Rare George Boole first edition set to be auctioned

An inscribed first edition of George Boole’s theory, which led to the creation of the internet, will go on sale at rare book auction in Dublin next month.

In the year when UCC is celebrating the bicentenary of the birth in 1815 of their first Profession of Mathematics and inventor of Boolean Logic, this extremely rare work is conservatively estimated at just €5,000-7,000.

The first 1854 edition of An Investigation into the Laws of Thought published by Walton and Maberly is inscribed to: “Mrs Hill, with the Author’s respects”.