American Microscopical Society. 1st Edition. 138 ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, these published from 1950 to 1986 (volumes 69-105, missing only 6 issues with those noted below). The papers published in the Transactions cover every facet of microscopy as it relates to every... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1881. 1st Edition. Bound, full volume first edition of two papers: EDWIN HALL’S SIGNIFICANT FOLLOW-UP WORK TO HIS 1880 DISCOVERY OF THE HALL EFFECT, a “seminal and foundational experiment of condensed matter physics” (Armitage, Notes on Hall Effect Experiments). The paper offered presents further work on... More
Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN FINE CONDITION OF EINSTEIN’S TWO-PART 1927 COMMENTARY ON KALUZA’S THEORY INVOLVING FIELD EQUATIONS IN FIVE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE. Weil 156. Boni 170. Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza “attempted to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with Maxwell’s theory of light by mixing... More
Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1853. 1st Edition. 1853 PAPER BY MICHAEL FARADAY (reprinted from the London Athenaeum) PROVING THAT THE SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA OF TABLE-TURNING HAPPENS AS THE RESULT OF PARTICIPANTS UNCONSCIOUSLY MOVING THE TABLES THEMSELVES. This remains the accepted explanation today. “Table-turning was among the many supernatural phenomena that caught the public’s... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1885. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE SEMINAL 1885 DISCOVERY OF THE BALMER FORMULA: A MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FREQUENCIES OF ATOMIC SPECTRAL LINES. “Balmer had found a simple but very accurate formula… to compute the frequencies (and wavelengths) of the light for the... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931. 1st Edition. Bound volume FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY CHANDRASEKHAR ON WHITE DWARFS & TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS BY ATKINSON ON ATOMIC SYNTHESIS & STELLAR ENERGY. The Indian American astrophysicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar work on stellar evolution showed that after burning their fuel, stars enter... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1929. 1st Edition. Full volume, bound, including TWO IMPORTANT 1st EDITIONS: Atkinson & Houtermans’ SEMINAL PAPER CONCLUDING THAT QUANTUM TUNNELING MAY ALLOW FOR THE GENERATION OF ENERGY IN STARS THROUGH NUCLEAR FUSION. In this, the 1st attempt to apply the Gamow factor to explore fusion reactions in... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE MEITNER & ORTHMANN PAPER IN WHICH THE AUTHORS PROVED DEFINITIVELY BY MEANS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH GEIGER COUNTERS THAT THE BETA-RAY CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM. Their experiments confirm the earlier Ellis and Wooster results regarding the energy deficit in beta radiation. This paper... More
![“The Pressure in the Interior of a Star” (Chandrasekhar) [Vol 85 pp. 372-379] WITH “The Opacity in the Interior of a Star” (Chandrasekhar) [Vol 86 pp. 78-83] WITH “On the Masses of Nebulae and of Clusters of Nebulae” (Zwicky) [Vol 86 pp. 217-246] in Astrophysical Journal 85 & 86 (bound together) 1937. S. Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, Fritz Zwicky, Subramanyan.](/pictures/thumb/1127_1.jpg?v=1537992743)
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1937. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SUBRAMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR & ONE BY FRITZ ZWICKY. Chandrasekhar’s work on stellar evolution showed that after burning their fuel, stars enter a continual & dramatic collapse, works that contain “he seeds of the concept of... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1926. 1st Edition. Full volume FIRST EDITION OF THE VAN DER POL EQUATION – THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF OSCILLATIONS THAT ARE NOT NEARLY LINEAR. In this paper, van der Pol, a Dutch physicist, develops differential equations of coupled electrical systems that describe self-oscillating triode circuits. He... More
1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRODUCTION & DEMONSTRATION OF THE FIRST SILICON TRANSISTOR. The journal is housed in a blue custom clamshell case, gilt-ruled on the front board and lettered at the spine. Morris Tanenbaum is an American physical chemist who... More
London: Macmillan, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS, OF A 2004 ESSAY BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING ENGLISH GENETICIST, PAUL NURSE. The essay is discusses both a personal and scientific turning point, relating to “how a tiny observation turned out to have a controlling influence” on his 1974... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920. 1st Edition. First edition bound extract of a paper, The Propagation of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases, “that is a bit off the beaten track for Einstein though its subject, fluids (liquids and gases) is one he dabbled in throughout his life” (Calaprice, Einstein Almanac)... 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
Paris: Journal de Physique, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS, OF A LECTURE EINSTEIN GAVE TO THE SOCIETÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHYSIQUE. Einstein delivered the lecture at the end of March, 1913, as an important coda and supplement to his famous 1912 Annalen der Physik publication Thermodynamische Begründung... More
Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS, OF PLANCK'S DERIVATION OF THE FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION, A GENERALIZATION OF EINSTEIN'S EQUATION OF BROWNIAN MOTION (Wikipedia). The Fokker–Planck equation arises in a wide variety of natural science, including solid-state physics, quantum optics, chemical physics, theoretical... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound full volume, of ÅNGSTRÖM’S 1900 ANALYSIS ASSERTING THAT THE ABSORPTION OF HEAT BY WATER VAPOR DOMINATES THAT OF CARBON DIOXIDE. In a direct challenge to Arrhenius’ conclusions about the importance of carbon dioxide in retaining heat, Ångström’s publication presented “the... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1982. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED PAPER WRAPS OF WOOTTERS’ & ZUREK’S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. The no-cloning theorem is one of the earlier results in the study of quantum information. Published in 1982, Wootters and Zurek’s paper... More
![Eine Theorie der Grundlagen der Thermodynamik [A Theory of the Foundations of Thermodynamics] in Annalen der Physik 11 pp. 170–187, 1903. Albert Einstein.](/pictures/thumb/1117_1.jpg?v=1537992743)
Leipzig: Barth, 1903. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS EINSTEIN’S DERIVATION OF ENTROPY FROM THERMODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES. “Einstein showed that the concepts of temperature and entropy follow from the assumption of the energy principle and atomic theory. He required only the foundations of atomic physics but no other physical hypotheses”... More
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute. 1st Edition. BOUND, 2 FULL-VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS BY VANNEVAR BUSH ON HIS DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER – A CRITICAL STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN COMPUTER. Bush’s accomplishment evolved in several iterations, each a stunning technological achievement – each a machine that employed... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1940. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF SPONTANEOUS FISSION. Spontaneous fission is a type of radioactive decay in which certain unstable nuclei of heavier elements split into two nearly equal fragments (of lighter elements) and in so doing... More
London: The Ray Society, 1862. First English Language Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ONLY WORK OF WILHELM HOFMEISTER’S TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. “WITH THIS SINGLE PUBLICATION, THE CORE OF BOTANY PASSED FROM ITS MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography VI, 466). “Friederich Wilhelm Benedikt Hofmeister stands as... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1979. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN THE BINARY PULSAR – the gravitational waves Einstein predicted in his 1916 theory of general relativity. The paper is housed in a pristine clamshell case gilt-ruled on the front... More
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF ALAN TURING’S REVIEW OF NORBERT WIENER’S SEMINAL WORK, CYBERNETICS – THE FIRST DEFINITIVE WORK ON CYBERNETICS & THE FIRST BOOK (other than a technical report) TO INCLUDE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING (Origins of Cyberspace, Christie’s 2005). In... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BAADE’S 1938 PAPER, PROPOSING THAT SUPERNOVAE WOULD BE USEFUL STANDARD CANDLES FOR MEASURING ACCURATE COSMIC DISTANCES (Lee, Modern Supernova Search, Astronomy, SEES, 1). In a separate paper also in this volume, “Baade and Zwicky [give] the first description of... More