AN UNUSUALLY LARGE LEAF FROM A LATE 15TH-CENTURY FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS WITH A MINIATURE OF THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN WITH SUPERB COLOR AND IN PARTICULARLY FINE CONDITION. More

FIRST EDITION OF SANDER'S CLASSIC: A REMARKABLE COPY IN EXTREMELY RARE DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE. More

FIRST LATIN EDITION — PREPARED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE — OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, THE WORLD’S FIRST SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL AND A KEY VEHICLE FOR THE PROMOTION OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES. More

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

FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF CLAUSIUS’ INTRODUCTION OF THE TERM ‘ENTROPY’ AND THE CULMINATION OF HIS WORK ON THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; PRECEDES THE PUBLICATION IN ANNALEN DER PHYSIK. More