samuel morland (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: New. In.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition of 75, this is No.66. 8vo, iv +pp5 with 1 b/w diagram. Hardcover no dust jacket cloth spine over paper covered boards in good condition but for damage to spine. Inside aging to limitation and rear end paper, all other rough cut pages in excellent clean condition. The original print of this tract is in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth where it forms part of The Cornwallace Collection, this edition was kindly given the requisite permission to be printed by The Archbishop of Canterbury . Scarce.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine, scarce engraved portrait. Plate size 12.5 x10 ins, 32 x 25 cms. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Mount size approx. 13 x 11 in, 34 x 28 cm. Attractive, decorative and unusual. A portrait of Sir Samuel Morland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 709pp. A Facsimile edition.

1st edition. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. Morland invented a mechanical calculator and published a small illustrated volume about it which is the first book on a calculating machine printed in English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Small 8vo; various paginations, 25 plates as called for; portrait frontispiece absent, as often. Collation: A8 B-F8 A8(-A8) G8(-G8) B8 *8. THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN MECHANICAL CALCULATION. A landmark text by the courtier and inventor Samuel Morland (1625-1695). Preceded in the bibliography on modern computing only by works on the sector, Napier's Bones, and Pascal's manual for the 'Pascaline'. This, then, is the very first book in English on a mechanical calculating machine. Here Morland introduces his machines for addition and subtraction (of currency), and for arithmetic. The book is also a compendium on calculation, including a perpetual almanac, tables of feasts and eclipses, and much else besides. Two Arithmetick Instruments is a highly unusual production. The engravings are very fine, and some pages are printed in letterpress on one site and copperplate on the other. But it is a bibliographic conundrum, with many pagination errors and no standard collation. This copy is unusual in having all the plates fully intact, and lacks only the portrait frontispiece. Fair condition: text and plates in very good condition, noting some faint staining to the lower half of the first 7 or so leaves; disbound, retaining early boards, spine separated and therefore due a sensitive rebind.

TITLE CONTINUED: Presented to His Most Excellent Majesty Charles II. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. By S. Morland. FIRST EDITION second issue 1673, small 8vo, approximately 150 x 90 mm, 6 x 3½ inches, MISSING ARE THE PORTRAIT AND 4 PLATES WHICH SHOW CALCULATING DEVICES (it seems that the 4 plates were on 1 large folding plate which was often cut up and pasted to the blank side of other pages), the portrait and 4 missing plates now supplied in modern facsimiles, present are 2 TITLE PAGES, the second dated 1672 and headed "A New, and most useful INSTRUMENT for ADDITION and SUBSTRACTION of Pounds, Shillings, Pence, and Farthings, Invented and Presented to His most Excellent Majesty CHARLES II, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, 1666. By S.Morland. And by the importunity of his very good friends, made publick 1672", 6 engraved plates, showing mechanical parts, the first printed on the reverse of the second title page, and on the reverse of pages 1-5, pagination: 1-[7]; Machina Nova Cyclologica or A New Multiplying Instrument, pages [8]-12; A Short Discourse Concerning Numbring, 4 engraved plates, pages 13-78, (some mispagination, all catchwords correct), the 4 engraved plates are printed on the verso of pages 23, 37, and 45, and recto of 30; An Explanation of the Perpetual Almanack, with engraved frontispiece, pages 1-5, 3 printed tables, 6 engraved tables, G1 placed before the engraved tables, G2 follows the tables with a small folding table inserted after G2; pages: [1-9], [20 tables]; 1-16, at foot of last page: "Ex. by me, Jonas Moore", collation: A-F8 (-F8), A-A4, G-G8 (-G8), B8, *8, G1 is misplaced amongst the tables of the Almanack, it is normally found after F7 or F8, F8 and G8 are often missing, they were both cancels. All known copies seem to vary in their make-up, position of plates and have erratic pagination. Bound in full early sheep, expertly rebacked to style with blind rules, no lettering or label. Corners very slightly worn, covers slightly rubbed, armorial bookplate of the 9th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall of England 1732-1777 on front pastedown, neat inscription dated 1907 in top margin of title page: "bought this off B. Quaritch on the first day of opening his new shop at 11 Grafton Street, 10 June 1907", title page very slightly trimmed at edges, tiny piece missing from corner of A3, tiny neat repair to fore-edge of A5 and slight loss of margin on A5v as page slightly misprinted, no loss of image, 2 tiny worm tracks in the lower margin of G4-B1, continuing as 2 minute holes to the final leaf, very slightly touching the numbers in the tables on G5, larger tracks on rear endpaper and pastedown, 1 margin has a small closed tear neatly repaired. A good clean copy (facsimiles of portrait and 4 plates, as noted). Considered to be the first book in English on a calculating machine. The first part describes "two early 'pocket' calculators, with gear wheels operated by a stylus, the first for addition and subtraction of sums of money, the second for multiplication and extraction of roots." See: Sotheby's, Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts, Part V, 2257; "The final 16 pages contain "A table shewing the beginning of every king's reign, from the Conquest.", "Advice touching the posts, and roads.", "Forreign weights and measures" - Sotheby's Catalogue of the Macclesfield Collection, Part V, No.1451; Sotheby's, Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing, Part 1, page 242, No. 438-440: ESTC R 232354, Samuel Morland is mentioned several times in the diaries of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.

Paris, Gabriel Martin pour Estienne Michalet, 1685. In-4 de (16), 60, (2) pages, pages 61-110, puis 43 pages, et au total 2 tables sur pages doubles et 31 planches ; veau brun moucheté de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné à la grotesque (coiffes, nerfs, coupes et coins frottés ; bande de cuir abrasée en haut du premier plat ; ex-libris manuscrit de l'époque gratté au titre, avec petit trou ; mouillure en marge supérieure). Fig. I répétée Manque une planche dans la première partie, le feuillet blanc O3 après la page 110 et les 12 pages de l'Almanach du sieur Morland que l'on trouve dans quelques exemplaires.