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Cracovie, Imprimerie de L'Université, 1915. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Bulletin de L'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie", Juillet 1915. Very fine and clean, near mint. Pp. (2), 164-178. Offprint issue of Smoluchowski's paper on certain deficiencies of the foundations of the law of entropy and the basic Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases.

Bound in 5 uniform cont. full mottled calf, richly gilt backs. Top of spines a little worn.

Adorf, Verlags=Büreau, 1841-45. 4 cont. Contemp.hcalf. Spines gilt. Gilt lettering, some cracking to spines. Somewhat worn. Paperlabels pasted on backs. Stamp on titles and halftitles. Around 2.000 pp. Internally clean.

Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1891. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosschar", Tome XXV, 2me Livraison. Pp. (101-) 226 (entire issue offered). Lorentz's paper: pp. 107-130. A faint stamp to frontwrapper and to the first page. First edition. In this paper Lorentz applies statistical methods to his molecular theory of dlute solutions, discussing the phenomena of osmosis (van't Hoff's law of pressure) in this context and Boltzmann's theorem.

Leipzig, Baumgärtnerischen Buchhandlung, 1819. 2 cont. hcalf. Backs somewhat worn. Top of spine defective on vol. 2. Some nicks to backs. Stamps on titles. VIII,291,(1);VI,300,(1) pp. Occasionally brownspotted.

Paris, Crochard, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2 Séries, Tome 36.. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Prout's paper: pp. 366-378. Some scattered brownspots. First French edition (simultaneously with the English original "On the ultimate composition of simple alimentary substances;..") of this milestone paper, containing the first scientific classifilassification of foodstuffs as carbonhydrates, fats, proteins, and water."The brilliant demonstration in 1824 that the gastric juices of animals contains hydrochloric acid appeared incredible to many of Prout's contemporaries. Yet in 1827 (in the paper offered) they readily adopted his classification of foodstuffs into water, saccharinous (carbonhydrates), oleagineous (fats), and albuminous (proteins). Although Prout promised detailled analyses of the three organic aliments, only those of the saccharinous class were published by him. As a vitalist, Prout maintained that organized bodies (which were composed from organic substances) contained "independent existing vital principles."Under the influence of these teleological agents, the four aliments were transformed into blood and tissues. Prout termed the process of digestion and blood formation "primary assimilation." "Secondary assimilation" (Liebig's "metamorphosis of tissues") included both the process of tissue formmation from blood and the destruction and removal of unwanted parts from the animal system. The absorption and removal of water from processed aliments were the principal chemical features of chylification and sanguification, respectively. Organization of processed aliments could not occur, however, without the presence and admixture of minute amounts of water or of elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In 1827 Prout coined the word (in the paper offered) "merorganized" to denote the isomerism and vitalization of organic substances by the presence of these incidental materials."(DSB XI, p. 173). Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1827 C.The volume contains an importent pioneer-investigation on piezo-electricity by ANTOINE CÉSAR BECQUEREL "De quelques Phénoménes électriques produits pa la pression et le clivage des cristaux", pp. 265-271.

London, Printed for A. Cruden, 1769. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. Leaves unnumbered (ca. 1000 pp.). Engraved portrait as frontispiece.

Kiøbenhavn, S. Poulsen, 1796. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitel. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. (6),VI,372 pp. samt 12 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven. Bagerst i dette eksemplar er medindbundet Bugges lille lærebog: "Laanesætninger af de optiske Videnskaber og Aerometrien" fra 1810. 27 pp. Dog uden titelbladet.

Kjøbenhavn, Meyer & Trier, 1873-75. 4to. 2 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Hjørner lidt stødte. De første blade lidt løse, ellers ren og frisk indvendig. 3 litograferede titelblade. 1266,327,(3) pp. Talrige tekstillustrationer i træsnit og talrige plancher i litografi.

(Leipzig, Barth), 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik. Neue Folge. Herausgegeben von L.W. Gilbert", Bd. 28, Drittes Stück. Pp. 233-344,(2) pp. a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). The paper of Dulong & Petit: pp. 254-280. First appearance in German (edited by Gilbert) of this, their (first) joint paper, which initiated the recheches leading to the the "Law of Dulong and Petit", the connection between atomic weight and atomic heat. The original Frensh having the title: Recherches sur les lois de dilation des solides, des liquides et des fluides élastiques, et sur la mesure exacte des temperatures.""In 1815 Dulong’s famous collaboration with the mathematical physicist Alexis Thérèse Petit began; it produced three important memoirs on heat (of which this is the first). The best-known part of this work is the statement of the law of constant atomic heats that bears their names, .... They began with the fundamental problem of measuring quantities of heat, which involved a critical analysis of thermometric scales. In 1804-1805 Gay-Lussac had carried out a comparison of mercury and air thermometers between 0°C. and 100°C. Dulong and Petit extended the range of comparison up to 300°C. and found an increasing discrepancy between the two scales at higher temperatures." (DSB).

København, 1928. Ubesk. i orig. omsl. Ryg m. lidt brugsspor, ellers ren og frisk. Originaludgaven af Kaj Munks første skuespil, -hans anden publikation, som altid har været yderst sjælden. Den første opføring af stykket blev en kæmpe fiasko grundet forkerte dispositioner fra teatrets side, -i anden ombæring fik stykket meget stor succes, og anden udgave af skuespillet tryktes i forbindelse hermed i 1938.

Tübingen, Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1770-71. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Tear to top of spine. Spine somewhat worn. (8),1206,(10) pp. Internally clean.

Paris, Ganeau, 1739. Small 8vo. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Stamp on title-pages. XXIV,424,(4);(4),402,(6) pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper. Rumpf, 311.

