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1 BABBAGE, Charles (1791-1871). “On a method of expressing by signs the action of machinery.” – “On electrical and magnetic rotations.” In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXXVI, Vol. 116, Part 3, pp. 250-65 (first work); pp. 494-528 (second work). London: W. Nicol 1826.

4to. 19 engraved plates (including 5 folding). Babbage: 4 engraved plates, including a folding table showing Babbage’s system for mechanical notation (first paper), and 1 engraved plate illustrating his second paper. (Some minor spotting and offsetting.) Modern calf antique.

FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues. The first paper comprises the first publication of Babbage’s important exposition of his system of mechanical notation which enabled him to describe the logic and operation of a complex piece of machinery on paper. “More than one hundred years later, in the 1930s, when developments in logic were applied to switching systems in the earliest efforts to develop electromechanical calculators, Claude Shannon demonstrated that Boolean algebra could be applied to the same types of problems for which Babbage had designed his mechanical notation system” (Norman).

His method “led him to develop a mechanical notation which provided a systematic method for labeling parts of a machine, classifying each part as fixed or moveable; a formal method for indicating the relative motions of the several parts which was easy to follow; and means for relating notations and drawings so that they might illustrate and explain each other. As the calculating engines developed the notation became a powerful but complex formal tool. Although its scope was much wider than logical systems, the mechanical notation was the most powerful formal method for describing switching systems until Boolean algebra was applied to the problem in the middle of the twentieth century. In its mature form the mechanical notation was to comprise three main components: a systematic method for preparing and labeling complex mechanical drawings; timing diagrams; and logic diagrams, which show the general flow of control” (Hyman, Charles Babbage, 1982, p. 58).

The second paper is on the magnetic properties of matter. The volume also contains contributions by Herschel, Davy, Faraday and others. Origins of Cyberspace37; Tomash & Williams B33 & B21; Van Sinderen 27 & 28. $2,000-3,000

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2 BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605.

4to (174 x 130 mm). (Without the final blank and the two added leaves of errata found in only a few copies, probably of late issue; a few leaves over-inked in quire Dd; occasional minor pale spotting or soiling.) Late-19th century green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son (spine sunned).

FIRST EDITION OF THE “PREPARATIVE OR KEY FOR THE OPENING OF THE INSTAURATION” (Grolier/Horblit). The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and Latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. “In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology” (Norman 97). ESTC S100507; Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164. $3,000-4,000

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3 BATESON, William (1861-1926). Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894.

8vo. Text illustrations (dampstaining to fore-margin of a few leaves, some spotting). Original green cloth, gilt spine (tightened in binding, hinges starting, some minor soiling); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Richard Blanc (signature dated May 1947).

FIRST EDITION of “Bateson’s major scientific work before his rediscovery of Mendel’s laws. Like many other scientists during the last decades of the nineteenth century, Bateson rejected the orthodox Darwinian doctrine of natural selection… Bateson laid great emphasis on the importance of major or discontinuous variation as the source of evolutionary change” (Norman 134). GarrisonMorton 237. $400-600

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4 BOHR, Niels (1885-1962). “On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules.” In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 26, Nos. 151, 153, 155, pp. 1-25, 476-501, 857-875. London: Taylor & Francis, July, September, and November 1913. (3 parts).

FIRST EDITION, journal issue. “Bohr’s three-part paper postulated the existence of stationary states of an atomic system whose behavior could be described using classical mechanics, while the transition of the system from one stationary state to another would represent a non-classical process accompanied by emission or absorption of one quantum of homogeneous radiation, the frequency of which was related to its energy by Planck’s equation” (Norman 258).

[With:] MOSELEY, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys (1887-1915). “The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements.” (Bound with the above.) -- “High Frequency Spectra of the Elements, Part II.” (Bound separately). In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine. Sixth Series, Vol. 26, No. 156, pp. 1024-1034; and Sixth series, Vol. 27, No. 160, pp. 703-713. London: Taylor and Francis, December 1913, and April 1914. (2 parts).

FIRST EDITION of Moseley’s introduction of the use of atomic number, rather than atomic mass, which provided a firm scientific foundation for the atomic table and fostered “the first quantum revolution” (Simmons, The Scientific 100, p.18). “Moseley, working under Rutherford at Manchester, used the method of X-ray spectroscopy devised by the Braggs to calculate variations in the wavelength of the rays emitted by each element. These he was able to arrange in a series according to the nuclear charge of each element... These figures Moseley called atomic numbers. He pointed out that they also represented a corresponding increase in extra- nuclear electrons and that it is the number and arrangement of these electrons rather than the atomic weight that determines the properties of an element. It was now possible to base the periodic table on a firm foundation, and to state with confidence that the number of elements up to uranium is limited to 92” (PMM 407). Norman 1559.

Together, 2 journals bound in 2 volumes, 8vo. With other plates and folding charts related to other articles. (Scant pale spotting to a few leaves.) Uniformly bound in modern maroon morocco gilt. The volumes comprise Volume 26, the Sixth Series, Nos. 151-156, July-December 1913 and Nos. 157-162, January-June 1914 of The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and also include works by Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and J. J. Thomson. $5,000-7,000

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5 BOOLE, George (1815-1864). “On the Theory of Probabilities, and in Particular on Mitchell’s Problem of the Distribution of the Fixed Stars.” In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, Series 4, No. 7 (Supplement), pp. 521-30. London: Richard Taylor, 1851.

8vo. (Some marginal foxing and darkening, small marginal tear on first leaf.) Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened (minor wear with chipping to spine ends, a few small marginal chips to covers, some soiling); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION of this paper on probabilistic logic, in which Boole applies his theory of probabilities to the specific problem of the distribution of fixed stars. “This [paper] seems to have been the first mention, by any author, of the close connection, both in essence and in form, between logic and probability and indeed of the dependence of the theory of probability on an underlying mathematical theory of logic” (MacHale, George Boole). $600-800

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6 BOOLE, George (1815-1864). An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. London: Macmillan & Co., 1854.

8vo. (Neat early numeral on title and a few pencil marks, without publisher’s advertisements at end.) Modern quarter calf antique.

THE FIRST EDITION OF BOOLE’S GREAT WORK ON MATHEMATICAL LOGIC—A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. Probable second issue, with the title, L2 and Q8 cancels, the errata leaf is the last leaf of preliminaries, and there is an additional “Note” leaf inserted before the errata (this latter not in the Norman collation).

“Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding. Boole’s work led to the creation of set theory and probability theory in mathematics, to the philosophical work of Peirce, Russell, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein, and to computer technology via the master’s thesis of Claude Shannon, who recognized that the true/false values in Boole’s two-valued logic were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. This invention of the binary digit or ‘bit’ made possible the development of the digital computer” (Norman).

Norman 266; Origins of Cyberspace 224; Tomash & Williams B198. $1,500-2,000

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7 BRAGG, William Henry, Sir (1862-1942); Sir William Lawrence BRAGG (1890-1971). X Rays and Crystal Structure. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915.

8vo. 4 photographic plates, numerous diagrams in text; half-title; 2pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Title-page creased lower corner with short marginal tear.) Publisher’s original blue cloth (rebacked preserving original spine, endpapers renewed, spine faded with faint library marking); quarter blue morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION of the Braggs’ exposition of their discoveries regarding the structure of the crystal. The father and son team were awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their service in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-Rays,” and they remain the only father-son Nobel Laureates. “Later developments have shown that these experiments of the Braggs have virtually given the science of crystallography a new basis” (PMM). Norman 319; PMM 406b. $300-400

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8 BROWN, Robert (1773-1858). “A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations...on the Particles contained in the Pollen of Plants, and on the general Existence of active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies.” In: The Philosophical Magazine, New Series, Vol. IV, No. 21, pp. 161-173. London: Richard Taylor, September 1828.

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, preceded only by the scarce privately printed edition of the same year. “In 1927 Brown, while making microscopical observations, saw that pollen grains…while suspended in liquid, engaged in a continuous, haphazard, zig-zag movement… The idea that gases and liquids consist of molecules in rapid motion was not new, but it had remained largely speculative until it was scientifically proved and investigated in detail by Robert Brown and his followers” (PMM). “Brownian motion,” as his discovery was subsequently named, formed the basis for kinetic theory of gases, and served as proof of the existence of atoms and molecules. “To Brown belongs the credit for establishing such motion as a property not simply of living pollen but of all minute particles, inorganic as well as organic, suspended in a fluid” (DSB). Dibner Heralds 156; Norman 354; PMM 290 (the privately printed edition).

[With:] BROWN. “Additional Remarks on Active Molecules.” In: The Philosophical Magazine, New Series, Vol. VI, No. 33, pp.161-166. London: Richard Taylor, September 1829.

FIRST EDITION, in which Brown remarks that he is unable to account for the Brownian motion he previously observed before renouncing several recent hypotheses.

Together, 2 journals, 8vo. Numerous engraved plates, in-text diagrams and illustrations. (Lower marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, some scant spotting.) Uniform modern quarter tan calf. Provenance: Glasgow Philosophical Society (stamps on title-page and a few discreet pencil markings to Vol. 4); George Speri Sperti (1900-1991) American inventor (stamp on p. 35 in Vol. 6). $1,500-2,000

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9 BRUCE, James (1730-1794). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768...1773. -- Select Specimens of Natural History collected... [Appendix]. Edinburgh: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1790.

5 volumes, 4to (288 x 224 mm). 55 engraved plates, 3 engraved folding plans, 3 engraved folding maps (one with 7-in. tear crossing image with old repair verso, one with short marginal tear), 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects; engraved vignettes on titles. (Lacking halftitles, title-page to vol. III with closed 5 ½-in. tear crossing a letter and laid down and with closed tear to second leaf crossing letters, marginal repairs to a few plates, a few leaves with minor spotting or soiling.) 19th-century quarter brown morocco, spines gilt (some light rubbing or wear to corners and extremities). Provenance: The Oriental Club (gilt stamps to foot of spines, bookplates, and small stamps to a few leaves).

FIRST EDITION. Bruce of Kinnaird had studied Arabic and Ethiopic and was British Consul at Algiers. Believing the source of the Nile to be somewhere in Abyssinia, Bruce travelled from the Red Sea coast (near present day Eritrea) and reached Gondar where he spent three years at the royal court. By 1770 he had jointed an expeditionary force which brought him within reach of his goal -- to the spring south of Lake Tana form which the Blue Nile rises -- and was forever convinced this was the source of the main Nile. He remained in the Sudan and Egypt until returning to Scotland in 1773, but disillusioned by the reception he received there did not publish his journals until 1790. It is however “one of the most splendid narratives in the literature of African explorations” (Hallett, Africa to 1815).

[In Volume I:] On front flyleaf Vol. I (possibly inserted at an early date) is an unsigned late 18th- or early 19th-century autograph manuscript relating the circumstances of James Bruce’s death. 2 pages, 4to, foremargin chipping and trimmed with some loss to text on page one. “On the 26th of April 1791, Mr Bruce entertained [some?] company at Kinnaird House with his usual Hospitality [&] Elegance. About eight o’clock in the Evening when [the] guests were ready to depart, he was handing one of the Ladies down stairs, when having reach’d the seventh or eighth step from the bottom his foot slipped, & he fell down headlong…[he] expired on Sunday the 27th, the 64th year of his life.” Also describes Bruce’s enduring reputation and describes his contributions to Thaddeus Mason Harris’s Natural History of the Bible. Blackmer 221; Hilmy I:91; Nissen ZBI 617. $2,000-3,000

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10 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1855-56.

3 volumes, 8vo. Folding map, 13 plates (5 chromolithograph, 8 tinted lithographs), 3 plans (2 folding). (Lacking advertisements in Vol. I, half-title in Vol. III, and errata, as often, text leaves washed.) Late 19th-century half brown calf, marbled boards, marbled edges (neatly rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: Smith Harrison (armorial bookplate); unidentified signatures (Neva Gay?).

FIRST EDITION OF “ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF TRAVEL EVER PUBLISHED” (Penzer). Traveling disguised as an Afghan Pathan, Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca, and the first European to travel between the Holy Cities via the eastern route.

He originally intended to cross the peninsula from either El-Medinah to Muscat or from Mecca to Makallah, but he changed course for Mecca, reaching Medina in July 1853, where he remained for a month. The Holy City had such an effect on Burton that he formed “The Hadjilik, or Pilgrimage to Mecca, Syndicate, Limited” on his return to London to enable pilgrims to reach Mecca more easily.

Abbey, Travel 368; Penzer, pp 49-50. $2,000-3,000

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11 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856.

8vo. 2 maps (trimmed close affecting neatline), 4 chromolithographic plates. (Lacking half-title, a few pale stains.) Modern half black morocco gilt, marbled boards.

FIRST EDITION, second issue, without the suppressed fourth appendix included in the first issue. In 1849, the East India Company supported an exploration program to present-day Somalia. By 1854, the program was largely abandoned, but was revived by Burton to become his first African expedition. That year, he set out from Aden disguised as an Arab merchant to cross the desert to Harar, a closed city never opened to foreigners. Speke accompanied him on the journey, and their differing accounts of the true source of the Nile River ignited a controversy between the two. Appendices include Speke’s diary of his African journey, Hearne’s meteorological observations, and a description of Cornwallis’s 1841 attempt to enter Harrar. Abbey, Travel 276; Casada 35; Penzer p. 60-63; Spink 16. $400-600

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12 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). The Lake Regions of Central Africa. London: Longman, Green, et al, 1860.

2 volumes, 8vo. Tinted folding map (very minor chipping to upper margin), 12 chromolithographed plates, woodcut illustrations in text; half-titles. (Scant spotting to a few leaves, otherwise fine.) Original publisher’s brick red cloth gilt by Fisher & Son with their ticket (neatly recased preserving original endpapers, repairs to spine ends, some light soiling, extremities slightly rubbed); half red morocco folding case. Provenance: C. H. M. (booklabel).

FIRST EDITION, second issue, in brick red cloth. The Lake Regions of Central Africa is considered Burton›s best writing and is also his first attack in print on Speke, with whom he traveled to Central Africa. Speke was the first to return to England and the first to publish findings in Blackwood’s Magazine, and took credit for their “discovery” of Lake Nyanza and the source of the White Nile. Burton countered with his denouncement of Speke’s “inaccurate data and outrageous speculations” which the Royal Geographical Society printed in full, perhaps in retaliation for Speke having turned to Blackwood’s Magazine for publication even though the Royal Society sponsored the expedition. Abbey Travel 275; Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-66; Spink 20. $1,500-2,500

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13 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). The City of Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.

8vo. 8 steel-engraved plates; folding map with hand-colored route; folding plan of Salt Lake City; half-title. Late 19th-century polished tan calf gilt, spin gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges marbled (corners bumped, some very minor wear to extremities). Provenance: Charles W. Traylen, Castle House, Guildford, Surrey (bookseller’s label).

FIRST EDITION, describing Burton’s 1860 journey through Sioux territory to Salt Lake City. Burton’s “view of America is fresh, lively, sharp, and pertinent. The City of Saints is one of his best works… a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one traveled westward… [He includes] lists of routes and way stops, the legal system and frontier justice, analysis of raw materials… it is mid-century America in five hundred pages” (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, pp. 334-35). Penzer, pp.

68-69; Graff 512; Howes B-1033; Sabin 9497; Wagner-Camp 570. $500-600

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14 [BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890)]. Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F. R. G. S. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863.

2 volumes, 8vo. With folding engraved frontispiece map in Vol. I (3/4-in. separation to fold), wood-engraved frontispiece in Vol. II. Original publisher’s maroon cloth (spine ends strengthened, slight wear to extremities); half maroon morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION, without Burton’s name on the title-page, but imprinted “R.F. Burton” on spine, as usual (according to Penzer, “it apparently was Burton’s original intention to entirely suppress his name from [this] work”). Wanderings in West Africa is the first of Burton’s works influenced by his four-year tenure as British consul in west Africa, in which he describes the outward journey from Liverpool to consular headquarters on the Spanish Island of Fernando Po off the coast of Cameroon. Casada 70; Penzer, pp. 70-71.

