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

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1967 LETTER TO THE EDITOR IN WHICH CARL SAGAN & HAROLD MOROWITZ HYPOTHESIZED LIFE MAY EXIST ON VENUS. The authors’ letter to the editor presents an analysis of the issue of life on Venus and speculates about the..... 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

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: 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

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

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, 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: 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