Collectables

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...

STUKELEY (WILLIAM) Abury, A Temple of the British Druids...Volume the Second, FIRST EDITION, double page folding engraved frontispiece, 38 engra...

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

A 20-bore 'XXV' single-trigger sidelock ejector gun by Aguirre Y Aranzabal, no. 526054 Toplever, rib and forend numbered '2' in gold, spare barrel...

A Kings Speech script See-Saw Films / Bedlam Productions, January 2010 The fifth draft with 'Goldenrod' revisions and 6th January 2010 memo, wit...

BATTERSBY (MARTIN) The Decorative Twenties, 2 copies, photographic illustrations throughout, publisher's light blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket...

[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]: Che...

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

[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 vo...

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

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: Prince...

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

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

[SHANNON] THE FOUNDING OF INFORMATION THEORY. SHANNON, CLAUDE E. 1916-2001. 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication.' Offprint from: Bell System ...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS SOMERVILLE (E.O.) Slippers ABC of Fox-Hunting, colour plates, light spotting and some toning, original pictorial cloth, worn, ...

SITWELL (SACHEVERELL) AND WILFRID BLUNT Great Flower Books 1700-1900, NUMBER 287 OF 295 SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, 36 plates with tissue guards, pub...

AUTOGRAPHS 'Life Begins at Sixty: the Journal of Cass Canfield', a blank book produced for the 60th birthday of Cass Canfield, president of the p...

A French 20-Bore Flintlock Fowling-Piece By Martins, Angers, Circa 1700 With tapering barrel with sighting flat extending to the silver fore-sigh...

A LARGE GROUP OF BINDINGS Including sixty-two volumes of Universal History * The Modern Part of a Universal History , London, 1747-84, Peppy's...