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FIRST PRINTED ATLAS OF THE STARS. PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO. 1508-1579. La sfera del Mondo / Le stelle fisse. Venice: [Giovanantonio & Domenico dei Volpini for Andrea Arrivabene], 1540.

PICCOLOMINI, ALESSANDRO. 1508-1579. La sfera del Mono / Le stelle fisse. Venice: Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1561.

MILITARY MATHEMATICS. TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice: Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550.

TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. Quesiti, et inventioni diverse. Venice: Nicolo de Bascarini, for the author. 1554.

GALILEO'S EARLIEST WORK. GALILEI, GALILEO. 1564-1642. Le operazioni del compasso geometrico et militare. Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1649.

GALILEO'S COLLECTED WORKS. GALILEI, GALILEO. 1564-1642. Opere divise in quattro tomi. Padua: Giovanni Manfre e tipografia del Seminario, 1744.

CAVALIERI ON CONICS, HYPERBOLAS, AND PARABOLAS. CAVALIERI, BONAVENTURA. 1598-1647. Lo specchio ustorio overo Trattato dele settioni coniche.... Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1650.

PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA. FL. 300-350. Mathematicae Collectiones. Bologna: Heirs of Evangelista Dozza, 1660.

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY. MAGALOTTI, LORENZO. 1637-1712. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento. Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1667.

DE L'HÔPITAL, GUILLAUME. 1661-1704. Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1696.

BERNOULLI'S FOUNDATIONAL WORK ON PROBABILITY. BERNOULLI, JACOB. 1654-1705. Ars conjectandi. Basel: Thurneisen brothers, 1713.

BERNOULLI, JOHANN. 1667-1748. Opera omnia. Lausanne and Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1742.

BERNOULLI FAMILY. A group of works by Jean and Daniel Bernoulli.

NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA PIRATED. NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1723.

EULER'S MECHANICS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita.... Saint Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1736.

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF ONE OF EULER'S GREATEST WORKS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas. Lausanne and Geneva: M.-M. Bosquet, 1744.

EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Opuscula varii argumenti. Berlin: Ambrosius Haude & Johann Carl Spener, 1746-1751.

EULER'S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Lausanne: M.-M. Bousquet, 1748.

EULER ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS. EULER, LEONHARD. 1707-1783. Institutiones calculi differentialis cum eius usu in analysi finitorum ac doctrina serierum. St. Petersburg [but Berlin]: [Officina Michaelis for] the Imperial Academy of Science, 1755.

POISSON, SIMEON-DENIS. 1781-1840. Theorie mathematique de la chaleur. Paris: Bachelier, 1835/1837.

EARLY WORKS ON MATHEMATICS. A group of early published mathematical texts.

AGRICULTURE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS. 95-46 BCE., And MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO. 116-27 BCE. Libri de re rustica.

THE BEGINNING OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS. GRAUNT, JOHN. 1620-1674. Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index and made upon the bills of mortality.... London: Printed by Tho: Roycroft, for John Martin, James Allestry, and Tho: Dicas, 1662.

THE FIRST USE OF STATISTICS. PETTY, WILLIAM. 1623-1687. Political Arithmetick, or a Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings.... London: Printed for Robert Clavel and Hen. Mortlock, 1691.

A LANDMARK IN ECONOMIC HISTORY. PETTY, WILLIAM. 1623-1687. The Political Anatomy of Ireland... To which is added Verbum sapienti.... London: D. Brown and W. Rogers, 1691.

COMPLETE COPY OF GENTLEMAN'S RECREATIONS. BLOME, RICHARD. 1635-1705. Engraver. The Gentleman's Recreations. London: R. Bonwicke [and others], 1710.

ROYAL SOCIETY. HALLEY, EDMOND, editor. Miscellanea Curiosa, Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature.... London: James and John Knapson, 1726-1723-1727.

TWO IMPORTANT WORKS ON NATURAL LAW. 1. BURLAMAQUI, JEAN-JACQUES. 1694-1748. Principes du droit naturel. Geneva: Barillot & fils, 1747.

A REVOLUTION IN GRAPHICS AND INFORMATION. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure and Debts of England during the Whole of the Eighteenth Century. London: Debrett,... Robinson, et al, 1786.

RARE FOLLOW UP TO PLAYFAIR'S COMMERCIAL ATLAS. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. Lineal Arithmetic; applied to shew the Progress of the Commerce and Revenue of England during the present century. London: for the author, sold by A. Paris, 1798.

PLAYFAIR'S STATISTICAL BREVIARY. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. The Statistical Breviary: shewing the resources of every state and kingdom .... London: Printed by T. Bensley..., 1801.

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF PLAYFAIR'S BREVIARY. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-1823. DONNANT, D.F., trans. Elemens de statistique, ou l'on demontre, d'aprees un principe entierement neuf, les ressources de chaque Royaume, Etat et Republique de l'Europe.... Paris: Chez Batilliot jeune et Chez Genets jeune, 1802.

PLAYFAIR'S AMERICA. PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM, trans. 1759-1823. DONNANT, Statistical Account of the United States of America. London: for Greenland and Norris, 1805.

PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. 1759-183. A fair and candid address to the nobility and baronets of the United Kingdom. London: W. Lewis, 1809.

VITICULTURE. BIBLIOGRAPHER'S COPY. SPEECHLY, WILLIAM. 1735-1819. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine. York: G. Nicol, 1790.

THE FOUNDATIONAL TEXT OF THE COMPUTER AGE. BOOLE, GEORGE. 1815-1864. The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. Cambridge: Macmillan, Barclay & Macmillan, 1847.

WICKSELL'S FIRST BOOK. WICKSELL, KNUT. 1851-1926. Über Wert, Kapital und Rente nach den neueren nationalökonomischen Theorien. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1893.

PARETO AND PANTALEONI. PARETO, VILFREDO. 1848-1923. Manuale di economia politica con una introduzione alla scienza sociale. Milan: Società editrice libraria, 1906.

POINCARÉ ON CHANCE AND PROBABILITY. POINCARÉ, HENRI. 1854-1912. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Henri Poincaré"), "Le Hasard," a final draft (printer's copy) of his important epistemological analysis of chance,

FOUR RARE WORKS ON KABBALAH. RICIUS, PAULUS. 1480-1541. De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem In cabalistarum seu allegorizantium eruditionem ysagoge. Eiusdem De nonem doctrinarum ordinibus: & totius perypatetici dogmatis nexu compendium: conclusiones atque oratio. Pavia: Giacomo Burgofrancho, 1510.

THE KABBALAH REVEALED. GIKATILLA, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM. 1248-1305. RICIUS, PAULUS, translator. Portae Lucis. Augsburg: Johannes Miller, 1516.

SPINOZA, BARUCH. 1632-1677. Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertationes aliquot.... Hamburg: Henricus Kunrath, 1672.

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