Harriot Hunt. (1805-1875) Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years Social, Including Twenty Years Professional Life. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First edition inscribed to her niece on inside front endpaper. Brown cloth boards. No other signed copies have come to auction in the past 40 years. No copies.....

Teller, Edward. The Deadly Secrets. Signed manuscript, no date. 11 pages handwritten. Draft by one of the world's most influential scientists, known as the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Hungarian physicist was an early part of the Manhattan Project, the United States' project to develop the nuclear bomb during.....

SYNOPSIS: Albert Sabin. Unlike Salk' vaccine, Sabin's oral vaccine broke the chain of transmission allowing for the eradication of polio. The development of his polio vaccine led to the first modern mass inoculations of 100 million people, which is discussed at length in our manuscript. Important 16 page entirely handwritten.....

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. First London Edition: 1850. The Lord Lovelace presentation copy, inscribed “Right Honble Earl of Lovelace With the Author’s Compliments” on the front free endpaper (likely in the hand of Emerson's publisher). Original plum cloth, elaborately decorated in blind (Myerson’s binding A), spine gilt.....

Inscribed signed photo by all three Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Glossy 10" x 8" black and white photo of the Apollo 11 crew on their first evening out of quarantine after their return to earth posing with three executives of the Rice Hotel on.....

Grace Hopper. A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Cambridge, 1946. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Minor signs of use on spine and covers. This copy belonged to the United States Air Force. Library number on spine, with two stamps of.....

WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. 5 volumes. Octavo. Original blind-stamped cloth with eagle emblem in gilt on upper boards. Complete with all 13 maps and 64 engraved plates. The naval expedition.....

First Female Ph.D. in Germany. Gottingen, Germany: 1895. Grace Chisolm's German language doctoral dissertation "Algebraic group-theoretical studies on sparse trigonometry" at the University of Gottingen made her the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in any field from a German university, and it led her to a fruitful research career.....

Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. ALS, London, 1864. on her '115 Park Street W' stationery. To Richard.....

[Aerospace] Archive of eight scarce courses and technical reports relating to Jet Propulsion and Aero-Elasticity, published between 1945 and 1950, a key period in the development of these fields. Included material was published by the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the US Air Force, and Boeing Aircraft.....

French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur Inscribed Portrait Signed. Measuring 8.75" x 11.75",1886 portrait bust by Legamey. Below the image is a facsimile signature. Pasteur has then added in his hand an inscription: "Souvenir of May 11, 1886, to Mr. Maurice Vallery-Radot / [signed] L. Pasteur." Vallery-Radot could be the.....

Co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. Archive of 2 Typed Letters Signed "Francis". Both letters to Dr. Hans Joachim Lipps, a German molecular biologist. The first letter, dated February 15, 1978 on Salk Institue letterhead, comments on Lipps' study, "The result on the histone genes in Stylonychia is.....

Pincus, Gregory. 10 offprints, 1926-1939. Collection of 10 rare offprints documenting Gregory Pincus' groundbreaking fertility research leading up to the creation of the first birth control pill. All of the offprints are extremely rare. The earliest three have 0 returns on OCLC; the later 7 publications each return only 1.....