Albumen photograph of Ulysses S. Grant and Staff
A REMARKABLE AND VERY RARE VINTAGE ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT AND HIS STAFF SOON AFTER THEIR DEVASTATING DEFEAT AT COLD HARBOR. More
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Signed and Inscribed Photogravure Portrait [Photograph]
STUNNING LARGE HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF TWAIN, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TWAIN TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND PERSONAL PHYSICIAN WITH A WITTY QUOTATION. More
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We The Living
FIRST EDITION OF RAND’S FIRST NOVEL, IN THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. More
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Die Dreigroschenoper [The Threepenny Opera; The Beggar's Opera]. WITH: Die Songs Der Dreigroschenoper
THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF “THE THREEPENNY OPERA,” A CLASSIC OF THE MODERN STAGE, ALONG WITH THE BOOKLET OF SONGS FROM THE PLAY THAT WAS PUBLISHED TO MARK ITS HUNDREDTH PERFORMANCE; BOTH ITEMS IN FINE CONDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, AND BOTH WITH THE OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF CHARLOTTE GROTE-HASELBALG..... More
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Le Morte D'Arthur: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, Vol. I and II
LIMITED FIRST EDITION, one of only 1500 copies (out of a total edition of 1800). Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. More
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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf: Large leaf with miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin from a French Book of Hours
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
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Send-Brieven, Zoo aan de Hooge Edele Heeren van de Koninklyke Societeit te Londen, Als aan andere Aansienelyke en Geleerde Lieden , Over verscheyde Verborgentheden der Natuure…. [Letters Sent to the Noble Gentlemen of the Royal Society in London and other Distinguished and Learned People Concerning Various Mysteries of Nature …]
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
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Antlitz der Zeit [The Face of Our Time]
FIRST EDITION OF SANDER'S CLASSIC: A REMARKABLE COPY IN EXTREMELY RARE DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE. More
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Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren Verwandtschaft (1863) [The Möbius Strip]
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
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Acta Philosophica Societatis Regiae in Anglia (6 vol., 1672-1681) [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]
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
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Foirades / Fizzles
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
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On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]
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
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Leaves of Grass
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WALT WHITMAN TO CYRIL FLOWER; IN MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY BINDING BY BIRDSALL. More
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club [The Pickwick Papers]
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
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Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Expériences sur l’effet du conflict électrique sur l’aiguille animantée
ONE OF THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS OF ØRSTED’S FAMOUS AND UNOBTAINABLE LATIN PAMPHLET ON THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH IN FRANCE, AND IMPORTANT FOR ITS CONNECTION TO AMPÈRE’S EXTENSIONS OF ØRSTED’S RESEARCH ON ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA. A MAGNIFICENT COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. More
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The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations
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
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Beating the Invader
CHURCHILL WARNS THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TO “STAND FIRM” IN THE FACE OF A GERMAN INVASION. More
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Proof of the Ergodic Theorem. WITH: Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Physical Applications of the Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Recent Contributions to the Ergodic Theory
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
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The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon
Limited edition, one of only 1600 copies, of one of the most famous and desireable editions of Shakespeare's works. Very handsomely bound and elegantly printed. More
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Grant’s Petersburg Progress
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
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Inside World
SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 218 of only 250 copies, SIGNED BY PRINCE AND WITH ACCOMPANYING HANDWRITTEN JOKE, ALSO SIGNED. More
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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
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Über die mechanische Bedeutung des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Wärmetheorie (1866). WITH: Studien über das Gleichgewicht der lebendigen Kraft zwischen bewegten materiellen Punkten (1868). WITH: Einige allgemeine Sätze über Wärmegleichgewicht (1871). WITH: Weitere Studien über das Warmegleichgewicht unter Gasmoleculen (1872). WITH: Über die Beziehung zwischen dem zweiten hauptsatze der mechanischen Warmetheorie und der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung... (1877)
THE ORIGIN OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS: FIRST EDITIONS, JOURNAL ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF LUDWIG BOLTZMANN’S ATTEMPTS TO DERIVE THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS FROM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MOLECULAR MECHANICS, AND HIS PROPOSAL OF THE “ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS.”. More
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