The origins of Cyberspace : a library on the history of computing, networking and telecommunications. [ Christie's, auction catalogue, sale date: 23 February 2005 ].

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Verlag: Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd February 2005, 2005

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 247 pp, colour ills. 265 lots. Includes a 7 pp introduction by Jeremy Norman, who assembled the collection, and an extensive and detailed "Timeline". Among the highlights noted were the following: Charles Babbage: mathematician, economist and designer of calculating machines - Computers, networking and telecommunications in the 19th and 20th centuries - Pres Eckert archive From the inmtroduction by Jeremy Norman: "For the purposes of this auction catalogue the Iforary has been distilled to about 250 lots. This required the re-writing of many of these cross-referenced descriptions m a style that represents a compromise between the more expanded method in Origins of Cyberspace and a typical auction catalogue style. It also required the grouping of many items into large lots, and the elimination of much biographical detail, but every item in the library is included. Virtually all of the large lots contain a great deal of material that is historically significant and very difficult to find. I am grateful to Christie's for producing an auction catalogue that is not only the first sale of its kind documenting the foundations of the technologies that led to the Internet but also a first in the manner of its bibliographical presentation. " Near Fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-62456

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The origins of Cyberspace : a library on the...
Verlag: Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd February 2005
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage