London: Macmillan, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS, OF A 2004 ESSAY BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING ENGLISH GENETICIST, PAUL NURSE. The essay is discusses both a personal and scientific turning point, relating to “how a tiny observation turned out to have a controlling influence” on his 1974..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1852. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY PASTEUR ON MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY, one of a series on tartaric and paratartaric acid in which he would establish the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals and racemization. “Early in his career, his investigation of tartaric..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1848. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND OF PASTEUR’S 1st FULL EXPOSITION OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY OF MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY. “Pasteur’s discovery counts among the most important advances in chemistry and constitutes the foundation of stereochemistry” (“Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Awards: Choosing Pasteur’s Award-Winning Publication” in Bull. Hist. Chem., 38..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1848. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF PASTEUR’S REVOLUTIONARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY. “Pasteur’s discovery counts among the most important advances in chemistry and constitutes the foundation of stereochemistry” (“Pasteur’s Award-Winning Publication”, BHS, 2013). PASTEUR: As said, this is Pasteur’s announcement of his discovery, but because..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1858. 1st Edition. In Volume 52, FIRST EDITION OF "THE BEGINNING OF BACTERIOLOGY AS A MODERN SCIENCE," Louis Pasteur and "the first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism (Garrison-Morton 2472). In Volume 53, Archibald Scott Couper’s paper..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EIGHT RARE OFFPRINTS by Linus Pauling detailing his prominent contributions to the general understanding of the nature of the chemical bond, here bringing quantum mechanics to the solution of the nature of the chemical bonds that determine inorganic crystal structure. Collectively, these papers represent Pauling’s..... More
Easton: American Chemical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF LINUS PAULING AND ROBERT COREY'S FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR SEMINAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FINDINGS REGARDING THE THEORETICAL ALPHA AND GAMMA HELIXES, TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF ATOMS IN PROTEINS. The authors "must have realized the bombshell they had dropped on..... More
Easton, PA. National Academy of Sciences. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE OF SEVEN PAPERS BY PAULING AND COREY ON THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS. A decade before x-ray crystallography first revealed the structures of proteins, Pauling and Corey deduced their main structural features: the 'alpha-helix,' the 'gamma helix' and..... More
1877. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE THAT IS WIDELY CONSIDERED "THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WORK IN AMERICA" (Cadwallader, 1974). This 1877 investigation into the nature of color vision made Peirce "the first modern experimental psychologist on the American continent" (The Peirce Edition Project, Vol..... More
Leiden: Lugduni Batavorum, 1664. 1664. A collective 17th century printing of three notable works related to human generation, sexuality, and reproductive anatomy. Plazzoni's work is notable for his detailed description of the sexual organs, their functions, and physiology. Plazzoni investigated the means whereby the penis achieves erection, the function of..... 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
2000. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE THREE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPERS IN WHICH “PERHAPS THE MOST COMPLICATED WELL-DEFINED STRUCTURE IN OUR UNIVERSE” IS SOLVED, THE STRUCTURE OF THE RIBOSOME (Zou, Electron Crystallography, 18). “The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and..... 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
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT, A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS. Rosenhan, psychologist and professor at Stanford, “sent eight ‘sane’ people to twelve psychiatric institutions. The pseudo-patients complained ‘they had..... More
London: Macdonald. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important letter in which Ernest Rutherford responds to Frederick Soddy's letter of one week earlier (also in this same volume), and in so doing comes very close to postulating the proton. Soddy's letter presented his theory of isotopes (noting the term for..... More
1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION BOUND EXTRACTS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF THE STRUCTURE OF INSULIN (Garrison-Morton, 1207). "Unraveling insulin, a hormone that regulates glucose and other nutrients, was the culmination of ten years of study requiring his development of new methodology for ascertaining the make-up of amino..... More
New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of a work that contributed greatly to our understanding of our ‘inner GPS’ -- “where we are, how we know the way from one place to another, and how we store this information in order to..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1837. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF SCHWANN’S SEMINAL WORK ON PUTREFACTION AND FERMENTATION, HERE PROVING THAT PUTREFACTION IS PRODUCED BY LIVING BODIES” (Garrison & Morton, 674). Full volume. With this work, Schwann “proved categorically that alcoholic fermentation was the result of a living organism..... 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
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1946. 1st Edition. FIRST ADDITION OF “ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PERIODIC TABLE SINCE MENDELEEV’S 19th century DESIGN” (Seaborg Obituary, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). The paper includes 9 illustrations, two of which are periodic tables inclusive of Seaborg’s addition. American..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST ACCURATE BALANCE FOR MEASURING CHEMICALS, the invention of the chain balance. Complete original issue. The history of scales and balances dates back to Ancient Egypt when a simplistic equal-arm balance on a fulcrum was used to compare..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1984. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF SHECHTMAN’S DISCOVERY OF QUASICRYSTALS. Once considered impossible, quasicrystals are a form of solid matter whose atoms are arranged like those of a crystal but assume patterns that do not exactly repeat themselves. While on a sabbatical leave..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST MODEL OF ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION IN A HIGHLY PURE SEMICONDUCTOR. Cited over 2500 since publication, this model is now known as the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and is of import to solar and semiconductor technology. “Any electron..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODEL OF ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION IN A HIGHLY PURE SEMICONDUCTOR. Cited over 2500 since publication, this model is now known as the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and is of import to solar and semiconductor technology. “Any electron..... More
1913 FIRST EDITION of a short letter to the editor of Nature in which Frederick Soddy presents his theory of isotopes to designate chemically identical elements with different atomic weights and first uses the term 'isotope' in print -- work for which he would later win the Nobel Prize. "In..... More