Original photograph album of family of Chicago, focusing on their daughter (b. 1936) who had polio, and covering primarily the 1940s, in the years just before the vaccine.

First state 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.

Stunning landmark achievement in astro-photography, completed and issued after Barnard's death in a limited edition of just 700 copies.

Third revised edition of this popular beginner's astronomy textbook, designed for the high school student or enterprising autodidact, with eight letters by Bowen to her sister laid in.

First edition of the first published treatise to argue the mysterious construction of Stonehenge was not by the Romans but by the Danes, evocatively illustrated with woodcuts of the monument and featuring a poem celebrating the Scientific Revolution by Dryden.

Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir.

Inscribed first edition account of the author's unusual machine-aided artistic techniques, alternatively titled "THE HOPEFUL MONSTER: A Subjective Report About Art-Robots."

Quintessentially 1950s booklet accompanying Monty MacLevy's Figurama, a "slenderizing table" marketed to women and intended for home use.

First edition of this lively popular history of aeronautics, from Daedalus to the Wright brothers, with a particular emphasis on historical ballooning anecdotes of the most sensational kind.

Second edition, expanded with additional plates, of this encyclopedic natural history work, published in the era when observational science began to eclipse superstition.

First edition, subscriber copy, of the first herbal produced and published in the US, featuring only animals, vegetables, and minerals native to North and South America.

First printing of Tufte's classic work on data visualization.