Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1893. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, probably removed from old covers, fore-edges of the exterior insignificantly chipped; with the unidentified signature of G. Futteur. Preserved in a clamshell box. First edition of this classic paper. While working in the Koch Laboratory, Behring demonstrated that the serum of... More
1928-1929. FIRST EDITION. Three separate offprints from Proceedings of the Royal Society, London. Excellent copies in their original printed wrappers. First editions of these valuable studies from the Department of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Toronto. More
London: [various], 1921-42. FIRST EDITIONS. Most with original printed wrappers. All stapled as issued. We are pleased to offer the following collection of original offprints by SIR WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG (1862-1942), pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was a joint winner (with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg) of the... More
London: Macmillan, 1953. FIRST EDITIONS. Black buckram, library label on front endpaper. The entire Volume 171 for January through June, 1953 and Volume 172 for July through December, 1953 are offered. FIRST EDITIONS. “In these two papers Watson & Crick identified the double-helix structure of DNA and explained how it... More
New York: Scribner’s Sons; Basic Books, 1994; 1988. FIRST EDITIONS. I: Original publisher’s cloth; dust wrapper in perfect condition. Signed by the author on the title page; II: Soft cover. Signed by the author on the title page. I: First edition of Crick’s search for the answer to the meaning... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villers, et fils, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; a fine copy, uncut and unopened. The first printing following the author's defense of his thesis on 6 March 1895 presented to the Faculty of Science, University of Paris, for the degree of Docteur dés Sciences Physiques. Curie devoted a.... More
Leipzig: J.A Barth, 1916. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed wrappers on rippled paper, covers lightly toned around edges; interior clean with underlining by previous owner, Dr. Sten Lothigius of Stockholm An excellent copy. First separate appearance in print of Einstein's fundamental statement of the General theory of Relativity. Not an... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First American edition. With frontispiece portrait Einstein dated 1920. Blue cloth, bumped lower corners and spine slightly rubbed, no dust wrapper; some very light stains on title page, otherwise a very clean copy. With the bookplate of Arnold Henry Jacobs (1882-1954), the famous... More
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1938. First British edition. With 3 plates and several text illustrations. Original cloth and dust jacket in very good condition, price clipped; interior very clean. With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray. First British edition. Intended as an explanation of the totality of Einstein’s accomplishments for... More
Snell was the co-recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the genetics of the mouse immune system which led to a better understanding of cancer cell behavior in humans. One of the leading authorities on the genetics of "transplant reaction," his work was key in... More
London: McMillan & Co. 1896. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Stephen Hales plus 7 additional portraits. Original cloth, spine somewhat faded; from the Norman library with his bookplate; another bookplate on front paste-down presumably removed. First edition. Ramsay wrote this popular history at the request of "persons without any special... More
London: [n.p.], 1878-1914. List provided upon request. The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in 1799 and has had a long and fruitful role both in scientific research and scientific communications. Some of the scientists from the Royal Institution include Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday in the first half... More
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Text figures. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. More
Wurzburg: K. Hof, 1895-96. FIRST EDITIONS. Original printed wrappers. First edition (fourth issue of the first paper, with the two additional pages; see Klickstein) of the first published reports on the sensational discovery of X-rays -- a form of light invisible to the eye which had never before been observed... More
