DINSDALE, Alfred. Television. Seeing by Wireless . London: Isaac Pitman, 1926. 8° (185 x 122mm). Portrait frontispiece of John Logie Baird, 10 plates (one plate with shaved title.) Original printed boards, pictorial dust-jacket (small stain on front cover, soiling to jacket). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON TELEVISION. Dinsdale describes the technical problems faced by early experimenters (Jan van Szczpanik, Boris Losing, Denoys von Mihaly, and others) and focuses primarily on the work of the Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion. FIELD, Kate (editor). The History of Bell's Telephone . London: Bradbury Agnew, 1878. 8° (186 x 122mm). (Light browning and soiling, a few small stains.) Publisher's wrappers (small chips, soiling and small neat repairs to spine). Provenance : Theodore Lean (ownership inscription dated 1888) -- Blakely Bross. & Emmott (purple stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains the second appearance of the word 'telephoned' which was first printed in an article in the Daily News March 9, 1877. RARE: no copies recorded in ABPC on-line. (2)
DINSDALE, Alfred. Television. Seeing by Wireless . London: Isaac Pitman, 1926. 8° (185 x 122mm). Portrait frontispiece of John Logie Baird, 10 plates (one plate with shaved title.) Original printed boards, pictorial dust-jacket (small stain on front cover, soiling to jacket). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON TELEVISION. Dinsdale describes the technical problems faced by early experimenters (Jan van Szczpanik, Boris Losing, Denoys von Mihaly, and others) and focuses primarily on the work of the Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion. FIELD, Kate (editor). The History of Bell's Telephone . London: Bradbury Agnew, 1878. 8° (186 x 122mm). (Light browning and soiling, a few small stains.) Publisher's wrappers (small chips, soiling and small neat repairs to spine). Provenance : Theodore Lean (ownership inscription dated 1888) -- Blakely Bross. & Emmott (purple stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains the second appearance of the word 'telephoned' which was first printed in an article in the Daily News March 9, 1877. RARE: no copies recorded in ABPC on-line. (2)
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