A FINE, BRIGHT COPY. $1,000-1,500

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15 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. London: Sampson Low, et al, 1876.

2 volumes in one, 8vo. 2 color-printed folding maps (short tears to fold of first map), 4 wood-engraved plates, 21 illustrations in text. (Light spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary half brown calf gilt, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, marbled boards, marbled edges (some light wear).

FIRST EDITION, recounting Burton’s second expedition from his consular posting at Fernando Po, made in 1862-1863; vol. I includes Burton’s description of Gaboon, and in vol. II, he provides an account of an expedition on the Congo River. His jurisdiction stretched some 600 miles along the Bights of Benin and Biafra. “Gorillas had fascinated [Burton] ever since his friend Paul du Chaillu reported his amazing discovery of these simians to incredulous audiences in London in July 1861” (Frank McLynn, Snow Upon the Desert, p.191). In the end, Burton only managed to see a captive gorilla; along his journey, he nearly drowned and was struck by lightning.

Casada 66; Penzer, p. 94. $1,500-2,500

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16 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). The Book of the Sword. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884.

8vo. Wood-engraved vignettes throughout. Original publisher’s grey cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and brown, upper cover and decorated with crossed swords and arabesques, uncut and unopened (some very minor soiling). Provenance: Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (1851-1927), British lawyer and politician, great grandnephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Burton’s history of the sword as a weapon, intended to be the first of a three-volume work. “The history of the Sword is the history of humanity,” he wrote, but his book “fell still-born on the public.” On his death, his manuscript notes were so incomplete that no publisher would publish the subsequent volumes. Casada 27; Penzer, pp. 107-112 (“very scarce”). $600-800

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17 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890) and Verney Lovett CAMERON (1844-1894). To the Gold Coast for Gold. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893.

2 volumes, 8vo. 2 folding maps (2-in. closed tear to one, a few short tears along folds of the other), one chromolithographed plate; half-titles, publisher’s advertisements at the end of Vol. I. 20th-century brown crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, stamp-signed by Birdsall; original cloth bound in.

FIRST EDITION, “the record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in” (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, p. 455). Defying an order not to travel for commercial purposes from the Foreign Office, Burton and his friend Verney Lovett Cameron were hired by the Guinea Coast Gold Company to prospect for gold across central Africa. Eventually, Burton was ordered back to his consular post in Trieste by the Foreign Office. Casada 65; Penzer, p. 106. $1,000-1,500

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18 BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration. London: A. M. Philpot, 1924.

8vo. Original publisher’s brown cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some light soiling, spine ends slightly worn, old discreet repair to head of spine, some browning to endpapers); quarter brown morocco folding case. Provenance: Fairfax Downey (1893-1990), American writer and military historian (gift inscription from); Harold Morton Landon, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 38 of 100 copies on handmade paper. Edited by Penzer, this collection of the “rarer and more inaccessible of Burton’s articles” was published the year after his Burton bibliography.

[With:] BURTON. Autograph note signed (“R. F. B.”), to an unnamed recipient. The Granville, Ramsgate, 4 August. 1 page, 12mo, on thick card mounted to front pastedown of above. “Here we are for a while. Air delightful. Hotel abominable…Should stay till about 20th Tues. Au revoir when we return.” $800-1,200

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19 CARVER, Jonathan (1732-1780). Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. London: Printed for the author and sold by J. Walter, 1778.

8vo (218 x 137 mm). 2 engraved folding maps and 4 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards (rebacked in calf to style, minor wear to boards, new endpapers). Provenance: Roger K. Larson (bookplate) FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND BEST ACCOUNTS OF THE FRONTIER IN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN. “Carver, one of the English soldiers wounded and captured at the massacre of Fort William Henry by the French and Indians in 1757, gives a vivid though short eye-witness account of the battle. Though a prisoner of the French and Indians for only three days, when he escaped to Fort Edwards, his is one of the most spirited accounts of the famous massacre. His later frontier experiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin, though formerly discredited, have been accepted as one of the earliest and best accounts of pioneer days in this region” (Vail). Wheat notes that the map, “A plan of Captain Carver’s travels in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1777” is one of the earliest to show “actual results of British exploration in the interior.” Included at end is a vocabulary of the Chipeway language and a zoological history of the interior of North America. Carver popularized the terms “Oregon” and “The Shining Mountains,” though he did not coin either, and wrote the clearest statement of the “pyramidal height-of-land” concept and speculated on the existence of a more westerly Continental Divide. Field 251; Graff 622 (3rd ed.); Howes C-215; Jones 563; Lande 108; Pilling, Algonquin 58; Sabin 11184; Streeter III:1772; Vail 654; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 175. A FINE COPY. $3,000-4,000

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20 CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London: Published by the Author, 1841.

2 volumes, 8vo. 3 maps (one folding) and 176 plates by Tosswill and Myers after Catlin. (Lacking the errata slip.) Original green cloth with printed paper spine labels (spines and joints expertly restored, labels rubbed). Provenance: Michael Faraday (presentation inscriptions from the author on both titles [see below], sold Sotheby’s New York, 26 June 1998, lot 187).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY TO MICHAEL FARADAY, inscribed by Catlin on the title-page in each volume: “M. Faraday / from his friend / Geo. Catlin. 1841.”

Catlin’s “Indian Gallery” was exhibited in the United States, England, and France, from 1837 to 1852, when he won the esteem and friendship of numerous scientists, explorers and cultural luminaries, including Mayne Reid, Joseph Henry, Henry Clay, Benjamin Silliman, Alexander von Humboldt, F. N. Bunsen, William M. Hunt, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, John A. Dix, Michael Faraday, and John Murray. He gave numerous speaking engagements when his exhibition opened at the Egyptian Hall in London. The first of these was given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on February 14, 1840 to an audience of over one thousand, and whose leading membership included scientists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday. When Letters and Notes was published in October 1841 it was met with further acclaim. Shortly after its publication Catlin sent a copy to Faraday, who responded in a letter dated November 22, 1841 requesting he autograph the volumes for him. (See: Correspondence of Michael Faraday).

Howes C-241; Sabin 11536; Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:1. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY. $2,000-3,000

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21 [COOK, James (1728-1779)]. -- [FIRST VOYAGE]. John HAWKESWORTH (1715-1773). An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour; drawn up From the Journals which were kept by several Commanders, And from the papers of Joseph Banks, By John Hawkesworth. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.

3 volumes, 4to (307 x 251 mm). 52 engraved plates, maps and charts (42 folding), including the large folding map of the Straits of Magellan. (A few minor spots or browning, some light offsetting of text to plates.) Original blue paper-covered boards, uncut and partially unopened (spines reinforced with blue-gray cloth); red cloth slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS OF COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE, with the map of the “Streights of Magellan” and the direction for placing the cuts and charts. “Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century” (PMM). Volume I contains the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, and describes the discovery of Tahiti; volumes IIIII contain Hawkesworth’s edited account of Lieutenant Cook’s voyage (he was only promoted to Captain on his return). Cook’s instructions for this first voyage were to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti and to carry on John Byron’s survey and examination of the seas between Cape Horn and New Holland, but they did not extend to searching for Terra Australis. He did, however, add more than 5,000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, and New Zealand, which he circumnavigated. Hill 783; PMM 223; Sabin 30934. $3,000-4,000

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22 DALTON, John (1766-1844). A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808 [part 1]; Russell and Allen for R. Bickerstaff, 1810 [part 2].

2 volumes, comprising parts 1 and 2 of Vol. 1 only (lacking Vol. 2 as often, published in 1827) (225 x 137 mm). 8 engraved plates.

(Some light spotting to plates.) Bound in non-uniform contemporary paper-backed plain and marbled boards, printed spine labels and stencilled volume numbers, uncut (hinges starting and some light chipping to spine with a few discreet repairs to Vol. I, Pt. I, some light wear); red morocco folding case gilt. Provenance: Dr. Cleghorn (presentation inscriptions from the author); New College, Edinburgh (“Bibliotheca Coll. Nov. Edinensis” stamp on title-page).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Dalton: “Dr. Cleghorn with respects from the Author.”

DALTON’S CLASSIC WORK ON THE ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Dalton maintained that all matter was composed of indivisible atoms of various weights, and that each weight corresponded with one of the chemical elements. His was the first chemical atomic theory “to give significance to the relative weights of the ultimate particles of all known compounds, and to provide a quantitative explanation of the phenomena of chemical reaction” (Norman 575). His work prompted him to construct the FIRST PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS (plate 4 in Vol. I, part 1 facing p. 219). “Dalton reconstructed Newton’s speculations on the structure of matter, and, applying them in a new form to chemistry, gave Lavoisier’s reformation of that science a deeper significance…The identity of each atom was established by its particular weight…Hence the problem of chemical composition was that of determining how many atoms, and of what kinds, entered into the unit, later known as the molecule, of each compound substance. This problem dominated nineteenth-century chemistry” (PMM 261). “His equation of the concepts ‘atom’ and ‘chemical element’ was of fundamental importance, as it provided the chemist with a new and enormously fruitful model of reality” (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 44; Grolier/Horblit 22. $10,000-15,000

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23 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). -- Robert FITZROY, editor (1805-1865), and Capt. Philip Parker KING (1793-1856). A Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839.

4 volumes, including Appendix to vol. II, 8vo (228 x 138 mm). 9 folding maps (a few with short marginal tears to folds, otherwise fine), 47 lithographed plates and views. (Lacking advertisements.) Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked to style preserving original lettering-pieces).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF DARWIN’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. Described as “one of the most famous journeys ever undertaken,” the Admiralty Surveying Expedition of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836) carried the 23-year old Charles Darwin as Naturalist and Geologist. It was his observations on the voyage which gave birth to and gradually strengthened his convictions regarding natural selection and evolution. On the first voyage of 1826-1830, King and Fitzroy charted the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and on the second voyage (1831-1836) further charted the South American and Australian coasts, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand and Tahiti. Magnetic observations in the appendix are by Edward Sabine who was with both John Ross and William Parry in the Arctic. Darwin’s own investigations, most notably in the Galapagos, are fully contained in vol. III, together with his journey up the Parana River and into the Andes towards the Cordillera. He later wrote that this voyage had “been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.” Expedition artists were Augustus Earle and Conrad Martens from whose drawings many of the engravings were prepared. Freeman 11; Hill 607; Norman 585; Sabin 37826. A VERY FINE COPY. $10,000-15,000

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24 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species. London John Murray, 1859.

8vo in 12s. 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated June 1859 [Freeman variant 3] at end. Half-title with quotations from “W. Whewell” and Bacon only on verso. Folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin bound to face page 117. Original publisher’s green cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine gilt by Edmonds and Remnants with their ticket [Freeman variant a], brown coated endpapers, uncut (rearhinge slightly cracked, front hinge shaken, with one quire sprung, slightest rubbing to joints and spine extremities, otherwise extremely fine and bright). Provenance: Paul Mellon (1907-1999) American philanthropist (morocco Oak Spring book-label); Haven O’More (bookplate, sold Sotheby’s New York, 10 November 1989, lot 196).

THE VERY FINE MELLON-GARDEN COPY THE FIRST EDITION OF “THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE” (Dibner). Although some key observations and findings from the voyage of the Beagle acted as his initial inspiration, Darwin’s ideas about the beneficial mutation of species did not coalesce into the theory of evolution until his reading of Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population in the latter half of 1838. In his Essay, Malthus presented a statistical argument that unrestrained human populations breed beyond their means and struggle to survive; Darwin related Malthus’s argument to the competition for resources among wildlife and to botanist de Candolle’s “warring of the species” in plants. It became clear to him that general competition among living things was part of the “struggle for existence,” and only the best-adapted survived.

Although the idea of species evolution can be traced to the Greek “great chain of being,” Darwin’s eventual argument for the existence of a viable mechanism - natural selection - made the concept acceptable to the scientific community.

He completed a 35-page sketch of his evolutionary theory in June 1842, which he converted into a 231-page essay by February 1844. He returned to his notes in late 1854, and after consulting Charles Lyell, began writing an extended treatise for his scientific peers on 14 May 1856. Nearly two years later, in March 1858, “Natural Selection” was twothirds complete at 250,000 words, and was projected to be published as a three-volume work. In June of the same year, he received a letter form Alfred Russell Wallace regarding his own independent conclusions about evolution. Both scientists presented papers to the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. At Joseph Dalton Hooker’s suggestion, Darwin completed an abbreviated manuscript of “Natural Selection,” comprising 155,000 words, in April 1859. Stripped of references, the new work was not aimed at specialists, but rather the general reading public. The work was published as On the Origin of Species on 24 November 1859 in an initial print run of 1250 copies, and has since become regarded as “a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general” (DSB).

With “species” misspelled “speceies” on page 20, with the whale-bear story in full on page 184. Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Heirs of Hippocrates 1724; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton (1991) 220; Grolier Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Sparrow Milestones 49; Waller 10786. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. $120,000-180,000

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25 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. London: John Murray, 1868.

2 volumes, 8vo. 43 woodblock illustrations. Vol. I with 32p. advertisements dated April 1867 and vol. II with single advertisement leaf at end dated February 1868. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine by Edwards & Remnant with their ticket (some minor blistering, short splits to spine ends, slight wear to corners, generally fine and bright); green cloth slipcase. Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie (signature); Horticultural Society of New York (bookplate, adhesive remnant on foot of spine, a few pencil markings).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 5 errata on 6 lines in Vol. I, and 9 errata on 7 lines in Vol. II. The book’s slow progress towards publication was due not only to its size but the author’s ill health. “About half of the eight years that elapsed between its commencement and completion were spent on it. The book did not escape adverse criticism: it was said, for instance, that the public had been patiently waiting for Mr. Darwin’s pièces justicatives, and that after eight years of expectation all they got was a mass of detail about pigeons, rabbits and silk worms. But the true critics welcomed it as an expansion with unrivalled wealth of illustration of a section of the Origin” (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, F. Darwin, editor, NY, 1958, p. 281). Freeman 877; Norman 597. A BRIGHT COPY. $4,000-6,000

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26 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871.

2 volumes, 8vo. 16pp. publisher’s advertisements dated January 1871 in each volume. (Some scattered spotting primarily to postlims.) Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (slightly rubbed); quarter green morocco folding case. Provenance: Sir Kenelm Edward Digby GCB (1836-1916) English lawyer (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WORD “EVOLUTION” IN DARWIN’S WORKS, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of On the Origin of Species the following year. “This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for Man, while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection” (Garrison-Morton). In 1847 Wallace and Bates, friends through their shared interest in entomology, set out to “travel to the tropical jungles to collect specimens, ship them home for sale, and gather facts ‘towards solving the problem of the origin of species’ - a frequent topic of their conversations” (DSB). Wallace and Darwin’s researches so closely mirrored each other that in 1858 the two published a joint first announcement of the theory of natural selection. Bates stayed in South America for eleven years, returning the year after Darwin presented his first papers to the Linnean Society. He was an avid supporter of Darwin’s arguments, and Darwin showed great interest in his researches into mimicry amongst butterflies, in which Bates saw “a most beautiful proof of natural selection.” Darwin described one of Bates’ papers on the subject as “one of the most remarkable and admirable papers I have ever read in my life” (DSB). Freeman 128-29; Garrison & Morton 170; Norman 599. $10,000-15,000

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27 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the Same Species. London: John Murray, 1877.

8vo. 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements dated March 1877. Original publisher’s blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt, uncut and partially unopened (some very light wear to corners, upper hinge just starting).

FIRST EDITION, one of 1250 copies, of Darwin’s account of his experiments with cross-pollination. “Darwin noticed that some species flowers differ by the lengths of their anthers and styles…these observations formed the basis of Different Forms of Flowers (1877)…

Darwin had experimentally discovered and demonstrated the fact of hybrid vigor, or heterosis, which is completely explained by Mendelian genetics” (DSB). Freeman 1277; Norman 602. $500-700

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28 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, 1888.

3 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated. 20th-century half green crushed levant gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Marie Tudor Garland (bookplate).

