Ganesha Publishing, 2003. COMPLETE SET OF 7 VOLUMES BOUND AS 6 DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THE INDIAN EMPIRE’S USE OF OPIUM. Published in 2003. In pristine condition, this reprint “makes the rare Royal Commission report and its supplements available in their entirety, and includes an introduction that situates the report in..... More
1st Edition. FOUR VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS, THREE IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF THE PRION, A NEW BIOLOGICAL INFECTIOUS AGENT COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF PROTEIN. The prion has been implicated in a number of diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy ('mad cow disease') and human degenerative neurological disorders..... More
Leiden: Lugduni Batavorum, 1665. 1st Edition. A collective 17th century printing of three notable works related to human generation, sexuality, and reproductive anatomy. de Humano Foetu Libellus is the only 17th century edition of Guilio Cesare Aranzi's important book on the foetus. "Aranzi believed the maternal and foetal circulations to..... More
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd., 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ON THE APPLICATION OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER TO COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY” AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION (Christies, Origin of Cyberspace Auction, 2005, 139). A brief summary was published in the Manchester Conference..... More
1870. 1st Edition. OFFPRINT, INSCRIBED FROM THE AUTHOR TO EDMOND BECQUEREL (but not signed). First separate edition in original printed wraps from the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History. This is the first of a series of radium bibliographies by Bolton; while later works in the series can be..... More
London: Macmillan, 1959. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST REPORT OF IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION OF AN ANIMAL. The definitive solution of the problem of in vitro fertilization of the mammalian egg and the first report of a in-vitro fertiliation in an animal was provided by the Chinese-American reproductive..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1922. 1st Edition. SCARCE CONTEMPORARY JOURNAL REPRINT "A Photo-electric Theory of Color Vision" is Clark's challenge to the other theories holding sway at that time; among them, that of Young-Helmholz, the Hering and Ladd-Franklin theory, Leboucq's, Joly's, and Cajal's. CONDITION & DETAILS: Baltimore: John Hopkins University. Bound..... More
London: Macmillan, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Francis Crick's and William Cochran's letter to the editors of Nature in which they previewed the important calculations that enabled them to predict the X-ray diffraction pattern produced by a crystal with a helical shape whose atoms are arranged..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF PART II ONLY OF ALLAN CORMACK’S SEMINAL INVENTION OF A MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY (CAT Scans) – TOGETHER, THESE TWO PAPERS DOCUMENT THE INVENTION OF THE CAT SCAN. Cormack’s work produced the most revolutionary development in the field of..... More
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd., 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE PAPER IN WHICH FRANCIS CRICK DEMONSTRATES THAT THE THEN ACCEPTED PERUTZ MODEL OF HEMOGLOBIN OF LONG PARALLEL CHAINS CANNOT BE CORRECT. “Max Perutz was one of the first crystallographers to attempt the deciphering of macrostructures… Perutz..... More
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard Ltd., 1953. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN PAPER WRAPS OF TWO HISTORIC PAPERS BY FRANCIS CRICK PRESENTING THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT USING SECONDARY-STRUCTURE ELEMENTS TO MODEL THE TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF A PROTEIN – THE ALPHA-HELICAL COILED COIL. “Crick’s molecular model for the coiled coil – entailing left-handed..... More
New York: 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the first volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates (some color) and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers..... More
New York: 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the second volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers, some minor..... More
New York: 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the third volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers..... More
New York: 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fourth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers;..... More
New York: 1960. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fifth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers..... More
New York: 1961. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the seventh volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers;..... More
New York: 1962. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the ninth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Nice red-speckled text-block. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers;..... More
London: Alexander Tilloch, 1804. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF A LETTER ON THE ATOMIC THEORY IN CHEMISTRY FROM JOHN DALTON to Alexander Tilloch, founder of the journal in which this paper is published. Also included are papers of import by Gay-Lussac, Biot, and Cuvier. John Dalton (1766-1844) was an..... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME 1st EDITIONS of de Chancourtois’s seminal papers in which he is “the first scientist to arrange the chemical elements in order of their atomic weights” (Helmenstine, “Who Invented the Periodic Table”). Years before Newlands announced his Law of Octaves and Mendeleev described his Periodic..... More
Leipzig: Von Veit. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DE VRIES TWO VOLUME CLASSIC WORK ON GENETICS INCLUDING HIS REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL’S LAWS AS WELL AS HIS DISCOVERY OF THE PHENOMENON OF MUTATION. This work is de Vries’s most complete exposition on these subjects and it “made him famous and he..... More
Paris: Chez Klostermann, 1813. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THREE 1813 WORKS BY DELAROCHE AND BÉRARD THAT TOGETHER ESTABLISHED THE FIRST PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF THE HEAT CAPACITIES OF GASES & established beyond argument that the specific heats of various gases differ from each other. All three papers are noted..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1829. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DOBEREINER’S LAW OF TRIADS. In this paper, Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, a German scientist, was the first to classify elements into groups based on John Dalton’s assertions that the atoms of an element have a characteristic mass. In an attempt to..... More
London: 1925. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST EDITION of the issue of Nature including a centenary “Special Benzene Supplement” celebrating Faraday’s 1825 discovery of benzene. Faraday’s [discovery] of the compound benzene… became his greatest contribution in chemistry (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 5, 531). “We are presenting a supplement containing the..... More
London: Macmillan, 1886. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION WITH TWO WORKS BY FRANCIS GALTON. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin..... More