Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co, 1895; 1896; 1897; 1910. Complete Set, Inscribed. A beautifully preserved complete set of this important journal "devoted to the encouragement of experiment with aerial machines, and to the advancement of the science of aerodynamics." Number 2 is INSCRIBED on the cover: "The Editor of Flying/with... Read More about The Aeronautical Annual: Nos 1-3 [with] The Epitome of the Aeronautical Annual

January-December 1858. This diary was kept by Lt. Co. James Burnie, an East India Army Officer who served in the Mooltani Horse during the Sepoy Mutiny. It follows his movements throughout the Indian countryside as he and his column track down and face the mutineers. His troops march through Patiala... Read More about Original manuscript diary documenting the service of a British officer during the latter stages...

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1890. First American edition. Read More about Lawn Tennis … With a Chapter for Ladies by Mrs. Hillyard, Lady Champion

London: Routledge, 1910. The “Oval” Series. Fourth edition, revised. Originally published in 1897. Read More about Lawn Tennis

New York: Eastburn, Kirk and Co., No. 66 Broadway, 1813. Read More about The English and French interpreter, or, School and counting-house companion : for the use of...

[Ft. Myer, Virginia: 1908. Signed by Orville Wright in the upper right hand corner. The photo was taken by Collier's photographer J.H. Hare during one Wright's exhibition flights at Ft. Myer, in Arlington, Virginia in the late summer and fall of 1908. Read More about Photograph of the Wright Flyer in flight, signed by Orville

n.p: [1910]. Signed by Orville Wright. Signed by Orville Wright at the right of the image. Albert Bond Lambert was the son of a pharmaceutical magnate and an early St. Louis flight enthusiast; he purchased a flyer from the Wright brothers in 1909, and took flight lessons from Orville Wright... Read More about Photograph of Orville Wright with Major Albert B. Lambert seated in the Wright Flyer, 1910,...

A fascinating relic from the infancy of electronic communications, being a nearly 5 inch section of cotton-covered solid copper wire used to transmit the first telegraph message in a public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse's telegraph in Speedwell, New Jersey on January 10, 1838. The wire is attached to a.... Read More about A length of cotton-covered copper wire from the first public demonstration of the telegraph

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition. Foundations of Rocketry and Space Flight. One of the earliest publications on rocketry and space flight, and "the most influential and important of Goddard’s scientific papers ... The short treatise offered detailed mathematical proof that solid propellant rockets were capable of boosting modest..... Read More about A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes

London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird. WITH THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT SIGNED BY JOHN LOGIE BAIRD. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless

Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1989. First edition. Unique approach to bar culture. Unrepresented in WorldCat, this slim volume provides women of the late 1980s and early 1990s with advice on how to play so-called Bar Games.With sections on "Playing Games," "Before You Play," "Game Strategies," "How to Get Rid... Read More about A Single Lady's Guide to Bar Games

[New York: 1870s]. A striking CDV portrait of Tennessee Claflin, who with her sister Victoria Woodhull, opened the first women-run stock brokerage, in 1870. Significant backing for the venture came from Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Claflin had become close to as his personal medium. Part of the fortune the sisters raised... Read More about CDV photograph

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. First American edition. First American edition of the classic cockail manual, collecting more than 700 cocktail recipes by Harry Craddock, bartender at the American Bar at London's Savoy Hotel in the 1920s and '30s. One of the most imporant, and useful, cocktail manuals and... Read More about The Savoy Cocktail Book