London: Taylor and Francis, 1876. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 13 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 7 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 10 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Royal Society, 1934. 1st Edition. Original paper wrappers. First edition of significant works by two important scientists, Max Born & Arthur Eddington.BORN: “Born’s quest for the elusive divergence problem-free quantum theory of electromagnetism led to the important discovery of the nonlinear Maxwell–Born– Infeld equations for the classical electromagnetic fields..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume. Included: Zwicky and Baade's explanation of their findings regarding supernovae, including the number and distribution of supernovae, the supernova process yielding neutron stars and cosmic rays from supernovae. Also included is a paper by Breit and Wheeler which is..... More

London: Royal Society, 1866. 1st Edition. 1st ed., full volume (Parts I & II) of an important volume of Philosophical Transactions complete with 43 plates. A number of important papers are included, the most important of which is the appearance of a major paper by James Clerk Maxwell on the..... More

New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. Full bound volume, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More

Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1953. First published in 1934, this volume was published in 1953 and is bound in handsome white linen boards gilt-lettered on the front board and at the spine. It is a collection gleaned from Einstein’s speeches and letters across a wide span of his career. The subjects..... More

London: Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME INCLUSIVE OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS & 71 PLATES. Included are Cayley’s paper on matrices marks “an epoch in the development of the subject” (Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 476). Gassiot’s paper “was particularly important..... More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1836. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound extract, OF THE PAPER IN WHICH GUSTAVE CORIOLIS DEFINES THE CORIOLIS EFFECT -- a phenomenon of the rotation of the earth causing weather phenomena to rise and move in a curved trajectory rather than progress a straight line. The Coriolis effect is..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF CHADWICK’S CONFIRMATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A NEUTRON. Earlier in 1932, Chadwick speculated about the "possible" existence of the neutron, a subatomic particle with no electrical charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. When..... More