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Halle, Hendels Verlag, 1814. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. (4),84 pp., 2 folded tables. (Neue Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle., 2. Bd., Heft III). - Poggendorff II,104.

Stuttgart, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1823. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XXIV,846 pp., 2 lithographed plates.

Bln., Fischer Verlag, (1915). Orig. yellow wrappers w. black printing. Near mint condition. First edition.

(København, Seidelin,1801). 4to. Uncut. No wrappers as issued in "Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". Titlepage, pp. 253-292 + Titlepage, pp. 291-349 a. 1 folded engraved plate. First printing of 2 importent memoirs, as Münter here gives an importent contribution to the deciphering of cuneiform texts.

Darmstadt, Invaliden=Anstalt, 1811. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. 398,82),VIII pp., 2 folded engraved plates.

Berlin, Springer, 1933. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 84, 1933. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with light wear. Pp. 168-194. [Entire volume: VIII, 816 pp.]. First appearance of Blochinzev's paper in which he demonstrated, the electron mass was no longer the intrinsic characteristic of an individual particle, but varied depending on other particles and interactions - became "effective" or "apparent" mass.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1834) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part II. Pp. 555-566 a. 1 lithographed plate. First printing of Owen's importent paper on the ova of the Duck-bill or Water-mole, the first to describe its mammalian resemblences.

København, Kronos, 1946. Lille 4to. Ubesk. i orig. omsl. Foromslag en anelse flamet for oven. Et nydeligt, rent og friskt eksempler. 122, (2) pp.Small 4to. Uncut in the orig. wrappers. Minor fading to top of front wrapper. A very nice, clean, and fresh copy. 122, (2) pp. Originaludgaven af den første danske oversættelse af det andet af Sartres to filosopfiske hovedværker, som begge udøvede stor indflydelse på det 20. århundredes filosofi og bidrog væsentligt til udviklingen af eksistentialismen. Den danske oversættelse er trykt samme år som originalen og udgør formentlig den nydeligste udgave typografisk set. Værket er trykt særdeles nydeligt, med brede marginer og på godt papir. The first edition of the first Dansih translation of the second of Sartre's two main philosophical works, which have both influenced 20th century philosophy greatly, and contributed immensely to the development of existentialism in general. The Danish translation is printed the same year as the French first edition, and typographically probably constitutes the best edition. It is a very nice print with wide margins and on good, thick paper. "Existentialism is a Humanism" became one of Sartre's most widely read and most critcized works, and it caused great controversies and uproar at the time of its appearance; -as opposed to his "L'Être et le Néant", all of Sartre's critics actually read this work, and so did huge parts of the population, causing the book to appear in huge numbers after the publication of the first edition.The work is the literary re-working of an exposition given by Sartre at a conference in October 1945, where he caused a scandalous discussion, which among other things led to the fact that all references to the existentialist T.E. Lawrence were omitted from the work when it appeared in print. "Cette conférence marqua une date dans l'histoire anecdotique de l'existemtialisme..." (Contat & Rybalka p. 131)."L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme" fut l'un des ouvrages les plus lus et les plus critiqués de Sartre et suscita de considérables malentendus. Comme l'a bien vu M.-A. Burnier dans "Les Existentialistes et la politique" (p. 31), "l'importance prise par ces pages semble due à la paresse d'un bon nombre de critiques qui hésitant à lire "L'Être et le Néant" et qui furent heureaux de pouvoir attaquer Sartre sans grande fatique et avec bonne conscience après avoir parcouru 141 pages." Il est bon de rappeler cependant que l'ouvrage constitue une assez mauvaise introduction à la philosophie de Sartre, surtout pour un public non averti..." (Contat & Rybalka p. 132). Sartre himself also disowned great parts of this work, which makes it all the more interesting, since it is the only one of his works of which he has done so. The work was reprinted numerous times during the first years, and the first edition (on vellum-paper) is very difficult to come by.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1801 - Part II. Pp. 354-362 a. 1 engraved plate. The plates depicts the experimental apparatus. First appearance of Herschel's paper on emission of the Light and Heat of the SunTogether with this paper is: Thomas Andrew Knight, "Account of some Experiments onthe Ascent of the Sap in Trees.", pp. 333-352 a. 4 engraved folded plates.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series A. Pp. 565-656 a. 7 lithographed plates. First appearance of this importent paper for which Poynting was awarded the Adams Prize of Cambridge."These days John Henry Poynting is best known for his association with the Poynting vector, which describes the flow of energy in an electromagnetic field, and little is known of his life or work. Yet in the 1890s he caught the popular imagination as `the man who weighed the Earth'. His experiment, using a novel method with a common balance, was part of a heroic tradition, gained him Cambridge University's Adams Prize, and set new standards of precision. Yet in performing this experiment, Poynting seemed to step outside the traditions of late nineteenth century Cambridge University where he was educated, and it is probably significant that he was a Unitarian throughout his life."(Isobel Falconer)..

