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Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1643. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Some browning to spine and covers. Ms title on spine. Engraved title-page (mounted). (22),672,44 pp. Some old underlining to the first 150 pp. A faint dampstain to some upper right corners of some leaves in the middle of the book. A few scattered brownspots. Angraved medaillon of Ersamus in the text (foreword). Second Elzevier-edition, the first 1636. - Willems: 552.

Lund, 1950-65. Lex8to. Del 1 til 2 i 2 private halvlæderbind med orig. foromslag, ryg med ophøjede bind. 3. del heftet. Skånsk Senmedeltid och Renässans, 4-6. Med dedikation fra udgiverne til professor Poul Andersen.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part II. With titlepage to Part II. Pp. 221-231 a. 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First printing of Cavendish's last paper.This paper relates to his astronomical interests and describes three improved methods of graduating astronomcal instruments.

Paris, Balliere, 1864. 8vo. In a later half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) to pasted down front end-paper. Internally occassionally brownpostted and with underlignings and annotations in pencil. VIII, 157 pp. The first edition of Taine's study on Mill and English Positivism in general in which he advocates for an alternative, distinctly French philosophy. Taine criticizes Mill for his excessive empiricism, arguing that by limiting himself to experience and its immediate data, Mill has merely described the English mind while believing he was describing the human mind.

Jena, Joh. Martin. Gollnerum, 1713. 4to. No wrappers. Uncut. (8),48 pp. The first quire (8 pp.) heavely browned.

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1949. Lex8vo. Volume 76, November 1, No. 9, 1949 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor browning to extremities very slight wear to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper (C. Møller). A fine and clean copy. Pp. 1403-1405. [Entire issue: Pp. 1275-1422]. First publication of Bardeen's paper on diffusion in binary alloys.Bardeen is known as the inventor of the transistor, for which he, together with Shockley, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Bardeen is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, first in 1956 and again in 1972 for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory) and thus also became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1869. Samtidigt hldrbd. i flammet kalv med rygforgyldning og blindtryk. Rygforgyldningen svag. Hjørner stødte. IX,186 pp. Spredte brunpletter, mest forrest og bagerst i bogen. Første danske udgave af kvindefrigørelsens kampskrift, her oversat og udgivet samme år som originalen "The Subjection of Women" (1869).Scarce first Danish edition of Mill's "The Subjection of Women".

(Copenhagen, (1827) 1828-29). 4to. Uden omslag. Første bind ubeskåret. Rent frisk eksemplar på skrivepapir. Fra (Extracted) "Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter" Pp. 21-248 samt pp. 1-236. First printing of this important botanical work, describing in total 345 new species of Guinean plants, 245 is supplied with Latin descriptions made by Thonning and about 100 by Schumacher. There is 18 new genera described. - Stafleu & Cowan 11.360. - Carl Christensen Bd.2: p. 116.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 183-244. Clean and fine. First printing of a classic paper on the theory of sound propagation, containing the famous fog signal experiments aiming at establishing fog-signals on the Coast of England. The investigations started from South Foreland near Dover at the signal-station.

Paris, Janet (1805). 24mo. Contemporary full calf, spine and boards gilt. (16), 24; (22), 40, (20) pp. With engraved title, a calender for 1806 and 12 engraved plates. A few notes in old hand. Calendar for the year XIV of the Republic, with the corresponding dates in the old calendar.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1908. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1908 durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann. 65. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. Wrappers with a few nicks, internally fine and clean. [Hausdorff:] Pp. 435-505. [Entire issue: Pp. 433-575]. First printing of Hausdorff important paper in which a generalization of Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis was presented for the first time. This is equivalent to what is now called the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.The continuum hypothesis is a hypothesis, put forth by Georg Cantor in 1877, about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states: "There is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers."Felix Hausdorff is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and he contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.

London, Faber and Faber, (1958). Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. Previous owners name on front free endpaper, otherwise mint condition. First English edition.

Landshut, Thoman, 1830. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. (6),178,(2) pp. A few faint brownspots.

