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Small 4to. Bound with orig. frontwrapper in cont. hcloth. No XXVIII of 50 "sur japon imperial", a total of 1.000 copies. This copy with an extra suite of the original woodcuts by Albe.

(København, uden år, 1778). Indbundet med de originale blå blanke omslag i et smukt nyere halvbind af gedeskind. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel. 110 pp. Lettere brunplettet, et læg med skjold. Selvstændigt pagineret særtryk fra "Nye originale Skuespil", bd. 2. Halvorsen I, p. 479.

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1790. Unbound, but stitched. In "Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet.", Bd. 1:Theil 4. Pp (359-)400. A few brownspots, otherwise clean. First German edition. Originally published in English in "Philosophical Transactions".

København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1964. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Matematisk-fysisk Skfirter" udgivet af "Det Kongelig Danske Videnskabernes Selskab", Bind 2, 8. Very fine and clean. 60 pp. Offprint of Winter's extensive paper on the quantum mechanical aspects of the Green function.

London, Royal Society of London, 1782. 4to. In recent marbled wrappers. In "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXII (72) for the Year 1782, Part I". A few leaves reinforced in margin, otherwise fine and clean. VII, (1), 237-280. First edition of Volta's peper in which he announced the invention of the "condensatore" for measuring small amounts of atmospheric electricity, otherwise too weak for detection.

Gicjne, Kastranka, 1839. 8vo. Fine full morocco, gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. All edges gilt. Kept in a protective slipcase. XVI,388 pp. First translation into Czech of a work by Richard Baxter (1615-1691), "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". (Dean Stanley).

Franckfurth am Mayn, J.C. Gebhard, 1766. Cont. hcalf. Back a little rubbed, small tear in top of spine. Engr. titlevign. (8),376,(4) pp.

Oslo, Gyldendal, 1965. Lille folio. I det originale halvlæder bind med smudsomlslag indeholdt i kasette. Et pænt og rent eksemplar. Nr. 140 ud af 250. 158, (1) pp. Bibliofiludgaven, Nr. 140 ud af 250.

Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Some small nicks to edges of wrappers. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system). First edition of Rydberg's important revison of the periodic system. "Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern." (DSB).

Kjøbenhavn, 1821 & 1837. 8vo. Two volumes, uncut unopened, uniformly bound in contemporary (original?) marbled boards with paper title-labels to spines. Spines split. Internally with occassional brownpostting. XII, 1042 pp. (4), 990 pp. + 2 engraved plates. . Third expanded edition of Hornemann’s pioneering treatise on Danish economic botany—the earliest systematic attempt to classify native Danish plants based on their practical use in agriculture, horticulture, and industry. Issued as the result of a prize essay competition held by the newly founded Naturhistorieselskab (Natural History Society), the work marked a turning point in the practical application of botanical knowledge in Denmark. Jens Wilken Hornemann (1770–1841) later became one of Denmark’s most influential botanists. Trained under Martin Vahl at the University of Copenhagen and the Naturhistorieselskab he was appointed lecturer at the Botanical Garden in 1801, and succeeded Vahl as editor of Flora Danica in 1804. Hornemann's Plantelære remained the principal Danish handbook of economic botany until Johan Lange’s mid-century publications. As such, it played a foundational role in the systematization and dissemination of applied botanical knowledge in Denmark during the Enlightenment and early 19th century.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1841. 4to. No wrappers. In "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 16, No 4. Pp. (151-) 214. (Entire issue offered). Matteucci's paper: pp. 197-200. Some faint brownspots. First appearance of a classic paper in electrophysiology in which Matteucci's "rheoscopic frog-effect" is described for the first time."Matteucci began in 1830 a series of experiments which he pursued until his death in 1865. Using a sensitive galvanometer of Leopoldo Nobili, he was able to prove that injured excitable biological tissues generated direct electrical currents, and that they could be summed up by adding elements in series, like in Alessandro Volta’s (1745-1827) electric pile. Thus, Mateucci was able to develop what he called a "rheoscopic frog", by using the cut nerve of a frog’s leg and its attached muscle as a kind of sensitive electricity detector. His work in bioelectricity influenced directly the research developed by Emil du Bois-Reymond..." (Wikipedia).Garrison & Morton No 608.

Stockholm, Samson & Wallin, 1853 & 1854. 8vo. Three volumes, all uncut in the original printed wrappers. Front wrappers with library stamp. Wrappers with nicks and a few tears. Bookblocks split. internally with light occassional brownspotting. XII, 232 pp; VI, 262 pp.; VIII, 388 pp. + 1 folded map. Housed in a slipcase. First edition, rare in the original wrappers, of the description of the first Swedish warship to circumnavigate the globe, on a voyage intended to promote Swedish trade.

