Highlights in Science
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The Mathematical Principles
of Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton

First edition in English of Newton’s Principia, published two years after his death, with 49 folding plates and tables, in contemporary marbled boards. This copy with the scarce engraved frontispieces (in Volume II bound opposite page 148, as sometimes found). $130,000. | More...
Opere
Galileo Galilei

Third edition of Galileo's collected works—the first to include his famous (and prohibited) Dialogo, in which he defends the Copernican heliocentric system—in the original Italian (some texts in Latin), with engraved frontispiece portrait, folding engraved plate, and numerous in-text woodcut diagrams, in four handsomely bound volumes. $9500. | More...
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
First edition, first British issue, of Hawking’s popular treatment of quantum physics. $2000. | More...
"Experimental Researches in Electricty" & "The Bakerian Lecture—Experimental Researches in Electricity—Second Series" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Michael Faraday

Scarce first edition—preceding their appearance in the first collected edition by seven years—of Faraday’s first two groundbreaking papers in electrical research, illustrated with two engraved plates. $11,000. | More...
Collision of Alpha Particles with Light Atoms
Ernest Rutherford

First edition of the first appearance of Rutherford’s pioneering article about the effects of alpha particles bombarding the nitrogen atom—marking the birth of the nuclear age. A fine copy in the original wrappers. $4500. | More...
The Principles of Chemistry
Dmitrii Mendeleev
First edition in English of Mendeleev’s landmark chemistry textbook, providing the basis of the Periodic Law. With numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. $4700. | More...


Experiments on Air
Henry Cavendish

First edition of Cavendish’s experimental proof that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen and therefore not a separate element unto itself, with a folding plate. As issued in Philosophical Transactions for the year 1784. $6200. | More...
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