Signed Neil Armstrong Photograph.
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.
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.
Philadelphia: By the Author, 1950. An original copy of Auerbach's Master's thesis on the Arithmetic Circuits of BINAC. With thirty-four block diagram figures all reproduced from Auerbach's own drawings, seven of which are full page, the others are tipped in, Of the full page figures, three are folding. With sixty-seven.....
London: Printed by H. P. for C. Rivington, 1719. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 117 mm). [44], [3, publisher's ads], [1, errata], 331, [1, blank], [28] pp. With half-title, publisher's ads, errata, and unpaginated index. With engraved initials and head-and-tail pieces. Some small.....
London, Institution, No. 5, Golden Square: Wilson and Co., 1801. London, Institution, No. 5, Golden Square: Wilson and Co., January, 1801. This broadside is the earliest Separate Printed Instructions for administering the vaccine inoculation of cow pox. One leaf, printed on recto only. (8 x 6 5/8 inches; 203 x......
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.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition, second issue, and the first separate edition of.....
London, 1861. London: 1861. Full description: [DARWIN, Charles]. Manuscript. From Chapter III (pages 114-115) of "On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects and on the good effects of intercrossing." [London: n.d.c.a. 1861-62]. One leaf (12 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 328 x 200.....
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.....
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 Faces in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on the verso.....
Leiden, 1921. Leiden: 1921. Full Description: EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph Letter Signed. Leiden: 13. XI [November] 1921. Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Mr. Zeisler. One octavo page (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 134 mm). Manuscript letter on recto, verso blank. With one horizontal center crease as expected.....
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.....
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 for Thomas Cox, 1803. First Edition. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm). viii, 100, [13, explanation of plates], [1, blank] pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page, which reads "Mr. Pitt with best.....
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.....
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.....
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Untersuchungen über die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 225 x 145 mm). pp. vi, [2], 295, [1] pp. Engraved illustrations and diagrams in the text. With original orange front and back wrappers.....
London: Printed by T. Judson, for W. Jaggard, 1599. Full Description: HILL, Thomas. The Schoole of Skil: Containing Two Bookes: the first, of the sphere, of heauen, of the starres, of their orbes, and of the earth, &c. The second, of the sphericall elements, of the celestiall circles, and of.....
London: Printed for John Martyn, 1667. Full Description: HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia. Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries thereupon. London: [Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1667]. First Edition, second issue. The first edition sheets reissued with a new.....
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.....
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.....
Washington: Office of Printers to House of Reps. 1850. The Only U.S. President Thus Far to be Awarded a Patent [LINCOLN, Abraham]. [Lincoln's patent No. 6469]: "Improved Method of Lifting Vessels Over Shoals" [within] Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the year 1849. Part I. Arts and Manufactures. Washington.....
Los Angeles, 1935. amp; others.] Technical Records of Los Angeles television Station W6XAO. [Los Angeles: 1935-1937]. Two light green cloth binders. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm). Approximately 450 pp total, labeled on spine: "Receiver / 1936-7" & "Camera / 1937," Los Angeles, 1935-1937, being the.....