Stuart Little: “Summer Memories” Signed Lithograph
EXTREMELY RARE LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR GARTH WILLIAMS OF THE COVER ART FOR E.B. WHITE’S CLASSIC STUART LITTLE. WITH HAND-COLORING BY WILLIAMS. More
Price: $4,900 .
New Arrivals
Remarques generales sur les Températures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires [Fourier]. WITH: Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche [Arrhenius]
RARE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF TWO PIONEERING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PAPERS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL WARMING — THE 1824 INTRODUCTION OF THE IDEA OF THE “GREENHOUSE EFFECT” AND THE FIRST QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON. More
Price: $8,500 .
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[PROTEIN STRUCTURE]. The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the Polypeptide Chain. WITH: The Pleated Sheet, a New Layer Configuration of Polypeptide Chains. WITH: A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis. WITH: Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å Resolution. WITH: Structure of Haemoglobin. A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 5.5-Å Resolution, Obtained by X-Ray Analysis. et al.
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES (INCLUDING ONE SIGNED COPY AND ONE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), OF MILESTONE PAPERS ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PROTEINS, WORK FOR WHICH PAULING, KENDREW, AND PERUTZ ALL WON NOBEL PRIZES. More
Price: $28,000 .
Autograph Letter Signed
ONE OF THE FINEST C.S. LEWIS LETTERS TO APPEAR ON THE MARKET, OFFERING INSIGHT INTO THE CREATION OF THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. WITH MENTION OF TOLKIEN’S “THE HOBBIT” AS A FAVORITE BOOK. More
Price: $46,000 .
An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN PHOTOBOOKS. More
Price: $2,900 .
List of Displaced German Scholars
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. More
Price: $5,000 .
Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MICHAEL FARADAY'S MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PAPER, REPORTING THE FIRST PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION. More
Price: $12,000 .
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]
RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT FROM THE WHITE NILE (SUDAN) WHILE ON HIS AFRICAN SAFARI. More
Price: $4,200 .
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION BY BABBAGE OF HIS ANALYTICAL ENGINE, THE FIRST GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY: FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE TO EMPRESS EUGENIE AND IN A MAGNIFICENT ROYAL PRESENTATION BINDING. More
Price: $35,000 .
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Picasso and the Human Comedy, A Suite of 180 Drawings [Verve 29/30]
FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH TWELVE ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, of the English language issue of the special double issue of Verve 29/30 dedicated to Picasso. A beautiful copy. More
Price: $4,800 .
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Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 [Leaves of Grass]. WITH: Autograph Letter Signed
A REMARKABLE VOLUME OF THE FIRST EDTION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN’S WORK, SIGNED BY WHITMAN ON THE TITLE PAGE. A PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN TO GABRIEL SARRAZIN AND WITH A LONG REVEALING AUTOGRAPH LETTER DISCUSSING HIS HEALTH AND LEAVES OF GRASS. More
Price: $20,000 .
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
RARE 1726 THIRD EDITION OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA, THE LAST EDITION EDITED BY NEWTON AND THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. ONE OF ONLY 1250 COPIES PRINTED. More
Price: $32,000 .
Sur l’expression et le róle des allèles ‘inductible’ et ‘constitutif’ dans la synthèse de la β-galactosidase chez des zygotes d’Escherichia coli; WITH: The Genetic Control and Cytoplasmic Expression of ‘Inducibility’ in the Synthesis of β–Galactosidase by E. coli; WITH: On the Expression of a Structural Gene; WITH: Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Proteins; WITH: An Unstable Intermediate Carrying Information From Genes to Ribosomes for Protein Synthesis; WITH: Le Hazard et la Nécessité; WITH: Chance and Necessity
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES, OF FOUR CLASSIC PAPERS REPORTING THE WORK OF FRENCH BIOCHEMIST JACQUES MONOD AND HIS COLLABORATORS ON THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH GENETIC INFORMATION IS EXPRESSED, AND BY WHICH SUCH EXPRESSION IS REGULATED, OFFERED WITH INSCRIBED COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MONOD’S..... More
Price: $12,000 .
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
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
Price: $16,500 .
The Second World War
FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS (the preferred editions) in original dust jackets of Churchill's masterpiece. A BEAUTIFUL, FINE SET. More
Price: $2,500 .
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Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays)]
THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF “SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION” AS A FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKS. More
Price: $7,500 .
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Ein Hungerkünstler. Vier Geschichten. [The Hunger Artist. Four Stories]
FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST WORK KAFKA PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION, CONTAINING THE FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF FOUR STORIES, INCLUDING THE CLASSIC TITLE STORY “THE HUNGER ARTIST”. More
Price: $1,500 .
Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)
FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. More
Price: $2,200 .
Camera Work, Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8
INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS IN A PRESENTATION BINDING WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS BOUND-IN. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY STIEGLITZ: “To my friend, advisor & co-worker / John Francis Strauss / from / Alfred Stieglitz.” Additionally noted by Stieglitz “Feb, 17 - 1905. Third Anniversary of the birth of the..... More
Price: $40,000 .
Camera Work: Numbers 13, 14, 15, 16 (plus Steichen Supplement)
INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS IN A PRESENTATION BINDING WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS BOUND-IN. AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ TO J.B. KERFOOT: “To my friend J.B. Kerfoot who has so kindly helped me in making this volume what it is. Alfred Stieglitz. Dec 25/06." More
Price: $45,000 .
Opera Mathematica
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
Price: $48,000 .
Albert Einstein: Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS IMAGES OF EINSTEIN. More
Price: $6,500 .
Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des Artistes de M. Serge de Diaghilew. Mai 1917. [Programme des Ballets Russes]
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
Price: $9,000 .