Later edition, “Seventh Thousand,” preceded by the first edition published in 1887. Proving incredibly popular, the work was printed 5 times throughout the first year, and underwent minor corrections with each subsequent printing. Darwin intended his autobiography for his children, not publication, and it was edited to “avoid giving offence to his widow” (Freeman 172). $300-400

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29 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). A group of American editions of Darwin’s major works, comprising: Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. 1877. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 1886. -- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. 1887. 2 volumes. -- On the Origin of Species. 1889. -- The Descent of Man. 1889. -- A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World. 1889. -- On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. 1891. -Fertilisation of Orchids. 1892. [With:] SHEPPARD, Nathan. Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself. 1886. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Together 9 works in 10 volumes, published by D. Appleton and Company, NY. Mostly later editions except where indicated. All in original publisher’s russet cloth. Provenance: James E. Cain (ownership stamp in each volume). $1,000-2,000

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30 DE MOIVRE, Abraham (1667-1754). The Doctrine of Chances: or, a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play. London: Printed by W. Pearson, for the Author, 1718.

4to (246 x 200mm). (Minor marginal soiling to a few leaves at end). Contemporary calf (rebacked, minor wear). Provenance: Samuel Herbert (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of this cornerstone in the field of probability and statistics, dedicated to Isaac Newton, who was a friend of the author.

Babson 181; ESTC T33065; Norman 1529; Tomash & Williams M114. $3,000-4,000

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31 DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus (1683-1744). A Dissertation concerning Electricity… To which is Annex’d, A Letter from President Barbot...London: Printed for W. Innys and T. Longman, 1742.

8vo (172 x 107mm). With advertisement leaf at end. (Lacking half-title and final text leaf containing most of Barbot’s letter, some uppers trimmed close, with some pagination just shaved, occasional soiling or spotting; one ink numerical stamp on a lower margin of a prelim and a few library markings in pencil.) Late-18th or early-19th century vellum gilt (soiled, recased in the 19th-century with blank wove paper leaves at ends, bookplates partially removed from both pastedowns). Provenance: Stokes (early trial signatures on final leaf); Josiah Latimer Clark, English electrical engineer (gilt name stamp on spine and ink stamp on title and a text margin with his Westminster Chambers address); Schuyler Skaats Wheeler (partially effaced bookplate, according to NYPL, the copy was previously released).

FIRST EDITION of “the earliest English work entirely on electricity, with the exception of a tract published by Boyle as part of a collection in 1675” (Honeyman).

Jean Théophile Desaguliers was born in La Rochelle, but moved with his family as boy to England where he was raised and educated.

He became a natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He had studied at Oxford and later popularized Newtonian theories and their practical applications in public lectures. As President of the Royal Society, Newton invited Desaguliers to replace Francis Hauksbee as demonstrator at the Society’s weekly meetings in 1714; he was soon thereafter made a Fellow of the Royal Society. Desaguliers promoted Newton’s ideas and maintained the scientific nature of the meetings when Hans Sloane took over the Presidency after Newton died in 1727.

Desaguliers contributed over 60 articles to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. VERY RARE. ESTC T34640; Honeyman sale 853; Wheeler Gift 306. $2,000-3,000

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32 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”, 1832-1898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton, 1866.

8vo (187 x 118mm). With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. (Half-title creased with a tiny chip and split at lower corner.) Modern red morocco gilt by Baytnun-Riviere, the upper cover with central gilt stamp depicting the White Rabbit holding his watch, the spine gilt in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the others decorated with alternating playing card and rabbit stamps, original cloth covers bound in at rear, edges gilt; slipcased together with below.

Provenance: Margaret (“Margie”) Eliot Tuckerman, New York (gift inscription from her cousin, Appleton Sturgis?, on the front free endpaper in pencil: “Margie / from Cousin Appleton Sturgis? [signature slightly cropped] / Xmas 1867”, and with her pencil signature and notes on half-title). Presumably members of the Appleton publishing family who published the First American edition of this work.

FIRST EDITION, second (i.e., the American re-) issue, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing of Alice with new title-page; the variant (no priority) with the “B” in “By” above the “T” in “Tenniel” on title-page and with the hyphen in “Rabbit-Hole” on Contents page. “This second issue comprises those copies of the first edition still unbound when Lewis Carroll decided in July 1865 to cancel the edition. In 1866 the copies on hand were sold to Appleton, and [1000] new title-pages were printed at Oxford, replacing the originals… Textually the Appleton issue agrees with the Macmillan 1865, the only difference being the cancel title-page” (Lewis Carroll at Texas). Robert N. Taylor, compiler, Lewis Carroll at Texas: The Warren Weaver Collection... Austin: The University of Texas, [1985], no. 2; Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 35 (the London 1865 first edition); PMM 354 (the first issue); Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 44.

[With:] DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”, 1832-1898). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 [but 1871].

8vo (178 x 117mm). Half-title and one-page publisher’s advertisement for Dodgson’s works on Q1v; frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel. Modern red morocco gilt by Baytnun-Riviere, the upper cover with central gilt stamp depicting the Red Queen, the spine gilt in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the others decorated with alternating playing card and rabbit stamps, original cloth covers bound in at rear, edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of page 21, with the misprint “wade” for “wabe” in the second line of the poem “Jabberwocky,” and with the pagination for both pages 95 and 98 (no priority). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84. A FINE, UNIFORMLY-BOUND SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS OF DODGSON’S MOST CELEBRATED BOOKS. $5,000-7,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M

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33 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). “Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt.”

-- “Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.” -- “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper.” Three articles in: Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band. 17, 1905, pp. 132-148, 549560, 891-921. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905.

8vo. Line-block and halftone text illustrations, one folding line-block table, 3 halftone plates, one collotype plate. Contemporary German quarter cloth (slightly shaken in binding); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: H. W. Morse (stamp on front free endpaper); Joseph Henry Apple Library, Hood College, MD (gift bookplate from Richard C. McCurdy and stamps on text block edges).

FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of three important early papers by Einstein. In the first paper, “Einstein suggested that light be considered a collection of independent particles of energy, which he called ‘light quanta.’ Such a hypothesis, he argued, would provide an answer to the problem of black-body radiation where classical theories had failed, and would also explain several puzzling properties of fluorescence, photoionization and the photoelectric effect” (Norman). It was for this paper, together with one on the photoelectric effect (“Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption”), published in 1906, that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. Norman 689; Weil 6.

The second paper proved, according to Einstein himself, that “according to the molecular theory of heat, bodies of dimensions of the order of 1/1000 mm. suspended in liquid experience apparent random movement due to the thermal motion of molecules. Such movement of suspended bodies has actually been observed by biologists who call it Brownian molecular movement” (quoted by R. W. Clark, Einstein, New York, 1984, p. 87). Experimental verification of the predictions made in this paper contributed to proving the physical reality of molecules. Norman 690; Weil 8.

The third paper, on the electrodynamics of moving bodies, was Einstein’s first statement of the special theory of relativity. In it he argued that all motion is relative to the inertial system in which it is measured, and that matter and energy are equivalent. As he himself remarked, “it modifies the theory of space and time” (quoted by Clark, p. 87). Dibner Heralds of Science 167; Grolier/Horblit 26b; Norman 691A; Weil 9. $5,000-7,000

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34 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.

8vo. Original tan printed wrappers, untrimmed (short split along upper spine, minor darkening to at edges); cloth folding case. Provenance: Viktor Achter (bookplate & small monogram stamp inside front cover).

THE FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING OF EINSTEIN’S FUNDAMENTAL GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, which “transformed astrophysics, and indeed the whole scientific outlook” (PMM). Die Grundlage was first published in Annalen der Physik (4. Folge, Band 49), and was then issued as an offprint in the present form. It differs from the journal issue by the incorporation of textual revisions, the addition of a table of contents on pp. 3-5 and Einstein›s introduction on pp. 5-6. “There were several reprints and facsimiles. The first edition may be identified by the presence of the printer›s imprint ‘Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig’ on the verso of the title and the shorter imprint ‘Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig’ on the back wrapper” (Norman).

Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 696; PMM 408; Weil 80. $4,000-6,000

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35 [ENIAC]. ECKERT, J. Presper (1919-1995), Herman H. GOLDSTINE (b.1913), and John G. BRAINERD. Description of the ENIAC and comments on electronic digital computing machines. N.p.: Applied Mathematics Panel, National Defense Research Committee, November 30, 1945.

4to (280 x 215mm). 3 folding plates, text diagrams. Original printed wrappers, stapled with original cloth backing; quarter morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION OF THE RARE RESTRICTED INTERNAL FIRST REPORT ON THE OPERATIONAL ENIAC. INSCRIBED BY A PROJECT FOUNDER HERMAN H. GOLDSTINE on the front wrapper: “With compliments / H. H. Goldstine.”

In the spring of 1945 the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was becoming very interested in electronic computers, and Warren Weaver, head of the NDRC’s Applied Mathematics Panel, asked John von Neumann to write a report on the Moore School’s ENIAC and EDVAC projects. Von Neumann was unable to fulfil Weaver’s request, so Weaver assigned the task to John Grist Brainerd, director of the ENIAC project. Brainerd was eager to have the report appear under his name, but Eckert and Mauchly objected, since Brainerd was largely unfamiliar with the scientific aspects of the project. After some internal dispute, it was agreed that the report’s authors should be listed on the title as Eckert, Mauchly, Goldstine, and Brainerd.

Although confidential progress reports on ENIAC had been issued in 1944, this report of November 30, 1945, was the first account of the completed machine. As stated in the title, the report contained a detailed description of ENIAC, the world’s first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer, as well as chapters on the need for high-speed computing machines, the advantages of electronic digital machines, design principles for high-speed computing machines, and reliability and checking. At the end are three appendices discussing ENIAC’s arithmetic operations, programming methods, and general construction data. This may have been the earliest published report on how the first electronic computer was programmed. Even though the ENIAC was not a storedprogram computer its design and mode of operation involved numerous programming firsts. The report also provided information on the planned stored-program EDVAC, which was then in an early design stage. For the three years between May 1945 and June 1948, ENIAC remained the only functioning electronic, general purpose digital computer in the world.

EXTREMELY RARE: The report was issued with a “Restricted” classification, and according to the distribution list printed on the inside front cover 91 copies were distributed to military, Office of Scientific Research and Development and NDRC personnel. However, the present copy is designated copy “No. 191” on upper cover, and Goldstine explained “about 100” additional copies would have been printed and distributed after word became known of an impending report of such consequence.

When OOC was written, OCLC located four copies of this report at UCLA, Iowa State, Brown, and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. RLIN located copies at the University of Pennsylvania and Hagley Mills. From Gutenberg to the Internet 8.2; Origins of Cyberspace 1107; Gedeon pp. 438-39. $5,000-7,000

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36 [ENIAC]. HARTREE, Douglas R. (1897-1958). “The ENIAC, an Electronic Calculating Machine.” In: Nature, Vol. 157, No. 3990, p. 527.

London: Macmillan and Co., April 20, 1946. – HARTREE. “The ENIAC, An Electronic Computing Machine.” In: Nature, Vol. 158, No. 4015, pp. 500-506. London: Macmillan and Co., October 12, 1946.

Together 2 works in one volume, 8vo. With 4 plates (one folding). (Occasional light foxing.) Modern half calf. Provenance: The Drackett Co. (received stamp on volume title dated “Sep 25 1946”).

THE FIRST WIDELY PUBLISHED ANNOUNCEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ENIAC--THE FIRST ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. The brief first paper begins: “The news has recently been released of a major advance in the development of equipment for extensive numerical calculations, in the successful completion of a large calculating machine based on the use of electronic counting circuits…”. The ENIAC was first unveiled to the public on February 14, 1946 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania, but a published announcement and detailed description of the new computer was not issued until the appearance of these two articles in Nature.

“The ENIAC, developed during World War II by Pres Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering, was the world’s first large-scale general purpose digital computer. Hartree, a British mathematician, first learned of ENIAC in 1945, when he saw the as-yet uncompleted machine during a visit to the Moore School. In 1946 he returned to the Moore School as a participant in the Moore School lectures, advising on nonmilitary uses of ENIAC; during this time he became the first Englishman to work with the machine. He was the first to bring news of ENIAC to Great Britain, publishing the above article in Natureshortly after his return from the United States. Although he himself invented no new calculating devices, Hartree’s promotion of electronic digital calculating methods in scientific computation helped to stimulate the development of more powerful computers like Cambridge University’s EDSAC” (Norman). Origins of Cyberspace 648 (second paper). $1,000-2,000

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37 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Elementa geometriae. Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Edited by Giovanni Campano.

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482.

Super-chancery folio (284 x 206 mm). Collation: a10 b-r8 (a1r blank, a1v printer’s dedication to Giovanni Mocenigo, doge of Venice, a2r text, r7v colophon, r8 blank). 137 leaves (of 138, lacking final blank). 45 lines and headline. Variant settings conform to GW main entry. Types 3:91G (text), 7:92G (preface and propositions), 7B:100R (headlines, capitals only), 6:56G (diagram lettering). Heading on a2r red-printed, three-quarter white-vine woodcut border (BMC 2b, Redgrave 3), possibly by Bernhard Maler, 15 ten-line and numerous five-line black-on-white woodcut initials, over 500 marginal woodcut and type-rule diagrams. (Lower and inner margins with old restoration, first quire with lower fore-corners restored, 7 woodcut diagrams shaved, a few wormholes to first few leaves, single small wormhole continuing through quire i, 2 small marginal wormholes in last 2 quires, minor marginal dampstaining at end, bifolia m3.6 and m4.5 misbound.) Modern vellum over pasteboard; morocco folding case. Provenance: Copious marginal notes and geometrical diagrams in a contemporary hand in Books I-V (a few cropped), a few minor textual corrections in the same hand; effaced 16th-century inscription on a2r; Perugia, Dominicans(?)

(17th-century inscription on a2r, cropped); sold Christie’s New York, 1998, sale 8920, lot 23.

THE “OLDEST MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOK STILL IN COMMON USE TODAY” (PMM) FIRST EDITION, second state, one of the earliest printed books with geometrical figures. The text is the standard late medieval recension of Campanus of Novara (d. 1296), based principally on the 12th-centry translation from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Adelard, one of the most important medieval English translators and natural philosophers, left three Latin versions of the Elements, the first a strict translation of the Arabic version, the second and most popular an abbreviated paraphrase of the first version, and the third a commentary. Campanus’ version is a free reworking of earlier Latin translations, mainly Adelard’s Version II, with additional proofs that make it “the most adequate Arabic-Latin Euclid of all... With an eye to making the Elements as self-contained as possible, he devoted considerable care to the elucidation and discussion of what he felt to be obscure and debatable points” (DSB). Campanus’ text was reprinted at least thirteen times in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Ratdolt’s edition is one of the most beautifully printed of early scientific books. His method of printing diagrams in the margins to illustrate a mathematical text and his finely printed astronomical books became the models for much subsequent scientific publishing. BMC V, 285 (IB. 20513); Dibner Heralds of Science 100; GW 9428; Essling 282; Grolier/Horblit 27; PMM 25; Redgrave 26; Sander 2605; Stillwell Science 163; Thomas-Stanford 1a; Goff E-113. $60,000-80,000

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38 [THE FEDERALIST PAPERS]. -- [HAMILTON, Alexander (1739-1802), James MADISON (1751-1836) and John JAY (1745-1829)]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788.

2 volumes, 12mo (162 x 94 mm). (Vol. II bound without a1 blank, title-page Vol. I with upper blank margin torn away with portion of old inscription and repaired [not affecting letterpress], faded contemporary inscription on front flyleaf Vol. I., scattered spotting, vol.2 bound without half-title [not issued in Vol. I].) Contemporary tree sheep (rebacked with endpapers renewed, a few small repairs, minor wear at edges, rear board creased).

“ONE OF THE NEW NATION’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT” (PMM) FIRST EDITION, collecting the 85 seminal essays written in defense of the newly drafted Constitution and published under the pseudonym “Publius” in various New York newspapers; the complete text of the Constitution, headed “Articles of the New Constitution,” and the resolutions of the Constitutional Convention (signed in type by Washington) appear on pp.368-384 of vol.2.

