A Gold Book
WARHOL’S RARE STUNNING SELF-PUBLISHED EARLY WORK. PRESENTATION COPY TO PHOTOGRAPHER DUANE MICHALS. INSCRIBED ON FRONT COVER: “To Duane / Happy Brithday [sic] / A.W.” WITH LETTER OF PROVENANCE FROM DUANE MICHALS. More
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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf: The Entombment, Miniature from a Book of Hours
EXTRAORDINARY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF FEATURING A MINIATURE OF THE ENTOMBMENT BY A FOLLOWER OF JEAN BOURDICHON AND JEAN POYER. C.1500. More
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Landscape Sketches: 1984—1985
DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY LICHTENSTEIN, complete with 24 offset lithographs printed in color on Coronado Opaque SST Cover paper. More
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DADA 1916–1923: Catalog of the Exhibition
DUCHAMP'S FAMOUS "CATALOG" FOR THE CELEBRATED 1953 DADA RETROSPECTIVE. More
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Les Enfants Trouvés de Magritte
VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION OF SURREALIST MASTER RENÉ MAGRITTE’S LES ENFANTS TROUVÉS, COMPLETE WITH TWELVE BREATHTAKING LITHOGRAPHS. ONE OF ONLY 350 COPIES. More
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Nus de la Mer
EXTREMELY RARE HANDMADE ALBUM, COMPLETE WITH 10 GELATIN SILVER PRINTS. SIGNED AND NUMBERED IN COLORED PENCIL, 105 OF 150 COPIES. More
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Autograph Letter [Signed “A toi”] to Louise Colet
A LONG, EARLY, AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY FLAUBERT TO HIS MUSE LOUISE COLET, WITH REVEALING REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND ART. More
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Albumen Photograph Signed
ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF GRANT IN MILITARY DRESS, SIGNED BY GRANT ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S MOUNT. More
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]
RARE LITHOPRINT ISSUE – THE FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING – OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. ONE OF SMYTH’S OWN COPIES, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. PMM 422e. More
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
A LONG LETTER TO A FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHER WITH REVEALING TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. More
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The structure of the cloud of comets surrounding the Solar System and a hypothesis concerning its origin
FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT, OF THE PROPOSAL OF THE “OORT CLOUD”. More
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
FIRST EDITION OF STOPPARD’S AWARD-WINNING MASTERPIECE, SIGNED BY STOPPARD ON THE TITLE PAGE. More
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The Ejection of Protons from Nitrogen Nuclei, Photographed by the Wilson Method With: On the Design and Use of a Double Camera for Photographing Artificial Disintegrations
OFFPRINTS OF TWO PAPERS BY BLACKETT, INCLUDING HIS FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF THAT RADIOACTIVITY COULD PRODUCE ALPHA DECAY, AND HIS DISCUSSION OF DUAL-CAMERA CLOUD CHAMBER SET-UPS, TWO PAPERS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO HIS BEING AWARDED THE 1948 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. More
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On the Influence of Magnetism on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance (Parts I and II and Appendix) [Zeeman]; WITH: Radiation in a Magnetic Field [Michelson]
FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE DISCOVERY ("THE ZEEMAN EFFECT") THAT EARNED ZEEMAN THE SECOND EVER NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS; WITH MICHELSON'S REPORT (IN OFFPRINT FORM) OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBSERVATIONS OF QUANTUM EFFECTS, "THE ANOMALOUS ZEEMAN EFFECT." More
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The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces
DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES. INSCRIBED BY MARC CHAGALL ("Pour Art Inst. Chicago, Marc Chagall, 1979") AND SIGNED BY WILLEM DE KOONING, IVAN ALBRIGHT, JOAN MIRÓ, AND GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, FEATURING 100 COLOR REPRODUCTIONS OF THE ART INSTITUTE'S MOST FAMOUS WORKS. More
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Der experimentelle Nachweis der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld. WITH: Das magnetische Moment des Silberatoms
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, journal issue, of the famous Stern-Gerlach experiment that proved the existence of electron spin and space quantization. More
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On the Conversion of Electric Oscillations into Continuous Currents by Means of a Vacuum Valve
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of the seminal discoveries of the twentieth-century: the invention of the “Fleming Valve”, or vacuum tube, often cited as the beginning of the field of electronics. PMM 396. More
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The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics
FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Dirac's critically important paper; the inspiration for Richard Feynman's path-integral formalism. SCARCE. More
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] Denouncing Racial Segregation
EINSTEIN OFFERS STRONG AND PRESCIENT WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE LEADER OF THE NAACP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND SEGREGATION IN THE UNITED STATES. More
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Photograph Signed
STUNNING GOLD-TONED SILVER PRINT OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE BY EDWARD CURTIS, SIGNED BY BOTH TAGORE AND CURTIS. More
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Grundlagen für eine allgemeine Theorie der Functionen einer veränderlichen complexen Grösse. Eine Abhandlung, zu deren öffentlicher Vertheidigung behuf Erlangung der Doctorwürde der Verfasser bereit sein wird am 16. December 1851
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF RIEMANN’S DISSERTATION: “ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF 19TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS,” “WHICH MARKED A NEW ERA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS.”. More
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Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF PEANO’S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, CONTAINING THE “PEANO AXIOMS” FOR THE NATURAL NUMBERS; OF SEMINAL IMPORTANCE IN MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. More
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Strahlungs-Emission und -Absorption nach der Quantentheorie [Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Quantum Theory]
FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF EINSTEIN'S MAJOR WORKS: HIS FIRST PAPER ON THE DERIVATION OF PLANK'S LAW AND PROVIDING THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE LASER. More
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Die Entstehung der Kontinente [The Origin of Continents]
FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF WEGENER’S CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY. More
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