England, 1880. Victorian Photo/Cartes-Des-Visites Album. England: [n.d.c.a. 1880]. A Victorian photo album with eighteen double-sided thick leaves. Album is complete with 52 portraits including twenty photographs in 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch size, and thirty-two cartes-des-visites in 5 1/4 x 2 1/2 inch size. Contemporary full navy calf over.....
Measures 8 x 10 inches. Inscribed "To Angela Lekas/ Best Wishes/ Neil Armstrong." Photograph in color of Neil Armstrong in his white spacesuit holding his helmut with a lunar backdrop. Fine. HBS 67287. $3,000.
London, 1837. Footnotes from "The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise; A Fragment"] London: 1837. Full Description: BABBAGE, Charles. Autograph Manuscript. [Footnotes from "The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise; A Fragment"] London: 1837. One half-sheet of manuscript. Two paragraphs with seventeen lines of text in black ink. (9 x 7 1/2 inches; 230 x 187.....
New York: George Adlard, 1839. Full Description: BILLARD, C.M.. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants: founded on recent clinical observations and investigations in pathological anatomy made at the Hospice des Enfans-Trouvés : with a dissertation on the viability of the child. By C.M. Billard. With Notes by Dr. Ollivier.....
London: H.W. for John Senex and William Taylor, 1723. . The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments.. Translated from the French of M. Bion, Chief Instrument-Maker to the French King. To which are Added, The Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion; particularly of.....
London: Printed by E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1674. Full Description: BOYLE, Robert. Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltness of the Sea: An account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural.....
Mainz: Balthasarus Lippius, 1599. Second edition. Sixteenmo (4 3/16 x 3 1/4 inches; 118 x 85 mm). 96, 91-98 (i.e. 104) pp. Complete. With engraved device on title-page. We could find no copies of this early edition, or the first edition at American libraries and no copies in over 50.....
Providence: National Academy of Sciences, 1965. TUKEY, John W.. An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series. [within] Mathematics of Computation, volume 19, no.90 pp.297-301. Providence: National Academy of Sciences, 1965. First edition of Cooley & Tukey's article entitled An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier.....
Amsterdam: Wilhelm Janson, 1617. Full Description: COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. Astronomia instaurata libris sex conprehensa qui de revolutionibus orbium calestium inscribuntur Amsterdam: Wilhelm Janson, 1617. The important third edition, and the first to contain commentary by Nicholaus Muller Professor of Mathematics at the University of Groningen. This edition also contains extensive corrections.....
London: John Murray, 1871. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue, with “transmitted” appearing as the first word on p. 297 of Volume I, with printer’s imprint on the verso of the half-title.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, third issue. "Revised Edition" on title-page and three.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1838. OWEN, Richard. WATERHOUSE, George R.. The Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.. Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836... Part I [II]. Mammalia. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1838. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. OWEN, Richard. WATERHOUSE.....
Berlin, 1924. Berlin: 1924. Full Description: EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph Letter Signed. [Berlin]: 9. IX [September] 1924. Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Mr. Zeisler. One quarto page (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm). Manuscript letter on recto, verso blank. With one horizontal center crease and one vertical.....
n.p., 1940. n.p.: 1940. Full Description: [EINSTEIN, Albert]. Autograph Manuscript in Pen. [n.p., n.d, ca: 1940]. Autograph manuscript in German in Einstein's hand. Manuscript is on the "Unified Field Theory" and is a draft from his published article "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation." One quarto page (11.....
London: in fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet, 1541. Full Description: ELYOT, Sir Thomas. The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented by the first author therof, sir Thomas Elyot knight, the yere of our lorde 1541. [London: in fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet], 1541.....
Lausanne & Geneva: Apud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios. 1744. Full Description: EULER, Leonhard. Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio problematis isoperimetrici latissimo sensu accepti. Lausanne: Apud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios., 1744. First edition of Euler’s most valuable contribution to mathematics, in which he developed the concept.....
London: Richard Taylor, 1832. Read November 24, 1831, pp. 125-162. [With]: The Bakerian Lecture: Experimental Researches in Electricity, Second Series... Read January 12, 1832, pp. 163-194. [Within] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year 1832: Part I. London: Richard Taylor, 1832. First edition of Faraday's.....
Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 1968. Full Description: FISHMAN, George S. Digital Computer Simulation: Input-Output Analysis. Prepared for: United States Air Force Project Rand. Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 1968. Octavo (10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 276 x 213 mm). vii, [1, blank], 25, [3, blank] pp.....
London: Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1754. Full Description: FRANKLIN, Benjamin. New Experiments and Observations Made on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. Communicated in Several Letters to P. Collinson, Esq. of London. F.R.S. London: Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1754. First.....
Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1735. editor]. [ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, association]. Machines et Inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Depuis son etablissement jusqu'a present; avec leur description. Dessinés & publiées du consentement de l'Académie, par M. Gallon. Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin.....
Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1746. Full Description: GODFREY, Boyle. A Treasure of Useful Discoveries. In Two Parts.. I. Remarks on divers aliments or eatables, whereby to know which are not digested by our Stomachs; and those unfit for our Bodies are pointed out: Also, an Account of the Nutriment.....
London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. Harrison, John. A Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea; by Mr. John Harrison’s Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763. London. Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765.....
Geneva: De l'Impr. de la Bibliotheque Britannique, 1798. The First Announcement and First Almost Complete Translation in any Language on the Continent of Europe of Jenner's Discovery of the Small Pox Vaccine. Published the Same Year as the First Edition English Original. [JENNER, Edward]. [ODIER Louis]. Annonces: An inquiry into.....
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-house. 1762. First Edition. Four books in one quarto (10 x 7 7/8 inches; 255x 198 mm). [6], 281, [1, blank] pp. With three engraved plates, two of which are folding. The four books are entitled Of the Mechanism of Nature; Attraction and Gravity Considered.....
London: Printed for John Murray... 1789. . Essays on Physiognomy. Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the supervision of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry.....