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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. ntb edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. ntb edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Stated first edition. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xv439pp. Maroon cloth in dust jacket. There is a review of the book affixed to the front endpapers.

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blanda. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Nuevo.

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OPpBd. xxiv,365 S. OU. Mit einigen Fotografien. Zustand: Gutes Exemplar. Fotos auf Anfrage.

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Condizione: New. Drawn from the manuscript collections at the Bodleian Library, this delightful softback notebook set features the distinctive handwriting of three remarkable women writers and thinkers: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace. Inspirational and unusual, .

Condizione: Bien. pp.128 20X14.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 11.5 x 3.5 cm. Neat black ink, unfoxed and unshipped, taken from old visitors book. F.

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First edition. THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN COMPUTING. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of the most important document in the history of digital computing before modern times, Ada Lovelace's greatly enlarged translation of Luigi Menabrea's description of Babbage's Analytical Engine, the first programmable digital computer this is by far the most detailed contemporary account. The sammelband containing this copy, one of about a dozen known, of which at least half are in institutional collections, was probably owned by a Piedmontese aristocrat, who in turn obtained the Sketch directly from Menabrea (see below). "In 1840 Babbage travelled to Turin to make a presentation on the Engine to a group of Italian scientists. Babbage's talk, complete with charts, drawings, models and mechanical notations, emphasized the Engine's signal feature: its ability to guide its own operations. In attendance at Babbage's lecture was the young Italian mathematician, Luigi Federico Menabrea (later prime minister of Italy), who prepared from his notes an account of the principles of the Analytical Engine. He published his paper in French in a Swiss journal two years after Babbage's presentation After the appearance of Menabrea's paper, the daughter of Lord Byron, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, became interested in preparing an English translation At Babbage's suggestion, Lady Lovelace added seven explanatory notes to her translation, which ran about three times the length of the original. Because Babbage never published a detailed description of the Analytical Engine, Ada's translation of Menabrea's paper, with its lengthy explanatory notes, represents the most complete contemporary account in English of the intended design and operation of the first programmable digital computer. Babbage considered this paper a complete summary of the mathematical aspects of the machine, proving 'that the whole of the development and operations of Analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.' As part of his contribution to the project, Babbage supplied Ada with algorithms for the solution of various problems. These he had had worked out years ago, except for one involving Bernoulli numbers, which was new. Ada illustrated these algorithms in her notes in the form of charts detailing the stepwise sequence of events as the hypothetical machine would progress through a string of instructions input from punched cards. These procedures, and the procedures published in the original edition of Menabrea's paper, were the first published examples of computer 'programs.' Ada also expanded upon Babbage's general views of the Analytical Engine as a symbol-manipulating device rather than a mere processor of numbers" (OOC). She "expressed this idea in a passage of prophetic insight: 'The bounds of arithmetic were, however, outstepped the moment the idea of applying the cards had occurred; and the Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines'. It holds a position wholly its own; and the considerations it suggests are most interesting in their nature. In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols, in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science. A new, a vast and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connexion with each other. We are not aware of its being on record that anything partaking of the nature of what is so well designated the Analytical Engine has been hitherto proposed, or even thought of, as a practical possibility, any more than the idea of a thinking or of a reasoning machine'" (Hodges, pp. 374-375). Of the 250 copies printed, we have located 12 other extant copies, of which at least 6 are in institutional collections. RBH lists 4 other copies: Christie's, December 11, 2019, £212,500 (Richard Ford copy); Sotheby's, September 18, 2018, £75,000 (Tomash copy); Christie's New York, June 17, 2008, $170,500 (Richard Green copy); Christie's New York, February 23, 2005, $78,000 (OOC copy); another copy was sold by Moore Allen & Innocent, July 20, 2018, £117,800. Institutional copies are located at: Biblioteca Reale, Turin; British Library; King's College, London (Wheatstone's copy); John Gardner Wilkinson Library, Calke Abbey, Derby (2 copies); Senate House, University of London (De Morgan's copy); and Trinity College, Dublin. Provenance: 1. Contemporary inscription 'From the Translator /Byron's Daughter!) / London 1843' written on verso of front free endpaper, and in the same hand 'Ada Lady Lovelace / (Byron)' at the foot of the last page of text, after her printed initials 'A. L. L.' The inscriptions are probably in the hand of Lady Lovelace's husband, William King, Earl of Lovelace (as in the OOC copy). 2. Ada was given 100 copies of the offprint which her husband largely distributed. While it cannot be determined with certainty who received the present copy, it was very likely Menabrea himself. He in turn probably gave it to a member of the Piedmontese aristocracy, who compiled the present sammelband. See below for supporting evidence. "Ada grew up essentially in a single-parent home; Lady Byron left the abusive household of the famous poet Lord Byron when Ada was ?ve weeks old. Lady Byron (who had herself received some training in mathematics) was primarily responsible for Ada's education up to and including the time Ada met Charles Babbage when she was 17 and he 42, and she first saw Babbage's prototype Difference Engine, a me.

