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View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York [Photograph Signed]
by ABBOTT, BERENICE
New York: np, 1933. photograph. Fine. DRAMATIC NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY BERENICE ABBOTT; IN UNUSUAL AND EVOCATIVE VERTICAL FORMAT. In this claustrophobic view of Exchange Place, Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991) focuses on the newly built skyscrapers looming over New York City. To achieve the heightened perspective Abbott cropped the sides of a negative taken in 1933, which was an unusual decision for her. While Abbott's peers and artists affiliated with both the avant-garde and the... Read More
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Images 1923-1974
by Adams, Ansel
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, one of 1000 copies signed by Ansel Adams and with additional silver print signed by Adams. A FINE COPY. A magnificent production, illustrated throughout with duotone reproductions of Ansel Adams's evocative photographs. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. With the rare signed silver print "Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California" (12.25 x 9 inches) loose and mounted as issued. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.... Read More
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
by ADAMS, ANSEL
San Francisco: np, 1959. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. A LONG LETTER TO A FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHER WITH REVEALING TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. Written by Adams to fellow photographer Nicholas Dean, this letter engages many topics: first listing off a variety of impressive engagements and exhibits the two were involved with at the time, then settling finally on a detailed section on photographic techniques and tips. Adams explains first that he was arranging the logistics... Read More
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Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed
by ADAMS, ANSEL; JEFFERS, ROBINSON
Carmel by the Sea: np, 1927. First edition. Very Good. ANSEL ADAMS'S ICONIC PORTRAIT OF ROBINSON JEFFERS, SIGNED BY ADAMS AND INSCRIBED IN VERSE BY JEFFERS TO THEIR PATRON ALBERT BENDER. WITH SIGNED LETTER FROM ADAMS TO PHOTOGRAPHER DAVE BOHN DESCRIBING THE HISTORY AND CREATION OF THE PHOTO. EXTREMELY SCARCE: ACCORDING TO ADAMS, ONE OF ONLY ABOUT 8-10 PRINTS MADE. Jeffers and Adams first met at Jeffers’s home, the hand-constructed 'Tor House' in Carmel-by-the-sea. Both... Read More
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The Origin of Chemical Elements. WITH: Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements. WITH: Thermonuclear reactions in the expanding universe. WITH: Neutron-capture theory of the formation and relative abundance of the elements. WITH: On the relative abundance of the elements
by ALPHER, RALPH; BETHE, HANS; GAMOW, GEORGE; ET AL.
Lancaster and New York: The Physical Review; American Physcial Society; American Institute of Physics, 1948. First edition. original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTINGS OF THE FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS ON THE BIG BANG AND THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. Including a fine copy of the famous "Alpha-Beta-Gamma" paper. The Origin of Chemical Elements: "With the experimental and theoretical information now available it is possible to give a tentative description of the structure and evolution of the universe.." ... Read More
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"Mémoire ... De l'Action mutuelle de deux courans électriques
by AMPÈRE, ANDRÉ MARIE
Paris: Crochard, 1820. First edition. Half-calf. Very Good. THE ORIGINS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM. AMPÈRE'S FIRST DISCUSSION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTRIC CURRENT-FLOW AND MAGNETISM. Ampère often worked by publishing his ideas chiefly in Annales de chimie et de physiques, at times as much as once a week. When he had further thoughts on the topic, he would publish revisions. The "first great memoir on electrodynamics", the present paper is the seed of what would become a series of papers... Read More
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Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]
by ARBUS, DIANE
New York: Charles Cowles, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers, custom box. Very Good. THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. By 1971, "an appreciation of [Arbus's] photography was building in the art world at large... The most gratifying acknowledgement of her as an artist came not from a museum but from a magazine. Through Henry Geldzahler, the contemporary-art curator at the Metropolitan Museum, Arbus arranged a meeting with Philip Leider. The founding editor of Artforum, an... Read More
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Recherches sur la conductabilite galvanique des electrolytes
by Arrhenius, Svante
Stockholm: Norstedt. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Arrhenius's landmark discovery of the theory of electrolytic disassociation. Arrhenius was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation." By 1880, "it was known that solutions of certain compounds conduct electricity and that chemical reactions could occur when a current was passed. It was... Read More
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![Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/795/305/367305795.0.l.jpg)
Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East]
by Avorobeichic, Moshè; Ver, Moï
Zurich and Leipzig: Orell Fussli, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 65 images of the Jewish ghetto in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. With preface by poet Zalman Chneour in Hebrew and German. "In the same year that his Paris was published, Moï Ver - under his real name of Moshé Vorobeichic- produced Ein Ghetto im Osten (A Ghetto in the East). The book, with both Hebrew and German text, featured his photographic record... Read More
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An essay towards the calculus of functions
by Babbage, Charles
London: W. Bulmer & Co. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of Babbage's two most important contributions to mathematics, essentially founding the general theory of the calculus of functions. Babbage began work on the calculus of functions as early as 1809 and continued during his studies at Cambridge. In 1815, at just 23 years of age, Babbage published the results of his work in two long papers in the Philosophical Transactions. "Babbage believed that his... Read More
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A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from "Passages from the life of a philosopher.
