New Haven: J. D. & E. S. Dana, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL & LENGTHY ABSTRACT OF “A FOUNDATION TREATISE ON PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY”, GIBB’S EQUILIBRIUM, “CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN THE 19TH CENTURY (Grolier/Horblit 40; Nobel Prize Web Portal). Gibbs' “interpretation of..... More
New York: AAAS, 1987. 1st Edition. TWO 1st EDITION PAPERS (in two separate issues, both in original wraps) OF IMPORT IN THE HISTORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, THE FIRST PROPOSING THE THEORY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, AND THE SECOND CONTRIBUTING TO THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR ITS AUTHORS. Working at Princeton and in..... More
Florence: Onofri, 1674. THIRD EDITION OF FRANCESCO REDI'S MASTERPIECE REFUTING SPONTANEOUS REGENERATION, first published in 1668. "A milestone in the history of modern science," Redi's book outlines the first series of experiments to disprove 'spontaneous generation' -- "a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis" (Wikipedia). Redi's seminal work includes 39..... More
1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE CLASSIC PAPER” in which BRAINERD & SHARPLESS PROVIDE “THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSION WITH BACKGROUND AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION” ABOUT ENIAC, THE WORLD’S 1st DIGITAL COMPUTER” (Brittain, Bainer & Sharpless on the ENIAC, IEEE 1984). The paper presents ENIAC’S development and includes..... More
Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Issued on the occasion of the conference, “Psychoanalysis and Culture: The Contributions of Sigmund Freud,” held at Stanford University, January 11-13, 1991. Along with the items noted in the title, also included are essays by Haskell F. Norman, M.D., Roy A...... More
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Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1868. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF HOFMEISTER’S GROUNDBREAKING 1868 WORK DESCRIBING HIS FUNDAMENTAL FINDINGS ON HOW PLANTS GROW & ARE DEVELOPED. Hofmeister’s work inspired Gregor Mendel to begin his research on plant hybridization that led to Mendel’s discoveries on the inheritance of traits, the beginning of the..... More
New York: AAAS, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PICTURES OF INDIVIDUAL ATOMS WITHIN A MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. Note that this paper includes those photographs. “Although individual atoms [had] been produced by field ion microscopes, there previously had been no way to reveal a single atom within a molecular..... More
New York: AAAS, 1971. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF DAMADIAN’S GROUND-BREAKING EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFULLY USES NMR TO IDENTIFY CANCER IN A HUMAN BODY. The American physician Raymond Vahan Damadian believed that cancerous cells could be differentiated from non-cancerous ones using magnetic resonance. Working with only two grad students..... More
London: Richard and Arthur Taylor. Complete volume. FIRST EDITION OF A SHORT PAPER BY LUKE HOWARD WHO IN 1802 SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO METEOROLOGY. Howard was a British chemist and amateur meteorologist. “In 1802, Luke Howard (1772 – 1864) made a fundamental contribution to weather forecasting by proposing the first standard..... More
1925. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE IMPORTANT PAPERS: (1) WALTHER BOTHE AND HANS GEIGER show that energy is conserved in quantum interactions. (2) WALTER ELSASSER proposes the Davisson-Germer experiment. (3) GEORGE UHLENBECK & SAMUEL GOUDSMIT introduce the concept of electron spin. BOTHE & GEIGER, in this paper..... More
London: Macmillan, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LAMARCKIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY – “A CLASSIC IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 262), this copy bearing the ownership stamp of John Zachary Young, the English zoologist and neurophysiologist described as “one of the most influential..... More
New York: Orange Judd, 1868. 1st American Edition. Two volume FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of “ONE OF DARWIN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND WIDE-RANGING BOOKS. IT IS ALSO HIS LONGEST AND MOST DETAILED WORK” (Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, 879). It is also “the only section of Darwin's big book on the..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1821. 1st Edition. Bound full volume, FIRST EDITION OF HUMPHRY DAVY’S RESEARCH PROVING THAT ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE VARIES WITH TEMPERATURE. Davy’s research “proved a difference in the conducting-power of metals and the decrease of that power as their temperature rose” (Royal Society). ALSO INCLUDED: 1st EDITION OF..... More
London: Macmillan, 1960. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume, OF A “SEMINAL” HERMANN BONDI PAPER PRESENTING “A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY” (Mädler, Bondi-Sachs Formalism, 2). Bondi’s new approach was based upon the outgoing null rays along which the waves traveled..... More
London: Fleetway Press, 1927. Excerpt from this 'Report': "My purpose in the present report has been to give a comprehensive account of the development and present state of our knowledge of the regularities in spectra, as deduced from the spectra themselves, with but little regard to theories of their origin..... More
New York: International Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Presentation copy, with Libman's signed, letter-length inscription to “Finkelstein” on the front free endpaper of Vol. I. "Finkelstein" is highly likely to be Louis Finkelstein as they were concurrent members of The Committee for the Establishment of an International Academy of Sciences in..... More
New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. “These sixteen essays, written with the clarity and candor for which Weisskopf is well-known, give us a glimpse into his life’s work – both as a theoretical physicist and as a spokesman for all of humanity” (Publisher). Victor Frederick..... More
Kiel: Schaidt and Oheim, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound full volume, of Stjepan Mohorovicic's prediction of the existence of positronium. “Positronium (Ps) is a system consisting of an electron and its anti-particle, a positron, bound together into an exotic atom, specifically an onium. The system is unstable: the two..... More
Iowa: Center for the Book, 1983. 1st Edition. SCARCE PERSONAL COPY OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S NOVELLA “COMPANY” SIGNED BY SAMUEL BECKETT, THE ARTIST & PRINTMAKER DELLAS HENKE & BOUND BY THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CONSERVATOR, WILLIAM (Bill) ANTHONY. Signed documentation authenticating Anthony’s binding and that the volume is from Anthony’s personal collection..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1841. 1st Edition. Full volume 1st editions of 3 important papers, MANTELL’S 2nd MAJOR PAPER ON THE IGUANODON; BOWMAN’S’s CLASSIC PAPER ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MUSCLES; & ONE OF A NUMBER OF LUKE HOWARD’S PAPERS “WHICH TRANSFORMED THE SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY” (Wikipedia). MANTELL’S PAPER: Gideon Mantell..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1801. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1ST EDITION of THOMAS YOUNG’S IMPORTANT 1801 PAPER, “THE MOST IMPORTANT TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS PUBLISHED UP TO THAT TIME (Hirschberg/Blodi V, 22). The paper “includes the first description of astigmatism [defects of the eye or lens] with measurements and optical..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (full volume) OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year after publication of..... More
London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. Complete volume. FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS YOUNG’S LIGHT INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT (the double-slit experiment) -- THE 1ST SERIOUS CHALLENGE TO THE PARTICLE THEORY OF LIGHT, THE 1ST STRONG EVIDENCE FOR & DEMONSTRATION OF THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT, & THE 1ST UNASSAILABLE EVIDENCE THAT “FRINGES ARE..... More
Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962. 1962 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 24 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), as issued. Very large (elephant) oblong folio. Includes “all stars with known precise positions”. Original cream linen binding. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas Borealis was widely used by professional..... More
Cambridge: Sky Publishing, 1969. 1969 CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), loose in black and white (unbound as issued). Folio. Handsomely printed. Fine condition. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli was widely used by professional astronomers with many observatories..... More