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Kjøbenhavn, Gad, 1928. Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Orig. printed wrappers. XX,272 pp., 1 folded plate. Originaludgaven. First edition.

Paris, Robustel & La Veuve Duchesne, 1767. 8vo. Two parts bound in one contemporary half calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with scratches and lower spine-end chipped. Internally nice and clean. XX, 381, (4), (4), 357, (3) pp. Barbier IV, 47,

Paris, Chez Bernard, 1806. No wrappers. Ectracts from "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.." Vol. 57. Pp. 131-174 a. pp. 225-272. With the titlepage to volume 57. First appearance of a classic paper in which Proust describes his discovery of Grape.Sugar and the identificationof this with glucose. He investigated the varieties of sugar that occur in sweet vegetable juices, distinguishing three kinds, and he showed that the sugar in grapes, of which he announced the existence to his classes at Madrid, is identical with that obtained from honey by the Russian chemist J. T. Lowitz.Proust is famous for his work on the steadiness of composition of chemical compounds."In chemistry, the law of definite proportions, sometimes called Proust's Law, states that a chemical compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass. An equivalent statement is the law of constant composition, which states that all samples of a given chemical compound have the same elemental composition. For example, oxygen makes up 8/9 of the mass of any sample of pure water, while hydrogen makes up the remaining 1/9 of the mass. Along with the law of multiple proportions, the law of definite proportions forms the basis of stoichiometry."(Wikipedia).

Odense, 1820. 4to. Meget smukt hldrbd. i oaseged (Axel Jensen). Litograferet titelblad, hvorpå en runesten. (14),158 pp. Lettere brunplettet.

Paris, Ducher, (1845-46). Large 4to. Cont.hcalf. 574 coloums and 43 engraved plates.( 5 double page).

Helmstädt: Christian Friedrich Weygand, 1737 - 1738. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A few scratches to extremities, a few small holes to spine on vol. 2 and head of spine on vol. 2 with small tear. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. (26), 550, (32) pp.; (40), 538, (46) pp. Wanting the frontispiece. First volume noted as 'Andere und verbesserte Auflage'.

Amsterdam et Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1785. Small 8vo. 3 contemp. full calf. Richly gitl spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Stamp on title-pages. 564;531;618 pp. clean and fine.

København, Gyldendal, 1895. 4to. Orig.hshirtbd. Ryg med en smule kantslid. Forperm med et par brunpletter.ll9 pp. samt l6 farvelitograferede plancher. Med dedikation på fribladet "Til Hr. Overgartner Heise/ Venligst fra/ Rud. Nielsen"

Paris, Hachette, 1884. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. (4),950,(2) pp., Profusely illustrated, maps, plates, textillustr. Internally clean and fine.

Berlin, Boike, 1829. (Printed title: 1830). Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Lithographed titlepage with battlescene and a printed. Stamp on title. XXIV,400 pp., 1 large folded engraved map, 8 folded engraved plates and 1 large folded lithographed view of Schumla. A few scattered brownspots, but internally fine

(Paris, Crochard, 1828). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 37, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 (entire issue offered). Poisson's paper:pp. 337-355. First appearance of one of the founding papers in "The mathematical Theory of Elasticity" and Poisson's first on the subject. "The theory of elasticity based on the idea of a molecular structure attracted Poisson's interest, and he did much to lay the foundations of that science."(Timoshenko p. 111 ff.)."In the preface to the long "Mémoire sur I’équilibre et le movement des corps élastiques" (14 April 1828), the hints yield to explicit declaration. In applying mathematics to physics, Poisson stated, it was necessary at first to employ abstraction and "in this regard, Lagrange has gone as far as possible in replacing physical ties by equations between coordinates." Now, however, "along with this admirable conception," it is necessary to "construct physical mechanics, the principle of which is to reduce everything to molecular actions." In other words, the death of Laplace the previous year enabled Poisson to move boldly ahead with his long range plans and to present himself as Laplace’s successor."(DSB)The issue offered contains notable papers by Berzelius, Gay-Lussac and others.

København, Politikens Forlag, 1903. 8vo. Indbundet i det originale komponerede shirtingsbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Forperm med forgyldt titel og florale dekorationer. Let slid ved ryg og kanter. Bogblok en smule skæv. Med Gustav Wieds daterede navnetræk (1905) samt noten 'Indf' på titelbladet. (2),425,(3) pp.

München, Delphin-Verlag, 1921. Small 4to. Orig. boards. Fine. 140 pp. and plates. First edition.

Lyon, Chez L'Auteur, 1820. Contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Nicks to label. Wear to spine-ends. A label taped to spine. XVI,271 pp, 2 large folded engraved plates.

Kiøbenhavn, Steen, 1827. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg med forgyldning og blindtryk. (8),171;(2),183,(2) pp. samt 15 kobberstukne etnografiske plancher, hvoraf de 12 er håndkolorerede. Rent velholdt eksemplar.

