Berlin: Julius Springer, 1936. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF BARGMANN’S RELATION OF FOCK’S “GLOBAL METHOD” OF TREATMENT FOR THE HYDROGEN ATOM TO THE “INFINITESIMAL METHOD” OF PAULI (Chattargi, The Theory of Auger Transitions, 36; Avery, Applications in Quantum Theory, xii). Note that we offer the Fock... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF A “REMARKABLE” PAPER BY VLADIMIR FOCK DEMONSTRATING HIS METHOD OF TREATMENT FOR THE HYDROGEN ATOM and establishing the symmetry properties of the Coulomb potential (Avery, Applications in Quantum Theory, xii). Some quantum-mechanical systems may be solved exactly... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE “LANDMARK” PAPER PRESENTING THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS ((Mayergoyz, Mathematical Models of Hysteresis, 1). The Preisach model is a well-known hysteresis identification method in which the hysteresis is modeled by linear combination of hysteresis operators. First... More
New Haven: Yale University, 1961. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN INFLUENTIAL PAPER ON THE THEORY OF VOTING, THE DUMMETT-FARQUHARSON THEORY. This paper “worked on the theoretical aspects of aggregation of individual preferences and on the strategic aspects of voting theory”, provided an extended version of Duncan... More
Pisa: Dalla Tipografia Pieraccini, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OFFPRINT ON RADIOACTIVITY IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS. Gian Alberto Blanc [sometimes Le Blanc] (1879-1966) was an Italian physicist, geochemist, paleontologist, and politician. Blanc attended the University of Rome,studied was Sella and Blaserna, graduating in 1904; his thesis was on Gibbs’s new theory... More
Paris: Herausgegeben, 1938. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF BOTH PARTS I & II OF EINSTEIN’S 1938 PAPERS “Physik und Realität I” WITH “Physik und Realität II”. These are also the first two issues of this rare and short-lived exile publication featuring German and Austrian; the... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS; BOUND WITH VOLKOV’S “EXACT SOLUTION TO THE DIRAC EQUATION FOR AN OTHERWISE FREE ELECTRON INTERACTING WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE WAVE” (Guo, Exact Wave Functions, 39). The origin of the Preisach model can be traced... More
New York: The American Physical Society. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE MERMIN-WAGNER THEOREM, BOTH THE ORIGINAL PAPER AND THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUE IN WHICH AN ERRATUM (correcting typographical errors) TO THE PAPER WAS PUBLISHED. Once referred to as “An Exact Monte Carlo Algorithm for Quantum Spin Systems”, Mermin and... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF BLOCH’S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION OF THE SPIN-WAVE (MAGNONS) THEORY OF FERROMAGNETS. Bloch’s theory (also known as Bloch’s law) made it possible to both understand and explain the reduction of spontaneous magnetization in a ferromagnet. His work provided “the temperature dependence... More
Berlin: 1921. 1st Edition. FULL BOUND VOLUME OF 1921 Sitzungsberichte der preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften INCLUDING FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE EINSTEIN PAPERS, Weil #’s 114, 116, 118. In the same year in which he won the Nobel Prize, 1921, Einstein delivered the first paper as a lecture at “a commemorative... More
Leipzig: Vogel, 1914. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND SECOND PRINTING OF AN IMPORTANT & INFLUENTIAL 1913 LECTURE BY EINSTEIN. WITHBOUND, A PAPER BY LAUE ON X-RAY INTERFERENCE. In September 1913, Einstein presented a lecture at the 85th meeting of Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (Congress of German Natural Scientists and Physicians)... More
New York: The American Physical Society, 1961. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PROPOSAL OF THE CONCEPT OF MAGNETIC BREAKDOWN (MB). ALSO, FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PROOF OF THE VALIDITY OF THE ISOSPIN SYMMETRY, ANDERSON & WONG’S DEMONSTRATION OF EXCITED ISOBARIC ANALOGUE STATES IN MEDIUM... More
Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF FERMI’S “VERY BEAUTIFUL & SUGGESTIVE” PAPER ON THE IMPACT BETWEEN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED PARTICLES & ATOMS (Bohr Quote, Stolzenburg, Emergence of Quantum Mechanics, 71). ALSO FIRST EDITION OF WENTZEL’S QUANTUM THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF DISPERSION. Volume bears the ownership stamp of... More
![“Instability, Turbulence, and Conductivity in Current-Carrying Plasma“ [Buneman, p. 8-9] WITH Attempts to Confirm the Existence of the 10-Minute Isotope of 102” [Ghiorso et al, pp. 17-18] and “Element No. 102” [Ghiorso et al, pp. 18-21] in Physical Review Letters 1, Number 1, July 1, 1958 [FIRST ISSUE OF PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS]. O. Buneman, A. Oscar WITH Ghiorso, Albert, T. Sikkeland, Torbørn, J. R. Walton, John R., G. T. Seaborg, Glenn.](/pictures/thumb/935_1.jpg?v=1498511398)
New York: The American Physical Society, 1958. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. “Physical Review Letters (PRL) publishes short, high quality reports of significant and notable results in the full arc of fundamental and interdisciplinary physics research” (APS Physics Portal). THE... More
