On Boltzmann’s Theorem on the Average Distribution of Energy in a System of Material Points
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE OFFPRINT, ONE OF MAXWELL’S MAJOR PAPERS ON GAS THEORY AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. More
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On the Dynamical Theory of Gases
FIRST PRINTING IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF MAXWELL’S MAJOR PAPERS: THE MOST DEVELOPED AND COMPLETE EXPLORATION OF HIS THEORY OF GASES. More
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Typed Letter Signed with Autograph Annotation
TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LIFE, EINSTEIN WRITES TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS FROM THE PATENT OFFICE CONCERNING ONE OF THE CENTRAL STRUGGLES OF HIS SCIENTIFIC LIFE. COMMENTING ON THE WORK OF DIRAC, EINSTEIN ADMITS THAT ALTHOUGH HE “CAN’T TAKE A STATISTICAL FOUNDATION OF PHYSICS SERIOUSLY” HE FINDS IT..... More
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A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More
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Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]
THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. More
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Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF FARADAY'S MONUMENTAL EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. PMM 308. More
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease. WITH: A Specific Chemical Difference Between the Globins of Normal Human and Sickle-Cell Anæmia Hæmoglobin.
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA. More
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Report on the Barnhouse Effect
FIRST PRINTING OF VONNEGUT’S FIRST PUBLISHED STORY. More
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“Marching Streets”; “The Pope at Confession”; “My First Love”; IN: A Book of Princeton Verse II
FITZGERALD’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN A BOOK. A REMARKABLE COPY IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET. More
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On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; With a Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light
FIRST EDITION, THE EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT, OF THE LAST OF MAXWELL'S FIVE IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1855 AND 1868. WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PROVENANCE: THIS COPY FROM THE ESTEEMED CAVENDISH LABORATORY, FOUNDED IN 1874 WITH MAXWELL AS ITS FIRST DIRECTOR. More
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Andy Warhol's Index (Book)
FIRST EDITION, preferred hardcover issue, of Warhol's iconic Index (Book), complete with all components (except balloon as usual). More
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R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots
SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ČAPEK’S SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC, THE WORK THAT INTRODUCED THE WORD “ROBOT” TO THE WORLD. More
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Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth
THE CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT: FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE REPORT OF CAVENDISH’S EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH AND NEWTON’S GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT “G”, ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS. More
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Observations on Different Kinds of Air [Priestley]. WITH: Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-Shine [IngenHousz]
FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO MILESTONES IN THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS; OUTSTANDING COPIES. More
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An Inquiry Into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations
FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE ORIGINAL BOARDS OF PLAYFAIR’S INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL DECLINE — A PIONEERING WORK IN THE USE OF INFOGRAPHICS TO PRESENT ECONOMIC DATA. More
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Erklarung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie
FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein's most important papers: his landmark work of November 18, 1915, containing the development and confirmation of crucial elements of his general theory of relativity. More
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Secondary Radiations Produced by X-Rays
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Compton’s report providing the data and experimental evidence for the dual wave-particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, later called “the Compton effect”. More
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Silver Print Photograph
EXQUISITE ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH OF ISADORA DUNCAN BY ARNOLD GENTHE. More
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Indsendt. Ved nogle Forsøg, some jeg i Vinter anstillede i mine Forelæsninger over Electricitet, Galvanismus og Magnetismus [Submitted. On some experiments, which I performed this winter, in my lecturers on electricity, galvanism, and magnetism.]
THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM: THE EXTREMELY RARE TRUE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT IN PRINT OF ØRSTED’S DEMONSTRATION OF THE MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT, PRECEDING EVEN THE UNOBTAINABLE LATIN PAMPHLET THAT IS GENERALLY REGARDED AS THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF HIS DISCOVERY. More
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De Rerum Natura libri sex. Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensiti. [On the Nature of Things]
THE MAGNIFICENT FIRST TONSON EDITION OF LUCRETIUS’S CLASSIC; COMPLETE WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS (ONE A LARGE FOLD-OUT). More
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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861)
PRESENTATION COPY AND ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RARE AUTHOR’S OFFPRINT OF PASTEUR’S FAMOUS LECTURE DISCREDITING THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH NOTES TO FELLOW-SCIENTIST JOHN TYNDALL. More
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Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l’Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. More
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Stuart Little: “Summer Memories” Signed Lithograph
EXTREMELY RARE LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR GARTH WILLIAMS OF THE COVER ART FOR E.B. WHITE’S CLASSIC STUART LITTLE. WITH HAND-COLORING BY WILLIAMS. More
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Remarques generales sur les Températures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires [Fourier]. WITH: Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche [Arrhenius]
RARE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF TWO PIONEERING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PAPERS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL WARMING — THE 1824 INTRODUCTION OF THE IDEA OF THE “GREENHOUSE EFFECT” AND THE FIRST QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON. More
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