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Sablier Couché (The Reclining Hourglass)
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Sablier Couché (The Reclining Hourglass)

by PAALEN, ALICE; MIRÓ, JOAN; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; MATHIEU, MONIQUE

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Paris: Éditions Sagesse, 1938. Limited edition. Deluxe artist's binding. Fine. MARCEL DUCHAMP'S COPY, WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HIM BY ALICE PAALEN. ALSO WITH ORIGINAL FRONTISPIECE ETCHING SIGNED BY JOAN MIRÓ. BOUND BY LEGENDARY FRENCH BOOKBINDER MONIQUE MATHIEU. Signed limited edition, number 23 of only 75 copies, signed by Paalen on the limitation page (in addition to the signed inscription). On Alice Paalen: In a poem dedicated to her lover Pablo Picasso, the poet and visual artist Alice Paalen wrote, "I've been living in a map on the wall. I think I am at the crossroads of the wind. I converse with it." Bicultural, bisexual, and wildly independent, she was referred to as a shapeshifter who defied categorization. Born Alice Marie Yvonne Philppot in 1904 in eastern France, she moved to Paris with her family in 1920 and delighted in the bohemian scene. By 1934 she had married Austrian artist Wolfgang Paalen and been introduced to Paul Éluard, André Breton, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. In 1935… Read More
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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des...
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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861)

by PASTEUR, LOUIS

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Paris: Ch. Lahure et Cie, 1862. first edition offprint. original wrappers. Very Good. PRESENTATION AND ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RARE AUTHOR'S OFFPRINT OF PASTEUR'S FAMOUS LECTURE DISCREDITING THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH NOTES TO FELLOW SCIENTIST JOHN TYNDALL. Spontaneous generation - the theory that living organisms are routinely created from inanimate matter - goes back to ancient times. Although the theory had been cast into doubt by the observations and experimental work of Redi, Spallanzani, and others in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it proved remarkably hard to kill, and still had many distinguished adherents in the early nineteenth century. In part its persistence was due to the rise of microscopy, which had revealed a host of previously unknown organisms, with no apparent origin, in soil, pond water, and other natural environments. Where had these organisms come from, if they had not been spontaneously generated? In part it was due to bona fide… Read More
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Ãœber das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik [On the Hydrogen Spectrum...
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Ãœber das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik [On the Hydrogen Spectrum from the Standpoint of the new Quantum Mechanics]

by PAULI, WOLFGANG

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Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Pauli's influential paper demonstrating the superiority and validity of the new quantum mechanics. Following the development of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan, "the first nontrivial and physically important application of quantum mechanics was made soon afterwards by Wolfgang Pauli [On the Hydrogen Spectrum from the Standpoint of the new Quantum Mechanics], who calculated the stationary energy values of the hydrogen atom by the matrix method and found complete agreement with Bohr's 1913 formulas. From this moment, there was no longer any doubt about the correctness of the theory among physicists" (Max Born, Physics in My Generation). IN: Zeitschrift für Physik, Band 36, Heft 5, pp. 336-363. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. Octavo, original wrappers; custom box. A few smudges to wrappers, otherwise fine. Rare in wrappers and without any institutional stamps.
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[PROTEIN STRUCTURE]. The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the...
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London: various, 1951. First editions. original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES (INCLUDING ONE SIGNED COPY AND ONE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), OF MILESTONE PAPERS ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PROTEINS, WORK FOR WHICH PAULING, KENDREW, AND PERUTZ ALL WON NOBEL PRIZES. Proteins - the "building blocks of life" - are themselves made up of building blocks known as amino acids. There are about twenty types of amino acid molecules commonly found in biological organisms, and each is chemically equipped to connect to two other amino acids through a linkage known as a peptide bond, enabling any number of amino acids to form a chain that constitutes the backbone of a protein molecule. (The specific linear sequence of amino acids that make up a particular protein's backbone is referred to as the protein's "primary structure.") Each of the 20-odd amino acids also has its own characteristic "side-chain." The interaction of these side chains with each other and with their… Read More
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease. WITH: A Specific Chemical Difference Between the Globins...
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease. WITH: A Specific Chemical Difference Between the Globins of Normal Human and Sickle-Cell Anæmia Hæmoglobin

by PAULING, LINUS; ITANO, HARVEY A.; SINGER, S.J.; WELLS, IBERT C.; INGRAM, VERNON N.

