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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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIOT'S "PRUFROCK", a landmark event in modern poetry. This publication in the June 1915 issue of Poetry Magazine precedes the book edition by two years. A FINE COPY. More
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On Thermonuclear War
“THE CLAUSEWITZ OF THE NUCLEAR AGE” — FIRST EDITION OF HERMAN KAHN’S HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL COLD-WAR TREATISE ON NUCLEAR STRATEGY, WITH A WARM AND HUMOROUS INSCRIPTION TO A COLLEAGUE. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Kahn in ink on front free endpaper to fellow RAND employee Edward (Ted) Harris, a statistical physicist... More
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THE FIRST EDITION, IN ITS ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF KOLMOGOROV’S FAMOUS PAPER PUTTING PROBABILITY THEORY ON A FIRM AXIOMATIC BASIS. More
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A Confederacy of Dunces
FIRST EDITION OF TOOLE’S PULITZER-PRIZE-WINNING COMIC MASTERPIECE ABOUT NEW ORLEANS, WHICH DOES FOR THAT CITY WHAT ULYSSES DID FOR DUBLIN (ANTHONY BURGESS) — THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE NOTED NEW ORLEANS AUTHOR WALKER PERCY, WHO ASSISTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE NOVEL AFTER THE AUTHOR’S DEATH. On Canal Street... More
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior
THE RARE AND IMPORTANT SECOND EDITION (1713) - WITH SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES FROM THE EXTREMELY SCARCE FIRST EDITION - OF “THE GREATEST WORK IN THE HISTORY SCIENCE.” ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES PRINTED. More
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The Doctrine of Chances; or, a method for calculating the probabilities of events in play
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PROBABILITY THEORY. More
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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist
THE MAGNIFICENT SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 760 COPIES SIGNED BY EINSTEIN. AN OUTSTANDING COPY IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE, GLASSINE, AND SHIPPING BOX. More
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The Goshawk
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHITE: PERHAPS THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A WARM AND LENGTHY INSCRIPTION TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SYDNEY COCKERELL — CONNOISEUR, BIBLIOPHILE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. More
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Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae [HAMLET SOURCE]
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION (1514), EDITIO PRINCEPS, OF SAXO’S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DENMARK, CONTAINING THE STORY THAT BECAME SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET. More
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Danorum historiae libri XVI [Hamlet Source]
THE SECOND EDITION (1534) OF SAXO’S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DENMARK, CONTAINING THE STORY THAT BECAME SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET. More
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES, OF HOPKINS'S FIRST BOOK. More
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Bucaniers of America; or, A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ALEXANDER EXQUEMELIN’S “BUCANIERS OF AMERICA” (1684), AN IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR HISTORIANS OF PIRACY AND A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON OVER THREE CENTURIES OF PIRATE FICTION. More
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Illuminated Manuscript: Leaf with Miniature of Saint Barnabas
STUNNING FULL-PAGE MINIATURE OF SAINT BARNABAS FROM A 15TH-CENTURY BOOK OF HOURS. More
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Varia Opera Mathematica
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of Fermat's Collected Works, containing the first publication of most of his work. More
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Cybernetics
FIRST EDITION of one of the foundational works of modern communication theory. More
Price: $1,500 .
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
ROOSEVELT’S HISTORIC LETTER INVITING MAUD NATHAN TO LEAD THE SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. More
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Anya v strane chudes [Anya in Wonderland; Alice in Wonderland]
SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF NABOKOV’S RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ZALSHUPIN. A MAGNIFICENT COPY. More
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Photograph Signed
THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN YOSEMITE - THE BIRTH OF THE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT. OUTSTANDING SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT ON GLACIER POINT, YOSEMITE; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE IMAGE: “To Conde Hamlin / with the best wishes / of / Theodore Roosevelt”. More
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]; Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTERS BY TOLKIEN PROVIDING INSIGHT INTO HIS THOUGHTS AND MOTIVATIONS IN THE CREATION OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS. More
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![Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorien [The General Theory of Relativity]. ALBERT EINSTEIN.](/pictures/thumb/2143.jpg?v=1538591832)
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorien [The General Theory of Relativity]
FIRST EDITION, monograph issue in original wrappers, of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. PMM 408. More
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![The First and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland... WITH: The Third volume of Chronicles... [The Chronicles]. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, RAPHAEL HOLINSHED.](/pictures/thumb/2142.jpg?v=1538590660)
The First and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland... WITH: The Third volume of Chronicles... [The Chronicles]
THE SECOND EDITION (1587) OF HOLINSHED’S “CHRONICLES”: THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. More
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Zerstreuung von Röntgenstrahlen und Quantentheorie
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Debye’s explanation of the dual wave-particle nature of electromagnetic radiation (the “Compton effect”). Precedes the full account by Compton. More
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![Physikalische Grundlagen einer Gravitationstheorie [Physical Foundations of a Theory of Gravitation]; Mathematische Begriffsbildungen zur Gravitationstheorie [Mathematical Concept Formations of Gravitational Theory]. ALBERT EINSTEIN, MARCEL GROSSMANN.](/pictures/thumb/2139.jpg?v=1538512889)
Physikalische Grundlagen einer Gravitationstheorie [Physical Foundations of a Theory of Gravitation]; Mathematische Begriffsbildungen zur Gravitationstheorie [Mathematical Concept Formations of Gravitational Theory]
EXTREMELY RARE AUTHOR’S OFFPRINT (“Überreicht von den Verfassern”) IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF EINSTEIN AND GROSSMANN’S FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE CRITICAL “ENTWURF” THEORY OF 1913. More
Price: $2,800 .