Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine de Wiener, Norbert - 1949

Londres [London]: Imprimerie de G. Watts, aux frais de la Societe´ Biblique, Brittanique et Etrangere, 1848. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Approx. 264 unnumbered leaves. Lacks ffep. Binder's ticket, "Watkins Binder" on front pastedown. Pages bright and clean. All page edges gilt. Bound in original full black leather with elaborate and delicate blind stamping and gilt spine lettering. A French language New Testament printed in London, in an exceptional English binding.

Hartford, CT: Church Missions Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 42 + 53 + 15 + 39 + [1] + 52. A collection of biographies of notable Episcopal Bishops in the Soldier and Servant Series. With several illustrations and many pages unopened. Bound in publisher's grey paper over cardstock with printed title and other information on front cover. From the Hart Family library (and with an advert for a biography of Hart by one of the authors). Cover and page edges lightly soiled and sooted (apparently from the fire that destroyed much of the Hart library). From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892,… Leer más

London: Macmillan And Co, 1932. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 234 Pp. + Publisher's Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First English Language Translation Of The 3Rd German Edition, Which Had A Few New Corrections And Additions. Near Fine, Covers And Gilt Bright And Unfaded, Small Signature "S. Noskoff July 7, 1945" On Front Pastedown, No Other Marks.

Washington: The Carnegie Institution Of Washington, 1907. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Viii, 160 Pp. Blue Cloth (Hardcover Issue). Light Wear, Slight Bumping To Corners With Pronounced Larger Bump To Lower Front Tip. Ownership Signature Of John E. Willis, David White Co., Later Of The Naval Observatory At Washington, Inventor Of The Pendelum Astrolabe. Simon Newcomb (1835 -1909) Was A Canadian-American Astronomer, Applied Mathematician And Autodidactic Polymath. Newcomb Visited Paris, France In 1870, Already Aware That The Table Of Lunar Positions Calculated By Peter Andreas Hansen Was In Error. While In Paris, He Realized That, In Addition To The Data From 1750 To 1838 That Hansen Had Used, There Was Further Data Stretching As Far Back As 1672, And Newcomb Used The "New" Data To Revise Hansen's Tables. In 1878, Newcomb Started Planning For A New And Precise Measurement Of The Speed Of Light, Starting Development A Refinement Of The Method Of Léon Foucault. A Letter From Albert… Leer más

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 269pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square & clean, corners of boards slightly bent, original decorated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, small stain to title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

Toronto, Viking/Penguin Canada, 1991, hardcover, xvi-200 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge bumps, rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. An examination of diseases and other catastrophes that have decimated world populations throughout history. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs and reproductions of artworks. Appended: Bibliography and Index. ISBN
9780670831227

Agusta, Me.: Charles E. Nash. Very Good+. 1887. Hardcover. Old Maine imprint. Clean maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Spine cloth slightly faded. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W Portrait illustrations. Pages 1-650, Methodism in Maine. Pages 1-282 Methodism in East Maine. Religion ; B&W Drawing; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 932 pages .

Printed for the Proprietor. London. 1843. Octavo. Unpaginated [114pp]. Contemporary full tree calf. Gilt lettering, motifs, floral embellishment, rules and dentelles. Head and tail of spine partially relaid and tooled. Brass clasp. Marbled endpapers. Bumped to corners. Some browning. "Made and Sold by T Bedwell, Mathematical and Philosophical Instrument Maker" tipped in to title page, over Joseph Long. Final page partially relaid.
Joseph Long, mathematical, optical and hydrometer instrument maker. The mathematical instrument maker Thomas Bedwell was established in the sixteenth century.

Leovardiae. [Leeuwarden]. Ex Officina Heronis Nautae. 1701. 4to. (bl.), (bl.), Title, (32), 678, (44)pp. Engraved title vignette by 'J:G'. Title page in red and black. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. Text in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Original vellum, with title inked onto spine. First gathering loose, but otherwise crisp, bright and clean, with minor occasional spots.

The first edition of this collection of theses on the linguistic style of the New Testament, including Pfochenius's Diatribe de Linguae Graecae Novi Testamenti Puritate.

Jacob Rhenferd (1654–1712), professor of Oriental Languages at Franeker University.

Tomus I. Editio Ultima. Fredericum Horreum. Amstelodami & Franquerae. 1723, 1724, 1727. Small quarto. Title page in red and black, (1), (3pp) Dedicatio, (11pp) Praefatio, (13pp) Lemmata Capitum, 1052pp, (6pp) Index Praecipuorum Locorum Scripturae Sacrae, (2pp) Index Vocum aut Phraseum Hebraerum & Graecarum, quae in his Libris exponuntor, (23pp) Index Rerum Praecipuarum, (6)pp. Engraved frontis portrait, engraved Kabbalistic plate. Text in Latin, with Hebrew and Greek. Engraved historiated initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Vellum, with embossed floral vignette to boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and hand lettering (with erroneous date of 1637). Some discolouration to vellum. Corners bumped, with wear to lower corner of upper board. Text bright and crisp, paper fault to lower margin p 325/6. Light marginal toning. Separate title pages for Books II, III & IV, imprints reading Franquerae, dated 1723, 1723 and 1724 respectively. Complete indices for this volume of the Four Books.

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