Vindobonae [Vienna]: Typis Ioannis Thomae. THREE VOLUME SET OF LINNAEUS’S SYSTEMA NATURAE, “ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE” (Christie’s Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 14 November 2007, Sale 7471). This work represents "the inauguration of the classification of plants and animals" (Grolier/Horblit) which "has had..... More

New York: J. Swords, 1804. 1st Edition. Beautifully bound 1804 copy of Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature. First published the year before, Darwin’s poem describes his belief that modern life arose from simple, minute organisma. “Darwin maps the progression of life from microorganisms to civilized society, tracing the origin..... More

New York: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First published in 1889, Natural Inheritance is Galton’s pioneering work and is “the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance"(Garrison & Morton No. 233). The product of fifteen years of work, Natural Inheritance introduced Galton’s complete theory (including the use of regression) and..... More

Leipzig: Englemann, 1867. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS CHROMOSOMES. “Friederich Wilhelm Benedikt Hofmeister (1824 1877) stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel. Yet by comparison, he is..... More

Vindobonae [Vienna]: Typis Ioannis Thomae, 1770. 1770 EDITION OF LINNEAUS’S, SYSTEMA NATURAE, “ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE” (Christie’s Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 14 November 2007, Sale 7471). This work represents "the inauguration of the classification of plants and animals" (Grolier/Horblit) which "has had..... More

New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS of Almut Arneth et al reaching a preliminary conclusion that pollution control will accelerate, not mitigate, warming. ABSTRACT: ““The push toward cleaner air in Beijing before the 2008 Olympic Games was a vivid reminder of the need to..... More

New York: AAAS, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF STEINHARDT & TUROK’S EXPLANATION OF HOW THEIR 2002 CYCLIC THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE CAN RESOLVE THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM. Steinhardt and Turok's 2002 cyclic universe theory is a model of cosmic evolution according to which the universe undergoes..... More

Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important paper finding that in periods during the past 800,000 years when the concentration of carbon dioxide was similar to the current level the temperatures were 3-6 degrees centigrade warmer and sea level was 25 to 40..... More

New York: AAAS, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PAPER TO SHOW & DESCRIBE THE OPTICAL IMAGING OF AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut . The work is a “landmark [discovery], as it reports the first definitive, direct imaging of exoplanets..... More

Paris: Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, 1780. LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”)..... More

London: J. Johnson. “THE FIRST OF DARWIN’S FOUR MAJOR WORKS, THE BOTANIC GARDEN” IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, III, 578-579). Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) was a remarkable polymath, working as a physician, naturalist, medical botanist, and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin’s grandfather. The..... More

London: J. Johnson in St. Paul’s Church-yard. 1st Edition. TRUE 1st EDITION OF ERASMUS DARWIN'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, THIS CONTAINING HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION INCLUDING EVOLUTION OF SPECIES, COMPETITION AND SEXUAL SELECTION. Volume I was issued in 1794; Volume II in 1796. “The Zoonomia contains a system of pathology and..... More

1920. 1st Edition. First edition in original wraps of Einstein’s review of a paper by Nobel Prize winner Walter Rudolf Hess entitled Theory of the Viscosity of Heterogeneous Systems. CONDITION: The journal was published in three sections. All three are here, all bright, clean, and in near fine condition. More