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(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1854 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 38, No 6. Pp. (237-) 292. (Entire issue offered). Deville's paper: pp. 279-281. First printing of the paper in which Sainte-Claire deville reveiled his process for the production of pure aluminium by creating the first crystalline silicon and perfecting the electrolytic process for obtaining metallic aluminium from sodium aluminium chloride."He worked out a process for producing pure aluminum by reducing its salts with sodium. Deville’s methods made both metals readily available and drastically reduced their cost, but he himself did not take much part in their later industrial development. He used the sodium obtained by his method for the preparation of such elements as silicon, boron, and titanium."(DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1854 C.

Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, [vol. 1:] 1927 & [vol. 2:] 1960. 4to. In publisher's two blue embossed full cloth bindings. Volume 2 with micolouring to extremities and volume 1 with miscolouring to edges and light occassional brownspotting internally, otherwise fine. XV, (1) 448; XIV, (2), 518 pp. First edition of volume 1 and later reprint of volume 2 of Lubbock's famous work on Clippers and Frigates.

London, Trübner & Co., 1863. Bound in 2 recent full solid cloth, gilt lettering on backs. XII,395,VIII,352 pp. Small stamp on verso of titlepages. Clean and fine. First edition.

4to. Orig. full cloth portfolio. No 8 of 60 "sur velin d'Arches", a total of 73. With 10 original colourlithographs by Sonia Brandes, all signed by the artist.

Gothae, J.Perthes, 1855. Folio. Orig.cloth, but later repaired with leather. 6 pp. and 27 double-page steel-engr.maps, all coloured in outline. Upper part of title with inkspots and title a little soiled. 2 maps brownspotted.

(Ausbourg, ca. 1770). Original hand colored copper engraving. Made for viewing in a zograscope (ge: guckkasten). Picture description below image in Latin, French, Italian and German. 31,5 x 34 cm. An app. 2 cm. wide margin (not included in the 31,5 x 34 cm), is frayed. Slightly brownspotted.

Kjøbenhavn, Nicolaus Møller, 1770-73. 8vo. Indbundet i 3 samtidige, uensartede bind. 1. bind i et hellæderbind med rig rygforgyldning, forgyldt titelfelt og fem ophøjede bind på ryggen, 2. og 3. bind i ensartede halvlæderbind med forgyldte titel- og tomefelter. Ryggen på 1. bind noget slidt. Tidligere ejeres navnetræk på forsatsbladet i 1. bind. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers rene indvendig. Mangler forfatterens kobberstukne portræt. Kobberstukne vignetter på alle titelblade.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1896. 8vo. In "Mathematische Annalen, 48. Band, 1-2 Heft, 1896". In the original printed wrappers, without backstrips. Wrappers with a few nicks and some brownspotting to front wrapper and title page. Library stamp to verso of title page. [Moore:] Pp. 49-74. [Entire issue: IV, 240 pp. + 1 folded plate]. First printing of Moore probe of the theory of functions produced a clarified treatment of transcendentally transcendental functions."Rigor and generalization characterized the mathe-matical research of Moore. His research fell principally into the areas of (1) geometry; (2) algebra, groups, and number theory; (3) the theory of functions; and (4) integral equations and general analysis. Among these he emphasized the second and fourth areas. In geometry he examined the postulational foundations of Hilbert, as well as the earlier works of Pasch and Peano. He skillfully analyzed the independence of the axioms of Hilbert and formulated a system of axioms for n-dimensional geometry, using points only as undefined elements instead of the points, lines, and planes of Hilbert in the three-dimensional case. During his investigation of the theory of abstract groups, he stated and proved for the first time the important theorem that every finite field is a Galois field (1893). He also discovered that every finite group G of linear transformations on n variables has a Hermitian invariant (1896-1898). His probe of the theory of functions produced a clarified treatment of transcendentally transcendental functions and a proof of Goursat’s extension of the Cauchy integral theorem for a function without the assumption of the continuity of the derivative." (DSB).

Hafnia (Copenhagen), 1745. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to spine, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (52), 467 pp. Biblioteca Danica I, 957.

Münch., 1908. Orig.full blindtooled cloth. XII,176,218 pp., plts.a.80(of 81) chromolitogr.plts.(nach Original-Aquarellen von A.Schmitson).