Kiøbenhavn, Johan Frederik Schultz, 1795. 8vo. Bound in a slightly later half calf binding with gilt lines to spine. Some wear to capitals. Contemporary signature to title-page (H. H. Møller) and later signature to front free endpaper (N. Warburg). Johan Levin's exlibris to pasted down front endpaper. The first and last leaves professionally reinforced to inner margin. A few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. X,79 pp. First edition of this important work in the struggle of freedom of speech in Denmark. Bound with P. A. Heiberg's poem, for which he was prosecuted: "Vor Klub er dog en herlig Sag" published in Nummer 43, 1794 of "Den danske Tilskuer".In the poem Heiberg criticizes the British prime minister William Pitt for shutting down the public clubs ("At rive Folkets Klubber ned"). Heiberg was prosecuted by P. F. Skibsted and ordered to pay a fine. The following year Heiberg published the documents of the case with and introduction and satirical comments (Procedure og Dom...).These two works constitute an important contribution to the history of freedom of speech in Denmark.

Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1798. 8vo. Indbundet i et noget slidt samtidigt halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Ryg slidt. Permer og kanter slidte. Tidligere ejers navnetræk på forsatsbladet. Ren indvendig. (8),310;(4),162,(4) pp. Den sjældne originaludgave af A. S. Ørsteds prisopgavebesvarelse.

Strasbourg, Jonas Lorenz, 1745. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards. Handwritten title on spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (16),322,(4) pp. and 12 large folded engraved plates showing machinery of war from antiquity (catapults, ballistas etc.). Internally fine and clean. First edition. - Rumpf No 87.

(Paris, Crochard, 1823). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 23, Cahier 4. With halftitle to vol. 23. Pp. 337-444 (entire issue offered). Poisson's paper: pp. 337-352. First appearance of Poisson's importent paper on the mathematical treatment of "specific heats"."In "Sur la chaleur des gaz et des vapeurs," published in August 1823 in Annales de chimie et de physique, Poisson developed ideas published four months before by Laplace in Book XII of Mécanique céleste. Poisson introduced all the precautions needed to render the confused notion of quantity of heat susceptible to mathematical analysis. He called quantity of heat the magnitude that characterizes the transition of a given mass of gas from an arbitrary initial state of temperature and pressure to another state. This definition makes more abstract the quantitative aspect that naturally follows from the concept of heat as a caloric fluid. Poisson could thus deal comfortably with this magnitude, since for him it is simply a function q of p, p, and ø (pressure, density, and temperature). The equation of state p= ap(1+aø) was already classic, and the growing acceptance of the notions of specific heats, at constant pressure and constant volume, allowed him to write the simple partial differential equation of which should be the integral. He also showed that independently of any additional hypothesis, and whatever the arbitray function used in the integration, the adiabatic transformations (the term did not yet exist) correspond to the formulas p · py = constant and (?+266.67)·p1y= constant, y being the ratio of the specific heats, assumed constant."(DSB).

Copenhagen, Reitzel, 1910. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. 473 pp., 15 plates. (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bd. 34).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. Entire volume 19 and 20 of "Zeitschrift für Physik" bound in contemporary black half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page and paper label pasted on to lower part of spine. Minor wear to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 301-6. [Entire volume: IV, 426 pp.]. First edition.Weil 138; Schilpp-Shields 178.The volume also contains:Meitner, Lise. Ueber eine mögliche Deutung des kontinuierlichen beta-Strahlenspektrums. Pp. 307-321.Pauli, W. Zur Frage der Zuordnung der Komplexstrukturterme in starken und in schwachen äusseren Feldern. Pp. 371-88.

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, 1840. Cont. hcalf. Tear in titlelabel, fronthinge weak. The engraved titlepage dampstained and brownspotted, otherwise good. VI,376 pp. Fine woodengr. in the text. BMC,NH. V:2055. First edition.

Zerbst, Füchsel, 1808. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VIII,216 pp., 15 folded engraved plates. Faint brownspots to the first few leaves, otherwise clean and fine.

(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 94, No 4 + 15 + 17. Pp. (149-) 184, pp. (997--) 1068 a. pp. (1139-) 1214. (3 entire issues offered). Poincare's papers: pp. 163-168, 1038-1042 a. 1166-67. First appearance in print of the discovery of the automorphic forms, which Poincaré named Fuchsian functions."One of Poincaré's first discoveries in mathematics, dating to the 1880s, was automorphic forms. He named them Fuchsian functions, after the mathematician Lazarus Fuchs, because Fuchs was known for being a good teacher and had researched on differential equations and the theory of functions. Poincaré actually developed the concept of these functions as part of his doctoral thesis. Under Poincaré's definition, an automorphic function is one which is analytic in its domain and is invariant under a discrete infinite group of linear fractional transformations. Automorphic functions then generalize both trigonometric and elliptic functions." (Wikipedia).

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1954. Royal8vo. Orig. boards. 1145 pp., richly textillustrated with line-drawings. Clean and fine.

(Leipzig, S. Hirzel), 1904. Without wrappers. In: "Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik", 1. Bd., heft 2. Pp. 103-214 (entire issue offered). Rutherford's paper: pp. 103-127 First appearance of the paper in which Rutherford set forth his early - before 1911-model - model of the atom, the so-calles Saturnian Model. Rutherford pictured here the radioactive atom as a giant whirligig of electrons and alpha-particles, whose stability is somewhat disturbed, perhaps as a result uncompensated radiation losses, precipitating the expulsion of some of its constituents with the tremendous speeds they possessed befiore the explosion.

Paris, Barrois l'âine, 1806-09. 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. XXII,371;XVI,296;XVI,390 pp., 2 folded tables. The plates lacks.