A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More
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![Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]. DIANE ARBUS](/pictures/thumb/2267.jpg?v=1563914499)
Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]
THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. More
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Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF FARADAY'S MONUMENTAL EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. PMM 308. More
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease. WITH: A Specific Chemical Difference Between the Globins of Normal Human and Sickle-Cell Anæmia Hæmoglobin.
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA. More
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Report on the Barnhouse Effect
FIRST PRINTING OF VONNEGUT’S FIRST PUBLISHED STORY. More
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On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; With a Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light
FIRST EDITION, THE EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT, OF THE LAST OF MAXWELL'S FIVE IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1855 AND 1868. WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PROVENANCE: THIS COPY FROM THE ESTEEMED CAVENDISH LABORATORY, FOUNDED IN 1874 WITH MAXWELL AS ITS FIRST DIRECTOR. More
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Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth
THE CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT: FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE REPORT OF CAVENDISH’S EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH AND NEWTON’S GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT “G”, ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS. More
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![Observations on Different Kinds of Air [Priestley]. WITH: Experiments Upon Vegetables,...](/pictures/thumb/2252.jpg?v=1559326761)
Observations on Different Kinds of Air [Priestley]. WITH: Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-Shine [IngenHousz]
FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO MILESTONES IN THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS; OUTSTANDING COPIES. More
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Secondary Radiations Produced by X-Rays
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Compton’s report providing the data and experimental evidence for the dual wave-particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, later called “the Compton effect”. More
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Silver Print Photograph
EXQUISITE ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH OF ISADORA DUNCAN BY ARNOLD GENTHE. More
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![De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]....](/pictures/thumb/2242.jpg?v=1556916353)
De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]
THE MAGNIFICENT FIRST TONSON EDITION OF LUCRETIUS’S CLASSIC; COMPLETE WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (ONE A LARGE FOLD-OUT). More
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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861)
PRESENTATION COPY AND ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RARE AUTHOR’S OFFPRINT OF PASTEUR’S FAMOUS LECTURE DISCREDITING THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH NOTES TO FELLOW-SCIENTIST JOHN TYNDALL. More
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Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l’Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. More
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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
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![PROTEIN STRUCTURE]. The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the...](/pictures/thumb/2233.jpg?v=1554748787)
[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
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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
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List of Displaced German Scholars
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. More
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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
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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
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FRAGMENTEN UIT HET DAGBOEK VAN ANNE FRANK [Het Achterhuis; The Secret Annex; Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]
THE VERY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ANY PART OF THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK; PRECEDING THE BOOK EDITION. More
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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
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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
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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
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