Imprints and Impressions

Item Set

Items

• Goethe: 'Faust'
  Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1790, Leipzig; first edition)
• Galileo: 'Starry Messenger'
  Image of Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (1610; one of only two known copies of earliest issue of the first edition)
• Freud: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'
  Image of Sigmund Freud’s Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) (1900, Leipzig; first edition; presentation copy)
• Frank: 'Het Achterhuis'
  Frank: 'Het Achterhuis' Description Image of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl) (1947, Amsterdam; first edition in Dutch)
• Euclid: 'Elements of Geometry'
  Image of Euclid’s Elementa geometrica (Elements of Geometry) (1482, Venice; first edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt)
• Ellison: 'Invisible Man'
  Image of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952; first edition; presentation copy).
• Einstein: 'The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity'
  Image of Albert Einstein’s Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity) (1916; first edition; presentation issue).
• Dostoevsky: 'Brothers Karamazov'
  Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Bratya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov) (1881, St. Petersburg; first edition)
• Descartes: 'Discourse on the Method'
  Image of René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method) (1637, Leiden; first edition)
• Darwin: 'On the Origin of Species'
  Image of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859, London; first edition; presentation copy)
• Dante: 'The Divine Comedy'
  Image of Dante Alighieri’s La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1481; first Florentine edition)
• Curie: 'Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances'
  Image of presentation copy of Marie Curie’s 1903 thesis, “Recherches sur les substances radioactives” (“Research into the Properties of Radioactive Substances”)
• Copernicus: 'On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres'
  Image of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres) (1543, Nuremberg; first edition)
• Commentary on Aristotle's 'Logic'
  Image of a commentary on Aristotle's Logic (ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle)
• Chaucer: 'Canterbury Tales'
  Image of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (ca. 1492, London; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan)
• Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
  Image of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1969, New York; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist)
• Book of the Dead
  Image of the Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth By Day of the priestess Ta-er-pet (the Papyrus MacGregor) (late 1st century BC; 23 feet, 6 inches long, divided into nine sections; includes a unique chart of images depicting 75 protective amulets)
• Blake: 'Illustrations of the Book of Job'
  Image of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825, London; original boards)
• Beethoven: 'Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67'
  Image of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (1809; first edition of full score)
• Austen: 'Pride and Prejudice'
  Image of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813; one of only five copies in the original boards)
• Aquinas: 'Summa theologica, pars prima'
  Images of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica, pars prima (1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata, Venice)