![WIENER, Norbert. A collection of books from his personal library. For more information on all of these see the various entries in Origins of Cyberspace. Comprising: Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. New York & London: MIT Press and John Wiley & Sons, 1961. Original red cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 993 -- WIENER. "Time, communication, and the nervous system." In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 50 (1948): 197-219. Original brown printed wrappers. OOC 994. -- WIENER. The human use of human beings: Cybernetics and society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Original beige cloth, yellow printed dust-jacket. OOC 995. -- WIENER. Mensch und Menschmaschine. Frankfurt am Main & Berlin: Alfred Metzner Verlag, 1952. Original red cloth, white printed dust-jacket. OOC 996 -- [WIENER.] Notes on New Yorker. N.d. (1950s?). Typescript with a few corrections in Wiener's hand. OOC 997. -- WIENER. Ex-prodigy: My](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01484_0220_000(093222).jpg?w=1)
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WIENER, Norbert. A collection of books from his personal library. For more information on all of these see the various entries in Origins of Cyberspace. Comprising: Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. New York & London: MIT Press and John Wiley & Sons, 1961. Original red cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 993 -- WIENER. "Time, communication, and the nervous system." In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 50 (1948): 197-219. Original brown printed wrappers. OOC 994. -- WIENER. The human use of human beings: Cybernetics and society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Original beige cloth, yellow printed dust-jacket. OOC 995. -- WIENER. Mensch und Menschmaschine. Frankfurt am Main & Berlin: Alfred Metzner Verlag, 1952. Original red cloth, white printed dust-jacket. OOC 996 -- [WIENER.] Notes on New Yorker. N.d. (1950s?). Typescript with a few corrections in Wiener's hand. OOC 997. -- WIENER. Ex-prodigy: My childhood and youth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. Original gray cloth, remains of printed dust-jacket laid in. OOC 998. -- WIENER. Time and organization. [Southampton:] University of Southampton, 1955. Original off-white printed wrappers. OOC 999. -- WIENER. I am a mathematician. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co, 1956. Original black cloth. OOC 1000. -- WIENER. The tempter. New York: Random House, 1959. Original black cloth. OOC 1001. -- [WIENER.] Portfolio of 53 black and white photographs of Wiener, taken between 1925 and the early 1960s. Also included in the portfolio is a paper eyeshade possibly worn by Wiener. OOC 1002. -- WIENER. Nonlinear problems in random theory. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1962. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1003. -- WIENER. [in Cyrillic] Nelinejnye zadachi v teorii sluchajnykh protsessov [Nonlinear problems in random theory]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoj Literatury, 1961. Original green cloth. OOC 1004. -- WIENER. God & Golem Inc. A comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1964. Original red boards, black cloth spine, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1005. -- WIENER. God & Golem Inc. A comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 1006. -- WIENER and SCHADÉ, J. P, editors. Progress in biocybernetics. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1964-65. Original gray cloth, printed dust-jackets. OOC 1007. -- [WIENER.] "Norbert Wiener 1894-1964." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 72, no. 1, part II. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1966. Original light blue cloth. OOC 1008. -- [WIENER.] PETERSON, H. Philip. Cybernumerics. Digital photograph. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. OOC 1009. -- [WIENER.] ROSE, John, ed. Survey of cybernetics: A tribute to Dr. Norbert Wiener. London: Iliffe Books, 1969. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1010. -- [WIENER.] Inventory of Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964. Papers, 1898-1966. Manuscript collection MC 22 [cover title]. Cambridge: MIT, 1980. Xeroxed typescript. Original wrappers, printed typescript label on front wrapper. OOC 1011. -- [WIENER.] JERISON, David; Sminger, I. M. and STROOCK, Daniel W., eds. The legacy of Norbert Wiener: A centennial symposium in honor of the 100th anniversary of Norbert Wiener's birth, October 8-14, 1994... Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1997. Original red cloth. OOC 1012. -- WIENER. Norbert Wiener: Collected works with commentaries. Edited by P. MASANI. 4 vols. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976-85. Original cloth, printed dust-jackets. OOC 1013. -- WINOGRAD, S. and COWAN, J. D. Reliable computation in the presence of noise. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963. Original beige cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1068. -- YOCKEY, Hubert P., ed. Symposium on information theory in biology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 29 - 31, 1956. New York: Pergamon Press, 1958. Original green cloth. OOC 1072.
