London: Macmillan, 1870. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WALLACE’S ESSAYS ON NATURAL SELECTION, INCLUSIVE OF HIS FIRST WRITING ON THE TOPIC OF NATURAL SELECTION WITH RESPECT TO MAN. Wallace’s thesis argues that natural selection alone is unable to account for human intellect and consciousness and therefore cannot fully explain the... More
Amsterdam: M. M. Rey, 1762. 1st Edition. 1762 FIRST EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES OF CHARLES BONNET’S IMPORTANT THEORY OF ‘PRE-FORMATION’, THE BELIEF THAT FEMALE EGGS CONTAIN PREFORMED INDIVIDUALS. Bonnet was “one of the founders of modern biology” and his “theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th-century ideas of... More
New York: Columbia University, 1937. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WHAT “MAY BE CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN THE 20th CENTURY,” DOBZHANSKY’S 1937 “SYNTHESIS OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY WITH GENETICS”, Genetics and the Origin of Species (Ayala, Dobzhansky: National Academy of the Sciences, 1976, p. 166). Dobzhansky's... More
New York: Kirk & Mecein, 1818. First American Edition, 1st Printing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CUVIER’S ESSAY ON THE THEORY OF THE EARTH, THE 1st SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF FOSSILS, A WORK REPRESENTING THE BEGINNING OF COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. Cuvier uses his analysis of fossil history to theorize that new species... 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
Philadelphia: Geore W. Childs, 1863. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, published in the same year as the first, OF LYELL’S CASE FOR HUMAN ANTIQUITY AND THE “WORK IN WHICH HE ALSO ANNOUNCED HIS ACCEPTANCE OF DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION as “the best explanation yet offered of the connection between man and those... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1891. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: PART I OF MICHELSON’S 1891 PAPER ON HIS NEWLY INVENTED INVESTIGATIVE TOOL, THE INTERFEROMETER also MICHELSON’S PAPER ON INTERFERENCE TECHNIQUES RELATED TO ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS BEYOND THE RESOLUTION OF LARGE TELESCOPES also LORD RAYLEIGH’S IMPORTANT PAPER... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, COMPLETE WITH 3 IMPORTANT PAPERS. THE FIRST, PAULI’S, IS THE 1st SIGNIFICANT APPLICATION OF & 1ST VALIDATION OF HEISENBERG’S NEW QUANTUM MECHANICS. Very good+. Upon publication, Max Born said Pauli’s derivation of the hydrogen spectrum from the new quantum mechanics... More
London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT PAPERS (in two volumes): PARTS I & II OF MICHELSON’S 1891/2 PAPERs ON HIS NEWLY INVENTED INVESTIGATIVE TOOL, THE INTERFEROMETER and MICHELSON ON INTERFERENCE TECHNIQUES RELATED TO ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS BEYOND THE RESOLUTION OF LARGE TELESCOPES and LORD... More
London: Richard Taylor, 1890. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE WORK IN WHICH JOHANNES RYDBERG PRESENTS THE RYDBERG CONSTANT, HIS MATHEMATICAL FORMULA FOR THE SPECTRAL LINES OF HYDROGEN & OTHER ATOMS OR IONS WITH ONLY ONE ELECTRON – a work justified and expanded upon by Niels Bohr's development... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1890. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF JOHANNES RYDBERG'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RYDBERG CONSTANT, HIS MATHEMATICAL FORMULA FOR THE SPECTRAL LINES OF HYDROGEN & OTHER ATOMS OR IONS WITH ONLY ONE ELECTRON – a work justified and expanded upon by Niels Bohr's development of the quantum model of atomic... More
London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS, HANDSOMELY BOUND TWO VOLUME SET, OF J. J. THOMSON’S 1898 & 1899 CONFIRMATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON. In 1897, Thomson announced his discovery of the electron and we offer that volume separately. All three are considered “seminal papers” with his... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF J. J. THOMSON’S 1897 DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON (which he called corpuscles). Thomson studied the properties of cathode rays and found that they seemed to be negatively charged particles in motion, that they weighed much less than the... 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