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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1949. First edition. Original Wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA. Determining the extent to which biological traits (including susceptibility to certain diseases) are linked to genetic factors presents difficult, often intractable, analytical problems. Multiple genetic factors may interact in complex ways with each other and with environmental factors in shaping a single characteristic or trait of an organism; conversely, a single genetic change can have cascading effects on a broad range of traits. In some cases, however, specific genetic abnormalities can be linked in a clean, direct, and simple manner to specific diseases. An example of this is provided by the research described in the papers offered here, which firmly established the genetic and biological underpinning of sickle-cell anemia. Biologist Graham… Read More
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Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita
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Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita

by PEANO, GUISEPPE

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Turin: Bocca Brothers, 1889. First edition. original wrappers. Fine. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF PEANO'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK, CONTAINING THE "PEANO AXIOMS" FOR THE NATURAL NUMBERS; OF SEMINAL IMPORTANCE IN MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. "Peano's most important contribution to the development of the theory and practice of the axiomatic method was his system of axioms for the arithmetic of the natural numbers... On the basis of his axiomatization, Peano constructed the entire theory of natural numbers. In particular, he showed how the elementary theorems of arithmetic can be obtained from his axioms" (Styazhkin, History of Mathematical Logic from Leibniz to Peano, 1969, pp. 278-9). With "the publication of Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita, Peano not only improved his logical symbolism but also used his new method to achieve important new results in mathematics; this short booklet contains Peano's first statement of his famous postulates for the natural… Read More
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On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated...

On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is such that it Can Reasonably Be Supposed to have Arisen from Random Sampling

by Pearson, Karl

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London: Taylor & Francis. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important papers in the history of statistics, introducing the 'chi-squared' test of goodness of fit, "one of the most useful of all statistical tests" and "one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology" (DSB). "Specification or stochastic modeling of data is an important step in statistical analysis of data. Karl Pearson was the first to recognize this problem and introduce criterion, in a paper published in 1900, to examine whether the observed data support a given specification. He called it chi-squared goodness-of-fit test, which motivated research in testing of hypotheses and estimation of unknown parameters and led to the development of statistics as a separate discipline... In an article entitled "Trial by Number", [Ian] Hacking says that the goodness of fit chi-square test introduced by Karl Pearson (1900) 'ushered in a… Read More
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Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des...
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Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des Artistes de M. Serge de Diaghilew. Mai 1917. [Programme des Ballets Russes]

by PICASSO, PABLO; APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME; SATIE, ERIK; et al. [BALLET RUSSES]

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Paris: Théatre du Chatelet; Maurice de Brunoff, ed, 1917. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. A BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL ARTIFACT BRINGING TOGETHER THE GREAT NAMES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE: THE PROGRAM FOR THE MAY 1917 SEASON OF DIAGHILEV'S "BALLET RUSSES" - A SEASON THAT INCLUDED THE PREMIERE OF THE BALLET "PARADE" (SCENARIO BY JEAN COCTEAU; CHOREOGRAPHY BY LÉONIDE MASSINE; SCORE BY ERIK SATIE) - WITH MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PICASSO'S COSTUME DESIGNS AFTER PICASSO'S OWN WATER-COLORS, AND PROGRAM NOTES BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE THAT MARK THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WORD "SURREALISM". In Woody Allen's fantasy-comedy "Midnight in Paris," an unhappy screenwriter visiting France in 2010 finds that every night at midnight, he is transported back in time from his hotel room to the Paris of the 1920s (and is returned to his present-day purgatory, like the ghost of King Hamlet, at cock's-crow). During his nocturnal visits to the 1920s, he meets Cole Porter, Scott and… Read More
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Photograph: Self-portrait with Picasso, 1965
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Photograph: Self-portrait with Picasso, 1965

by PICASSO, PABLO; BEATON, CECIL

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France: np, 1965. First edition. Very Good. Cecil Beaton. INSCRIBED BY PICASSO IN RED AND BLUE CRAYON TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER, CECIL BEATON: "pour Cecil Beaton. Ami Picasso 9.6.65.". Cecil Beaton (British, 1904 -1980) photographed virtually every prominent person in public life over the course of his career, which spanned more than half a century. Everyone from the Queen to the Rolling Stones sat before his lens. As an arbiter of glamor, the opportunity to sit for Beaton represented the pinnacle of success for many, but in some cases it was Beaton who pursued the sitter, and he had followed Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) long before they first met. As one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, Picasso was sought after by many who wanted to rub elbows with success. He became one of those whom Beaton photographed several times over a period of many years, first at the rue de la Boetie in Paris in 1933, then at the rue Augustins in 1944, and finally at Mougin in the south of France in… Read More
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Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum [On the Theory of the Law of...
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Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum" [On the Theory of the Law of Energy Distribution in Normal Spectrum] (1900)

by PLANCK, MAX

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Leipzig: Johann Abrosius Barth, 1900. First edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL EXPRESSION OF PLANCK'S QUANTUM THEORY; THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN PHYSICS. THE HORBLIT COPY. "The essence of Planck's idea, mathematical only to begin with, was that electromagnetic radiation was not continuous, as people thought, but could only be emitted in packets of definite size. Newton had said that energy was emitted continuously, but Planck was contradicting him. It was, he said, as if a hosepipe could spurt water only in 'packets' of liquid... By 14 December that year, when Planck addressed the Berlin Physics Society, he had worked out his full theory. Part of this was the calculation of the dimensions of this small packet of energy, which Planck called h and which later became known as Planck's constant... Planck had identified this very small packet as a basic indivisible building block of the universe, an 'atom' of radiation, which he called a 'quantum.'… Read More
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations

