{"title":"Firsts London 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eShapero Rare Books is exhibiting at Firsts London (\u003cstrong\u003estand E33\u003c\/strong\u003e) from the \u003cstrong\u003e14th to 17th May\u003c\/strong\u003e, held at the Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDownload the Firsts catalogue: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(241, 89, 43);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/Firsts_London_2026_pt_1.pdf?v=1778579613\" style=\"color: rgb(241, 89, 43);\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here for Part 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(241, 89, 43);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/Firsts_London_2026_pt_2.pdf?v=1778579618\" style=\"color: rgb(241, 89, 43);\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here for Part 2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us at the UK’s premier rare book fair held in the heart of Chelsea. A must-visit event for collectors, bibliophiles, and rare book lovers. Explore exceptional antiquarian books, literary treasures, historic manuscripts, maps and prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHAPERO RARE BOOKS | Stand E33\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"old-believer-book-of-canons-illuminated-manuscript-1844-94903","title":"Kanonik. 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The city's Bishop, Paul, fiercely opposed Patriarch Nikon's reforms and was consequently stripped of the rank of Bishop, exiled, and eventually killed in 1656, rendering him a martyr in the view of many Old Believers.A century later, 156 Old Believers were officially registered in Kolomna, then a city of 5400 inhabitants. Many more practised their beliefs in secret to avoid persecution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume later belonged to Cornelius J. Hauck (1893-1967), whose outstanding and somewhat eclectic collection was formed with the help of the well-respected antiquarian bookseller Emil Offenbacher between 1945 and 1965. 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The map depicts Alaska as an island and shows routes taken by various Russian expeditions' (Hill).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subscribers list includes Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, Alexander Dalrymple, William Hunter, Constantine Phipps, and Daniel Solander.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst English edition, 8vo (21.4 x 14.4 cm), xx, 118, 2 (publisher's ads) pp., engraved folding map by Thomas Kitchin hand-coloured in outline and engraved title vignette and half title, contemporary half calf with armorial crest on the spine, neat repairs to extremities, an attractive example.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArctic Bibliography 16667; Hill 1624; cf Lada-Mocarski 20 (German edition).","brand":"STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547165319473,"sku":"101016","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/101016_91858e30-9ac9-4967-8557-e44137893119.jpg?v=1791547955"},{"product_id":"102782","title":"Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.","description":"First edition of this interesting and rare work on astronomy dedicated to Louis XVIII and bound for his niece Marie-Thérèse of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. 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With energy use shifting towards oil, Suzuki witnessed the Japanese coal industry's gradual decline after World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzuki later befriended Robert Frank through Motomura Kazuhiko, and the two exchanged correspondence and photographs over many years. Like Frank, Suzuki developed a distinctly personal and somewhat cinematic aesthetic. His books are carefully sequenced, allowing for gradual unfolding narratives. 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With the rare portolan chart lacking from most copies, including that in the National Archives and both copies in recent auction records (Christie's 2012 and 2016). \u003cem\u003eNautica mediterranea\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1602 and reissued here with only the date on the title page altered, as the colophon bears the original date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePortolan charts originated in the 13th century as navigational aids for sailors in the Mediterranean, and are characterised by rhumb lines, which radiate in the direction of wind or compass points to aid in laying courses between different places on the chart. Crescenzi states in this publication that, 'he has personally experienced the errors in traditional charts [caused by magnetic declination across the Mediterranean] thanks to his period as a hydrographer on the galleys of the Papal fleet (from 1588 to 1593) and other voyages made as a passenger and observer in the period 1594-95. Crescenzio argues that magnetic declination was zero in the Azores and rose gradually and uniformly from Gibralter to the eastern Mediterranean... He propose to correct this by rotating the axis eight degrees clockwise around the Azores as fixed center... The work is accompanied by a printed nautical chart, which dates from 1596 but is the result of the application of the theories subsequently outlined in detail within the 1602 publication itself' (Astengo, 'The Renaissance Chart Tradition in the Mediterranean', The History of Cartography, volume 3, pp. 196-197).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to mapping, the text covers numerous other maritime matters, including the construction of galleys and nautical warfare, and includes two functioning volvelles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond edition; 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (248 x 177 mm); folding portolan map, 2 volvelles, 3 engraved folding plates, engravings, woodcuts, and letterpress tables throughout the text, headpieces and decorative initials, portolan chart and final gathering of the second part mounted on a stub but with old dampstain matching the rest of the text and rear endpapers, repaired tear across a third of the portolan chart with some loss filled in, and a few other small repairs and closed tears and some spotting, Nn4 torn with loss in the lower margin not affecting the text, small worming spots in the margin from Dd2 through Ggg sometimes slightly affecting the marginal notes, Y3 and Y4 misbound after X4, spotting and dampstaining; contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript to spine, vellum worn, creased, and darkened, particularly at the spine and edges, and with some small areas of loss, marks, and spots, very good condition; 534 \u0026amp; 63pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CRESCENZI, Bartolomeo.