München, Holbein Verlag, (1927). Folio. Loose in orig.cloth. 47 pp. a. 346 facs. 0n 207 plts.

erlin, Dietrich reimer, 1908. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Title on spine missing. Large titlelabel on frontcover. XI,441 pp., plates, maps. Clean and fine copy. First edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Forlagsbureauet, 1877-1883. Indbundet i 8 ensartede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Rigt illustreret. Originaludgaven. "Blandt dansk teknologihistories forløbere kan man pege på Opfindelsernes Bog, som kom i flere udgaver omkring århundredeskiftet. Der var her ikke tale om studier på et videnskabeligt, kritisk fortolkende ambitionsniveau, men dog fin folkeoplysning, med meget og godt stof af interesse for både det almene publikum og for professionelle historikere og teknikere." (Historisk Tidsskrift, Bind 16. række, 5,1996)

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Beijer, 1886. 4to. With the original wrappers in "Acta Mathematica, 9:1. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 35-56. [Entire issue: 104 pp. ]. First translation of Tchebycheff's paper on Moments - a quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points. Tchebycheff is known for his work in the field of probability, statistics and number theory.

Londres, J. Nourse, 1765. Contemporary full calf, spines richly gilt, joints cracked. VI, 378; IV, 364 pp. Old name on titlepage. First edition. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-80) created works of fiction and non-fiction, authored essays and epistolary novels,[1] and published what many now consider the first educational journals for children. A French author who resided in England from 1748 to 1763, Beaumont[2] is primarily recognized today for the children’s tales she popularized in those journals written during her fifteen years as governess, pedagogue, and author in London. Her version of “Beauty and the Beast,” part of her famous Magasin Des Enfants (Young Misses Magazine 1756), is described by Joan Hinde Stewart as “without doubt the best-known work of fiction published by any woman in the eighteenth century.

Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1652. 8vo. In contemporary limp vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Wear to extremities. Inner front hinge split and vague damp-stain affecting first 130 pp. (10), 584 pp. Dutch translation of Gelée's work on anatomy.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1715". Pp. 174-202 and 3 folded engraved plates. First appearance of of this importent paper on the precious stones in which he showed that certain turquoise stones were actually fossilized animal teeth."Réaumur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared his favourably with Darwin."(DSB)

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1870. 8vo. In a nice recent half calf binding with leather title-label to front board. (2), 11 pp. + 2 folded plates depicting the proposed botanical garden. Rare work describing the newly proposed botanical garden.We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade.

Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1760. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Binding with wear, spine-ends with loss of leather and boards with scratches. Lower outer corner of front board broken. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. (10), 46, 584, (12) pp. + 28 folded plates. Wanting the frontispiece. Uncommon later expanded edition of this treatise in which Nieuwentyt argue for nature as evidence for the existence of god.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. Uncut in orig. full cloth. Gilt warrior on upper cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Near mint condition. Frontispiece. VI,(2),183 pp., 1 colormap, 2 folded plans in color and 20 plates. Advertisements. Very light offsetting from tissue-guard to title-page

London, Groombridge and Sons, (1837). Orig. full pictorial cloth, richly gilt. All edges gilt. VI,311 pp. and 5 fine handcoloured plates, many textillustr. in wood-cut. Fine and clean.

Kjøbenhavn, 1876. 8vo. In later half cloth over marbled paper covered boards. A few underlignings and marginal annotations, otherwise nice and clean. Pp. 33-158 + 1 map. ("Supplement til St. Croix's of Jomfruøernes Flora" supplied in facsimilie). First edition of Eggers’ foundational botanical account of St. Croix, the largest of the Danish West Indian islands (now U.S. Virgin Islands).

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1943. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume XXII, Number 3, October, 1943. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A very fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 269-277. [Entire issue: Pp- 269-402.]. First printing of Blackman's influential paper on impedance feedback. "The Blackman's impedance relation formula holds several unique and important features. First and most important is generality. The formula is truly universal and could be applied regardless of feedback topology. The impedances of canonical cases could be presented as special cases of Blackman's impedance relation." (Abramovitz, Several Alternative Derivations of Blackman's Impedance Relation)

A Eleuterople, Pierre Philalethe, 1700. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum. Title to spine in contemporary hand and small paper-label to upper part of spine. Boards warped. A few stains to extremities, otherwise a good copy. 24, 477 pp. First edition of this extensive critique of Fenelon's novel "Telemaque" from 1699.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1869). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1868 - Vol. 158. Pp. 75-143 a. pp. 145-172. Clean and fine. First printings on 2 influential memoirs on the analytical geometry of curves.