D'ALEMBERT, JEAN LE. Traité de Dynamique

FIRST EDITION of one of the great classics in the history of science: d'Alembert's formalization of the new science of mechanics. A magnificent copy in original boards. PMM 195.
$11000

BROGLIE, LOUIS-VICTOR DE. Ondes et Mouvements [Waves and Motions]

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of de Broglie's presentation of his revolutionary theory of the wave-particle duality of matter; an expansion of the ideas originally outlined in his doctoral thesis. PMM 417.
$3200

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorien

FIRST EDITION, first appearance, of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. PMM 408. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is a continuation and dramatic expansion of some of the ground-breaking ideas set forth in his 1905 paper on special relativity. Specifically, with general relativity, Einstein applied his revolutionary conceptions of time, space, and matter to all of the universe, and providing, for the first time the definitive reinterpretation of the Newtonian model.
$5800

DESCARTES, RENÈ. Principia Philosphiae [with] Dissertatio de Methodo

FIRST EDITION of Descartes’s Principia Philosophiae, the first attempt at a completely mechanistic account of the universe and the direct antecedent to Newton’s Principia of 1687. Bound with the first Latin edition of Discourse on Method, including the first appearance of Descartes's famous Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum."
$14500

GUERICKE, OTTO VON. Experimenta Nova

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC CLASSICS: "Describes the invention of the air pump and the famous experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres, in which two teams of eight horses were employed in an attempt to pull apart two copper hemispheres from which the air had been withdrawn. Guericke also describes the invention of the first electrical machine, which generated the first visible and audible electric charges” (Honeyman).
$55000

DALTON, JOHN. On the Absorption of Gases by Water and other Liquids

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF DALTON'S ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER, including the FIRST TABLE OF ATOMIC WEIGHTS and DALTON'S LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES.
$12000

CERF, VINTON G. KAHN, ROBERT E. A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the most important article on the Internet’s development: Cerf and Kahn’s creation of the Transmission Control Program (TCP), the blueprint for the Internet.
$8500

HUBBLE, EDWIN. A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae

FIRST EDITION of Edwin Hubble’s landmark paper documenting what would later become known as Hubble’s Law, stating that there is a proportional relationship between a galaxy’s recession velocity and its distance from the Earth. One of the most profound discoveries in science, Hubble’s data provided evidence of an expanding universe, thereby providing the essential argument for the Big Bang theory, proving the natural implications of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and ultimately allowing for the determination of the age of the universe.
$8500

FREUD, SIGMUND. BREUER, JOSEPH. Studien über Hysterie (Studies in Hysteria)

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Freud and Breuer's account of their discovery of the profound benefits of "free association"; generally considered the founding paper of psychoanalysis.
$9000

FARADAY, MICHAEL. Experimental Researches in Electricity

FIRST EDITION of Michael Faraday's most famous and influential paper, reporting the first production of electricity by electromagnetic induction. IN ORIGINAL UNBOUND STATE WITH ORIGINAL BELLY BAND.
$13500