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LIMITED DELUXE EDITION PHOTO-BOOK DOCUMENTING THE PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE; WITH TWO SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINTS; COPY A OUT OF ONLY 26 LETTERED COPIES. More about <i>Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell</i>
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SIGNED FIRST EDITION MAN RAY ART-BOOK INCLUDING ORIGINAL RAYOGRAPH. More about Alphabet pour Adultes (1970
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FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THOREAU’S MEMOIRS. More about <i>Walden; Or, Life in the Woods</i> (1854); with a manuscript leaf from Thoreau’s...
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IMPORTANT PAPERS BY NIELS BOHR CONCERNING HIS DEBATES WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN OVER FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. More about Letter to the Editor of Nature (13 July, 1935); “Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Carl Anderson's announcement of the discovery of the positron, the first antiparticle. More about The Positive Electron
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Darwin's masterpiece, "the most important single work in science" (Dibner). One of only 1250 copies printed. More about On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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FIRST EDITION AND FIRST COMPLETE TWO-VOLUME EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDIES ON CIRCULATION IN PLANTS AND HUMANS [PMM 189]. More about <i>Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in...
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HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT EDITIONS OF THE INDEXES OF BOOKS PROHIBITED BY THE CATHOLIC CHRUCH. More about Index Librorum Prohibitorum et Expurgandorum novissimus (1667), bound with Index Librorum...
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