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København, Bianco Luno, 1910. Royal8vo. Publishers full calf. Richly gilt back and gilt border on covers. All edges gilt. (Bound by Petersen & Petersen). (8),271 pp. many textdiagrams. First edition of Roemers astronomical notes. The notes tells systematically how to correct the errorrs of reading his famous construction of the meridian instrument when placed in postion. Adversaria also records another of his outstanding achievements, being his construction of the thermometer.

Venezia, Naratovich, 1856. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut. 388 pp. A fine clean copy in its original state.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1898). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1897, Volume 190 - Series B. - Pp. 531-621. First printing of a classic paper on plant physilogy and plants growth, reporting his discovery of the stomatal responses to light. The fundamental concept that the growth of plants, and the interrelation between their parts, is controlled by hormones, stems from the classic work of Charls Darwin and his son Francis Darwin.

Paris et Londres, Fisher, Fils, et Cie, no date (ca. 1850). 4to. Orig. full cloth richly gilt back and covers, all edges gilt. Engraved title and printed. Engr. frontispiece and 30 fine engraved plates with tissue-guards. 108 pp. of text. Very light marginal brownspots to plates. A fine copy.

København, 2015. Orig. papbind. 1129 pp.

Paris, Nyon, 1759. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),288;(4),222,(6) pp. Internally clean and fine, on good paper.

Lyon, Benoit Duplain, 1769. 2 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. VIII,389,(3);(4),399 pp. A few scattered brownspots.

Bln., 1808. 2 cont.blank wrappers. 286,260,(4) pp. 3 engr.portr.,1 engr.plt.a.1 fold.en gr.map.

København, C.A. Reitzel, 1844. Samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Ryg med brugsspor og hjørner stødte. XXII,360,(2) pp. Talrige tekstillustrationer i træsnit. Her og der brunplettet og de første sider med mindre skjold i indre hjørner. Originaludgaven af Ørsteds lærebog.

Kbh., 1843. Samt. hshirtbd. m. en smule slidtage v. kapitæler. Lidt brunplettet. Originaludgave. Bertelsen 29.

Frankfurt, Christiani Hechtelli, 1751. 8vo. In a bit later marbled paper covered boards with paper title-label to spine. Light wear to extremities and previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Internally wight light occassional browning, otherwise a good copy. (10), 92 pp.

London, The Economist Office, 1937. Small folio. Bound with the original wrappers in comtemporary half calf. Entire volume 129, October - December, 1937, of The Economist. Wear to capitals, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. XII, 668, 17-25. Original printing of The Economist - the most important and influential economic journal worldwide - from the year 1937.

Berlin und Leipzig, 1923. Large 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. VIII,95 pp., 30 textillustrations. (Die Geschichte der Zeitmessung und der Uhren, hrsg. von Bassermann-Jordan, Bd. I, Lieferung F).

(London), Hammersmith Publishing Society (Chiswick Press), 1902. Small 4to. Uncut in orig. hvellum. (38) pp. Clean and fine, printed on fine paper.

Paris, Librairie de France, (1931-32) 4to. Bound with all orig. printed wrappers in 2 fine orig. red hcalf. Richly gilt spine, covers gilt. (4),III,316,(6);(4),322,(6) pp., 40 plates in blac/white and 24 in colour. Plates by d'Adrien Bagarry. One of 2500 "Sur Papier Vélin d'Alfa Navarre".

Paris, Mariette et Delfspine, 1707. Small 8vo. Contemp. halfcalf. Richly gilt spine. A small nick at top of spine. A small paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. Stamp on title-page. (20),470 pp. Clean and fine.

Stockholm, (1851). Uncut in orig. blue blank wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed.Offprint from "Kungl. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens handlingar". 1850. II. Pp. (425-)461 a. 2 plates. Wrappers and plates loose. First editon. Importent pioneer work in crystallography. The papers topic is the exact nature of the relation between the various axes of a crystal, the axes of figure, of elasticity, of electrical conductivity, the thermal, the optic, and the magnetic axes.

Metz, Paris, Strasbourg, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. XI,319 pp., 2 folded lithographed plates.

Hildesburghausen, Bibliographischen Instituts, 1859. 8vo. Later hcloth. Printed and engraved title-page. 179 pp., 40 steel-engraved plates (views etc.). A few scattered brownspots to textleaves, plates in general clean.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1878-81. Lex8vo. Both volumes bound in a later modest full cloth., spine loose and somewhat worn. XVI,484;XII,380 pp. Internally fine and clean, apart from a few faint brownspots. Scarce second enlarged edition. "His greatest work, Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen was first published in 1861. The second edition (1878-81) - the offered item - of Heine's book was still a standard compendium on spherical functions well into the 1930's if one considers the the frequency with which it was quoted; that this edition has never been reprinted, however,belies this impression." (DSB).

Odense, (uden trykker), 1752. Samt. marmoreret papomslag. Velbevaret. (52) pp. Bibl. Danica II:697.

Kjöbenhavn, (J.D. Qvist), 1833. Smukt senere hldrbd. med det orig. bogtrykte foromslag indsat på fribladet. (10),289,(2) pp. Med en aftagende skjold i højre marginer. Originaludgaven. (Bidrag til Kundskab om de danske Provindsers nærværende Tilstand i oekonomisk henseende, Ottende Stykke).

Stockholm, J.P. Lindhs Enka, 1822. Samtidigt helshirtbd. Rygforgyldning. Titeletiketten lidt slidt. (6),368,(1) pp. Heri beskrives Ørsteds opdagelse af elektromagnetismen samt redegørelse for Amperes og Aragos forsøg hermed. (pp. 26-30).

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1969). Large 4to. Bound in 3 orig. full cloth with d/j. Some fraying to jackets. Stamp on foot of titlepage and halftitles. 2 frontispieces. XXXV,387;XV,304 pp., folded plans, textillustr. and 116 plates. Clean and fine. (Samothrace. Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Part 3).

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1884. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 24, 1884. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 313-444. [Entire volume: IV, 592 pp.]. First printing of Segre's paper containing what would later be known as Segre Surfaces: An intersection of two quadrics in 4-dimensional projective space with In algebraic geometry. The term "Segre surface" is also occasionally used for various other surfaces, such as a quadric in 3-dimensional projective space, or the hypersurface