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, 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

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 the chemical reaction created via the combination of hydrogen..... 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: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME 154 OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, INCLUSIVE OF SIX IMPORTANT PAPERS, HERSCHEL’S EXTRAORDINARY CATALOG OF NEBULÆ & STARS; THREE ASTRONOMY PAPERS BY WILLIAM HUGGINS, TYNDALL’S FOURTH PAPER ON GLOBAL WARMING & GEORGE BOOLE’S FINAL PAPER. First edition of SIR JOHN HERSCHEL’S..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1780. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME (Parts I & II): 1ST EDITIONS OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL’S SCIENTIFIC DEBUT, HIS 1ST TWO PUBLISHED PAPERS -- BOTH ASTRONOMICAL – WITH HIS FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS NEWLY HANDBUILT TELESCOPE. “The first paper dealt with a periodical star [Collo Ceti]..... 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

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: 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