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54997603942775,"sku":"115678","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/115678_01_02bc42ca-761c-49f1-b67b-05e63ecba76c.jpg?v=1790702940"},{"product_id":"bela-szilard-radium-radioaktivitas-first-edition-1905-115254","title":"Radium és Radioaktivitas.","description":"First edition of the first book on radioactivity published in Hungarian. Rare, Worldcat locates only a single institutional copy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Béla Szilárd graduated with a degree in pharmacy from the University of Budapest in 1904. Between 1907 and 1910 he worked at the Curie laboratory in Paris, then spent the First World War at the Instituto de Radioactividad of the University of Madrid, returning to Paris in 1920. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSzilárd 'carried out some experiments on special forensic photography, on the measurement of Roentgen rays, and on the determination of the appropriate doses for medical applications... he collected data and published a map of the spread of radioactive substances around the world' and 'constructed electrometers for specialised usage of radioactive measurements and performed experiments with them' (Palló, 'Isotope Research Before Isotopy', Hungarian Academy of Science, 2008). It was for this work that Szilard was awarded the Légion d'honneur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His short book, \u003cem\u003eRadium és Radioaktivitas\u003c\/em\u003e, the first on radioactivity in the Hungarian language, focused on the description of rays, radioactive substances and their medical applications' (Palló).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 8vo; diagrams in the text, contemporary ownership ink stamp and inscription to the title, pencilled inscription to the rear pastedown, contents faintly toned; original black pebble-grain cloth, titles to spine and upper board in white, spine a little dulled, cloth very lightly rubbed at the tips, front free endpaper professionally reattached by Bainbridge Conservation, endpapers toned, very good condition; 85pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"SZILÁRD, Béla.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55003449852279,"sku":"115254","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/115254_22cc6eff-762c-40e9-a4f8-dfae18a4af44.jpg?v=1791538381"},{"product_id":"luis-alvarez-emilio-segre-radiation-laboratory-lecture-notes-115600","title":"Mimeographed Experimental Physics 290(f) Lectures.","description":"A rare set of mimeographed lecture notes from an experimental physics course connected with Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, with chapters by three Nobel Prize winners. Mimeographed lecture notes of this kind were made by students for themselves and their colleagues, and exist in very small numbers. We have located only two auction records for this title. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerkeley's '290' physics courses are 'graduate level courses that feature a weekly seminar on physics topics... many of which are open to the public', generally meaning the research community (Berkeley website). The present lectures are all labelled '290(f)', what was then a course in experimental physics connected with the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. Now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this research centre was established in 1931 by Ernest Lawrence and centred around his development of the cyclotron, a new and more powerful type of particle accelerator for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. The laboratory has remained a leader in physics research up to the present day, and was responsible for numerous twentieth century breakthroughs, including electronic enrichment of uranium for the Manhattan Project, the discovery of the transuranic elements and the anti-proton, and measurement of the cosmic microwave background radiation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking place around 1950 (none of the reference sources listed in the text have publication dates past 1949), the present course begins with relatively basic concepts in electrical engineering and proceeds to linear accelerators, the cyclotron, and beta ray spectrographs. Of the fourteen lectures, three were presented by Nobel Prize winners:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7, Ionization: Emilio Segré (1905-1989) discovered the antiproton and the elements technetium and astatine. An Italian Jew, he was made stateless by the Mussolini government in 1938 while on a visit to Berkeley, and was offered a position at the Radiation Laboratory. Between 1943 and 1946 he worked at Los Alamos, after which he returned to Berkeley until his retirement in 1972.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10, General Accelerator Considerations: Edwin McMillan (1907-1991) was, with Glenn Seaborg, the first to produce a transuranic element, neptunium. He joined the Radiation Laboratory in 1933 and during the Second World War worked on microwave radar and the Manhattan Project. When hostilities ended he returned to Berkeley, co-developed the synchrotron, and became director of the laboratory after Lawrence's death in 1958.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12, Linear Accelerators: Louis Alvarez (1911-1988) was a pioneer who made fundamental discoveries in physics through his development of the hydrogen bubble chamber. He joined the laboratory in 1936 and worked with the experimental team headed by Robert Oppenheimer. During the war he contributed significantly to radar research, joined the Manhattan Project, and then returned to Berkeley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe full contents are as follows: 1. Electrical Measurements (no author listed); 2. Vacuum Tubes and Amplifiers by A. Bratenahl; 3. Pulse Circuits by R. Mozely; 4. Oscillators by D. Gow; 5. Rectifiers and Power Supplies by D. Gow; 6. General Considerations of Particle Counters by B.J. Moyer; 7. Ionization Chambers by Emilio Segré; 8. Geiger Counters by R. Chasson; 9. Proportional Counters by H.F. York; 10. General Accelerator Considerations by E. McMillan; 11. Van de Graaf Electrostatic Accelerators by A.J. Hudgins; 12. Linear Accelerators by Louis Alvarez; 13. The Cyclotron by R.L. Thornton; 14. Beta Ray Spectrographs by A.C. 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