Authors beginning with I from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (8 items)

New York: IBM, 1936. IBM. Machine methods of accounting: A manual of the basic principles of operation and use of international electric bookkeeping and accounting machines. 23 separately paginated parts plus [8]pp. preliminaries. Text illustrations. New York: International Business Machines Inc., [1936]. 282 x 217 mm. In original cloth pressure binder, "Machine Methods of Accounting" stamped on the front cover over the IBM logo, "The Chase National Bank of the City of New York / Foreign Exchange Department" very faintly stamped at the foot of the front cover. Light wear, a few edges frayed. Very good. First Edition of this manual issued in 23 separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating and data-processing machines. "Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly… Read more

New York, 1913. [Tabulating Machine Company - C-T-R - IBM] The Tabulating Machine Company. A business compass: Facts made immediately available for determining business policy. New York, ©1913. Original gray printed wrappers. Very good. 48pp. Illustrated. 228 x 152 mm. Herman Hollerith, a clerk at the U S Census Bureau, invented the punch-card tabulator, applying for his first patent in 1884; his punched-card system reigned as the primary large-scale data-processing system until the advent of the electronic digital computer. In 1896 Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Company; the British branch, known as the British Tabulating Machine Company, was formed in 1907 and remained connected to its American counterpart until 1949. Hollerith remained head of the Tabulating Machine Company until 1911, when he sold it to industrialist Charles R. Flint, who renamed the company C-T-R. In 1915 Thomas J. Watson became president of the new company, and in 1924 Watson renamed the company International… Read more

Paris, 1942.

Parts I & II. London: J. Nichols, for Lockyer Davis, 1778. Whole volume, viii, 1099pp., 18 pll. Paper with deckled edges, uncut and unopened. Cardboard and paper boards with paper spine and spine label featuring volume and year. Plates 1-7 missing (has plates 8-18 + 4 folding tables), pp. 389-418 missing. A good copy. Three notable papers in this volume are as follows: (1) Ingenhousz, John. XLVI. A ready way of lighting a candle, by a very moderate electric spark, pp. 1022-1026. (2) " " XLVIII. Electrical experiments, to explain how far the phenomena of the electrophorous may be accounted for by Dr. Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity; being the annual lecture instituted by the will of Henry Baker, Esq., F.R.S., pp. 1027-1048. (3) Henly, William. XLIX. Observations and experiments tending to confirm Dr. Ingenhousz's theory of the electrophorus; and to shew the impermeability of glass to electric fluid, pp. 1049-1055. Jan (or John) Ingenhousz (1730-1799) was a Dutch-born British… Read more

No Place, 1750. IRILODRAD (possibly an anagram for J. Rodilard). Doutes sur l'ortographe franceze. 192pp. N.p., n.d. [1750]. 151 x 83 mm. Calf ca. 1750, gilt spine, light rubbing. Minor foxing and toning but very good. A few pencil marks in the text. Second edition (?), first published in 1693. This anonymously published printers' manual proposes a number of changes to the French orthography (spelling) of his day, such as replacing the final x with s in words like mieux and eliminating double consonants in words like appartenir. "The author, who hides under the anagram of Trilodrad [sic], can be classified among the innovators, although most of the reforms he requests have been accomplished in successive editions of the Dictionary of the Academy" (Firmin-Didot, Observations sur l'orthographe ou ortografie française, suivies d'une histoire de la réforme orthographique depuis le XVe siècle, vol. 12, p. 240 [translation ours]). Barber, French Letterpress Printing (1969) p. 3. . 3750+.

London: J. & A. Churchill, 1940. First edition in English.

London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987.