THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION BY BABBAGE OF HIS ANALYTICAL ENGINE, THE FIRST GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY: FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE TO EMPRESS EUGENIE AND IN A MAGNIFICENT ROYAL PRESENTATION BINDING. More
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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: FRANCIS BACON’S ARGUMENT FOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. More
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FIRST EDITION of Becquerel's "definitive work", containing the full account of his investigations and discovery of radioactivity. PMM 393. Dibner 163. More
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EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bergman’s study of chemical affinities, including a large fold-out table, “the finest achievement in the tradition of affinity tables,” and a major predecessor of the periodic table. More
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY NIELS BOHR, of Bohr's Nobel Prize lecture, delivered on the occasion of Bohr's acceptance of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. An association copy: Inscribed to J.A. Christiansen, noted scientist and student of Bohr. More
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FIRST EDITIONS of two critical papers in developing our understanding of the atom: 1) all three parts of Bohr’s landmark work marking the definitive break from using classical physics at the atomic level, often cited as the foundation of our modern understanding of the atom; 2) both parts of Moseley's... More
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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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RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF NOAM CHOMSKY’S “SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES”: “A WATERSHED IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE”. SIGNED BY CHOMSKY IN INK ON THE TITLE PAGE. More
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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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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS of Dalton’s first book; one of the foundational works in meteorology. More
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of only 2500 copies) in original cloth of Darwin's seminal work on the evolution of man. More
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FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS with good content by Humphry Davy to his close friend and patron Davies Gilbert. More
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FIRST EDITION of De Chancourtois’s presentation of his “telluric screw,” the first periodic representation of the elements; precedes Mendeleev’s table by seven years. More
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AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER BY EINSTEIN TO HIS SON OFFERING LIFE ADVICE AND DISCUSSING FREUD, SHAKESPEARE, AND SCHILLER. More
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FIRST EDITION, COMMERCIAL OFFPRINT ISSUE, of Einstein's important 1914 paper on the development of general relativity. More
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FIRST EDITION, monograph issue in original wrappers, of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. PMM 408. More
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FIRST PRINTING of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking 1905 paper, the introduction and derivation of the most famous equation in modern physics: E=mc2. More
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AN IMPORTANT SIGNED LETTER (in English) by Einstein, revealing his reservations of associating with communism even in the fight against fascism. More
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IMPORTANT LETTER BY EINSTEIN ON HIS INCLUSIVE VISION FOR WORLD PEACE. More
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FIRST EDITION, COMMERCIAL OFFPRINT ISSUE, of Einstein’s breakthrough work on general relativity: the famous “Entwurf” paper. More
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VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. More
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STUNNING LARGE GELATIN SILVER LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPH; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. One of only 450 in the edition. More
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MICHAEL FARADAY'S MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PAPER, REPORTING THE FIRST PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION. More
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of two papers containing Faraday’s detailed investigations of the nature of the ‘lines of force’; an extension of work he had begun in his first paper (1821) on electromagnetism. These investigations laid the foundations of field theory. More
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