Report from the select committee on decimal coinage; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix, and index

SELECT COMMITTEE ON DECIMAL COINAGE

Published by [s.n.], [London], 1853

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xiv, 185pp, [1]. Later blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Leaves toned, book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, very short closed tear to head of title page. The first edition of a report by the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage, established by Prime Minister Gladstone when he disagreed with an earlier report on the same subject by another committee. He ultimately disagreed with this one as well. It took well over one hundred years more for the British government to begin to convert its mixed-radix money system to decimal coinage. 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 S 81. Size: Folio. Seller Inventory # AQ23905

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Title: Report from the select committee on decimal ...

Publisher: [s.n.], [London]

Publication Date: 1853

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First edition.