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Ubeskåret i nyere blåt papiromsl. m. bogtrykt titeletiket på foromsl. Nogle sider lidt brunplettede. Den sjældne originaludgave, hvor G. forsvarer sin person og kaarkteriserer sig selv så berømmeligt. Bl.a. skriver han: "Dog, hvad enten mit Liv eller min Død nu er et Blænd=Værk, saa mindes jeg dog godt, at mit forrige Skribent=Liv var en haard Døds=Kamp, ligefra mit fjerde Aar til mit tyvende, altsaa, hvis Aviserne har Ret, til min Død,"...

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).

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.

Frauenfeld, J. Huber, 1884-86. Bound in 3 contemp. half calf bindings, spines gilt, paper labels pasted on spines. Stamp on titlepages. VIII,472,40;VIII,464;VIII,440, 55 pp. With numerous textillustrations and foldings maps and lithographic construction drawings.

Leipzig, Lanckisii, Gleditschii & Blochbergerum, 1745. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. Two small stamps to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. Occassional brownspots throughout, otherwise fine. First printing of this index volume of Acta Eruditorum 1745.

W. Neustadt, Schilling und Kompagnie, 1795. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (14),119;(2),135 pp., 8 folded engraved plates.

Aix-La-Chapelle, Schwarzenberg, 1811. Orig. blank wrappers. VIII,63 pp. Clean and fine on good paper. On top of titlepage "A La Societe des Sciences de Plissingue/ hommage de l'auteur."

Berlin, 1749. Contemp. full calf. Spine-ends worn. Richly gilt spine, but faded. Some wear to spine. Gilt border on covers. All edges gilt. Double-page title-page and title-page in red/black. Engraved fontispiece. (40),(16),488 pp. + 3 Indexes. 4 folded engraved maps. Some inkspots and scattered brownspots.

Berlin, Typis Reimerianis, 1856. 4to.No wrappers as issued. (2),24 pp. Some additions in pencil on the first 3 pages. Inscribed on titlepage "Viro amicissimo Kummer/ autore" (Ernst Eduard Kummer, the famous mathematician, was Joachimsthal's teacher). First edition of Joachimsthal's second "Habilitationsschrift" published the year when he was called to Breslau as professor in mathematics.Today Joachimsthal's name is associated with "Joachimsthal Surfaces", which possess a family of plane lines of curvature within the planes of a pencil; the Joachimsthal theorem concerning the intersection of two surfaces in three-dimensional real Euclidean space along a common line of curvature; and a theorem on the four normals to an ellipse from a point inside it.

Small 4to. All orig. wrappers, uncut. No 189 of 255 "sur vergé de rives", a total of 421. With 6 orig. colourplates by Chas Laborde.

(Leipzig, 1879). From "Annalen der Physik und Chemie." pp. 541- 544 and 1 lithographed plate. From the library of H. Becquerel with his small paperlabel pasted on front with the booknumber "B 1916". First edition.

(Paris, Crochard, 1834). Without wrappers In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 57, 2e Series, Cahier 2. Pp. 225-304. (Entire issue offered, cahier 2). Balrad's paper: pp. 225-304. First appearance of this importent paper in which Balard published the results of his study of the bleaching agent Javelle water. In the course of working out the chemistry of this chlorine bleach, he succeeded in preparing hypochlorous acid and chlorine monoxide."In his researches on the bleaching compounds of chlorine he was the first to advance the view that bleaching-powder is a double compound of calcium chloride and hypochlorite; and he devoted much time to the problem of economically obtaining soda and potash from seawater, though here his efforts were nullified by the discovery of the much richer sources of supply afforded by the Stassfurt deposits."(Online Encyclopedia")

Kiøbenhavn, Schulz, 1799. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to spine, parts of gilting worn off, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Printed on velin. 264 pp. First Danish edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Prost, 1784. Samtidigt hldrbd. Øverste kapitæl og ryg lidt slidt. Rygforgyldning. 62,595,(1) pp. De sidste ca. 200 pp. med en voksende brunplet nederst. Første danske udgave. Oversat fra den tyske original: "Pract. Catechismus vom Stand der heil. Ehe, Nürnberg, 1783".Oversætteren (Paludan) har i efterskriftet til læseren fremsat følgende betragtninger "Maate jeg ved denne Oversættelse have bidraget noget til at forjage de bittre Elendigheder - de gruelige Furier, som ikke siælden finde i Egteskabet et sødt Hvilested for deres Rasen, saa vilde jeg endog fryde mig ved det Navn/ Oversætteren".Bibl. Danica I, 300.

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).

Leipzig, Höferschen Buchhandlung, 1797. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Engraved titlevignette. X,435,(1) pp. Printed on good paper, clean and fine.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1837). No wrappers. Extracted fron "Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. I, pp. 311-324. Disbound. First appearance in English of this importent paper in which Lenz established the law of electrical resistivity in wires, stating that "their conductibilities are in an inverse ratio to their lengths." The paper is a translation of "Ueber das Gesetz der Leitungsfähigket für Electricität bei Dräthen von verschiedenen Längen und Durchmessern.", published in St. Petersbourg in 1835.

London, John Weale, 1845-46. Royal8vo. 2 original printed boards. Spines with orig. printed titlelabels. Spines with tears and wear. IV,546 pp., numerouus woodcuts in the text and more than 150 engraved plates.

Ubeskåret i nydeligt senere sort hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. (Axel Jensen). Kun få brune pletter. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 272.

Berlin, Vieweg, dem älteren, 1791. Uncut in orig. blue blank wrappers. 80 pp.

Amsterdam, Jac.Meursius, 1660. 12mo. Cont.full calf. Gilt back. Engr. frontisp. (10),521 pp. No maps.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 669-690 a. 1 large folded plate. First printing of a pioneer work in the photography of star spectra."William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer, a pioneer in spectroscopy and photography. He examined spectroscopically the chemical constitution of stars and comets, and the gaseous nature of planetary and diffuse nebulae; he applied the Doppler Principle to the measurement of the radial velocities of stars, and published an atlas of representative stellar spectra" (Ripley: Source Book in Astronomy).

Utrecht, J. van Druten, 1888. Folio-oblong. (27 x 42,5 cm.). Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. (2),40 pp., 12 maps. A few leaves re-margined.

Kbhvn., 1855. (samt) Sammes: Fyen, Jylland og Slesvig med tilliggende Øer, deres Kjøbstæders, Slottes og mindeværdige Egnes Historie og Beskrivelse. Kbhvn., 1855. Et samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. 192,192 pp. samt 15 plancher i træstik og litografi.

Regensburg, Manz, (ab.1920). 4to. Orig.decorated full cloth. A small tear in top of spine (1 cm.). Otherwise fine. XII,982 pp.