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Leipzig und Heidelberg, 1856. Bound in 4 cont. hcalf with gilt backs. Stamp on titles. Engraved portrait. X,611;917;IV,617 pp., 1 lithographed map, 1 engraved plate, and a few textillustr. A few brownspots.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, renger, 1755. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Light wear to bottom of spine. Paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Engraved frontispiece. (20) pp. and ca. 400 tables and 1 engraved plates. Poggendorff II:1355 (other editions).

No Place, Antonio Rossi, 1864. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel wih gilt lettering. XIV,463,(3) pp.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1820. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine somewhat worn and spine-ends taped. Stamps on title-page. XX,642,(2) pp. and 20 folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots.

Leipzig, Barth, 1924. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vol. 73, 1924. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, small stamp to first page of contents. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 272-288. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.]. First appearance of Planck's paper on the Nature of thermal radiation.

(København, 1833). 4to og folio. Indbundet i 2 ensartede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte skindtitler på rygge. En papirsetiket påsat øverst på ryggene. XI,412 pp. samt 29 dobbeltsidede litograferede plancher.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1760. 8vo. Samtidigt halvlæderbind over træpermer. Tre ophøjede bind på ryg. Øvre kapitæl bortslidt. Rifter i overtrækspapiret og slid ved kanter af permer. Adskillige tilskrifter og ejernavne på forsats og titelblad. Blad B3 (pp. 21-22) udrevet, men indlagt i nyere faksimile. Spredte brunpletter. 184 p. Originaludgaven af Høegh-Guldbergs "omvendelsesskrift".

London, T. Deighton, 1792. Large8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Wear to top of spine. Richly gilt spine. A bit rubbed. XX,(8),401 pp. Some leaves at end with browning to top margin.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part II. Pp. 487-507. First appearance of a classic paper on Iodine. Iodine was discovered in 1811 by the French chemist Curtois and the proof of its elementary nature was given independently by Davy and Gay-Lussac.In the offered paper Davy "describes Iodine monochloride (chlorionic acid), composed of 'one portion of iodine, and one of chlorine', and bright yellow trichloride...Davy also rediscovered phosphonium iodide as a sublimate of white cubic crystals by the action of iodine on phosphorus in presence of a little water, but thought they were a compound of hydroidic acid and phosphorus...(Partington IV, p. 89).

Kbhvn., 1916. Lex8vo. Orig. helshirt med guldtryk på forperm. 62,157,373 pp., kort, tabeller og bilag. Frisk eksemplar.

Leipzig, Wien, Zürich, Intern. Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. Orig. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 131,(1) pp. Cleand fine. First edition.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1843. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 3e Series, tome 7, Janvier-issue. (Entire issue offered). With titlepage to volume 7. Pp. 1-128. Wurtz's paper: pp. 35-50. First printing of one of Wurtz's earliest, and among the most importent, papers. At Giessen, Wurtz began his research with a study of hypophosphorous acid in an attempt to decide between the conflicting formulas of Dulong and Rose.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library stamp to front free end paper and titel page. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", bd. 19. Fine and clean. Pp. 301-6. [Entire volume: IV, 415 pp.]. First edition.Weil 138; Schilpp-Shields 178.The volume also contains:Meitner, Lise. Ueber eine mögliche Deutung des kontinuierlichen beta-Strahlenspektrums. Pp. 307-321.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1902. 8vo. Indbundet i det originale, olivengrønne komponerede helshirtbind med forgyldt rygtitel og guldtryk på forperm. En smule slid ved kapitæler, false og hjørner. Bogblok en smule skæv. Exlibris indklæbet på indersiden af forperm. Ren og pæn indvendig. Nydeligt eksemplar af originaludgaven i det særdeles ualmindelige originalbind. Houmøller XXIII.

Paris, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1881. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of title-page, and one on verso of the plates. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Cinquiéme Series - Tome XXIV. 576 pp. + 2 folded plates. Langley's paper: pp. 275-284, textillustrations. First French edition of the paper in which Langley describes the function of his invention of the bolometer for measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. A bolometer is a device for measuring the power of incident electromagnetic radiation via the heating of a material with a temperature-dependent electrical resistance."Correctly recognizing the need for measurements of the energy of radiation as a function of wavelenght, Langley developed a new instrument "the bolometer" between 1879 and 1881 to do this......The superior measurements by means of the bolometer, the newly discovered extent of the solar spectrum, and the new results for selective absorption of the earth’s atmosphere were significant contributions to the study of the sun and its effects on the earth."(DSB).Langley was awarded the Nobe l in physics in 1908.The volume conatins also Gabriel Lippmann (Nobel Prize 1908) "Princiope de la Coservation de L'électricité", pp. 145-178 and Crooke's famous paper (in French) "Sur la viscosité des Gaz trés raréfies", pp. 476-547 with 1 plate.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1876). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1875 - Part II. Pp. 675-774. Clean and fine. First printing of Cayley's importent paper on multiple integrals in which he gives the formula for the potential of certain heterogenous ellipsoids. Clifford called it "a contribution of great value to the most importent branch of mathematical physics."

Basel, Boston, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1982. Small 4to. Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. 403 pp.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XLVII,216 pp. and 9 folded engraved plates. A small wormtract in margin of the first few leaves. Internally clean and fine.

Geneve, Paris, Paschoud, 1818. Later hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. XVI,303 pp. and 1 folded map. First quire browned, otherwise clean and fine printed on good paper.

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, 1863. 8vo a.4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on froncover on Atlas. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. XV,351 pp. and Atlas with 15 (of 16) plates and 1 map. Scattered brownspots to textvolume.

Wien, Anton Strauss, 1814-19. 3 contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped to upper spines. Stamps on title-pages. VIII,189,(4);(8),320;(4),357 pp. Without Atlas.

Paris, Magimel, 1817. Contemp. hcalf. Spine richly gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepage. (4),124 pp. and 1 large folded engraved plate. Some brownspots to the first and last leaves.

Paris, Hermann & Cie, 1953-55. Bound in one contemp. full cloth. 123,(10);(2),191;39 pp., tables and 1 plate. Clean and fine. First edition. Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielle 1189, 1229 and 1230.

Magdeburg, Ferdinand Rubach, 1834. Small8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on titlepage. IV,(2),492 pp., 2 folded tables and 1 folded engraved plate.

Stockholm, Joh. Beckman, 1852. Samtidigt hldrbd. Med rygforgyldning. Ryg ganske let slidt. IV,131 pp. 2 blade med brunplet hjørner, ellers helt ren og frisk. Huss gennemgår landsdel for landsdel og beskriver disses karakteristiske sygdomme, fra Lappmarken til Gotland. Huss som var pioneer indenfor beskrivelsen af alkoholens skadelige virkninger, afslutter nærværende værk med et kapitel om "Bränsvinsbegäret och bränvinssuperiet", hvor han skildrer brændevinsdrikkeriet som en folkesygdom, pp. 111-131. - Waller: 5017. - Ars Medica Svecana pp. 156-57.