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19572090202120201493Kobunsha 1957. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 6 books Kobunsha paperback
24313Blackie & Son Ltd. 2 color plates. Inner Hinges Starting Slightly 1 illustration is Missing HBDJ UNDATED 1910 Hard Cover. Book Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR AS-IS 24mo Interior Nice tight clean light FOX Wear. Beautiful Blue embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine front board and spine decorated with floral blind stamp clean and appealing with mild edgewear. edges slightly darkened otherwise a clean interior. Binding is sturdy. Jacket shows heavy edgewear; tears chips discoloration 286 pgs NO ADS in Back DJ SPINE Chips Edge & Ends . Chapter One : One morning in early spring an elderly maiden lady received a shock to her nerves. Miss Abbott had lived in Paris twenty-five years; but she had remained British to the backbone. She was proud of being British and always insisted upon the fact to her French acquaintances." Happy Reading !!!. Victorian Novel. Hard Cover. Blackie & Son Ltd. hardcover
1331750016.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
18565672B<p>FIRST "COMPUTER" PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S FIRST PRESIDENT</p><p>Lyon Joseph Marie Jacquard 1856.</p><p>Silk machine-woven textile 49.8 x 42.2 cm. Mounted on old board. Edge wear some marginal tears and losses edge toning from mounting tape some damp staining and wrinkling. This said a remarkable survival.</p><p>Rare silk textile portrait of George Washington 1732-99 woven on the earliest programmable loom – the Jacquard Loom – which influenced the development of other programmable punch-card-driven machines that in turn would lead to the early versions of IBM's digital compiler. The present work thus may plausibly be considered the first 'computer' portrait of the first President of the United States. The textile carries the monogram 'JR' and is dated 1856 from Lyon the birthplace and home of Joseph Marie Jacquard 1752-1834 who invented his revolutionary device in 1804 to aid in the production of complex patterns of damask matelassé and brocade.</p><p>Based on Gilbert Stuart's 1755-1828 iconic portrait this two-color textile is inscribed with the famed line 'First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen' which is taken from Washington's eulogy delivered by Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee 1756-1818 a major general in the Continental Army a member of the Continental Congress governor of Virginia father of the famous Civil War general Robert E. Lee and a close friend of Washington.</p><p>Now rare the textile was apparently well known to American audiences for decades after its initial production: A certain R. H. Thurston for example in his 1880 inaugural address as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers invoked history's greatest engineers including "Jacquard who perfected the pattern-loom which to-day weaves with equal facility the portrait of him who was 'first in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen' and the most beautiful and ingenious combinations of form and color of which decorative art is so wonderfully prolific" Thurston p. 9.</p><p>Provenance: Skinner Fine Books and Manuscripts 1 June 2013 lot 19.</p><p> J. Essinger <em>Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age</em>; R. H. Thurston "The President's Inaugural Address" <em>Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers</em> vol. 1 1880 pp. 1-16.</p> Joseph Marie Jacquard
19362091502135501172Toyoda Loom Co. Ltd. 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 3 162p 9 illustrations Size: 19x27cm Toyoda Loom Co., Ltd. paperback
107704. Paperback. Good. Condition: Good; ISBN: 9780323759137; Edition: 4. Once purchased we honor returns due to quality issues but won't accept reasons like 'changed my mind' 'find better price' 'order by mistake' etc paperback
