A LANDMARK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: FIRST EDITION OF JEVONS’S PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF HIS “LOGICAL PIANO”, THE FIRST MACHINE TO SOLVE A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM AT SUPERHUMAN SPEED. More

FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS’S FIRST GREAT SUCCESS: AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY CREATED FOR DICKENS’S SON, ALFRED TENNYSON DICKENS. BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE WITH TWO MAGNIFICENT COSWAY-STYLE MINIATURES OF DICKENS AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 78 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY KYD. ALSO WITH A SIGNED CHECK BY DICKENS. More

FIRST EDITION WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE OF THE FIRST REPORT ON VANNEVAR BUSH'S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER, THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTING MACHINE PRIOR TO THE ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. More

FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING OF TESLA'S LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PHILOSOPHICAL MASTERPIECE; HIS MOST DETAILED PRESENTATION OF HIS WORLDVIEW. More

IMPORTANT PAPERS – IN BOTH OFFPRINT AND JOURNAL FORMATS – RELATED TO VON NEUMANN’S PROOF OF THE ERGODIC THEOREM, A FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. More

EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF “GRANT’S PETERSBURG PROGRESS” PRINTED BY UNION SOLDIERS ON A CONFEDERATE PRESS THE DAY PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE SEIZED, SIX DAYS BEFORE LEE’S SURRENDER. More

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of only 2500 copies) of Darwin's seminal work on the evolution of man. THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST COPY, in stunning Bayntun bindings. More

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CAMUS. AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY: INSCRIBED BY CAMUS TO FRENCH LITERARY FIGURE JACQUES HÉBERTOT. Inscribed on half-title: "A Jacques Hébertot / En témoignage d’amitié affectueuse / son obligé / Albert Camus". [To Jacques Hébertot / In testimony of affectionate friendship / His grateful..... More

VERY RARE CATALOG OF THE HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL 1937 TOKYO EXHIBITION OF SURREALISM, FEATURING THE WORK OF NEARLY ALL THE MAJOR SURREALIST ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM’S COPY, WITH HER OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE. More

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE OFFPRINT, ONE OF MAXWELL’S MAJOR PAPERS ON GAS THEORY AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. More

TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LIFE, EINSTEIN WRITES TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS FROM THE PATENT OFFICE CONCERNING ONE OF THE CENTRAL STRUGGLES OF HIS SCIENTIFIC LIFE. COMMENTING ON THE WORK OF DIRAC, EINSTEIN ADMITS THAT ALTHOUGH HE “CAN’T TAKE A STATISTICAL FOUNDATION OF PHYSICS SERIOUSLY” HE FINDS IT..... More

THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. More