“Justly recognized as a classic exposition of the principles of republican government” (R.B. Bernstein, Are We to be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution, 1987, p.242). The Federalist essays grew out of the heated pamphlet wars engendered by the question of the ratification of the Constitution. Hamilton enlisted John Jay and James Madison (a Virginia delegate) to collaborate on a series of essays supporting the new plan of government and refuting the objections of its detractors. “Hamilton wrote the first piece in October 1787 on a sloop returning from Albany...He finished many pieces while the printer waited in a hall for the completed copy” (R. Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton: American, 1999, pp.68-69). Due to Jay’s illness and Madison’s return to Virginia, most of the 85 essays, in the end, were written by Hamilton. “Despite the hurried pace at which they worked--they ground out four articles nearly every week--what began as a propaganda tract, aimed only at winning the election for delegates to New York ratifying convention, evolved into the classic commentary upon the American Federal system” (F. McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, p.107). Washington who had served as President of the Constitutional Convention, wrote that The Federalist “will merit the Notice of Posterity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will always be interesting to mankind.” Church 1230; Evans 21127; Grolier American 19; PMM 234; Sabin 23979. $60,000-80,000

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39 FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890). Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-’44. Washington, D. C.: Printed by Order of the Senate, by Gales and Seaton, 1845.

8vo (229 x 140 mm). Large folding map and 4 lithographed maps (2 folding); 22 lithographed plates. (Large folding map with a few very minor nick with one small tape remnant, some overall browning and spotting to text with occasional offsetting to plates). Modern calf antique. Provenance: Emerson R. Wright (ownerships inscription on front free endpaper dated 1846).

FIRST EDITION, the Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. The two reports, written with the help of Fremont’s wife Jessie Benton, “caught the public imagination: images of Fremont’s guide, the then little-known Christopher ‘Kit’ Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Fremont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology” (Pamela Herr, ANB). Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp 115:1. $600-800

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40 GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo...Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632.

4to (211 x 156 mm). Woodcut diagrams. (Lacking etched frontispiece and final blank, as often; title-page with separation along paper flaw just crossing date in the imprint, ca 12 leaves with cut to upper margin mostly affecting headlines, occasionally crossing a few lines of text with slight loss of a few letters K1 & K2, Bb quire misbound, some browning or spotting.) Late 17th- or early 18th-century Italian vellum, spine gilt (minor repairs to head of spine, short separations along joints, some minor wear or soiling). Provenance: Note on pastedown and marginalia in an early Italian hand; G. B. Cagnola (early signature); early shelfmarks; Libri di Carlo A. Chiesa, (bookseller’s pencil notations on rear pastedown).

FIRST EDITION OF GALILEO’S CELEBRATED DEFENSE OF THE COPERNICAN VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Eight years after Pope Paul V forbade Galileo to teach Copernican theory, Pope Urban VIII granted him permission to discuss Copernican astronomy in a book. Galileo’s use of the formal dialogue allowed him to explore his Copernican theories fully within the rubric of the “equal and impartial discussion” required by Pope Urban VIII. The work “was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence... it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, willfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace” (PMM). Pope Urban VIII immediately convened a special commission to examine the book and make recommendations. In depicting the Pope as the simpleminded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, while the printing of any of his works was forbidden. The Dialogo remained on the index until 1832. Carli and Favaro, 128; Cinti 89; Dibner Heralds of Science 8; Grolier/Horblit 18c; Norman 858; PMM 128; Riccardi I:511; Wellcome 2647a. $30,000-40,000

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41 GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Thomas SALUSBURY (c.1625-c.1665, editor and translator). Mathematical Collections and Translations ... The Systeme of the World: in four dialogues. London: Printed by William Leybourn, 1661.

Volume I only in 2 parts, folio (326 x 214mm). Half-title, errata leaf at end of first part; 4 folding engraved plates (one in facsimile), 4 copper-engraved text-illustrations (one a repeat) to the Galileo dialogues, and other diagrams. (The third folding plate supplied in facsimile; Contents leaf *3 with upper margin torn away and repaired with loss of most of one line of heading; first 5 leaves of preliminaries with gutters reinforced; genuine folding plates with minor marginal fraying and soiling; upper corner of leaf Ii repaired; some lower gutter margins with small area of worming touching letters on a few occasions; occasional minor pale dampstaining; a few minor burnholes.) 18th-century mottled sheep (rebacked, some wear at edges, a few minor abrasions). Provenance: Thomas Jones, Lonford (early inscription on half-title); John W. Keenan, Irish portrait painter (various ink signatures, inscriptions and two ink drawings, see note below).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF GALILEO’S DIALOGO, the major work to be included in volume I, and the first vernacular translation in any language. The Systeme of the World, followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina), was only the second work of Galileo’s to be published in England. It preceded the Latin edition, published in London by Thomas Dicas, by two years and remained the only vernacular translation for two centuries. Apart from the two works by Galileo, Salusbury included 7 other translations from Italian and Latin in volume I of his Collections. Some copies also include an errata leaf following 3Z2 (present here). The second volume, including an extensive life of Galileo in part two, was published in 1665 but almost totally destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

This copy is from the library of John Keenan (fl. 1780-1819), Irish portrait and miniature painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1791-1815 and was appointed portrait painter to Queen Charlotte in 1809. The volume contains various inscriptions (a few dated 1820s) and two signed ink drawings by him, including a detailed armorial drawing captioned “Barber’s, Arms” on the blank recto of the second folding plate, and a detailed drawing of his invention identified as the “Harmonical Glasses,” with descriptive text below on the blank verso of the last leaf of the Table of Contents at the end of the first part (Zzz2v), signed “John Keenan, Inventor, Longford,” inscription dated 1821. Carli-Favaro 276; ESTC R19153; Wing S-517. $10,000-15,000

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42 GALTON, Francis, Sir (1822-1911). Hereditary Genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869.

8vo. half-title, 58 pp. publisher’s advertisements; 2 printed folding tables. Early 20th-century half red morocco gilt, uncut (corners lightly rubbed).

FIRST EDITION, in which Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, used the records of notable families as data to investigate whether scholarly, artistic, and athletic talent were heritable. “He concluded that such talents have a high degree of heritability, and that people vary in the kind and degree of hereditary abilities they possess. He applied the Gaussian or normal curve to the range of human abilities, expanding upon Quetelet’s observation that certain measurable human characteristics are distributed like the error function, and thus gave a new importance to biological and psychological variation, which had previously been regarded as unimportant” (Norman 864). Cushing G82; Garrison-Morton 226; Osler 1599; Waller 15950. $300-400

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43 GASS, Patrick (1771-1870). A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt.

Clarke... from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean, during the Years 1804, 1805 & 1806. Pittsburgh: Printed by Zadok Cramer for David M’Keehan, 1807.

12mo (171 x 105 mm). Half-title [A3], page [ix]. (Some browning and staining, a few leaves creased; minor marginal flaw or tear on T2 not affecting text, occasional small reader’s marks in early ink.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (joints and spine expertly repaired, some wear to corners, a little rubbed). Provenance: David Gerky (ownership inscription dated 1807 crossed-out on front flyleaf); Samuel Reinoehl (name stamp and signatures on front flyleaves, one dated 1833).

FIRST EDITION OF THE “EARLIEST FULL FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, PRECEDING THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT BY SEVEN YEARS” (Howes).

Born in Pennsylvania, Patrick Gass “became one of the best-known members of the expedition for several reasons: his key role as sergeant brought his name up frequently in the journals of Lewis and Clark; his account was the first to be published; he was the first to have a biography written about him; and finally, he outlived the other members of the Corps of Discovery by decades” (WagnerCamp-Becker). “Although [Gass’s Journal] lacked the insight, reflection, and depth of geographic, ethnographic, diplomatic, and scientific observations penned by Lewis and Clark, it and Jefferson’s Message from the President were the only accounts available for seven years to describe the expedition’s adventures” (Beckham, p. 89). Beckham, The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, pp. 89-90, 3.1; Graff 1516; Howes G-77; Sabin 26741; Shaw 12646; Smith 3465; Wagner-Camp-Becker 6:1. $6,000-8,000

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44 GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume the First [-Sixth]. London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776-1788.

6 volumes, 4to. Vol. I: Half-title; engraved portrait frontispiece by Hall after Joshua Reynolds dated February 18, 1780, 3pp. contents, x4 and a4 are cancels, errata leaf; Vol. II: Half-title; full-sheet folding map of the Eastern Roman Empire by Thomas Kitchin dated 1 January 1781 bound before p.1 (short tear to fold), half-sheet map of Constantinople and environs by Thomas Kitchin dated 1 January 1781 bound before p.32, G1 and Ll1 are cancels, errata leaf, ; Vol. III: Half-title; full-sheet folding map of the Western Roman Empire by Thomas Kitchin dated 1 January 1781 before p.1, p.177 correctly numbered, p.179 line 18 reading “Honorious,” errata leaf; Vol. IV: Half-title; H3 and L2 are cancels; Vol. V: Half-title; Vol. VI: Half-title; errata for volumes IV-VI on 4Uv. (Some scant spotting to a few leaves, dampstaining to lower margin Vol. II, otherwise fine.) Contemporary calf gilt (skillfully rebacked to style, a few neat repairs, some minor scuffing). Provenance: Campbell of Shanfield (armorial bookplates); A. D. McGregor (stamps).

FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST STATE of volume I with cancels x4 and a4 (so signed) and with the balance of the errata uncorrected. While the first volume was on the press, Strahan decided to increase the print run from 500 to 1000 copies; the second 500 or so copies, constituting the second state, have the errata corrected through p.183 (here uncorrected). The portrait frontispiece and 12pp. of contents, issued with volume II, are bound in to volume I. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the only historical narrative prior to Macauley which continues to be reprinted and actually read” (PMM). Grolier English 58; Norton 20, 23, 29; PMM 222. $8,000-12,000

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45 HEISENBERG, Werner (1901-1976), Max BORN (1882-1970), and Pascual JORDAN (1902-1980). “Zur Quantenmechanik.”

In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 35, pp.557-615. Berlin: Julius Springer, February 4, 1926.

THE FIRST COMPLETE SELF-CONSISTENT DESCRIPTION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS -- THE FAMOUS “THREE-MAN PAPER.” FIRST EDITION, journal issue. “In May, 1925, Heisenberg deliberately abandoned the classical picture of particles and orbits, and took a long, hard look at the mathematics that describes the associations between pairs of quantum states, without asking himself how the quantum entity gets from state A to state B. In the summer of 1925, working with Pasqual Jordan, Born translated Heisenberg’s mathematical insight into the formal language of matrices, and Born, Heisenberg and Jordan together published a full account of the work, in what became known as the three-man paper. The equations of Newtonian (classical) mechanics were replaced by similar equations involving matrices, and many of the fundamental concepts of classical mechanics-such as the conservation of energy-emerged naturally from the new equations. Matrix mechanics seemed to contain Newtonian Mechanics within itself, in much the same way that the equations of the general theory of relativity include the Newtonian description of gravity as a special case” (Gribben, Q is for Quantum, pp. 325-326).

[Bound uniformly with:] BORN and JORDAN. “Zer Quantentheorie aperiodischer Vorgänge.” In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 33, pp.479-505. Berlin: Julius Springer, June 26, 1925. -- HEISENBERG. “Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen.”

In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 33, pp.879-893. Berlin: Julius Springer, July 29, 1925. -- BORN and JORDAN. “Zur Quantenmechanik.”

In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 34, pp.858-888. Berlin: Julius Springer, September 27, 1925.

FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of three of the first papers in the field of quantum mechanics, which trace the creation and development of “the essential framework for twentieth-century physics,” and which lay the groundwork for the “three-man paper” (Simmons, The Scientific 100).

Together, 4 articles in 3 journals, 8vo. Contemporary blue buckram; blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington (blindstamps on flyleaves and a few discreet pencil markings). $2,000-3,000

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46 HEISENBERG, Werner (1901-1976). “Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik.” In: Zeitscrhift für Physik, Vol. 43, pp.172-198. Berlin: Julius Springer, May 31, 1927.

8vo. Contemporary blue buckram; blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington (blindstamp on flyleaf and a few discreet pencil markings).

HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN MODERN SCIENCE. FIRST EDITION, journal issue. In describing the uncertainty principle, Heisenberg established that it is impossible to calculate the position and momentum of a subatomic particle with perfect accuracy. The more precisely the position of a particle is known, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa. “The uncertainty principle gave full weight to an idea that had been known to physics for several years: namely, that ordinary language cannot describe the atom. The atom can only be measured, and into these measurements is built inherent uncertainty due to the limitations of human perception” (Simmons, the Scientific 100).

Heisenberg insisted that theory should only include observable elements, and therefore the uncertainty principle required a new approach to describing the atom, forcing scientists to admit the impossibility of being able to understand the position and velocity of every particle in the universe.

“Heisenberg’s result is not a statement about the inability to construct good measuring devices. It is a statement about an intrinsic property of nature...

Nature has an essential indeterminacy. Nature can be pinned down only so far and no farther. Heisenberg’s…uncertainty principle, is one of the most important and famous discoveries of all science” (Lightman, Great Ideas in Physics, p.210). $2,000-3,000

47 [HENRY VIII] -- HERBERT OF CHERBURY, Edward, Lord (1583-1648). The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. London: E. G. for Thomas Whitaker, 1649.

Small folio (280 x 180 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Faithorne; title printed in red and black within a double rule border; text printed within a single-rule border. Contemporary calf (rebacked and repaired, lacking front flyleaf). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate (bearing the motto “Auspicium Melioris Aevi”).

FIRST EDITION of “one of the best histories in the English language” (Lowndes). Herbert, an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian and poet, began his history of the reign of Henry VIII in 1632, but it was not published until after his death. Walpole called his work “a masterpiece of historic biography.” ESTC R15909; Lowndes 1047. $300-400

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48 JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Notes on the State of Virginia...Illustrated with A Map, including...Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1787.

8vo (215 x 123 mm). Full-page woodcut of “Madison’s cave” at C8v, several printed tables in the text, large folding table of Indian Tribes, large folding engraved map [see below]. (Slightest offsetting from binding onto title edges.)

Contemporary French quarter sheep gilt, sprinkled boards, corners vellum-tipped, smooth spine gilt-decorated, russet morocco lettering-piece, pink silk ribbon marker (minor wear to spine ends, some light rubbing to joints, hinges tightened); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: J. William Smith Collection (Syracuse Public Library bequest bookplate in honor Rev. Ezekiel Wilson Mundy, Librarian; collection dispersed in the 1990s).

FIRST LONDON EDITION, following the privately printed, virtually unobtainable first edition (Paris, 1782 [i.e., 1785]) and a poor French translation (Paris, 1786). This edition contains new accounts of events during and since the Revolution (when Jefferson served as Governor) and features the map engraved at Jefferson’s request to incorporate the most up-to-date topographical data on the soon-to-be-opened Ohio Valley.

Two appendices are of considerable significance; these were issued as supplements with a few copies of the original edition, but are integral to this edition. Appendix II contains the full text of THE PROPOSED VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION, prepared by Jefferson and a committee of “revisers” in the summer of 1783. It was, Jefferson proudly declared, a legal code drafted in “the plain language of common sense” (quoted in R.B. Bernstein, Are We To Be A Nation: The Making of the Constitution, p.65). Appendix III contains THE VIRGINIA ACT FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM passed in 1786. This act was entirely drafted by Jefferson, who “rated it as second in importance only to the Declaration of Independence in such lists of his own achievements as he afterwards drew up” (Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian, pp. 279-280). Pages 293-332 contain a bibliography of pamphlets published in Virginia relating to the controversy over taxation, plus a chronological catalogue of American state papers, largely treaties, compiled by Jefferson, certainly one of the earliest such bibliographical efforts. Church 1189 (first edition); Howes J-78; Sabin 35896; Sowerby 4, pp. 101-30. AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY. [Bound with as issued:] A Map of the Country Between Albemarle Sound and Lake Erie, Comprehending the Whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pensylvania Engraved for the Notes on Virginia. London: Engraved by S. J. Neele, No.352 Strand, London, Published as the Act directs July 13th, 1787 by John Stockdale. 622 x 597 mm., hand-colored in outline (2inch tear at gutter just crossing image at upper right, otherwise very fine).

