A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More
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An essay towards the calculus of functions
FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of Babbage's two most important contributions to mathematics, essentially founding the general theory of the calculus of functions. More
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION BY BABBAGE OF HIS ANALYTICAL ENGINE, THE FIRST GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY: FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE TO EMPRESS EUGENIE AND IN A MAGNIFICENT ROYAL PRESENTATION BINDING. More
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of only 2500 copies) in original cloth of Darwin's seminal work on the evolution of man. More
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ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY CHARLES LINDBERGH. More
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An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus
ADA LOVELACE’S PERSONAL ANNOTATED COPY OF CHARLES BABBAGE’S FIRST SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATION. A MAJOR MATHEMATICAL TEXT IMPORTANT FOR HER INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. WITH AT LEAST 35 INK ANNOTATIONS IN LOVELACE’S HAND – THE MAJORITY CORRECTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS – AND AT LEAST 18 PENCIL ANNOTATIONS IN THE HAND OF HER TUTOR..... More
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The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 354 of only 765 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. Beautifully illustrated collection of Swinburne's children's poems, with nine mounted colored plates and 52 black and white drawings. More
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The New Frontier Broadacre City. Taliesin, No. 1, October 1940.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WRIGHT. More
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