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"On the “Rotational Coefficient” in nickel and cobalt" (Hall, pp. 157-172) WITH "On Logical Diagrams for N Terms" (Marquand, pp. 266-270) in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 12, 1881

Hall, E. H. [Edwin] WITH Alan Marquand

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

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The Royal Commission on Opium, 1893-94: Reports, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices (Britain in China). SEVEN VOLUMES BOUND AS SIX

Ganesha Publishing, 2003. COMPLETE SET OF 7 VOLUMES BOUND AS 6 DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THE INDIAN EMPIRE’S USE OF OPIUM. In pristine condition, this reprint “makes the rare Royal Commission report and its supplements available in their entirety, and includes an introduction that situates the report in its historical context... More

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“A Quantum Delayed Choice Experiment” by Alberto Peruzzo, Peter J. Shadbolt, Nicolas Brunner, Sandu Popescu, and Jeremy L. O’Brien (Peruzzo et al, pp. 634-637) WITH “Entanglement-Enabled Delayed-Choice Experiment” (Kaiser, pp. 637-640) in Science 338 No. 6107, November 2, 2012) [DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT]

Peruzzo, Alberto; Shadbolt, Peter J; Brunner, Nicolas; Popescu, Sandu; O’Brien, Jeremy L. WITHBOUND Kaiser, Florian

New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO (withbound) PAPERS RELATED TO WHEELER’S DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT, THESE DEMONSTRATING THE “ULTIMATE” DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT IN WHICH THE CHOICE IS DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE MEASUREMENT IS MADE. These papers appear in..... More

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“Experimental Realization of Wheeler’s Delayed-Choice Gendanken Experiment” in Science, 315, 5814, pp. 966-968, February 6, 2007

Aspect, Alain; Grangier, Philippe; Roch, Jean-François; et al.

2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION OF JOHN WHEELER’S FAMOUS DELAYED CHOICE QUANTUM EXPERIMENT. In this beautifully clean realization of Wheeler’s 1978 proposal, the authors, Alain Aspect et al., used laser light to create a delayed-choice double-slit experiment. Aspect and his team “used..... More

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“Time and the Quantum: Erasing the Past and Impacting the Future” in Science 307 No. 5711 pp. 875–879, February 11, 2005 [Delayed Choice Quantum Experiments]

Aharonov, Yakir; Zubairy, M. Suhail

New York: America Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS: AHARONOV & ZUBAIRY’S 2005 PAPER ON THE QUANTUM ERASER EXPERIMENT. Their paper provides salient history and perspective on, just as the name of the paper alludes, time and the quantum. Specifically, the authors... More

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“Quantum-enhanced Positioning and Clock Sychronization” in Nature, 412, July 26, 2001, pp. 417-419

Lloyd, Seth; Giovannetti, Vittorio; Maccone, Lorenzo

London: Macmillan, 2001. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPS OF A 2001 PAPER C-AUTHORED BY SETH LLOYD. The authors “exploit ‘quantum weirdness’ [in an effort to] dramatically improve the precision of radar, sonar, the global positioning system and other object locators…[They] propose “that taking advantage of the quirky..... More

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“Universal Quantum Simulators” in Science, Volume 273, Number 5278, 23 August 1996, pp. 1073-1078

Lloyd, Seth

New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PROOF “THAT UNIVERSAL COMPUTERS CAN BE BUILT FROM QUANTUM MECHANICAL SYSTEMS” (Stolz, Quantum Computing, 129). In 1982 Feynman conjectured that quantum computers can be programmed to simulate any local quantum... More

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“Der stetige Übergang von der Mikro- zur Makromechanik” in Die Naturwissenschaften 14 Heft 28 pp. 664–666, July 9, 1926 [“The Continuous Transition from Micro- to Macro-Mechanics”]

Schrödinger, Erwin

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF SCHRÖDINGER’S INTRODUCTION OF THE ‘WAVE PACKET (OR ‘WAVE GROUP) CONCEPT & IN SO DOING DEFINES WHAT LATER WOULD BE KNOWN AS COHERENT STATES. A wave packet refers to where two or more waves exist simultaneously. It is “a..... More

