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HUYGENS, Christiaan.
Traité de la Lumière. 1690
£22,500
First edition of Huygens's path breaking exposition of his wave or pulse theory of light. Huygens had developed his theory in 1676 and 1677, and completed his Traité in 1678. He...
Small quarto (189 × 157 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked to style with red morocco label. General title printed in red and black, second part... Read more
EINSTEIN, Albert; MULLER, J. J. [engraver]
Original etching of Albert Einstein. [1934]
£6,000
An engraving of the quintessential shambolic scientific genius, signed lower middle in blue ink by Einstein and lower right in black ink by Muller. The artist was a well regarded...
Sheet size: 265 × 212 mm. Image size 201 × 150 mm. Etching on 1848 charcoal rag laid paper. Presented in a handmade black and moon gold frame. Fine condition. Read more
[BESTALL, Alfred]
The New Adventures of Rupert. 1936
£5,000
First edition of the first Rupert the Bear book in the large "annual" format that was to be familiar to generations of British children. Mary Tourtel had retired in 1935 due to...
Quarto. Original scarlet cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black. With the colour printed dust jacket. Illustrated throughout, four frames to a... Read more
EINSTEIN, Albert.
Relativity. The Special & The General Theory. A Popular Exposition. 1920
£3,850
First English language edition, first impression of Einstein's popular treatment of relativity, with the addition of an appendix on "The Experimental Confirmation of the General...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and diagrams throughout. Ownership... Read more
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey's Clock. 1840–41
£3,000
First edition in the original weekly parts. With preliminaries (frontispiece, title-page and preface) for the three volume edition present in numbers 26, 52, and 88. Each issued as a...
88 weekly parts, octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. In a quarter morocco and green cloth solander case. 3 engraved frontispieces and illustrations... Read more
