1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF A QUASAR. While studying the light spectra of radio sources at the California Institute of Technology, Maarten Schmidt identified the visible object corresponding to a radio source known as 3C 273. While its star-like appearance suggested it was relatively nearby..... More

Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1886. 1st Edition. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) was a British astronomer known for his many innovations. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland. [He was also] “professor of practical astronomy in the University of Edinburgh. His primarily interest was in experimental and speculative matters, and among one..... More

National Academy of Sciences, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS & HOUSED IN A CUSTOM PAMPHLET CASE of the groundbreaking theoretical paper by Niels K. Jerne describing his theory of antibody formulation. This article, which has 1,075 citations, revolutionized the theory of monoclonal antibodies and Jerne shared the..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE PAPER IN WHICH Von ARDEEN REPORTS ON & DETAILS HIS CONSTRUCTION OF THE “THE FIRST SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE,” (SEM) an invention he had earlier conceived (Collard, The Development of Microbiology, p. 25). In this paper, Von Ardeene “realized in prototype form” the microscope he had earlier..... More

London: Taylor & Francis, 1900. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RAYLEIGH’S FORMULA TO DESCRIBE THE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF BLACKBODY RADIATION. Also included: two papers in which Rutherford 1st described the phenomenon of half-life as well as a 2nd in which he further describes those experiments, one of which provided the..... More

Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg and Son, 1916. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK BY EINSTEIN: HIS FIRST PAPER ON THE DERIVATION OF PLANCK’S LAW, HERE INTRODUCING THE THEORY OF THE STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION INTO THE QUANTUM THEORY. “EINSTEIN’S CONCEPT OF STIMULATED EMISSION IS..... More

London: Macmillan, 1974. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING’S MOST IMPORTANT PAPER, HERE PREDICTING THAT BLACK HOLES RELEASE BLACKBODY RADIATION NOW KNOWN AS HAWKING RADIATION. Hawking’s Royal Society obituary stated: “It is fair to say that Stephen’s discovery ranks as one of the most important results ever..... More

London: Richard Taylor, 1808. 1st Edition. SECOND PUBLICATION OF “ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY” – DAVY’S ISOLATION & DISCOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND SODIUM (Neville, Historical Chemical Library, I, p. 340). Davy first presented this work as his Bakerian Lecture before the Royal Society, hence its first publication..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS THAT TOGETHER FORMED THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. "In spite of its high-sounding name and its successful solutions of numerous problems in atomic physics, quantum theory, and especially the quantum theory of polyelectronic systems, prior to 1925, was..... More

Amsterdam. FULL VOLUME 1st AMSTERDAM EDITION OF AMONTONS’ DESCRIPTION OF HIS CONSTANT VOLUME AIR THERMOMETER, a device that functioned “independent of the atmospheric pressure). In other words, this is “Amontons' account of his invention of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source..... More

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1950. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE TWO PAPERS IN WHICH MARCIA MAYER DEVELOPS A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE STRUCTURE OF NUCLEAR SHELLS. Mayer “was the first person to investigate the theoretical basis of nuclear pairing,” something which plays a critical role in the..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, BOUND FIRST EDITION of David Bohm's deterministic 'Hidden Variables Approach to Quantum Theory.' Bohm's 'Hidden Variables' interpretation is the basis of the De Broglie-Bohm Theory (or Bohmian Mechanics) and extends the Pilot Wave Theory to cover multiple particles. Bohm published an..... More

1945. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF HADAMARD’S EXPLORATION OF HOW MATHEMATICIANS INVENT NEW IDEAS ALONGSIDE A STUDY OF THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS. Among the important documents collected is a letter from Albert Einstein analyzing his own mechanism of thought. This work appears in Weil’s list of Einstein’s publications (#214)..... More