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(Paris, Bachelier),1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome XXIV, No. 7. Pp. (209-) 252. (Entire issue offered). Sobrero's paper: pp. 247-248. Clean and fine. First appearance of the paper in which Sobrero announced his discovery of nitroglycerin."When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerine explosions, and the terrible havoc that has been wreaked, which in all probability will continue to occur in the future, I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer." (Sobrero)"Nitroglycerin was synthesized by the chemist Ascagne Sobrero in the middle of the nineteenth century. When he tasted it, as all good nineteenth century chemists did when they discovered a new compound, it gave him what he called a migraine, because of its vasodilatory effect, which was later harnessed in the treatment of angina by William Murrell (1879), following the experience of a distinguished British clinician, Lauder Brunton, using amyl nitrite (1867) Later in the nineteenth century, Alfred Nobel discovered how to stabilize nitroglycerin, using kieselguhr (diatomite) clay; this led to highly successful industrial applications of dynamite and created the fortune that eventually funded the eponymous prizes. For medical purposes nitroglycerin was subsequently renamed glyceryl trinitrate, to hide the fact that it was literally dynamite as well as metaphorically."

Wien, Seidl & Sohn, 1871. Folio-oblong. (31 x 47,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Original printed frontwrappers. 13 lithographed plates with many figures. Clean and fine.

Berlin und Posen, 1824. Both in original blue lithographed pictorial wrappers. Stamp on title-pages. X,(6),114;(6),145 pp.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1863). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1862 - Vol. 152 - Part II. Pp. 579-589 and 1 lithographed plate. The plate somewhat soiled and with a dampstain.Otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of this joint paper in which further thermodynamical connections are published.Joule is well known for his discovery of Joule's Law, the connection between heat and mechanical work, where heat is a form of energy. "In December of 1840 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on the production of heat by the electric current. His course of thought led him to the consideration of the relatio between heat and and mechanical work. The results of his investigations were embodied in a series of papers which culminated in his great memoir on the mechanical equivalent of heat, published in 1850. Joule was one of the founders of the principle of the cosservation of energy. Some of his work was done in collaboration with Lord Kelvin."(Source Book in Physics p. 203).

(Paris, Bertrand, ca. 1840). 25,5x40 (billedflade). Originalt litografi trykt på kinapapir med brede marginer (Dessiné par A. Mayer). Prospekt af bebyggelsen Akureyri ved fjorden med skib og landgangsbro. Folkeliv foran bebyggelsen. Planche nr.123 fra Paul Gaimard: Voyage en Islande et au Groênland exécuté pendant les Années 1835 et 1836 sur la Corvette la Recherche. Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1842.

K., 1788. Nyere hpergamentbd. (12),LXXXVIII,297 pp. Kobberst.frontisp. samt kobberst.foldet grundtegn. På blåt skrivepapir. Første selvstændige beskrivelse af Kalundborg.

Oxford & New York, Pergamon Press, 1981. Orig. cased boards. IX, 282 pp. First edition.

(Ramsen/Schweiz), Heribert Tenschert, 2007. Folio. Orig. full cloth with d/j. 427 pp. Full-page colourplates. Clean and fine.

Paris, Crochard, 1833. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, Tome 55, Cahier 2. Pp. 113-224 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Liebig's paper: pp. 113-156. Titlepage to volume 55. First printing of Liebig's importent paper in which he expounds his Ether-theory."Shortly afterward Liebig discovered an important new compound which he thought revealed another fatal flaw in Dumas’s theory. Since 1831, when Dobereiner had sent him an “ether-like” fluid obtained from the oxidation of alcohol, Liebig had tried several times to identify the resultant compounds. Dobereiner maintained that the fluid contained an "oxygen ether." In 1833 Liebig found two distinct compounds present. One of them, Dobereiner’s oxygen ether, he examined more thoroughly and renamed acetal."

Copenhagen, Andr. Möllers Wittwe, 1741-44. 4to. Indbundet i et lidt beskedent samt. hldrbd. Revner i skindet ved øverste fals og kapitæl. Titelblade trykt i sort/rød 18,18,821,(19);(8),899,(21) pp. Indvendig frisk og velbevaret. Har tilhørt filologen Vilhelm Thomsen og historikeren V.A. Secher.

4to. Bound in a fine cont. hcalf, richly gilt back, raised bands. VIII,520 pp. and illustr. First inner hinge weak, not broken.

Kiøbenhavn, Sebastian Popp, 1794. Lille8vo. Indsat i et gammelt helldrbd. 126 pp. Mangler de 2 første blade (A1-2) samt pp. 55-58, 115-116. Kraftige brugsspor. De manglende blade vedlagt i nedfotograferet xerox-kopi. Den yderst sjældne første oversættelse af Bartholin's "De Transplantatione morborum Dissertatio epistolica", Hafniæ, 1673, et kuriøst værk om bl.a. magisk healing.Bibl. Danica I:759.

København og Kristiania, 1919-31. Lex8vo. Med orig. omslag. Rygge med rifter. Foromslag mangler på bd. III. Uden portræt. Indvendig iorden. 449;500;516;530 pp., 4 plancher.Oplag: 500 eksemplarer.

Leipzig, Kummer, 1792. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. (24),368 pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

Carlskrona, Georg Ameen & Comp., 1849. Samtidigt hldrbd med de originale blå bogtrykte omslag påsat permerne. Ryg slidt. Stempel på titelbladet. (6),125,XI pp., 10 stålstukne plancher, tekstillustrationer. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven.

(No Place, no date, Paris ? ca. 1778). Modest recent hcloth. Uncut. Stamps on halftitle and verso of. 65,86 pp. Second part "Supplement au Journal des Sciences & les Beaux - Arts" dated 15 Mai 1778. A few brownspots, wide-margined.

'S-Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1891. 8vo a. 4to. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-page. XV,463,(3) pp. and 36 double-page lithographed plates.

Oxford, University Press, 1925. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Stamp on half-titles. Frontispiece. XVIII,312;VIII,277 pp., 122 illustrations on many plates after photographs, 3 large folded maps. Clean and fine.

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.

Orig. bogtrykt omsl. Gennemgående skjold i nederste venstre hjørne. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 132.

Kiöbenhavn, L.H. Lillies Enke, 1765. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. med ophøjede bind og forgyldte rygfelter. Ryg med brugsspor og øverste kapitæl slidt. Forgyldningen svag. Kobberstukket titelblad.(12),24,398 pp. + Appendix ca. 250 pp. På skrivepapir. Hovedindholdet af værkets bind 10 er fundatserne og gavebrevene for de tre institutioner: Det Harboeske Enke=Frue Kloster, Wartovs Hospital og Convent=Huset.

Lex8vo. Orig.omslag med dedikation. 88),228 pp., textillustr., 10 plates (incl. 5 fold. maps). Small tear in margins of 2 lvs. (Offprint from Meddelelser om Grønland, vol. 57).

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1845. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et nydeligt lidt senere halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitelfelt på ryg. Foromslaget pænt restaureret i kanterne. Stempel raderet fra foden af titelbladet. To ex libris på indersiden af forperm. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers ren indvendig. Nydeligt eksemplar. Originaludgaven. 465.

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1954. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. XXIX,720 pp., textdiagrams.

Zürich, Füesslin und Compagnie, 1767. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Richly giltspine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top og spine. (8),352 pp. Small stamp to tiplepage.Stamps to first and last leaves. Intenally clean, wide-margined, on good paper. First german edition.