The inventory was last updated:
4th February 2012
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Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated weekly.
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AVOGADRO, Amadeo.
Fisica de’ Corpi Ponderabili ossia Trattato della Costituzione Generale de’ Corpi del Cavaliere.
Torino:
Stamperia Reale,
1837-41.
First edition.
A very fine set of one of the great rarities of chemistry. This monumental work is the only major publication of Avogadro (1776-1856), one of the founders of physical chemistry in the early 19th century. The famous hypothesis which bears his name - that equal volumes of all gases and...
[Item #2682]
Price: €22,000.00
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BOHR, Niels Henrik David.
On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra, I-III [all published].
Copenhagen:
Bianco Lunos,
1918-1922.
All first editions.
Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgeman’s annotated copies. Besides Bohr’s derivation of the Balmer formula (1913) this work, in which he first gave a clear formulation of his ‘correspondence principle’, is by many considered to be his greatest contribution to physics.
[Item #2416]
Price: €6,500.00
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EUCLID of Alexandria.
Das sibend, acht vnd neünt Buch, des hochberühmbten Mathematici Euclidis Megarensis.
Augsburg:
Valentine Ottmar,
10 April 1555.
Very rare first appearance of any part of Euclid’s work in German, and one of the earliest vernacular editions (preceded only by Italian translations). This is a fine copy with a distinguished provenance.
[Item #2611]
Price: €22,000.00
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ROSENBLATT, Frank.
The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain [with] The Design of an Intelligent Automaton [with] Two Theorems of Statistical Separability on the Perceptron.
Washington and Teddington:
American Psychological Association, Office of Naval Resaerch, National Physical Laboratory,
1958.
First edition, offprint issues.
Three exceptional and rare offprints on the beginning of neural networks and artificial intelligence - the perceptron. “Rosenblatt’s paper (The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model ...) introduced the perceptron, the first precisely specified, computationally oriented neural network (‘Neural network’ is the term used to describe a system deliberately constructed to employ...
[Item #2648]
Price: €5,400.00
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THOMSON, Joseph John
Conduction of Electricity Through Gases.
Cambridge:
At the University Press,
1903.
First edition, first printing.
A fine copy of this classic. Dibner 165; PMM 386(d); Norman 2076.
[Item #2676]
Price: €1,000.00
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WALD, Abraham. & H.A. Freeman.
Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Theory [with] Sequential Tests of Statistical Significance [with] Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Applications.
Washington:
National Defense Research Committee,
1943-1944.
All three first editions, first issue.
An exceptional set of the three classified reports in which Wald's groundbreaking work was first announced. About Wald's later journal paper from 1945 Kotz and Johnson write in their 'Breakthroughs in Statistics': "Probability theory came of age with the advent of Kolmogorov's axiomatics in 1933 and the subsequent developments in...
[Item #2024]
Price: €7,200.00
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