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. New Series. X, 1845

Hays, Isaac, ed. M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 1st Edition. Bound 1st edition. Volume X. 1845. The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS) is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. “The journal was established in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences by Nathaniel Chapman... More

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. New Series. IX, 1845

Hays, Isaac, ed. M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 1st Edition. Bound 1st edition. Volume IX. 1845. The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS) is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. “The journal was established in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences by Nathaniel Chapman... More

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. New Series. VIII, 1844

Hays, Isaac, ed. M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1844. 1st Edition. Bound 1st edition. Volume VIII. 1844. The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS) is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. “The journal was established in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences by Nathaniel Chapman... More

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. New Series. VII, 1844

Hays, Isaac, ed. M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1844. 1st Edition. Bound 1st edition. Volume VII, 1844. The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS) is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. “The journal was established in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences by Nathaniel Chapman... More

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. New Series. VI, 1843

Hays, Isaac, ed. M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospital, physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1843. 1st Edition. Bound 1st edition. 1843. The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS) is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. “The journal was established in 1820 as the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences by Nathaniel Chapman. A new... More

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“Correlation Energy of an Electron Gas at High Density” (Gell-Mann and Brueckner, pp. 364-369) WITH “Specific Heat of a Degenerate Electron Gas at High Density” (Gell-Mann, pp. 369-372) in Physical Review 106, Number 2, April 15, 1957

Gell-Mann, Murray; Brueckner, Keith A. WITH Gell-Mann, Murray

Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF 2 IMPORTANT PAPERS BY MURRAY GELL-MANN, THE 1st A “FAMOUS PAPER” IN WHICH GELL-MANN & BRUECKNER SHOW THAT RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION (RPA) CAN BE DERIVED BY SUMMING A SERIES OF FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS IN A DENSE ELECTRON... More

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“Operator Calculus and the Solution of the Equation of Quantum Dynamics” (Eckart pp. 711-726) WITH “The Stark Effect from the Point of View of Schrödinger’s Quantum Theory” (Epstein, pp. 695-710) in Physical Review 28 No. 4, October 1926

Eckart, Carl WITH Epstein, Paul

American Physical Society, 1926. 1926. 1926 FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO SIGNIFICANT PHYSICS PAPERS (one by Carl Eckart, the other by Paul Epstein) ADDRESSING & EMPLOYING ISSUES RELATED TO THE EMERGENCE OF SCHRÖDINGER’S NEW WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY OF THE SAME YEAR, 1926. The first, “Operator Calculus and..... More

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“Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia” (pp. 306-312 (White, Suwa, Asfaw) WITH “Palaeoanthropology. The oldest hominid yet” (Wood, pp. 280-282) in Nature 371, Issue 6495, September 22, 1994

White, T.D. [Tim D.]; Suwa, G. [Gen]; Asfaw, B. [Berhane] WITH Wood, Bernard

London: Macmillan, 1994. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WHITE, SUWA, & ASFAW’S PAPER ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE OLDEST KNOWN HUMANOID. Bernard Wood’s notable paper “Palaeoanthropology. The oldest hominid yet” is also included. The 4.4 million-year-old Australopithecus ramidus is a likely human ancestor "from an era which..... More

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Mémoire sur l'équilibre des machines aérostatiques, sur les différens moyens de les faire monter & descendre, & spécialement sur celui d'exécuter ces manoeuvres, sans jeter de lest, & sans perdre d'air inflammable, en ménageant dans le ballon une capacité particulière, destinée à renfermer de l'air atmosphérique (Meusnier pp. 39-47). Addition au Mémoire precedent, Contenant une application de la théorie qui y est exposée. Á un exemple particulier. (Meusnier pp.48-69) Présenté à l'Académie le 3 décembre 1783. Observations sur La Physique, Sur L'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts, 1784 [Ballooning. The decomposition of water. The evolution of hydrogen]

Meusnier, M. [Jean Baptiste Marie Charles Meusnier de la Place]