An important post-Revolutionary map of Virginia, first issued with the 1786 French edition of the Notes, derived from Fry and Jefferson’s key map of Virginia (1751, additions in 1755), Nicholas Scull’s of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Hitchins’ of Virginia (1778). Jefferson was quite aware of the cartographic importance of the composite map: “When Jefferson, then minister to France, decided to publish his Notes on the State of Virginia, first in a French and then in an English edition of 1787, he had the [Fry & Jefferson] map re-engraved, for the occasion, speaking of it with justifiable pride as more valuable than the book in which it was to appear” (The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, ed. W. H. Adams, p. 4). Phillips, p. 984. $20,000-30,000

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49 JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755.

2 volumes, folio (412 x 254 mm). Titles printed in red and black, woodcut tail-pieces. (Title-pages neatly reinserted, a few pale spots, otherwise fine.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, edges sprinkled red (rebacked preserving original spines, endpapers renewed, corners repaired, some light scuffing).

FIRST EDITION OF JOHNSON’S GREATEST LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT, and “the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (PMM).

Johnson included “the entire sweep of words from the crude and demotic to ... recent fanciful forms imported from other languages” (DNB). “The preface ranks among Johnson’s finest writings… It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster’s statement that ‘Johnson’s writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics’” (PMM). Johnson’s work was the first in the English language to combine into one text what we now expect from a dictionary: he codified the spelling of English words and provided clear definitions of their meanings. As he notes in the preface, he encountered many difficulties during production, as the dictionary “was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.” Its success as a dictionary was unprecedented. Alston V, 177; Courtney and Smith p. 54; Chapman and Hazen p. 137; Fleeman I, p.

410; Grolier English 50; PMM 201; Rothschild 1237. $10,000-$15,000

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50 JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.

4to. (Pale offsetting on half-title, inscription slightly bled, old glue remains beneath inscription presumably where bookplate removed.)

Original “Greek flag” blue printed wrappers, uncut (some small losses at corners of spine, a few short tears to edges, a few splits in spine with discreet repairs).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 100 COPIES ON DUTCH HANDMADE PAPER, this copy number 74, SIGNED BY JOYCE on the limitation page.

Joyce’s Ulysses was revolutionary in its time, and it stands as the most significant English-language novel of the 20th-century. The mock-heroic epic novel, celebrating the events of a single day, June 16th 1904, employs a complexity of language and structure, and a cohesion of historical sources which have made Ulysses the most diligently studied work of modern literature in English.

Joyce began writing Ulysses in 1914 or 1915, and, thanks to assistance from Ezra Pound, fourteen installments were published in 23 successive issues of Margaret Anderson’s American Journal, The Little Review between 1918 and 1920. Pound was also influential in getting portions of the work published in Harriet Shaw Weaver’s The Egoist in London in 1919. Facing legal issues in America and England, resulting from the novel’s presumed obscene content, The Little Review was reluctant to publish the complete work.

After several unsuccessful attempts to find a publisher, Pound introduced Joyce to Sylvia Beach of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, who was willing to publish the work under her imprint. The first edition consisted of 1,000 copies: the first 100 copies (as here) were printed on handmade paper and signed by Joyce; copies 101-250 were printed on a slightly lesser grade of handmade paper and were not signed; the final 750 copies were printed on the least expensive stock of paper, also unsigned.

In a letter to Bennett Cerf, of Random House in New York, Joyce writes: “My friend Mr. Ezra Pound and good luck brought me into contact with a very clever and energetic person Miss Sylvia Beach…This brave woman risked what professional publishers did not wish to, she took the manuscript and handed it to the printers….thus it came about that thanks to extra work and the kindness of Mr. Darantière the well-known Dijon printer Ulysses came out a very short time after the manuscript had been delivered and the first printed copy was sent to me for my fortieth birthday on the second of February 1922.”

A FINE COPY of the novel that Hart Crane called, “the epic of the age,” and which Nabokov described as “a divine work of art.”

Connolly The Modern Movement 42; Slocum & Cahoon A17. $120,000-180,000

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51 KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1930.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt (a few faint dampstains on block edges not affecting internal margins, front hinge of Vol. I slightly shaken); printed dust jackets (some chipping to ends of spine panel and corners, spine panels slightly darkened); cloth slipcase. Provenance: H. T. Engstrom (signature on front flyleaf of Vol. I, see below).

FIRST EDITION. A Treatise on Money is Keynes›s first attempt, following the 1929 crash, at explaining the vagaries of the trade cycle, and outlining new methods for controlling booms and busts. “He subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM).

Howard T. Engstrom (1913-1962) was a Yale University mathematics professor and headed research operations at the United States Navy’s Communication Supplementary Activities CSAW during World War II. Along with William Norris and others he founded Engineering Research Associates in 1946. He was one of the co-creators of the UNIVAC computer, and served as deputy director of the National Security Agency. Moggridge A7.1; see PMM 423. $1,500-2,500

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52 KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan, 1936.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt; printed dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20th CENTURY. Keynes argued in this work for government intervention to moderate the extremes of economic activity and to introduce policies in order to produce full employment. PMM 423.

AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY IN A BRIGHT DUST JACKET. $5,000-7,000

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53 KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). The Jungle Book. -- The Second Jungle Book. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894 and 1895.

Together 2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations after J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Original blue cloth, gilt-decorated on front covers, gilt-lettered on spines, edges gilt (hinges tender, spine on second volume slightly darkened, spine extremities and corners slightly rubbed); housed together in cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITIONS. A fine set of this classic children’s work, rare in such bright condition. Livingston 104 and 115; Martindell 54 and 56. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 52. $1,000-1,500

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54 KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). ‘Captains Courageous’ A Story of the Grand Banks. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.

8vo. With advertisement leaf at end; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, frontispiece and illustrations by I.W. Taber, advertisement leaf at the end, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Original pictorial gilt blue cloth, black coated endpapers (hinges tender; spine extremities and corners slightly rubbed); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: J. H. Greenwood (contemporary signature on half-title verso).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition by about a month. It previously had been serialized in Pearson’s Magazine between December 1896 and April 1897. Written while Kipling was living as a newlywed near Brattleboro, Vermont, Captains Courageous is Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America. Livingston 137; Richards A103; Stewart 163. $300-$400

55 KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories for Little Children.

London: Macmillan, 1902.

8vo. Illustrated with plates by Kipling. Original red pictorial cloth (upper hinge tender; spine slightly sunned, and with a touch along upper joint; slight wear to extremities and minor rubbing); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Gerald W. M. Hoare Smith (gift inscription signed “E. D.” dated “Christmas 1902”); unidentified bookplate.

FIRST EDITION of Kipling’s classic collection of children’s stories explaining, among other questions, “How the Camel Got its Hump.” Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 57; Livingston 267; Stewart 260. $600-800

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56 MARX, Karl (1818-1883). Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1887.

2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. (Minor pale spotting to endpapers and half-titles, tiny marginal chip to page 687/688, occasional marginal markings or annotations in ink or pencil.) Original plum cloth, with binder’s ticket of James Maclehose & Sons, Glasgow in each volume (expertly rebacked preserving original endpapers, spines dulled); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Contemporary inscription on rear free endpaper in Vol. I. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Das Kapital, overseen by Engels and translated by Samuel Moore and Marx’s son-in-law Edward Aveling. This edition only contains book I. Although Engels had already published the German edition of Volume II in 1885, he states in the preface, that a translation of it without volume III would be incomplete; the German edition of volume III did not appear until 1894. Based on the German edition of book I, this translation also takes account of substantial changes Marx made for the French translation of 1872-5. Draper II, M129; Rubel 633; Stammhammer I, p. 145. $5,000-7,000

57 MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873.

2 volumes in one, 8vo. Half-title to Vol. I only, errata slip in Vol. I; 20 plates, numerous in-text diagrams. (Lacking half-title and publisher’s advertisements Vol. II., some light spotting to a few leaves.) Blue calf prize binding gilt, upper cover with gilt crest and motto of Blackheath Proprietary School (spine slightly sunned, some very light wear). Provenance: Jonathan Darley (signatures dated 1874).

FIRST EDITION of Maxwell’s most comprehensive work, presenting ideas which would become essential to the development of modern physics. He viewed electricity not just as another branch of physics but “as an aid to the interpretation of nature,” and saw the study of electromagnetism “as a means of promoting the progress of science” (Preface, p. vii). Maxwell advanced “the significant hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature” (Grolier/Horblit). “He began the investigation of moving frames of reference, which in Einstein’s hands were to revolutionize physics; gave proofs of the existence of electromagnetic waves that paved the way for Hertz’s discovery of radio waves; worked out connections between the electrical and optical qualities of bodies that would lead to modern solid-state physics; and applied Tait’s quaternion formulae to the field of equations, out of which Heaviside and Gibbs would develop vector analysis” (Norman 1466). Grolier/Horblit 72; PMM 355. $4,000-6,000

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58 MEITNER, Lise (1878-1968) and Otto Robert FRISCH (1904-1979). “Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction.” In: Nature. Vol. 143, No. 3615 pp.239-41. London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., February 11, 1939.

4to. Modern half blue morocco gilt, marbled boards.

THE FIRST EXPLANATION OF NUCLEAR FISSION. FIRST EDITION, journal issue. “In 1938 Hahn and Strassmann announced their discovery of barium isotopes among the decay products produced by neutron bombardment of uranium. Hahn and Strassmann had in fact discovered nuclear fission” (Norman).

Unsure of how to interpret their results, Hahn and Strassmann wrote a letter to Hahn’s former colleague, Lise Meitner. Working with her nephew, Otto Frisch, they calculated the large amount of energy that would be released during the fission process. Understanding the importance of her findings, Meitner refused an invitation to work on the development of a nuclear fission bomb, and hoped the project would not be a success. Norman 1487; PMM 422b. $1,500-2,000

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59 MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. -- Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926. -- Now We are Six. London: Methuen & Co., 1927. -- The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., 1928.

Together 4 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated by Ernest Shephard. Original gilt-decorated cloth, top edges gilt (slightest rubbing to spine extremities, endpapers lightly discolored); each in original pictorial dust jacket (When We Were Very Young with minor chipping at ends of spine panel, some soiling and minor edgewear, Winnie-the-Pooh with small semicircular stain on rear panel and short tear on front panel, Now We are Six with slight wear at head of spine panel and few stray marks); housed together in quarter morocco cloth slipcase. Provenance: Frank A. de Rougeont (bookplate in When We Were Very Young).

FIRST EDITIONS OF THE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN BOOKS. When We Were Very Young is a second issue (as usual) with page ix numbered. Milne began the poems in When We Were Very Young for his son Christopher Robin. They had originally appeared in Punch magazine and, to the shock of Milne and Methuen, the book sold out on publication day. It was an unqualified success, quoted, recited, and parodied everywhere. Milne based the stories of his second major book Winnie-the-Pooh on a set of stuffed animals Christopher Robin (called “Billy Moon” in the family) owned. Methuen published Milne’s third children’s book just two months after Winnie-the-Pooh. The House at Pooh Corner would be the last of the Pooh books. Milne wanted both to stop while the books were selling well --“I have had my thrill out of children’s books, and know that I shall never recapture it”-- and to protect his growing son: “I feel that the legal Christopher Robin has already had more publicity than I want for him. Moreover, since he is growing up, he will soon feel that he has had more publicity than he wants for himself. We all, young and old, hope to make some sort of name, but we want to make it in our own chosen way, and, if possible, by our own exertions” (Thwaite, pp. 338-39). Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 71. $5,000-7,000

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60 MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses. Translated from French into English by John Florio. London: Valentine Sims for Edward Blount, 1603.

3 parts in one volume, small folio (273 x 183 mm). Three letterpress title-pages, numerous woodcut initials and headpieces. (First few leaves with old repairs to corners or margins not affecting text, I6 repaired affecting two lines at bottom, Ss6 and Tt1 with margin renewed just affecting shoulder note and page number, a few headlines or page numbers shaved, some minor browning or staining.)

With π1 leaf of commendatory verses by Danyel. (Lacking 2Q4 blank at end of second part, one-word correction slip on B1, and 3 leaves of errata.) Early 20th-century mottled calf gilt, spine gilt, maroon morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (neatly rebacked preserving original spine).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. In his introduction, Florio remarks on his philosophy as translator: “Why, then, belike I have done by Montaigne as Terence by Menander, made good French no good English. If I have done no worse, and it be no worse taken, it is well.

As he, if no poet, yet I am no thief, since I say of whom I had it, rather to imitate his and his author’s negligence than any backbiter’s obscure diligence. His house I set before you, perhaps without his trappings, and his meat without sauce.” His proclivity to reinvent material aside, Florio’s English translation was highly important in its time, influencing the work of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Hobbes and Locke. “Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal convictions and private meditations, a form in which he can hardly be said to have been anticipated…He finds a place in the present canon, however, chiefly for his consummate representation of the enlightened skepticism of the sixteenth century, to which Bacon, Descartes, and Newton were to provide the answers in the next” (PMM). ESTC S1111839; Pforzheimer 378; PMM 95. $5,000-7,000

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61 NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. [Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743)]. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold

by Samuel Smith and other booksellers, 1687.

Median 4to (243 x 189 mm). 252 leaves and folding plate. Title in second state, cancelled; P4 cancel correcting orientation of the diagram on verso, errata inserted at end +/- Ooo4); engraving of cometary orbit inserted before B1. Numerous woodcut diagrams in text. (Title-page with outer margins restored and a portion of rule border in pen facsimile, internal tear or paper flaw crossing text on Ll1, marginal paper flaws on three leaves, 13 leaves with small wormtrack lower margin, some slight marginal browning.)

Contemporary vellum, tan calf lettering-piece gilt (some minor soiling); quarter brown morocco folding case. Provenance: H. Pelham (signature on pastedown); Easton family (presumably Walter Easton or his family, Osborne Road, East Fremantle, Australia, signature pastedown).

“THE GREATEST WORK IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE” (PMM).

FIRST EDITION, Continental issue (three-line imprint). One of the most important works in the history of science, “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make” (Einstein). Two apparently concurrent issues can be distinguished, identified by their title in uncancelled or cancelled state. One was distributed by Halley and Newton themselves through a number of unnamed booksellers, the other was largely turned over to Samuel Smith for distribution on the Continent (as here).

This Continental issue is considerably rarer.

The Principia clarifies the universal physical laws of gravitation and motion which underpin phenomena described by Newton’s predecessors Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. He establishes the mathematical basis for the motion of bodies in unresisting space (the law of inertia), the motion of fluids and the effect of friction on bodies moving through fluids, and sets forth the law of universal gravitation and its unifying role in the cosmos. “For the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens... It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought, equalled perhaps only by that following Darwin’s Origin of the Species” (PMM).

In addition this copy has the following points: watermark (Heawood 626) present in signatures P-2K, but not discernable anywhere else; p.22 woodcut corrected; p.29 catchword is “vel”; p.51 signature is G2 (not H2); p.65 correctly paginated; p.72 correctly paginated, last line “punctum” and catchword “Scho-”; p.91 signature is N2; p.110 last line begins “fecet Ellipsin...”; p.209 signature is Dd; p.261 paginated “262”; p.267 signature is Ll2); p.481 catchword is “c2,”; Errata leaf at end (3O4) a cancel. Babson 10; ESTC R33627; Grolier Science 78 (“THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY”); Norman 1586 (3-line imprint title); PMM 161; Wallis 6; Wing N-1048. $150,000-250,000

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62 NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727). Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1704.

