London: Newberry, 1769. EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS THE “MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOK OF 18th CENTURY AMERICA" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 199). Further, the volume offered here, the fourth edition in English, and the first collected edition “is especially important because it includes additional..... More

Paris: Flammarion, 1938. 1st Edition. The evolution of ideas in physics. From the first concepts to the theories of relativity and quanta. Translated from the English by Maurice Solovine. Paris, Flammarion, Library of scientific philosophy, 1938, in-12 paperback, illustrated first cover, 298 pp, with 73 figures in the text and..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS OF A SERIES OF PAPERS “IN WHICH [KOPFERMANN AND LADENBURG] PRESENTED THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF ‘NEGATIVE DISPERSION,’ WHAT PHYSICISTS NOW CALL STIMULATED EMISSION” (James, 100 Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics, 86). “Some historians of science have even argued..... More

London: Macmillan & Sons, 1934. 1st Edition. JOURNAL ISSUE, FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH BY FERMI OF RADIOACTIVITY INDUCED BY SLOW NEUTRONS. The letter marks the beginning of Fermi's experimental researches in nuclear physics. In 1938 Fermi was awarded "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by..... More

London: 1997. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF SUZANNE SIMARD’S SEMINAL DISCOVERY THAT TREES ‘TALK’ TO EACH OTHER – that complex, symbiotic networks in our forests facilitate communication and cooperation among trees; in other words, trees use fungal networks to nourish and communicate with each other. Simard..... More

Paris: Durand, 1756. 2nd Edition. Two volume set of the 1756 FRENCH TRANSLATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S SEMINAL 1751 “Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America,” “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" (Printing in the Mind of Man 199). This 1756 translation, the second, is “a..... More

1836. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WHEATSTONES INTRODUCTION OF “OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY” [the modern term] as an alternative to flame spectroscopy for the identification of the composition of metals. In 1835 and in this paper “Charles Wheatstone reported that different metals could be distinguished by bright lines in the emission..... More

1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE TEXT OF A 1969 PRESENTATION BY KEELING AT A SYMPOSIUM ON ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION. In the presentation he illustrates in some detail the risks of increasing carbon dioxide, but also recognizes the different views on the issue prevalent at that time..... More

London: 1925. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST EDITION of the issue of Nature including a centenary “Special Benzene Supplement” celebrating Faraday’s 1825 discovery of benzene. Faraday’s [discovery] of the compound benzene… became his greatest contribution in chemistry (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 5, 531). “We are presenting a supplement containing the..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ROSENTHAL’S IMPORTANT PROOF THAT THAT THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS IS INCORRECT FOR ANY MECHANICAL SYSTEM. In 1913, German mathematician Artur Rosenthal (1887–1959) set out to answer the question “Can a mechanical system eventually pass through ever point on the energy..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More

Washington DC: The White House, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER & REPORT THAT MARKS THE 1st TIME THAT A U.S. PRESIDENT WAS OFFICIALLY WARNED OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS FROM THE ACCUMULATION OF FOSSIL-FUEL CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE (Ken Caldeira, atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1st STATEMENT OF THE FULL EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY AND THE EQUATION E = MC² (written as µ = E/V²). In ‘On the Inertia of Energy Required by the Relativity Principle’ (pp. 371-384), “Einstein discussed the relationship between inertial mass..... More