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Uddevalla, 1972-86. Ialt 15 bind.

Paris, Ménard et Desenne, Fils, 1816. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Spine slightly rubbed. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. VIII,326,(2) pp. Internally clean and fine.

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1888. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, without wrappers. No. 9, Vol. 14, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 23 pp. + 1 plate. First edition of Arrhenius's paper electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation". Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a prominent chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the pioneering work which he had done in his famous dissertation on electrolytic conductivity ('Recherches sur la conductivité galvanique des électrolytes', 1884). However Arrhenius is becoming increasingly more known for his discovery of the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperature.Papers from this supplement series to the 'Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' are often mistakenly identified as offprints or 'first seperate edition' (indicating the existence of a jounal edition) because they have their own title page with the publishers named and their own pagination, but they are not - all publications from this series were printed seperatley in this way and issued with wrappers.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1907). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", Bd. 31, pp. 333-380. First printing of Hadamard's paper on Cauchy's problem in linear differential equations. "Hadamard fully set out the idea of the correctly posed problem for equations with partial derivatives in his excellent Lectures on Cauchy's Problem in Linear Differential Equations (1922; French ed., 1932). Thus, for Laplace's equation, Dirichlet's problem is a correctly posed problem; on the other hand, for an equation of the hyperbolic type, Cauchy's problem is the one which meets this criterion. These ideas have had a great influence on modern research because they have shown the necessity of introducing different types of neighborhoods and, in consequence, different species of continuity; these conceptions led to general topology and functional analysis. Also in the Lectures is the notion of the "elementary solution" which has so much in common with that of "distribution" (or "generalized function"). Also in connection with equations with partial derivatives, one should mention the concept of the "finite portion" of a divergent integral, which plays an essential role in the solution of Cauchy's problem." (DSB)

Paris, Bachelier, 1822. Contemp.calf. Spine gilt and with giltlettering. A paperlabel pasted on frontcover. Stamp on foot of title-page. X,347 pp.,1 folded engraved plate. Internally clean. A few faint brownspots.

Kiøbenhavn, Simon Poulsen, 1800. Smujkt nyere hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. X,218,(2)pp.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1716". Pp. 322-325 and 1 folded engraved plate.+ pp. 326-328 and 1 folded engraved plate. The first plate depicts the double-pump. First printing of Philippe De la Hire's invention and description of the double-acting water pump, which produces a continuous stream of water.Bryan Bunch 1717-Tools.

Kjøbenhavn, P.G. Philipsen, (1840). Samtidigt hldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning. XIV,206,398 pp. Spredte brunpletter. Nogle læg lettere brunede.

Hamburg, Mauke, 1872. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt but rubbed. Wear to spine ends. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Stamp on title-page. IV,(2),60 pp., 4 lithographed plates of whci 3 are in chromolithography. Internally clean.

Kjøbenhavn, 1855. Bound in a lovely contemporary brown half calf with gilt spine. Light wear to extremities. Internally light brownspotting. A lovely copy. Beautifully illsutrated. First edition of this collection of some of Andersen's most cherished stories, of which three are printed for the first time. Among the first printings, we have one of Andersen's most famous stories of all time, namely "Klods-Hans" (Clumsy Hans). BFN: 736.

Berlin, Springer, 1932. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 73, 1932. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with light wear. Pp. 169-84. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 846 pp.]. First appearance of Paul Güttinger's important paper which constitute the first derivation of the Hellmann-Feynman formulas.In quantum mechanics, the Hellmann-Feynman theorem relates the derivative of the total energy with respect to a parameter, to the expectation value of the derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to that same parameter. According to the theorem, once the spatial distribution of the electrons has been determined by solving the Schrödinger equation, all the forces in the system can be calculated using classical electrostatics.

