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Stockholm, Nordstedt & Söner, 1875. Lex8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd med rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel. (4),352 pp., tekstillustrationer i træsnit, 2 store udfoldelige litograferede plancher samt 1 planche og 1 foldekort. Som vanligt lettere brunet p.g.a. papirkvaliteten.

Paris, No Publisher, 1640. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Stamp on title-page. (10),662,(22) pp., 7 full-page engraved textillustrations. Klaus Jordan, 3952.

Stuttgart, Hoffmann'sche, 1869. Cont. hcalf. Top of spine worn. Back with scratches. XVI,626 pp. and 49 engraved plates of which 48 are coloured.

Karlsruhe und Freiburg, Herderschen Kunst Institute, (1831). Folio-oblong. (30 x 48 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved title-page. With 24 lithographed folio-plates. Faint scatte red brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 2541. Atlas only.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1873. Royal8vo a. folio. 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. All edges gilt. Slightly rubbed. (4),XVI,615 pp. and Atlas: (4),4 pp. and 13 engraved maps in colour of which 11 are double-page. Internally clean and fine.

Metz, Lithographie de l'Ecole Royale..., 1825. Folio. (34 x 20,5 cm.). Uncut in original blue blank wrappers. Original printed titlelabel on spine. Spine-ends strenghtened with tape. (2),83 pp. Throughout printed in lithographed handwriting. On good paper. Clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 2172.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres", Année 1767, tome XXIII, pp. 131-164 a. 1 engraved plate. First printing, dealing with compound lenses for making telescopes and the mathematical theory.Enestroem: E 383.

(København, 1836-1837). 4to. og folio-oblong. 2 samtidige hshirtbd. Ryg på atlas defekt forneden. Stempel på titelbladet. XII,757,10,74 pp. samt 24 litograferede folioplancher med talrige figurer. Tekstbindet med nogle gl. understregninger, på skrivepapir.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1768. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome V. Pp. 190-232. Clean and fine. The famous French navigator Mannevillette describes here how to navigate to and from the Indies by landmarks, islands marks and instruments. He was the first French navigator to use the octant. When he wrote this paper he was "Captaine des Vaisseaux de la Compagnie des Indes. He is famous for his collection of sea-charts, the atlas "Neptune Oriental" published in 1745.

Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & Co.s Forlag 1897. Lex8vo. In two modest half cloth with gilt title. (14), 526,(10),553 pp. With 53 plates and numerous text illustrations (all). The original edition. Printing and the Mind of Man No. 384.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1876. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 82, No 17. Pp. (927-) 1006. (Entire issue offered). Marey's paper: pp. 975-77 First printing of a founding paper in electrocardiography where Marey recorded the first electrocardiogram, using the mercury capillary electrometer, the electrical activity of an exposed frog's heart.

Berlin, Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 42, 1927. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 375-389. [Entire volume: VIII, 917 pp.]. First printing of London's early paper on Gauge Theories and Weak Interactions in which London anticipated many of Weyl and Pauli's ideas on the same subject."In the face of such elementary experimental evidence, it must have been an unusually strong metaphysical conviction that prevented Weyl from abandoning the idea that Nature would have to make use of the beautiful geometrical possibility that was o?ered. He stuck to his conviction and evaded discussion of the above-mentioned contradictions through a rather unclear re-interpretation of the concept of "real state", which, however, robbed his theory of its immediate physical meaning and attraction." (From the present paper).

Bruxelles, Arnold Lacrosse, 1820. 12mo. (135 x 85 mm). Bound in 5 beautiful contemporary sprinkled half calf bindings with richly gilt spines. Gilt title- and tome labels to spines. Boards rubbed. Upper capitals of vol. 3 and 4 with loss. Slight wear to edges of boards. Significant brownspot, causing slight loss of paper and text to pp. 261-69, vol. 3. Evenly browned, otherwise internally clean. Four engraved frontispieces and three in-text engravins. A beautiful set of Chateaubriand's five-volume defense of Catholocism, originally published in 1802.

Paris, Didot Fréres, 1835-47. 4to. Bound in 3 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. Vol. 1 rebacked, with old leather preserved. Top of back on vol. 3 repaired. Extremities a little rubbed. 2 engraved titlepages. XXXII,911;961;XXXII,1281 pp. Occasionally a little brownspotted.

Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard, 1937. Small 4to. Orig. hcloth. 30 pp. + 391 pp. (Facsimile). Inscribed by the publisher, Ejnar Munksgaard Jónas Thorbergsson. Monumenta Typographica Islandica V.

Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1916. 8vo. Fine later boards, the orig. printed frontwrapper from the Journal pasted on frontcover. Extract from "Verhandlungen d. deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft...18. Jahrgang. Nr. 6/7". pp. 173-177 and 1 textillustr. First edition. - Weil No. 82.

Leiden, Amsterdam, Luchtmans, 1821. Large8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, title and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. Corners bumped. A stamp to foot of titlepages. VI,806;(6),728,(4) pp. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper, partly uncut and wide-margined.

Havniæ, 1839-58. Lex8vo. 2 hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Rygge med lidt brugsspor. Stålstukket portræt af Müller. XII,1033,XCIX,388 pp. samt 6 stålstukne plancher med runesten m.v. Lettere brunplettet.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 164 - Part II, Pp. 479-494 a. 3 large folded plates in Heliotype of sun-spectra. Textillustr. First printing of this paper in which Lockyer analyses the spectra of the sun, comparing them with the spectra obtained of elements on the earth in order to detect the elements in the solar layers. Lockyer was the first to detect Helium in the sun 1868 (printed 1870), and he was a pioneer in the study of spectrum analysis of the sun. "Joseph Norman Lockeyer (1836-1920), pioneer English astrophysicist. He made importent advances in the field of solar and stellar physics, and is responsible for naming the element helium, for emphasizing the two-branch theory of stellar evolution, and (jointly with Janssen) for the method of observing solar prominences without an eclipsee." (Source Book in Astronomy).

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1709 a. 1711). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1708" and Annèe 1709. Pp. 339-365 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 320-350 a. 1 folded engraved plate. First printing of two importent papers in the further development of Cartesian analytical geometry."The irrepressible Michel lRolle...in the Memoires of the Academie des Sciences for 1708-1709 (the papers offered), raised doubts about the correctness of the Cartesian graphical solution of equations, as he had about the validity of the calculus of L'Hospital. He pointed out that to solve f(x)= 0, one arbitrarily chooses a curve g(x,y) = 0, and, on combining it with f(x) = 0, one obtains new curves h(x,y) = 0, the intersection of which with g(x,y) = 0 furnish the solution of f(x) = 0; and he realized that in this way extraneous solutions may be introduced. Imaginary branches further comp0licated the problem, and although Rolle sawthe difficulties, he was unable to solve them."(Boyer "History of Analytical Geometry", p. 155).

Anden Række. Anden Samling. K., 1862. Nyere papbd.m.skindtitel. Med de orig. bogtrykte for- og bagomslag. Smudstitel. BFN 828. Originaludgaven. Indeholder 3 førstetryk, bl.a. "Iisjomfruen." Sjælden med de originale omslag.

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1840-34. Small 8vo. Bound in 3 fine contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spines. Scattered brownspots, especially part 4.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1847. 4to. Without wrappers. In "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 24, No 26. Pp. (1117-) 1160. (Entire issue offered). Cauchy's paper: pp. 1120-1130. First apperance of this impiortent paper in which Cauchy presents his theory of algebraic equivalences where imaginary numbers were regarded as equivalent classes of polynominals with real coefficients modulo (X2 + 1).The paper gave rise to a heated debate in the Academy (see Bruno Belhoste "Augustin-Louis Cauchy. A Biography." pp. 210 ff.)."Augustin Louis Cauchy... objects to the use of complex or imaginary numbers and finds a method of eliminating i (the square root of negative 1) by constructing residues to the modulus X2 + 1. These residues have the formal properties of the complex number system, with x replacing i." (Parkinson "Breakthroughs, 1847 M).

Kjøbenhavn, Seidelin, 1808. 4to. Bound in recent marbled paper covered boards with leather title-label to front board. With light occassional brownspotting throughout. (2), 23 pp. The rare first appearance of Schumacher's work on botanical medicines, which either grow wild or could be cultivated in Denmark, sorted by season of harvest.Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757 - 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher made significant research work in malacology and described several taxa.

Torino, G. Candeletti, 1890. Lex8vo. Contemporary hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of back.Small stamp on title. XVI,614 pp. Richly textillustratedR The original printing.