First Photographs of the Far Side of the Moon, with original photograph attached

Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 1959. 4to (261 x 205 mm). 33 [5] pp., 5 diagrams and 4 full-page photographic reproductions in text. Original blue cloth covers with the spacecraft and the moon stamped in blind and blue, lettering in blue and gilt (uneven..... More

The first Systematic Treatise on Mining and Metallurgy

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicholas Episcopius, 1556. Folio (320x195 mm). [10], [2: blank], 538 [i.e. 502], [74] pp. With woodcut printer's marks on title and bb6v, 2 folding woodcut plates inserted after i2 (the first plate shaved at fore-edge just into image, the second trimmed at head with a few..... More