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.....
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: W. Pearson for the AUTHOR, 1718. First edition. Small folio (9 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 240 x 200 mm). [4], xiv, 175, [1, blank] pp. With an engraved vignette on title-page, numerous engraved head and tail pieces and initials, and an engraved vignette headpiece on page 1. With.....
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.....
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. London: Printed by T. Judson, for W. Jaggard, 1599. First Edition. Two parts in one octavo volume (7 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 185 x 142 mm). Continuous pagination. [6], 267, [1, blank], [2, table of contents] pp. Lacking initial blank.....
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.....
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.....
London: Printed by L. Lichfield, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, 1694. . Father Malebranche's Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth. The Whole Work Compleat. To which is added the author's treatise of Nature and Grace. Being a consequence of the principles contain'd in the search. London: Printed by L......
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1531. First edition. Small quarto (7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 180 x 140 mm). [8], 198, [1, colophon], [1, printer's device] pp. With title-page woodcut of sundials, engraved printers device and numerous woodcuts throughout the text, many full page. Bound without the folding plate as usual.....
London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726. The Last Edition Published in Newton's Lifetime NEWTON, [Sir] Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726. Third edition. One of only 1250 copies printed. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 241 x......
France, 1870. . L'électricité.. Bronze sculpture, signed "E. Picault” France: [N.d.c.a 1870]. A cast bronze sculpture. (21 3/4 x 9 inches; 552 x 228 mm ). Provenance: The Computer History Collection of Serge Roubé. Entitled "L'électricité" on the bronze base, and signed "E. Picault.” A finely cast bronze sculpture that.....
London: Printed by Elzabeth Alsop, 1653. The Jewel House of Art and Nature: Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with Sundry New Experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With Divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and uses thereof...Wherunto is added. A Rare and.....
Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1533. First Edition of the First Printed Systematic Work on Trigonometry and an Influence on Copernicus's Work "De Revolutionibus" [REGIOMONTANUS, Johannes] [MUELLER, Johannes]. De Triangulis omnímodis libri quinque quibus explicantur res necessariae cognitu, uolentibus ad scientiarum astronomicarum perfectionem deuenire: quae cum nusqua[m] alibi hoc tempore expositae habeantur.....
Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof-Und Universitats-Buch-Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Second edition. Octavo. 12 pp. Original buff printed wrappers. Contemporary signature on top right hand corner, Dr. R. Bernoulli, most likey related to Dr. Daniel.....
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1490]. After Manilius’s Astronomica, Sacrobosco’s Sphaera was the first printed book on astronomy (Ferrara: 1472). Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 197 x 150 mm). 48 leaves. Woodcuts and diagrams, seven of which are colored.....