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 .
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.”
Price: $3,900 .
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. More about Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l’Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou...
Price: $13,500 .
A REMARKABLY EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF A UNION SOLIDER, INCLUDING DIARIES FROM 1861-1865 SPANNING HIS ENTIRE CIVIL WAR CAREER. THE SOLDIER, CHARLES E. SMITH, PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE MOST CRITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR, INCLUDING THE SEIGE OF VICKSBURG, THE FALL OF ATLANTA, AND SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA. More about “A View from the Ranks”: The Civil War Diaries and Manuscripts of Charles E. Smith, 32nd Ohio...
Price: $95,000 .
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF “GRANT’S PETERSBURG PROGRESS” PRINTED BY UNION SOLDIERS ON A CONFEDERATE PRESS THE DAY PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE SEIZED, SIX DAYS BEFORE LEE’S SURRENDER. More about Grant’s Petersburg Progress
Price: $3,300 .
SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BINDING of one of the first and most influential detective novels. A beautiful copy. Note: We can find no other examples of the first issue with first state ads in public auction records. More about The Woman in White
Price: $12,500 .
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 about Arrest memorable, du parlement de Tolose, Content une histoire prodigieuse, de nostre temps, avec...
Price: $14,000 .
![Item #2478 Two Standing by Indian Lake [Mixed Media Painting]. JIM DINE](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2478.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634316241)
LARGE, ICONIC ROBE PAINTING BY LEGENDARY AMERICAN ARTIST JIM DINE. More about Two Standing by Indian Lake [Mixed Media Painting
Price: $68,000 .
![Item #2659 Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. UMBERTO ECO](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2659.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673302153)
SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ECO’S LITERARY MASTERPIECE. More about Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose
Price: $4,000 .
EINSTEIN ON THE CONCEPT OF PEACE: A POWERFUL AUTOGRAPH STATEMENT IN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE FORMAT. . More about Autograph Manuscript Signed
Price: $55,000 .
EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINTS OF FEYNMAN’S FINAL TWO PAPERS ON QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS, DESCRIBING THE MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR HIS PATH-INTEGRALS AND FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS. More about Mathematical Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction. WITH: An Operator...
Price: $18,500 .
![Item #2572 Het Achterhuis [The Secret Annex; Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]. ANNE FRANK](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2572.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657227185)
RARE FIRST EDITION; AN OUTSTANDING COPY IN THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. More about Het Achterhuis [The Secret Annex; Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Price: $35,000 .
![Item #2779 Book of Hours, in Latin and French, use of Amiens [Amiens and Paris, c1490]....](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698172882)
AN EXTRAORDINARY AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL BOOK OF HOURS, WITH STUNNING ILLUMINATIONS ON EVERY PAGE. A WONDERFULLY ECCENTRIC AND PERSONAL MANUSCRIPT. More about Book of Hours, in Latin and French, use of Amiens [Amiens and Paris, c1490
Price: $350,000 .
USED TO LAUNCH THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION, TWICE: This oscilloscope was used to design Pong, the birth of the video game industry, and the Apple II, the first personal computer with hi-res color graphics. More about Tektronix 465 Oscilloscope
Price: $135,000 .
FIRST EDITION OF JOHNSON’S LANDMARK DICTIONARY. More about <i>A Dictionary of the English Language</i>
Price: $16,500 .
THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF “SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION” AS A FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKS. More about Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays
Price: $7,500 .
ADA LOVELACE’S PERSONAL ANNOTATED COPY OF CHARLES BABBAGE’S FIRST SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATION. A MAJOR MATHEMATICAL TEXT IMPORTANT FOR HER INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. WITH AT LEAST 35 INK ANNOTATIONS IN LOVELACE’S HAND – THE MAJORITY CORRECTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS – AND AT LEAST 18 PENCIL ANNOTATIONS IN THE HAND OF HER TUTOR..... More about An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus
Price: $135,000 .
![Item #2530 Four Signed Letters [ALS/TLS] with Original Pencil Drawing, 1920–21. RENÉ...](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2530.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647544765)
EARLY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MAGRITTE AND HIS GOOD FRIEND, PAINTER AND POET PIERRE-LOUIS FLOUQUET, WITH PERSONAL COMMENTS ON LIFE AND ART. WITH ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING BY MAGRITTE. More about Four Signed Letters [ALS/TLS] with Original Pencil Drawing, 1920–21
Price: $20,000 .
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 about Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des...
Price: $9,000 .
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’S OFFICIAL CONVENTION BADGES FOR THE 1960 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. With a signed letter from Roosevelt to her good friend Mayris Chaney concerning her arrival at the convention. More about Personal Badges for the 1960 Democratic National Convention; with Typed Letter Signed
Price: $25,000 .
A DETAILED, IMPASSIONED LETTER ILLUSTRATING ROOSEVELT’S PROMINENCE IN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS AND HER POSITION ON BANNING NUCLEAR TESTING. More about Typed Letter Signed with Autograph Corrections
Price: $6,500 .
EARLIEST KNOWN COPY OF HARRY POTTER; NO OTHER COPIES LOCATED. More about Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Price: $275,000 .
Extremely rare first edition of this far-reaching exposé that provoked King James, inspired Shakespeare and was the first significant work to document the secrets of illusion and the occult. A magnificent copy from the Biblioteca Lindesiana. More about <b><p style="color:FireBrick;">The Discoverie of Witchcraft</b></p>
Price: $150,000 .
One-of-a-Kind Beatles Images Portend the End of an Era. More about Contact Sheet of Rare Beatles Photographs, Candlestick Park, 1966
Price: $22,000 .
![Item #2799 Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] on The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. TOLKIEN](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2799.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701980424)
A REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTER: TOLKIEN DISCUSSES HIS SPECIFIC FEARS ABOUT THE TWO TOWERS AND DEFINES “THE FOUNDATION” OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND CONNECTS IT TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] on The Lord of the Rings
Price: $48,000 .
