The Novels of Jane Austen
Beautiful and complete ensemble of Jane Austen’s works. More about The Novels of Jane Austen
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Beautiful and complete ensemble of Jane Austen’s works. More about The Novels of Jane Austen
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper. More about An Autobiography
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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 87 of only 250 copies signed by Avedon; with special engraver's proof (10.5 x 13.5 in) of Marilyn Monroe laid-in. More about An Autobiography
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper. More about An Autobiography
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON across introductory pictorial spread: "Richard Avedon 1994" More about Evidence: 1944-1994
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper. With a fine copy of the booklet prepared in conjunction with the exhibition In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon on view at the Amnon Carter Museum from September 14 through November 17, 1985. More about In the American West
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper: “Avedon ’85”. More about In the American West
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON on front free endpaper (dated 1982). More about Photographs: 1947-1977
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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 44 of only 250 copies signed by Avedon; complete with special engraver's proof (10.5 x 13.5 in) of Marilyn Monroe laid-in. More about An Autobiography
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FIRST EDITION of Babbage's first published book, the first thorough treatise on actuarial theory, complete with folding table of mortality statistics, generally considered the first reliable life table. More about A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
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FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE PRE-PULICATION OFFPRINT, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE, of one of Babbage’s major contributions to mathematics. In remarkable condition in original wrappers. More about Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches...
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FIRST EDITION in journal form (preceded only by the extremely scarce offprint, of which an estimated fifty copies were printed) of Charles Babbage’s system of mechanical notation, important to the development of the early computer. Illustrated with four engraved plates for the Babbage article; 19 engraved plates in the issue..... More about On a method of expressing by signs the action of machinery
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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 about Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, of Babbage’s scathing and sensational critique of the English scientific establishment. An important association copy, inscribed by Babbage to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet: “To M. Nicollet / from the Author”. More about Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes
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Special issue of Derriere Le Miroir dedicated to Francis Bacon, complete with five single-sheet color lithographs and one fold-out color triptych by Bacon. More about Derriere Le Miroir, No. 162
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LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES ON RIVES. A magnificent production, with 5 color lithographs and 5 color offset lithographs after Bacon. More about Francis Bacon, Special Number 162
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FIRST EDITION, RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, SIGNED BY BACON. More about Francis Bacon: Paintings of the Eighties
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FIRST EDITION, RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, SIGNED BY FRANCIS BACON. More about Francis Bacon: Paintings of the Eighties
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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: FRANCIS BACON’S ARGUMENT FOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. More about Instauratio magna [Novum organum
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FIRST EDITION OF BACON’S MOST REVEALING BOOK, AN ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BACON ON HALF-TITLE: “For Erica Spender / with all my best wishes / Francis Bacon”. More about Interviews with Francis Bacon
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FIRST EDITION, EXCEEDINGLY RARE OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Balmer’s famous formula for the wavelengths of lines in the hydrogen spectrum which, in the hands of Niels Bohr, provided the experimental basis for the quantum theory of the atom. More about Notiz über die Spectrallinien des Wasserstoffs
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FIRST EDITION OF BALTZ'S SEMINAL WORK. More about The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
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LIMITED EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, number 107 of only 400 copies, with 12 large stunning pochoir plates by George Barbier. With additional illustrations in the text. More about Designs On The Dances Of Vaslav Nijinsky
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ONE OF 650 COPIES ON RIVES (out of a total edition of 720), with 20 FULL-PAGE POCHOIR PLATES by BARBIER. With additional illustrated titles and head-pieces. Barbier’s Art-Deco representation of Laclos’s classic tale of sexual politics is one of the masterpieces of 20th-century book illustration. More about Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the first description of the invention of the transistor (published simultaneously in The Physical Review). More about Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action
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