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Company (HAND PRINTED FOLIO EDITION. SCARCE PERSONAL COPY SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT, THE ARTIST & PRINTMAKER DELLAS HENKE & BOUND BY THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CONSERVATOR, WILLIAM (Bill) ANTHONY).

Beckett, Samuel

Iowa: Center for the Book, 1983. 1st Edition. SCARCE PERSONAL COPY OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S NOVELLA “COMPANY” SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT, THE ARTIST & PRINTMAKER DELLAS HENKE & BOUND BY THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CONSERVATOR, WILLIAM (Bill) ANTHONY. Signed documentation authenticating Anthony’s binding and that the volume is from Anthony’s personal collection.....

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"Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of the Iguanodon, and on the remains of the Hylæosaurus and other Saurians, discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex" (Mantell, pp. 131-151) WITH "Additional Note on the Contraction of Voluntary Muscle in the Living Body" (Bowman pp. 69-72) WITH “On a Cycle of Eighteen Years in the Mean Annual Height of the Barometer in the Climate of London, and on a Constant Variation of the Barometrical Mean According to the Moon’s Declination” (Howard, pp. 277-280) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Volume 131, 1841

Mantell, Gideon; Bowman, William; Howard, Luke

London: The Royal Society, 1841. 1st Edition. Full volume 1st editions of 3 important papers, MANTELL’S 2nd MAJOR PAPER ON THE IGUANODON; BOWMAN’S’s CLASSIC PAPER ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MUSCLES; & ONE OF A NUMBER OF LUKE HOWARD’S PAPERS “WHICH TRANSFORMED THE SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY” (Wikipedia). MANTELL’S PAPER: Gideon Mantell.....

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"The Bakerian Lecture. On the mechanism of the eye" (Young, pp. 23-88; Read Nov. 27, 1800) WITH "Observations Tending to Investigate the Nature of the Sun, in Order to Find the Causes or Symptoms of Its Variable Emission of Light and Heat; With Remarks on the Use That May Possibly Be Drawn from Solar Observations" (Herschel, pp. 265-318; Read April 16, 1801) AND "Additional Observations Tending to Investigate the Symptoms of the Variable Emission of the Light and Heat of the Sun; With Trials to Set Aside Darkening Glasses, by Transmitting the Solar Rays through Liquids; And a Few Remarks to Remove Objections That Might Be Made against Some of the Arguments Contained in the Former Paper" (pp. 354-362; Read May 14, 1801) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Volume 91, Parts I & II, 1801. YOUNG’S IMPORTANT WORK ON PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS & HERSCHEL’S PAPERS, THE FIRST SPECULATION THAT THE SUN’S BRIGHTNESS MIGHT VARY & AFFECT THE CLIMATE ON EARTH.

Young, Thomas WITH Herschel, William

London: The Royal Society, 1801. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1ST EDITION of THOMAS YOUNG’S IMPORTANT 1801 PAPER, “THE MOST IMPORTANT TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS PUBLISHED UP TO THAT TIME (Hirschberg/Blodi V, 22). The paper “includes the first description of astigmatism [defects of the eye or lens] with measurements and optical.....

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Time Division Multiplex Systems in Bell System Technical Journal 20, 1941, pp. 199-221

Bennett, W. R. [William]

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (full volume) OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year after publication of...

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“The Bakerian Lecture: Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics" Read Nov. 24, 1803, (Young, pp. 1-16 WITH William Herschel: “Continuation of an Account of the Changes That Have Happened in the Relative Situation of Double Stars” Read June 7, 1804, (pp. 353-384) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 94 Parts I & II, 1804

Young, Thomas WITH William Herschel ***THE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR AND DISCOVERY OF THE INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT (The Double-Slit Experiment) & HERSCHEL’S OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE THAT NEWTON’S LAWS OF GRAVITATION HOLD OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. Complete volume. FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS YOUNG’S LIGHT INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT (the double-slit experiment) -- THE 1ST SERIOUS CHALLENGE TO THE PARTICLE THEORY OF LIGHT, THE 1ST STRONG EVIDENCE FOR & DEMONSTRATION OF THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT, & THE 1ST UNASSAILABLE EVIDENCE THAT “FRINGES ARE.....

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Atlas Borealis, 1962

Becvar [Be vá ], Antonín

Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962. 1962 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 24 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), as issued. Very large (elephant) oblong folio. Includes “all stars with known precise positions”. Original cream linen binding.At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas Borealis was widely used by professional...

