Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verla, 1928. 1928. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF ONE OF THE CLASSIC BOOKS OF ROCKET LITERATURE. This well-illustrated work -- the cover alone is gorgeous -- is dedicated to Fritz von Opel, sponsor of the renowned Opel-Rocket car that had been inspired by the Austrian rocketry pioneer..... More
Edinburgh: lLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1834. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND 1st EDITION (full volume) OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE No. 1, -- THE FIRST COMPLETE DESIGN FOR AN AUTOMATIC CALCULATING ENGINE” (Computer History Portal). The demonstration model of Babbage’s engine consisted of approximately 2,000 parts..... More
Easton: National Academy of Sciences, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound full volume, of ERDÖS’ PRIME NUMBER THEOREM, a paper which led to Erdös' 1952 Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society. Erdös’ elementary proof shows that prime numbers become less frequent as numbers grow large. It is ‘elementary’ in..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY BOHR ON HIS CONCEPT OF COMPLEMENTARITY. Bohr’s concept of complementarity was a key underpinning of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The concept includes the idea of wave-particle duality and that wave function collapse is linked to the..... More
New York: AAAS, 2001. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE 1st PUBLICATION & ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 1st COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE OF A LIVING SPECIES, inclusive of Venter’s poster of the genome sequence itself. The genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae used a newly developed technique..... More
NASA, 1969. 1st Edition. RARE 1st EDITIONS OF NASA’s ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE APOLLO 11 MISSION CONTROL TAPES RECORDING BOTH THE LANDING & THE MOON WALK -- the first issued TEN minutes after the lunar module landed, the second just following the moon walk itself. Very few of these were..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1899. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS (housed in a custom case) OF THE BOSE COHERER PAPER. Bose’s invention improved on Branly’s 1890 invention of the coherer. Note that we offer the Branly paper separately. The coherer is the radio signal detector used in the..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1923. 1st English Language Edition. FIRST PRINTING, 1st EDITION OF THE 1st ENGLISH EDITION of a Science Fiction classic and THE FIRST USE OF THE WORD “ROBOT.” The R.U.R. of the title stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots. It is interesting to note that “The first recorded..... More
Germany: Hale Observatory, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION: Two large multicolor celestial charts/star maps of the northern & southern hemispheres, each with rotating star chart overlays. The charts measure 16.5 x 16.5 inches and are bound together on hardboard with a black and white pictorial cover; when opened, the Northern..... More
1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MENTION OF ALBERT EINSTEIN IN A COMIC. The Superman comic is housed in a custom clamshell box lettered and bound in colors that mimic the front of the comic itself. “He may be best known for laying down the theories of the..... More
1st Edition. THREE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS DOCUMENTING STEPHEN SMALE’S INVENTION OF THE SMALE HORSESHOE, A MAP THAT BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURES THE MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS THEORY. This important grouping of documents includes Smale’s two seminal papers on his horseshoe as well as a paper by Smale describing how he discovered..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL’S PAPERS present “the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence” (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes “that..... More
Washington, DC: Thomas Allen, Printer, 1839. Impressive assemblage of information compiled for the 25th Congress by the Select Committee on the Subject of Steam Engines, a 472 page report containing a detailed investigation of the principles, construction, installation, use and power of steam engines. An epidemic of explosions beginning in..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1840. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION, PARTS I & II TOGETHER HOUSING FIRST EDITIONS OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS: THE SCIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, ELECTRICITY, PHYSIOLOGY, & ASTRONOMY. Fine condition; 30 plates. HERSCHEL'S: Herschel’s seminal paper is by far his most elaborate..... More
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London: The Royal Society, 1780. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME (Parts I & II): 1ST EDITIONS OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL’S SCIENTIFIC DEBUT, HIS 1ST TWO PUBLISHED PAPERS -- BOTH ASTRONOMICAL – WITH HIS FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS NEWLY HANDBUILT TELESCOPE. “The first paper dealt with a periodical star [Collo Ceti]..... More
Venice: Bertolini, 1601. SECOND ITALIAN EDITION OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA’S AUTOMATA, AN EARLY WORK ON THE ENGINEERING DETAILS OF SELF-OPERATING MACHINES (be they mechanical or pneumatic), complete with 22 illustrations. “In the pantheon of ancient experimenters and scientists, [Hero was] an unparalleled inventor and producer of the earliest automatic and..... More
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION SCARCE PRE-PUBLICATION HECTOGRAPHED TYPESCRIPT, housed in a custom case. OCLC cites only a handful of these specific printings: “very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies” (University of St..... More
New Haven: G. P. Putnam & C, 1855. First Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS OF SIGNIFICANCE. THE FIRST is David Alter's important paper expanding on his original idea of spectral analysis to include six gases, including the discovery of what are now called the Balmer lines of..... More
Paris: Hermann, 1933. 1st Edition. First French edition of three Einstein essays, translation by Maurice Solorine. The contents include “Les fondements de la Théorie de la relativité générale,” (64pp) “Théorie unitaire de la Gravitation et de l’Electricité,” (26pp) and “Sur la structure cosmologique de l’espace” (10pp). Included in both Weil’s..... More
The MIT Press, 1969. 1st Edition. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas has been prepared by the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Available in this atlas are magnitude, spectral class (in most cases), precise coordinates, proper motion, and Durchmusterung number. The total number of atlas stars slightly exceeds 260,000..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (1859 extract) of GASSIOT’S FINAL PAPER REPORTING HIS CONCLUSIONS ON IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory of voltaic electricity” (Wikipedia)..... More
London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 4 GASSIOT PAPERS (1839, 1844, 1858, & 1859 extracts) LEADING TO & CONCLUDING WITH IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory..... More
FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BITCOIN’S BLOCKCHAIN ALGORITHM, INCLUDING THE CONCEPTS OF BYZANTINE FAULTS, THE BYZANTINE GENERALS PROBLEM, PROOF-OF-WORK, & SOFTWARE ABLE TO TOLERATE BYZANTINE FAULTS. The creation of a system like Bitcoin -- one both distributed and reliable -- is exceptionally problematic. The issues that..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1844. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION WITH BOOLE’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & ROSSE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ‘CRAB NEBULA’ AS WELL AS HIS WELL KNOWN RENDERING. GEORGE BOOLE: “The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the..... More
Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BJERKNES’S SEMINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS, now known as “the primitive equations of weather”. Bjerknes proposed these equations in the paper offered here, and in so doing, pioneered numerical weather forecasting, which is based on applying physical laws to the..... More