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RUTHERFORD, Ernest, James Chadwick, & C. D. Ellis. Radiations from Radioactive Substances.Cambridge : 1930
First edition, first impression, in the notably uncommon dust jacket. Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) was a pioneer in the study of nuclear physics, the discoverer of the structure of the atom and the first scientist to split the atom. This work updates his 1913 work Radioactive Substances and their Radiations (a concise account of the whole subject of... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 131167
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NICOL, D. S. H. W. The Biological Activity of Insulin Peptides.Cambridge : 1958
The doctoral dissertation of the eminent physician, polymath, and UN delegate Davidson Nicol. Inscribed from the author to his Cambridge mentor Frederick Sanger on the front free endpaper, "To Fred Sanger, with many thanks for your help and inspiration over this work, from, Davidson Nicol. Return address: University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown".... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 114809
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. The Making of Asbestos-Cement Roofings.No Place : [c.1930]
Rare first edition, first impression, of one of Robinson's commercial work, this one on asbestos, from its extraction to its transformation into roofing tiles, featuring some of the gadgets and contraptions for which he was to become famous. "Mr. W. Heath Robinson, the well-known artist, recently visited the works at Trafford Park, Manchester, and in... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 140698
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NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions, and Colours of Light.London : 1704
First edition, first issue, without Newton's name on the title. Newton's Opticks expounds his corpuscular or emission theory of light, and first contains his important optical discoveries in collected form. It also prints two important mathematical treatises (omitted in later editions) describing his invention of the fluxional calculus, which are the... Learn More£85,000.00Stock Code: 137818
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OPPENHEIMER, Robert J. Notes on the Theory of the Interaction of Field and Matter.Lancaster, PA, & New York, NY : 1930
Rare offprint of the paper which pointed out that the quantum electrodynamics of the time led to false predictions of the frequency of the absorption and emission spectra of atoms. This led directly to the breakdown of theory and the revolutionary work in quantum electrodynamics by Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 86339
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TAIT, Peter Guthrie, & William John Steele. A Treatise on the Dynamics of a Particle with Numerous Examples.Cambridge : 1856
First edition of a work that went to a second, revised edition in 1865, and to its final and seventh edition, further revised, in 1900. Tait had been at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and won the senior wranglership in January 1852, while the favourite, Steele, became second wrangler. Tait commemorated Steele's early death by publishing this work under their... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 48956
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SODDY, Frederick, & Muriel Howorth. Atomic Transmutation. The Greatest Discovery Ever Made.London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Soddy on the half-title, "Frederick Soddy, May 20th 1953" and also by his co-author, "Love from the author, Muriel Howorth". Frederick Soddy, the discoverer of isotopes, began his career in the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford. "Together they published a series of papers on radioactivity and concluded that... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83467
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BUTLEROV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich. Vvedenie k polnomu izucheniyu organicheskoy khimii (Introduction to the Complete Study of Organic Chemistry).Kazan : 1864
First edition, extremely uncommon with two copies only on WorldCat, Deutsches Museum, Munich, and North Carolina; the first edition of the first textbook of organic chemistry to be based on the theory of chemical structure. It is impossible to credit Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-1886) as the sole discoverer of chemical structure: the Scot Archibald... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 125476
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CASSIRER, Ernst. Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.Chicago and London : 1923
First edition in English, first printing, in the scarce jacket. The two works were first published in German as Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff in 1910 and Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie in 1921. Both relate Cassirer's Neo-Kantian approach to developments in science, the former in line with late-19th century developments which were still fundamentally... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141886
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DYSON, Freeman. Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman.Lancaster, PA and New York, NY : 1949
First editions, first impressions of the papers that demonstrated the equivalence between Richard Feynman's diagram-based approach to quantum electrodynamics and Julius Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga's operator method approach. Both theories were presented for the first time at the Pocono Conference in April 1948, with Feynman and Schwinger going... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 86336
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HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time.London : 1988
First UK edition, first impression, published simultaneously with the US edition on 1 April 1988. One of the most important scientific works of the second half of the 20th century and a masterpiece of scientific popularization, A Brief History of Time details for a lay readership the origin and eventual fate of the universe.
