Are There Quantum Jumps
by SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN
Edinburgh and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1952. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST PRINTINGS: THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL OFFPRINT AND THE ORIGINAL ISSUES IN THE RARE WRAPPERS of Schrödinger's consideration of quantum jumps and the future of physics. "Throughout his life, Schrödinger sought to discredit Bohr's concept of quantum jumping. His forceful attacks culminated in the 1952 paper 'Are There Quantum Jumps?' In this paper he also presented some objections against Born's collision treatment and probabilistic... Read More
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![A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/102/821/1360821102.0.l.jpg)
A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]
by SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF . [SMYTH, H.D.]
Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1945. First edition. original wrappers. RARE LITHOPRINT ISSUE - THE FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING - OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. ONE OF SMYTH'S OWN COPIES, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. PMM 422e. Released to the public on 12 August 1945, just six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the "Smyth Report" (as it came to be known) contained a full account of the development... Read More
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The Faerie Queene
by SPENSER, EDMUND. [CHIVERS, CEDRIC]
London: J.M. Dent, 1897. Chivers bindings. Fine. STUNNING CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDINGS. One of 100 large-paper copies, illustrated by Louis Fairfax Muckley. The three thick quarto volumes are elegantly printed on handmade paper and illustrated throughout with images and designs by the British artist and illustrator Louis Fairfax Muckley. The illustrations are magnificent and feature the plates in two states, red and black. The bindings by Chivers, however, are the star of the show and perfectly complement the... Read More
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Thomas Mann, New York
by STEICHEN, EDWARD. MANN, THOMAS
New York: n.p., 1934. Very Good. POWERFUL STEICHEN PORTRAIT OF THOMAS MANN FROM CHANCE MEETING IN NEW YORK. Edward Steichen was one of the early pioneers of photographic art, leading the movement of photography from its established position as a utilitarian medium to a mode of creative expression. As a major contributor to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work magazine in the first decades of the twentieth century, Steichen had cemented his reputation as a new kind of photographer, enjoying... Read More
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Derriere le Miroir. Saul Steinberg. Special Number 224
by Steinberg, Saul
Paris: Maeght. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 128 of only 150 copies SIGNED BY STEINBERG. With three original color lithographs (one double-page) and numerous color reproductions throughout. Text by Italo Calvino. Printed on vélin d'Arches. Paris: Maeght, 1977. Folio, loose (as issued) in illustrated wrappers; housed in original chemise and slipcase. Fine condition.
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Camera Work: Issue Number 31
by Stieglitz, Alfred
New York: Alfred Stieglitz. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION of issue number 31 of Camera Work complete with 14 original photogravures, all by Frank Eugene. Texts by Charles H. Caffin, Max Weber, William Sharp, Benjamin De Casseres, S. H., Leonard Van Noppen, and Joseph T. Keiley. Photogravures entitled (in the order they appear) H. R. H. Rupprecht, Prince of Bavaria, Fritz v. Uhde, Prof. Adolf Hengeler, Prof. Franz v. Stuck, Willi Geiger, Prof. Adolf v. Seitz, Dr. Emmanuel Lasker... Read More
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Camera Work, Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8
by STIEGLITZ, ALFRED
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1904. First edition. Very Good. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS IN A PRESENTATION BINDING WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS BOUND-IN. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY STIEGLITZ: "To my friend, advisor & co-worker / John Francis Strauss / from / Alfred Stieglitz." Additionally noted by Stieglitz "Feb, 17 - 1905. Third Anniversary of the birth of the Photo-Secessions, after the Surprise Lunch at Steichen's." The complete set of issues for 1904, including: -Number 5, January... Read More
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Camera Work: Issue Number 27
by STIEGLITZ, ALFRED
New York: Alfred Stieglitz. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of issue number 27 of Camera Work, complete with 9 original photogravures, including 5 by Herbert G. French and 4 by Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz in collaboration. Edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. Texts by H. G. Wells, Benjamin De Casseres, Bolton Coit Brown, Charles H. Caffin, Paul B. Haviland, Herbert G. French, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred Stieglitz. Containing articles entitled Pamela Colman Smith by Benjamin De Casseres, Seeing Things... Read More
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Signed Photograph: "From My Window at An American Place, North
by STIEGLITZ, ALFRED
