FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the legendary announcement of the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most important scientific achievements of the century. In addition to the famous Watson-Crick paper of April 1953, the collection includes subsequent papers marking critical developments throughout the year. More

FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS (the preferred editions) in original dust jackets of Churchill's masterpiece. A BEAUTIFUL, FINE SET. More

THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL CAMERA WORK, SIGNED BY STIEGLITZ. COMPLETE WITH STIEGLITZ’S ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH “THE HAND OF MAN”. SIGNED IN FULL BY STIEGLITZ ON THE TISSUE GUARD PRECEDING “THE HAND OF MAN”. More

FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. More

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTED WORKS of one of Newton’s most important precursors, John Wallis, Savilian Professor (1649-1703), containing the first printed appearance of Newton’s ideas on fluxions. More

A BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL ARTIFACT BRINGING TOGETHER THE GREAT NAMES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE: THE PROGRAM FOR THE MAY 1917 SEASON OF DIAGHILEV’S “BALLET RUSSES” — A SEASON THAT INCLUDED THE PREMIERE OF THE BALLET "PARADE" (SCENARIO BY JEAN COCTEAU; CHOREOGRAPHY BY LÉONIDE MASSINE; SCORE BY ERIK..... More

EIGHT ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY KERMIT ROOSEVELT OF HIS FATHER THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON HIS 1909 AFRICAN SAFARI. More

THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE — THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE JUDGE’S FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF A SENSATIONAL SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TRIAL FOR IDENTITY THEFT; THE BASIS OF NUMEROUS LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS. More

BEAUTIFUL COMPLETE 10-VOLUME SET OF JANE AUSTEN'S WORKS, ELEGANTLY BOUND. THE CELEBRATED "WINCHESTER EDITION." More

“THE CLAUSEWITZ OF THE NUCLEAR AGE” — FIRST EDITION OF HERMAN KAHN’S HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL COLD-WAR TREATISE ON NUCLEAR STRATEGY, WITH A WARM AND HUMOROUS INSCRIPTION TO A COLLEAGUE. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Kahn in ink on front free endpaper to fellow RAND employee Edward (Ted) Harris, a statistical physicist..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PROBABILITY THEORY. More

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHITE: PERHAPS THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A WARM AND LENGTHY INSCRIPTION TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SYDNEY COCKERELL — CONNOISEUR, BIBLIOPHILE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. More