London: Taylor and Francis, 1863. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE PAPER IN WHICH TYNDALL IS THE FIRST TO CORRECTLY IDENTIFY “THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF WATER VAPOR IN ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS WHICH, HE CLAIMED, ‘MUST FORM ONE OF THE CHIEF FOUNDATION-STONES OF THE SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY” (Hulme, Exploring Climate Change). Both... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1964. 1st Edition. TWO 1st EDITION PAPERS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS & ON STELLAR EVOLUTION by CHANDRASEKHAR, the first appearing in January, 1964, the errata appearing in April of the same year. Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize "for theoretical studies of the physical processes of... More
![“Further Observations on the Spectra of some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to determine therefrom whether these Bodies are moving towards or from the Earth, also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II.”, 1868. received April 23, - Read May 14, 1868. (Part II "Observations of the Sun" Received April 30, 1868) (Huggins, pp. 529-565 ) [THE FIRST DETERMINATION OF THE MOVEMENT OF A STAR] WITH “On a Method of making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; with a Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light” Maxwell, pp. 643–657) [CALCULATION OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT] in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 158, Parts I & II, 1868. William WITH Maxwell Huggins, James Clerk.](/pictures/thumb/1090_1.jpg?v=1533253230)
London: Taylor and Francis, 1868. 1st Edition. Full volume, Parts I & II. FIRST EDITION SEMINAL PAPER BY HUGGINS PRESENTING THE FIRST DETERMINATION OF THE MOVEMENT & VELOCITY OF A STAR with THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ONE OF JAMES CLERK MAXWELL’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ELECTROMAGNETISM. HUGGINS: Huggins was the... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, OF ALL THREE OF BARDEEN, COOPER, AND SCHRIEFFER’S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS THAT PROVIDED THE FIRST THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK THAT “EXPLAINED THE KNOWN PHENOMENA OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY” (Brandt, Harvest of the Century, 364). To date “the most important current application... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION. Handsomely cased in a pristine custom clamshell case, gilt-lettered at the spine and on the front board. Near fine. In 1922, Alfred Dinsdale (1896-1974) began a serious study of... More
![Cosmic Search: The First Magazine about the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, [SETI], Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1979. John Kraus.](/pictures/thumb/1087_1.jpg?v=1530719646)
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST MAGAZINE ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE. Note that we separately offer a number of other SETI related items. Includes: Giuseppi Cocconi & Philip Morrison’s “Searching for Interstellar Communications” WITH Philip Morrison’s “Twenty Years After” WITH Frank D. Drake’s “A Reminiscence of Project Ozma”... More
![Project Cyclops: A Design study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, [SETI], 1973. Stanford / NASA / Ames Research Center.](/pictures/thumb/1086_1.jpg?v=1530719646)
1973. SECOND, EXTENSIVELY REVISED EDITION of "...a 1971 NASA project that investigated how SETI should be conducted. As a NASA product the report is in the public domain. The project team created a design for coordinating large numbers of radio telescopes to search for Earth-like radio signals at a distance... More
New York: Knopf, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION WITH DUST JACKET. NEAR FINE CONDITION. Including "The Nature and Origin of Morality", "Its Evolution", "Its Variety", "Its Christian Form", "Its State Today" CONDITION & DETAILS: 8vo. [ix], 277, [xix], 5. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered at the spine, blind stamped on the... More
London: R. Roberts for Benj. Tooke, 1696. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WHISTON’S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH’S CREATION & GREAT FLOOD; a widely praised work well-received by both Newton and Locke. Near fine condition, complete with 7 plates & the frontispiece of the solar system. William Whiston (1667 –... More
FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION OF THE SEMINAL PAPER in which Libby described the analysis that determined the effectiveness of radiocarbon dating. It has been called "the foundation paper of carbon dating." In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his method [of using] carbon-14 for age determination... More
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST DEFINITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROPER MOTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician; this paper was the most important of his career and won him the prestigious Royal Medal. The ‘Proper motion of... More