![Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]. THEODORE ROOSEVELT](/pictures/thumb/2221.jpg?v=1551557530)
Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]
RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT FROM THE WHITE NILE (SUDAN) WHILE ON HIS AFRICAN SAFARI. More
Price: $4,200 .
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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 .
![Picasso and the Human Comedy, A Suite of 180 Drawings [Verve 29/30]. PABLO PICASSO](/pictures/thumb/2213.jpg?v=1551376768)
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 .
![Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 [Leaves of Grass]. WITH: Autograph Letter...](/pictures/thumb/2212.jpg?v=1551186449)
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 .
![Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays)]....](/pictures/thumb/2198.jpg?v=1547762842)
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 .
Camera Work Number 1
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
Price: $38,000 .
![Ein Hungerkünstler. Vier Geschichten. [The Hunger Artist. Four Stories]. FRANZ KAFKA](/pictures/thumb/2193.jpg?v=1547321361)
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 .
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 .
Arrestum sive Placitum Parlamenti Tholosani, continens historiam (In casu matrimoniali) admodum memorabilem, adeoque prodigiosam; cum centum elegantissimis atque doctissimis annotationibus [The Return of Martin Guerre]
THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE — THE VERY RARE FIRST LATIN 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
Price: $5,000 .
Arrest memorable, du parlement de Tolose, Content une histoire prodigieuse, de nostre temps, avec cent belles, & doctes Annotations, de monsieur maistre Jean de Coras, Conseiller en ladite Cour, & rapporteur du process… [The Return of Martin Guerre]
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
Price: $14,000 .
Syntactic Structures
RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF NOAM CHOMSKY’S “SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES”: “A WATERSHED IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE”. SIGNED BY CHOMSKY IN INK ON THE TITLE PAGE. More
Price: $3,800 .
The Novels of Jane Austen. [Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion]
BEAUTIFUL COMPLETE 10-VOLUME SET OF JANE AUSTEN'S WORKS, ELEGANTLY BOUND. THE CELEBRATED "WINCHESTER EDITION." More
Price: $4,000 .
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of only 2500 copies) in original cloth of Darwin's seminal work on the evolution of man. More
Price: $8,500 .
On Thermonuclear War
“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
Price: $1,100 .
Grundbegriffe Der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
THE FIRST EDITION, IN ITS ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF KOLMOGOROV’S FAMOUS PAPER PUTTING PROBABILITY THEORY ON A FIRM AXIOMATIC BASIS. More
Price: $7,500 .