Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine by Wiener, Norbert - 1961

Cambridge: Printed by Roger Daniel, for Thomas Buck, 1640. 6th edition, 1640. Also includes Gerards Prayers: or, A Daily Practice of Piete, seventh edition. Full calf with spine label, gilt ruled spine with decorated compartments, [22], 321, [14], 155 pages. Title page has decorative elements surrounding the text, no additional engraved title, no evidence that one was ever bound in. Covers worn and rubbed, front cover detached, spine ends lightly chipped, text block sound, pages age-toned and foxed but generally clean with a few old underlines in the first meditation. . Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Hartford, CT: Church Missions Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 42 + 53 + 15 + 39 + [1] + 52. A collection of biographies of notable Episcopal Bishops in the Soldier and Servant Series. With several illustrations and many pages unopened. Bound in publisher's grey paper over cardstock with printed title and other information on front cover. From the Hart Family library (and with an advert for a biography of Hart by one of the authors). Cover and page edges lightly soiled and sooted (apparently from the fire that destroyed much of the Hart library). From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892,… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1891. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xvi, 316 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition, First Printing, With 1891 Date On Title Page And Preface, But Publisher's April 1896 Catalog At End, Thus A Later (1896) Issue Of The First (1891) Printing Booknear Fine, Very Bright, Gilt Brilliant, Endpapers Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Small Areas Of Rear Cover With A Numberof Small And Very Faint Brown Stains.

London: Macmillan And Co, 1932. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 234 Pp. + Publisher's Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First English Language Translation Of The 3Rd German Edition, Which Had A Few New Corrections And Additions. Near Fine, Covers And Gilt Bright And Unfaded, Small Signature "S. Noskoff July 7, 1945" On Front Pastedown, No Other Marks.

Washington: The Carnegie Institution Of Washington, 1907. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Viii, 160 Pp. Blue Cloth (Hardcover Issue). Light Wear, Slight Bumping To Corners With Pronounced Larger Bump To Lower Front Tip. Ownership Signature Of John E. Willis, David White Co., Later Of The Naval Observatory At Washington, Inventor Of The Pendelum Astrolabe. Simon Newcomb (1835 -1909) Was A Canadian-American Astronomer, Applied Mathematician And Autodidactic Polymath. Newcomb Visited Paris, France In 1870, Already Aware That The Table Of Lunar Positions Calculated By Peter Andreas Hansen Was In Error. While In Paris, He Realized That, In Addition To The Data From 1750 To 1838 That Hansen Had Used, There Was Further Data Stretching As Far Back As 1672, And Newcomb Used The "New" Data To Revise Hansen's Tables. In 1878, Newcomb Started Planning For A New And Precise Measurement Of The Speed Of Light, Starting Development A Refinement Of The Method Of Léon Foucault. A Letter From Albert… Read More

London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. [c. 1850]. Cardboard Covers. Near Fine. J.M. Kronheim & Co.. 5 1/2 x 7 1/8. 64 pages with two full page colored plates with imprint of J.M. Kronheim & Co. and numerous smaller engravings. Ownership inscription to ffep. Otherwise pages clean. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers with green cloth backing. Light wear. Scarce. A very nice example of a scarce early Victorian Children's book from the first years of the Sunday School Movement.

Carben Surveying Reprints, 1990. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Carben Surveying Reprints' facsimile edition of an original 1883 pamphlet entitled Restoration of Lost or Obliterated Corners and later expanded and revised six times, resulting in seven circulars, the last revised in 1974. All seven circulars present in this volume. Illustrated with maps and drawings. Scarce. Paginated in sections. Approximately several hundred pages in all. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8". Tight, clean copy with scattered yellow highlighting. Extremities crisp. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 269pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square & clean, corners of boards slightly bent, original decorated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, small stain to title page, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

Caldwell-Clements, Inc. , 1950. Hardcover. Good. Radio and Television Retailing: Bound Magazines. Six issues: January 1950 - June 1950. Important trade publication for television, radio, appliances and more at the dawn of the golden age of television. With sales exploding at mid-century, technical advances and innovations came hot and heavy, and Radio and Television Retailing chronicled them, reviewed new products in every issue, published technical and marketing articles, industry data and forecasts, advertiser lists, extensive retail locations directories and more. Includes thousands of illustrated ads representing a virtual who's who of mid-century manufacturers of televisions, AM, FM, car and battery operated portable radios, record players, consoles, parts (some obscure, e.g., television screen magnifiers), servicing tools and equipment, antennas, television and radio stars, solid mahogany cabinetry (in its heyday) and more. Notably, televisions, FM broadcasting, portable radios and 45 rpm… Read More

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More