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ADAMS, ANSEL. AUSTIN, MARY. Taos Pueblo

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ADAMS, ANSEL. Images 1923-1974

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AGEE, JAMES. EVANS, WALKER. Many Are Called

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ARBUS, DIANE. Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

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AVEDON, RICHARD. Evidence: 1944-1994

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BABBAGE, CHARLES. A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives

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BARBIER, GEORGE. Designs On The Dances Of Vaslav Nijinsky

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BRADBURY, RAY. Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini

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BRAQUE, GEORGES. Cahier de Braque 1917-1947 [Notebooks]

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BROGLIE, LOUIS-VICTOR DE. A Tentative Theory of Light Quanta

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BROWN, ROBERT. A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations...and on the General Existence of Active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies

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BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Picturesque America

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BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. Crucifix in a Deathhand

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BUSH, VANNEVAR. As We May Think

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CAESAR, JULIUS. DUNCAN, WILLIAM. The Commentaries of Caesar translated into English. To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War

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CALDER, ALEXANDER. Derriere Le Miroir. Calder. Special Number 201

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CARROLL, LEWIS. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI. The Decisive Moment

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CATHER, WILLA. The Professor's House

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CHAGALL, MARC. The Lithographs of Chagall. Volumes I-VI (complete)

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CHAGALL, MARC. The Song of Songs

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CHAGALL, MARC. Les Vitraux de Jerusalem

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CHEEVER, JOHN. The Stories of John Cheever

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON. The Second World War

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON. A Speech by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON. My Early Life: A Roving Commission

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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CLAUSIUS, RUDOLF. Ueber die bewegende Kraft der Wärme und die Gesetze, welche sich daraus für die Wärme selbst ableiten lassen

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COLLINS, WILKIE. The Woman in White

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CRICK, FRANCIS D. WATSON, JAMES D. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids

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D'ALEMBERT, JEAN LE. Traité de Dynamique

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DARWIN, CHARLES. The Descent of Man

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DARWIN, CHARLES. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

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DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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DEIGHTON, LEN. The IPCRESS File

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DESCARTES, RENE. Principia Philosphiae [with] Dissertatio de Methodo

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DESCARTES, RENE. Discours de la Methode

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DEWITT, BRYCE. Quantum Theory of Gravity, I, II, III

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DíAZ, JUNOT. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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DIRAC, PAUL. The Quantum Theory of the Electron

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DIRAC, PAUL. A Theory of Electrons and Protons

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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

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EDISON, THOMAS. Photograph Signed

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EDISON, THOMAS ALVA. RAMSAYE, TERRY. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig? [Does The inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?]

FIRST PRINTING of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking 1905 paper, the introduction and derivation of the most famous equation in modern physics: E=mc2.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper; et al. [Special Relativity]

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorien

FIRST EDITION of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. PMM 408. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is a continuation and dramatic expansion of some of the ground-breaking ideas set forth in his 1905 paper on special relativity. Specifically, with general relativity, Einstein applied his revolutionary conceptions of time, space, and matter to all of the universe, and providing, for the first time the definitive reinterpretation of the Newtonian model.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie [I&II]. WITH: Erklarung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie. WITH: Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation

FIRST PRINTINGS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION of Einstein’s four papers to the Prussian Academy laying the groundwork for the general theory of relativity, including his famous paper of November 25, 1915, “a triumphant revision of Newton’s universe,” containing the final form of his gravitational equations.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. WITH: Zum Kosmologischen Problem Der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OFFPRINT, of Einstein’s famous “cosmological constant paper”, providing others with the theoretical foundation for the notion of an expanding universe. WITH: the first edition, offprint, of the paper in which Einstein renounces the cosmological constant.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Strahlungs-Emission und -Absorption nach der Quantentheorie [Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Quantum Theory]

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen

FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY SCARCE OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Einstein's landmark 1905 paper on Brownian motion, one of his greatest papers. FROM THE LIBRARY OF EINSTEIN'S SON, HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Erklarung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. PLANCK, MAX. Folgerungen aus den Capillaritatserscheinungen [Einstein]. WITH:Ueber des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum; and Ueber die Elementarquanta der Materie und der Elektricitatm [Planck]

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Über den Einfluss der Schwerkraft und die Ausbreitung des Lichtes [On the Influence of Gravity on the Propagation of Light]

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorien

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RICHTER, GERHARD. Atlas: Of the Photographic Collages and Sketches

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RITTS, HERB. Men/Women

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

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SEVERIN, MARK. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

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BARDEEN, JOHN. BRATTAIN, WALTER. SHOCKLEY, WILLIAM. Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors. Et al.

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BOCEK, JAROSLAV. JEDLICKA, PAVEL. KOHL, MIROSLAV. SUDEK, JOSEF. Josef Sudek

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BERG, PAUL. JACKSON, DAVID A. SYMONS, ROBERT H. Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genertic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40

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FEYNMAN, RICHARD. METROPOLIS, NICHOLAS. TELLER, EDWARD. Equations of State of Elements Based on the Generalized Fermi-Thomas Theory

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MATISSE, HENRI. TZARA, TRISTAN. Midis Gagnes. Poemes. Six Dessins de Henri Matisse

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WEBB, CHARLES. The Graduate

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