Important Science, Philosophy & Alchemy: Rare Book

[ADAM SMITH] ADAM SMITH'S COPY OF HELVETIUS'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK. HELVETIUS, CLAUDE ADRIEN. 1715-1771. De L'homme. London [i.e. The Hague]: Chez ...

[ALCHEMY] THE GREATEST ILLUSTRATED WORK IN ALCHEMY. MAIER, MICHAEL. 1568–1622. Atalanta fugiens hoc est, Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymic...

DARWIN'S FIRST BOOK. DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H....

DE BROGLIE ON THE NATURE OF MATTER IN THE QUANTUM VIEW. DE BROGLIE, LOUIS. 1892-1987. Autograph Manuscript Signed ('M. de Broglie') on the problem...

[EINSTEIN] INSCRIBED COPY OF THE DEFINITIVE EXPOSITION OF RELATIVITY. EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. The Meaning of Relativity. Princeton: Princeto...

KABBALAH: SEFER YETZIRAH, OR THE 'BOOK OF FORMATIONS.' POSTEL, GUILLAUME. 1510-1581. Abrahami Patriarchae liber Iezirah, sive Formationis mundi. P...

[MATHEMATICS] FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON ALGEBRA. RECORDE, ROBERT. c.1510-1558. Whetstone of Witte. London: John Kingston, 1557. 4to (185 x 132 mm)...

[MATHEMATICS] UNIQUE 18TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT ON CONIC SECTIONS. STAMPA, JOSEPHO [GIUSEPPE] MARIA. 1666-1734. Autograph Ma...

MAXWELL CONCEIVES THE MODERN WORLD. MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK. 1831-1879. Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. 2 volu...

NEWTON'S ALCHEMY: A 'KEY' TO NEWTON'S SCIENCE. NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Autograph alchemical manuscript, 'A Key to Snyders,' being Newton's 'key'...

[OCCULT SCIENCE] 'THE MAGICAL CALENDAR OF TYCHO BRAHE': RARE HERMETIC BROADSIDE. GROSSCHEDEL, JOHANN BAPTISTE; DE BRY, JOHANN THEODOR, printer; ME...

[PLATO] EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE TIMAEUS. PLATO. FICINO, MARCELLO, Translator. Timaeus [WITH:] Critias. Florence: [nuns of San Jac...

[SHANNON] THE FOUNDING OF INFORMATION THEORY. SHANNON, CLAUDE E. 1916-2001. 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication.' Offprint from: Bell System T...