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[Washington]: 1839. 8vo. In later half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Library labels pasted on to front and back board. Library stamp to to pasted down front end-paper and library label pasted on to pasted down back end-paper. Reapirs to last 5 leaves of "Potomac Aqueduct" with some loss of text. 81, (1), 167 pp. + 6 folded plates.

Kjøbenhavn, Johan Nicolai Gall, 1813. 8vo. In a modest contemporary papercovered card-board binding. Wear to extremities. Spine missing some of the paper and the marbled paper to boards partly loose. Internally fine and clean. (4), 122 pp. Rare first Danish translation of Glazze's work for girls. With preface by K. L. Rahbek.

Weimar,Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1804. Unbound, but stitched. XII,48 pp. and folded engraved map "Neue Charte von Syrien. Entworfen zu Kahira (1800) von Carl Paultre..gezeichnet von Lapie.Weimar 1804". (48 x 29 cm.). A tear to the map, but no loss. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 11. Bd.: 3. Theil).

Firenze, Bartolomeo Sermatelli, 1574. 4to. No wrappers. (28) pp. Printers woodcut device on titlepage. Clean and fine. First edition of Salviati's funeral sermon on Cosimo Medici (1519-1574). - Adams S208.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730". Pp. 233-242. First appearance of a main paper in analytical mechanics. Maupertuis gives a new treatment of the curves assumed by moving bodies in resistent media. This paper positioned him as a direct heir to the analytical mechanics program in France.

Kjøbenhavn, Soldin, 1819 Samtidigt marmoreret papbe. Ryg of false slidte. X,581 pp. Spredte brunpletter og 2. del med en svag skjold i øverste indre hjørner. Første danske udgave. Fra serien "Magazin for de allernyeste og interessanteste Reisebeskrivelser".

Stockholm, 1920. 4to. Orig. hpergamentsbd. XVI pp. (Introc.). and Facsimile. (Codices Medii Ævi e Bibliotheca Regia Holmensi selecti, Phototypice Expressi).

Berlin, C. Fr. Amelang, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XXXVII,(2),872 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate.

Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, (1970). 8vo. Orig. grey self-wrappers w. black and blue lettering to front and spine. Near mint condition, in- as well as externally. 261, (1), (2, -advertisements) pp. First edition of this essential confrontation with Heraclitus, that of the presocratics who was of the greatest importance to the development of Heidegger's philosophy.

Paris, Bernard, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. Spine slightly rubbed. In: "Annales de Chimie", tome 59. 342 pp. and 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Desormes & Clement's paper: pp. 329-339. First edition of the paper which for the first time explained catalysis - the intermediate compound theory. According to this theory, the desired reaction is brought about by a path involving the formation of an unstable intermediate compound, followed by its decomposition into the desired end products with the regeneration of the catalyst.Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1806 C.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1892 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip and a small nick to front wrapper. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. XL. [40]. Band. 1. Heft." Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Hölder:] Pp. 55-88. [Entire issue: Pp. 1-156]. First printing of Hölder's paper on group theory. "Hölder owed his interest in group theory and Galois theory primarily to Kronecker, but also to Felix Klein, in whose seminar at Leipzig Hölder participated soon after receiving his doctorate. Hölder turned his attention first to simple groups. Besides the simple groups of orders 60 and 168 already known at the time, he found no new ones with a composite order less than 200. Nevertheless, he considered his method to be "of some interest so long as we do not possess a better one suitable for handling the problem generally." Such a general method is still lacking, despite the progress and great efforts of recent years." (DSB)The issue also contains: 1. Klein, Felix. Ueber den Hermite'schen Fall der Lame'schen Differentialgleichung. Pp. 125-29.2. Klein, Felix. Ueber den Begriff des functionentheoretischen Fundamentalbereichs. Pp. 130-39.

Kjøbenhavn, Poppske Bogtrykkerie, 1829-30. 3 ensartede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte skindtitler. Kapitæler lidt slidte. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. XXVIII,470;(4),402;(4),516 pp. Fiske I,425.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1903. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 136, No 20. Pp. (1165-) 1216. (Entire issue offered). Korn's paper: pp. 1190-1192 and one diagram in the text. Disbound. First printing of one the papers in which Korn describes his invention in 1902 of the telephotographic machine (later the fax-machine).In 1902, Arthur Korn (1870-1945) in Germany invented telephotography, a means for transmitting still photographs by means of electrical wires. In 1907, Korn sent the first inter-city fax when he transmitted a photograph from Munich to Berlin. By 1906 his equipment was being put into regular service for transmission of newspaper photographs between Munich and Berlin via telegraph circuits. (Shiers & Shiers "Early Televison" No.303).

Ems, L.J. Kirchberger, 1844. Small 8vo. orig. full blindstaped cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and frontcover. (Gilding weak).Engraved frontispiece. XII,350,(4) pp, 5 folded tables, 1 folded lithographed map. + Oeconomisches Notizblatt. Ems, 1844. 15 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Strasbourg, Doulssecker le Pere, 1735. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (16),469,(19) pp., 3 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 2573.

København, Gyldendal, 1957. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Signed by the author on half-title: "Karen Blixen / 31.10.1957". Wrappers with a few nicks and tears, back-wrapper with a few stains. Internally nice and clean. 301 pp. First edition, signed by Blixen on half-title.

Paris, 1785. Cont. hcalf. Binding worn. Brownspotted. LVII, 563 pp.

Royal8vo. Orig. full green cloth, gilt frontcover. Back fine renewed. (290) pp. Many textfigs., some as plates. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, part of 1st Report).

Lyon, Baritel, 1687. - Lyon, Guerrier, 1697. One contemp. full calf. Wear to extremities, especially to spine. 198 pp. - 258 pp. Scattered brownspots and light browning. 2 quires loosening.

Esslingen u. München, (19o7). Lex8vo. Orig. pictorial full cloth. XX,307,XVIII pp. and 95 colourplates, richly textillustrated.

Havniae, Lillies, 1760. 8vo. In a recent cardboard binding with white paper title-label to front board. Title-page mounted in margin, light occassional brownspotting throughout. (12), 88 pp. Rare first appearance of White’s doctoral thesis on various functions and roles of hospitals such as such as treatment, care training and the design and layout of hospitals. Joris White was born in 1731 in Trondheim, son of Thorsten and Ingeborg White. He studied privately, earned degrees in philosophy (1750) and theology (1752) and then turned to medicine. He trained at Frederiks Hospital and became a medical doctor in 1760. In 1761, he was appointed mining physician and lecturer in Kongsberg but died in 1765.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1905. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine giltbut somewhat rubbed and remains of a taped label to loer part of spine. Stamp and handwritten number on titlepage. XIII,194 pp. Internally fine and clean, a few pages stamped. First edition.

Odense, uden trykker, 1752. Lille8vo. Orig. marmoreret papomslag. (52) pp. Lettere brunet. Det yderst sjældne originaltryk.

Nürnberg, Schneider und Weigel, 1805. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering. Top of spine taped. Spine a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (8),98,(4) pp., 2 folded, handcoloured plates.