[With:] A collection of books from Wiener's collection: HUN, John Gale and MACINNES, Charles Ranald. The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry. New York: Macmillan, 1916. OOC 325. -- MERRILL, George A. An elementary text-book of theoretical mechanics. New York: American Book Co, 1905. Original cloth boards, rebacked in black morocco. OOC 338. -- WAMBAUGH, Eugene. Guide to the Articles of War prepared for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P, 1917. Original beige cloth. OOC 405. -- AMBER, George H. and AMBER, Paul S. Anatomy of automation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Original tan cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 426. -- BEER, Stafford. Cybernetics and management. London: English Universities Press, 1959. Original green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 454. -- BELLMAN, Richard. Dynamic programming. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U. P, 1957. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 455. -- CRAMER, Carl Harald. Mathematical methods of statistics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. Original red cloth. OOC 554. -- Cybernetics: Circular causal and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the seventh conference, March 23-24, 1950... Edited by Heinz von Foerster. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 557. -- GILBRETH, Lillian Moller. The quest of the one best way: A sketch of the life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Bridgeport, Conn.: Academy Offset, Inc, n.d. Original tan printed wrappers. OOC 631. -- GREENBERGER, Martin, ed. Management and the computer of the future. Cambridge: MIT Press; New York & London: John Wiley, 1963. Original black cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 640. -- HARRISON, George Russell. What man may be: The human side of science. New York: William Morrow, 1956. Original black cloth, black printed dust-jacket. OOC 647. -- HEIMS, Steve J. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From mathematics to the technologies of life and death. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. Original mauve cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 657. -- International Congress on Cybernetics. Actes. Proceedings. Namur [Belgium]: Association Internationale de Cybernétique, 1960. Original black cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 737. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. List of participants in the first international congress of IFAC for automatic control. Moscow: n.p, 1960. Original printed wrappers. OOC 738. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. First international congress of IFAC for automatic control... Moscow, June 27 to July 7, 1960. Programme. N.p, 1960. Original yellow printed wrappers. OOC 739. -- LASKER, Edward. The adventure of chess. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 766. -- MURPHY, John S. Basics of digital computers. 3 vols. in 1. New York: John F. Rider, 1958. Original dark blue cloth, red printed dust-jacket. OOC 802. -- PIERCE, John Robinson. Electrons, waves and messages. Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1956. Original black cloth. OOC 836. -- PHILLIPS, Arturo Aldunate. Los robots no tienen a dios en el corazon (ensayo). Santiago [Chile]: Editorial Andres Bello, 1963. Original black printed wrappers. OOC 837. -- Robot Revolution: The implications of automation. Pennsylvania: Socialist Society, 1955. Original printed wrappers. OOC 866. -- RODRIGUEZ, Hernan. Psicologma y cibernética. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veinte, [1958]. Original beige and red printed wrappers. OOC 867. For more detailed information about the items in this lot, please see Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace.
