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Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 1787 First edition. Contemporary calf, burgundy morocco spine label. Octavo. With alphabetical index. Bottom corners rubbed, small chip at foot of spine, some light browning. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. An interesting collection of short biographies of early American Quaker ministers. Over fifty of the people discussed are women.

Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1897 First edition. Cloth, gilt. Square octavo. Colored frontispiece, heightened in gold, twenty black and white plates. A fine, bright copy, mostly unopened.

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.

New York: Clarkson Potter, [1971] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Includes nine subject sections, and an historical introduction. With bibliography.

New York: Clarkson Potter, [1971 First U.S. edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Lavishly illustrated book on children's books through the ages, with material on fairy and folk tales, periodicals and penny dreradfuls, moveable books, boys' adventure stories, etc. With bibliography.

Brussels: M. Haney, 1846 First edition of "Quetelet's best researches on the application of probability to the physical and social sciences" (Cajori). Original printed wrappers. Affixed to the bottom portion of the front wrappers is a printed slip for the Paris publisher, Jules Renouard, who apparently acquired part of the edition. . Large octavo. Wrappers partially browned, spine split in several places, but a very good copy, in its original state, in a full morocco clamshell slipcase. Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory. He became interested in the Ë™young science of probability and statistics as an astronomer to explain measurement errors, but became one of the first to see its applications to the social sciences. He understood the complexities of social phenomena and became interested in using what he called "social physics" as a tool to explain crime rates, marital rates, suicide rates,… Read More

Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, [1954] First edition. Cloth. Square octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

The two complete issues, in original wrappers, octavo. A little fading at spines, small indentation at top edge of the first issue, small rubberstamp on front cover of the first issue. Very good. The first electrical logic machine was built in 1947 by two undergraduates at Harvard, Burkhart and Kalin, who had been taking a course in symbolic logic with Professor Willard V. Quine. (See Martin Gardner, Logic Machines and Diagrams, p. 128). Quine himself, one of the most influential logician-philosophers of our time, made a more direct contribution to computer science several years later, through the above papers, which are the basis of the popular Quine-McCluskey method of logical circuit minimization. This basic method, in various modern versions, is still being used today to automate the design of logical circuits and chips from a specification of their desired behavior, so as to minimize the number of gates or interconnections.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in near fine d.j. Spine of jacket a bit faded. Presentation copy, inscribed by Quine on the half-title: "Best wishes to Kristin. Van Quine.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine dust jacket.

A very good copy, with the original envelope and a photocopy of the recipient's original letter. A nice, personal letter to a reader of his work, who was otherwise unknown to Quine.

New York: Harper Torchbooks [1963] First Harper Torchbooks edition. Printed wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To my dearest Rosalind Aldrich of the Get together Aldrichs, As always—Platonically yours, Willard Van Orman Quine. November 29, 1965. Philadelphia." Aldrich has signed her name on the half-title, and there are several neat ink marginalia, probably in her hand. . Octavo,. A very good copy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1934 First edition of the author's first book. Cloth. Octavo. Spine faded, binding extremities lightly rubbed. Browning to endpapers from jacket (gone). A good, clean copy. Very scarce.