London: William Wesley & Son, 1894. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. In the late 19th century, George Cornish Sutton Higgs, a British watchmaker and optician proficient in the sciences, built an extraordinary spectrograph and employed it to greatly advance the application of photography to the study of solar spectra..... More

Munich: C.H. Beck'sche, 1968. C.H. Beck'sche Munich. [xiv], 181 text, [full index], 86 reproductions of title pages. Inscribed from the bookseller Jeremy Norman to the collector Richard Green. Second and best, expanded edition. The first was issued in 1936, but this extends and includes secondary works until 1967. Tall 4to..... More

1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF LARMOR’S FAMOUS PAPER INTRODUCING THE FIRST FORMULATION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE LORENTZ-TRANSFORMATION (or transformations), INCLUDING THE FIRST UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTION OF THE CRUCIAL TIME DILATION & LENGTH CONTRACTION PROPERTIES INHERENT IN MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS. The transformation is “a general approach..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE 1892 PAPER IN WHICH LE CHATELIER DESCRIBES HIS INVENTION OF THE OPTICAL PYROMETER, an instrument that “provided the first reliable measurements of a number of temperatures of particular importance to science and industry” (DeWitt, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, 366). His invention measured temperature by..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, FIRST EDITION, OF LIPPMANN’S FIRST IN A SERIES OF SEMINAL PAPERS DESCRIBING HIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING INVENTION OF “A METHOD OF REPRODUCING COLORS PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED ON THE PHENOMENON OF INTERFERENCE” Nobel Prize Committee). Lippmann’s prize represents the only time this prestigious award has..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1891. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: PART I OF MICHELSON’S 1891 PAPER ON HIS NEWLY INVENTED INVESTIGATIVE TOOL, THE INTERFEROMETER also MICHELSON’S PAPER ON INTERFERENCE TECHNIQUES RELATED TO ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS BEYOND THE RESOLUTION OF LARGE TELESCOPES also LORD RAYLEIGH’S IMPORTANT PAPER..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. First edition, disbound, near fine extract of “the first full and reliable account of the state of vision in red-green blindness” (Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 62, p. 735). Today Pole’s work is considered to exhibit “highly ingenious reason”; at the time..... More

1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... More

Leipzig: Barth-Verlag, 1898. 1st Edition. IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPS, THE 1898 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF RONTGEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, INCLUSIVE OF ALL 3 PAPERS and housed in a custom cloth box. For this work, Rontgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. “Their..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1864. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF ONE OF A GROUNDBREAKING SERIES OF PAPERS (OR ‘MEMOIRS’) JOHN TYNDALL WROTE AS HE INVESTIGATED THE ABSORPTION OF RADIANT ENERGY BY GASES. In these papers, Tyndall demonstrates the first quantification and demonstration that atmospheric gases are infrared emitters, in..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE PAPER IN WHICH Von ARDEEN REPORTS ON & DETAILS HIS CONSTRUCTION OF THE “THE FIRST SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE,” (SEM) an invention he had earlier conceived (Collard, The Development of Microbiology, p. 25). In this paper, Von Ardeene “realized in prototype form” the microscope he had earlier..... More