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Skalnate Pleso - Atlas of the Heavens, 1950.0, 1969

Becvar [Be vá ], Antonín

Cambridge: Sky Publishing, 1969. 1969 CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), loose in black and white (unbound as issued). Folio. Handsomely printed. Fine condition. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli was widely used by professional astronomers with many observatories...

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Antonín Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli 1950.0, 1962

Becvar [Be vá ], Antonín

Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962. 1962 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES). Very large (elephant) oblong folio. 3rd edition. A less elaborate 1st edition appeared in 1948. Original cream linen binding. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas...

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Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America...To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates. The fifth edition. London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1774

Franklin, Benjamin

London: F. Newbery, 1774. ESPECIALLY SCARCE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, "THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOK OF 18TH-CENTURY AMERICA" & "America's first great scientific contribution" – Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity, here in the fifth (second complete) and final edition (Printing and the Mind of Man, 199). “Editions one, two.....

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“A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons,” in Physics Letters, 8, Number 3, 1 February 1964, pp. 214-215

Gell-Mann, M.

FIRST EDITION OF MURRAY GELL-MANN’S SEMINAL PAPER POSITING THE IDEA OF ‘QUARKS’ INSIDE THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Bound full volume. Gell-Mann took nearly a year to write this short, Nobel Prize winning paper, and yet in it, three quarks later named ‘up,’ ‘down,’ and ‘strange’ “explained phenomena that theorists had been.....

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Andreas Cellarius: Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660. [“History’s Most Beautiful Celestial Atlas”] 2013

Van Gent, Robert; Andreas Cellarius

Koln: Taschen. AS NEW, STILL IN SHRINK WRAP & COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL CARRYING CASE. Meticulously rendered Taschen reprint of a masterpiece of celestial cartography, the celestial maps of the Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596-1665). First published in 1660 in the Harmonia Macrocosmica, the complete 29 double-folio maps...

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Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli 1950.0, 1958

Becvar [Be vá ], Antonín

Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1958. 1958 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES). Very large (elephant) oblong folio. 2nd edition. A less elaborate 1st edition appeared in 1948. Original cream linen binding.At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli...

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“Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen” [About a new kind of rays], Parts I & II. WITH: “Weitere Beobachtungen uber die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen” [Further observations about the properties of X-rays] in Annalen der Physik, Neue Folge, Band 64, Heft 1, 1898.

Rontgen [Röntgen] [Roentgen], Wilhelm Conrad

Leipzig: Barth-Verlag, 1898. 1st Edition. IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPS, THE 1898 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF RONTGEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, INCLUSIVE OF ALL 3 PAPERS and housed in a custom cloth box. For this work, Rontgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. “Their...

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Pantometrum Kircherianum, Hoc Est, Instrumentum Geometricum novum a Athanasio Kirchero [Athanasius Kircher] ante hac inventum, nunc decem Libris, universam paene Practicam Geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum. Würzburg, Johann J. Hertz, 1660

Schott, Kaspar [Gaspar or Caspar] & Kircher [Kirchero] [Kirchner], [Kircherus], Athanasius

Würzburg: Johann J. Hertz, 1660. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A WORK BY GASPAR SCHOTT ABOUT A ‘PANTOMETRUM’, A SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT INVENTED BY ATHANASIUS KIRCHER. SCHOTT DESCRIBES THE INSTRUMENT, DETAILS ITS INVENTION, CONSTRUCTION, SPECIFICATIONS, AND USES. Schott also provides a manual for operating the instrument. Illustrated with 32 copperplates. Though.....

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“Experimenteller Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme” (pp. 152–170) WITHBOUND "Berichtigung zu meiner Gemeinsam mit Herrn J.W. de Haas veröffentlichen Arbeit "Experimenteller Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme (p. 203) WITHBOUND "Notiz zu unserer Arbeit "Experimenteller Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme" (p.420) in Verhandlungen der Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 17 pp. 152–170, 1915 EINSTEIN-DE HAAS EFFECT

Einstein, Albert; de Haas, Wander Johannes

Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL BOUND VOLUME, OF THE EINSTEIN-DE HAAS EFFECT -- an experimental observation that illustrates the relationship between magnetism and angular momentum and in which a change in the magnetic moment causes the rotation of a free body. In this 1915...