Paris: Journal de Physique, 1794. 1st Edition. First edition. A French aeronautical theorist, mathematician, & engineer, Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier read the paper offered here before the Paris Academy of Science in December 1783. Meusnier relays details of the “stable hydrogen balloon” he has “engineered” and articulates “develop[ment of] the..... More

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“Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra” Nature 117 No. 2938 pp. 264–265, February 20, 1926

Uhlenbeck, George; Goudsmit, Samuel

London: Macmillan, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE 1ST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘INTRINSIC SPIN’’ OF THE ELECTRON. While still students studying at Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, two Dutch physicists, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit postulated that the electron must have an intrinsic angular..... More

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"Certain results in coding theory for noisy channels", Monograph 2982, Bell Telephone System Technical Publications, 1957

Shannon, Claude

New York: Bell Telephone, 1957. 1957. ORIGINAL WRAPS, 1ST SEPARATE EDITION OF A 1957 BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM MONOGRAPH IN WHICH CLAUDE SHANNON proves the "channel coding theorem for memoryless channels" that he proposed in his seminal 1948 work, A Mathematical Theory of Communication. [We offer other Shannon papers as well... More

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCX (1810), Parts I and II, Volume 100

William Herschel, William Hyde Wollaston, Humphry Davy, Everard Home, William Henry, Benjamin Gibson, William T. Brande, T. A. Knight, Stephen Groombridge, John Brinkley, James Macartney, George Pearson

London: W. Bulmer, 1810. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCX (1810), Parts I and II, Volume 100, complete with 15 plates. Among the many papers included: Humphry Davy announcing the discovery of the new element chlorine... More

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An Annotated Census of Copernicus' de Revolutionibus: Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566

Gingerich, Owen

Brill: 2002. 1st Edition. PRISTINE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Owen Gingerich’s An Annotated Census of Copernicus' de Revolutionibus: Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566. Owen Gingerich is an emeritus professor of astronomy and the history of science at Harvard University and an emeritus senior astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory... More

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Proceedings of a Symposium in Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery. Jointly Sponsored by The Navy Department Bureau of Ordinance and Harvard University at The Computation Laboratory 7-10 January 1947

Harvard University Computational Laboratory [Howard H. Aiken Technical Director]

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (with dust jacket) of an important work detailing The Proceedings of a Symposium in Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, jointly sponsored by The Navy Department Bureau of Ordinance and Harvard University at The Computation Laboratory 7-10 January 1947. This volume... More

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Description Of A Magnetic Drum Calculator, Harvard University Press, 1952 [PROVENANCE: ERWIN TOMASH]

Staff of the Computation Library, Harvard

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DESCRIPTION OF HARVARD’S MARK III CALCULATOR. This volume bears the bookplate of Erwin Tomash, a pioneer in the development of computers and an important collector whose passion became The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing, the..... More

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“Drosophila cryptochromes: A unique circadian-rhythm photoreceptor” in Nature 404 (6777), pp. 456-457, March 2000

Hall, Jeffrey C.; Rosbash, Michael; Emery, Patrick; Stanewsky, Ralf

London: Macmillan, 2000. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PAPER ON CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS BY JEFFREY C. HALL & MICHAEL ROSBASH, WINNERS OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm” (Nobel Prize Committee). In their own words, Hall and... More

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"Ueber die Verbindungen des Alkohols mit Wasser. Im Auszuge aus d. russischen Originalarbeit von Victor Richter" (On the Compounds of Alcohol with Water) in Annalen der Physik und Chemie 18 pp. 103-141 and pp. 230-279, 1869 [ FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF MENDELÉEV’S DOCTORAL DISSERTATION]

Mendeleev, Dimitri Ivanovich (Mendeléev, Mendeleieff, Mendelevev, Mendeléeff, Dimitry Ivanovich)

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1869. 1st Edition. FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF MENDELÉEV’S DOCTORAL DISSERTATION "O soedineni spirta s vodoyu" from 1865. On the basis of his successful defense of his study of the interaction between alcohol and water and the densities of their combination, Mendeleev achieved tenure at St. Petersburg..... More

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