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Kepler's Most Influential Work

keplerKepler’s Most Influential Work: His Laws Fully Explained. 

 

£75,000 first edition, a fine copy, of the work which ‘ranks next to Ptolemy’s Almagest and Copernicus’ De revolutionibus... [It] is the first systematic complete presentation of astronomy to introduce the idea of modern celestial mechanics founded by Kepler’ (Caspar, Kepler, p 297)

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Intoxication Made Easy

Intoxication Made Easy

Intoxication Made Easy.

First edition, stated copy 103 of an edition limited to 100 copies, signed by Eliot Paul and Luis Quintanilla, of which 89 were for sale to the public. They’d clearly had a few before numbering the books ...

 

 

 

 

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Astronomical Manuscript

Astronomical Manuscript

ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPT. ‘Traicté de l’Air’. Manuscript treatise on astronomy, cosmology, physics, and mathematics, including the use of a proportional compass. [France, ca 1630]

 

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Trade Catalogue - Holt & Willetts

 Holt & Willetts's Trade catalogue Hydraulic and General EngineersHolt & Willetts's Trade catalogue Hydraulic and General Engineers

Interestingly the last few leaves illustrate Wrought - Iron Fire Resisting Safes, Fire Proof Doors and Wrought Iron Fire - Resisting Deed Boxes. The contents are very clean and bright.

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The Secret People

First Edition of John Wyndham’s first novel in scarce dustwrapper.

altThis is Beynon-better-known-as-Wyndham’s first novel; a lost race extravaganza set in (oddly enough) 1964, with a suitably prescient touch Queen Elizabeth the Second sits upon the throne of England (she wasn’t in line for succession in 1935), our hero is flying his ‘strato-plane’ across the Sahara with a feisty redhead and her cat...there’s a crash, there are decadent underground pygmies (obviously!), giant mushrooms,  the feisty redhead is worshiped as a goddess, oh, and Italy is planning to flood the Sahara in order to turn it into an inland sea. All in all it makes genetically engineered man eating plants seem tame by comparison. £4,500

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edinburgh-2012-fairThe clock is ticking as Edinburgh 2012 moves closer and closer. Full details of the fair are now available on the new website developed to publicise the event: www.edinburghbookfair.org

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