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Kjöbenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1836. 8vo. Nydeligt senere hldrbd. i flammet kalv. Forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. XII,700,XXIV pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Mindre stempel øverst på titelbladet (Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn). Udgået herfra. Originaludgaven.

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.

(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.

Copenhagen, 1956. 4to. Smukt privat hldrbd. Schepelerns eget eksemplar, diverse materiale vedlagt. 222 pp. samt 92 plancher med beskrivelser.

Copenhagen, 1961. Folio. Orig. hpergament i kassette. Topguldsnit. 402 pp. samt 181 plancher, de fleste i farver.

Leipzig, C.E. Kollmann, 1836. Cont. hcalf. IV,IV,296 pp. (Bibliothek von Vorlesungen...bearb. u. red. von Friedr. J. Behrend, Bd. IV). First German 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.

Verona, dell' Autore, 1854. Cont. modest hcloth. XIV,336 pp. An indrawing of the Arena on front free endpaper. Lithographed titlepage showing buildings from the town.

München, Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung, 1882. 8vo. a. 4to. 2 contemp. cloth. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepage. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. XV,438 pp. and Atlas with 8 large lithographed folioplates.

(Kjøbenhavn, Waeysenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1765 -79). 4to. Uden omslag. Udsnit af "Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste i Aaret 1761. 1762. 1763. og 1764". Niende Deel + Ellevte Deel" Pp. 151-360 + pp. 150, 1 kobberstukket kort.

Paris, Bachelier, 1822. Contemp.calf. Spine gilt and with giltlettering. A paperlabel pasted on frontcover. Stamp on foot of title-page. X,347 pp.,1 folded engraved plate. Internally clean and fine.

Cannstatt, Louis Bosheyer's Buchhandlung, 1852. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Lithographed frontispiece (Cannstatt). VI,(2),133 pp., 1 folded table, 1 folded lithographed plate, 1 folded lithographed plan (Cannstatt). Scattered brownspots.

Bruxelles, Louis Hauman et Compe, 1833. Cont. hcalf w. gilt back. Bdg. w. traces of use. First about 15 and last about 20 leaves waterstained. Lacking half-title (first leaf). The Bruxelles-edition from the same year as the first edition (Paris, 1833), which is "rare et recherché" (Carteret I:406).

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1784. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket, som er lidt slidt. Kobberstukket titelvignet. (8),474 pp. + Register.(22) pp. De første blade med en svag skjold nederst. Lidt tab af overtrækspapir på forpermen. Originaltrykket.

(Paris), Impr. de E. Duverger, (ca. 1835). Royal8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Binding a little rubbed. First inner hinge weak. Lithogr. title, (4) pp. of text and 134 lithographed plates. The first 20 plates stained at foot, not effecting the print. Lithographed by Delpech a Paris.

Leipzig, 1850-55. Lex8vo. Cont.full cloth. First inner hinge weak. X,358,IV,482 pp., textillustr. in woodcut and 14 lithogr. plates (4+10). A little brownspotted.

2 samt. hldrbd. Rygge m. lidt brugsspor. Her og der lidt brunplettet. Originaludgave.

K., 1889. 4to. Samt.hldrbd. (4), 31 pp. samt 8 handkolorerede litograf.tavler.

London, Percy Lund Humphries & Co., 1938. 4to. Orig. full cloth. A closed tear to top of spine. Portrait. XII,578 pp., 1 facsimile-plate, 8 maps. First edition. (Anthologia Anthropologica).

K., 1903. Lex8vo. Samt.hldrbd. 520 pp. Rigt illustr. Godt ekspl.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1895. Contemp hcalf, spine gilt. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment of spine. Slightly rubbed. Corners a bit bumped.. Stamps on titlepage. XVIII,(1),704 pp. and 327 fine textillustr. in woodcut. Internally fine and clean

Strasbourg, Levrault, 1833. Small8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. With a paperlabel pasted on back. (4),254 pp., 6 tables and 6 folded engraved plates. The plates showing mainkly the equipment for horses, saddles harbess etc.

München, Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909-20. Lex8vo. Bound in 2 orig.hcalf. Spines gilt. Light wear along edges on volume 2. Stamps on verso of titlepages. LXXXV,263;VIII,176;XIV,344 pp. and 2 folded plates. Internally clean and fine. From the library of Carsten Høeg.

Berlin, Veit und Comp., 1838. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Back hinge broken, but cover not loose. Stamp to titlepage. XXVIII,481,(1) pp. A few scattered brownspots, but fine.