Paris, Pierre Didot, An XI (1803). Small 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemporary full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. 230,223 pp.

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1879. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. In: "Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften", 78. Band, 3. Heft - October. (Jahrgang 1878). Pp. (587-) 895. Boltzmann's paper: pp. 733-763. First apppearance of one of Boltzmann's importent papers on statistical mechanics and the second thermodynamic law."Boltzmann's work on the kinetic theory of gases was done independently of Maxwell and they share the credit. Boltzmann increased the rigor of the mathematical treatment and emphasized the statistical interpretation of the second law." (Asimov).

Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer, 1953. Orig. cloth in d/w, corners slightly nicked. First edition.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1965. 8vo. Volume XLIV, Number 5, May-June 1965 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. With previous owner's name stamped to front wrapper. Sunning to spine and margins of front wrapper. An overall nice and clean copy. Pp. 871-898. [Entire volume: Pp. 731-935 + one folded diagram]. First publication of Sandberg's first paper on the properties of solutions of nonlinear functional equations in physical systems."With a few exceptions, however, the users of linear theory, when faced with the presence of a nonlinear element, were forced either to fall back on the classical technique of analyzing the stability of system only under small perturbations, or else to treat the nonlinearity itself as a small perturbation. In a SEMINAL SEQUENCE OF PAPERS beginning in 1963 [the present paper being the first publication], I. W. Sandberg at Bell Labs set forth a full analysis, not limited to small perturbations, of the stability of feedback systems containing nonlinear elements of a precisely specified kind." (Millman, S. A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 31).

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1909. Orig. printed wrappers. Frontwr. eith tears, endwr. only partly preserbed. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 28, Heft 2. (Heft 2 in 15 parts) pp.217-248. Einstein Paper: pp.. 445-47. First edition. The authors claimed in "Elementare Theorie der Brownschen Bewegungen" that the boundary conditions for E, D, H, B on the boundary surface between two different media remain the same, whwther the bodies are at rest or in motion. This is in fact not tthe case. The correction is made here with the help of a method which was originally employed by H. Hertz. (Lanzos). - Weil No 26.

Leipzig, G.J. Göschen, 1787. Contemp. marbled boards, gilt back and titlelabel. Slightly rubbed. (2),112 pp. Internally somewhat brownspotted. Offprint from "Gesammelte Schriften" 1777. - Hagen 70 (D4).

Paris, Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1890. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece. (4),212 pp. and 20 fine plates in woodengraving showing many types of military equipment from the factory Creusot. Fine and clean.

Paris, Bachelier, 1843. 4to. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 16, No 4. Pp. (151-) 214. (Entire issue offered). Matteucci's paper pp. 197-200. Clean and fine. First announcement of the discovery of the "rheoscopic frog" effect. It states that If the nerve or living muscle of a frog is suddenly dropped upon another living muscle so as to come in contact with its longitudinal and transverse sections, the first muscle will contract on account of the stimulation of its nerve due to the passage of a current derived from the second muscle (Ganot). The experiment goes under the above title.Garrison & Morton,608.

Leiden, 1958. 4to. 2 orig. full fabrikoid. LXVI, 1138, XXXIV, 227 pp.

(London, Bulwer and Co., 1806). Large 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1806-Part II. Herschel's memoir pp. 455-466 a. 1 engraved plate. A brownspot in inner lower margin on the 3 first leaves. Some brownspots to the plate. First appearance of Herschel's last paper on Saturn and its ring. He determined Saturns period of rotation and he discovered two more inner satellites. One of these, Iapetus, he found to perform its rotation, but he believed, wrongly, that the rings were solid.

Kjøbenhavn, Opmuntrings=Selskabets Forlag, 1829. Lille tvær-8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. 32 pp. Yderst sjælden.

Berlin, Ernst Toeche, 1887-92. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. XII,1173 pp. Profusely textillustrated. Internally clean and fine. (Handbuch der Baukunde, Abth. I, Heft 1-4).

Kastellet, (Roskilde), 1909. Postkort med udskrift, frimærke og poststempel. "De bedste Jule- og Nytaars-ønsker fra Kastellet". Kortet forside viser et foto af Wied, hans kone og deres tre børn på en stige med teksten "2 x 2 = 5" Både Wied og hans kone holder en cerut i hånden.