Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

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This atlas comprises 48 plates, representing globe gores intended to form a terrestrial globe.

An annotated copy of the first textbook on differential calculus, with a dozen pages of annotations and corrections by a skilled mathematician, written in a neat legible hand.

A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.

A visual tour of Parisian theatres at the beginning of the nineteenth century

Offered here are two lots of documents related to the staples of life: Bread and Wine.

Two works, bound together, both inscribed by their author, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

A remarkable archive of original documents including two promotional maquettes toward the publication of an anthology by one of the 20th century’s most recognized and admired designer-artists

Lessons on the automobile: An early (1905) technical instruction manual: Applied Science Course on Machines and the Military Arts