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.

Elaborate sales sample book containing over 700 watch faces representing a wide variety of styles and sizes from Besançon, France, a world center for watch production. One of the most striking sales catalogues we've encountered.

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

First edition of this compendium of mechanisms and their uses, demonstrating the rapid development of mechanical technology during the Industrial Revolution – this copy owned by the "father of the Civil Engineer Corps", Mordecai Endicott (US Navy Seabee Museum).

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.

First edition of the most important rebuttal of Newton's claim of priority for the invention of calculus, with the scarce engraved portrait of Leibniz.

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 book edition of these twelve lectures delivered by Watson at the People's Institute, whose publishing arm would soon become the legendary W.W. Norton.