The inventory was last updated:
24th May 2013
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MANDELBROT, Benoit.
Paris: Institut de Statistique de L'Universite de Paris, 1952/1953. Rare first edition of Mandelbrot’s PhD thesis on the subject of information theory, the statistical structure of languages and its relation to thermodynamics, in which he introduced the Zipf–Mandelbrot probability distribution. “In between his two graduate appointments, Mandelbrot completed a PhD... Item #3125
[Item #3125]
Price: €2,200.00
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[FERMAT, Pierre de] DIOPHANTUS of Alexandria.
Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670. First edition of Fermat’s discoveries in number theory and first printing of his celebrated ‘last theorem’, one of the most famous problems in mathematics and unsolved for over 325 years until its solution in 1995. Norman 777. A Toulouse parlementaire with a passion for numbers, Fermat... Item #3122
[Item #3122]
Price: €48,000.00
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GALLON, Jean-Gaffin
First edition. Paris: G. Martin, J.B. Coignard, H.L. Guerin, 1735-1777. Rare complete set, with the often lacking seventh volume, of this invaluable collection illustrating, with nearly 500 plates, the inventions of all the machines and instruments approved by the Academy of Sciences from its establishment in 1666 to 1735. In... Item #3121
[Item #3121]
Price: €16,000.00
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MANDELBROT, Benoit.
First edition, first issue. Paris: Flammarion, 1975. Presentation copy of the first book on fractals. Inscribed by Mandelbrot to physicist Laszlo Tisza and with a signed letter in which Mandelbrot writes about the poor reception of his book – “the good-and-bad reason may be that they know the book and... Item #3119
[Item #3119]
Price: €3,500.00
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POISSON, Simeon-Denis.
Paris: Bachelier, 1835. Presentation copy of this classic work on the mathematical theory of heat, inscribed by Poisson to Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, the founder of experimental brain science and a pioneer in anesthesia. Stanitz 353 (this copy); Roberts & Trent 260; Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica 3683. “This is the first edition of an... Item #3115
[Item #3115]
Price: €4,800.00
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DOUAT, Dominique.
First edition. Paris: F. de Laulne, C. Jombert & A. Cailleau, 1722. Marvelous presentation copy, inscribed by Douat and bound in royal red morocco, of “the earliest (and perhaps the rarest) treatise on the theory of design” (Gombrich). Douat’s book is the first book which gives a systematic graphical treatment... Item #3113
[Item #3113]
Price: €12,000.00
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LANA TERZI, Francesco.
First edition. Brescia: Rizzardi, 1670. An excellent copy the first scientific work on the mechanics of flight. “In this volume is presented the earliest concept of flight derived from demonstrable aerostatic principles.” (Dibner 125; Norman 1272. “In 1686 died the Father of Aeronautics, Fr. Francesco Lana-Terzi, SJ, professor of physics and... Item #3111
[Item #3111]
Price: €9,500.00
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Offprints of the four papers in which Einstein announced his completion and verification of general relativity in November 1915
EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition. Berlin: Verlag der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1915. An exceptional collection of the very rare offprint issues of which the perihelion-paper is the copy that Einstein presented to his son Hans Albert. In these four papers, Einstein announced his final breakthrough after ten years of struggling to incorporate... Item #3108
[Item #3108]
Price: €36,000.00
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FIRMICUS MATERNUS, Julius [ARATUS SOLENSIS; MARCUS MANILIUS; PROCLUS DIADOCHUS; and other Greek and Roman commentators].
Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499. First edition of this famous and beautiful collection of ancient astronomical texts, including the first editions in Greek of Aratus’ Phaenomena and Proclus’ Sphaera. This is one of the few illustrated books issued by the Aldine Press. The text also provides invaluable information concerning 4th century... Item #3098
[Item #3098]
Price: €12,000.00
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GALILEI, Galileo.
Bologna: Heredi del Dozza, 1655-56. First collected edition of the works of Galileo, edited by Carlo Manolessi, and appearing only a year after his death. This was the edition in which Newton and his later contemporaries read their Galileo. The volumes contain not only most of the major works written... Item #3097
[Item #3097]
Price: €15,000.00
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius.
Rome: Paulum Manutius, 1562. First edition of Ptolemy’s Analemma, which “explained how to determine the position of the sun at a given moment in any latitude by an orthogonal projection using three mutually perpendicular planes” (DSB III 364). “[The] Analemma [survives], apart from a few palimpsest fragments, only in William... Item #3096
[Item #3096]
Price: €9,500.00
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ALDINI, Giovanni.
Bologna: A S. Tommaso d’Aquino, 1802. First separate edition, extremely rare, of this work which represents the beginning of the use of galvanism as a therapeutic tool. This work prepared the ground for the development of various forms of electrotherapy that were heavily used later in the 19th century. Even... Item #3095
[Item #3095]
Price: €3,000.00
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LAUE, Max von, Walter FRIEDRICH & Paul KNIPPING.