Berlin, Sandersche Buchhandlung, 1823. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine rubbed and with a tear to top of upper joint. The atlas contains all 41 lithographed plates, some handcoloured, some folding. Without the textvolumes.

Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. Lex8vo. In the original full black cloth. Extremities with lidt wear and soiling, especially to front bard. Internally fine and clean. IX, (1), 451, (1) pp. From the library of the Welch philosopher Henry Habberley Price with his name on front free endpaper: "H. H. Price / New College / Oxford". First edition of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles." (DSB)H. H. Price was a Welsh philosopher, known for his work on perception. He also wrote on parapsychology.

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1863. Without wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Troisieme Series - Tome 67, Cahier Avril. Titlepage to tome 68. Pp. 385- 512 pp. and 1 folded colour plate (Spectre solaire, Spectre Thallium, showing the green line). (The entire issue offered). The papers on Thallium: pp. 385-434. Smal, stamps on verso of titlepage. Lamy's paper: pp. 383-417. William Crookes was the first to observe Thallium (1861) as he found a new green line in a selenium sample, but Lamy was the first to isolate it and to prove that it was a metal (1862). The paper offered is Lamy's full description of his discovery, a shorter announcement was published in "Comptes rendus", 23 June 1862.Claude-Auguste Lamy (1820-1878) examined some slime from a sulfuric acid plant at Loos which was using Belgian pyrite and observed the green spectral line. He extracted thallium sesquichloride and isolated the metal new by electrolysis. Only after his discovery, he found out that Crookes had earlier discovered and named the new element, and gave Crookes the honour. Crookes presumed that his Thallium was something of the order of Sulphur, Selenium or Tellurium but Lamy found it to be a metal. In April 1862 he reported to the French Académie des sciences. (Timeline of chemical elements).

Neuchatel/Paris, Delachaux & Niestlá S.A., (1936). 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Uncut. Minor soiling to extremities and wear to capitals. Internally very nice and clean. 429 pp. First edition of Piaget's groundbreaking work on the development of intelligence in children and child psychology in general.Piaget wrote 3 books on child psychology which all became classics, this, however, being his first and main work on the subject. "This masterpiece was the result of an extremely long preparatory phase. With the help of his wife, Piaget began observing his children after the birth of his first daughter. Published 9 years later, The Origins of Intelligence in Children [The title of the English translation] analyzes behavior from birth to approximately 18 month." (Montangero, Piaget, or, The advance of knowledge, 1997, p. 18). There had previously been published works related to psychology of children and teenagers this, however, is the first work to describe the physiology in a scientific way of children as young as 0 to 18 month.It is, [...], the work of Jean Piaget that has been most influential on the way psychologists, educators, and even philosophers have come to think about the cognitive development of children. (SEP).

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1835-39. Bound in 4 contemp. full cloth. Some wear at spine ends and along hinges. IV,325;(4),328;338;384,(1) pp. Internally with some scattered brownspots. First Danish edition of Dupuytren's famous work "Lecons orale de clinique chirurgicale", Paris 1832 ff. The work contains his classical classification of burns and is also a pioneer-work in the field of plastic chirurgy."Dupuytren was born in poverty and died as a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was "a shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivalled aplomb, a wonderfull clinical teacher, and a good experimental physiologist and pathologist"(Garrison); his greatest contribution were in the field of surgical pathology."(Garrison & Morton: 2247 (the French edition).

Kiøbenhavn, Christopher Græbe, (1820). 12mo. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg slidt og mangler ved øverste kapitæl. Et gl. ejernavn bortklippet af titelbladet. (1),544 pp.

Erfurt, Keysersche Buchh., 1837. Orig. blank boards. Slightly rubbed. (2),VIII,346 pp. A few scattered brownspots, light browning to a few leaves. Also with the general titlepage: "Naturgeschichte der schädlichen Insecten. Nach eigenen und fremden Beobachtungen. Erster Theil."This first part with it own titlepage wasall issued. - Horn &Schenkling, Keferstein 74.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1837-38. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 40, No 2 and Bd. 44, No.6. Pp. (161-) 320 a. pp. (193-) 368. (2 entire issue offered). Humboldt's paper:pp. 161-193 a. 193-219. Fisr printing of Humboldt'd famous description of the major vulcanoes around Quito in Ecuador.

With all orig. wrappers in a fine hvellum, gilt lettering on spine. No 868 of 1050 "sur velin Montgolfier d'Annonay", total of 1250. With 8 fine etched plates.

Leipzig, Crusius (Bd. 1-2), Vogel (Bd 3-4), 1801-10. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. hcalf, spines gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Top of spine on vol. 1 repaired. Corners a bit bumped. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on titlepages. Light browning and scattered brownspots.