Leipzig; Berlin: Johann Ambrosius Barth; George Reimer for the Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1887-1892. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of the first of Hertz’s papers on electromagnetic waves, accompanied by offprints of six further papers on the same subject, including ‘Ueber elektrodynamische Wellen im Luftraume und deren Reflexion’, in which..... More
Item #4863

Augsburg: Christoph Peter Detleffsen for the widow of Eberhard Klett, 1760. First edition, and a remarkably fine copy, of this cornerstone of modern optics, with applications which touch on astronomy and photography; this is one of the rarest of modern science books of this stature. “It established a complete system..... More
Item #4778

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1895. First edition, in the original printed wrappers, and very rare thus, of Lorentz’s major work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies “which soon became a classic” (Schaffner, p. 503). It was in this work that he introduced the concept of ‘local time’, a “major discovery” (Hoffmann..... More
Item #4923

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

Venice: Remondini, 1761. First edition, first issue, an exceptional copy, completely untouched in the original printer’s interim-boards, of “one of the most important [works] in the history of medicine” (Garrison & Morton). “After Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502), Giovanni Battista Morgagni is considered the founder of pathological anatomy. His ‘De sedibus’, regarded..... More
Item #4720

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

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

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

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