The history of science in your hands
First edition of the first book in English on a mechanical calculating machine, and the first separate work on the subject since Napier’s Rabdologiae (1617). Nothing more of any significance was published in English on calculating machines until Babbage in the 19th century.
$20,000
“The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-lines”.
Translated from the author’s Latin Original not yet made public. To which is subjoined, A Perpetual Comment upon the whole Work, Consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, In order to make this Treatise A compleat Institution for the use of Learners. By John Colson, M.A. and F.R.S. Master of Sir Joseph Williamson’s free Mathematical-School at Rochester.
$65,000