Lot 357
Lovelace (Ada).- Quételet (Adolphe) Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent, presentation copy from the author to Ada Lovelace, ALs from the author to Lord Lovelace, Paris, 1848; and 9 other vol., all from the library of Ada Lovelace (10).
Hammer Price: £5,500
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Lovelace (Ada).- [Byron (Augusta Ada, married name Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1815-52)].- Quételet (Adolphe) Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent, presentation copy from the author to Ada Lovelace inscribed on yellow upper wrapper cut down and mounted on fly-leaf, ALs from the author to Lord Lovelace, ?errata slip removed after title, slight foxing, 2 blind stamps on fly-leaf and title and bookplate on front pastedown of the Lovelace family, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, 8vo, Paris, 1848; and 9 other vol., all from the library of Ada Lovelace, 7 vol. with blind-stamps of East Horsley Tower on titles and front endpapers, 4 vol. with gilt initials AAL at tail of spines, 8vo (10).
⁂ Books from the library of Ada Lovelace.
Comprises: Lubbe (Samuel Ferdinand) Traité de Calcul Différentiel et de Calcul Integral, Paris, 1852; Boucharlat (Jean Louis) Élémens de Calcul Différentiel et de Calcul Intégral, fifth edition, Paris, 1858; Deleuze (Joseph-Philippe-François) Instruction Pratique sur le Magnétisme Animal, 1825; Lamarck (J.B.P.A.) Philosophie Zoologique, 2 vol., new edition, 1850; Longet (F.A.) Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux de l'Homme et des Des Animaux Vertébrés, 2 vol., pencil inscription "Lovelace" on fly-leaf, Paris, 1842; Flourens (Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens) Recherches Expérimentales... du Système Nerveux..., Paris, 1842; Matteucci (Carlo) Traité des Phénomènes Électro-Physiologiques des Animaux, Paris, 1844.
Description
Lovelace (Ada).- [Byron (Augusta Ada, married name Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1815-52)].- Quételet (Adolphe) Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent, presentation copy from the author to Ada Lovelace inscribed on yellow upper wrapper cut down and mounted on fly-leaf, ALs from the author to Lord Lovelace, ?errata slip removed after title, slight foxing, 2 blind stamps on fly-leaf and title and bookplate on front pastedown of the Lovelace family, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, 8vo, Paris, 1848; and 9 other vol., all from the library of Ada Lovelace, 7 vol. with blind-stamps of East Horsley Tower on titles and front endpapers, 4 vol. with gilt initials AAL at tail of spines, 8vo (10).
⁂ Books from the library of Ada Lovelace.
Comprises: Lubbe (Samuel Ferdinand) Traité de Calcul Différentiel et de Calcul Integral, Paris, 1852; Boucharlat (Jean Louis) Élémens de Calcul Différentiel et de Calcul Intégral, fifth edition, Paris, 1858; Deleuze (Joseph-Philippe-François) Instruction Pratique sur le Magnétisme Animal, 1825; Lamarck (J.B.P.A.) Philosophie Zoologique, 2 vol., new edition, 1850; Longet (F.A.) Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux de l'Homme et des Des Animaux Vertébrés, 2 vol., pencil inscription "Lovelace" on fly-leaf, Paris, 1842; Flourens (Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens) Recherches Expérimentales... du Système Nerveux..., Paris, 1842; Matteucci (Carlo) Traité des Phénomènes Électro-Physiologiques des Animaux, Paris, 1844.
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