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Paris, Briasson, 1738. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two very nice Cambridge-style mirror bindings with five raise bands and richly gilt spines. Gilt super ex-libris to front boardes. A few scratches to extremties but overall a very nice and clean set. XXIV, 563 pp.; VIII, 443, (4) pp. Brunet I, 640.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1872. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back, slightly rubbed. XI,348 pp. First edition of Helmert's main work. "He became famous for his work on the mathematical and physical theories of higher Geodesy and for his book on the adjustment of observations "Die Ausgleichungsrechnung...1872". He supplemented this book with several papers on error theory..." (A. Hald).

Neuchatel, l'Imprimerie de la Societé Typographique, 1781. Bound to style in 2 recent fine hcalf, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines gilt. Lower right corners of some leaves with a very faint dampstain. XXX,344;(2),335 pp. Last laves with some offsettings from corners. Printed on good paper. First edition.

Freib.im Breisgau, 1834. Bound in 9 very nice cont.hcalf with gilt backs. St.o.t.

Berlin, 1828. Cont.hcalf. XII,676 pp. Some stains and browning. Lower right corner of title lost, pp.81-82 lacking.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1893). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1892 - Vol. 183 - Series B., Pp. 311-370 a. 7 fine lithographed plates. textillustr. First printing of an importent work in the taxonomy of dinosaurs and extinct reptilia. Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results from 1888 and onwards.

(London, Bulwer and Co., 1811). Large 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1811-Part I. Playfair's memoir: pp. 347-377 and 1 large folded engraved plate. Clean and fine, broad margins. First appearance of Playfair's investigations on the Schehallien mountain in Scotland.John Playfair first visited the Scottish mountain, Schiehallion, during Nevil Maskelyne's 1774 plumbline deflection experiment, which was conducted to measure the density of the Earth. The mathematician Charles Hutton analysed the survey data from the experiment, reporting the mean Earth specific gravity as 4.5 in 1778. Playfair undertook a lithological mapping exercise in 1801, to improve the accuracy of Hutton's estimate, and reported a range of 4.564.87 in 1811. The computation of the gravitational effect of topography with variable subsurface density effectively made him the creator of the first geophysical model. As such, not only was Playfair's Schiehallion contribution pioneering in itself, but it was representative of his more significant works in both mathematics and geology, in that he built on existing benchmark work with novel and valuable additions of his own. Although Playfair's map of the extent of the Schiehallion quartzite was quite accurate, the Society's fourth President, John MacCulloch, having visited Schiehallion, was dismissive of Playfair's representation of the subsurface density variation. MacCulloch spent several years searching Scotland for a more favourable site for a plumbline experiment, travels that allowed him to compile the data for his 1836 geological map of Scotland. (John R. Smallwood).

K., 1868. Med helt guldsnit i orig. bogtrykt kartonnage. Ryg m. lidt brugsspor. Indvendig helt frisk. BFN 978. Originaludgaven, yderst sjældent forekommende i denne stand.

Braunschweig, Schulbuchhandlung, 1794. Cont. marbled boards. Titellabel with gilt lettering on spine. VI,120 pp. With 7 double-page plates of original music by the composers Schulz and Grönland. A few scattered brownspots. printed on good paper. First edition.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1885. 4to. Without wrappers, but stitched, as extracted from"Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", Vol.7, pp. 201-258. First appearence of Minkowski's doctoral dissertation, which he received in 1885 from Königsberg.

Neumünster, 1959. 4to. Orig.cloth. With dedic. 528 pp. a. 141 plts.,large fold.map.

Leipzig, Schwickertschen Verlage, 1803-08. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Spines slightly rubbed. VIII,944,(2);(2),956,(6);(2),933,(3) pp. and 24 folded engraved plates. Scattered brownspots. First edition. These 3 volumes by Klügel were much later supplemented by C.B. Mollweide. - Poggendorff I, 1277.

London, Thames and Hudson, (1974). Large 4to. 2 orig. full cloth with d/j. X,533 pp. and platevol. with 898 illusstr, 35 in colour on plates.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836.. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 37, Erstes Stück. Pp. 1-240. Entire issue offered. Von Buch's paper: pp. 169-190 a. 1 engraved plate. (Showing Strabo's Vesuv and Plinius's). First printing of an importent paper on volcanoes, the science of which was von Buch's preferred in geology. He began as a Wernian, but gradually passed into the ranks of the Vulcanists.

London, 1776. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back. Hinges in lower part of back cracking. IV,411 pp. Brownspotted throughout.

Firenze, Electa Editrice, (1946). Folio. Orig. hvellum. Uncut. 125 pp., 52 fine collotype plates. No 236 of 840 "su Carta uso Mano". With dedication on front free endpaper dted Dec. 1946.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultziske Officin, 1818-22. 4to. 3 velbevarede, næsten samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Et navn bortklippet fra øverste margin af titelbladene, uden tab af tekst. LVI,332;378;390 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk.

Detmold, Meyer'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1877. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and rubbed. Fronthinge broken. (10),592 pp., 3 lithographed portraits. Internally clean and fine.

Nürnberg und Altdorf, Monath, 1785. Small 4to. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. XVI,208 pp., 6 folded tables. Internally clean.

2 Bde. Bln. Small 4to. 2 orig.full vellum Backs slightly worn. 656,896 pp. Very richly illustr.,textillustr.a.plates,many in colours.

Wittemberg, Godofr. Zimmemannum, 1712. Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Gilt lettering to spine. Titlepage in red/black. Engraved portrait. (14),716 pp. + Index Epistolarum. Clean and fine.

Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Blackie & Son, (1838-40). Small 8vo. Bound in 3 cont. hcalf, raised bands. 6 engraved titles, 5 engr. views (brownspotted). Text occasionally brownspotted. A few leaves soiled. Lowndes II:1083.

London, n.d. (ca. 1830). Royal8vo. Cont. full cloth. Some tears to back. (30) pp. of text and 15 large steel-engraved views from Paris (3 with a small dampstain in upper margin, touching the image). Plates "Drawn by Capt. Batty - Engraved by Edw. Finden."

Kiøbenhavn, Schultziske Officin, 1818-22. 4to. Indbundet i 3 samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. LVI,332;378;390 pp. Indvendig ren.

Paris, Delagrave, 1904-05. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Spines a litlle rubbed. 400,242 pp. Profusely illustrated.