4to (240 x 191 mm). Title printed in red and black. 19 engraved folding plates. Woodcut diagrams and letterpress tables in the text. (Washed, title reinserted, some offsetting of plates, a few small marginal repairs not affecting text). Contemporary calf (neatly rebacked, modern endpapers, a few minor repairs); half maroon morocco folding case. Provenance: early shelfmark on title (“+5.1220.rs”?).

“MY DESIGN IN THIS BOOK IS NOT TO EXPLAIN THE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT BY HYPOTHESES, BUT TO PROPOSE AND PROVE THEM

BY REASON AND EXPERIMENTS” (page 1).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the title printed in red and black within a border and with the imprint, but without the author’s name, and with the two treatises on calculus at the end. Opticks was “every bit as revolutionary and challenging, and every bit as controversial as the Principia” (Feingold).

Newton first theorized about light and color in his first published paper in 1672. In Opticks, he summarizes his discoveries and includes his work on the spectrum of sunlight, degrees of refraction associated with different colors, the color circle, the rainbow, and his invention of the reflecting telescope. “The core of his work was the observation that the spectrum of colours (formed when a ray of light shines through a glass prism) is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colours are refracted to different extents. This causes the stretching, or dispersion, of the spectrum. All previous philosophers and mathematicians had been sure that white light is pure and simple, regarding colours as modifications or qualifications of the white.

Newton showed experimentally that the opposite is true” (PMM). Unlike most of Newton’s works, Opticks was first published in English, and was not published in Latin until 1706.

Opticks concludes with two mathematical papers in Latin, published to establish Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz in the invention of calculus. “In a Letter written to Mr. Leibnitz in the Year 1676 and published by Dr. Wallis, I mentioned a Method by which I had found some general Theorems about squaring Curvilinear Figures, or comparing them with the Conic Sections... And some Years ago I lent out a Manuscript containing such Theorems, and having since met with some Things copied out of it, I have on this Occasion made it publick” (Newton’s “Advertisement”). Babson 132; Dibner Heralds of Science 148; Feingold The Newtonian Moment pp. 41-42; Grolier Science 79b; Norman 1588; PMM 172. $30,000-40,000

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63 NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727). The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated from Latin into English by Andrew Motte (d. 1730). -- John MACHIN (d. 1751). The Laws of the Moon’s Motion, according to Gravity. London: for Benjamin Motte, 1729.

2 volumes, 8vo (194 x 120 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces by A. Motte, 2 folding letterpress tables, 47 folding engraved plates, 3 engraved head-pieces by Motte. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary English panelled calf (rebacked, later endpapers preserving bookplates, corners renewed) Provenance: Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796-1858), English chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE PRINCIPIA, first published in Latin in 1687 (see lot 61). A translation of Newton’s System of the World follows Motte’s translation in Vol. II, and John Machin’s unsuccessful attempt to clarify Newton’s lunar theory appears at the end of Vol. II. Bound in this copy, a total of 5 manuscript leaves comprising a contemporary copy of an excerpt from James Thomson’s Summer and an excerpt from Newton’s epitaph. Babson 20; Norman 1587; see PMM 161; Wallis 23. $40,000-60,000

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64 NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727). The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-Lines.

Translated by John Colson. -- John COLSON (1680-1760). A Perpetual Comment upon the foregoing Treatise. London: Henry Woodfall for John Nourse, 1736.

4to (283 x 218 mm). Engraved plate to face 273 trimmed to rule border and mounted as frontispiece, errata slip and advertisement bound in at end. (A few leaves with mild marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary speckled calf, edges red (neatly rebacked, corners renewed). Provenance: R. Friedländer & Sohn booksellers’ ticket.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY. “I thought it highly injurious to the memory and reputation of the great author, as well as invidious to the glory of our own nation, that so curious and useful a piece should be any longer suppress’d” (Colson, Preface).

Newton’s Methodus Fluxonum was originally completed in 1671, but was only read by a small circle of intimates and remained unpublished until Colson published his translation nine years after Newton’s death. Before his death, Newton entrusted the publication of his work to Henry Pemberton, who never published it; the original Latin text was not published until 1779.

Whether Newton or German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had priority in discovering differential calculus was a source of great debate. Newton’s fluxational model was employed in a few sections of his Principia in 1687, but Leibniz began publishing papers on the subject in 1684. Leibniz’s manuscript notes, however, date back to 1673, some 8 years after Newton began investigating the subject. By 1671, at the time of its preparation, Newton’s Methodus Fluxonum was the most complete exposition of the fundamental problem of the calculus, in which he presented a successful general method. Babson 171; Norman 1595; Wallis 232. $20,000-30,000

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65 OGILBY, John (1600-1676). Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid. London: Thomas Johnson for the author, 1670.

Folio (400 x 264 mm). Engraved title; title-page printed in red and black; large folding map of Africa (a few separations at folds repaired on verso); 51 engraved maps, views, and plates (43 double-page or folding); engraved illustrations throughout the text.

(Lacking half-title as often, a few separations to folds of plates or maps occasionally repaired, H1 repaired touching letters, a few leaves with tears crossing text, a few repaired, one plate with tears crossing image repaired and margins renewed, one plate fully backed.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine).

FIRST EDITION of the most comprehensive work in English on Africa published in the 17th-century, intended to be the first volume of Ogilby’s planned English Atlas series. The double-page maps depict Egypt, Morocco, southern and western Africa, the Congo, Madagascar, and the Cape Verde and Canary Islands. The engraved views include depictions of Alexandria and Cairo, Tangier, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, St. Helena, and the pyramids. “Ogilby may be considered as the English De Bry, his works are similar in their objects, compilation, and mode of illustrations” (Cox II, 69). Lowndes III, p.1719; Wing O-163. $2,500-3,500

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66 PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun Rivers; Performed by order of the Government of the United States During the Years 185, 1806, and 1807. And a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain. Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1810.

8vo (210 x 125 mm). Frontispiece portrait, 5 tables (3 folding) and 6 maps (5 folding). (Frontispiece with gutter margin renewed and repairs, one table with some tissue-repairs and slight loss, maps linen-backed, some occasional spotting or browning to text.) Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, with maps loose in rear cover pocket.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTHWEST. In 1806 Pike led an expedition to the southwestern borders of the Louisiana Purchase. He had orders to explore the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and to obtain information about nearby Spanish territory. It was on this trip that he tried, unsuccessfully, to climb the mountain peak later named for him. His party headed south from Colorado, ending up in what is now northern New Mexico, where they were stopped by Spanish officials and charged with illegal entry into Spanish-held territory. All of Pike’s maps, notes and papers became the property of the Spanish, with the party escorted through Santa Fe, across Texas and released on the Spanish-American border in Louisiana.

Pike’s published account of this last expedition, with information about the weakness of Spanish authority in Santa Fe, and the profitability of trading with Mexico, stirred businessmen and politicians into expanding to Texas.

He also helped establish the myth of the “Great American Desert” which slowed growth into the Great Plains. Field 1217; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Sabin 62836; Streeter Texas 1047; WagnerCamp-Becker 9:1; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 297-29. $8,000-12,000

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67 RICARDO, David (1772-1823). On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

8vo (214 x 133 mm). (Without the publisher’s advertisements at end, some minor spotting to title and some leaves at ends.)

Contemporary half calf (rebacked preserving original spine, later spine labels, hinges reinforced, a little wear to corners); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: R. W. Baron? (contemporary signature on title); Samuel Tayleure (armorial bookplate); Henry H. Burke, Baltimore (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF RICARDO’S FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS. Ricardo is credited with the first systematic and scientific approach to economics; his exact mathematical approach and careful deductive methods provided a model for future texts in the field. Ricardo’s interest in political economy was aroused in 1799 by a chance reading of Adam Smith. While he enjoyed cordial relations with Malthus, his economic views were decidedly anti-Malthusian. In 1815 he was urged by James Mill and others to set out a systematic account of his own theories. This led to the publication of the Principles, the result of little more than six months sustained work on his part. The “principal problem in political economy” as he defines it, is the “laws” which regulate “the natural course of rent, profits and wages” over time (Preface). However, his book covered not only those laws but also a newly developed labor theory of value, the theory of international comparative advantage, monetary theory, the influence of taxation, and strictures on the writings of his predecessors and contemporaries. Kress B7029; Goldsmith 21734; PMM 277. $18,000-25,000

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68 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.

8vo (198 x 127mm). HARDBACK ISSUE in original pictorial boards; in quarter morocco folding case.

AN EXCEEDINGLY FINE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, HARDBACK ISSUE, OF THE RARE FIRST HARRY POTTER BOOK. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: “6-9-97 / J. K. Rowling.”

FIRST IMPRESSION TEXT, with the following textual points: number sequence from 10 to 1 and author’s name cited as “Joanne Rowling” on the copyright page, “1 wand” repeated on the equipment list on p. 53; FIRST STATE BINDING, with misspelling “Philospher’s” on lower cover.

One of 500 copies printed, 300 of which went to libraries. Published June 26, 1997, inscribed less than three months after publication. Errington, Rowling A1(a)/A1(aa). Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 100. A SUPERB COPY. $80,000-120,000

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69 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.

8vo. Original pictorial boards (slight bump at head of spine); in very fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. [With:] ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.

8vo. Original pictorial boards; in very fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with number sequence from 10 to 1 on copyright page, and block of misaligned text on p. 7. $2,000-3,000

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70 RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937); Frederick SODDY (1877-1956). “Radioactive Change.”

In: Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 5, pp. 576-591. London: Taylor and Francis, May 1903.

8vo. With other plates and folding charts related to other articles. (Browning to title-page). Contemporary half burgundy morocco gilt (slightly rubbed).

FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST MENTION OF ATOMIC ENERGY. Rutherford and Soddy write in defense of their 1902 paper on atomic transmutation, providing a seven-part study of radioactive change in which they demonstrate that radioactivity involves the spontaneous disintegration of atoms into an as yet unidentified matter. In the final section, “The Energy of Radioactive Change, and the Internal Energy of the Chemical Atom,” they assess their results and offer the realization that “all these considerations point to the conclusion that the energy latent in an atom must be enormous” (p.590). Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.”

See PMM 411. $200-300

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71 RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937). Radio-Activity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904.

8vo. Half-title; half-tone plate, line illustrations in text. (Ink inscription effaced on front free endpaper.) Original publisher’s green giltlettered cloth (very slight wear to extremities); green cloth slipcase. Provenance: Vernon R. Davies (gift bookplate to); Library of the University of Toronto (discard stamp and pencil markings on title verso).

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON RADIOACTIVITY, “recognized as a classic at its publication in 1904” (DSB). “He discovered and named alpha and beta rays emitted from radio-active salts and predicted that disintegration of some radioactive elements would generate helium. He also produced in the laboratory the first artificial transmutation of one element into another” (Dibner). Based on these experiments conducted 1902-1903, Rutherford’s transformation theory, described in the present work, states that radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another. Owing to further developments and the popularity of the work, a second edition, half as big again to include Rutherford’s most recent developments, had to be published in the following year. [With:] Clipped obituary for Rutherford from the McGill bulletin laid in. Dibner Heralds of Science 51; Grolier/Horblit 91; Norman 1871. $1,000-1,500

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72 RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937). “The Structure of the Atom.” In: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 27, No. 159, pp. 488-498. London: Taylor and Francis, March 1914.

8vo. Original printed blue wrappers (very pale spotting to fore-edge, slight chipping to foot of spine); quarter blue morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE PROTON. “The Rutherford atom (also called the Rutherford-Bohr atom)…is a linchpin in the history of modern physics. It also formed the theoretical basis for a necessary correction of the periodic table” (Simmons, The Scientific 100). $400-600

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73 RUTHERFORD, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937). “Collision of α particles with Light Atoms.” In: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Sixth Series, Vol. 27, No. 222, pp. 537-587. London: Taylor and Francis, June 1919.

8vo. (Title and a few leaves reinforced in gutter.) Modern blue cloth. Provenance: Morningside College Library (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SPLITTING OF THE ATOM, journal issue. “In 1911, as a result of bombarding goldfoil with alpha particles, Rutherford formulated the hypothesis of the nuclear construction of the atom which is the basis of all subsequent work in atomic physics and chemistry. Most of the alpha particles passed straight through the foil, but some bounced back from it. Rutherford interpreted the bouncing in terms of his theory. Those that went through were simply passing through the planetary systems of electrons, while those that bounced back had hit, or interacted with, a nucleus. Eight years later, as reported in the paper cited, he found that alpha particles in collision with nitrogen atoms liberated from them nuclei of hydrogen atoms. Thus artificial transmutation was induced: in other words, the atom had been split” (PMM). Norman 1873; PMM 411. $2,000-3,000

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74 SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Oblong 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; in later dust jacket (slight soiling to extremities). Provenance: Edna Voigt (bookplate).

Early printing, SIGNED BY SENDAK on the half-title. Laid-in is a flexible vinyl gift recording of Where the Wild Things Are, distributed in 1970 by Weston Woods Studios in honor of Sendak receiving the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Illustrator’s Medal in 1970, with an accompanying printed letter from the studio and their promotional pamphlet. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature 97 (NY, 1963 1st edition). $400-600

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75 SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922). The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

[With:] The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909.

3 volumes, 4to. Half-titles, titles to vols. I and II in sepia and black. 4 double-page plates, 6 etched plates by George Marston, and 18 mounted plates (including 16 in color after Marston), 1 panorama and 3 folding lithographic maps in pocket to rear of vol. II, numerous illustrations. (Some pale spotting to first and last few leaves.) Vols. I and II in original vellum, upper covers stamped with penguin motif, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt (some light soiling, hinges to vol. II just starting); Antarctic Book in original vellumbacked boards, spine gilt-lettered (some minor chipping).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 97 of 300 copies, the corrected (second) state of the Antarctic Book SIGNED BY 16 MEMBERS OF THE PARTY. “The most luxurious publication ever to have appeared during the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration” (Taurus).

On his return from the 1901-1904 British National Antarctic Expedition with Scott, Shackleton decided to mount his own. His now legendary recruiting announcement read: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” The party wintered at Cape Royds on Ross Island, where they made the first ascent of the Mount Erebus and completed the printing of Aurora Australis. In the Spring, the party attempted to reach the South Pole; although Shackleton’s route from Hut Point up the Beardmore Glacier did not result in achieving the Pole, his party came within 97 miles. Renard 1444; Rosove 305.A2; Spence 1096; Taurus 57. $10,000-15,000

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76 SHANNON, Claude E. (1916-2001). “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” In: The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, Nos. 3-4, pp. [379]-423 & [623]-656. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, July-October 1948.

2 parts, 8vo, original printed blue wrappers (slight fading to spines); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: F. V. Schultz (signature on each upper wrapper margin).

FIRST EDITION, the first appearance of Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication. A seminal work on information theory, essential to the development of computer technology and the foundation of the modern information age. “American mathematician Claude Shannon developed information theory by 1948. He reduced the notion of information to a series of yes/no choices, which could be presented by a binary code. Each choice, or piece of information, he called a ‘bit.’ In this way, complex information could be organized according to strict mathematical principles. His methods, although devised in the context of engineering and technology, were soon seen to have applications not only to computer design but to virtually every subject in which language was important, such as linguistics, psychology, cryptography, and phonetics; further applications were possible in any area where the transmission of information in any form was important” (Mount and List, Milestones, 65). Origins of Cyberspace 880; Tomash & Williams S94-95. $2,000-3,000

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77 [TRANSISTORS]. BARDEEN, John (1908-1991) and Walter H. BRATTAIN (1902-1987). “The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode.” – BRATTAIN, William H. and John BARDEEN. “Nature of the Forward Current in Germanium Point Contacts.” – SHOCKLEY, William Bradford, Jr. (1910-1989) and Gerald. L. PEARSON (1905-1987). “Modulation of Conductance of Thin Films of Semi-Conductors by Surface Charges.” In: The Physical Review, Vol. 74, Second Series, No. 2, pp. 230-233. Lancaster, PA and New York: American Institute of Physics, July 15, 1948.

FIRST EDITION of the landmark journal articles that introduced the invention of the transistor which made the microchip revolution possible.

