A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, in either the old or new style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900.
[s.l.].
Printed for the author, 1836.
First edition.
Dimensions 360 x 265 mm (unfolded), 127 x 80 mm (folded).
A single leaf broadside, folded and mounted onto original publisher's limp green cloth boards. A trifle creased. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to verso.
The sole edition of a broadside giving tables to determine the day of the week of month for any given date from 1601 to 1900, printed for the author and offered for sale at 1s. 6d. as a sheet or 2s. mounted as a book as here.
From the recently dispersed library of Erwin Tomash (1921-2012), American engineer recognised for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. His library consisted of over 3,000 books and manuscripts relevant to the history of computation, from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing.
From the recently dispersed library of Erwin Tomash (1921-2012), American engineer recognised for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. His library consisted of over 3,000 books and manuscripts relevant to the history of computation, from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing.
Tomash B 108.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 24816
