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Cosmology for the masses. First UK edition (published simultaneously in the US), the corrected second printing, of one of the most successful popul...

The rare first account of the manhattan project, with secret page. The rare lithoprint edition, the first obtainable edition of the official accoun...

The beginning of air quality monitoring. First and only edition of the first book on the results of air quality monitoring, a pioneering work in th...

First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...

The first authoritative account of british nuclear research and policy. First editions, possible second impression of the first volume, which has n...

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Introducing uniform analytic methods to the study of mechanics. First edition of 'Euler's famous work on mechanics in which he introduced the use o...

First edition. The first edition of the Memoirs of Science and the Arts, an edited collection of scientific discoveries and experiments of general ...

Important mathematics and physics published by a leading italian intellectual society. The 5 complete volumes of the Miscellanea Taurinensis, all f...

Contemporary presentation copy, from the library of oliver sacks. First edition of this collection of philosophical essays by one of the founders o...

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Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...

The major medical book of the 17th-century, translated for the general public. The sixth edition of William Salmon's popular English translation of...

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The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

From the library of oliver sacks. First English language edition, from the library of neurologist Oliver Sacks, with his octopus bookplate.This Eng...