Loosely inserted... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 137407
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FRISI, Paolo. Elogi di Galileo Galilei e di Bonaventura Cavalieri.Milan : 1778
First collected edition, scarce: not in Library Hub, WorldCat locates ten copies. Paolo Frisi (1728-1784) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist who is best know for his work in hydraulics. "His most significant contributions to science, however, were in the compilation, interpretation, and dissemination of the work of other scientists...... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 110130
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GOEPPERT MAYER, Maria, & J. Hans D. Jensen. Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structure.New York : 1955
First edition, first printing, of a classic text on nuclear shell structure. "The authors of this monograph shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics for the nuclear shell model of atomic nuclei. In addition to theoretical work, the book includes a large body of experimental data interpreted with the aid of the shell model. As the second author admitted... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140350
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LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern.Leiden : 1895
First edition of this seminal paper on the relationship of matter to electricity, introducing the Lorentz Force in electrodynamics.
"In applying Maxwell's electromagnetic theories to moving bodies, Lorentz made the fundamentally new assumption that the behaviour of light and matter could be understood in terms of charged particles. The present... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144413
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FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel. [Four papers on thermometry.]London : 1726
First edition of four important papers on thermometry by Fahrenheit, in Latin, contributed to volume 33 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The entirety of Fahrenheit's published writings comprises five papers; apart from a description of one of his early thermometers published by Christian Wolff in Acta Eruditorum (1714), these... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 142741
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HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time.London : 1988
First UK edition, first impression, published simultaneously with the US edition on 1 April 1988. One of the most important scientific works of the second half of the 20th century and a masterpiece of scientific popularization, A Brief History of Time details for a lay readership the origin and eventual fate of the universe. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 149729
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Œuvres.Paris : 1773
First collected edition in French of the author's collected works. The first part is entirely devoted to electricity and includes previously unpublished pieces. Translated by Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709-1779) from the fourth edition in the original English. A close friend of Franklin and his translator and publisher in France, Barbeu-Dubourg was also... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 98387
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BELL, Jocelyn; A. Hewish; J. D. H. Pilkington; P. F. Scott; R. A. Collins. Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source.London : 1968
First edition, the extremely rare offprint, of the landmark paper which announced the discovery of pulsars, co-authored by British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell and her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, and three others; with a meaningful provenance, being bound eleventh in a volume of related offprints from the library of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131009
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BROWN, Robert. A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations.London : 1828 & 1829
First editions, the Brief Account being preceded only by the scarce privately printed edition of the same year, of Brown's "pioneering work on pollination and fertilization, which caused sufficient stir so as to be mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch" (ODNB).
"In 1927 Brown, while making microscopical observations, saw that pollen grains...... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146594
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FEYNMAN, Richard. Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics,Lancaster, PA and New York : 1948
First edition of Feynman's very first paper on quantum electrodynamics, in which he proposed a mechanism (the 'cut-off') for removing the divergences which had plagued the theory since its development by Dirac. This paper pre-dates his work on Feynman diagrams, which was not published until the following year. This issue also contains the competing... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 83253
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GHAMBASHIDZE, D. Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia.1919
First edition. Ghambashidze was a Georgian mining engineer who had been secretary of the Anglo-Russian Chamber of Commerce in London, and who, using his influential British connections, was instrumental in obtaining the recognition of an Independent Georgia at the Paris Peace Conference. He was a delegate of the short-lived Georgian Government (1918-21)... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 45396
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NAPIER, James. A Manual of Dyeing Receipts for General Use.London & Glasgow : 1855
