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: George Bell & Sons, 1885. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the foremost British illustrator and caricaturist of the 1800s. During his career, Cruikshank produced well over 10,000 drawings and etchings ranging from book illustrations to political caricatures and social satire. He illustrated over 860 books plus countless periodicals and magazines..... 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
First edition folio with 17 tables and an atlas of 17 engraved plates. Eugene Spee (1843-1924) was appointed astronomer at the Observatory of Bruxelles [Brussels], where he was especially concerned with solar physics. This work is obviously on the solar spectrum. CONDITION & DETAILS: Folio. [xvii], 1, [3], 49, [1]..... 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: Macmillian & Sons, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT PAPERS. ALSO INCLUDED: Armenteros, R.; Barker, K. H. “Decay of Neutral V-Particles” WITH Mackay, D. M., Calculating Machines and Human Thought WITH Bragg, W. L. Elimination of the Unwanted Image in Diffraction Microscopy WITH Martyn, D...... 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
New York: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First published in 1889, Natural Inheritance is Galton’s pioneering work and is “the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance"(Garrison & Morton No. 233). The product of fifteen years of work, Natural Inheritance introduced Galton’s complete theory (including the use of regression) and..... 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
Leipzig: Englemann, 1867. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS CHROMOSOMES. “Friederich Wilhelm Benedikt Hofmeister (1824 1877) stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel. Yet by comparison, he is..... 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
Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a paper by Mann showing that the global pattern of warming that characterized the Medieval Climate Anomaly was a dynamical response to solar forcing. He goes on to show that temperature changes in the little ice age involve..... 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
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF AN EXTENSIVE SPEECH RUTHERFORD GAVE ON COSMIC EVOLUTION. Rutherford was invited to give the opening speech in the Hale Cosmic Evolution Series of Lectures of the National Academy of Sciences. The Hale series was intended to mark the progress made..... More
New York: AAAS, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF STEINHARDT & TUROK’S EXPLANATION OF HOW THEIR 2002 CYCLIC THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE CAN RESOLVE THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM. Steinhardt and Turok's 2002 cyclic universe theory is a model of cosmic evolution according to which the universe undergoes..... More
New York: AAAS, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a significant paper by Webster et al. documenting a large and significant increase – more than 50% increase in both the frequency as well as the percentage of observed category -- of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important paper finding that in periods during the past 800,000 years when the concentration of carbon dioxide was similar to the current level the temperatures were 3-6 degrees centigrade warmer and sea level was 25 to 40..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 1999. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PAPER CONSIDERED THE 1st PUBLISHED ANALYSIS OF THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF NATURAL COOLING AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT. In this paper, Broecker analyzes the cooling that took place between 1945 and 1975 through the combined effect of the..... More
New York: AAAS, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PAPER TO SHOW & DESCRIBE THE OPTICAL IMAGING OF AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut . The work is a “landmark [discovery], as it reports the first definitive, direct imaging of exoplanets..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 2004. 1st Edition. FIST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a work of significance that employed aircraft and satellite measurements to show that the West Antarctica glacier thinning has accelerated since the 1990s. This work confirmed “that when the ocean eats at one end of a glacier, it..... More
Paris: Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, 1780. LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”)..... More
Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”) and the other (later named nitrogen) that was unable to support..... More
London: J. Johnson. “THE FIRST OF DARWIN’S FOUR MAJOR WORKS, THE BOTANIC GARDEN” IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, III, 578-579). Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) was a remarkable polymath, working as a physician, naturalist, medical botanist, and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin’s grandfather. The..... More
Leiden: Petrus Rammasenius, 1628. 3rd Edition. THIRD EDITION OF THE INVENTION & DESCRIPTION OF NAPIER’S BONES, THE 1st CALCULATING MACHINES & THE “PRECURSORS OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AND MODERN CALCULATING MACHINES AND COMPUTERS” (Printing and the Mind of Man 116). Napier’s invention, essentially a system of rods, offered a mechanical means for..... More
London: J. Johnson in St. Paul’s Church-yard. 1st Edition. TRUE 1st EDITION OF ERASMUS DARWIN'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, THIS CONTAINING HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION INCLUDING EVOLUTION OF SPECIES, COMPETITION AND SEXUAL SELECTION. Volume I was issued in 1794; Volume II in 1796. “The Zoonomia contains a system of pathology and..... More