Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. First edition, first issue, the copy of The Garden Ltd., of Maxwell’s presentation of his theory of electromagnetism, advancing ideas that would become essential for modern physics, including the landmark “hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature” (Grolier/Horblit). “This treatise did..... More
Item #4925
London: Taylor and Francis, 1913-14. First edition, an exceptionally fine set of both parts of this landmark work, journal issue, in the original printed wrappers. “In 1913 and 1914, respectively, Moseley (1887-1915) published two papers which, once and for all, established a firm connection of the Periodic Table, which was..... More
Item #4607
Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch, 1872. First edition in exceptionally rare original publisher's cloth binding. This copy previously handled by Bill Schaberg: "When I wrote The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography (The University of Chicago Press, 1995), I had never even heard of these cloth copies of Nietzsche’s first book..... More
Item #4535
Cologne [Paris]: Pierre de la Vallée, [1656-]1657; 1659. First edition, and a beautiful copy, of Pascal’s 18 Provincial letters, bound with two extremely rare works relating to Pascal. “The Lettres Provinciales, as they are called, are the first example of French prose as we know it today, perfectly finished in..... More
Item #3426
St. Petersburg: I. N. Kushnereff & Ko. 1897. A fine copy, in contemporary Russian binding, of this famous work on digestive juices by the demonstrator of the ‘conditioned reflex’. ❧PMM 385; Grolier/Horblit 83; Dibner 135; Grolier/Medicine 85; Lilly Library Notable Medical Books 241. “Mouth-watering is a familiar experience and may..... More
Item #4196
St. Petersburg: I. N. Kushnereff & Ko. 1897. First edition of this seminal work on biology and neurology, containing the first expression of what Pavlov would later term the ‘conditioned reflex’. “Mouth-watering is a familiar experience and may be induced without the sight or smell of food. The sounds of..... More
Item #4569
Venice: Johannes Hamman, 31 August 1496. First edition, and a beautiful, large and fresh copy in an outstanding contemporary Italian binding preserved in its original state, of this epochal work by the leading astronomer of the fifteenth century. “The importance of this book lies in the fact that it enshrines..... More
Item #4813
Basel: [colophon:] Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna, 1561. Second, much augmented, edition of “the first systematic treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry to be published in Europe” (Rose, p. 99), completed by 1464 but first published in 1533 at Nuremberg by Johann Schöner. “Regiomontanus’s monumental work on Triangles, the first..... More
Item #2852
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Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel’schen K. Hof- und Universitäts-Buch und Kunsthandlung, 1895 [- 1896]. First editions, first issues, and fine copies from the collection of The Garden Ltd., of the rare offprints of Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays, the most important contribution to medical diagnosis in a century, and a...... More
Item #4932