First edition. Highly interesting practical work with 56 small fabric samples mounted in the text, which immediately predates the massive expansion of the German synthetic dye industry. This is an excellent copy of this attractive book, which is moderately uncommon institutionally, with just a dozen copies on Library Hub, and rarely encountered on the... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 139284
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GOULD, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny.Cambridge, MA & London : 1977
First edition, first printing of the author's first book. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), a professor of zoology and paleontology at Harvard, was a leading light among biologists at the end of the previous century. His development of the theory of punctuated equilibria, the argument that evolution occurs in rapid bursts of speciation separated by long... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 101441
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GOULD, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny.Cambridge, MA & London : 1977
First edition, first printing of the author's first book. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), a professor of zoology and paleontology at Harvard, was a leading light among biologists at the end of the previous century. His development of the theory of punctuated equilibria, the argument that evolution occurs in rapid bursts of speciation separated by long... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 83290
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SHECHTMAN, Daniel, et al. Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry.New York : 1984
First editions, first impressions of the paper announcing the discovery of quasi-crystals by Daniel Shechtman and the follow-up paper that confirmed his results. Chemist Daniel Shechtman (1941- ) of the Israel Institute of Technology was spending a sabbatical at Johns Hopkins University during the early 1980s when he discovered quasiperiodic crystals,... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 86384
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GELL-MANN, Murray. Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons.Lancaster, PA and New York : 1962
First edition, first printing of Gell-Mann's most cited paper, which introduced his "Eightfold Way", work that would lead to his Nobel Prize in 1969. In the decades following the Second World War physicists discovered an astonishing array of particles but struggled to explain their relationships and how they fit into the overall structure of the universe.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83282
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GRAHAM, Thomas. Chemical and Physical Researches.Edinburgh : 1876
First edition, presentation copy to James Prescott Joule, with the printed presentation on the half-title "From James Young and R. Angus Smith" continued by hand "to Dr Joule FRS &c&c". The book later passed to the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and then into the library of Churchill College, Cambridge, with their marks. Graham (1805-1869)... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 130394
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ROCKETRY - ZANDER, Friedrich. Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik statei pod red. M.K. Tikhonravova.Moscow : 1947
First and only edition of this important collection of articles by rocketry pioneer Friedrich Zander (Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander; 1887-1933), edited by a prominent co-worker at Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (Gruppa Isutcheniya Reaktivniya Dvisheniya - GIRD). Just a single copy of this attractive publication traced worldwide in the holdings... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 143547
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GENNETÉ, Claude Léopold. Nouvelle construction de cheminées,Liège : 1760
Second edition, preceded by the rare Paris edition of 1759. An important work on chimneys and their ventilation: "the latest technology on making chimneys draw properly and preventing smoke in rooms" (Deborah Howard, William Adam, Architectural Society of Scotland, 1990; who also notes that James Adam acquired a copy in Belgium "at the start of his... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 113696
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RUSSELL, Bertrand. Essai sur les fondements de la géométrie.Paris : 1901
First edition in French of Russell's Essay on the Foundations of Geometry, his second book and "first full-length philosophical work" (Richards, Essay on the Foundations of Geometry and the Cambridge mathematical tradition). The book was championed in France by the eminent mathematician Henri Poincaré, which led to Russell being invited to deliver... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 75333
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SHOCKLEY, William. Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Thornton Read: As an introduction to germanium research. Bill Shockley. Dec '50". The recipient Thornton Read was an American physicist who with Charles Frank formulated what came to be known as the Frank-Read mechanism for generating dislocations... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 132838
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CRICK, Francis (owner); Bourne, Geoffrey. Cytology and Cell Physiology.Oxford : 1945
Francis Crick's copy, with his pencilled signature to the pastedown, of an important cell biology textbook, outlining the biological worldview which Crick was schooled in and which he would ultimately overturn with his joint discovery of DNA in 1953. Though books from Crick's library do appear, relevant scientific texts published before the 1953 paradigm... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 130399
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CALDAS, Francisco José de. Ensayo de una memoria sobre un nuevo método de medir las montañas,Burdeos : 1819