The transistor was successfully demonstrated on December 23, 1947 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Bell Labs is the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). The three individuals credited with the invention of the transistor were William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. Shockley played a different role in the invention than the other two. He had been working on the theory of such a device for more than ten years, and while he could work out the theory successfully, after eight years he was unable to build a working model. Bardeen and Brattain were assigned to handle the engineering and development, which they did in the relatively short time of two years, to the consternation of Shockley. Shockley, as their supervisor, shared in the glory. What Bardeen and Brattain had created was the “point-contact” transistor. Shockley subsequently designed a new type of transistor called the “bipolar” transistor which was superior to the point-contact type and replaced it, thereby giving Shockley a large part int the creation of the transistor. Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their investigations on semiconductors and the discover of the transistor effect.” Tomash & Williams B88, B89 & S112.

[With:] BARDEEN, John and William H. BRATTAIN. “Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action”. In: The Physical Review, Vol. 75, Second Series, No. 8, pp. 1208-1225. Lancaster, PA and New York: American Institute of Physics, April 15, 1949.

The Physical Review issue of the first comprehensive report on the transistor, which was also published in The Bell System Technical Journal the same month (see following lot).

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78 [TRANSITORS]. The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, Nos. 1-4. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, JanuaryOctober 1949.

4 parts in one volume, 8vo. (Tape repair on title-page of second issue.) Modern half morocco. Provenance: California Research Library (stamp on title-page verso).

The first comprehensive published reports on the transistor, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and practical applications of the semiconductor. Includes Bardeen and Brattain’s comprehensive report on the transistor, “Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action,” (No. 2), and six articles written by Shockley, Bardeen, and others in the “Semiconductor” issue (No. 3)--which is devoted entirely to the explanation and exploration of the new technology. Incomplete brief reports and articles of Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain’s work had appeared previously in The Physical Review, but it was not until this volume of The Bell Systems Technical Journal that a formal presentation was made of the invention and research that would completely revolutionize the electronics industry. Origins of Cyberspace 450 (for No. 2). $600-800

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79 SMITH, Adam (1723-1790). The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; And A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759.

8vo (199 x 122mm). With half-title and errata at end. (Occasional minor light foxing.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original backstrip, later spine label); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: George Goyder (bookplate; sold Christie’s London 26 November 1997, lot 146).

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S RARE FIRST BOOK, which established his reputation immediately upon publication.

Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments laid the foundation on which The Wealth of Nations was later to be built and proposed the theory which would be repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often “led by an invisible hand… without knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society.” “The fruit of his Glasgow years… The Theory of Moral Sentiments would be enough to assure the author a respected place among Scottish moral philosophers, and Smith himself ranked it above the Wealth of Nations…. Its central idea is the concept, closely related to conscience, of the impartial spectator who helps man to distinguish right from wrong. For the same purpose, Immanuel Kant invented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the superego” (Niehans, 62). With Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, Smith created “not merely a treatise on moral philosophy and a treatise on economics, but a complete moral and political philosophy, in which the two elements of history and theory were to be closely conjoined” (Palgrave). Published in London in April 1759 with a recorded “print run of 1,000 copies” (Sher, “Early Editions of Adam’s Smith’s Books,” 13). ESTC T141578; Goldsmiths 9537; Kress 5815; Palgrave III, pp. 412-13. $18,000-25,000

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80 SMITH, Adam (1723-90). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776.

2 volumes, 4to (276 x 222mm). Half-title in Vol. II only, as issued, with publisher’s advertisement for the fourth edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments on title verso and publisher›s advertisements on 4F2v in Vol. II. (Vol. I lacking final blank 3T4, internal tear crossing text on leaf L4, small circular stain on some lower margins, single wormhole in upper outer margin in second half, some minor marginal spotting or worming on a few leaves at end of volume, several pages in Vol II with later ink annotations in German and some underlinings in colored pencil, occasional minor marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, some restoration, later endpapers); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: John Evans (contemporary ink signature on each title).

FIRST EDITION OF “THE FIRST AND GREATEST CLASSIC OF MODERN ECONOMIC THOUGHT” (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith “begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange... The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control” (PMM). Goldsmith 11392; Grolier English 57; ESTC T96668; Kress 7621; PMM 221; Rothschild 1897. $70,000-90,000

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81 SMYTH, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986). Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.

8vo. Photographic plates. Original publisher’s salmon cloth lettered in burgundy on spine (very slight wear to extremities); original printed yellow and black dust jacket (price-clipped, slight wear at ends of spine panel, upper front panel creased, slight soiling). Provenance: Unidentified signature front pastedown.

FIRST EDITION, trade issue, SIGNED BY EDWARD TELLER, “THE FATHER OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB.” Teller emigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1935; in 1941, he joined Fermi’s team that produced the first nuclear chain reaction. He joined with Oppenheimer at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1943 as group leader in the Theoretical Physics Division.

Published on August 12, 1945 (only six days after Hiroshima), Smyth’s Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, is a “remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists, under the code name of ‘Manhattan District’, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb” (PMM).

The first trade edition was preceded by top-secret mimeographed versions of the typescript, and a lithoprint version produced by the Pentagon for distribution to the press. PMM 422e; Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 37, No. 3, pp.204-18; see Norman 1962. $2,000-3,000

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82 STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa; or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.

2 volumes, 4to. Half-titles, titles, 2 mounted portraits, 2 photogravure plates on india paper, 36 mounted wood-engraved plates, 6 signed etchings by M. G. Montbard, 4 colored maps & plans (the 2 larger folding maps mounted on linen), 1-page facsimile autograph. Publisher’s half morocco, vellum gilt-blocked boards, top edge gilt, others uncut (minor soiling to vellum, slightly scuffed and rubbed). Provenance: Chisholm family (20th-century armorial bookplates).

LIMITED EDITION, number 67 of 250 copies of the Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe, SIGNED BY STANLEY on limitation leaf.

Lord Stanley’s 1887 mission to relieve the besieged governor of Egypt was his last mission to Africa. He arrived to discover that the governor did not care to be rescued and was instead angry that Stanley had interfered in his affairs. When Stanley and Emin entered Bagamoyo ahead of their caravan on 4 December 1889, it caused a sensation. Stanley began to write his account of the rescue at the Hotel Victoria in Cairo on 25 January 1890. He worked on the manuscript continuously at a rate of 20 pages per day. The first portion of the manuscript was delivered to the printer on 12 March and Clowes returned the last proof sheet on 3 June. “It may be safely asserted ... that no work of travel of this magnitude was ever before produced in so short a space of time” (Author’s and Publisher’s Note, p. iv). Hosken, p. 189. $2,000-3,000

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83 TURING, Alan Mathison. “Computing machinery and intelligence.” In: Mind, Vol. 59, No. 236, pp. 433-60. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, October 1950.

8vo. Original gray printed wrappers; quarter morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION OF TURING’S LANDMARK PAPER ON THE CONCEPT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE. To answer the question of whether or not electronic computers think, Turing proposed an experiment, later called the Turing test, that would allow the unbiased comparison of a machine’s “thinking behavior” with that of a normal human being. The test involved two parties, “X” and “Y”, who engage in a conversation by teletype. Human X cannot know whether Y is a machine or a person. If X believes that Y is responding like a person after a specified period of time, and Y turns out to be a machine, then that machine may be defined as having the capacity to “think.” Origins of Cyberspace 936. A VERY FINE COPY. $2,000-3,000

84 VON NEUMANN, John (1903-1957). “Zur Theorie der Gesellschatsspiele.” In: Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 100, pp.

295-300. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928.

8vo. In library buckram, with original printed wrappers and front matter mound at rear; quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: John Crerar Library, Chicago (bookplate with deaccession stamp on pastedown, perforated stamp on title & gilt stamp on spine).

FIRST EDITION OF VON NEUMANN’S FIRST PAPER ON GAME THEORY. The first paper and most important paper by von Neumann related to the Theory of Games, where he established his minimax theorem and offers the first general proof. A fundamentally important contribution to mathematics that has established or significantly enhanced many fields, including business, economics and the social sciences. “…in the 1920s John von Neumann single-handedly invented game theory, introducing the general mathematical concept of ‘strategy’ in a paper on games of chance [the present paper]. This contained the proof of his famous ‘minimax’ theorem that says ‘a strategy exists that guarantees, for each player, a maximum payoff assuming that the adversary acts so as to minimize that payoff’” (Norman). See Origins of Cyberspace 953 (discussed in entry for his joint work with Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior). $1,000-1,500

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85 VON NEUMANN, John (1903-1957) and Oskar MORGENSTERN (1902-1977). Theory of games and economic behavior. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944.

8vo. Errata sheet laid in loose. Original brown cloth (minor rubbing); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Northwestern University Applied Mathematics (stamp & pencil note on pastedown noting sale to); Wallace Givens, mathematician and a pioneer in computer science (stamp on pastedown).

FIRST EDITION OF THE GROUND-BREAKING WORK OUTLINING A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF GAMES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, with the rare errata sheet. Quantitative mathematical models for games such as poker or bridge at one time appeared impossible, since games like these involve free choices by the players at each move, and each move reacts to the moves of other players. However, in the 1920s John von Neumann single-handedly invented game theory, introducing the general mathematical concept of “strategy” in a paper on games of chance (Mathematische Annalen 100 [1928]: 295-320). This contained the proof of his “minimax” theorem that states “a strategy exists that guarantees, for each player, a maximum payoff assuming that the adversary acts so as to minimize that payoff.” The “minimax” principle, a key component of the game-playing computer programs developed in the 1950s and 1960s

by Samuel, Newell, Simon, and others was more fully articulated and explored in The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, coauthored by von Neumann and the Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern.

Game theory, which draws upon mathematical logic, set theory and functional analysis, attempts to describe in mathematical terms the decision-making strategies used in games and other competitive situations. The Von Neumann-Morgenstern theory assumes (1) that people’s preferences will remain fixed throughout; (2) that they will have wide knowledge of all available options; (3) that they will be able to calculate their own best interests intelligently; and (4) that they will always act to maximize these interests. Attempts to apply the theory in real-world situations have been problematical, and the theory has been criticized by many, including AI pioneer Herbert Simon, as failing to model the actual decision-making process, which typically takes place in circumstances of relative ignorance where only a limited number of options can be explored.

James Wallace Givens, Jr. (1910-1993) was a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. He was an assistant to Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study during his doctoral work, and later a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He also taught at Wayne State University and Northwestern University, and worked early on with UNIVAC I at the Courant Institute of New York University (NYU) and later with ORACLE at Oak Ridge (both early vacuum tube computers). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Minsky 1963, 506; Origins of Cyberspace 953. $1,000-1,500

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86 WATSON, James Dewey (b. 1928) and Francis Harry Compton CRICK (1916-2004). “Molecular structure of nucleic acids.” In: Nature, Vol. 171, No. 4356, pp. 737-741. London: Fisher, Knight & Co. Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Limited, April 25, 1953. -- WATSON and CRICK. “Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid.” In: Nature, Vol. 171, no. 4361, pp. 964-967. London: Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Limited, May 30, 1953.

8vo. (Apparently an ex-library copy with some remnants on lower flyleaf and a few pencil and ink markings, a few soft vertical creases.) Contemporary green buckram; quarter green morocco folding case.

THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF DNA -- THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL LIFE -- THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES. FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Crick and Watson published four papers in 1953 regarding their discoveries; these first two papers were published within a few weeks of each other. The first identifies the double helix structure; the second explains the specific nature of the double helix that allows for genetic transmission. Despite remaining uncertainties about the unproved nature of that structure, Crick and Watson were confident enough to postulate that their discovery would “help to solve one of the fundamental biological problems -- the molecular basis of the template needed for genetic reproduction.” Also included in this volume are: Maurice WILKINS, A.R. STOKES and H.R. WILSON, “Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid,” pp. 738-40 and Rosalind FRANKLIN, “Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate,” pp. 740-41. Dibner Heralds of Science 200; Garrison-Morton 256.3, 7138.

[Boxed with:] CRICK, Francis Harry Compton, Leslie BARNETT, S. BRENNER, and R. J. WATTS-TOBIN. “General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins.” In: Nature, Vol. 192, No. 4809, pp. 1227-1232. London: Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Ltd., December 30, 1961.

8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Provenance: Francis Otto Schmitt (1903-1995) Professor of Biology at MIT, pioneer in molecular biology and neuroscience (stamp on upper cover). FIRST EDITION, journal issue, describing the “elegant series of genetic experiments by which they proved that the genetic code for protein was a triplet code” (National Library of Medicine). $3,000-4,000

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87 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Buildings Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press, 1963.

2 volumes, including plate portfolio, 4to and folio. 100 monochrome plates. Text volume: original stapled wrappers; plates loose as issued in original printed wrappers in original publisher’s cloth and board portfolio, ribbon ties.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, authorized for publication by Wright in 1958, and published posthumously. The 100 plates recreate the original Wasmuth portfolio of 1910, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe. The original edition intended for distribution in America was destroyed in the 1913 fire at Taliesin, where it was being stored. The plates depict the designs of the Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studio (1889), the W. H. Winslow House (1893), Unity Temple (1906), and the Frederick C. Robie House (1909), which “has generally been regarded as the finest of the Prairie houses” (Roth 463). A FINE COPY. $400-600

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Couture and Luxury Accessories Timothy Long Director, Senior Specialist timothylong@hindmanauctions.com

Arts of the American West

32 North Brentwood Boulevard Clayton, Missouri 63105 314.833.0833

Kansas City

Rockford, Illinois Janet Moore 815.399.3983

Ohio

Macy Nyhart Hansen 513.560.3200

Alexandria Dreas Consignment Manager alexandriadreas@hindmanauctions.com 303.825.1855

Washington, D.C.

Interiors

Roger Schrenk and Chris Fultz 703.217.3811

Gia Spezia, Director giaspezia@hindmanauctions.com 312.334.4219

Maura Ross 561.676.3199

Mid Atlantic

International

Tina Fisher Grow 561.315.9100

GUIDE FOR PROSPECTIVE SELLERS Evaluation of Property If you have property you wish to sell, please call our Consignment Department at 312.280.1212 to arrange for a consultation. At that time, you may make an appointment to bring your property or photographs, along with any other pertinent information, to Hindman LLC and we will be happy to provide you with complimentary estimates and advice. If you have a large collection, an appointment may be made to evaluate the property on-site. Fees for on-site visits may vary.

Standard Commission Rates Our standard rate of commission is equal to ten percent (10%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for $5,001 or more; and twenty percent (20%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for less than $5,001, with a minimum commission of $25 per lot sold. If your property fails to reach the reserve price agreed upon between you and Hindman LLC, you may be obligated to pay a reduced commission rate of five percent (5%) of the reserve price.

Shipping Arrangements Hindman LLC can advise you as to how to have your property delivered to our galleries. Packing, shipping and insurance are payable by the seller. In certain instances, packing and shipping costs may be paid by Hindman LLC and deducted from the proceeds of the sale. We may recommend packers and shippers, but we are not responsible for their acts or omissions.

Appraisals Appraisals can be arranged for insurance, donation, estate tax, family division or other purposes. Appraisal fees vary according to circumstances.

Please contact our Estates and Appraisals Department at 312.280.1212 for further information.

GUIDE FOR PROSPECTIVE BUYERS Conditions of Sale Hindman LLC encourages all prospective buyers to read the Conditions of Sale printed in this catalogue.

Exhibitions Hindman LLC recommends that all prospective buyers attend the pre-sale exhibition prior to the auction. Staff members are available at our pre-sale exhibitions to advise prospective buyers on particular objects or on any aspect of the bidding process.

Estimates Hindman LLC provides catalogue descriptions and pre-auction estimates for each lot included in the sale. These estimates are a guide for prospective bidders. They are not definitive. All pre-sale estimates are subject to revision.

Condition Reports We are happy to provide a condition report for lots with a low estimate of $300 and above. Nevertheless, intending buyers are reminded that condition reports are statements of our opinion only, and that each lot is sold “AS IS,” per our Conditions of Sale, as outlined in the back of this catalogue. All lots should be viewed personally by prospective buyers or their agents to evaluate the condition of the property offered for sale due to the highly subjective nature of condition reports.

