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

Maros Vásárhelyini [Marosvásárhely]: Typis Collegii Reformatorum per Josephum, et Simeonem Kali de felső Vist [József and Simon Káli], 1832, 1833. First edition of János Bolyai’s Appendix, his “explanation of the absolutely true science of space”, “the most extraordinary two dozen pages in the whole history of thought” (Halsted, 1896), a...... More

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. With numerous illustrations of diagrams in the text. First separate and first Latin edition of “La Géometrie” (second printing overall). Title page in red and black, with printer’s device. In 18th century blind-stamped leather, spine with four raised bands. Spine lettered in..... More

1950; 1958. Three works by Samuel Herrick. All first editions. Herrick, Samuel: Rocket Navigation. University of California Los Angeles. Astronomical Papers, No. 11. Vol. I, pp. 107–122. [Reprinted from Navigation. (Vol 2. pp. 259–272, December 1950.)] (S.l. S.n. 1950.) (2), 109–122 p. With: Herrick, Samuel –..... 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

Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Mathematikai és Physikai Társulat, 1925; 1926. First edition. In contemporary half cloth. The two volumes bound into one. (4), 156 p.; (4), 184, (2), [2] p. Contains an early publication of John von Neumann the “Uniformly Dense Number Sequences” in volume 33 (pp. 32–40). With a German..... More

London: Printed for John Salusbury, at the Rising-Sun in Cornhil, M DC XC IV [1694]. First edition in Halley’s translation. In somewhat later leather. Spine with red title vignette. With several charts and woodcut diagrams. (4), 208 p. First English edition in Edmond Halley’s translation of Oughtred’s classic work, Clavis..... More

Sent from Toronto. Dated on December 30, [1957]. Handwritten postcard by Erdős. Signed by Erdős and six fellow mathematicians. 140 × 85 mm. Two lines of handwritten greetings in Erdős’s hand, sent to his doctoral advisor Lipót Fejér (1880–1959). Beside Erdős the postcard is signed by fellow mathematicians..... 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

Berlin: Bi-defus Ḥevrat ḥinukh neʻarim; Jüdischen Freyschule. [546] 1786. First edition. After leaf 10, numbering reverts to 1 and the text of Maimonides' Hilkhot Ḳidush Ha-Hodesh begins; Naṿeh Kodesh continues as a commentary to it. In contemporary half cloth. (4°); (2), (10),(41) leaves and one folded, engraved page of geometric..... More

Budapest: Sachs Frigyes, 1904. In modern half leather. First Hungarian edition. 128 p. Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman..... More