Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
Second Amsterdam edition (the second continental printing), based upon the 1713 second edition, with the addition of the Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias: cum Enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis, in contemporary paneled calf boards. $15,000. | More...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
First edition, first issue of Thomas Kuhn's landmark work, an exceptionally pristine copy in original wrappers. $7800. | More...
Science and the Common Understanding
Inscribed by J. Robert Oppenheimer
First edition, second printing, issued same year as the first, of six famous lectures Oppenheimer delivered in 1953 as part of Britain's prestigious Reith Lectures, inscribed by him in the year of publication, only six months after facing days of cross-examination in the AEC hearing that revoked his security clearance, with Oppenheimer declaring herein that without the "freedom to resolve difference…to let tolerance compose diversity… a part of human life… is foreclosed." $6300. | More...
What is Life?
Erwin Schrodinger
First edition of Schrödinger’s physical, biological and philosophical treatise on life—“arguably one of the most influential in the 20th century"—with three pages of photographic plates, one color plate, and numerous in-text illustrations, in original dust jacket. $2800. | More...
Medicina Hydrostatica
Robert Boyle
First edition of the "first tract in English upon the determination of specific gravity," one of the final works by Boyle, "arguably the most influential figure in the emerging scientific culture of late 17th-century Britain" and a close friend of John Locke, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding appeared the same year, containing engraved frontispiece of weighing scales, bound with Catalogue of Philosophical Books at rear, a handsome copy in contemporary boards. $11,000. | More...
The English Euclide
Translated by Sir Charles Scarburgh
First edition of English Euclide, featuring the translation and commentary of the preeminent 17th-century mathematician and royal physician Sir Charles Scarburgh, a founding Fellow of the Royal Society and an assistant and successor to William Harvey, published from Scarburgh's manuscript and issued posthumously, profusely illustrated with woodcut-engraved diagrams. $7500. | More...
"A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits"
Claude Shannon
First edition of Shannon's master's thesis demonstrating how Boolean algebra could simplify the arrangement of relays underlying automatic telephone exchanges—and suggesting, for the first time, the concept of using 0 and 1 as true/false values to allow arithmetic by relay circuits—a crucial work with applications for all digital circuits including those in computer technology, and winner of the Alfred Noble American Institute of American Engineers Award. $16,000. | More...
A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds
John Hunter
First edition of the most important work by John Hunter, pioneering founder of experimental and surgical pathology—"outstanding among 18th-century surgeons for orthopedic surgery"—one of only 992 copies printed, the last work issued from his private press. With frontispiece portrait engraving by W. Sharp after the painting by Joshua Reynolds and nine engraved plates by William Skelton. $7800. | More...
Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics
Michael Faraday
First edition of Faraday's collected papers in chemistry and physics, documenting important discoveries from one of the world's greatest scientists, with three engraved plates (one folding). A very nice copy in the original cloth. $2800. | More...
The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations
James Bernoulli
First edition of this collection of important mathematical works, including a substantial portion of Bernoulli's Doctrine translated into English, Wallis' Discourse of Combinations, Alternations, and Aliquot Parts, and numerous treatises by other renowned mathematicians—a lovely copy in contemporary marbled calf. $6500. | More...
The Sensory Order
F. A. Hayek
First edition of Hayek's foundational study of cognitive behavior—"an exercise in profound thinking"—in scarce original dust jacket. $1850. | More...
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