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Paris, Furne et Cie, 1847. 8vo. Bound in 8 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Extremities a bit rubbed. Some scattered brownspots, mainly marginal. Exlibris of the Danish bookcollector K.F. Plesner. First edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1844-45. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelblad.38,(1);12 pp. og 5 store litografere foldeplancher. Lidt spredte brunpletter.

Leipzig, Hartmann, 1824. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VIII,196 pp.

(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extracts from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Année 1773. Pp. 427-502, 16 tables in the text. Clean and fine. First printing of an early work by one of the pioneers in meteorology, Louis Cotte.

London, Crokatt, 1729 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Gilt boarders to boards. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. (8), 464, (16) pp. + 1 folded map (by Moll) and 5 engraved plates. Vol. 10 of Salmon's extensive 'Modern History' containing information and maps on Italy, Venice, Sicily ect. Salmon’s "Modern History” is an ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the world’s countries, their histories, and their contemporary states during Salmon’s time and stands as a monumental achievement in the history of 18th-century historiography. His work is a fine example of the Enlightenment's goal for cataloging and comprehending the world, offering a unique snapshot of global perspectives as understood by Europeans in the early modern period. It represents one of the earliest comprehensive attempts to document and analyze the state of nations worldwide.

Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1815. Cont. full mottled calf. Gilt leather title on back. Spine end a little worn, tear along forst hinge, but not broken. VII,498 pp. Occasionally brownspotted. A small worntract in the htitle. First edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1827. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stempel på fællestitelbladet. (6),212 pp. Originaludgaven. (Bidrag til Kundskab om de danske Provindsers nærværende Tilstand i oeconomisk Henseende, Andet Stykke.).

Stockholm, A. Wiborgs Forlag, 1818. 8vo. Ubeskåret i det originale blå omslag. En smule slid og rifter i kanter og kapitæler. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers ren og pæn indvendig. Den kobberstukne planche mangler. XXVIII,298,(2) pp. Første svenske udgave af Rasks hovedværk "Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse", udkommet samme år som den danske originaludgave. Et hovedværk i nordisk filologi. - Rask Bibliografi I,27.

Hamburg, C.E. Bohn, 1780-81. 4to. 2 contemp. full calf. Spine worn and rubbed. XXVIII,887,(1);XX,874 pp. Internally fine.

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.

Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. Stamp to front free end paper. In "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel", vol. 5. Entire volume offered. [Schrödinger's paper:] pp. 163-66. [Entire volume: IV, 449, (1) pp]. First apperance of Schrödinger's paper on isotopy and the Gibb's paradox. "Schrödinger started explicitly from the previous discussion between de Hevesy and Paneth on the one hand, and Fajans on the other, summarizing the results as 'Thermodynamical diversity of isotopes in principle, in spite of their complete or nearly complete chemical replaceability'. Thus far he partially supported the view promoted by Karlsruhe physico-chemist. However, he contradicted a result which Fajans had obtained, stating that the energy set free by mixing or diffusion of the volumes, containing different isotopes of the same chemical element, was proportional to the difference of the respective atomic weights - hence a consequence, it should become arbitrarily small as the mass difference disappeared. (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, P. 340).

Paris, Jombert, 1770. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VIII,109,(5),5 pp., 9 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, printed on good paper. Klaus Jordan, 490.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part II. Pp. 203-213 a. pp. 214-219. First appearance of two importent papers by davy. In the second paper offered, he relates his discovery of chlorine dioxyd."By explosion over mercury he found that 2 vols. give from 2.7 to 2.9 of gas, and this would probably be 3 vols. if no chlorine had been absorbed by the mercury. This gas contains 2 vols. of oxygen and the remainder chlorine, hence the compound consists of 'two in volume of oxygen and one of chlorine, condensed into the space of two volumes' (ClO2). He found it to explode at about 100 deg. with more viollence than euchlorine."(Partington III, p. 57).Together with ROBERT PORRETT "Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic; of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and of their salts; together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies.", pp. 220-230 a. 2 tables, one folding.

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, Michel Lévy Frères, 1869. 8vo. Cont. hcloth w. gilt title to back. First and last leaves brownspotted. (4), LXXVII, (3), 572 pp + one map. First edition of the third volume of Renan's monumental "Origins of Christianity".Carteret II:252.

Esslingen u. München, J.F. Schreiber, (1914). Lex8vo. Orig. pictorial full cloth, gilt. XVI,209,XVII pp., 86 fine colourplates and textillustr.

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.

Milano, Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1978-84. Folio. 54;82;54;57 pp. and 397 plates. (Vol. 3, Fasc. 1-4 of Catalogo del Meseo Egizio di Torino, Serie Seconda).

[No place], The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1960. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Vol. 25, Number 3, September, 1965. Previous owner's stamp (Danish philosopher Carl Henrik Koch) to top right corner of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 220-232. [Entire issue: 193-304 pp.]. First printing of Putnam's influential paper in which is it documented that every recursively enumerable set is Diophantine, and hence that the set of prime numbers is Diophantine. From this, it follows that the set of prime numbers is representable by a polynomial formula. Therefore there does not exist an algorithm for determining whether or not a polynomial (in / variables) represents every integer.

Paris, Rapilly, 1875. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Bound by (Petersen & Petersen). Engraved portrait on china as frontispiece. (1),138 pp. A few brownspots. First edition.

London, John Nourse, 1738. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Spine and covers worn. Titlepage in red/black. (2),XXXVI,448,(28) pp. Internally clean and printed on good paper.

(Berlin & New York, Springer), 1970. Royal8vo. In the original blue wrappers. In "Astronomy and Astrophysics", Volume 5, No. 2, April 1970. Entire issue offered. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 209-27. [Entire issue: Pp. (2), 171-334]. First printing of Malaise's important paper in which he for the first time presented convincing evidence for the inner coma of comets"A comet's nucleus is like a dirty snowball made of ice. As the comet gets closer to the Sun, some of the ice starts to melt and boil off, along with particles of dust. These particles and gases make a cloud around the nucleus, called a coma. The coma is lit by the Sun. The sunlight also pushes this material into the beautiful brightly lit tail of the comet." (NASA)

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal (but printed in Sorø), 1774 & 1775. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. All edges coloured in red. Wear to spine, parts of gilting worn off. Internally very nice and clean. (8), 599, (7), 438 pp. First edition of one of Schytte’s most famous work, the first extensive coherent exposition of constitutional law, political and economic matters relating to Denmark. Schytte was much influenced by Montesquieu. Biblioteca Danica II, 485.

Leipzig, Gleditschii & Lanckii, 1754. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. Two small stamps to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. Occassional brownspots throughout, otherwise fine. (4), 550, (40) pp. First edition, containing many reviews by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.