Munchen: F. Straub for the Verlag der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1912. Very rare first edition, offprint issue, of Laue’s Nobel Prize-winning report of “one of the most beautiful discoveries in physics” (Einstein). X-rays had been in wide use since their discovery in 1895 but their exact nature as... Item #3093
[Item #3093]
Price: €15,000.00
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ULUGH BEG, ibn Shahrukh.
Oxford: Henry Hall for the author, to be sold by Richard Davis, 1665. Editio princeps of the first original star catalogue since Ptolemy. “Ulugh Beg (1394-1449) was a Timurid astronomer, mathematician and sultan. He was the grandson of the conqueror Timur the Lame (1336-1405) and the oldest son of Shah... Item #3090
[Item #3090]
Price: €12,500.00
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HAUY; LAGRANGE; LAPLACE; MONGE; BORDA; LAVOISIER.
First edition, first printing. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale executive du Louvre, 1793-1798. A large collection of official publications on the metric system – including the true first edition of the official manual with theoften lacking plate. Norman 1499 (that copy lacking the plate), Dibner 113 (citing a reprint). “The metric system... Item #3089
[Item #3089]
Price: €6,000.00
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[GAUSS, Carl Friedrich] PFAFF, Johann Friedrich.
Helmstadt: J. H. Kuhlin, 1788. With Gauss’s autograph signature and two geometrical diagrams on front endpaper, and a 12-line mathematical proof in his hand on rear endpaper. Gauss’s own personal copy of the inaugural dissertation of Johann Friedrich Pfaff, who supervised Gauss’s doctoral thesis and was a close personal friend... Item #3084
[Item #3084]
Price: €65,000.00
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WERNER, Johannes.
Nurnberg: Stuchs, 1514. First edition of Werner’s most important book, an extremely rare and highly influential work on cartography and navigation, containing the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original Greek. It includes the first publication of the Werner map projection, which was widely... Item #3080
[Item #3080]
Price: €75,000.00
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RIDOLFI, Volumnio, Spoletano.
Rome: Giacomo Mazzochi, 1516. Extremely rare first edition of this influential and controversial work, an important step towards the arithmetization of the theory of proportion. In the Eudoxian theory of proportion, treated in Book V of Euclid’s Elements, proportion is a relation between magnitudes of the same kind, and is... Item #3078
[Item #3078]
Price: €18,000.00
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CASSINI, Giovanni Domenico.
Rome: Fabio di Falco, 1665. First editions of these two exceptionally rare Cassini publications on the comet of 1664-5. Cassini observed the comet “in the presence of Queen Christina [to whom the first work is dedicated] and formulated on this occasion a new theory (in agreement with the Tychonian system)... Item #3076
[Item #3076]
Price: €38,000.00
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA (MEMO, Giovanni Battista, ed.)
First edition. Venice: Bernardinus Bindonus, 1537. Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius’ Conics, the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola” (Horblit 4, on the later edition of 1566). This is one of the three greatest mathematical treatises of antiquity, alongside those of... Item #3075
[Item #3075]
Price: €48,000.00
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ARDUSER, Johann.
Zurich: Johann Jacob Bodmer, 1627. Very rare first edition, and a fine copy, “of one of the fullest German works on surveying” (Zeitlinger), containing an early and highly detailed account of how to make Galileo’s geometrical compass. This work on geometry, surveying, geometric instruments, mathematical tables, map making etc., gives... Item #3073
[Item #3073]
Price: €12,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
[Zurich or Berlin: ca. 1912-1916]. A fascinating Einstein manuscript showing the master at work. While most Einstein autograph material on the market is in the form of letters to friends or colleagues, or drafts of papers to be published, the present manuscript gives us a glimpse of Einstein doing what... Item #3070
[Item #3070]
Price: €37,500.00
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BABBAGE, Charles.
London: House of Commons, 1823. First edition, and a very fine copy, of this version and even rarer than Babbage’s privately printed version issued the year earlier. This separate printing of the British government’s reprint of Babbage’s letter to Davy includes, for the first time, the text of the letters... Item #3066
[Item #3066]
Price: €3,200.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition, first printing, journal issue. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. A fine copy in unrestored wrappers, as it originally appeared in the May issue of Annalen der Physik. Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 695; PMM 408; Weil 80. There are three different issues of this famous paper (which are often confused)... Item #3063
[Item #3063]
Price: €12,000.00
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BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri.
First edition. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1896. A very fine copy, in original wrappers, of Comptes Rendus volume in which Becquerel first announced his discoveries on radioactivity. Grolier/Medicine 84a; Norman 157. “On 24 February 1896, Becquerel announced to the French Academy of Sciences that fluorescent crystals of potassium uranyl sulfate had exposed a.... Item #3060
[Item #3060]
Price: €3,500.00
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