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WIENER, Norbert. A collection of books from his personal library. For more information on all of these see the various entries in Origins of Cyberspace. Comprising: Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine. New York & London: MIT Press and John Wiley & Sons, 1961. Original red cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 993 -- WIENER. "Time, communication, and the nervous system." In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 50 (1948): 197-219. Original brown printed wrappers. OOC 994. -- WIENER. The human use of human beings: Cybernetics and society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Original beige cloth, yellow printed dust-jacket. OOC 995. -- WIENER. Mensch und Menschmaschine. Frankfurt am Main & Berlin: Alfred Metzner Verlag, 1952. Original red cloth, white printed dust-jacket. OOC 996 -- [WIENER.] Notes on New Yorker. N.d. (1950s?). Typescript with a few corrections in Wiener's hand. OOC 997. -- WIENER. Ex-prodigy: My childhood and youth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. Original gray cloth, remains of printed dust-jacket laid in. OOC 998. -- WIENER. Time and organization. [Southampton:] University of Southampton, 1955. Original off-white printed wrappers. OOC 999. -- WIENER. I am a mathematician. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co, 1956. Original black cloth. OOC 1000. -- WIENER. The tempter. New York: Random House, 1959. Original black cloth. OOC 1001. -- [WIENER.] Portfolio of 53 black and white photographs of Wiener, taken between 1925 and the early 1960s. Also included in the portfolio is a paper eyeshade possibly worn by Wiener. OOC 1002. -- WIENER. Nonlinear problems in random theory. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1962. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1003. -- WIENER. [in Cyrillic] Nelinejnye zadachi v teorii sluchajnykh protsessov [Nonlinear problems in random theory]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoj Literatury, 1961. Original green cloth. OOC 1004. -- WIENER. God & Golem Inc. A comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1964. Original red boards, black cloth spine, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1005. -- WIENER. God & Golem Inc. A comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 1006. -- WIENER and SCHADÉ, J. P, editors. Progress in biocybernetics. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1964-65. Original gray cloth, printed dust-jackets. OOC 1007. -- [WIENER.] "Norbert Wiener 1894-1964." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 72, no. 1, part II. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1966. Original light blue cloth. OOC 1008. -- [WIENER.] PETERSON, H. Philip. Cybernumerics. Digital photograph. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. OOC 1009. -- [WIENER.] ROSE, John, ed. Survey of cybernetics: A tribute to Dr. Norbert Wiener. London: Iliffe Books, 1969. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1010. -- [WIENER.] Inventory of Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964. Papers, 1898-1966. Manuscript collection MC 22 [cover title]. Cambridge: MIT, 1980. Xeroxed typescript. Original wrappers, printed typescript label on front wrapper. OOC 1011. -- [WIENER.] JERISON, David; Sminger, I. M. and STROOCK, Daniel W., eds. The legacy of Norbert Wiener: A centennial symposium in honor of the 100th anniversary of Norbert Wiener's birth, October 8-14, 1994... Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1997. Original red cloth. OOC 1012. -- WIENER. Norbert Wiener: Collected works with commentaries. Edited by P. MASANI. 4 vols. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976-85. Original cloth, printed dust-jackets. OOC 1013. -- WINOGRAD, S. and COWAN, J. D. Reliable computation in the presence of noise. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963. Original beige cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 1068. -- YOCKEY, Hubert P., ed. Symposium on information theory in biology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 29 - 31, 1956. New York: Pergamon Press, 1958. Original green cloth. OOC 1072.
[With:] A collection of books from Wiener's collection: HUN, John Gale and MACINNES, Charles Ranald. The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry. New York: Macmillan, 1916. OOC 325. -- MERRILL, George A. An elementary text-book of theoretical mechanics. New York: American Book Co, 1905. Original cloth boards, rebacked in black morocco. OOC 338. -- WAMBAUGH, Eugene. Guide to the Articles of War prepared for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P, 1917. Original beige cloth. OOC 405. -- AMBER, George H. and AMBER, Paul S. Anatomy of automation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Original tan cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 426. -- BEER, Stafford. Cybernetics and management. London: English Universities Press, 1959. Original green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 454. -- BELLMAN, Richard. Dynamic programming. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U. P, 1957. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 455. -- CRAMER, Carl Harald. Mathematical methods of statistics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. Original red cloth. OOC 554. -- Cybernetics: Circular causal and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the seventh conference, March 23-24, 1950... Edited by Heinz von Foerster. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 557. -- GILBRETH, Lillian Moller. The quest of the one best way: A sketch of the life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Bridgeport, Conn.: Academy Offset, Inc, n.d. Original tan printed wrappers. OOC 631. -- GREENBERGER, Martin, ed. Management and the computer of the future. Cambridge: MIT Press; New York & London: John Wiley, 1963. Original black cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 640. -- HARRISON, George Russell. What man may be: The human side of science. New York: William Morrow, 1956. Original black cloth, black printed dust-jacket. OOC 647. -- HEIMS, Steve J. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From mathematics to the technologies of life and death. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. Original mauve cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 657. -- International Congress on Cybernetics. Actes. Proceedings. Namur [Belgium]: Association Internationale de Cybernétique, 1960. Original black cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 737. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. List of participants in the first international congress of IFAC for automatic control. Moscow: n.p, 1960. Original printed wrappers. OOC 738. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. First international congress of IFAC for automatic control... Moscow, June 27 to July 7, 1960. Programme. N.p, 1960. Original yellow printed wrappers. OOC 739. -- LASKER, Edward. The adventure of chess. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 766. -- MURPHY, John S. Basics of digital computers. 3 vols. in 1. New York: John F. Rider, 1958. Original dark blue cloth, red printed dust-jacket. OOC 802. -- PIERCE, John Robinson. Electrons, waves and messages. Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1956. Original black cloth. OOC 836. -- PHILLIPS, Arturo Aldunate. Los robots no tienen a dios en el corazon (ensayo). Santiago [Chile]: Editorial Andres Bello, 1963. Original black printed wrappers. OOC 837. -- Robot Revolution: The implications of automation. Pennsylvania: Socialist Society, 1955. Original printed wrappers. OOC 866. -- RODRIGUEZ, Hernan. Psicologma y cibernética. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veinte, [1958]. Original beige and red printed wrappers. OOC 867. For more detailed information about the items in this lot, please see Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace.
