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(Copenhagen, 1799). 4to. Without wrappers. In "Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 5". Minor soiling to outer margin. Pp. 607-614 + folded plate. First description of the Hammer Coral Euphyllia fimbriata. Other names this coral is known for, though inaccurately, are Anchor Coral and Frogspawn Coral.

London, Alston Rivers, n.d. (ca. 1906). Orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt. Corners a little bumped, light wear to spine ends. Upper right corner of htitle torn, no loss of text. IX,356 pp. Richly illustrated with plates. The large folded map at end with a tear, but no loss. First edition.

Magdeburg, Creutz, 1798. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Top og spine taped. Stamp on title-page. A few scattered brownspots. Internally fine. XLVIII,397,(1) pp., 17 folded engraved plans.

Torino, Fratelli Bocca, 1922. Royal8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original blue printed wrappers. In "Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino", Vol. LVII, Disp. 8a e 9a, 1921-1922. Small paper label pasted on to lower left part of front wrapper. A few nicks to front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 310-331. [Entire issue: Pp. 305-347]. First appearance of Peano's important paper operations of variables. The famous Italian mathematician, logical philosopher, pioneer of symbolic logic, and a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, Giuseppe Peano (1858 -1932) studied mathematics at the University of Turin, where he was employed just after graduating (1880), and where he stayed almost all of his life, devoting this to mathematics. After having graduated with honours, he was employed to assist first Enrico D'Ovidio, and then the renowned Angelo Genocchi, who possessed the chair of Infinitesimal calculus. In 1890 Peano became extraordinary professor, and in 1895 ordinary professor, of infinitesimal calculus at the Unversity of Turin. hIS "Principles of Arithmetics" (the present work) constitutes his groundbreaking main work.

Winterthur, 1857-59. 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. 736, 375, LXVI pp. and 15 plates.

Altona, Gebr. Burmeister, (1774-77). 4to. Alle 4 med kraftigt omslagspapir af farvet klistermarmor. Kalenderne og titler i rød/sort. Hvert bd. ca. 150 pp. Lettere brunplettet. Bibl. Dan. II:744.

Royal8vo. Uncut and loose as issued in publisher's hcloth-box, all wrappers. No 266 of 700. With 19 etched colourplates by Maurice Leroy.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XVIII, 1762. With halftitle "Classe de Mathematique" (2) pp. + pp. 117-142. Clean and fine. An original paper ( first printing) by Euler dealing with the mathematics of problems in the manufacturing of lenses.Enestroem: E 376.

(Stockholm, 1703). (33 x 42 cm.). Kobberstukket kort over Tempelgården i perspektiv. En ganske lille reparation nederste i midterfolden. I passpartou. Kobberstik til Carl XII's Bibel, udgivet 1703.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1950. 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal.", Volume XXIX, October, 1950, No. 4. pp. 469-495. [Entire volume: pp. 469-675]. A bit of sunning to spine and a crease to front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Bardeen's paper on hole concentration and germanium point contacts. 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 awrded 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 became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field. Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace, No. 450 (the journal issue). Other papers contained in the volume:1. Morton, J.A.; Ryder, R.M. Design Factors of the Bell Telephone Laboratories 1553 Triode. Pp. 496-530.2. Bowen, A.E.; Mumford, W.W. A New Microwave Triode: Its Performance as a Modulator and as an Amplifier. Pp. 531-552.3. Hines, M.E. A Wide Range Microwave Sweeping Oscillator. Pp. 553-559.4. Van Roosbroeck, W. Theory of the Flow of Electrons and Holes in Germanium and Other Semiconductors. Pp. 560-607. 5. Pierce, J.R. Traveling-Wave Tubes (Fourth Installment). Pp. 608-671.

Madrid, 1930. 4to. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering and stamp to front board. With the authors dedication to title-page. With occassional marginal underlignings in pencil. 62 pp. First edition of Prof. De Buen chronological list of voyages, long and short, made by vessels of all countries that have resulted in addition to oceanographical knowledge"The entries are arranged separately for each country, and indications are in most cases given of objects or results of the voyages, names of the leaders, and in some cases of scientific personnel. The compiler is open to receive corrections or additions to the list, which indeed appears to be very complete already. The earlier entries, which begin at the end of the fifteenth century, are for voyages primarily of a geographical nature. It is interesting to note that the British records, although not given in great detail, occupy nearly one-half the whole." (Nature, 1932).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1771). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires des l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXV, pp. 303-318. Fine and clean. First edition of this importent paper in algebraic analysis, read before the Academy October 29, 1767 and published as a Memoir 1771. He employed Cramer's method of symmetric functions but made it more rapid by use of the series development of log (1+u).

