Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BOOLE, GEORGE. An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. [2], iv, iv, 424, [1] pages. 8vo, modern 1/2 black morocco; contents toned with slight chipping along fore edges at beginning and end, restoration along top and fore edges of title and preceding blank leaf, title reinforced in gutter, blank corner off B1; 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Walton and Maberly . . . Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1854

Additional Details

first edition; issue with Walton and Maberly imprint and with errata leaf at end. Norman 266; Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 244. With a blurred inscription, possibly in Boole's hand, on an inserted blank before the title: "Professor Shaw with the Author's respects."