The inventory was last updated:
24th May 2013
Featured Items
Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated weekly.
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ARISTARCHUS.
First seperate edition. Pesaro: Franciscanus, 1572. This treatise is the sole extant work of Aristarchus - the first proponent of a heliocentric system - and marks “the first attempt to determine astronomical distances and dimensions by mathematical deductions based upon a set of assumptions.” (DSB). Aristarchus “was the first to... Item #2425
[Item #2425]
Price: €14,000.00
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ARRHENIUS, Svante.
First edition. London: Francis & Taylor, 1896. Rare offprint of the English version of his landmark paper on the greenhouse effect which precedes the German version printed by the Swedish Academy (Uber den Einfluss ...) by six months. In this paper Arrhenius gave the first quantitative investigation of the influence... Item #2417
[Item #2417]
Price: €11,000.00
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AVOGADRO, Amadeo.
First edition. Torino: Stamperia Reale, 1837-41. 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... Item #2682
[Item #2682]
Price: €22,000.00
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BETTINI, Mario. [BETTINUS, Marius].
First edition. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni, 1648. An outstanding copy of this rare compendious scholastic mathematical work by the Jesuit mathematician Mario Bettini (1582-1657), encompassing all the major fields of mathematics, but paying special attention to geometry. Bettini’s Aerarium covers a wealth of information not just in mathematics but also astronomical... Item #2435
[Item #2435]
Price: €15,000.00
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BUSH, Vannevar.
First edition. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1945. Extremely rare offprint issue of Bush’s celebrated paper credited for originating the idea of hypertext and, by extension, providing many of the theoretical underpinnings for the World Wide Web. “Bush’s article describes his proposed ‘Memex’ system for organizing, storing, retrieving, and linking information... Item #2440
[Item #2440]
Price: €9,500.00
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DIOPHANTUS of Alexandria.
First edition. Paris: H. Drouart, 1621. Editio princeps of “the first systematic treatise on algebra” (David Eugene Smith, Rara Arithmetica). First printing of the Greek text, accompanied by Xylander’s Latin translation (1575) and Bachet’s commentary. “The most famous edition of the Arithemtic was that of Bachet de Mezeriac (1621). Bachet... Item #2441
[Item #2441]
Price: €11,000.00
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FABRI, Honore.
Lyon: Horace Boissat & Georges Remeus, 1667. First edition of Fabri’s great work on optics which was the inspiration for Newton’s work on light and colours as it was through this work that Newton learned of Grimaldi’s discovery of the diffraction of light. Fabri describes the rings of Saturn (he... Item #2612
[Item #2612]
Price: €8,000.00
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GALILEO'S PRECURSOR TO THE DISCORSI
GALILEI, Galileo.
Ravenna: Stamp. Camerali, 1649. Rare first edition in the original Italian of Galileo’s early treatise on mechanics, a precursor to the research that he would present in his Discorsi. This popular treatise, widely circulated in manuscript form, is effectively a “bridge between statics and dynamics,” and according to Drake, “far... Item #2678
[Item #2678]
Price: €18,500.00
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MAUROLICO, Francesco.
Venice: Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, 1575. First and only edition (see Rara Aritmetica) of the first clear statement of the principle of mathematical induction. “Francesco Maurolico is generally recognized to have been one of the foremost mathematicians of the sixteenth century” (Rosen); Cajori has called him ‘the greatest geometer of the... Item #2613
[Item #2613]
Price: €15,000.00
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The Most Original Pupil of Bonaventura Cavalieri
MENGOLI, Pietro.
Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1659. Very rare first edition, and a fine copy from the library of Pietro Riccardi, of this important work on limits of geometrical figures. In this work Mengoli “set up the basic rules of the calculus thirty years before Newton and Leibniz. Both of these were... Item #2689
[Item #2689]
Price: €25,000.00
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NAPIER, John.
Lyons: Bartholomaeus Vincentius, 1620. Second (first obtainable) edition of his ‘Contructio’ (Horblit 77b, 1619), with the first Continental edition of the ‘Descriptio’ (Horblit 77a, 1614) – “The work which in the history of British science can be placed as second only to Newton’s Principia” (Evans 4). “His ‘Description of the... Item #2610
[Item #2610]
Price: €8,000.00
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TURING, Alan Mathison.
First edition. London: C.F. Hodgson & Son, 1936-1937. A fine set, not ex-library, of arguably the single most important theoretical work in the history of computing. In this paper Turing introduced the concept of a ‘universal machine’, an imaginary computing device designed to replicate the mathematical ‘states of mind’ and... Item #2091
[Item #2091]
Price: €18,000.00
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VON NEUMANN, John. & Oskar MORGENSTERN.
First edition, first printing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. A very good copy, with the rare dust jacket, of Von Neumann and Morgenstern’s groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory. “Quantitative mathematical models for games as poker or bridge at one time appeared impossible, since games... Item #2681
[Item #2681]
Price: €5,500.00
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