London: Royal Society, 1886. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 3 lithographed plates. In 1858 and in a paper we offer separately, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania prisca..... More

London: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 2 lithographed plates. In this paper, on the largest known terrestrial lizard, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania Prisca..... More

FERREL’S 19th CENTURY “MAGNUM OPUS” PROPOSING THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Offered are two papers by the American meteorologist William Ferrel, “the Newton or Kepler of meteorology.” “Transitioning from observational weather forecasting to mathematical weather forecasting required meteorologists to recognize that the laws of physics could apply..... More

Wisconsin: American Economic Association, 1923. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS (housed in custom case) 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..... More

Lancaster: 1966. 1st Edition. Bound full volume: FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING 1966 PAPER IN WHICH PETER HIGGS PREDICTED THE 2012 DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON. A type of subatomic particle, bosons are able to occupy the same point in space as do other different matter particles (like..... More

New York: John Day, 1931. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. HANDSOME COPY OF A CLASSIC WORK WITH SCARCE ICONIC DUST JACKET PRESENT. Vanity Fair's guide to New York's "halls of terpsichore, cabarets, night clubs, roof gardens, road houses, and dancing grill rooms—no museums, night schools, or galleries." Included are "Speakeasies, Cab..... More

New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPS OF THE 1st PAPER TO ?PROPOSE THE FIRST TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE DESIGN FOR A QUANTUM COMPUTER? (Wikipedia). PRISTINE condition with no mailing label.?Quantum computing studies theoretical computation systems (quantum computers) that make direct..... More

London: Harrison and Sons, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT of “famous paper in classic astrophysics” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System). This paper by the Anglo-Austrian physicist Hermann Bondi studies whether redshifts could be of gravitational origin and “served as a theoretical guidepost for planetary and super-planetary relative motion calculation” (ibid)..... More

American Physical Society, 1981. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ALCHEMICAL EXPERIMENT IN HISTORY” (Valijak, Vintage News, 2017). Seaborg and his team transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold for the first time by accelerating carbon and neon nuclei to near light speed and..... More

Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1770. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A VOYAGE BY CASSINI TO TEST THE NEW MARINE CLOCK – CHRONOMETER -- OF PIERRE LE ROY. Le Roy's chronometer superceded one by John Harrison that had been used for many years. Le Roy’s invention – as Cassini’s report makes clear..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Alan Guth's landmark paper introducing the concept of "cosmic inflation," a new cosmological model he called 'inflation theory'. Though just a theory for 30 years, Guth's paper "utterly transformed scientific thinking about the origin of the universe" (Focus: Landmarks, The Inflationary Universe). In March..... More

Princeton: Association for Symbolic, 1959. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression in original wrappers of issue #4 of the 1959 Journal of Symbolic Logic. This, the December issue, includes important abstracts of Kripke papers received by the Journal in 1959: “Distinguished Constituents”, “Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic”, “The Problem of..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF 6 FAMOUS PAPERS THAT SCHRODINGER HAD PUBLISHED A YEAR EARLER: including “Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem”, Parts I-IV, and “Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen” (all in Annalen der Physik. This work bears the ownership signature..... More