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Berlin, 1928. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus "Sitzungsberichte". pp. 1-6. First edition. Weil No. 162.

Halle, Johann Christian Hendel, 1786. 8vo. In contemporary half with gilt lettering to spine. Binding with wear, internally nice and clean. VIII, 334 pp.

Dresden, Carl Höckner, 1855. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering to spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamp on title-page. XVI,104 pp., 2 folded tables, 15 folded lithographed plates. Some scattered brownspots.

Edinburgh, John Anderson jun, 1830. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands to spine. With gilt ornamentation to spine. Spine miscoured and a few scratches to back board. Fine and clean. .XV, (1), 707 , (1) pp. Third edition of Combe's influential work on Phrenelogy.

London, Robert Horsfield, sold by J. Dodsley, 1764. Contemp. Full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Crack in leather at upper joint. Still firm and holding. Engraved titlevignette. Engraved vignette. (4),318,(2) pp. A few minor brownspots. printed on good paper. First edition.

København, Hasselbalch, 1958. Ubeskåret med originale omslag, foromslaget med farvetegning af Arne Ungermann. En smule ryg-og kantslid. Originaludgaven af denne moderne klassiker.

Cooperstown, N.Y., H. & E. Phinney, 1846. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Back somewhat worn. Old name inscribed on title. IV,186 pp. Brownspotted throughout, mainly due to the poor quality of paper. The Cooperstown-edition seems not to be listed by Sabin (see No 25841).

Berlin, Mittle & Sohn, (1849-50). 4to. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Printed titlelabel on frontboard. Stamp on title-page. (2),221 pp., 7 "Beiläge", 8 folded maps and plans.

Stockholm, (1906). Orig. omsl., ubeskåret. Skæv i ryggen, slitage v. kapitæler. Stempel og lidt brune pletter på foromsl., ellers nydelig og ren. Originaludgaven af Söderbergs dramatiske debut, det fremragende og ofte opførte kærlighedsdrama, der bygger på personlige erfaringer.Dramat blev opført allered tidligt i 1907, både i København (med Betty Nansen som Gertrud) og i Stockholm (med Gerda Lundeqvist som Gertrud), og siden er det blevet opførst adskillige gange på nordiske teatre såvel som på turnéer i udlandet. Stykket blev opsat i både Tyskland, Frankrig og Grækenland i 80'erne og 90'erne, og bogen blev filmatiseret af Carl Dreyer i 1964.

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1955. 8vo. In contemporary red stiff cardboards. In "Mind", Vol. LXIV. Fine and clean. Pp. 200-12. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 576, (7) pp.]. First printing of Mackie famous paper on the philosophical statement of the problem of evil.For centuries, atheists argued that an all-loving, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with the existence of evil, and thus the existence of evil provided a knock-down argument against God. The standard form of this argument was provided by J.L. Mackie in the present paper.

Kjøbenhan, Reitzel, 1899. Ubeskåret i orig. bogtrykt omslag. 351 pp., 1 tavle, 2 litograferede foldekort. (Meddelelser om grønland, Bd. 20).

Leipzig, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, 1855. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Paper on baccover on volume 2 partly gone.Stamps on title-pages. (2),VI,815;(4),596 pp. and 12 folded lithographed plates.plates and 1 map. Some scattered brownspots and some leaves with browning.

[No place], The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1967. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Vol. 32, Number 3. September, 1967. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 355-65 [Entire issue: Pp. 289-446, (2)]. First printing of Pollock's important paper, in which he created a system that brought together iteration of modalities, already ontic and still more deontic. At the mere age of 27, John Pollock published the present "Basic Modal Logic", in which he claims that: "if we try to construct a theory of modal logic in which there are no iterated modalities, we can avoid most of the controversy and still have a theory that is strong enough for all of the normal uses to which modal logic is put." This theory presents an approach to how modal distinctions can be incorporated into logic.

Stockholm, Salvius, 1757-58. 4to. Et samtidigt hldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Rig rygforgyldning. Øverste kapitæl lidt slidt. Forgyldt titeletiket. Stempel på titelbladet. Kobberstukket portræt som frontispiece. 151,(1),84),324 pp., 1 kobberstukket foldeplan, 1 kobberstukket planche. Spredte brunpletter.

Tourai, n.d. ab. 1850. Lex8vo. 2 cont. hcloth. XIV,556,553 pp. - The first edition of this renowned textbokk appeared 1843 (Garrison a. Morton 6333) - this is later, a second edition ?

Published jointly by The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, New York - Chapman & Hall, London, 1949. 8vo. Publishers full cloth. Provenance: Handwritten signature to front free end paper of statistician Anders Hald (author of "A History of Mathematical Statistics"). A fine and clean copy. IX,(1),163,(1) pp. First edition of this classic in modern communication theory. The work was circulated as a classified memorandum in 1942, as it was connected with sensitive war-time efforts to improve radar communication. Combining ideas from statistics and time-series analysis, Wiener used Gauss's method of shaping the characteristic of a detector to allow for the maximal recognition of signals in the presence of noise. This method came to be known as the "Wiener filter."