by BABBAGE, CHARLES
London: John Murray, 1864. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN "PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER". "Lady Lovelace wrote that Babbage hated music. He tolerated its more exquisite forms, but abhorred it as practiced on the street. 'Those whose minds are entirely unoccupied,' he wrote with some seriousness in Observations of Street Nuisances in 1864, 'receive [street music] with satisfaction, as filling up the vacuum of... Read More
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Autographs of Baseball Players, Yankee Stadium 1931
by BABE RUTH; LOU GEHRIG; et al.
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York: np. first edition. card wrappers. SIGNED BY BABE RUTH, LOU GEHRIG, CHARLIE GEHRINGER, EARLE COMBS, TONY LAZZERI, JOE MCCARTHY, LEFTY GOMEZ, ET AL. Autograph book lovingly assembled by a young baseball fan in 1931 at Yankee Stadium, with over 40 autographs of players, including Ruth and Gehrig and eight other members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. –––––––––– Imagine being a kid in 1931 and you’re a baseball fan. This was during... Read More
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Journal des Dames et des Modes
by Barbier, George
1912. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES, WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 (each issue from the same set) of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of 1279). IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION. "The Journal des Dames et des Modes lasted only two years (the first issue appeared on 1 June 1912, and the last on 1... Read More
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Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors. Et al
by Bardeen, John; Brattain, Walter; Shockley, William
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 "Semiconductor Issue" dedicated entirely to the discuss of the transistor and semiconductor devices. The entire 1949 volume offered. "In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying... Read More
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Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of Jean-Michel Basquiat
by BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL; CORMAN, RICHARD
New York: np. first edition. Fine. LARGE, LIMITED VINTAGE SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH OF BASQUIAT FROM 1984. ONE OF ONLY THREE VINTAGE PRINTS PRODUCED OF AN ICONIC BASQUIAT PORTRAIT. Trained under Richard Avedon, the photographer Richard Corman has been one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the last thirty years. Rolling Stone refers to his photographs as "iconic" and documentarian Ken Burns says Corman's versatile body of work is an "artistic vision dedicated to the highest aspirations of... Read More
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Comédie et actes Divers
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. First French edition, SIGNED BY BECKETT on title page; one of only 112 copies printed on "bouffant select marques" and reserved for the publishers. A collection of six short plays, translated from English by Beckett. Includes: Comédie, Va et vient, Cascando, Paroles et musique, Dis Joe, Acte sans paroles II. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, (1966). Octavo, original printed wrappers; glassine. Unopened. A FINE COPY.... Read More
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Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière; Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière
by BECQUEREL, HENRI
Paris: IN: Mémoirs de L'Académie des Sciences de L'Institut de France, Typographie de Firmin-Didot, 1903. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Becquerel's "definitive work", containing the full account of his investigations and discovery of radioactivity. PMM 393. Dibner 163. "In 1896, [Bequerel's] previous work was overshadowed by his discovery of the phenomenon of natural radioactivity. Following a discussion with Henri Poincaré on the radiation which had recently been discovered by Röntgen (X-rays) and which was... Read More
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Disquisitio de Attractionibus Electivis [Dissertation of Elective Attractions]
by BERGMAN, TORBERN
Upsala, Sweden: Johan Edman. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bergman's study of chemical affinities, including a large fold-out table, "the finest achievement in the tradition of affinity tables," and a major predecessor of the periodic table. "Tobern Bergman published his table of chemical affinities and his accompanying 90-page Latin Dissertation of Elective Attractions in 1775, approximately three-quarters of a century before Dmitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer published their periodic tables... Read More
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Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40
by BERG, PAUL; JACKSON, DAVID A.; SYMONS, ROBERT H.
