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

First published use of 'evolution'. The first US edition, first impression of Darwin's second work of genius, containing his earliest published use...

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

The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...

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...

Looking inside technology. A publisher's sample of this fabulous, chromolithographic flap book on fin de siècle technology. Normally published in t...

The first comprehensive technical guide to automobiles. A rare complete set of the first comprehensive technical work on automobiles. Volume I is t...

An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, contain...

The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...

Second edition of this important work by Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833), first printed in 1797-98, complete with the first supplement published...