Bidding at Auction The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer will be the purchaser. In addition to the hammer price, the buyer agrees to pay Hindman LLC a buyer’s premium as well as any applicable taxes.

Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens at half the low estimate and advances in the following order, although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction.

The normal bidding increments are: $0 - $200 ........................................ $10 $200 - $500 ........................................ $25 $500 - $1,000 ..................................... $50 $1,000 - $2,000 ................................... $100 $2,000 - $5,000 ................................... $200 $5,000 - $10,000 ................................. $500 $10,000 - $20,000 .............................. $1,000 $20,000 - $50,000 .............................. $2,000 $50,000 - $100,000 ............................ $5,000 $100,000 - $200,000 .......................... $10,000 Over > $200,000 ...... Auctioneer’s Discretion

In-House Bidding Live bidding at Hindman LLC is by paddle only. Please register for a paddle at the entrance of the sales room. If you are the successful bidder, your paddle number and the hammer price will be announced by the auctioneer.

Online Bidding Hindman LLC allows absentee and live bidding through our website at hindmanauctions.com as well as absentee and live bidding through third party online bidding providers which vary by sale. For more information regarding online bidding please visit our website at hindmanauctions.com.

Absentee Bidding If you are unable to attend an auction, you may use the absentee bid form provided at the back of this catalogue. Hindman LLC will exercise written order bids and telephone bids at no additional charge. Lots will always be sold as inexpensively as is allowed other bids and reserves as are on our books or bids executed in competition from the audience.

Tax Exempt Notice Lots marked with an asterisk (*) are tax exempt as permitted by law.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS/PARKING From the WEST: Take I-290 east. Take the Paulina Street/Ashland Boulevard exit 28B. Stay straight to go onto West Congress Parkway. Turn left onto South Paulina Street.

Take a slight right onto West Ogden Avenue. Turn right onto West Lake Street.

Building will be on the left side at 1338 West Lake Street.

From the NORTH/NORTHWEST: Take I-90/I-94 east toward Chicago. Take the Ogden Avenue exit 50A. Stay straight to go onto North Racine Avenue. Turn right onto West Lake Street.

Building will be on the right side at 1338 West Lake Street.

From the SOUTHWEST: Take I-55 north. Exit 292A I-90/I-94 W Wisconsin Follow I-90/I-94 W Wisconsin to the Lake Street exit 51A. Turn left onto West Lake Street. Building will be on the right side at 1338 West Lake Street.

From the SOUTH/SOUTHEAST: Take I-90/I-94 west Follow I-90/I-94 W via the exit on the left toward Chicago Loop. Take the Lake Street exit 51A and turn left onto West Lake Street. Building will be on the right side at 1338 West Lake Street.

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CONDITIONS OF SALE HINDMAN LLC AS AGENT The lots listed in this catalogue will be offered by Hindman LLC as owner or as agent for consignor(s) subject to the following terms and conditions. By bidding at auction you agree to be bound by these Conditions of Sale.

BEFORE THE SALE Prospective buyers are strongly advised to personally examine any property in which they are interested before the auction takes place. Condition reports are usually available on request, on lots with a low estimate of $300 and above.

All lots are sold “AS IS” and without recourse and neither Hindman LLC nor its consignor(s) makes any warranties or representations, express or implied with respect to such lots. Neither Hindman LLC nor its consignor(s) makes any express or implied warranty or representation of any kind or nature with respect to merchantability, fitness for purpose, correctness of the catalogue or other description of the physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, medium, material, genuineness, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, exhibitions, literature or historical significance of any lot sold. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. No statement, whether written or oral, and whether made in the catalogue, or in supplements to the catalogue, an advertisement, a bill of sale, a salesroom posting or announcement, the remarks of an auctioneer, or otherwise, shall be deemed to create any warranty, representation or assumption of liability. Hindman LLC and its consignor(s) make no warranty or representation, express or implied, that the purchaser will acquire any copyright or reproduction rights to any lot sold. Hindman LLC expressly reserves the right to reproduce any image of the lots sold in the catalogue.

AT THE SALE Refusal of Admission Hindman LLC has the right, at our complete discretion, to refuse admission to the premises or participation in any auction and to reject any bid.

Registration before Bidding A prospective buyer must complete and sign a registration form and provide identification before bidding. We may require bank or other financial references.

Bidding as Principal When making a bid, a bidder is accepting personal liability to pay the purchase price, including the buyer’s premium, all applicable taxes and all other applicable charges, unless it has been explicitly agreed upon in writing with Hindman LLC before the commencement of the sale that the bidder is acting as agent on behalf of an identified third party acceptable to Hindman LLC, and that Hindman LLC will only look to the principal for payment.

Absentee Bids We will use reasonable efforts to carry out written bids given to us at least 24 hours prior to the sale for the convenience of clients who are not present at the auction in person, by an agent or by telephone. Bids must be placed in U.S. dollars. If we receive written bids on a particular lot for identical amounts, and these are the highest bids on the lot at the auction, it will be sold to the person whose written bid was received and accepted first. Execution of written bids is a free service undertaken subject to other commitments at the time of the sale and we do not accept liability for failing to execute a written bid or for errors and omissions in connection with the written bid.

Telephone Bids On lots with a low estimate of $300 and above and if a prospective buyer makes arrangements with us prior to the commencement of the sale we will use reasonable efforts to contact them to enable them to participate in the bidding by telephone and we do not accept liability for failure to do so or for errors and omissions in connection with telephone bidding. These telephone bids may be recorded at the discretion of Hindman LLC. Online Bids We will use reasonable efforts to carry out online bids and do not accept liability for equipment failure, inability to access the Internet or software malfunctions related to the execution of online bids.

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Reserves Some lots in the sale are subject to a reserve which is the confidential minimum price below which such lot will not be sold. The reserve will not exceed the low estimate of the lot. Reserves are agreed upon with consignors or, in the absence thereof, the absolute discretion of Hindman LLC. The auctioneer may open the bidding on any lot below the reserve by placing a bid on behalf of the seller. The auctioneer may continue to bid on behalf of the seller up to the amount of the reserve, either by placing consecutive bids or by placing bids in response to other bidders. With respect to lots that are offered without reserve, unless there are already competing bids, the auctioneer, in his or her discretion, will generally open the bidding at half of the low estimate for the lot. In the absence of a bid at that level, the auctioneer may proceed backwards at his or her discretion until a bid is recognized, and then continue up from that amount.

Auctioneer’s Discretion The auctioneer has the right at his or her absolute and sole discretion to refuse any bid, to advance the bidding in such a manner as he or she may decide, to withdraw any lot, and in the case of error or dispute, and whether during or after the sale, to determine the successful bidder, to continue the bidding, to cancel the sale or to reoffer and resell the item in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, our sale record is conclusive.

Successful Bid The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer will be the purchaser.

In the case of a tie bid, the winning bidder will determined by the auctioneer at his or her sole discretion. In the event of a dispute between bidders, the auctioneer has final discretion to determine the successful bidder or to reoffer the lot in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, the Hindman LLC sale record shall be conclusive. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer to the highest acknowledged bidder subject to the Conditions of Sale set forth herein, and the bidder assumes full risk and responsibility.

AFTER THE SALE Buyer’s Premium In addition to the hammer price, the buyer agrees to pay Hindman LLC a buyer’s premium and the applicable sales tax added to the final total. The buyer’s premium for all purchases except via live online bidding is twenty-five (25%) of the hammer price up to and including $250,000; twenty percent (20%) of any amount in excess of $250,000 up to and including $3,000,000; and twelve percent (12%) of any amount in excess of $3,000,000.

Third-Party Platform Fee If the buyer bids through a third-party platform the buyer agrees to pay a surcharge to Hindman LLC equal to the fee levied by the third-party platform.

The third-party platform fee is in addition to the buyer’s premium.

Payment The buyer must pay the entire amount due (including the hammer price, buyer’s premium, all applicable taxes and other charges) no later than 5 p.m. on the seventh (7) business day following the sale. Payment in U.S. dollars may be made with cash; bank check or cashier’s check drawn on a U.S. bank; money order; or wire transfer unless other arrangements are made with Hindman LLC. Hindman LLC reserves the right to hold merchandise purchased by personal check until the check has cleared the bank. The purchaser agrees to pay Hindman LLC a handling charge of $50 for any check dishonored by the drawee.

Tax Exempt Notice Lots marked with an asterisk (*) are tax exempt as permitted by law.

Collecting Purchases Once Hindman LLC has received all funds due to us, the buyer shall collect purchased lots within seven (7) business days from the date of the sale.

Packing and Shipping If your bid is successful, we can provide you with a list of shippers. We will not be responsible for the acts or omissions of carriers or packers whether or not recommended by us. Property will not be released to the shipper without the buyer’s written consent and until payment has been made in full. Packing and handling of purchased lots by us is at the entire risk of the purchaser, and Hindman LLC will have no liability of any loss or damage to such items.

Non Payment If we do not receive payment in full, in good cleared funds, within seven (7) business days following the sale, we are entitled in our absolute discretion to exercise one or more of the following measures, in addition to any additional actions available to us by law: a.) to impose a late charge of one and a half percent (1.5%) per thirty (30) days of the total purchase price b.) to hold the defaulting buyer liable for the total amount due and to begin legal proceedings for its recovery together with interest, legal fees and costs to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law c.) to cancel the sale d.) to resell the property publicly or privately with such terms as we find appropriate, to resell the property at public auction without reserve, and with the purchaser liable for any deficiency, cost, including handling charges, the expenses of both sales, our commission on both sales at our regular rate, all other charges due hereunder and incidental damages. In addition, a defaulting purchaser will be deemed to have granted us a security interest in, and we may retain as collateral security for such purchaser’s obligations to us, any property in our possession owned by such purchaser. At our option, payment will not be deemed to have been made in full until we have collected funds represented by checks, or in the case of bank or cashier’s checks, we have confirmed their authenticity.

LIABILITY Condition Reports Hindman LLC is not responsible for the correctness of any statement of any kind concerning any lot, whether written or oral, nor for any other errors or omissions in description or for any faults or defects in any lot. Neither the seller, ourselves, our officers, employees or agents, give any representation, warranty or guarantee or assume any liability of any kind in respect of any lot with regard to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, description, size, quality, condition, attribution, completeness, authorship, authenticity, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibition history, literature or historical relevance. Except as required by local law any warranty of any kind whatsoever is excluded by this paragraph. Items under $1,000 are collated upon request.

Purchased Lots If for any reason a purchased lot cannot be delivered in the same condition as at the time of sale, or should any purchased lot be stolen, mis-delivered or lost prior to delivery, Hindman LLC shall not be liable for any amount in excess of that paid by the purchaser.

Legal Ramifications The rights and obligations of the parties with respect to these Conditions of Sale, the conduct of the auction and any matters connected with any of the foregoing shall be governed and interpreted by the laws of the jurisdiction in Illinois. If any part of these Conditions of Sale is found by any court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part shall be discounted and the rest of the conditions shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Discretion Any and all of the conditions may be waived or modified in the sole discretion of Hindman LLC.

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e.) to offset against any amount owed f.) to not allow any bids at any upcoming auction by or on behalf of the buyer g.) to take other action as we find necessary or appropriate

Failure to Collect Purchases If property is not picked up within seven (7) business days following the sale, whether or not payment has been made, Hindman LLC reserves the right to charge $5 per lot per day or to deliver said property to a public warehouse for storage at the purchaser’s expense. Hindman LLC shall have no liability for any damage to property left on its premises for more than seven (7) business days following the sale. In addition, we reserve the right to impose a late charge of one and a half percent (1.5%) per month of the total purchase price if payment is not made in accordance with the conditions set forth herein. For property that is not picked up after thirty (30) calendar days, an additional administration fee of $75 will be charged. Property which is paid for but left on our premises for any reason in excess of sixty (60) calendar days is subject to sale by us with the balance of any funds recovered in excess of storage charges and any other fees being remitted to you.

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Online registration/bid requests must be received at least 24 hours before the auction begins. Hindman LLC will confirm all bids received by fax or by return email. Phone bids will not be accepted on lots with a low estimate below $300. Hindman LLC allows absentee and telephone bidding registration through our website at www.hindmanauctions.com

Bidding generally opens at half the low estimate and advances in the following order, although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction.

The normal bidding increments are:

NAME

SALE No./NAME

$0 – 200 $200 – 500 $500 – 1,000 $1,000 – 2,000 $2,000 – 5,000 $5,000 – 10,000 $10,000 – 20,000 $20,000 – 50,000 $50,000 – 100,000 $100,000 – 200,000 $200,000 +

714 BUSINESS NAME

BILLING ADDRESS

CITY

STATE

COUNTRY/ZIP

CONTACT NAME

PRIMARY PHONE

EMAIL

SECONDARY PHONE

For absentee bids, indicate your limit for each lot. Your bids will be executed at the lowest prices allowed by reserves and competing bids. If we receive more than one bid of the same value, the first one received will take precedence.

FAX

I authorize Hindman LLC to bid on my behalf up to the amount stated below. By bidding at auction you agree to be bound to the Conditions of Sale as stated in the sale catalogue and on our website.

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DAT E

( FO R H INDM AN L CC)

$10 $25 $50 $100 $200 $500 $1,000 $2,000 $5,000 $10,000 AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION

A per lot buyer’s premium is added to the final hammer price as per the following: $0 – 250,000 $250,001 – 3,000,000 $3,000,001 +

25% 20% 12%

Hindman LLC is not responsible for failure or other inadvertent errors relating to the execution of your bids.

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First time bidders please provide a valid credit card and one of the following: Passport/Driver’s License/National Identity Card LOT No.

LOT DESCRIPTION

ABSENTEE BID

PHONE BID

BACK-UP BID

USD ($) L IM I T EX C L .

BUY E R’S P R EM I U M

PL EAS E C H EC K

F O R T EL EPH O N E B I D D ER S O N LY

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Upcoming Auction Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana November 6, 2019

RATZER, Bernard. Plan of the City of New York.

London: Jefferys & Faden, January 12, 1776.

Estimate: $80,000.00 - 120,000.00

INQUIRIES Gretchen Hause, Director & Senior Specialist 312.334.4229 gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HindmanAuctions.com

THOMAS HART BENTON (AMERICAN, 1889-1975) WHISKEY GOING INTO THE RACKHOUSE TO AGE OR WHISKEY BARRELS, 1945 TO BE OFFERED IN OUR AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ART AUCTION ON OCTOBER 17.

U P C O M I N G AUC T I ON S C H E DU L E 722 | THE VIRTUOSO COLLECTION: OPERA MEMORABILIA FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT THE LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO OCTOBER 1 | ONLINE ONLY 722 | MODEL RAILROADS AND RAILROADIANA FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION OCTOBER 3 | CHICAGO 678 | FINE TIMEPIECES OCTOBER 4 | CHICAGO 704 | PALM BEACH COLLECTIONS OCTOBER 8 | ONLINE ONLY 719 | ST. LOUIS COLLECTIONS OCTOBER 10 | ST. LOUIS 700 | FINE FURNITURE, DECORATIVE ARTS AND SILVER OCTOBER 15 | CHICAGO 701 | FINE FURNITURE, DECORATIVE ARTS AND SILVER OCTOBER 16 | ONLINE ONLY 693 | AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ART OCTOBER 17 | CHICAGO

714 | LIBRARY OF A MIDWESTERN COLLECTOR NOVEMBER 5 | CHICAGO 697 | FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING AMERICANA NOVEMBER 6 | CHICAGO 715 | ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST NOVEMBER 7 | DENVER 716 | ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST NOVEMBER 8 | ONLINE ONLY 713 | MODERN DESIGN NOVEMBER 12 | CHICAGO 717 | INTERIORS NOVEMBER 13 | ONLINE ONLY 721 | ESSENTIAL JEWELRY NOVEMBER 15| ONLINE ONLY 726 | FINE ART WINTER SELECTIONS NOVEMBER 19 | ONLINE ONLY

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