København., 1904-10. Lex8vo. 2 samt.hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. 559,667,VII pp. Illustr. med tekstillustrationer og foldekort. Heri talrige artikler om grønland, Dansk Vestindien, Island og Færøerne.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1846. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 33 Band, 1. Heft, 1846". In the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. Last leaf with repair. [Eisenstein:] Pp. 59-70; Pp. 71-88. [Entire issue: IV, 92, (2) + 2 plates.]. First printing of two papers by Eisenstein, one of them (Beiträge zur Theorie...) being the first of his 1846-47-period where he mainly occupied himself with the theory of elliptic functions.Even though the German mathematics prodigy Eisenstein's died prematurely at the age of 29, he managed to prove biquadratic reciprocity, Quartic reciprocity, Cubic reciprocity, to be imprisoned by the Prussian army for revolutionary activities in Berlin and making Gauss state that: "There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein". Alexander von Humboldt, then 83, accompanied Eisenstein's remains to the cemetery. The papers presented in the present issue is among his most prominent and made him famous throughout the mathematical world. (James, Driven to innovate, P. 88). The issue also contain papers by famous contemporary mathematicians such as: C. G J. Jacobi, A. Cayley, Dirichlet and J. Steiner."Eisenstein soon became the subject of legend, and the early literature about him is full of errors. His treatises were written at a time when only Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet had any conception of what a completely rigorous mathematical proof was. Even a man like Jacobi often admitted that his own work sometimes lacked the necessary rigor and self-evidence of methods and proofs." (DSB)

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1883. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, without wrappers. No. 7, Vol. 7, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 36 pp. + 1 plate. First edition of Arrhenius very first published work. "After attending the Cathedral School in Uppsala, Arrhenius entered the University of Uppsala at the age of seventeen. He studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and passed the candidate's examination in 1878. Arrhenius chose physics as the principal subject for his doctoral study, but he was not satisfied with his chief instructor, Tobias Robert Thalén, Although Thalén was an eminent and competent experimental physicist and lecturer, he was interested only in spectral analysis. Arrhenius went to Stockholm in 1881 with the intention of working under Erik Edlund, physicist of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The results of his first independent research, entitled "The Disappearance of Galvanic Polarization in a Polarization Vessel, the Plates of Which Are Connected by Means of a Metallic Conductor" [The present work]. (DSB)

København, 1781. Forløberen for Berlingske Tidende.Indbundet ubeskåret i eet samtidigt papbind uden rygtitel, ryg lidt slidt.

Lugd.Bat.(Leyden), 1660. 8vo. Cont.full vellum. Engr.title. (26),938 pp. + Index.

Stockholm, Carl Délen, 1805. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Lille papirsetiket påsat nederst på ryg. Stempel på titelbladet. (6),(4 = Prenumeranter),602,(2) pp. Tilskrift i blæk på foden af 1 blad. De første 10 blade med en svag skjold, ellers ren og velbevaret.

(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part II. Pp. 163-173 a. (Dalton:) pp. 174-187. First appearance of both works as printed together in the "Transactions".A classic paper by CHARLES BELL on the function of the nervous system, one of the researches in preparation of his famous work "The nervous Systems of the Human Body" from 1830.In his paper JOHN DALTON takes up themes which had occupied him since his great work from 1793 "Meteorological Observations and Essays" and in his Manchester Papers of 1801, where he established the atomic theory.

Stuttgart, J.B. Wetzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1819-20. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. full cloth. Spines gilt with gilt lettering. Some wear to spine ends. Some wear along hinges on 2 volumes. XXIV,414,II;(4),522,(2);(4),394,(2);(4),413 pp. Some brownspots and browning throughout. Scarce first edition.

Small 4to. All orig. wrappers. Loose in publishers portfolio and slipcase. No 495 of 500 copies. Many fine colour-engravings by Traynier.

München u. Berlin, R. Oldenburg, 1930 2 orig. hcloth. XXVII,396;XVI,348 pp. and portrait-plates.

Berlin, Posen und Bromberg, 1828. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. stamp on title-page. XVI,302,(2) pp., 8 folded engraved and handcoloured plates. Mild browning to title-page. Clean and fine.

Paris, Moutard, 1777. Bound in 5 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs, tome-and titlelabels in leather. Back lightly rubbed. Top of spines a bit worn.