London: Macmillan Limited, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A “CLASSIC” PAPER ON THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL BUDGETING, THE 1965 BAUMOL-QUANDT MODEL. Project selection is a major problem in managerial decision making. Capital budgeting problems determine which project to fund given constraints on available capital. This much..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (full volume) OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year after publication of..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, the FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1844. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION WITH BOOLE’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & ROSSE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ‘CRAB NEBULA’ AS WELL AS HIS WELL KNOWN RENDERING. GEORGE BOOLE: “The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the..... More
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London: Harrison & Sons, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION & PRINTING OF A LONG & IMPORTANT PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF VACUUM PHYSICS BY BRITISH CHEMIST SIR WILLIAM CROOKES. In it, Crookes “looked at the effect of repulsion due to radiation on chemical precipitates, varied the characteristics of the radiation..... More
London: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE “FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THE APPLICATION OF A MECHANICAL CALCULATOR TO PROBLEMS IN HEALTH OR BIOLOGY” (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 2002, Nos. 77 & 85). Complete extract (inclusive of plate) in fine condition. William Farr, widely regarded as..... More
New York: Ivison, Phinney, & Co., 1859-1860. 1st edition of FERREL’S 19th CENTURY “MAGNUM OPUS” PROPOSING THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Considered “the first really powerful intellect to focus sustained attention on meteorology,” the American meteorologist, William Ferrel here provides “the first general formulation of the equations..... More
New York: AIEE. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 2 RARE OFFPRINTS (1st separate ed) BY WILLIAM J. HAMMER. THE 1903 IS THE 1st PRINTING OF THE LECTURE WHICH LATER THAT SAME YEAR WOULD BECOME “THE 1st BOOK PUBLISHED ON RADIUM” (Smithsonian Archive). THE 2nd OFFPRINT IS A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL’S PAPERS present “the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence” (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes “that..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1862. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME 152, PART II OF THE 1862 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS COMPLETE WITH A NUMBER OF NOTABLE PAPERS. Handsomely illustrated with 48 plates. Fleeming Jenkin was a professor of engineering at Edinburgh as well as an imaginative electrician and cable engineer of..... More
HANDSOMELY BOUND, FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION & “FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION” OF [JEVONS’] LOGIC MACHINE, often called a ‘logical piano’ because of its resemblance to that instrument” (The Origins of Cyberspace, 137). Jevons’ machine was the first logic machine with enough power to solve complicated problems with superhuman speed” – in..... More
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London: Harrison & Sons, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION & PRINTING OF JOULE’S FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT. This was the “last experimental research of any magnitude that Joule undertook” (Reynolds, Memoir of James Prescott Joule, 165). Crookes information appears below. Volume includes Parts I & II..... More
New York: New York Times, 1936. 1st Edition. First edition of the March 7, 1936 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379913; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. As the title implies, this..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1841. 1st Edition. Full volume 1st editions of 3 important papers, MANTELL’S 2nd MAJOR PAPER ON THE IGUANODON; BOWMAN’S’s CLASSIC PAPER ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MUSCLES; & ONE OF A NUMBER OF LUKE HOWARD’S PAPERS “WHICH TRANSFORMED THE SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY” (Wikipedia). MANTELL’S PAPER: Gideon Mantell..... More
London: Royal Society, 1960. 1st Edition. HANDSOME FIRST EDITION OF MCCREA’S “PROTOPLANET THEORY” OF THE CREATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM in which the Sun and planets individually coalesced from matter within the same cloud, with the smaller planets later captured by the Sun's larger gravity. After the 1687 publication of..... More
London, New Bond-Street: R. Faulder, 1803. AN INFLUENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO BIOLOGICAL THOUGHT & A PARTICULARLY WELL-WRITTEN CASE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN & BY WILLIAM PALEY. We offer the expanded fourth edition. Natural Theology, first published in 1802, is a work of Christian apologetics and religious philosophy by William Paley (1743-1805), an..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. First edition, disbound, near fine extract of “the first full and reliable account of the state of vision in red-green blindness” (Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 62, p. 735). Today Pole’s work is considered to exhibit “highly ingenious reason”; at the time..... More
1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... More
London: Harrison & Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS (IN THREE VOLUMES) OF THE ONLY PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION (& ILLUSTRATIONS) BY WILLIAM THOMSON (Baron Kelvin) OF HIS HARMONIC ANALYZER, THE FIRST OPERATIONAL TIDE PREDICTOR. Six papers appear in three separate volumes. “Thomson’s system [was] used regularly to collect tide information at a...... More
London: J. Matthews. Small folio second edition, preferred and expanded, of Leybourn's important, detailed, and beautifully illustrated work on dialing. Leybourn's treatise (which is actually 14 treatises within one) is an extensive discussion of the fabrication of dials for a wide variety of different instruments. At publication in 1700, this..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1985. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A REPORT ON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS PREPARED BY A STUDY GROUP OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION. The Reviews of Modern Physics published this issue, a special one..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1982. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF WOOTTERS’ & ZUREK’S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. Note that we also offer this paper in its original paper wrappers. The no-cloning theorem is one of the earlier results in the study of..... More