1. Euclid | Praeclarissimus Liber Elementorum in Artem Geometrie, Venice, Ratdolt, 25 May 1482, first edition of the first substantial mathematical work to appear in print, Durazzo copy

2. Hyginus, Gaius Julius | Poetica astronomica, Venice, 1485, ed. Sentinus and Santritter

3. Pliny, the Elder | Historia naturalis [Italian], Venice, 12 September 1489

4. Archimedes | Tetragonismus ..., Venice, 28 August 1503, first edition, including the first appearance in print of any work by Archimedes

5. Ptolemaeus, Claudius | Almagestum, Venice, 1515, first complete edition

6. Euclid | Geometricorum elementorum libri xv, Paris, [1517], first edition of Euclid to be printed outside of Italy, extensive early modern marginalia

7. Munster, Sebastian | Compositio horologiorum, Basel, 1531, frist edition Hans Holbein the Younger

8. Firmicus Maternus, Julius | Astronomicon libri VIII, Basel, March 1533

9. Giunta, Jacobus (publisher) | Sammelband of three works, Lyon, 1542, contemporary limp vellum

10. Copernicus, Nicolaus | De revolutionibus orbium colestium, Nuremberg, 1543, first edition

11. Archimedes | Opera ..., Basel, 1544, three works in one volume, editiones principes

12. Cardano, Girolamo | Artis magnae, sive de regulis algebraicis, Lib. unus, Nuremberg, 1545, first edition

13. Peuerbach, Georg | Novae theoricae planetarum..., Venice, 1551, contemporary boards

14. Recorde, Robert | The Pathway to Knowledg …, London, 1551, first edition of Recorde's adaptation of Euclid

15. Recorde, Robert | The Castle of Knowledge, London, 1556, first edition of the earliest major English astronomical treatise

16. Recorde, Robert | The Whetstone of Witte …, London, 1557, first edition, the first recorded usage of the equals sign

17. Aristotle, Thibaud Payen (publisher) | Six works in one volume, Lyon, 1559, contemporary limp vellum

18. Ptolemaeus, Claudius | La geografia, with Discorso universale by G. Moleto, Venice, 1561, contemporary limp vellum

19. Archimedes | De iis quae vehuntur in aqua libri duo, a Frederico Commandino... [Bound with:] Federico Commandino. Liber de centro gravitatis solidorvm, Bologna, 1565

20. Euclid | The Elements of Geometrie, London, 1570, the first complete edition in English

21. Euclid | La prospettiva ... tradotta dal R. P. M. Egnatio Danti ... con la Prospettiva di Eliodoro Lariseo, Florence, 1573, an early edition of Euclid's Optica

22. Apianus, Petrus — Gemma Frisius (ed.) | Cosmographia, Antwerp, 1574, contemporary vellum

23. Hero of Alexandria — Federico Commandino (trans.) | Commandino..., Urbino, 1575, first edition

24. Nabod, Valentin | Astronomicarum institutionum libri iii, Venice, 1580, first edition, early vellum

25. Galluci, Giovanni Paolo | Theatrum mundi et temporis, Venice, 1588, first edition of the first star atlas with coordinates

26. Monte, Guidobaldo del | In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis scholiis illustrata, Pesaro, 1588, first edition

27. Ursus, Nicolaus Reimers | Fundamentum astronomicum: id est, nova doctrina sinuum et triangulorum... Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin, 1588

28. Hero of Alexandria — Bernardino Baldi (trans.) | De gli automati, overo machine se moventi, Venice, 1589, first edition, contemporary vellum

29. Magini, Giovanni Antonio | Novae coelestium orbium theoricae congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici, Venice, 1589, first edition, contemporary limp vellum

30. Brahe, Tycho | Epistolarum astronomicarum libri, Uraniborg, 1596, Daniel Melanderhielm's copy

31. Recorde, Robert | The Castle of Knowledge, London, 1596, second edition, early sheep

32. Brahe, Tycho | Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, Wandsbek, 1598, first edition of Tycho's most important astronomical work, the Honeyman copy

33. Gilbert, William | De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure …, London, 1600, first edition, old German pigskin over green-stained vellum

34. Blundeville, Thomas | The Theoriques of the Seven Planets …, London, 1602, first edition, contemporary limp vellum

35. Brahe, Tycho | Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, Nuremberg, 1602, first trade edition of Brahe's most important work

36. Bacon, Sir Francis | The two bookes... Of the proficience and advancement of learning..., London, 1605, the Doheny copy

37. Blundeville, Thomas | His Exercises, Containing Eight Treatises..., London, 1606- [1605]

38. Kepler, Johannes | De stella nova in pede Serpentarii, Prague and Frankfurt, 1606, first edition of Kepler's description of the 1604 supernova

39. Kepler, Johannes | Astronomia nova aitiologitos …, Prague or Heidelberg, 1609, first edition, contemporary vellum, the Chasles copy

40. Brahe, Tycho | De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis; [Progymnasmatum] liber secundus, Frankfurt, 1610

41. Brahe, Tycho | Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata ..., Frankfurt, 1610

42. Brahe, Tycho | Epistolarum astronomicarum libri ..., Frankfurt, 1610, first edition, third issue

43. Galilei, Galileo | Sidereus nuncius …, Venice, 1610, first edition of the foundation of modern astronomy

44. Kepler, Johannes | Dioptrice …, Augsburg, 1611, first edition, the birth of modern optics

45. Galla, Giulio Cesare la | De phoenomenis in orbe lunae novi telescopii usu a D. Gallileo Gallileo …, Venice, 1612, first edition of a rare work from the outset of the Galilean controversy

46. Galilei, Galileo | Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari, Rome, 1613, first edition

47. Pitiscus, Bartholomeo | Trigonometry: or, The Doctrine of Triangles …, London, [1614], first edition, modern calf

48. Kepler, Johannes | Epitome astronomiae copernicanae, Linz, 1618–1621, 3 parts in one volume, first edition of the first complete manual astronomy constructed after new principles