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(Lancaster, Business Press), 1957. Royal8vo (285 x 210 mm). In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Science, December 13, 1957, Vol. 126, No. 3285, pages 1225-1229). A very fine and clean copy. Seperately paginated. 5, (2) pp. (last two being blank). Rare offprint issue of Weaver's paper on the importance of teaching science. Weaver is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation, and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. He became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954 and Chairman of the Board in 1955. He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1957. In 1965 he was awarded the first Arches of Science Medal for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of the meaning of science to contemporary men and women, and UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for distinguished contributions to the popular understanding of science.

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, Philipsens Forlag, 1874-77. 4to. To samtidige halvlæderbind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. Udvendig med en smule brugssport, indvendig pæn og ren.

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.

Paris, Didot Frères, 1861. 4to. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Stamp on title-page. VI,86,(2) pp., 4 folded tables.

Berlin, Mittler, 1817. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved title-page. VI, 362 pp. Title-page browned. Faint scattered brownspots.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1871. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 143, No 6. Pp. 161-336 a. 1 plate. Boltzmann's paper: pp. 211-230. With titlepage to volume 143. First printing of Boltzmann's paper in which he argues that he was the first, (and four years before Clausius) to infer the Second Law of Thermodynamics from analytical mechanics. He discusses his paper from 1866 "Über die mechanische Bedeutung des Zweiten Hauptsatzes der Wärmetheorie" and compares it with Clausius paper from 1870 "Zurüchführung d. zweiten Hauptsatzes d. mechanichen Wärmetheorie auf allgemeine mechaniche Principien".

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.

(Berlin, 1874). Large folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine worn. Atlas only with 16 (of ?) large double-page lithographed plates (Lith. Anstalt, Wilh. Greve, Berlin). And 2 maps. (Plates numb. 6-21)

Flensburg, Schleswig und Leipzig, Kortenschen Buchhandlung, 1790. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. XVI,(4),308 pp., 1 engraved plate.

Copenhagen, Reitzel, 1912. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. XI,426 pp. and 19 plates (incl. geological maps), textillustrations. First edition of the main and first geological survey of Southern Greenland. At the end Ussing gives a general account of the expedition (in Danish). - (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bd. 38).

Oxford, 1944. 4to. Orig. boards. XV,184 pp. and 81 plates, some folded, some in colour.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1879. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 88, No 18. Pp. (877-) 928. (Entire issues offered). Rouget's paper: pp. 916-918. First printing of this importent paper on the cardiovascular system, showing that the cells he discovered - "Rouget's Cells" - controlled the capillary circulation. Garrison & Morton No 782.1.

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.

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.

Göttingen, J.C. Dietrich, 1794. Cont. hcalf. Back a little worn, top of spine frayed. Internally fine. XXVIII,365,(11) pp. and 3 engraved plates (on one large folded).

(Paris, Crochard, 1823). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 23 (Premier Cahier), With halftitlepage to vol. 23. Pp. 5-112. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 5-43 and 1 engraved plates showing apparatus. Slightly brownspotted. First appearance of a pioneer-paper on Piezoelectricity in which Becquerel for the first time treats the phenomena - creation of electricity by pressure - in a quantitative way.

K., 1844. Samt.hldrbd. M.rygforgyldn. XX, 1062 VII pp.

(Paris, Bertrand, ca. 1840). 29,5x43 cm. (billedflade). Originalt litografi, trykt på kinapapir med brede marginer (dessiné par A. Mayer). Prospekt af Hörgsdalur med fossen i baggrunden og forrest bønder og handlende med heste foran et hus, i baggrunden en gård. Planche Nr. 74 fra Paul Gaimard: Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les Années 1835 et 1836 sur la Corvette la recherche. Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1842.

Wien, Gerold & Co., 1882. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on titlepage. Lithographed frontispiece. 97,(3) pp. and 1 folded lithographed maps in colour.

Paris, Pagnerre, V. Lecou, Furne et Cie, 1851-52. Bound in 8 contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and a bit faded. Few scattered brownspots.

(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.

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).

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1856). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1856 - Vol. 146 - Part I. Pp. 297-342 a. pp. 343-355. Clean and fine. First printing of the paper in which Airy describes his remarkable experiments aiming at finding the density of the earth. His approach to the problem was to determine the differences of gravity at the top as well at the bottom of a suitable deep mine."One of the most remarkable of Airy's researches was his determination of the mean density of the Earth. In 1826, the idea occurred to him of attacking this problem by means of pendulum experiments at the top and bottom of a deep mine. His first attempt, made in the same year, at the Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, failed in consequence of an accident to one of the pendulums. A second attempt in 1828 was defeated by a flooding of the mine, and many years elapsed before another opportunity presented itself. The experiments eventually took place at the Harton pit near South Shields in 1854. Their immediate result was to show that gravity at the bottom of the mine exceeded that at the top by 1/19286 of its amount, the depth being 383 m (1,256 ft) From this he was led to the final value of Earth's specific density of 6.566.[This value, although considerably in excess of that previously found by different methods, was held by Airy, from the care and completeness with which the observations were carried out and discussed, to be "entitled to compete with the others on, at least, equal terms." (The currently accepted value for Earth's density is 5.5153 g/cm³.). (Wikipedia).

Berlin, Boike, 1829. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Paperlabel pasted on upper compartment of back. Lithographed titlepage with battlescene and a printed. Stamp on title. XXIV,400 pp., 2 folded tables, 8 folded engraved maps and large folded view of Schumla.