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(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1872. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 74, No 9. Pp. (561-) 647 (entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 627-29. First printing of a pioneer paper in surgical anaesthesia as the authors here developed pre-anaesthetic medicationGarrison & Morton No. 5670.

Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1881. 4to. Contemp, hcalf. Gilt spine. A small stamp to titlepage. X,478 pp. and 21, partly folded, lithographed maps and plans. Internally clean. With importent expediton reports and original maps from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, Polar regions etc.

Sthlm., 1838 - 39. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg m. brugsspor. Første svenske udgave. Indb. med: Bulwer, E.L., "Granadas Belägring. Öfversättning. Sthlm., 1838." og Balzac, "Rör ej Bilan! Roman. Öfversättning. Sthlm., 1839."

Bruxelles, Office de Publicité, 1871. Contemp. hcalf. Fronthinges broken and taped. A stamp on first titlepage. Ca. 950 pp.

London, Richard Holmes laurie, 1865. Orig. full blindstamped. cloth. Gilt. Light wear along edges. XII,740 pp., maps, plates and textillustrations.

København, Arnold Busck, 1971. Folio. Smukt hldrbd. i lysebrunt maroquin. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Indvendige skindfalse. Indbundet med originale omslag, delvist ubeskåret. Topsnittet forgyldt i sølv. Håndsyede kapitælbånd. Fladstrøgne kapitæler.Rygtitel. Indbundet af Barner Olsson. 495 pp. Illustr.

Leipzig und Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1914. Orig. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Portrait as frontisp. X,375 pp., 2 portraits, textillustr. and 6 colourplates (4 double-page). Fine and clean. First German edition of this classic work in biology. The English original was issued 1902. Bateson rediscovered Mendel's papers on heredity and republished them at the end of this work. - Garrison & Morton: 244 (the English ed.)

Kiøbenhavn, Nicolaus Møller, 1781. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og forgyldt titeletiket. Øverste rygfelt med påsat etiket. Stempler på titelbladet. 151,(18) pp. samt 4 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Første danske udgave. - Bibl. Danica II:338.

Paris, Henri Colburn, 1819. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-pages. XVI,255;(2),232 pp. Some scattered brownspots. On foot of title-page: "Paris: Imprimé et supprimé en 1815. Réimprimé a Londres et publié par henri Colburn, Rue Conduit. (Leipsic, Brockhaus.) 1819."

Glasgow, Andreas Duncan, 1814. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised and gilt bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering. (2),566 pp. Greek and Latin text. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper.

København, Permild & Rosengreen, 1978. 4to. 2 orig.helshirtbd. Illustr.

Bruxelles, Wouters et Compagnie, 1849. Bound in 5 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Spines somewhat worn. Spine n one volume with crack to hinge at upper part. Some scattered browning and brownspots.

jena, Friedrich Frommann, 1820. Uncut in orig. blank boards. XXII,346 pp. A little brownspotted.

Recusa Halae Magdeburgicae (Halle), Salfeldianis, 1709. 4to. As issued without wrappers. (2),50 pp.

Hamburg, Eckhardt & Messtorff, 1901. Lex8vo. Orig. pictorial full cloth. Rebacked preserving original spine with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece-portrait in heliogravure. IV,613,LXXXVIII,(2) pp. and 109 plates, each with textleaf.

Samt. hldrbd. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. Forreste indre fals lidt svag. 656 pp.

Berlin, Herbig, 1828. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VIII,231 pp. On good paper. First edition.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1881). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1881, Volume 172. Pp. 561-576 a. 1 double page folded photographic plate of the spectrum of the sun (autotyped). First appearance of this paper in which Lockyer explores the photographic technics in relation to the spectra of the sun and the photographic processes employed."Joseph Norman Lockeyer (1836-1920), pioneer English astrophysicist. He made importent advances in the field of solar and stellar physics, and is responsible for naming the element helium, for emphasizing the two-branch theory of stellar evolution, and (jointly with Janssen) for the method of observing solar prominences without an eclipsee." (Source Book in Astronomy).

(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1769-70) 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Tome XVIII a. XIX. Pp. 343-416 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 1-76 a. 2 folded engraved plates.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 111-117 a. 2 engraved plates. Faint dampstains to upper margins of plates. Clean and fine. First printing. The self-registering instruments referred to are the barometrograph, thermograph, declination-magnetograph and the electrograph. - The instrumental developments by Ronalds and Brooke establishedthe standard technique employed for magnetic observatory recording for more thana century.He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1844 for being the "Inventor or Improver of several Electrical Meteorological & Mechanical Instruments" , some of these depicted here. Ronalds was a pioneer and inventor of the elextric telegraph and he worked with meteorological systems. He collected a famous library, now in the Institute of Electrical Engineers: Catalogue of Books and Paers relating to Eæectricity etc..incl. the Ronalds Library. Compiled by Francis Ronalds. 1880.Wheeler Gift No 2873. - Ronald Library, p.438.

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1863. Ubeskåret i det originale bogtrykte omslag. Foromslag og de første 11 blade løse. Tidligere ejers navnetræk på foromslaget. Ryggen slidt. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers ren og pæn indvendig. Originaludgaven. BFN 869.

Leipzig, Barth, 1907. No wrappers. Extracted from "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 23. Pp. 1-43 a. pp. 795-797. The leaves is punched in inner margins after cords. Fine and clean. A stamp on the first leaf. First printing of one of Laue's earliest works.Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1914.

Paris, J. Corréard, 1850. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. 68;26 pp. Plates missing.

Zürich, Fr. Schultess, 1864. Cont. hcalf. Rebacked, preserving original gilt spine.Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. 720 pp. and 4 large folded lithographed maps. Maps strenghtened on verso in foldings.

Odense, 1784 8vo. In contemporary gilt paper covered boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of boards. Light wear to extremities, internally very nice and clean. Printed on good paper. 66, (1) pp. Rare first edition of this a memorial and thanksgiving speech delivered on July 19, 1784, at the Latin School in Odense, in honor of the deceased Miss Juliane Helene Justine von Ernst.