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. Handsome not ex-library 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 semiconductor device…..... 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

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

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