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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905. Lex8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Stamp on foot of titlepage. VIII,128 pp. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on frontcover. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Baires third work which had a profound influence on the teaching of mathematics in France

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1804 - Part II. Pp.279-314. First appearance of the paper in which Watt set forth his "Crystallization Hypothesis"."The first hypothesis as to the origin of prismatic structure which which had any experimental or observational basis was that of Gregory Watt, and may be entitled "crystallization hypothesis". Whatt in 1804 observed (the paper offered) that a large mass of basalt which he had melted down in a reverbatory furnace crystallized radially from centers which were fairly regularly spaced in a horizontal plane; the intersections of these radially growing fibrous bundles formed a network of hexagonal partings through the mass, leading Watt to the conclusion that this manner of crystallization, by its vertical extension upward from the base of a mass of basalt, must have been the cause of the prisms found in the Giant's Causeway, Fingal's Cave, and elsewhere." (Robert B. Sosman in "Types of Prismatic Structure in Igneous Rocks", p. 215).

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.

Kjøbenhavn, Qvist, 1863. Lex8vo. Samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Lille revnedannelse øverst ved forreste fals. XLVIII,808 pp.

Paris, Delaunay, 1824. 2 contemporary hcalf. Gilt backs. Top of spine taped. Small stamp on titles. Slightly rubbed. LI,622,(1);(4),656,(2) pp. and 14 folded engraved plates (maps and plans).

Berlin, Landes-Verlag, 1910. Small 8vo. Orig. hcloth. Pictorial frontboard. Stamp on title-page. 252 pp., 1 folded plate, 46 textillustrations after photographs.

Zürich, Fr. Schultess, 1864. Cont. hcalf. Gilt spine. A crack to spine, not broken. Stamps to halftitle. 722 pp. and 4 large fold. lithographed maps. 2 with a tear, no loss.

Patavii, Ex Typographia Seminarii, 1752. Contemp. full vellum. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece. (48),427,(5) pp. Clean and fine.

Kbhvn., 1827. Samt.hshirtbd. 14,114 pp.

Berlin und Stettin, Nicolai, 1790. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. X,175 pp. The map lacks. First edition.

Leipzig et Hafniæ, Jac. Preuss, 1741. 3 samt. helldrbd. Bindene stærkt slidte, især rygge. Gennemgående noget brunplettet. Bibl. Danica III:8 nævner et kobberstukket portræt af Kronprins Frederik, dette er ikke her. Værket opsøger de udenlandske kilder til især dansk middelalderhistorie.

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.

(Paris, Fernand Hazan, 1960). Folio. 12 coloured plates and text book loosly inserted in portfolio. In printed cloth slipcase. A very fine and clean copy.

Leyde, Pecker, 1777. 8vo. In a very nice contemporary half calf binding with red leather title-labe with gilt lettering and richly gilt ornamentation to spine. Small wormtract to lower part of front hindge. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A very fine and clean copy. VIII, 229, (3), 350 pp.

Paris, Bachelier, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XII,311 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. First few leaves mildly brownspotted, otherwise fine.

København, Schultz, 1827. Samt. hldrbd. uden rygforgyldning. 114 pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven. - Rask Bibliografi I,102.

London, J. & F. Rivington, T. Longman, T. Cadell, & E. Johnston, 1774. 12mo. Bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Gilt title labels and five raised bands to spines. Edges of boards gilt. Insignificant wear to capitals and edges. Ownership signatures to front free endpaper. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Homer. Title pages printed in black and red. A few scattered marginal notes in pencil, otherwise clean. (8),248,176;249-511,(13),177-367,(1) pp. A neat copy of a later revised edition of Joshua Barnes's edition and Latin translation of Homer's Iliad. The book is presumably a slightly altered pirate edition of Tonson and Watts's 1722 edition, indicated by their printer's device on the title page.

Halle, Gebauer, 1760-58. 8vo. Contemp. full calf with 2 clasps. Engraved titlevignette (to the second part). 648,188 pp. and many engraved plates.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1749). 4to. As issued without wrappers in "Memoires de L'Academie des Sciences et Belles Lettres", tome III, pp. 33-56 (Marggraf: pp. 33-45, Pott: pp. 34-56). Both works first editions. Marggraf's observations that commercial tin contains considerable amounts of arsenic, was erraneous and caused much trouble until refuted by Bayen. - Pott was commissioned by the King of Prussia to discover the secret of porcelain as made at Meissen in Saxony. - Partington II: p. 726 (Marggraf) and p. 720 (Pott).

London, Percy Lund Humphries & Co., 1939. 4to. Orig. full cloth. (6),399 pp., 1 map. First edition. (Anthologia Anthropologica).

Zürich, Füesslin & Co. 1768. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, missing top 5 mm of spine. Internally fine. (16), 263 pp. First German translation.

Lyon, Benoit Duplain, 1767. Small 8vo. Uncut in contemp. coloured wrappers. Spine strenghtened. (8),359 pp. The map lacks. Internally clean. First French edition. Volume two only without the map.

Paris, Renouard, 1809. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities. First and last leaves slightly browned, but generally nice and clean.

(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."

København, Munksgaard, 1954. Orig. printed wrappers. 55 pp. First printing Aage Bohr's doctorial dissertation. Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970. As well as his father he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".