New York: Stieglitz, 1931. framed. Very Good. IMPORTANT ALFRED STIEGLITZ PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY STIEGLITZ. Alfred Stieglitz's (1864 - 1946) influence on American art and culture cannot be overstated. He has been justly celebrated for the pioneering exhibitions of modern European art that he presented at 291, the gallery that he ran between 1905 and 1917. There Stieglitz introduced American audiences to the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and George Braque. He championed early American modernist... Read More
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Camera Work: Issue Number 26
by STIEGLITZ, ALFRED
New York: Alfred Stieglitz. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of issue number 26 of Camera Work, containing 8 original photogravures, including 6 by Alice Boughton, 1 by J. Craig Annan, and 1 by George Davison. Edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. Texts by Benjamin De Casseres, A. Chameleon, Charles H. Caffin, Oscar Wilde, Alice Boughton, Paul B. Haviland, and J. Nilsen Jaurvik. Containing articles entitled Caricature and New York by Benjamin De Casseres, Modern Chiaroscural Deficiencies and Their Influence on... Read More
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Camera Work: Issue Number 29
by Stieglitz, Alfred
New York: Alfred Stieglitz. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of issue number 29 of Camera Work, complete with 14 original photogravures, including 10 by George H. Seeley and 4 by Marius De Zayas. Edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. Texts by Temple Scott, Leonard Van Noppen, Benjamin De Casseres, S. H., J. B. Kerfoot, Fiona Macleod, and Joseph T. Keiley. Photogravures entitled (in the order they appear) Girl with Bowl, Autumn, The White Screen, The Artist,... Read More
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La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac'Adam
by [SURREALISM; DADAISM]. ROCHE, JULIETTE
Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost, 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal, dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century, French writer and artist Juliette Roche (1884 - 1980) has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She... Read More
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Photograph Signed
by TAGORE, RABINDRANATH; CURTIS, EDWARD
Seattle: Edward Curtis, 1913. First edition. nb. Very Good. STUNNING GOLD-TONED SILVER PRINT OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE BY EDWARD CURTIS, SIGNED BY BOTH TAGORE AND CURTIS. An outstanding union of photographer and subject: Edward Curtis, one of America's most sensitive and accomplished portrait photographers, and Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bengali poet, composer, playwright, and painter, "generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India." Edward Curtis, known primarily for his lifelong project to document... Read More
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Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse
by TARTAGLIA, NICCOLÒ
Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli, 1546. First edition. vellum. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF TARTAGLIA'S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MATHEMATICS, INCLUDING HIS RULE FOR SOLVING CUBIC EQUATIONS. "The 'mathematical practitioners' of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem to be acquiring an important role in histories which deal with the origins of the Scientific Revolution... Those who are fascinated by questions of origins in the history of science and technology find themselves driven more and more to investigate the sudden appearance,... Read More
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Signed Photograph
by TESLA, NIKOLA
New York: n.p., 1896. First edition. Fine. STUNNING LARGE HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH OF TESLA, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TESLA TO EDWARD EVERETT BARLETT. Albumen print, signed and inscribed by Tesla on the original gray mount: "To my friend E. E. Bartlett, New York, June 9, 1896, Nikola Tesla." The photograph shows Tesla in profile seated before the spiral coil of his high-voltage transformer at his East Houston St., New York, laboratory. The photograph, in addition to being... Read More
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Contact Sheet of Rare Beatles Photographs, Candlestick Park, 1966
by THE BEATLES. LENNON, JOHN. McCARTNEY, PAUL. HARRISON, GEORGE. STARR, RINGO. WEILL, ERIC
San Francisco, 1966. First edition. Very Good. One-of-a-Kind Beatles Images Portend the End of an Era. This original contact sheet of rare 1966 images of The Beatles was discovered by artist, photographer, musician, and Beatles enthusiast Dave Seabury at a garage sale near San Francisco in the late 1980s. These photos, which we have on offer, were taken at the Fab Four's final concert at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966. The story of how these... Read More
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Photograph Signed
by THE BEATLES: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
London: np, 1963. First edition. Very Good. Vintage 8x10 glossy photograph by Dezo Hoffmann from 1963, SIGNED BY ALL FOUR BEATLES. The image is one of several taken by the Czech-born photographer Dezo Hoffmann on July 2, 1963 – the day after the band recorded She Loves You / I’ll Get You. Hoffmann met The Beatles in 1962 and, as the first professional photographer they hired, played a pivotal role in documenting their early years. Hoffmann preferred photographs that... Read More
