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Priceless Science: Striking Finds From a Rare-Book Fair

Particularly fetching among these cultural treasures were the scientific tomes — works of biology, astronomy, chemistry and the like — which dealers proudly displayed with the most enticing illustration forward. It’s the intellectual equivalent of the models on the car lot with their hoods popped open, only with more flammability and much more intellect. From Audubon’s The Birds of America, a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus’ heliocentric sketch that changed the world, we’ve selected the most remarkable works the fair had to offer.

Photos: Brian L. Frank/Wired.com

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omg. I have wonderful dreams where I go into an old, musty antique mall and find magical books like this for very little money. <3

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