Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...

Getting to the moon & back. A rare, early technical manual for the Apollo Lunar Module, the craft that ferried astronauts between the moon's or...

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

The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

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

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