London: Macmillan, 1871. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound volume, LORD KELVIN’S SUGGESTION THAT LIFE ON EARTH WAS SEEDED BY METEORITES, “MOSS-GROWN FRAGMENTS FROM THE RUINS OF ANOTHER WORLD” (Kelvin, p. 270). The lengthy speech is an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and is printed here..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important paper finding that in periods during the past 800,000 years when the concentration of carbon dioxide was similar to the current level the temperatures were 3-6 degrees centigrade warmer and sea level was 25 to 40..... More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1860. 1st Edition. FIRST REPORT & FIRST PRINTED REFERENCE TO THE EXPERIMENTS & ANALYSES OF JOHN TYNDALL’S on “GREENHOUSE GAS” [a term later employed]. Speaking before the Royal Society in 1860, Tyndall delivered a lecture presenting news of his experiments on the effects of heat on..... More
London: Macmillan, 1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (FULL VOLUME) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH VINE & MATTHEWS, WITHOUT REFERRING TO IT AS SUCH, SHOW PROOF OF THE OCCURRENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT. Their work is considered “the first scientific test of sea floor spreading, and a crucial development in the theory..... More
New York: AAAS, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a significant paper by Webster et al. documenting a large and significant increase – more than 50% increase in both the frequency as well as the percentage of observed category -- of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for..... More
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Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn. Second [expanded] edition of WEGENER’S SEMINAL THEORY OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT, the argument that in the remote past the earth's continents were not separate (as now), but formed one supercontinent which later split apart, the fragments gradually drifting away from one another. Wegener’s “theory of continental displacement..... More
Cambridge: The Royal Society, 1952. 1st Edition. STUDIES INTO THE PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY OF INSECT FLIGHT, HERE THE METABOLISM OF FLYING DESERT LOCUSTS. Weis-Fogh was the research assistant of the Nobel Prize winning physiologist August Krogh. Among other things, Weis-Fogh here proves “Some insects utilize more than one type of..... More
London: Macmillan, 1994. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WHITE, SUWA, & ASFAW’S PAPER ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE OLDEST KNOWN HUMANOID. Bernard Wood’s notable paper “Palaeoanthropology. The oldest hominid yet” is also included. The 4.4 million-year-old Australopithecus ramidus is a likely human ancestor "from an era which..... More
London: Macmillan, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (full volume) OF JOHN TUZO WILSON’S 1965 GROUNDBREAKING INTRODUCTION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE TRANSFORM FAULT, THE PAPER THAT FOUNDED PLATE TECTONICS” (Dewey, Marking 50 Years of the Wilson Cycle, Geoscience Canada, 43, 2016, 283). “Whereas previous theories of continental drift had conceived..... More
London: Macmillan, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the last of four papers by John Tuzo Wilson providing evidence to buttress the idea of both transform faults and the Vine-Matthews hypothesis that the sea floor is spreading, here arguing “how mutually supportive these two concepts were” (Frankel..... More
London: Macmillan, 1965. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION (full volume) of the last of four papers by John Tuzo Wilson providing evidence to buttress the idea of both transform faults and the Vine-Matthews hypothesis that the sea floor is spreading, here arguing “how mutually supportive these two concepts were” (Frankel..... More