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“Über Zusammenstöße zwischen Elektronen und Molekülen des Quecksilberdampfes und die Ionisierungsspannung desselben” AND “Über die Erregung der Quecksilberresonanzlinie 253,6 durch Elektronenstöße” (Franck and Hertz, pp. 457-467 and pp. 512-517) WITH "Beitrage zur Quantentheorie," (Einstein, pp. 820-828) in Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 16, 1914

Franck, James; Hertz, Gustav Ludwig WITH Einstein, Albert

Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT: THE FIRST ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT TO CLEARLY SHOW THE QUANTUM NATURE OF ATOMS – PROOF OF THE QUANTIZED MODEL OF THE BOHR ATOM & OF PLANCK’S QUANTUM THEORY. Note that this volume includes both the.....

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"The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits" in The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume XXVIII [28], No.1, pp.59-98, January 1949

Shannon, Claude

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF CLAUDE SHANNON’S FOLLOW UP TO HIS SEMINAL MASTER’S THESIS “frequently called the most important master's thesis of the twentieth century with respect to the influence it had on the development of the electronic and.....

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“The Bakerian Lecture: On the Theoretical Explanation of an Apparent New Polarity in Light” [Extracted From] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 130, pp.225-244, 1840

Airy, George Biddell

London: Royal Society, 1840. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY’S 1840 BAKERIAN LECTURE. This is not an ex-library copy. No stamps of any kind. Includes a long fold-out ithographic chart. 4to. Near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at...

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“Comparison of Magnetic Disturbances Recorded by the Self-Registering Magnetometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich with Magnetic Disturbances Deduced from the Corresponding Terrestrial Galvanic Currents Recorded by the Self-Registering Galvanometers of the Royal Observatory” [Extracted From] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 158, pp.465-472, 1868

Airy, George Biddell

London: The Royal Society, 1868. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACTS OF “THE FIRST COORDINATED STUDY OF EARTH CURRENTS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MAGNETIC VARIATIONS” (Zhdanov, Foundations of Geophysical Electromagnetic Theory and Methods, xxxi). George Biddell Airy’s paper includes (1801-1892) five two-color lithographic chart (full plates). 4to. Not ex-library; no stamps.....

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“Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action” in Bell System Technical Journal 28, no. 2 (April 1949), pp. 239-77 [Complete issue in original wraps]

Bardeen, J. [John] and Brattain, W.H. [Walter]

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON THE INVENTION OF THE TRANSISTOR” -- probably the most important invention of the 20th century -- by BARDEEN & BRATTAIN (Origins of Cyberspace, 450; Ira Flatow). Their discovery had...

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“Forming a Moon with an Earth-like composition via a Giant Impact” (Canup, pp. 1052-1055) WITH “Making the Moon From a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning” ( uk, pp. 1047-1052 in Science 338, 6110, November 22, 2012

Canup, Robin WITH uk, M.; Stewart, S. T.

New York: AAAS, 2012. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE GIANT-IMPACT THEORY, THE CURRENTLY FAVORED SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The Giant-Impact Theory is also know as the Giant-Impact Hypothesis, the Big Splash, and the The Impact. “The giant impact...

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A Cyclic Model of the Universe. “A Cyclic Model of the Universe” by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok (Science 296 No. 5572 pp. 1436–1439, May 24, 2002). “Why the Cosmological Constant Is Small and Positive” by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok (Science 312 No. 5777 pp. 1180 - 1183, May 26, 2006).

Steinhardt, Paul J.; Turok, Neil Geoffrey

New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1st Edition. TWO 1st EDITION PAPERS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS: STEINHARDT & TUROK’S 2002 CYCLIC THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE & THEIR 2006 EXPLANATION OF HOW THIS THEORY CAN RESOLVE THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM. “The cyclic universe theory is a model of cosmic.....

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“On the Proper Motion of the Solar System” (Galloway, ) EXTRACT from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 137, pp. 79-109, Read on April 15, 1847; Published 1848

Galloway, Thomas

London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, EXTRACT OF THE EARLIEST DEFINITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROPER MOTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician; this paper was the most important of his career and won him the prestigious Royal Medal. The ‘Proper motion of.....

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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 9 [IX] , January to June, 1962

Dack, Simon, editor

New York: 1962. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the ninth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Nice red-speckled text-block. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers;...

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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 7 [VII] , January to June, 1961

Dack, Simon, editor

New York: 1961. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the seventh volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers;...

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