FIRST EDITION of the first report on COBOL, the first computer programming language designed to run on all computers, regardless of make or model. With over a hundred pages of extremely rare related material. More about COBOL: Initial specifications for a COmmon Business Oriented Language
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![Item #2634 View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York [Photograph Signed]. BERENICE ABBOTT](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2634.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670440636)
DRAMATIC NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY BERENICE ABBOTT; IN UNUSUAL AND EVOCATIVE VERTICAL FORMAT. More about View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York [Photograph Signed
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF ABBOTT’S CLASSIC. More about Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, one of 1000 copies signed by Ansel Adams and with additional silver print signed by Adams. A FINE COPY. More about Images 1923-1974
Price: $7,500 .
![Item #2399 Typed Letter Signed [TLS]. ANSEL ADAMS](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2399.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1605043629)
A LONG LETTER TO A FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHER WITH REVEALING TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS
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ANSEL ADAMS'S ICONIC PORTRAIT OF ROBINSON JEFFERS, SIGNED BY ADAMS AND INSCRIBED IN VERSE BY JEFFERS TO THEIR PATRON ALBERT BENDER. WITH SIGNED LETTER FROM ADAMS TO PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE BOHN DESCRIBING THE HISTORY AND CREATION OF THE PHOTO. EXTREMELY SCARCE: ACCORDING TO ADAMS, ONE OF ONLY ABOUT 8-10 PRINTS MADE. More about Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed
Price: $12,500 .
FIRST PRINTINGS OF THE FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS ON THE BIG BANG AND THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. Including a fine copy of the famous “Alpha-Beta-Gamma” paper. More about The Origin of Chemical Elements. WITH: Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements. WITH:...
Price: $4,900 .
THE ORIGINS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM. AMPÈRE’S FIRST DISCUSSION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTRIC CURRENT-FLOW AND MAGNETISM. More about <b><p style="color:SteelBlue;">“Mémoire … De l’Action mutuelle de...
Price: $3,300 .
![Item #2267 Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]. DIANE ARBUS](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2267.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563914498)
THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. More about Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Arrhenius's landmark discovery of the theory of electrolytic disassociation. Arrhenius was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation." More about Recherches sur la conductabilite galvanique des electrolytes
Price: $1,600 .
![Item #1640 An Autobiography WITH: Evidence 1944-1994 [Whitney Museum]. RICHARD AVEDON](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1640.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1450127762)
SIGNED LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION BOX SET, with two original hand-stamped engraver's proofs. Although the limitation states 250 copies, only about 100 were actually produced. Signed and numbered in the box by Avedon. More about An Autobiography WITH: Evidence 1944-1994 [Whitney Museum
Price: $6,500 .
![Item #219 Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East]. Moshè Avorobeichic, Moï...](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/219.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1354507075)
FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 65 images of the Jewish ghetto in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. With preface by poet Zalman Chneour in Hebrew and German. More about Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East
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EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More about A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
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FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of Babbage's two most important contributions to mathematics, essentially founding the general theory of the calculus of functions. More about An essay towards the calculus of functions
Price: $3,000 .
SIGNED BY BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG, CHARLIE GEHRINGER, EARLE COMBS, TONY LAZZERI, JOE MCCARTHY, LEFTY GOMEZ, ET AL. Autograph book lovingly assembled by a young baseball fan in 1931 at Yankee Stadium, with over 40 autographs of players, including Ruth and Gehrig and eight other members of the Baseball..... More about Autographs of Baseball Players, Yankee Stadium 1931
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FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES, WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 (each issue from the same set) of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of 1279). IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION. More about Journal des Dames et des Modes
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FIRST EDITION of two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 “Semiconductor Issue” dedicated entirely to the discuss of the..... More about Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in...
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LARGE, LIMITED VINTAGE SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH OF BASQUIAT FROM 1984. ONE OF ONLY THREE VINTAGE PRINTS PRODUCED OF AN ICONIC BASQUIAT PORTRAIT. More about Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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First French edition, SIGNED BY BECKETT on title page; one of only 112 copies printed on "bouffant select marques" and reserved for the publishers. More about Comédie et actes Divers
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FIRST EDITION of Becquerel's "definitive work", containing the full account of his investigations and discovery of radioactivity. PMM 393. Dibner 163. More about Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière; Activité Radiante Spontanée ou...
Price: $2,500 .
FIRST EDITION of the landmark paper marking the birth of recombinant DNA technology. Paul Berg was awarded half of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA." More about Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40
Price: $2,300 .
![Item #1401 Disquisitio de Attractionibus Electivis [Dissertation of Elective Attractions]....](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1401.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1411584024)
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bergman’s study of chemical affinities, including a large fold-out table, “the finest achievement in the tradition of affinity tables,” and a major predecessor of the periodic table. More about Disquisitio de Attractionibus Electivis [Dissertation of Elective Attractions
Price: $7,500 .
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. More about Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
Price: $3,900 .
ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING. More about Early Lightning Photograph (Massachusetts,1888
Price: $12,000 .
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL FOUR VOLUMES OF THE BOOK THAT FIRST MADE LAW INTELLIGIBLE TO THE ORDINARY PERSON. HEAVILY INFLUENCED THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES. More about Commentaries on the Laws of England
Price: $9,500 .
