Washington DC: The White House, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER & REPORT THAT MARKS THE 1st TIME THAT A U.S. PRESIDENT WAS OFFICIALLY WARNED OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS FROM THE ACCUMULATION OF FOSSIL-FUEL CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE (Ken Caldeira, atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's..... More

1837. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the first announcement of Samuel Morse's single-wire telegraph system and description of an early form of Morse code to be used to communicate on the system. The report is technically detailed and illustrated. Morse’s telegraph includes “a Register which permanently records..... More

San Francisco. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PRESENTATION of CTSS, the "Compatible Time-Sharing System" operating system written by a team of MIT programmers led by Prof. Fernando J. Corbato. Their work “helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password” (Hafner, Fernando Corbató, a Father..... More

Lancaster, PA: American Institute of Physics, 1933. First edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ANDERSON’S DISCOVERY OF ONE OF THE TINIEST PARTICLES IN NATURE, THE POSITRON, A PART OF THE ATOM ALSO KNOWN AS THE POSITIVE ELECTRON. To measure the energy of the electrons produced by cosmic rays, Anderson..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE giving a criterion for the electronic structure of atoms, and explaining the periodic table and the combining properties of the elements. Specifically, the Pauli exclusion principle states that no two “fermions” (elementary particles with half-integer..... More

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1860. 1st Edition. FIRST REPORT & FIRST PRINTED REFERENCE TO THE EXPERIMENTS & ANALYSES OF JOHN TYNDALL’S on “GREENHOUSE GAS” [a term later employed]. Speaking before the Royal Society in 1860, Tyndall delivered a lecture presenting news of his experiments on the effects of heat on..... More

London: Callow and Wilson, 1824. 1824 edition of a classic work by Thomas Copeland, “the founder of rectum surgery” (Wikipedia). First published in 1810, this work addressed the frequent occurrence of diseases of the rectum; prior to Copeland’s work, no special attention had been paid to the morbid state of..... More

1978. 1st Edition. The encryption method described in this paper, famously known as "RSA" for the names of its authors, is widely used for secure data transmission. It has been cited more than 21,000 times. Other papers of import are included; see below. “An encryption method is presented with the..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1897. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE NOBLE PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ZEEMAN EFFECT: THE SPLITTING OF A SPECTRAL LINE INTO COMPLICATED MULTIPLE PATTERNS WHEN IN THE PRESENCE OF A STATIC MAGNETIC FIELD. Also included is Zeeman’s appendix. This paper was delivered..... More

London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Second expanded and corrected edition of Hereditary Genius, Galton’s best known and most influential work. “Galton originated the practice of empirical research in medical genetics. ... "Hereditary Genius", his best-known and most influential book” (Norman Coll. I, 864). Published in 1892 twenty years after the..... More

London, New Bond-Street: R. Faulder, 1803. AN INFLUENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO BIOLOGICAL THOUGHT & A PARTICULARLY WELL-WRITTEN CASE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN & BY WILLIAM PALEY. We offer the expanded fourth edition. Natural Theology, first published in 1802, is a work of Christian apologetics and religious philosophy by William Paley (1743-1805), an..... More

New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS of Almut Arneth et al reaching a preliminary conclusion that pollution control will accelerate, not mitigate, warming. ABSTRACT: ““The push toward cleaner air in Beijing before the 2008 Olympic Games was a vivid reminder of the need to..... More

New York: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. Chang shows that oxygen isotope records of stalagmites in China allows correlation of records of the 4 past glacial terminations with ice cores, establishing the timing of major events. “Th-dated oxygen isotope records of stalagmites from Sanbao Cave, China, characterize Asian Monsoon (AM) precipitation..... More