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Amsterdam, Francois L'Honoré & Fils, 1744. Small 8vo. Contemp. marbled paper wrappers. Stamp on titlepage. 2 engraved vignettes, one on titlepage. (6),178,(6) pp. Browning to last few leaves, titlepage frayed in right margin, no loss of letter.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889. Small folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Spine slightly rubbed. Frontispiece. (10),137 pp., 17 plates, textillustrations. Clean and fine.

London, Dunoyer, 1737. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Crowned super ex-libris to front boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of front board. Bindings with scratches. Leather on vol. 1 faded. Internally nice and clean. (4), CCVIII, 226 pp.; (4), 402 pp. + 4 folded maps.

London, Beecroft, Straham and Riverton, 1772. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine, raised bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. (6),381,(3) pp., 6 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece. The first leaves with faint brownspots.

Berlin, Springer, 1922. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 11, 1922. Entire volume offered except for Einstein's paper on P. 326. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. P. 170-79. [Entire volume: VIII, 328 pp.]. First printing of Schrödinger's paper on the heat of solids at high temperature and the quantization of a finite amplitude oscillation.

Publ.par Bourneville,Sevestre et Brissaud. Deux. edition. Paris, 1882. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back, raised bands.Untrim med. (4),442 pp., textillustr.a.7 chromolitogr. plts.

Netunünst., 1954. 4to. Orig.cloth. XV, 255 pp., 84 plts., large fold.map.

Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens-Boktryckeriet, 1833. Indbundet, aldeles ubeskåret med de originale bogtrykte for-og bagomslag, i et pragtfuldt senere hldrbd. i flammet kalv med overdådig tidstypisk rygforgyldning (pastichebind), forgyldt skindtitel. Indbundet af Nanna Grönvall. (4),179 pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter Et yderst attraktivt eksemplar af originaltrykket. Anckervärds politiske trosbekendelse vakte stort postyr og gav anledning til megen polemik ved udgivelsen.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1897. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 124, No 15. Pp. (797-) 838. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 800-803. First printing. In 1896 Becquerel made his landmark discovery of radioactivity and in this follow-up paper he further established some of the properties of the radiation so that it could be identified unambiguously.

Paris & Maestricht, P. Roux & Compagnie, 1791. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extremities, primarily affecting spines. Internally nice and clean. (4), 320 pp.; (4), 342, (2) pp. (4), 314, (2) pp.

København, Det Nordiske Forlag, 1896-97. Lex8vo. 2 samt. velbevarede helshirtbd. med rygforgyldning. (8),569,(5);570,(7) pp. Rigt illustreret. Rent frisk eksemplar.

London, Bacon, [No date, but later half of 19th century]. Hand coloured folding map of London (102 x 79) . The map is printed on paper, mounted on linen and folds between publisher's original cloth boards with title in gilt lettering to front board. Advertisement for 'Chas. Baker & Co.' to inside of upper cover and Guide Book and Index (62 pp). Wear to text and a few leaves detached. Boards and map fine and clean.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Alqvist & Wiksell, 1894). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", vol. 18, pp. 161-232. First edition. "Vito Volterra (1860-1940), who succeeded Beltrami as professor of mathematical physics at Rome, is the first of the founders of a general theory of integral equations. He wrote papers on the subject from 1884 on and principal ones in 1896 and 1897." (Morris Kline).

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1725). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1723". Pp. 295-306. First appearance of Dufay's first work. "His first academic paper (1723), on the mercurial phosphorus, already displayed the characteristics which distinguished his later work: full command of earlier writings, clear prescriptions for producing the phenomena under study, general rules or regularities of their action, thorough study of possible complications or exceptions, and cautious mechanical explanations of a Cartesian flavor. This "phosphor" - the light sometimes visible in the Torricelli space when a barometer is jostled - much perplexed the physicists of the era, primarily because it did not always occur under apparently identical conditions. Dufay found that traces of air or water vapor occasioned the failures, which could be entirely eliminated with a technique of purification taught him by a German glassmaker. He explained the light in terms of Cartesian subtle matter squeezed from the agitated mercury; although he knew the work of Francis Hauksbee (the elder), he suggested no connection with electricity."(DSB).

Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1824. Contemp. hcloth. Stamp on title-page. IV,25,(1) pp. A few scattered brownspots.

(København, ca. 1840). Stor 4to. Samtidigt hshirtbd. Skindtitel på forpermen. Indeholder 20 litograferede portrætter i stort format (34x27 cm.) Svage marginale brunpletter på nogle plancher, ellers ren og frisk. Portrætter af Chr. I, Dronning Dorothea, Johannes, Chr. II, Fr.I, Chr. III, Frederik II, Dronning Sophia, Christian IV, Frederik III, Chr. V, Fr. IV, Chr. VI, Fr. V, Chr. VII, Fr.Arveprinds, Fr. VI, Chr. VIII, Fr. Carl Chr. og Caroline Charlotte Mariane.

(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 40, No 5 + 6. Pp. (205-) 260 a. pp. (261-) 324. (2 entire issue offered). Hermite's paper's: pp. 249-256 a. 304-309. First printing of Hermite's importent paper in which he created the theory of transformations."Another topic on which Hermite worked and made important contributions was the theory of quadratic forms. This led him to study invariant theory and he found a reciprocity law relating to binary forms. With his understanding of quadratic forms and invariant theory he created a theory of transformations in 1855. His results on this topic provided connections between number theory, theta functions, and the transformations of abelian functions.""Hermite’s 1855 results became basic for the transformation theory of Abelian functions as well as for Camille Jordan’s theory of "Abelian" groups. They also led to Herrnite’s own theory of the fifth-degree equation and of the modular equations of elliptic functions."(DSB).

Kiøbenhavn, Berling, 1761. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Internally nice and clean. (2), 428 pp Biblioteca Danica I, 433.

(Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung), 1789. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers. In: "Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell", 1789, Drittes und Viertes Stück. Pp. 194-288 a. pp. 289-384 (2 entire issues offerd). Lavoisier's papers pp. 260-275 a. pp. 323-29. First German edition of Lavoisier's "Mémoire sur l'union du Principe oxygine avec le Fer", published in the memoires of the French Academy, 1785 in which he concluded that commercial iron contains carbon, that metals are combustible bodies, whichcan combine with other combustible bodies such as sulphur, phosphorus and carbon.Partington III, pp. 458-59.

London, 1952. Orig. full cloth. Reviews and part of wrappers pasted in. XV,496 pp., 48 plates.

Cont. marbled boards. Back with a little wear. (16),312,(6) pp.

København, Gyldendal, 1912-16. 2 samtidige hshirtbd. De originale bogtrykte foromslag påsat forpermerne. Stempler på titelblade. XXIV,254;(4),276 pp. Rigt illustreret og med kortbilag.

Oxford, Blackwell, (1969). 8vo. Orig. full cloth w. orig. dust-jacket. D-j. price-clipped and w. some tears, mainly to upper front hinge. Internally mint. (2), 490, (1) pp. First edition of this important posthumously published work by one of the most significant 20th century philosophers, who has contributed more groundbreakingly to the foundation of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind than any other modern thinker.Wittgenstein only published one single book in his life-time, i.e. "Tractatus", and all of his other works were published posthumously. This work was written in 1932 and left behind as a manuscript to be found after his death.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1928. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume VII, Number 1, January 1928. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine and previous owner's name to front wrapper. Other wise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 11-25. [Entire issue: 160 pp. First printing of Carson's important paper on transmission along wires. His work contributed greatly to the development of the telephone.

(No date, ca. 1890). 4to. In 2 orig. quarto-envelopes each with an original etching on frontside. Each series with 6 etchings, in all 12 etchings. Fine condition. The etchings are: General View from the River - The White Tower - Gateway of the Bloody Tower - Traitor's Gate - Beauchamp Tower interior - Chapel of St John - Wakefield Tower - The Secon Crypt - The Postern - Beauchamp Tower - Byward Tower - Queen Elisabeth's Walk.