Paris: Hermann & Cie, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF ANTONIADI’S MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON MARS. “An impressive” and beautifully illustrated publication, La Planète Mars is the comprehensive denouement of Antoniadi’s Martian work. [In it], he presents a series of comparative drawings of the planet, all..... More

Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd., 1953. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN PAPER WRAPS OF TWO HISTORIC PAPERS BY FRANCIS CRICK PRESENTING THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT USING SECONDARY-STRUCTURE ELEMENTS TO MODEL THE TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF A PROTEIN – THE ALPHA-HELICAL COILED COIL. “Crick’s molecular model for the coiled coil – entailing left-handed..... More

Prague: Gottlieb Haase & Sons, 1846. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE PAPERS BY CHRISTIAN DOPPLER DETAILING EXTENSTIONS OF & SUPPLEMENTS TO HIS SEMINAL 1842 PAPER ON THE DOPPLER SHIFT. A handsome Sammelband binds the three works together. The papers are detailed below. Each furthers Doppler’s efforts to determine the..... More

Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT: THE FIRST ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT TO CLEARLY SHOW THE QUANTUM NATURE OF ATOMS – PROOF OF THE QUANTIZED MODEL OF THE BOHR ATOM & OF PLANCK’S QUANTUM THEORY. Note that this volume includes both the..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE SEMINAL PAPER IN WHICH HUBBLE PRESENTS HIS CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES, ESTIMATES THEIR MEAN DENSITIES, & DERIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME THE MEAN MASS DENSITY IN GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE. THE PAPER IS “A MORE OR LESS COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF GALAXIES AS EXTRAGALACTIC SYSTEMS…..... More

1861. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION and appearance in French of an 1861 landmark paper marking "the invention of Spectral Analysis and the announcement of the discovery of two new elements, Cesium and Rubidium [and eventually many more] by using the new method of spectroscopy developed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF MEISSNER & OCHSENFELD’S CONSEQUENTIAL 1933 DISCOVERY OF THE MEISSNER EFFECT: “SUPERCONDUCTORS EXPEL MAGNETIC FIELDS” (Brandt, Harvest of the Century, 362). “Superconductivity [is] one of the most spectacular phenomena of physics, [arising] when a superconducting material is cooled to a...... More

New Haven: Converse, 1831. 1st Edition. The work of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856) forms “the basis of the study of American arachnology” (A list of works on North American entomology, 77). A native of Versailles, France, Hentz studied miniature painting, then medicine, before emigrating to America in 1816 after the..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EIGHT RARE OFFPRINTS by Linus Pauling detailing his prominent contributions to the general understanding of the nature of the chemical bond, here bringing quantum mechanics to the solution of the nature of the chemical bonds that determine inorganic crystal structure. Collectively, these papers represent Pauling’s..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME, FIRST EDITIONS OF FOUR PAPERS IN WHICH THE FRENCH ASTRONOMERS PIERRE HENRI PUISEUX AND MAURICE LOEWY DETAIL THE PIONEERING WORK THAT LEAD TO THEIR SEMINAL LUNAR ATLAS, A WORK REGARDED AS 'THE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY" (The Photobook: A History, Vol. I...... More

Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION SCARCE PRE-PUBLICATION HECTOGRAPHED TYPESCRIPT, housed in a custom case. OCLC cites only a handful of these specific printings: “very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies” (University of St..... More

London: Richard and John Taylor, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WHEATSTONE’S EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF OHM’S LAW, including a practical and simple formula by which to calculate resistance and current according to Ohm’s law. In 1843, English scientist Charles Wheatstone gave a Bakerian lecture publicizing his “..... More