London: Taylor & Francis, 1919. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF FRANCIS ASTON’S INVENTION OF THE MASS SPECTOGRAPH, AN INSTRUMENT USED OBTAIN & RECORD THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF LIGHT. Aston was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “"for his discovery, by means if his mass spectrograph, of isotopes..... 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

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

London: Harrison & Sons, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE BRAGG FORMULATION OF X-RAY DIFFRACTION, A FUNDAMENTAL PAPER IN THE CONCEPTION OF THE NEW SCIENCE OF X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY LEADING, IN 1915, TO THE 1st NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED JOINTLY TO FATHER & SON. “Thanks to the methods the Braggs devised..... More

London: W. Bulmer, 1810. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND FULL VOLUME of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCX (1810), PARTS I & II, complete with 15 plates. Among the many papers included is Sir Humphry Davy’s announcement of the “discovery” of the new..... More

FERREL’S 19th CENTURY “MAGNUM OPUS” PROPOSING THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Offered are two papers by the American meteorologist William Ferrel, “the Newton or Kepler of meteorology.” “Transitioning from observational weather forecasting to mathematical weather forecasting required meteorologists to recognize that the laws of physics could apply..... More

London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS OF GROVE’S DESCRIPTION AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE INVENTION OF THE FIRST FUEL CELL – an improved form of voltaic cell which Faraday used in his demonstrations before the Royal Society. Simply put, fuel cell technology generates electricity within..... More

London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, A FOLIO FIRST EDITION of "the first great star-atlas of the southern hemisphere' (Norman Catalogue 1056). "With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years..... 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: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST RECORDED DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET. Complete bound extract with one plate (of 3) meticulously reproduced from the original (photos available). Prior to William Herschel’s discovery, astronomers had only known of the existence of five planets: Saturn..... More

1880. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE AND NEAR FINE OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HUGGINS'S DETAILED 1880 FOLLOWUP TO HIS VISIONARY BUT PRELIMINARY 1876 PAPER ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF STAR SPECTRA. INCLUDED IS A CUT SIGNATURE OF HUGGINS’S ABOVE WHICH IS PRINTED HIS ADDRESS IN LONDON; further still, the words..... 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

London: Macmillan, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF SIX SIGNIFICANT PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS IN NATURE VOLUME 141, 1938. Kapitsa, Allen, and Misener present the experimental contributions to the problem of superfluidity as well as the announcement of the theory itself. It has always been contentious that while..... More