mm. Library buckram, spine a bit faded, slight wear, stamp of King's College Library, London on spine. Very good. First Edition of Great Britain's third census, showing a population of 14.4 million people, an increase of 1.8 million over the census of 1811. The 1821 census was the first to break down Great Britain's population by age; the data showed that about half the British population was under 20 years of age, in contrast to about 25% today. John Rickman, who drafted the bill that became the 1800 Census Act, supervised the first four British censuses and prepared the abstracts and reports for each. .

London: House of Commons, 1812. [Rickman, John (1771-1840).] Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" . . . Folio. xxxi, [3], 511, [3], 200, [2]pp. [London:] House of Commons, 1812. 339 x 202 mm. Half calf, gilt spine, boards ca. 1812, some wear and rubbing, a few small stains but sound. Very good. Stamp and inscription noting that this copy was once part of the library of the Bishopric of Worcester; notice printed on recto of last leaf: "This book is to be preserved in the Episcopal Library of Worcester, at Hartlebury." First Edition of Great Britain's second census, taken in 1811, ten years after the first census. The returns gave a total population of 12.6 million people, an increase of 1.6 million over 1801. The second census followed the model of the first: The first part detailed the number of people, their occupations, and numbers of families and… Read More

Paris: Delaguette & Le Prieur, 1753. 1st edition. 3 vols., 4to. Frontispieces in each volume engraved by Le Bas after Francois Boucher (1703-70). c.1900pp. 258 x 192mm.Contemporary half calf, gilt, a little rubbed. Occasional very light foxing or browning, faint dampstain on a few leaves in vol. 1 but a fine set still. Bookplate & signatures in vol. 1. FIRST EDITION, complete 4to. run (later volumes appeared in 12mo. only) Collects the prize competition papers of the Royal Academy of Surgery from the 1730's to the 1750's and features a frontispiece (repeated in each volume) by Francois Boucher, considered the greatest French master of the first half of the 18th century,and probably the most productive and versatile painter of the century. As royal painter, Boucher could probably be called on to grace the prize publication of the recently created Royal Academy of Surgery; nevertheless, a medical work illustrated by an artist of his rank was no less an exception then as now, and should be valued on… Read More

1920. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 75 (1920). 4pp. 214 x 137 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Very good.

1920. 4pp. Unbound.