(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1755). 4to. Extracts from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome II. Pp. 53-112. Clean and fine, wide-margined. In these two memoirs Venel attempted to prove that effervescent mineral waters contain a quantity of common air in solution, thus seperating carbon dioxyde (he called it air surabondante) without knowing what it really was, thus beeing "so close to making a discovery without actually making it..." (Fourcroy). "In 1750 Venel described his analysis of the effervescent mineral water of Selz, in Germany. Evaporation yielded only common salt and a little lime, and he was more interested in the effervescence, which was, he thought, caused by the escape of common air. All water contained a small amount of dissolved air, but Selzer and other effervescent waters contained superabundant air, as Venel called it. He made artificial Selzer water by adding the correct amounts of marine (hydrochloric) acid and soda to pure water, and he called the product aerated water, a term that is still in use. Stephen Hales had thought that effervescent mineral waters contained “sulphurous spirit"; Venel’s experiments proved the absence of the gas now called sulfur dioxide, but he failed to notice that the "superabundant air" differed in any way from common air. It was, of course, carbon dioxide, characterized in 1754 by Joseph Black, who called it fixed air. Fourcroy later commented that no one had ever been so close to making a discovery without actually making it as was Venel."(DSB).

Udg.af Dansk-Færøsk Samfund. 2 Bd. K., 1958. 4to. 2 orig.hldrbd. 406,310 pp. Illustrationer og kort.

Kiøbenhavn, Svare, (1773). Smukt nyere hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel. Udmærket velbevaret eksemplar. Originaludgaven.

Nyborg, C. Schønemanns Bogtrykkeri, 1916. 8vo. Indbundet med de originale trykte omslag i et nyere papbind med marmorerede permer og grønt skin titelfelt på forperm. Pænt i ren. Særtryk af "Svendborg Amts Aarsskrift 1916". 118 pp. + foldet kort og Fyn.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1887. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann. 28. Band. 3. Heft.". (Entire issue offered). Pp. 309-456. Hilbert's paper: pp. 381-446. This is Hilbert's "Habilitationsschrift", a fundamental work on algebraic invariants.

Kbhvn. og Kristiania, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. helshirtbd. med guldtryk på ryg og permer. Lettere brugsspor. Navn på titelbladet. (6),628,VI,(2) pp., 10 farveplancher, 3 foldekort. Originaludgaven.

[Leiden, 1953]. 8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 8 pp. + frontispiece-portrait of Lorentz. First printing of Einstein's essay on Hendrik Lorentz, a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Einstein was particulaly interested and indebted to Lorenz; Lorenz derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.

Københavns, 1856. 4to. Uncut unopened in the original blue boards. Offprint from "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". A nice and clean copy. 31, (1) pp. + 2 engraved plates. First printing of Steenstrups classic work on the octopods, where he for the first time disclosed the findings of a male arm filled with seminal fluid in the female. This object was, before Steenstrups finding, considered as a parasitic worm.

Kbhvn., 1774. (Trykt i Sorø,Lindgrens Enke). Samt.helldrbd. Ryg lidt slidt. Rig rygforgyldn. 732 pp.

Paris, Paul Dupont, 1851. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. 16 pp. and 76 steel-engraved plates (locomotives, engines and construction details).

Memmingen, Christoph Müllerschen, 1825-26. Bound in 5 uniform hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs a little rubbed. Stamp on titles. With 5 engraved plates as frontispieces. Internally clean.

Kiøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1811. Orig. hollanderet papbd., ubeskåret. Ryggen noget slidt således at den orig. trykte titeletiket kun delvist er bevaret. XVI,390 pp. Det sjældne originaltryk. Eksemplaret har tilhørt litteraten Johannes Boye ("Boye" på indersiden af forperm).

Paris, A. Lahure, 1881. Orig. clothbacked boards. (4),174 pp., textillustrations. Slightly brownspotted. First edition. With papers By Ed. Becquerel (1) and Henri Becquerel (2) and others.

s'Gravenhage, Ter Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1849. 8vo. In the original blue boards. Stamps to front board and title-page. Internally fine and clean. 32pp.