George Boole book bought at auction for €11k for UCC

It was quite literally all about the ones and the zeros as an auctioneer’s hammer fell at €11,000 for a signed first edition of a book by the father of modern technology — bought for University College Cork.

In fact, when fees and taxes are added, the total cost will be over €13,000 for the 1854 edition of George Boole’s An Investigation into the Laws of Thought.

However, it seems the cost will not be entirely borne by UCC, having had a little help when the gavel dropped on lot 276 in the Fonsie Mealy rare book auction in Dublin.