122 pages: Featuring selections from the offprint collection owned by Abraham Pais, noted physicist and historian of physics. Pais worked at Rockefeller University.
Some highlights in this catalog include Photography...
1926 - Australia - Three Photo Albums containing 427 Gelatin Silver Prints with Rare Views of Palm Island Penal Settlement
1936 - World Voyage of Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw - Photo Album Chronicling his Voyage on board the SS Arandora Star
1940 - WWII Italy - Photographs include the Public Hanging of Mussolini in Milan, Liberation of Paris, France and Italy
1943 - WWII British India - Two Photo Albums with a Mini Archive of War Medals, Letters & Telegrams
1952 - British Somaliland - Photo Album with 340 Gelatin Silver Prints, Postcards, Ephemera, Military Documents, including (4) URGENT Manuscript Despatches, and Maps of Patrol Routes & Defence Strategies
1953 - Egypt - Photo Album of British Controlled Suez Canal Zone with over 200 Gelatin Silver Prints with Highly Detailed Manuscript Captions
Devoted to Astronomy, Mechanics, Meteorology and some other disciplines, some highlights are:
- First Meteorology book published in French (1547)
- Bauhin engravings of fossils, apples, pears... (1598/1612)
- Angelo Sala's work on Anthimony (1617)
- Abraham Bosse's engravings explaining perspective (1648 / 1653)
- Böcker's Theatrum Machinarum with handwritten translation into French (1662)
- 2nd. ed of Cosmotheoros, by Huygens (1699)
- An impressive copy of Leupold's eight volume Theatrum machinarum (1724-1727)
- A bautiful copy of the Brisson's Dictionnaire de Astronomie (1781)
and more...
