New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of the first comprehensive report on the transistor, one of the most important inventions of the 20th Century. “In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying to use ultrahigh frequency waves for telephone communications..... More
Item #5489

Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff; Russell & Allen for R. Bickerstaff; Executives of S. Russell for G. Wilson, 1808; 1810; 1827. First edition, untouched in uniform original publisher’s bindings with original printed spine labels, of Dalton’s classic work on the atomic theory of matter. “Dalton reconstructed Newton's speculations on..... More
Item #5935

Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner & F. Deuticke, 1931-37. First editions, a very rare complete set in the original printed wrappers, of all eight issues of these proceedings to which Gödel contributed thirteen important papers and remarks on the foundations of logic and mathematics. The last three issues are particularly..... More
Item #5970

[Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1976]. Extremely rare pre-publication typescript of one of the most important papers in climate science, the definitive proof of Milanković’s theory of ice ages, that they result from variations in the precession, eccentricity, and obliquity of the Earth’s orbit around the..... More
Item #6419

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847. First edition, inscribed presentation copy, of Herschel’s greatest astronomical work, inscribed to the Captain of the ship that brought Herschel and his family back from South Africa. This is a monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, a complement to his father’s..... More
Item #5354

London: W. Godbid for J. Martyn, 1672-73. First edition, very rare, of the principal published source of the short-lived “pride and boast of British astronomy,” as he was later described by Sir John Herschel. The works published here posthumously, edited by John Wallis, constitute almost all of Horrocks’ writings that..... More
Item #5368

London: 1738. An autograph letter signed by John Machin (c. 1686–1751), Secretary of the Royal Society and Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, four pages on a bifolium, written from Gresham College on 22 June 1738 to the Scottish mathematician James Stirling at Leadhills — descended in the Stirling family..... More
Item #6657

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. First edition of Nash’s most famous work in pure mathematics, his solution of “a deep philosophical problem concerning geometry”, first posed by Bernhard Riemann, “one of the most important pieces of mathematical analysis in this century” which “has completely changed the perspective on partial differential..... More
Item #6059

London: Various printers to the Royal Society, 1665-1732. First edition of the first 426 issues, an unbroken run from March 1665 to December 1732, of the world's oldest continuous scientific journal and the single most important record of the first announcement and communication of scientific discoveries and inventions (PMM). It..... More
Item #6441

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926-28. First editions, very rare offprint issues, of the papers that laid the foundations of the role of symmetry in quantum mechanics. “Wigner was a member of the race of giants that reformulated the laws of nature after the quantum mechanics revolution of 1924-25. In a series..... More
Item #3704

London: William Godbid for Moses Pitt, [1669-] 1671. First edition, very rare when complete with the portrait and all three parts, of this classic treatise on mechanics by Newton’s most important English precursor. It treats both statics (the balance, the lever, centres of gravity, elasticity, and hydrostatics) and dynamics (including..... More
Item #5201