London: 1925. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST EDITION of the issue of Nature including a centenary “Special Benzene Supplement” celebrating Faraday’s 1825 discovery of benzene. Faraday’s [discovery] of the compound benzene… became his greatest contribution in chemistry (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 5, 531). “We are presenting a supplement containing the..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ROSENTHAL’S IMPORTANT PROOF THAT THAT THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS IS INCORRECT FOR ANY MECHANICAL SYSTEM. In 1913, German mathematician Artur Rosenthal (1887–1959) set out to answer the question “Can a mechanical system eventually pass through ever point on the energy..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More

FIRST EDITION of the Gamow Factor as well as a paper by Max von Laue in response to Gamow's work. The first presentation of the Klein-Nishina formula is also included in this volume. GAMOW: In 1928 and in the first application of quantum mechanics to the inner workings of the..... 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

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

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

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

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