page from bookseller's catalog
Date: 1979
Inventory Number: 1998-1-1055
Classification: Paper
Subject:
Maker: Jeremy Norman and Company (1971-present)
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Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
21.2 x 27.7 cm (8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Material:
DescriptionA single glossy sheet from a bookseller's catalog. The catalog is from the late 1970s. All the images and the text are printed in black.
The text on the page is divided into two columns. The leftmost column begins with a continuation of the description of a First Edition copy of d'Alembert's Recherches (1749) from the previous page of the catalog. It contains a description of the contents and highlights of the volume. The leftmost column continues with an entry for a First Edition copy of d'Alembert's eight volume Opuscules mathématiques". The volumes also include a duplicate of "Nouvelles tables de la lune" and an additional item titled "Nova tabularum lunarium emendatio". This item is listed for $950.00. The final paragraph in the leftmost column describes the contents and highlights of the Opuscules.
The rightmost column contains an entry for a set of three items, listed under the title First Printing Calculating Machine Inscribed by Babbage. First is a ten page article by Charles Babbage, entitled Observations addressed ... to the Royal Society, after delivery of the medals from 1856. In that pamphlet, Babbage argues that the Copley Medal of the Royal Society be awarded to Georg Scheutz for his work on the calculator. The second item is by Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard Scheutz, entitled Specimens of tables; calculated by machinery, from 1857, in which they present some developments of a calculating machine that could print its results. The final item, by Uta C. Merzbach, is from 1977. Entitled Georg Scheutz and the first printing calculator, this item documents the developments of the Scheutzes. The collection of items is listed for $2000.00. This is the only edition of this collection of items.
At the top of the page is a black and white image of the Scheutz calculating machine. It looks like Babbage's difference engine in many ways, but the printing mechanism is visible near the top of one side of the machine.
The text on the page is divided into two columns. The leftmost column begins with a continuation of the description of a First Edition copy of d'Alembert's Recherches (1749) from the previous page of the catalog. It contains a description of the contents and highlights of the volume. The leftmost column continues with an entry for a First Edition copy of d'Alembert's eight volume Opuscules mathématiques". The volumes also include a duplicate of "Nouvelles tables de la lune" and an additional item titled "Nova tabularum lunarium emendatio". This item is listed for $950.00. The final paragraph in the leftmost column describes the contents and highlights of the Opuscules.
The rightmost column contains an entry for a set of three items, listed under the title First Printing Calculating Machine Inscribed by Babbage. First is a ten page article by Charles Babbage, entitled Observations addressed ... to the Royal Society, after delivery of the medals from 1856. In that pamphlet, Babbage argues that the Copley Medal of the Royal Society be awarded to Georg Scheutz for his work on the calculator. The second item is by Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard Scheutz, entitled Specimens of tables; calculated by machinery, from 1857, in which they present some developments of a calculating machine that could print its results. The final item, by Uta C. Merzbach, is from 1977. Entitled Georg Scheutz and the first printing calculator, this item documents the developments of the Scheutzes. The collection of items is listed for $2000.00. This is the only edition of this collection of items.
At the top of the page is a black and white image of the Scheutz calculating machine. It looks like Babbage's difference engine in many ways, but the printing mechanism is visible near the top of one side of the machine.
Signedhandwritten in blue ink in bottom left-hand corner of page: Jeremy Norman and Co / San Francisco / 1979
FunctionThe page is from a bookseller's catalog, designed to advertise rare and antique books to possible buyers. Jeremy Norman is a dealer of rare and antique books in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.