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

Paris: Chez Crochard, 1814. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF GAY-LUSSAC’S CLASSIC PAPER ON IODINE. Two volumes bound as one. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography notes this as one of Gay-Lussac's most important papers (DSB Noted in DSB, 5, 327). In the late nineteenth century the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald..... More

ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK INTRODUCING THE CONCEPTS OF COLLOID CHEMISTRY. The Scottish chemist Thomas Graham “has generally been acknowledged as the founder of colloidal chemistry” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, V). Two minor supplementary observation papers were also published and are not included here. Prior to this..... More

New Haven: Converse, 1832. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A LANDMARK PAPER present in both the famous Dr. Haskell F. Norman Library and the Landmarks of Science and Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon, both collections handled by Christie’s. In this paper, Guthrie presents one of three independent discoveries..... More

London: Macmillan, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRAIN’S ‘INNER GPS’. The question of how the brain creates “a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate our way through a complex environment” (Nobel..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST APPLICATION OF WAVE MECHANICS TO THE THEORY OF CHEMICAL BONDING. "In 1927 the Heitler-London theory was formulated which for the first time enabled the calculation of bonding properties of the hydrogen molecule based on quantum mechanical considerations. Specifically, Walter Heitler..... More

Paris: Theophile Barrois, 1780. 1st French Edition. First French edition published a year after the original and translated by the author. LANDMARK WORK MARKING THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS by JAN INGEN-HOUSZ. In 1772, a paper by Joseph Priestley’s presented a wealth of achievements, but “the most surprising of... was the..... More

National Academy of Sciences, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS & HOUSED IN A CUSTOM PAMPHLET CASE of the groundbreaking theoretical paper by Niels K. Jerne describing his theory of antibody formulation. This article, which has 1,075 citations, revolutionized the theory of monoclonal antibodies and Jerne shared the..... More

1861. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION and appearance in French of an 1861 landmark paper marking "the invention of Spectral Analysis and the announcement of the discovery of two new elements, Cesium and Rubidium [and eventually many more] by using the new method of spectroscopy developed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The..... More

Paris: Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, 1780. LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”)..... More

Paris: A. Maloine, 1897. 1st Edition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY WORK ON X-RAYS BY 19th MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHER, FÉLIX MÉHEUX. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. Félix Méheux (1838–1908) was a medical photographer and an outstanding illustrator and colorist at the Hôpital Saint-Louis from 1884 to 1904. This pamphlet..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1875. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OF MENDELEEV’S PREDICTED ELEMENTS TO BE IDENTIFIED, thereby confirming “the validity of the periodic system of elements” Mendeleev had designed (Niaz, Critical Appraisal of Physical Science, 62). “The confirmation of this prediction may certainly be called the culminating point in..... More

London: Royal Society, 1939. 1st Edition. Bound, ex-libris copy of the FIRST EDITION of Nevill Mott’s theory of rectification by metal-semiconductor junctions. “In solid-state physics, a metal-semiconductor junction is a type of junction in which a metal comes in close contact with a semiconductor material. It is the oldest practical..... More