Original Photo Album of Aviator Wilhelm Heinrich Evers
Extraordinary and extensive original photo album compiled by and documenting the career of aviation pioneer Wilhelm Heinrich Evers (1884-1960).
Extraordinary and extensive original photo album compiled by and documenting the career of aviation pioneer Wilhelm Heinrich Evers (1884-1960).
Scarce first edition of the pioneering Chicago School economist's best-known work, on the importance of investing in one's workforce — a gorgeous copy.
First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache.
Signed first edition of Chomsky's first book, a landmark of linguistics and cognitive science, containing the first appearance of his famous sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
First edition in exceptional condition of Friedman's classic text on the role of economic capitalism in liberal society, expanded from a series of lectures originally delivered in 1956 at Wabash College.
First edition, important association copy of this early work in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee).
Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir.
First Paris edition of this pocket-sized medical book, offering advice on exercise, bathing, sleep, a healthy diet, and sex, with several rather telling sections underlined by an early owner.
First edition of this scarce and important work on the geometrical consequences of Einstein's postulates, by the mathematician who famously solved Einstein's Unified Field Theory equations in 1953.
Catalogue of this experimental exhibition exploring the potential for telecommunication devices to redefine the "entire area of esthetic awareness," curated by Burnham shortly before the dawn of the 1970s microcomputer revolution.
Sixth edition ("forty-third thousand") overall — and the first to use the term "evolution" to describe the mechanism of natural selection that Darwin introduced in the book.
First edition of Friedman's classic text on the role of economic capitalism in liberal society, expanded from a series of lectures originally delivered in 1956 at Wabash College.
Rare inscribed first edition of the particle physicist's exposition of his famous solution to the housing shortage and the climate crisis: energy-saving space colonies, conveniently parked between Earth and the Moon.
Late Georgian almanac in a terrific early publisher's muslin binding with printed text and a wood-engraved centerpiece.
Rare and gorgeous album of 12 color plates by Sjoerd Kuperus, with commentary on the birds of the Netherlands by famed naturalist and conservationist J.P. Thijsse.
First US edition of this popular science book by the influential physicist and Nobel Prize winner, retaining its scarce original dust jacket.
First printing of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on the nature of consciousness — inscribed to plant geneticist Bernard Pollack.
First edition of this early and important work in computer programming.
First UK edition of these three essays on quantum theory and atomic structure, including Bohr's formulation and elucidation of the correspondence principle, published shortly after he was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
First printing of Feynman's first volume of highly entertaining memoirs
First edition of this provocative thesis written by a French astronomer in response to Voltaire, arguing that modern civilization owes its scientific roots to Asia rather than Europe.
Scarce early monograph on human subject research by the pioneering medical ethicist, whose work was foundational to the current understanding of informed consent.
Inscribed first printing of the book Colson Whitehead described as "[a] bleak, illuminating chronicle of racism in the name of 'science.'"
Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.
Scarce first edition of Von Mises's last monograph, with marginal annotations by philosopher Leon J. Goldstein.