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(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1839 - Part I. Pp. 89-95. Clean and fine. First printing of an importent paper in which Daniell further records his experiments with his invention the "Daniell Cell" from 1836. "The use of such cells, often coupled together in long chains to give a large electromotive force, gave great impetus to research in all branches of current electricity and also lead to commercial applications in gilding, electroplating, and glyphography."(DSB III, p. 557)In 1831 Daniell was appointed proffesor of Chemistry at King's College London. He invented several scientific instruments, including a hygrometer for measuring humidity he is best known for his work in electrochemistry, his interests having been aroused by the work of his good friend faraday. Volta's battery had the defect of rapid diminution in current. What was needed, however, was a battery yielding a constant current over a considerable lenght of time. In 1836 Daniell succeeded, producing the Daniell cell, of copper and zinc. his was the first reliable source of electric current.

Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes. 1802. 8vo. Bound in a slightly worn marbled full calf. Gilt spine. Gilt title label. Loss to title label. Loss to upper capital. Gilt line borders to boards. Corners bumped. Damp stains to the first leaves. Some brownspotting. With 16 engraved plates. This copy belonged to the danish writer Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen, and has his bookplate pasted to inner front board.

Flensburg, Schleswig und Leipzig, Kortenschen Buchhandlung, 1790. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. XVI,(4),308 pp., 1 engraved plate. Right margin of title-page stained.

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1851. Contemp. hcalf. Bound with the orig. wood-engraved frontwrapper. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Light marginal toning. First edition.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1901. 8vo. No wrappers. In: "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. 54. Band. 1. Heft." Entire issue offered with titlepage to vol. 54. IV,124 pp. Minkowski's paper: pp. 91-124. First printing of one of Minkowski's importent papers on the geometrical theory of numbers."Minkowski was always interested in mathematical physics but did not work in that field until the last years of his life, when he participated in the movement of ideas that led to the theory of relativity. He was the first to conceive that the relativity principle formulated by Lorentz and Einstein led to the abandonment of the concept of space and time as separate entities and to their replacement by a fourdimensional “space-time,” of which he gave a precise definition and initiated the mathematical study; it became the frame of all later developments of the theory and led Einstein to his bolder conception of generalized relativity."(DSB).Also with PAUL STÄCKEL "Friedrich Ludwig Wachter, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der nichteuklidischen Geometrie", pp. 40-90.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1767). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres". Tome XVI, pp. 1-44 and 2 folded engraved plates. First edition. - Poggendorff II: p. 583.

(Menasha, George Banta Publishing, 1929-1930.). Royal8vo. 2 volumes both in the original orange printed wrappers. In "Reviews of Modern Physics", Volume 1, October, Number 2 & Volume 2, January, Number 1. Entire issues offered. Previous owner's name to top of both front wrappers. The 1929-issue with soiling to wrappers and a stain to front wrapper affecting first four leaves. Two small stains on top of wrappers on the 1930-issues. Otherwise fine. Pp. 157-215; Pp. 1-58. [Entire volumes: Pp. 157-240; 121 pp.]. First printing of Edwin's two-paper series constituting the first review-paper on Quantum Mechanics: "In 1929 Kemble would publish the first review article on quantum mechanics for Reviews of Modern Physics". (Pais, Inward bound).

Carlsruhe und Leipzig, Creuzbauer, ca. 1850 Orig. printed wrappers, worn and loose. With 58 steel engravings (of 100), most with brownspots. Text incomplete.

Paris, Dumaine, 1854. Royal 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering. Stamp on foot of title-page. XII,423 pp., 11 handcoloured plates with tissue-quards. Internally clean.

Münchu. Wiesb., 1920. Lex8vo. Orig.frontwr. VI, 244 pp. First edition.

(Paris), 1704. 8vo. In coloured paper wrapper over leather backstrip. Ex-libris (Juel to Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to verso of front wrapper. Wear to extrmeities, internally nice and clean. (8), 150, (2) pp.