First Edition. GODWIN, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. WITH: The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1796, 1797. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards. $10,500.First octavo edition of Godwin's revolutionary masterwork, the first edition with his extensive revisionsÑ"his passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured" (PMM)Ña profound influence on Jefferson, viewed as Godwin's "American born counterpart," this work uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's Enquiry signed on the title page by William King, an especially memorable association set from the estate library of King, Eighth Baron King and First Earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada Byron Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and famed as the first computer programmer in her work with Babbage, each volume with estate library inkstamps, spines with gilt-stamped "K" monograms and "suns," in contemporary calf and marbled boards.Godwin's Political Justice, triggered by Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and a response to Montesquieu, remains "one of the earliest, the clearest, and most theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrineÉ his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have endured." Godwin is famed, as well, for his marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). After her tragic early death, he continued to be major influence on their daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818). For many of that generation Godwin, "with his revolutionary opinionsÉ seemed almost a prophet" (PMM 243). The book's initial publication in 1793 "brought him immediate renownÉ Hazlitt's account of Godwin's reputation, written nearly 30 years later, captures some of the reactionÉ 'No work in our time gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of the countryÉ Tom Paine was considered for a time as Tom Fool to him'" (Mark Philp).Political Justice "remains a work of real philosophical powerÉ as eloquent a defense of individual liberty as anything in subsequent generations of liberals, including John Stuart MillÉ As the founder of philosophical anarchism, the originator of the psychological novel, and as a key figure in the British response to the French Revolution," Godwin remains vital to Western thought (ODNB). Political Justice, as well, had a profound influence on Thomas Jefferson, who had the 1796 first American edition in his library (Sowerby 2359). "Only the emigrant Thomas Paine, whose Common Sense prompted Americans to declare their independence in 1776, was a half-step ahead of Godwin" (Burstein, Jefferson's Secrets, 105).This distinctive first octavo edition of Political Justice is uniformly bound with the first edition of Godwin's EnquirerÑtwo vital works that are rarely found together. Enquirer contains 28 essays that reconceive and point back to Political Justice. Shortly after he began Enquirer in August 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin became lovers. To a great extent, "Enquirer was conceived, composed and published under the influence of his relationship with WollstonecraftÉ the essays' philanthropic potential was evident in the effect they had on Mary. She read them in October 1796 and confessed they made her love Godwin 'more and more'" (Prez Rodriguez, Education, Conversation and History, 81-82, 84n). Further, there "can be no doubt that Percy Shelley read Enquirer" as well (Hyde, Notes on Shelley's Reading, 16, 23). For many of that generation Godwin, "with his revolutionary opinionsÉ seemed almost a prophet" (PMM 243). Enquirer achieved perhaps its greatest impact when it "incited Malthus to write his Essay on PopulationÉ Both Political Justice and Enquirer formed part of the central argument of Malthus' 1798 Essay" (Claeys in Mayhew, ed., New Perspectives, 55-59, 66). Overall Enquirer foregrounds a shift in Godwin's perspective that "locates him most clearly on the borderline between the Enlightenment and Romanticism" (Handwerk in Maniquis & Myers, eds., Godwinian Moments, 108). First octavo edition of Political Justice: the first to contain his revisions, second overall: with half titles. First edition of Enquirer: with half title, rear errata leaf. Enquiry: see ESTC T94275. Rothschild 1016. Goldsmiths 15825. Kress B2529. Enquirer: ESTC T94276. Kress B3397. Goldsmiths' 16911. Rothschild 1018. This rare set has an especially rare provenance. It is from the library of William King, 8th Baron King, 1st Earl of Lovelace, 1st Viscount Ockham. Each volume contains the King family monogram in gilt on the spine. The title page of Enquirer contains his owner inscription, "Ockham King." The title page of Political Justice, Volume I contains his elegant cursive making pointed comments with his inserted "& Jacobinical" between the printed "Political Justice"; his annotated "misery" above the printed "Happiness," and his annotated "Citizen" above the printed "William Godwin." Each volume's preliminary blank leaves contain the inked library stamp of "Ben Damph Forest," complete with penciled shelf numbering. King is best remembered as the husband of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.Born in 1815, the only child of Lord Byron, she married King at the age of 19. Introduced to Charles Babbage in 1833, Ada Lovelace was drawn to his view of an "Analytical Engine"; she translated an Italian article about his work, expanding it with 41 pages of her appendices. Published in 1843, signed with her initials, it is most famous for "Note G," which documents her attention to mathematical detail, and "her imagination in thinking about the bigger pictureÉ Lovelace's paper is an extraordinary accomplishment, probably understood and recognized by very few in its time,