London: Taylor and Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF JOSEPH LOCKYER'S DISCOVERY OF HELIUM. Handsomely bound extract. This was the first chemical element discovered on an extraterrestrial body before being found on the Earth. Though rare on the Earth, helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, comprising..... 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: 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: 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, 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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