First edition of the posthumously published work in which Caldas describes his principal scientific achievement, the discovery of a method for measuring altitude by the boiling point of pure water. Caldas (1768-1816), a self-taught scientist - and a lawyer and military engineer - from Popayán, New Granada, independently discovered the hypsometric principle... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 139366
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GODDARD, Robert H. Rockets.New York : 1946
First edition, first printing, of this posthumously printed collection of Goddard's famous papers on rocketry; "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" and "Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development", first published by the Smithsonian Institute in 1919 and 1936 respectively. This work also contains a new foreword by Goddard, the father of modern rocket... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 130701
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ASTON, F. W. Isotopes.London : 1922
First edition, first impression, of Aston's key work on isotopes, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1922. Aston, building on the work of J. J. Thomson at Cambridge, developed modern mass spectrograph technology to investigate inconsistencies in the atomic weights of elements. He discovered that "the elements are composed of atoms of varying... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 148481
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DUCREST, Charles Louis, marquis de. Essais sur les Machines Hydrauliques,Paris : 1777
First edition. On hydraulics, the construction of hydraulic machines, and shipbuilding, illustrated with a fine set of technical illustrations, this work includes the general principles of the resistance of fluids, and of the mechanics of paddle-wheels and their application in mills and pumps. One chapter is devoted to the resistance of fluids against... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 68900
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ZEILINGER, Anton, et al. Experimental Quantum Teleportation.Washington D. C. : 1997
First edition of the first paper describing successful quantum teleportation, the transmission of information using quantum entanglement, in which the quantum states of a pair of particles are linked so that a change in one alters the other, even at large distances. Quantum teleportation was first proposed theoretically in 1993 by a team led by the... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 86343
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BECQUEREL, Henri Antoine. Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière:Paris : 1903
First edition, first impression of the author's magnum opus, the complete record of his discovery of radioactivity and research into the phenomenon. Henri Becquerel (1852-1958) was already a leading French scientist when x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. The following January he attended a session of the Académie des Sciences where... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 78627
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HAHN, Otto. Applied Radiochemistry.Ithaca, NY, : 1936
First edition, first impression of the author's only full-length book. Hahn, in addition to being the discoverer of nuclear fission, was the founder of the field of radiochemistry, in which radioactive isotopes are used to study the properties of non-radioactive isotopes and chemical reactions. This volume compiles twelve talks on radiochemistry given... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 79602
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WATT, James. Japanese fan depicting Watt's experiments with steam.[c.1870]
An attractive, delicate, and understandably scarce Japanese fan depicting the popular scientific myth of James Watt timing the condensation of steam from a boiling kettle, the Japanese caption reading "an illustration of Mr. Watt, born in Scotland, conceiving the idea of the steam engine". We have been unable to locate any comparable fans either institutionally... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 141941
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WORLD WAR I. Ministry of Munitions of War. H.M. Factory, Gretna.Dumfries : 1918
First and only edition. The massive factory site, which included the two purpose-built townships of Gretna and Eastriggs, was established as a response to the Shell Crisis of 1915. The plant's product was cordite - a smokeless propellant explosive comprised of a mixture of nitro-glycerine and nitro-cellulose, or gun cotton, and described by Sir Arthur... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 79783
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PAULING, Linus. General Chemistry.Pasadena : 1941
First preliminary edition of this classic first year chemistry textbook by one of the 20th-century's greatest and most versatile scientists. It comprises 13 mimeographed chapters, and was not officially published until 1947, delayed by many rewritings, Pauling's mounting fame, and his meticulous reviewing of all ten publishers competing for the opportunity... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 140733
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DU PUGET D'ORVAL, Edmé Jean Antoine. Essai sur l'Usage de l'Artillerie, dans la Guerre de Campagne & dans celle de Sieges. Par un Officier du Corps;1771
First edition. Uncommon: of the first named, Library Hub has just Oxford and BL, WorldCat has nine locations, and also a number of manuscript copies, including one made as late as 1812 held by Princeton. Of the second, Library Hub lists just the BL, and WorldCat locates six, and one copy bound together as here held by Princeton. Du Puget exercised considerable... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 38651
