Paris: Victor Masson, 1870. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF FIZEAU’S INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF THE DOPPLER EFFECT FOR LIGHT, HERE AFFIRMING ITS ACCURACY & PROPOSING “THAT THE SHIFT IN SPECTRAL LINES THAT HAD BEEN OBSERVED IN STARS IS DUE TO THEIR MOTION RELATIVE TO THE EARTH” (History of Physics... More

Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag, 1923. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WEYL’S PREDICTION (SIX YEARS BEFORE HUBBLE) OF A LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTANCE & VELOCITY. In this paper, Hermann Weyl -- mathematician, philosopher, and pioneer in general relativity theory and quantum mechanics – “present[ed] the foundations of a.... More

London: Macmillan & Co. 1885. 1st Edition. FOURTH EDITION OF SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK BY THE BRITISH CHEMIST HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE, recipient of the 1868 Bakerian Medal and Lecture from the Royal Society. An important work on chemical and astronomical spectroscopy; "Spectrum Analysis became a standard work"( Knight... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1957. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF HUGH EVERETT'S FAMOUS "MANY-WORLD INTERPRETATION" OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, an interpretation in which (to use Schrodinger's thought experiment) the universe splits in two: in one view we see a cat, in another we see ourselves seeing the cat. Though Everett's... More

London: Macmillan, 1965. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION (full volume) of the last of four papers by John Tuzo Wilson providing evidence to buttress the idea of both transform faults and the Vine-Matthews hypothesis that the sea floor is spreading, here arguing “how mutually supportive these two concepts were” (Frankel... More

1966. 1st Edition. SCARCE OFFPRINT, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF JOHN TUZO WILSON’S SEMINAL 1966 WORK EXTENDING THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT BEFORE THE BREAK-UP OF THE ONCE SUPERCONTINENT PANGEA. Wilson argues “that the site of the present Atlantic Ocean was occupied by an earlier ‘proto-Atlantic’ Ocean during late-Precambrian... More

London: Holland Press, 1964. 1st Edition. COMPLETE SET, two volumes in three parts, OF “THE FUNDAMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL BASIS OF ASTRONOMY” (Cambridge University Observatories). Houzeau and Lancaster’s General Bibliography of Astronomy to the Year 1880 is a prodigious compilation of all astronomical publications and manuscripts from Antiquity to 1880 and is... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, FIRST EDITION, OF LIPPMANN’S FIRST IN A SERIES OF SEMINAL PAPERS DESCRIBING HIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING INVENTION OF “A METHOD OF REPRODUCING COLORS PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED ON THE PHENOMENON OF INTERFERENCE” Nobel Prize Committee). Lippmann’s prize represents the only time this prestigious award has... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL PAPER BY MARIE CURIE, HER FIRST ON RADIOACTIVITY. Full volume. Curie's paper heralds the discovery of the radioactivity of thorium, coins the term ‘radioactivity,’ and contains the first proof that radiation is an atomic property. The Nobel Prize Committee website... More

1831. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, OF REDFIELD’S SEMINAL 1831 THEORY OF STORMS, ONE OF THE FIRST THEORIES OF STORMS, & THE FIRST TO PROPOSE THAT HURRICANES ARE LARGE CIRCULAR VORTEXES. Redfield argues that storms are giant “circular vortexes” (rotating bodies) whose winds move more rapidly around the center than... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, OF BORN & FOCK’S 1928 PAPER PROVIDING THE FIRST PROOF OF THE ADIABATIC THEOREM IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. Of “central import in non-relativistic quantum mechanics”, the theorem asserts that “a physical system remains in its instantaneous eigenstate... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1916. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE FIRST SOLUTION OF EINSTEIN’S EQUATION FOR THE METRIC OF A CHARGED POINT MASS. Überreicht vom Verfasser’ (Presented by the Author) appears in print on the front wrap. Hans Jacob Reissner, a German aeronautical engineer with a.... More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TED HARRISON’S SOLUTION TO A CLASSICAL PROBLEM IN ASTRONOMY KNOW AS OLBERS’ PARADOX. ALSO INCLUDED, CHRISTOPHER HARRISON & BRIAN FUNNELL’S “DISCOVERY THAT DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS RECORD REVERSALS OF THE EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD” (Gornitz, Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology, 159). Complete volume. The British... More