An Essay on the Construction of Roads and Carriages by Richard Lvoell Edgeworth

Paris: Chez L'éditeur, 1832. Hardcover. Good. 2nd ed., "Revue et augmentée par M. Laguerenne." Imprint includes: Lyon: Chez M. Favéro. 3 volumes: 57 folded leaves of plates, some in-text tables; 26 cm. Contemporary binding: calf spines with 6 spine compartments between double gilt rules. Black leather spine labels in the second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume numbers. Marbled paper over boards. Page edges are yellow, except for the fore-edges of the plate volume. Dedicated to Louis-Philippe I, last king of France. Volume containing the plates entitled: Atlas de la Science de l'Ingénieur. Civil engineering treatise about the construction of roads, bridges, canals, and aquaducts, with detailed engravings. In Good Condition: leather rubbed, most prominently at the tails of vol. 2 and 3; corners and fore-edges rubbed; fore-edges of vol. 3 boards are dampstained, resulting in the migration of yellow from the leaf edges to… Read More

John Murray. London. 1857. Third Edition, Revised, With Additions. The same year as the First edition. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Portrait frontis. Finely bound, by Frost & Co, of Bath, in half tan calf. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt floral wavy role. Compartments decorated with double ruled borders. Within the borders are floral corner decorations and decorative centre pieces. Red and blue labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Tan cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in a highly attractive fine binding.

London: John Weale, 1853 second edition. 3 volumes published between 1853 and 1862. viii and 545 pages; ii and 589 pages; ii and 800 pages. 327 plates. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blind stamped diced red cloth backed in quarter calf, bookplates of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club with neat ownership stamps on the titlepages only. Encyclopaedic reference book with articles on topics from abbatis to zigzag.

Baltimore, MD: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Remnants of a mailing label to the upper wrapper. Just a little rubbed and creased. Excellent condition. First publication of the resolution principle, the standard of logical deduction in AI applications. The basic computational method in logic programming, the unification algorithm, was proposed by mathematician Jacques Herbrand in 1930, but its first practical use was not discovered until Robinson introduced it in this paper as the basic operation of his resolution principle. "Robinson described his resolution principle as 'machine-oriented' in that it was particularly suitable for proofs to be performed by computer, having only one rule of inference that could be applied many times. Robinson's resolution has since been used as the standard of logical deduction in AI applications" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 865). "Born in Halifax, England, and having served in the RAF,… Read More

Berlin: Julius Springer 1898 & 1912. Vol 1:XXXV+515pp+20 FOLDING PLATES. Vol 2: XXXII+506pp+19 FOLDING PLATES. With more than 1000 illustrations in text. A few corners of the bindings mildly rubbed. A very good, clean and fresh copy of this rare work,

John Murray. London. 1857. Third Edition, Revised, With Additions. The same year as the First edition. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Portrait frontis. Finely bound, by Frost & Co, of Bath, in half tan calf. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt floral wavy role. Compartments decorated with double ruled borders. Within the borders are floral corner decorations and decorative centre pieces. Red and blue labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Tan cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in a highly attractive fine binding.

Paris: Levrault, 1804. Text and Atlas in one volume. viii and 436 pages. 20 folding plates (two with short tears neatly repaired on the verso with tape). Contemporary quarter calf gilt; the spine is a little faded and soiled; there are neat ink stamps of a Swedish military library on the titlepage and on the back of the plates. Standard Napoleonic manual on this subject. (For more books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the keyword napoleonic.)

London: John Weale, 1853 second edition. 3 volumes published between 1853 and 1862. viii and 545 pages; ii and 589 pages; ii and 800 pages. 327 plates. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blind stamped diced red cloth backed in quarter calf, bookplates of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club with neat ownership stamps on the titlepages only. Encyclopaedic reference book with articles on topics from abbatis to zigzag.

Baltimore, MD: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Remnants of a mailing label to the upper wrapper. Just a little rubbed and creased. Excellent condition. First publication of the resolution principle, the standard of logical deduction in AI applications. The basic computational method in logic programming, the unification algorithm, was proposed by mathematician Jacques Herbrand in 1930, but its first practical use was not discovered until Robinson introduced it in this paper as the basic operation of his resolution principle. "Robinson described his resolution principle as 'machine-oriented' in that it was particularly suitable for proofs to be performed by computer, having only one rule of inference that could be applied many times. Robinson's resolution has since been used as the standard of logical deduction in AI applications" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 865). "Born in Halifax, England, and having served in the RAF,… Read More

Berlin: Julius Springer 1898 & 1912. Vol 1:XXXV+515pp+20 FOLDING PLATES. Vol 2: XXXII+506pp+19 FOLDING PLATES. With more than 1000 illustrations in text. A few corners of the bindings mildly rubbed. A very good, clean and fresh copy of this rare work,