Kiøbenhavn, M. Hallager, 1778. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og rygtitel i skind. Forreste indre fals lidt svag. (4),572 pp. De første tre blade med en brunskjold.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1963. 8vo. Volume XLII, January, Number 1, 1963 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrapper. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper. Spine slightly discoulered and lower right corner slightly bumped. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 79-94. [Entire issue: 206 pp]. First publication of MacWilliams Identities, or the MacWilliams Equation, which became the starting point for a considerable amount of research in coding theory and cryptology by the Bell System. MacWilliams Identities are essentially a set of linear relations of weight distribution which specifies the number of words of each possible Hamming weight. The development of the MacWilliams Identities had profound influence in practical as well as theoretical cryptology. "Another major theoretical advance was F. J. MacWilliams's discovery in the 1962 [the present paper, published in January 1963] of a set of fundamental equations [now called the MacWilliams Identities] that any linear code must satisfy. These identities were the starting point for a considerable amount of research by MacWilliams, C. L. Mallows, N. J. A. Sloane, and others". (Millman, A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 54)."MacWilliams (1917-1990) was a mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England and studied at the University of Cambridge, receiving her BA in 1938 and her MA in the following year. She spent most of her career at Bell Labs, where she worked on error-correcting codes and co-wrote The Theory of Error-Correcting Code with Neil Sloane." (Codings: Webster's Quotations, 42 p.)The issue contains the following papers:1. Beach, C.D.; Trecker, J.M. A Method for Predicting Interchannel Modulation due to Multipath Propagation in FM and PM Tropospheric Radio Systems. Pp. 1-36.2. Bodtmann, W.F.; Ruthroff, C.L. A Wideband Transistor IF Amplifier for Space and Terrestrial Repeaters Using Grounded-Base Transformer-Coupled Stages. Pp. 37-54.3. Coyne, J.C. Monitoring the Percussive Welding Process for Attaching Wires to Terminals. Pp. 55-78.4. MacWilliams, Jessie. A Theorem on the Distribution of Weights in a Systematic Code. Pp. 79-94.5. Peck, D.S.; Blair, R.R.; Brown, W.L.; Smits, F.M. Surface Effects of Radiation on Transistors. Pp. 95-129.6. Graff, H.J.; Peacock, J.M.; Zalmans, J.J. Development of Solderless Wire Connector for Splicing Multipair Cable. Pp. 131-153.7. Gordon, E.I.; Rigden, J.D. The Fabry-Perot Electrooptic Modulator. Pp. 155-179.8. Pfahnl, Arnold. Properties of Fast-Decay Cathode-Ray Tube Phosphors. Pp. 181-201.

Kbhvn., 1940. Lex8vo. 3 pragtfulde private hldrbd. i mørkeblå oaseged (Axel Jensen). 309,287,243 pp. Illustr.

Brevet er primært en kritik af O.W.s bog, også en tak til O.W. "for de så meget overdrevent venlige Ord, De har skrevet foran. (At nogle i deres Ungdom kan være mig TAKNEMLIGE, er muligt, STOLTE bør de være af en Styrke og et Geni som Johs.V.Jensens, af en Kunnen og Kunst som Rings)". Om værket siger K., at det er et ordentligt fremskridt, og løsrevet fra Bangs og Rings inspiration. "Der er virkelig noget sølv-fint inde i den bog"..."ejer et lille glimt af den Skønhed, der er Fare, og den Fare, som er Skønhed. men De må læse bedre Korr.! De må alvorligt talt give Dem bedre Tid til at lære Dem selv at kende."...

Berlin, Springer, 1936. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 99, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with soiling and some leaves with light dampstain, not affecting the Bargmann paper. Pp. 576-582.. [Entire volume: VIII, 803 pp.]. First appearance of Bargmann's paper in which he showed that the Kepler problem is mathematically equivalent to a particle moving freely on the surface of a four-dimensional (hyper-)sphere, so that the whole problem is symmetric under certain rotations of the four-dimensional space.Bargmann functioned as Albert Einstein assistant for several years.

Hamburg, Felginers Wittwe, 1728. Contemp. full calf. Gilt compartments on spine. repairs to top of spine and upper compartment. Gilt lineborders with gilt cornerpieces on covers. Engraved titlevignette. (14),552,869 pp.

Kbh., 1844. Samt. hshirtbd. m. rygforgyldn. Slidtage v. kapitæler. Indvendig en smule brunplettet. Originaludgave. Bertelsen s. 31.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1862. Bound in 3 contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Spines a bit rubbed. XXII,594;XXIV,726;XIV,819 pp. Many textillustrations in woodcut. Scattered brownspots throughout.

Washington, The White House, 1962. Lex8vo. Typewritten manuscript with blue wrappers. Leaves stapled in left margin. A bit of sunning, mostly to wrappers. 59 pp. Original White House Report on a various number of different drugs and their effect, usage and addictability. The report was created by the request of President John F. Kennedy and was meant to support the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse."Public concern over the problem of drug abuse, which had been relatively dormant during the 1940s and 1950s, flared again during the 1960s. The intensification of national concern resulted in increasing pressure for federal initiatives in the area. In response to this development, a White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse was convened in 1962, which resulted in the establishment of the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse on January 15, 1963." (Abadinsky. Drug use and abuse, p 65.)"The President released a document entitled "Progress Report" [The present report] which had been produced by eight doctors (three M.D.'s, four Ph.D.'s, and one who held both degrees) designated as an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse to confer with the White House Science Advisor and give advice on what should be done. The members of this panel could not be faulted for their collective eminence, but none of them had theretofore been closely identified with drug-abuse problems, so their findings were developed from what might be termed a slightly fresh viewpoint. They started from the hypothesis that nearly all compulsive drug abusers could be rehabilitated, by which they meant withdrawn from drugs and re-established in society, since they found drug abuse was inevitably a manifestation of some underlying psychological or physiological disorder.Accordingly they rejected proposals for imposing long prison sentences on drug offenders, on the one hand, and for placing addicts on any kind of maintenance regime, on the other. Instead they urged lengthy and extensive parole supervision in all cases, following the pattern that had been developed (not surprisingly) in California." (King, The Drug Hang Up, p. 232).The report drew several conclusions regarding why people use drugs, one of them being: "Growth of "long-hair" and beatnik cults which experiment with the use of psychotic drugs to achieve group cohesiveness and personal nirvana." (p. 14).