1st Edition. TWO IMPORTANT OFFPRINTS ON MARS bound in a volume, a Sammmelband from the library of Charles Darwin’s son, George Darwin. Darwin bound together 11 other offprints and pamphlets, all related to astronomy and mathematics. The most important offprint is by Schiaparelli; in it, he famously refers not to..... More

New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1956. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN EARLY PAPER ON THE IBM 7030, ALSO KNOWN AS STRETCH, WAS IBM'S FIRST TRANSISTORIZED SUPERCOMPUTER.In 1958, two years after the publication of this paper, "Design Objectives for the IBM Stretch Computer,” Dunwell “became..... More

London: Williams and Norgate, 1880. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE JOINT FIRST PUBLICATION OF VENN DIAGRAMS (see below for clarification of concurrent publication). Venn diagrams provide an easy and better way of visualizing elements, information, sets, concepts, logical relationships, and even simply ideas. Essentially, they are illustrations that utilize..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO LANDMARK WORKS IN THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Priestley’s 1772 paper reveals that plants produce and absorb oxygen from the atmosphere. Offered with Priestley’s discovery is the work that built upon it, Ingen-Housz’s 1779 volume presenting his discovery of photosynthesis – in short, how plants..... More

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1855. 1st Edition. Full volume. RARE FIRST PRINTING OF BABBAGE’S REPORT ON SCHEUTZ’S DIFFERENCE CALCULATOR. Babbage thought so highly of Scheutz’s engine that in an effort to promote [it], presented a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences. In the talk, Babbage describes the machine’s construction and..... More

Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1911. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF ONE OF A SERIES OF PAPERS BY PLANCK INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF ZERO POINT ENERGY. “The concept of zero-point energy has its roots in a reformulation of the original version of quantum theory proposed by Max..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE “FIRST QUANTUM INTERPRETATION OF OPTICAL DISPERSION” (Taltavull, Rudolf Ladenburg and the First Quantum Interpretation of Optical Dispersion, Eur. Phys. J. H. 45, 123, 2020). “The problem of optical dispersion taught physicists important lessons about how to cross the boundary between..... More

McGraw-Hill, 1946. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE FIRST PUBLICATION BY EINSTEIN OF THE FAMILIAR EQUATION, E=mc2, IN THAT SPECIFIC FORM. Eight months after Hiroshima, the editors of Science Illustrated turned to Albert Einstein to explain “the form of the energy that destroyed Hiroshima;” “to explain in his own words..... More

Prague: Gottlieb Haase & Sons, 1846. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE PAPERS BY CHRISTIAN DOPPLER DETAILING EXTENSTIONS OF & SUPPLEMENTS TO HIS SEMINAL 1842 PAPER ON THE DOPPLER SHIFT. A handsome Sammelband binds the three works together. The papers are detailed below. Each furthers Doppler’s efforts to determine the..... More

Konigsberg: Frid. Nicolovium, 1818. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SYSTEM DESIGNED BY BESSEL THAT “CONSTITUTES A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 97). Prior to Bessel, the positions of stars could not be determined with accuracy. The work offered here provided a system for..... More

Paris: Flammarion, 1938. 1st Edition. The evolution of ideas in physics, the first concepts to the theories of relativity and quanta. Translated from the English by Maurice Solovine. Paris, Flammarion, Library of scientific philosophy, 1938, in-12 paperback, illustrated first cover, 298 pp, with 73 figures in the text and 3..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the INTRODUCTION OF THE YANG-MILLS QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORY. Also included in this volume is the paper in which Gell-Mann and Goldberger introduce crossing symmetry. “It is shown that an exact calculation in quantum field theory gives results..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS OF A SERIES OF PAPERS “IN WHICH [KOPFERMANN AND LADENBURG] PRESENTED THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF ‘NEGATIVE DISPERSION,’ WHAT PHYSICISTS NOW CALL STIMULATED EMISSION” (James, 100 Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics, 86). “Some historians of science have even argued..... More