by Pope, Alexander

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London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1712. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, containing the FIRST APPEARANCE of Pope's The Rape of the Lock. "The earliest version of Pope's mock heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, composed in a fortnight during summer 1711, had for nine months been anonymously printed in Bernard Lintot's Miscellany. The masterpiece of Pope's earlier period, The Rape of the Lock (1712, 1714) had its origin in a quarrel between two Catholic families, apparently over the provocative cutting off of a lock of hair by Lord Petre from the head of Arabella Fermor... "The poem... is far from being a mere social satire in which a trivial quarrel is mocked by being presented in epic terms. Indeed, by the time the poem has been thoughtfully read it is not really clear that the quarrel is trivial. The 'Heroi-Comical' in Pope's hands is a volatile mixture: some of its comedy rebounds on the epic conventions that are primarily deployed to mock the foolish and vain. In the shining… Read More
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Logik der Forschung [The Logic of Scientific Discovery]
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Logik der Forschung [The Logic of Scientific Discovery]

by POPPER, KARL

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Vienna: Julius Springer, 1935. First edition. Original printed wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF POPPER'S LANDMARK IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. A seminal work in the philosophy of science, Karl Popper's 1935 Logik der Forschung [Logic for Scientific Discovery] proposes the idea that scientific theories can never be verified, only falsified. Popper, in this his first monograph, critiques the inductivist view of scientific method in favour of his empirical falsification, and argues that scientific discovery is not a matter of induction or confirmation but rather a matter of conjecture and refutation. POPPER, KARL. Logik der Forschung zur Erkenntnistheorie der Modernen Naturwissenschaft. Vienna: Julius Springer, 1935. First edition, issued as volume 9 of Schriften zur Wissenschaftlich Weltauffassung. Octavo (5.5 x 8.5 in; 140 x 216 mm), vi, 248, [2, publisher advertisements] pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly rubbed with some mild wear around edges, separation between some of the… Read More
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Spiritual America

Spiritual America

by Prince, Richard

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Valencia Spain & New York: Aperture/A New Images Book & IVAM/Col.lecció Centre del Carme, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of Prince's most influential books, published in conjunction with the artist's landmark 1989 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain. Illustrated with over 200 color images and with a preface by Corinne Diserens & Vincent Todoli and an 'interview' with Richard Prince and the author J.G. Ballard. (Valencia, Spain/New York): Aperture/A New Images Book & IVAM/Col.lecció Centre del Carme, (1989). Quarto (286x195mm), original photo-pictorial wrappers. A fine copy.
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Inside World
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Inside World

by PRINCE, RICHARD

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New York: Thea Westreich, 1989. First edition. Cloth, slipcase. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 217 of only 250 copies, SIGNED BY PRINCE AND WITH ACCOMPANYING HANDWRITTEN JOKE, ALSO SIGNED. An exhibition catalogue/artist's book published on the occasion of a 1989 Kent Gallery show, co-curated by Richard Prince and Thea Westreich. Including images by Prince interspersed with those of Richard Artschwager, Troy Brauntuch, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Man Ray, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol; each copy with its own personalized joke penned by Prince. Signed by Prince on the limitation page with accompanying handwritten joke, also signed, reading: "With all I've heard about A-bombs that'll destroy a city and H-bombs that'll destroy a state and chain reactions that'll destroy the world - you know I just don't have the incentive to buy a two pants suit." New York: Thea Westreich, 1989. Number 217 or 250 copies. Octavo (12 5/8" x 8 3/4"), original red cloth, original… Read More
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Dilo Marcela Prousta. Hledani Ztraceneho Casu [A la recherche du temps perdu / Remembrance of...
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Dilo Marcela Prousta. Hledani Ztraceneho Casu [A la recherche du temps perdu / Remembrance of Things Past]

by PROUST, MARCEL; TEIGE, KAREL

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Prague [Praha]: Odeon. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. The Czech translation of Proust's masterpiece, complete in original wrappers, with book design by Karel Teige. With simple designs, distinctive topography and titles printed in red and black, Teige's edition of Proust is a quintessential example of his work and a classic representation of the Czech avant-garde. Praha [Prague]: Odeon, 1927-1930. Complete in 15 volumes with the supplement (Benjamin Cremieux, Marcel Proust, 1928). Octavo, original wrappers in various colors. Owner signatures. General minor wear to wrappers, fading to spines. First title page neatly detached. A monument of book design; rare in original wrappers.
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