London: Macmillan Limited, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A “CLASSIC” PAPER ON THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL BUDGETING, THE 1965 BAUMOL-QUANDT MODEL. Project selection is a major problem in managerial decision making. Capital budgeting problems determine which project to fund given constraints on available capital. This much... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A CLASSIC PAPER ON THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL BUDGETING, THE 1955 FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE “LORIE-SAVAGE PROBLEM”. In this paper, Lorie and Savage use integer programming (Lagrangian methods in discrete optimization approach) to introduce the topic... More
!["Rapport sur la machine a calculer presentee par M. Wiberg" [Wiberg, pp. 330-339] WITH “Sur les modérateurs des mouvements réflexes dans le cerveau de la grenouille” [Sechenov, pp. 50-53] WITH ““Sur les modérateurs des mouvements réflexes dans le cerveau de la grenouille” Part II [Sechenov, pp. 185-187] WITH "Mémoire sur la cause de la pesanteur et des effets attribués à l'attraction universelle" [Keller, pp. 530-533] in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Volume 56, 1863. Martin WITH Sechenov Wiberg, Ivan Mikhailovich WITH Keller Setchenow, F. A. E., Em Keller.](/pictures/thumb/932_1.jpg?v=1500739244)
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1863. 1st Edition. 1st EDITION OF WIBERG’S EXTENSIVE 1863 REPORT ON HIS MODIFICATION, PRAISED AS ‘INGENIOUS’ BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY, OF THE SCHEUTZ DIFFERENCE ENGINE. ALSO, 1st EDITION OF THE NEURO RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTS WHICH LED TO SECHENOV’S PIONEERING BOOK ON CEREBRAL REFLEX ACTIVITY. ALSO, 1st EDITION OF... More
Wisconsin: American Economic Association, 1923. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF KENNETH ARROW’S SEMINAL PAPER LAUNCHING THE FIELD OF MODERN HEALTH ECONOMICS. Arrow’s paper is famous for many reasons – its “dazzling accuracy”, its creation of an entirely new field of study, and also the skill and beauty... More
Berlin: Slawo [Slovo], 1923. 1st Edition. 1922 FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF EINSTEIN’S FOUR LECTURES ON RELATIVITY DELIVERED AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN THE SPRING OF 1921 (Norman 697; Weil 124g). Bears the ownership stamp of the Russian/Jewish logician-philosopher Gregorius Itelson. Itelson lived in Berlin and was beaten to... More
![“Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique, Pasteur”, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Volumes 34-36 [bound as one], 1852, pp. 30-64. L. Pasteur.](/pictures/thumb/929_1.jpg?v=1498511397)
Paris: Victor Masson, 1852. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY PASTEUR ON MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY, one of a series on tartaric and paratartaric acid in which he would establish the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals and racemization. “Early in his career, his investigation of tartaric... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO PAPERS OF SIGNIFICANCE TO THE THEORY OF THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLES: Bethe and Levinger’s sum rule calculations demonstrated the total integrated photonuclear cross section, an important quantity demonstrating that the giant resonance, a “high-frequency... More
![“The Scattering of Electrons by a Single Crystal of Nickel” [Davisson & Germer, pp. 558-560] WITH “Diffraction of Cathode Rays by a Thin Film” [Thomson & Reid, p. 890] WITH “The Continuous Spectrum of -Rays” [Ellis & Wooster, pp. 563-564] WITH “Physical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics” [Born, pp. 354-357] WITH “Supplement to Nature: The Bicentenary of Newton’s Death” [Bound in pp. 1-100] in Nature 119, 1927. C. J. Davisson, L. H. WITH Thomson Germer, George, G. WITH Ellis Reid, C. D., W. A. WITH Born Wooster, M., Max.](/pictures/thumb/927_1.jpg?v=1496362558)
London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF FOUR VERY IMPORTANT PHYSICS PAPERS, TWO OF WHICH CONFIRMED DE BROGLIE’S HYPOTHESIS ON THE WAVE NATURE OF MATTER. Davisson and Thomson shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" (Nobel Prize Portal)... More
London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THOMSON & REID’S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS “for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals” (Nobel Prize Portal). The experiments conducted here “beautifully confirmed the [de Broglie’s] wave theory” (Lindau Nobel Laureate Portal). Sir George Paget... More
![Gabor, D. [Dennis] WITH Berriman, R. W. WITH Herz, R. H. “A New Microscopic Principle” [Gabor, pp. 777-778] WITH “Electron Tracks in Photographic Emulsions” [Berriman p. 432] WITH “Electron Tracks in Photographic Emulsions” [Herz, pp. 928-929] in Nature, Volume 161, 1948. D. Gabor, R. W. WITH Herz Dennis WITH Berriman, R. H.](/pictures/thumb/925_1.jpg?v=1500740662)
London: Macmillan and Co. 1948. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THREE SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: (1) GABOR PAPER: Gabor’s initial announcement of the “invention and development of the holographic method”; at that time, he called his new technology an ‘electron interference microscope’ (Nobel Prize; Gabor, Nature, 161, 1948, p. 778). “The... More
London: Royal Society, 1949. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF GABOR’S FIRST EXTENSIVE PRESENTATION OF HIS 1971 NOBEL PRIZE WINNING “INVENTION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOLOGRAPHIC METHOD” (Nobel Prize). This work includes Gabor’s first use of the word ‘hologram’ as well as three photographic plates. In 1948 Gabor sent a.... More