FIRST EDITION of the report of Fizeau’s famous experiment to determine the speed of light, the first accurate results obtained from a terrestrial experiment. WITH: FIRST EDITION of his rival FOUCAULT’S refinement (two papers), resulting in a measurement of the speed of light within 0.6% of the present-day value. FINE..... More

A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE DISCOVERY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LUDWIG HOPF FROM 1913 WHERE EINSTEIN’S ABANDONS THE REQUIREMENT OF GENERAL COVARIANCE. More

FIRST EDITIONS of Churchill's most important work in superb leather bindings by Lauriat. More

EXTREMELY RARE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, THE COMPLETE SET OF TEN STUNNING LARGE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS (EIGHT DOUBLE PAGE), PROVIDING A VISUAL NARRATIVE DOCUMENTING THE CREATION OF ONE OF MIRÓ’S MASTERPIECES, THE TARRAGONA TAPESTRY. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY MIRÓ. More

STUNNING LARGE HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF TWAIN, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TWAIN TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND PERSONAL PHYSICIAN WITH A WITTY QUOTATION. More

FIRST EDITION OF RAND’S FIRST NOVEL, IN THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. More

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY DE KOONING. More

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 1500 copies (out of a total edition of 1800). Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. More

THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE 165 LETTERS OF ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN HIS LIFETIME (IN THE ORIGINAL DUTCH, AND PRECEDING THE FIRST COMPLETE LATIN EDITION BY FOUR YEARS); INCLUDING HIS LETTERS TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY DESCRIBING THE FIRST-EVER OBSERVATIONS OF BACTERIA, SPERM CELLS, AND OTHER MICROSCOPIC..... More

FIRST EDITIONS (JOURNAL ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS) OF TWO LANDMARK PAPERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOPOLOGY, IN WHICH IN WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MÖBIUS DESCRIBED THE MÖBIUS STRIP, DEFINED THE TOPOLOGICAL CONCEPTS NOW KNOWN AS GENUS AND ORIENTABILITY, AND SHOWED THAT ALL CLOSED ORIENTABLE SURFACES OF A PARTICULAR GENUS..... More

ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ART BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY JASPER JOHNS AND SAMUEL BECKETT. ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES, (from a total edition of 300). 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