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
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1869. 1st Edition. FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF MENDELÉEV’S DOCTORAL DISSERTATION "O soedineni spirta s vodoyu" from 1865. On the basis of his successful defense of his study of the interaction between alcohol and water and the densities of their combination, Mendeleev achieved tenure at St. Petersburg..... 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
Paris: G. Masson, 1895. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF MOISSAN’S EXPERIMENT OBTAINING THE PUREST FORM OF BORON TO DATE. Henry Moissan (1852-1907) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1906) "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the lement fluorine, and the..... 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
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. 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). At the request of a vinter from the north of..... 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
London: Harrison & Sons, 1898. 1st Edition. Bound full volume, FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM RAMSAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DISCOVERY OF KRYPTON & NEON. “In recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system,” Ramsay was..... 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
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
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