[With:] A collection of books from Wiener's collection: HUN, John Gale and MACINNES, Charles Ranald. The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry. New York: Macmillan, 1916. OOC 325. -- MERRILL, George A. An elementary text-book of theoretical mechanics. New York: American Book Co, 1905. Original cloth boards, rebacked in black morocco. OOC 338. -- WAMBAUGH, Eugene. Guide to the Articles of War prepared for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P, 1917. Original beige cloth. OOC 405. -- AMBER, George H. and AMBER, Paul S. Anatomy of automation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Original tan cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 426. -- BEER, Stafford. Cybernetics and management. London: English Universities Press, 1959. Original green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 454. -- BELLMAN, Richard. Dynamic programming. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U. P, 1957. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 455. -- CRAMER, Carl Harald. Mathematical methods of statistics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. Original red cloth. OOC 554. -- Cybernetics: Circular causal and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems. Transactions of the seventh conference, March 23-24, 1950... Edited by Heinz von Foerster. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1951. Original green cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 557. -- GILBRETH, Lillian Moller. The quest of the one best way: A sketch of the life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Bridgeport, Conn.: Academy Offset, Inc, n.d. Original tan printed wrappers. OOC 631. -- GREENBERGER, Martin, ed. Management and the computer of the future. Cambridge: MIT Press; New York & London: John Wiley, 1963. Original black cloth, blue printed dust-jacket. OOC 640. -- HARRISON, George Russell. What man may be: The human side of science. New York: William Morrow, 1956. Original black cloth, black printed dust-jacket. OOC 647. -- HEIMS, Steve J. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From mathematics to the technologies of life and death. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. Original mauve cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 657. -- International Congress on Cybernetics. Actes. Proceedings. Namur [Belgium]: Association Internationale de Cybernétique, 1960. Original black cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 737. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. List of participants in the first international congress of IFAC for automatic control. Moscow: n.p, 1960. Original printed wrappers. OOC 738. -- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL. First international congress of IFAC for automatic control... Moscow, June 27 to July 7, 1960. Programme. N.p, 1960. Original yellow printed wrappers. OOC 739. -- LASKER, Edward. The adventure of chess. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950. Original black cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. OOC 766. -- MURPHY, John S. Basics of digital computers. 3 vols. in 1. New York: John F. Rider, 1958. Original dark blue cloth, red printed dust-jacket. OOC 802. -- PIERCE, John Robinson. Electrons, waves and messages. Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1956. Original black cloth. OOC 836. -- PHILLIPS, Arturo Aldunate. Los robots no tienen a dios en el corazon (ensayo). Santiago [Chile]: Editorial Andres Bello, 1963. Original black printed wrappers. OOC 837. -- Robot Revolution: The implications of automation. Pennsylvania: Socialist Society, 1955. Original printed wrappers. OOC 866. -- RODRIGUEZ, Hernan. Psicologma y cibernética. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veinte, [1958]. Original beige and red printed wrappers. OOC 867. For more detailed information about the items in this lot, please see Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace.
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