London, Taylor and Francis, 1833. 4to. As extracted, in "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", volume 4. Fine and clean. Pp. (21)-87. First edition.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1804 - Part II. Pp. 313-345. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in which Hatchett communicates his discovery that iron must be combined with a large portion of either carbon, phosphorus or sulphur in order to acquire the property of receiving permanent magnetic virtue, there being, however, a limit beyond which an excess of either of the above-named substances renders the compound wholly incapable of exhibiting the magnetic energy.Together with another paper by Patrick Russell: "Remarks on the voluntary Expansion of the Skin of the Neck, in the Cobra de Capello or booded Snake of the East Indiea. With a Description of the Structure ofthe Parts which perform that Office. By Everard Home." Pp. 346-352 a. 2 large engraved plates showing the snake.

Nijmegen, 1937. 8vo a.Folio XI, 487 pp., 91 maps a. 10 plts.

Berlin, G.C. Rauck, 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVI,544 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 751.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1746). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", 1745, tome I. Pp. 54-70 and with halftitlepage to the section. First printing of an importent papeer in which Bernoulli gives his solution of the problem of a mass point constrained to slide within a rigid rotating body. His solution was obtained from other principles than Euler, who gave a solution at the same time, obtaining the same result. This paper was translated into German and reprinted in Ostwald’s Klassiker der Exacten Wissenschaften, no. 191."The principle of areas and an extended version of the principle concerning the conservation of live force, both of which furnished integrals of Newton’s basic equations, were published by Bernoulli, probably with Euler’s assistance, in the Berlin Mémoires in 1745 and 1748. The principle of areas was used and clearly formulated almost simultaneously by Bernoulli and Euler in their treatments of the problem involving the movement of a tube rotating around a fixed point and containing freely moving bodies.!(DSB).The Bernoulli paper comes together with LEONHARD EULER "De la Force de Percussion et de sa veritable Mesure. Traduit de Latin" (Percussion and its true measurement), pp. 21-53, but lacking the plate. (Enestroem: E 82). An importent on the forces of percussions.

(Le Caire, Institur Francais, 1989). Folio. XI,243 pp. + Reproduction du papyrus et Transcription.

Leipzig, Franz, 1817. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. XX,443,(4) pp., 9 folded engraved plans.

A la Haye, Gosse, 1758. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. (4), XL, 830 pp. + 3 folded plates and 1 folded table.

Elhøy, 1770. Samtidigt marmoreret omslag. På skrivepapir. Originaltrykket. Yders sjælden. Heri udtrykker Ewald sorgen over Bernstorffs fald.

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. X, 164 pp. + 6 folded coloured plates. Rare first edition of the official British report on sea casualties in United Kingdom's waters for the year 1883-84.

Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1841-44 och 1843. De 4 dele er indbundet i et velbevaret samtidigt hldrbd. med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel: "Skrifter af Huss". (2),78;(2),106;(4),228 pp. samt 3 foldede tabeller og 14 udfoldelige litograferede plancher. + 139 pp. vedlagt egenhlændigt breb fra Huus til kollegaen Dr. Warfvinge "Min käre Doctor Warfvinge !...", dateret 7. Jan. 85 (1885). 2 sider 8vo. Brevet har fagligt indhold. Waller: 5012 (Cliniska Analecter).

A Paris, Et.Le doux,1822-24. 14 cont.hcalf.

Bruxelles, J.P. Meline (Imprimerie de J. Stienon), 1837. Cont. black hcalf w. richly gilt back. Upper capital a bit worn. All edges marbled. A few leaves w. a bit of brownspotting. Rare edition of Lacroix's interesting book about the Man in the Iron Mask, which is a heavily discussed theme in French litterature. During the reign of Louis XIV, the mysterious man in the iron mask, the face of whom nobody saw, was kept prisoner in a number of jails, among these the Bastille, in the last half of the 17th century. According to Lacroix's theory, the Man in the Iron Mask was Nicolas Fouquet, who was imprisoned in Pignerol in 1665. Fouquet (1615-1680) was Viscount of Melon and Vaux, superintendant of finances to Louis XIV and protector of writers and artists, untill he fell in ill grace in 1661, was imprisoned and died under mysterious circumstances.Paul Lacroix (1807-1884) is renowned for his several important historical works and his numerous works of bibliographical contents, regarding which he can be said to have continued the tradition of Nodier. He wrote a number of historical novels, which were very popular at the time. They were reprinted numerous times, and were translated into several languages. Most of his works are published under pseudonym, because of which he is now best known under the name of "Bibliophile Jacob". Aged 28 he was awarded the cross of the "Légion d'Honneur" for his work on the history of the 16th century, and 1842 he founded "L'Alliance des Arts" together with M. Thoré. Apparently the first edition, which is quite scarce, appeared in Paris in 1836. Not in Carteret.