Washington, DC: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1972. FIRST EDITION. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of the landmark paper marking the birth of recombinant DNA technology. Paul Berg was awarded half of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA." "Technical advances have played an important role in the advance of genetic understanding. In 1970, American microbiologists Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel... Read More
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Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
by BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB
Boston, 1847. 1st Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. A visitor to Boston, Massachusetts would be well advised to take a stroll to the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital to see the amphitheater where surgery without pain began. On October 16, 1846, dentist William T.G. Morton publicly performed a painless surgery through the use... Read More
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Early Lightning Photograph (Massachusetts,1888)
by BINDEN, ALFRED H.
Wakefield, Massachusetts: np, 1888. First edition. Custom box. Very Good. ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING. This striking photograph by Alfred H. Binden (1837 England - 1892 United States) is among one of the earliest photographs of lightning. When Binden captured the image from his home in Wakefield, Massachusetts during a summer storm in 1888, he created a valuable tool for better understanding the natural phenomenon that was often referred to as "electric fluid" in that time.... Read More
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Commentaries on the Laws of England
by BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1769. First Edition. three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL FOUR VOLUMES OF THE BOOK THAT FIRST MADE LAW INTELLIGIBLE TO THE ORDINARY PERSON. HEAVILY INFLUENCED THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES. First edition set of all four volumes of Sir William Blackstone's classic Commentaries on the Laws of England, "the cornerstone of the legal edifice of the Anglo-American world." (Printing and the Mind of Man). Blackstone's... Read More
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Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water by the Method of Jet Vibration
by Bohr, Niels
London: The Royal Society, 1909. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY, of Bohr's first published scientific paper, written while he was a 20-year-old student at Copenhagen University. Inscribed by Bohr in Danish on front wrapper to Poul Heegaard, mathematician and professor at Copenhagen University. In original wrappers. In February 1905 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters announced a prize concerning Lord Rayleigh's 1879 theory that the surface tension of liquids could be... Read More
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Letter to the Editor of Nature (13 July, 1935); "Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?", in Physical Review (1935); "Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics", offprint from Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist (1949); "On Notions of Causality and Complementarity", offprint from Science (1950)
by BOHR, NIELS
1950. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. IMPORTANT PAPERS BY NIELS BOHR CONCERNING HIS DEBATES WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN OVER FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, at scientific conferences, in published papers and in informal discussions, two of the greatest physicists of their generation-Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr-argued about the emerging theory of quantum mechanics. Quantum theory had been phenomenally successful in explaining experimental results that had puzzled physicists for decades, and in accurately... Read More
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Om Atomernes Bygning [On the Structure of Atoms]
by BOHR, NIELS
Copenhagen: Jul. Gjellerup. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. Softcover, original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY NIELS BOHR, of Bohr's Nobel Prize lecture, delivered on the occasion of Bohr's acceptance of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. An association copy: Inscribed to J.A. Christiansen, noted scientist and student of Bohr. Inscribed in ink on the half-title by Bohr (in Danish): "Hr. Docent Dr. phil J.A. Christiansen med venlig Hilsen fra Forfatteren." [English translation: "Mr. Dr. Phil... Read More
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