Search Results

Small 8vo. Uncut with all orig. wrappers. No 85 of 60 "sur hollande van Gelder" (numb. 71 à 130), total of 1250. There is no extra suite. With 6 orig. engraved plates by David.

Wien, Braumüller, 1848. Small 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Stamp on title-pages. (2),292,177;243,254,(2) pp., 2 engraved plates. faint scattered browmspots.

Leipzig, Hartknoch, 1798. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Small tears in titlelabel. XIV,312 pp. Printed on good paper. Minor yellowing to leaves. First edition.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" Tome 12 (1756), With the section-titlepage. Pp. (2),389-424. Fisr edition of an importent paper in which Maupertuis articulates his final synthesis of his earler work on the status of natural laws of motion and with is reflexions on epistemological certainty. He here coined the term "repliability" to denote the unambigouos truths of arithmetics and geometry.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 43-48 a. 2 lithographed plates. First printing of this paper in which Owen named Magalania prisca, Owen.Megalania ("great roamer")) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago.The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.The name Megalania prisca was coined by Sir Richard Owen to mean "Ancient Great Roamer"; the name was intended to "reference to the terrestrial nature of the great Saurian".

Braunschweif, Reichard, 1800. - N.d., n.pr., 1802. - N.d., n.pr., 1805. - Jena, n.d., n.pr., 1807. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped to lower part of spine. Stamp on first title-page. 112 pp. + VI,(2),152 pp. + 32 pp. + 46 pp.

Skafø, 27/10, [18]95. 2 sider 8vo. "Jeg har tilladt / mig at sende Dem / 80 Kr paa Postanviis- / ning og beder Dem / mig at undskylde, / at jeg ikke for længe / siden har berigtiget / min Gjæld til Dem / for det smukke Væder- / lam, De har overladt / mig. Grunden / dertil er, at jeg / først nu hører af / min Søn, at / han ikke, som / jeg antog, har / berigtiget Sagen / paa mine Vegne. / Med venlig / Hilsen til Deres / Mand / Deres ærbødige / JBS Estrup." Nydeligt egenhændigt brev fra konseilspræsident J.B.S. Estrup (1825-1913). Breve fra Estrup er yderst ualmindelige.

Kjøbenhavn, Det Poppske Officin, 1832. 12mo. Samtidigt hldrbd. m. rygforgyldning og forgyldt titel. Hjørner stødte. Tidligere ejers navnetræk på titelbladet. Noget brundplettet. Første danske oversættelse af Victor Hugos Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).

Paris, Bachelier, 1828. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVI,685 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. First and last leaves mildly brownspotted, otherwise fine.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 253-258 and 1 engraved plate showing the Goniometer. Clean and fine. First appearance of this paper describing Wollaston's invention of the Goniometer."Nor was it only in chemistry that he (Wollaston) left his mark. He invented a goniometer, a device to measure the angles between crystal faces, which greatly advance mineralogical research. A calcium silicate mineral is named wollastonite in his honor." (Asimow)."When a surface is so small as one fiftieth of an inch in breadth, it becomes axtremely difficult to apply the short radius of a goniometer to it with correctness. But since a surface of that magnitude may reflect a very brilliant light, the reflected ray may be employed as radius, and may at pleasure be taken of such a lenght that the angles of small crystals can be known with as much precision as those of the largest surfaces."(Abstract).

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777. 4to. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part I. Pp. 85-143 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine, wide-margined. First printing of Henley's large memoir on Franklin's theory of the Leyen Jar, on bow and violin strings oppositely electrified, on the electric origin of water-spouts etc.Wheeler Gift: 2472.

(København), Gyldendal, 1958. Ubesk. i orig. omsl. Mindre brugsspor v. hjørner og kanter, men et pænt og rent ekspl.Uncut in the orig. wrappers. Minor wear to extremities, but an overall nice and clean copy. Første danske udgave af denne moderne klassiker, der fortæller den tragiske historie om lægen og digteren, Yuri Zhivago, i årene under den Russiske Revolution.First Danish edition of this modern classic, which tells the tragic story of the medical doctor and poet, Yuri Zhivago, in the years during the Russian Revolution.Though begun several decades earlier, the work was completed in 1956, and was submitted for publication to the journal "Novij Mir" the same year, but due to the controversial contents of the work and the Soviet government's dislike of Pasternak, it was rejected. The following year the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union by the Italian publisher Feltrinelli, who published the book in Russian in Milan in 1957. Already the following year numerous European translations of the work had been made, amongst these the Danish one, though the English and Italian ones appeared as the first. These immediate translations and the publications of them partly caused Pasternak being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958. Due to the immense popularity of the work, alle the European translations were reprinted numerous times.In 1965 the work was made into the large-scale film-production by David Lean, which was nominated for ten Oscars and won five.

