New York: New York Times, 1936. 1st Edition. First edition of the March 7, 1936 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379913; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. As the title implies, this..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S LEIDEN LECTURE EXPLAINING AT LENGTH HIS THEORY OF THE ETHER ALONG WITH THOSE OF LORENTZ & MAXWELL. Very good + condition. “Einstein’s lecture at the University of Leiden on the occasion of his appointment as a visiting..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PIONEERING TECHNIQUE FOR PROJECT PLANNING AND MONITORING commonly called PERT (Project Evaluation Review Technique. The paper “describes the development and application of a technique for measuring and controlling development progress” for the Navy’s Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile program” (Malcolm, et al., 1959, p...... More

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT, A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS. Rosenhan, psychologist and professor at Stanford, “sent eight ‘sane’ people to twelve psychiatric institutions. The pseudo-patients complained ‘they had..... More

Leipzig: Grossium & J.F. Gledoitschium, 1690. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF PAPIN’S DESCRIPTION OF HIS INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE & A “MILESTONE PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS” by Jacob Bernoulli (Kiranyaz, Pattern Recognition, 19). PAPIN: Denis Papin was a French mathematician, physicist known for his invention of the..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Gerard Bond and his colleagues identify a pervasive millennial-scale climate cycle operating independently of the glacial-interglacial climate state. Based on geologic tracers of drift ice in the North Atlantic, they postulate the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene eras. CONDITION..... More

New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN PAPER WRAPS OF SHANNON’S 1951 FAMOUS WORK ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. In 1948, Shannon founded the field of information theory by defining the once fuzzy concept of ‘information’ ) as it relates to communication engineers) in a precise..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a short letter Einstein wrote to the editors of Die Naturwissenschaften. In it, he stated that he did not author the preface of a book recently published by Lucien Fabre entitled Einstein’s Theories: A New Face in the..... More

American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF NYQUIST’S SAMPLING THEOREM, the process of converting a signal, here that of a telegraph, into a numerical sequence. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. The sampling theorem, later refined by Claude Shannon and now known as the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem, is the principle by..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. First edition of the first French translation of the conference held on May 5th, 1920 at the University of Leiden. The translation was done by Maurice Solovine. Original paper wrappers. Cited in Weil and Boni catalogs. CONDITION & DETAILS: Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs. Complete..... More

1911. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, OF BOHR’S DOCTORAL THESIS. “Fra Forfatteren,” “From the Author,” appears in Bohr’s hand on the upper right corner of the front wrap. Bohr’s dissertation includes the first appearance of what is now known as the Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem stating that, in short, quantum..... More

Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY BROECKER, “ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING CLIMATE EXPERTS” (Lippsett, Broecker Warns Gases Could Alter Climate Oceans' Circulation Could Collapse, Columbia Record, 1997). Often referred to as..... More

Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF GRAPHENE, A FORM OF CARBON JUST ONE ATOM THICK – THE THINNEST MATERIAL & FIRST TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL EVER DISCOVERED, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE..... More