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Absolutely Live by The Doors: Original Dye-Transfer Production Photograph
by THE DOORS. [MORRISON, JIM; LISCIANDRO, FRANK]
Los Angeles: Elektra Records, 1970. first edition. Very Good. STUNNING ORIGINAL DYE-TRANSFER PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPH used in the preparation of the cover for the band’s first—and only—live album issued during Jim Morrison’s lifetime. With important provenance. Original vintage color dye-transfer print, 12 x 23 inches, dry-mounted to Bainbridge Bristol Board, with visible period blue art-department retouching along the upper and lower edges; accompanied a backing board signed and inscribed in 1975 by Bob Heimall, the art director/designer for the... Read More
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854); with a manuscript leaf from Thoreau's memoirs bound in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Boston; Boston and New York: Ticknor & Fields; Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Original cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THOREAU'S MEMOIRS. First published in a run of two-thousand copies in Thoreau's native Massachusetts, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854) synthesises the thematic core of the Transcendentalist movement: a simple life with immediate connection to the natural world. During the second quarter of the nineteenth... Read More
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition, manuscript edition. Very Good. COMPLETE EDITION OF THOREAU'S WORKS WITH TWO-PAGE MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN THOREAU'S HAND. IN ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDINGS. In 1906, Thoreau's complete writings were published by Houghton Mifflin in a unique "Manuscript Edition". The first volume in each set contains an original leaf from Thoreau's autograph manuscript mounted and tipped-in before the title page and frontispiece. What also sets this edition apart from previous collections... Read More
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![Typed Letter Signed [TLS] introducing The Lord of the Rings](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/869/926/1576926869.0.l.jpg)
Typed Letter Signed [TLS] introducing The Lord of the Rings
by TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
Oxford: np, 1953. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE PUBLICATION, TOLKIEN ANXIOUSLY INTRODUCES HIS MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TO A FAN OF THE HOBBIT. Tolkien had begun work on The Lord of the Rings in December of 1937 and by early 1950, after over twelve years of labor, the writing was essentially complete. The road to publication, however, was not an easy one, for Tolkien feared his book would have difficulty finding an... Read More
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Jane Avril
by Toulouse-lautrec, Henri De
Paris: Chaix. Very Good. ONE OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC'S MOST FAMOUS LITHOGRAPHS. "This famous poster advertising Le Jardin de Paris shows the high-kicking performance of the dynamic Jane Avril in the quadrille naturaliste, framed by the staff of the orchestra's bass fiddle. Vaucaire described the dance in the August 1, 1886, Paris Illustré as 'that wonderful, insolent joke in which two women advanced side by side, each balancing on one foot while keeping the other at the level of the... Read More
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The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: with the Reports of Congress, and a Description of all Telegraphs Known, employing Electricity or Galvanism
by VAIL, ALFRED
Philidelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, LEONARD GALE'S COPY, of perhaps the most important book documenting the earliest history of telegraphy. Gale's work with Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was critical to the success of the telegraph. With Gale's ownership signature on title page and front pastedown. On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse famously sent the world's first telegraphic message: "What Hath God Wrought" from the Rotunda of the United States Capitol... Read More
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![Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/514/744/753744514.0.l.jpg)
Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists]
by VASARI, GIORGIO
Florence: Giunti, 1568. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST COMPLETE, FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF ART. [The Second Edition overall.] An exceptional copy, very handsomely bound. Vasari's "book contains the biographies of Italian painters, etc. from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. They are based on earlier written and printed sources, on oral accounts, on his knowledge of works of art and his own collection of large drawings. Vasari traveled extensively to collect... Read More
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by VON NEUMANN, JOHN; MORGENSTERN, OSKAR
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FOUNDATIONAL BOOK ON GAME THEORY. IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION. "Probabilists have studied games of chance since the beginning of probability theory. Strategic games, whose outcome depends on the skill of the participants in choosing a strategy of play, received widespread attention among mathematicians and economists only with the publication in 1944 of the first edition of John von... Read More
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