Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833. First edition. Published unbound. 15, (1) p. and 14 plates with charts. In this very early broshure Generali introduces its services and the conditions of life assurance. Gererali has been established somewhat more than a year before the date of this publication on December..... More

M.vásárhelyt [Marosvásárhely]: Nyomtattatott a’ Reform. Kollégyom betüivel Felsö Visti Káli Jó’sef ltal. 1830. First edition. In somewhat later half leather binding. The panels are covered with marbled paper. Spine with gilt title. XVI, [XVII–XX], [1]–162 p., and one folding plate. First edition of Farkas Bolyai's first mathematical publication. This work..... More

A Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, Libraires, rue Saint Jacques, à Saint Thomas d’Aquin. M. DCC. XLI [1741]. First edition. In contemporary school prize binding with gilt coat of arms of Stanisław I Leszczyński on the panels. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt compartments, and title vignette. 4°;..... More

Szeged: Az Egyetem és a Rothermere-Alap támogatásával kiadja a M. Kir. Ferencz József-Tudományegyetem Barátainak Egyesülete, 1932. Offprint first edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author. Text in German. Papered spine. pp. [193]–198. Inscribed offprint of Erdős’ first publication, a proof of the Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem. Erdős’ first paper, written at..... More

Augsburg: Johann Schultes, 1643. Second, enlarged and revised edition. In contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, covers with multiple ornamental roll borders and a central panel, spine with five raised bands and later gilt-lettered leather label. [7] leaves 151 pp. With an engraved portrait of Berthold Schwarz, and 44 numbered engraved plates, mostly..... More

Leipzig: In der Johann Gottfried Muellerschen Buchhandlung (Müller), 1784. With 5 illustrations of knight’s tour and one engraved illustration of the speaking machine. First edition. Printer’s device on title page. In contemporary cardboard. Title vignette on spine. [11], 12–56 p. and 1 mounted plate (on p. 51). One of the..... More

Budapest: Atheneum Irodalmi és Nyomdai R.-T. (1929). First edition. In publisher’s blue buckram, with gilt ornaments on front panel. Gilt title to spine. 326, [2] p. First edition of the short story “Láncszemek” (Chain-Links; pp. 85–91), the origin of the concept of the six degrees of separation, the theory that..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. With numerous inserted handwritten notes by the author in Polish and English. In publishers leather binding. Gilt spine. 10 [2] 141 [3] p. Inscribed copy of one of Łukasiewicz’s most important works, Aristotle’s Syllogistic with several handwritten..... More

(Trieste): (S.n.), (June 1832.). First edition. 1 bifolio (4 printed pages). Very early publication of the insurance company Assicurazioni Generali that has been established on December 26, 1831, and the first about their specific service, “Beneficenza de’ notabili” a special form of investment, a tontine for a higher number of..... More

Budapest (Pápa): Főiskolai könyvnyomda, 1934. First edition. In original paper. 82 p. John von Neumann is among the nominees for corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. One page account of Neumann’s scientific achievements and 3 pages of bibliography of his works between 1922–1933. More

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann (Breitkopf und Härtel), 1901. First edition. Papered spine. XI, (1), (1)–48 p. Melchior (Menyhért) Palágyi (1859-1924) was a Hungarian philosopher, mathematician and physicist. In this study, which is considered as his major work, he presents a new theory of space and time, which had some similarities with..... More

A Paris: [Imprimé chez C. Guillery, Avec Permission], M. DC. LXXXIII [1683]. First editions. In contemporary leather, spine with raised bands, gilt compartment and title vignette. Gilt turn-inns, tinted edges, marbled endpapers. 4to. [8] 48 pp., 12 engraved plates. A groundbreaking 1683 catalogue documenting the first public exhibition of engineering..... More

[Imprint from colophon]: Venetijs [Venice]: per Bonetum Locatellu[m] : impensis nobilis viri Octauiani scoti ciuis Modoetie[n]sis [Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus], M. CCCC. LXXXXIII. i3. kalendas Januarias [i.e. 20 December, 1493]. First edition of this collection (second overall, here enlarged). In its first binding, blind-stamped pigskin-backed wooden boards, with original..... More