Stockholm, Deleens och Granberg, 1818. Ubeskåret i original papbind. Den trykte titelwtiket delvist bevaret. Lidt tab af rygpapiret øverst. (20),275,(3) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Første svenske udgave af Sæmundar Edda. - Fiske I,113.

Flensburg und Leipzig, Kortenschen Buchhandlung, 1784. Contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. a paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. (12),281,(1) pp., 13 folded engraved plates/plans. Internally clean and fine.

New Haven, Maltby and Noyes, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. In: The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman", Vol. 38. VI,(2),416 pp. (Entire volume offered). Henry's paper:pp. 209-243, many textllustrations in woodcut. A few leaves with brownspots. This is Henry's importent third "Contribution" on the dynamic induction experiments, carrying out his program of determining the relationship of static and dynamic electricity. He independently of Faraday discovered electr-magnetic inductuion in 1831. The paper was first printed in "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society", 1839.

[No place], The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1963. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Vol. 28, Number 2. June, 1963. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 135-142. [Entire issue: Pp. 113-175.]. First printing of Fitch's famous paper which laid the foundation for "The Fitch's Paradox of Knowability". "The literature on the knowability paradox emerges in response to a proof first published by Frederic Fitch in his now famous 1963 paper, "A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts." Theorem 5, as it was there called, threatens to collapse a number of modal and epistemic differences. Let ignorance be the failure to know some truth. Then Theorem 5 collapses a commitment to contingent ignorance into a commitment to necessary ignorance. For it shows that the existence of truths in fact unknown entails the existence of truths necessarily unknown. Fitch published the proof in 1963 to avert a kind of "conditional fallacy" that threatened his informed-desire analysis of value. The analysis roughly says: x is valuable to s just in case there is a truth p such that were s to known p then she would desire x. The existence of unknowable truths ultimately explains why he restricts the propositional variables to knowable propositions. For an unknowable truth provides for an impossible antecedent in Fitch's counterfactual, and ultimately trivializes the analysis. Since Fitch's theory of value is not the context in which the paradox is widely discussed, we will say no more about it here." (SEP).

Holmiæ, Imnelius, 1819. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary full cloth binding with gilt spine. Water stains to first and last leaves. Scattered brownspots. 8,286,(2) pp. First edition. Hjelmslev I, 28; Fiske I, 483; Klose, 4197.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1759). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles-Lettres", tome XIII, 1757. With titlepage to the year 1757 with engraved titlevignette and pp. 125-159 and 1 folded engraved plate. A Stamp to titlepage. First appearance of this paper which expands his prize-winning memoir from the Petersbourg Academy. He is now convinced by Aepinus of the importence of Franklin's distinction between positive and negative electricity. He elaborates his theory of the identity of the electrical fluid with the ether.

Small 4to. All orig. wrappers, uncut. No 47 of 800 "sur velin d'Arches". With 6 fine etchings in colour, full page and 2 in the text.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1783, 1784. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen, rygforgyldning og stregforgyldning på permer. Kobberstukket titelvignet. (16),410 pp. + (8),86 pp. Rent frisk eksemplar. First Danish editions.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1785. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Slid og lidt skindtab ved øverste kapitæl. Kobberstukket frontispiece. (16),215,(1) pp. First Danish edition of Young's "The Centaur, not Fabulous..." - Bibl. Danica I,286.

Paris, Heideloff, Didot, 1828. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Some loss of backstrip. Frontwrapper somewhat soiled. Stamp on title-page. VI,(2),240,(1-errata). 4 large folded maps and plans. Brownspots to halftitle and title-page. Internally clean and fine.

Stockholm, (1941). Stor 4to. Orig. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Kanter og hjørner lidt skrabede og stødte. IV,353 pp. samt 50 smukke farveplancher med talrige figurer.

Halae Magdeb., Car. Herm. Hemmerde, 1783. Fine contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine, raised bands and titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Large engraved titlevignette. (24),374 pp. a. (2 - Printers Announcement) pp. Clean and fine.

Stockholm, Las. Gust. Rylander, (1856). Folio.46x32 cm. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Kanter og hjørner lidt slidte. Bindet med brugsspor. Dedikationsblad, Stålstukker titelblad. 52 pp. samt 40 store litograferede portrættavler. Varierende brunpletning.