Stockholm: , 1892–1900. First editions, offprints. In early 20th century half cloth, publisher’s blank, grey wrappers bound into. Four works are inscribed by the author to Julius Petersen in Frech. From the collection of Manó (Emanuel) Beke. Eleven early papers by the Swedish mathematician Ivar Otto Bendixson (1861–1935), best known..... More

Lisboa: Regia Officina Typografica, MDCCLXXXVII [1788]. First edition. In later paper. [I]–X [1]–148 [4] p., and two folding plates (one coloured by contemporary hand). First edition of Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo’s important treatise on colour theory which influenced Goethe’s famous work, Zur Farbenlehre. In his 1788 book, the..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, Imprimeurs-Libraires, du Bureau des Longitudes, de L’école Polytechnique, 1896. In publisher’s printed wrappers. First two leaves remained unopened. With eight plates of photographic reproductions of X-ray images, and twenty-three text illustrations. (Plates seperated by tracing paper.). VIII, 144 p., and 8 plates. Scarce, early work about..... 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: Pátria Irodalmi Vállalat és Nyomdai Részvénytársaság, 1908. Three early works, bound into one. In modern paper. 9, (3) p. with: Kármán, Th[eodore]. v[on]. Festigkeitsversuche unter allseitigem Druck. Von Dr. -- in Göttingen. (Sonderabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Vereines deutscher Ingenieure, Jahrgang 1911, Seite 1749.) [All-around Strength Test Under..... More

Budapest: Revay, 1906. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. In original cloth. 334 p. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His..... 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

Budapest: [Szerző kiadása (Franklin-Társulat nyomdája)], 1917. First Hungarian edition. Frist separate edition. Original printed wrappers. 29 [3] pp. The foundational statement of Polányi’s adsorption theory—first published here in Hungarian and submitted as his doctoral dissertation during World War I. Polányi’s dissertation, submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the..... More

Budapest: Markovits, 1897? First edition. In original paper. 48 p. One of the the earliest publication about "Telephone announcer", the immediate predecessor of radio. On February 15, 1893, the world's first telephone announcer spoke from the studio at 6 Magyar utca in Budapest's 5th district. The essence of..... More

Budapest: Kir. Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, 1942. First edition. In original paper. 43 p. Zoltán Lajos Baywas a Hungarian physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. He was the leader of the second group to observe radar echoes from the Moon (Moonbounce). From 1930, he..... More