Florentiae, Ex Officina Iuntarum, 1574. 4to. No wrappers. (16) pp. Printers woodcut device on titlepage. Clean and fine. First edition of Bandini's funeral sermon on Cosimo Medici (1519-1574). - Adams B148.

Kiøbenhavn, Møller, 1808. Samtidigt hellæderbind. permer med guldbordure. Ryg slidt med rester af forgyldning og skindtitel. revner i false øverst på bindet. XVI,732 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir. Bibl.Danica IV:120. Første fuldstændige danske oversættelse.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 13. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 641-662; Pp. 663-668. [Entire volume: 1079, VIII pp. + 8 plates.]. First appearance of Wien's two papers on differential equations on the electrodynamics of moving bodies.

'S-Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1890. 8vo a. 4to. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-page. VIII,519 pp. and 22 double-page lithographed plates (2 in colour).

Paris, Ador, 1835. 12mo. Bound in fine contemp. full red morocco, covers richly gilt and blindtooled in panels. Large blindtooled arabesque in center of panels. Inside gilt dentelles. Edges gilt. Edges on covers gilt. Richly gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. X,167 pp., 12 handcoloured plates of flowers. Light toning to leaves. A few leaves a bit frayed.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. Original blindstamped full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on title-page. VII,126 pp., 20 plates, some folding. Clean and fine.

(Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1900). 8vo. In the printed wrappers. No. 5, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. förhandlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 545-580 First printing of Arrhenius's paper on northern lights (aurora). he auroral theory was based on radiation pressure of electromagnetic waves and eruptions from the sun. He proposed that during great eruptions on the sun, large quantities of matter, in the form of droplets or dust, are ejected in a radial direction from the sunspots and are pushed out from the sun by radiation pressure. With this theory Arrhenius could explain the high correlation existing between occurence of the northern lights and sunspot activity.

London, Heinemann, 1912. Utrimmed in orig. full cloth. Mounted illustration to front board. Frontispiece in colour. XIV,500 pp., 77 plates after photographs, folded map coloured in outline, textillustrations. A few leaves roughly opened, not affecting text. A very nice and clean copy. First edition of this anthropological study of the Ekoi people.

Paris, (Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang), 1662. 12mo. In contemporary half calf over flora ornamented wrappers. Wear to extremities. Inner hinges split. Underlinings in red to title-page. Last leaves with dampstain. (8), 73, (1) pp. Uncommon pirate edition, published the same year as the original. The play is set in ancient Rome and is about the character of Maximian, a Roman emperor who is facing a crisis in his reign. Maximian is torn between his duty to the state and his personal desires which eventually has a tragic outcome.

Upsala, Zeipel et palmblad, (1817). 4to. No wrappers as issued. Orig. marbled spine-paper. (2),16 pp. First edition. Classification of human parasitic animals.

Kbhvn., 1838. Meget smukt hldrbd. i oaseged (Axel Jensen). Ubeskåret. VI,174 pp. Trykt på velin.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1920. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. 15 pp. First edition. - Weil No. 111.

Berlin und Posen, Mittler, 1825. small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. XII,258 pp., 2 folded tables and 1 large folded engraved map. Light browning to title-page and map.

Breslau, Korn, 1763. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. 108 pp., 6 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean. First German edition. - Jordan, 2102.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1858. 4to. As extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 55. Band, 1858"., without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Clebsch:] Pp. 335-355; [Steiner)] Pp. 356-378. First printing of these two important papers by Clebsch and Steiner."German mathematician whose work on algebraic geometry was considered the first and most fundamental work in that branch of mathematics. Clebsch also developed a brilliant interpretation of some of Georg Riemann's work on function theory and investigated some aspects of algebraic geometry using approaches that differed from convention, focusing on algebraic interpretations rather than geometrical ones. Clebsch also founded an important journal, Mathematische Annalen before his premature death at the age of 39." (Schlager, Science and Its Times, P. 267)