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Kbhvn., 1912-13. Smal 8vo. Orig. omslag. Lille stødhul i omslaget. XXIV,254 pp. Rigt illustr., tekstillustr, plancher og kort.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842. Later full morocco, spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering, inner borders gilt, top edge gilt. First and last blank pages foxed. Binding signed H. Sotheran. XLVIII,320pp. With illustrations including the frontis/engraved title by "Henry Vizetelly."

Bruxelles, Haufz, 1906. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering. Orig. printed frontwrapper on upper board. Stamp on title-page. Ca. 400 pp.

(Helmstedt), Georg Wolfgang Hamml, 1700. Small 4to. No wrappers as issued. 20,(4) pp. and 1 engraved plate with 12 geometrical figs.

Kopenhagen, Prost, 1780. Small 8vo. Contemp. boards. Gilt spine. Nick to titlelabel. Stamp on title-page. (12),148 pp.

3 solide helfableabd. Med biblioteksetiketter påklistret nederste del af titelbladene. Forsatse med stempel. Indvendig ren og frisk. Illustr.

Paris, 1823. 2 very nice red uniform cont. full calf. Backs richly gilt, gilt framesinside which blindstamped frames on boards. All edges of boards with gilt borders. Occationally a bit brownspotted. Handwritten notes on blank leaves in back of vol. 1. From "Auctorum Latinorum Collectio." "excudebat Firminus Didot."

Paris, Maisonneuve et Cie, 1869. Small8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. Blindtooled. Light wear to spine ends. Stamps on title-page. (4),250 pp. + Publisher's cat. and announcements., 1 map.

Stockholm, Haegerström, 1817. Uden bind og omslag. (2),97,(1) pp. Spredte brunpletter. Gl. ejernavn på titelbladet. Svensk oversættelse af "Betrachtungen über den Animalischen Magnetismus".

Mainz, Philipp von Zabern, (1988). 4to. Orig. full cloth. 57 pp., textillustrations, 20 plates, 1 plan. (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen, Abth. Kairo, 63).

K., 1832. Samt.papbd. Ryg fornyet. XII,368 pp. Med 5 kobbertvl. og 1 stor kobberst.grundtegning.

Ldn., 1950. Orig.full cloth. XXX, 631, XXXII, 637 pp. Fold.map.

Berlin, Wilhelmi, 1882. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. IV,206 pp., 2 large folded lithographed plates.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1883. 3 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Papirsetiketter påsat ryggen. Stempler på titelbladet. XII, 402, 368, 329 pp. samt 6 foldekort. Indvendig ren og frisk.

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1867. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip partly gone. (4),58 pp. and 5 lithographed plates, one depicting 7 species of Cantharis handcoloured. Some brownspots to plates. This is the authors doctoral thesis "These de Pharmacie Presentée et soutenue a L'École Superieure de Pharmacie", dealing with the toxical, poisonous character of these kinds of beetles with the popular name of "Spanish Fly". - The Marquis de Sade is claimed to have given aniseed-flavored pastilles that were laced with Spanish fly to prostitutes at an orgy in 1772. He was sentenced to death for poisoning and sodomy, but later reprieved on appeal.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page and front free endpaper. VIII,160 pp. Internally clean.

Bergen, Giertsens Forlag, 1887. Lex8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. En papirsetiket nederst på ryg. Stempel på titelbladet. XXXII,504,(4) pp. samt 1 foldekort. Indvendig ren og frisk.

London, Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1925. Orig. full cloth. Gilt spine. Portrait frontispiece., engraved. XV,445 pp., textillustr. and plates.

New Haven, Hezekiah Howe & Co., 1835. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. In: "The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman". Vol. XXVII. (Entire volume offered). VIII,424 pp,. a. 3 engraved plates. Plates a bit brownspotted. Dana's paper: pp. 281-88. First appearance of Dana's first paper."Dana served as an instructor on a U.S. Navy vessel that sailed to the Mediterranean, where he saw Vesuvius in eruption and pursued entomological studies. His account of the eruption in a letter, published by Silliman in the Journal, was Dana’s first scientific paper. In 1834, Dana returned to Yale, where he developed a new mineral classification based on chemistry and crystallography and using Silliman’s cabinet of minerals and his own." (DSB).The volume contains another notable paper by GIDEON MANTELL "Notice of the discovery of the remains of the Iguanodon in the Lower Green Sand Formation of the South-east of England. Communcated for this Journal. Pp. 355-360, textillustrations in woodcut.

Berlin, G.C. Nauck, 1819. Lex8vo. 2 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Few scratches on backs. (4),1144;1206,46 pp.

London, Chatto and Windus, 1884. 4to. Orig. full cloth with printed titlelabel on back. XLVIII,378 pp. Large papercopy limited to 50, this without numbering.

Leipzig, Jacobären, 1762. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Wear to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. 278 pp., 1 folded engraved map. A small hole in the map.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1800. Et samtidigt beskedent hldrbd. (6),436;(4),426 pp. Originaludgaven.

Kbhvn., 1845. 4to. Uden omslag. XIV,88 pp. samt 2 litograferede foldetavler. Nogle brunpletter, særligt forrest og bagerst. Originaludgaven. Udgivet i Anledning af Chr. VIII's Fødseldagsfest paa Soröe Academie).

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1883. Vol. 174 - Part II. Pp. 707-721, textillustrations. Clean and fine. First appearance (together with the 2 pp. extract in "Proceedings") of Thomsons first paper on the electrostatic unit of electricity."In 1884 Lord Rayleigh,....resigned the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics. Thomson had by then completed a few imperfect bits of laboratory work, including a determination, at Rayleigh's suggestion, of the ratio of the electrostatic to the electromagnetic units of electricity (the paper offered). Rayleigh had intended to collaborate in this work which, apart from its imperfection, was typical of the Cavendish during this area; but Thomson, unaware of many of the pitfalls, ran away with the project, published hastily, and gave his collegues, including the Professor, to doubt that he had any future in experimental physics. With these credits and his mathematics, he competed for the chair; much to his surprise, and to the great annoyance of some of his competitors, who included Fitzgerald, Glazenbrook, Larmor, reynolds, and Schuster, he was elected."(DSB XIII, p. 365).