Kjöbenhavn, Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1861 & 1869 8vo. Bound with the original printed front wrappers in a nice recent half calf. With author's presentation to front wrapper: "Høivelbaarne / Hr. Conferentsraad David / F. Didrichsen (i.e. English: "To the Right Honourable Mr. Privy Councellor / F. Didrichsen"). Wrappers with light wear and two stamps. Otherwise nice and clean. 40, 49-102 pp. Presentation copy of Didrichsen's critical commentary on Linné. Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen was a Danish botanist and physicist. He participated as botanist in the first Galathea Expedition. In 1851, he began work as a librarian at the botanical gardens in Copenhagen. From 1856 to 1875 he was an associate professor of botany.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1906. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 143, No 26.. Pp. (1110-) 1208. (Entire issue offered). Painlevé's paper: pp. 1111-1117. Frayed in inner margins, poor paperquality. First apperance of the paper in which Pailevé introduced the transcendents which bears his name."The phenomenon of movable singular points was discovered by Fuchs. The study of movable singular points and of nonlinear second orderr equations with and without such singular points was taken up by many men, notably by Paul Painlevé." (Morris Kline "Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times", p. 737).

Leipzig, Dykischen Buchhandlung, 1798. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. VI,238 pp., 3 engraved plates. The first few leaves brownspotted.

Berlin, Reimer, 1832-37. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on first title-page. 12;24;23 pp., 1 lithographed plate.

(Chicago), Field Museum of Natural History, (1939-46). Bound in 2 solid full fabrikoid. 937,528 pp. Clean and fine. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological Series vol. 25, 1-3).

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1711". Pp. 109-136 and 2 large folded engraved plates. First printing of a classic paper on the various kinds of attachments by marine invertebrates."Réamur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared him favorably with Darwin."(DSB XI, p. 331).

Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1915. Large 4to. Uncut with orig. prited wrappers. (2),139 pp. Offprint from "Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien Handlingar.", Bd. 55. No 1. First printing (in the offprint form) of a major work in geometrical optics by Gullstrand.

Lund, 1832. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning, men ryg slidt og lang revne i forreste fals. Kobberstukket titelblad med vignet, som viser kanonskuddets parabel. VIII,228 pp. 3 kobberstukne plancher, den ene adskilt i to. Gennemstukket med hvide blade, hvorpå talrige tilføjelser i gl. hånd, ligeledes en del løst indlagte blade med formler og beregninger. Tekstblade rene. Hill var professor i matematik og rektor ved Lunds Universitet.

Berlin, Matzdorff, 1791. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. 402 pp., 3 folded engraved plates. Contains extensive commentaries to the first 6 Books.

Berlin, Mittler und Sohn, 1872-73. 2 contemp. hcloth. paperlabels pasted on spines. Gilt lettering. Stamps on titlepages. 255,24,(4),344 pp. and map-vol. with 11 large folde maps and plans.

Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1843. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. (4),467 pp.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1959. 8vo. Original full green cloth. Volume XXXVIII, 1959-2 of The Bell System Technical Journal. Library stamp to front free end-paper and title page. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 985-999. [Entire volume: (1), pp. 910-1603]. First edition of the Lee's important paper on binary decision diagrams, a data structure that is used to represent a Boolean function. The idea was developed by Claude Shannon. The switching function is split into two sub-functions by assigning one variable. If a sub-function is considered as a sub-tree, it can be represented by a binary decision tree. Binary decision diagrams were introduced by Lee in the present paper.

Leipzig, O.R. Reisland, 1890. Contemp. hcloth. Covers with orig. printed wrappers pasted on. (6),148 pp. On frontcover "Herrn Direktor A. Wildhagen mit freunds haftlichen Grüsse, Der verfasser." First edition.

Paris, Flammarion, 1892. Royal8vo. Orig. full pictorial cloth. A small paperlabel pasted on back. XIV,(1),425 pp. and 35 plates. A few pencil underlinings.