THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN MECHANICAL CALCULATION

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Copper printing plates for a pharmacist, c.1890

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The first recorded and illustrated case of gigantomastia/breast hypertrophy, in the Phil Trans 1669

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C.S. Myers on Shell Shock: Exceptionally scarce offprint group, 1915–1919

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THE INVENTION OF THE MICROMETER, AND THE ORIGIN OF PRECISION ASTRONOMY

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Letter from Peter Dollond, optical instrument maker, c.1790

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Two manuscripts from Jesse Ramsden’s workshop, 1786 and 1788

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'MR BABBAGE'S INVENTION': THE BIRTH OF AUTOMATIC COMPUTING

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CLAUDE SHANNON: TWO TYPESCRIPTS ON ANALOG COMPUTERS

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A MECCANO DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER

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THE MUSICAL SLIDE RULE: A SCARCE DIDACTIC PAPER INSTRUMENT

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Smeaton’s papers on scientific instruments: scarce 1814 volume in fine binding

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TWO SCARCE EARLY WORKS ON THE MAGIC LANTERN

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Fine W & S Jones miniature surveying compass, c.1815, offered with the Jones catalogue

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THE INGENIOUS POSOGRAPHE: WITH A LETTER FROM THE INVENTOR

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THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON

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Unrecorded proof Arnold & Dent trade card, circa 1830

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THE INVENTION OF THE LED: PRE-PRINT WITH ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS

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Veronica Forrest-Thomson's Wittgensteinian poetry

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Wittgenstein's late great work – a wonderful copy

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Wittgenstein on religion and aesthetics

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Wittgenstein's 'box of slips'

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Eduardo Paolozzi, ‘As Is When’

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OUTSTANDING COMPLETE SET OF THE ABRIDGED 'PHIL TRANS', 1665 TO 1733, IN ORIGINAL UNIFORM LEATHER BINDINGS

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THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

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EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS VERY SCARCE WORK BY THE MASTER OF THE GHOST STORY

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BEAUTIFUL FIRST UK EDITION OF THIS CHILDREN'S CLASSIC

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HAPPENING: FLAT-SIGNED AND DATED BY ERNAUX

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STEPHEN HAWKING'S COPY OF 'MTW', THE LEGENDARY BOOK ON GRAVITATION, REVIEWED BY HIM IN NATURE

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C.S. LEWIS' CRITICAL CLASSIC

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RARE SPECIMEN VOLUME WITH 144 DYE SAMPLES

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Self-published signed true first of Hugh Howey's Wool [Silo series #1]

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Orwell's Critical Essays: 1946 1st in dust-jacket

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The Philosophical Investigations

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Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

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Logical Positivism in miniature (inscribed by C.K. Ogden)

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Popper on philosophical problems

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L. Susan Stebbing brings Logical Positivism to the UK

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Wittgenstein in Cambridge: lectures and recollections

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus, first edition with Cambridge provenance and notes

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Wittgenstein's ‘Dictionary for Elementary Schools

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The invention of binary arithmetic

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Henry Moore on African art

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MYSTICISM AND LOGIC IN WITTGENSTEIN'S CAMBRIDGE CIRCLE

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Astronomer Margaret Burbidge’s copy

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Oppenheimer’s unpublished masterpiece

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The origin of the 'Dambusters Raid', SOLE COPY

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"The greatest gift that modern astrophysics has given civilization"

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Inscribed to Stephen Hawking by his Russian counterpart

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The earliest accurate plan of Auschwitz – self-published by a former prisoner

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The ‘transmutation letter’: Darwin’s first published mention of evolution

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With unpublished notes on Venus by Patrick Moore

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Demonology in Oxford

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Kim Jong Il on cinema: printed in Pyongyang – vanishingly rare

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Exceptional Holmesiana: a book offered by Sherlock himself

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Churchill’s career recorded by his cousin

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Property ledger with maps of important Oxford properties

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Manuscript observations of Neptune, directed by its discoverer

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Alan Turing’s final paper

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