London: Harrison and Sons, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT of “famous paper in classic astrophysics” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System). This paper by the Anglo-Austrian physicist Hermann Bondi studies whether redshifts could be of gravitational origin and “served as a theoretical guidepost for planetary and super-planetary relative motion calculation” (ibid)..... More

American Physical Society, 1981. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ALCHEMICAL EXPERIMENT IN HISTORY” (Valijak, Vintage News, 2017). Seaborg and his team transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold for the first time by accelerating carbon and neon nuclei to near light speed and..... More

Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1770. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A VOYAGE BY CASSINI TO TEST THE NEW MARINE CLOCK – CHRONOMETER -- OF PIERRE LE ROY. Le Roy's chronometer superceded one by John Harrison that had been used for many years. Le Roy’s invention – as Cassini’s report makes clear..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Alan Guth's landmark paper introducing the concept of "cosmic inflation," a new cosmological model he called 'inflation theory'. Though just a theory for 30 years, Guth's paper "utterly transformed scientific thinking about the origin of the universe" (Focus: Landmarks, The Inflationary Universe). In March..... More

London: Macmillan & Co., 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF BOHR’S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION OF HIS ‘complementarity’ principle, the basis of what became known as the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics. Handsomely rebound in half calf. “Immediately after Heisenberg’s work on uncertainty relations, Bohr presented his concept of complementarity..... More

London: Macmillan & Sons, 1967. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION, full volume, of the first tentative measurement of a CMB anisotropy, a slightly elevated temperature in the direction of a known quasar cluster. Wilkinson & Partridge’s paper presents results “which appear to set rather stringent limits on the magnitude of..... More

1954. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF TWO PAPERS BY BELLMAN MARKING THE BIRTH OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING. “These are the seminal papers by Bellman on Dynamic Programming. The first is a 141-page report on dynamic programming and the second is a speech on the theory underlying it. Richard..... More

American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS, NEAR FINE CONDITION. 1st EDITION OF TWO (within a single journal issue) SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS, one by Bohr & Wheeler and one by Oppenheimer & Snyder. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission" is the first..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF DANTZIG’S FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION (in two papers) OF HIS ‘SIMPLEX’ METHOD OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING, one of the most important algorithms of the 20th century. Note that while the 1951 publication of a paper by the National Bureau of Standards is sometimes cited as..... More

London: Macmillan, 1886. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION WITH TWO WORKS BY FRANCIS GALTON. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin..... More

American Statistical Association, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ULAM & METROPOLIS’S MONTE CARLO METHOD, “A NUMERICAL METHOD OF SOLVING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS BY TH SIMULATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES. It performs simulation of any process whose development is influenced by random factors, but also if the given problem..... More

World Scientific, 1990. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING’S TWO PAPERS DISCUSSING BABY UNIVERSES & BLACK HOLES. In his own words: “How can a black hole give off radiation. How can anything get out through the event horizon of a black hole. The answer is, the Uncertainty..... More

Austin: 1892. Second Edition. SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF LOBACHEVSKIAN GEOMETRY. Lobachevsky created, developed and presented what has come to be known as Lobachevskian geometry in 1826. The document offered here is the second edition of the first English language translation of Lobachevsky's paper that was..... More