1 Agricola, Georgius | First edition of Agricola’s first book on mining, Basel, 1530

2 Agricola, Georgius | A "book that has earned its place in history as a masteriece of Renaissance technical writing and technical illustration," Basel, 1556

3 Agricola, Georgius | The fine Freilich copy of the second Latin edition of De re metallica, Basil, 1561

4 Albertus Magnus | A very rare popular vernacular compilation of the works, Strasbourg, 1548

5 Arfe Y Villafañe, Juan de | Spain’s official handbook on precious metals employed in the American colonies

6 Aristotle | The fine Doheny set of Aldo's editio princeps, Venice, 1495–1498

7 Aristotle (pseudo-) & Isidorus Hispalensis | A remarkable Sammelband featuring the first printed lapidary, Merseburg, 1473; and the first printed map, Augsburg, 1472

8 Darwin, Charles | A fine set of the three volumes of Geology of the Beagle, London 1842–1846

9 Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D’Alembert, editors | The Encyclopédie; one of the most ambitious intellectual undertakings of the Enlightenment

10 Euclid | The Norman copy of one of the most influential, enduring, and beautiful books in the history of science, Venice, 1482

11 Gautier d'Agoty | Unique copy, with distinguished provenance, of his earliest color-printed plates of minerals, Paris 1777

12 Gautier D'Agoty | Histoire naturelle … Règne Minéral, the rare folio issue, in original parts, Paris, 1781

13 Gautier d'Agoty | First edition of Histoire Naturelle … Règne Minéral, Paris, 1781

14 Hamilton, Sir William | The Botfield copy of the spectacular Campi Phlegræi, London, 1776–1779

15 Hooke, Robert | Micrographia; or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies

16 Imperato, Ferrante | First edition of the first museological catalogue to encompass the entire natural world

17 Leupold, Jacob [and Joachim Ernst Scheffler] | A virtually complete set of Leupold’s important works on mechanics and engineering

18 Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich | First edition of Osnovy khimii [Principles of Chemistry], with two early versions of the periodic table, St. Petersburg, 1869–1871

19 Pliny | Historia naturalis, the Macclesfield copy, printed on vellum, Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1470

20 Pliny | The first edition in Italian of the Natural History, Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476

21 (Probier Büchlein) | "Of the utmost rarity" (Duveen)

22 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard | A fine copy of the rare first edition of D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer

23 Savery, Thomas | First edition of The Miner’s Friend..., The Hanbury-Norman-Freilich copy

24 Smith, William | "The Map that Changed the World": A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, 1815