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Paris, Nyon l'aîne, 1782. Later hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on foot of title-page. XIV,(2),360,(24) pp., 27 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 1505.

Paris, Osmont, 1672. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raise bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Ex-libris (Juel of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. Wear to extremities, a few small holes to front board and head of spine with a bit of loss of leather. Lower margin (with the previous owner's name) cut out, not affecting text, otherwise internally nice and clean. (4), 380 pp. Later edition of this interesting guide to court life and the instruction of courtiers, teaching gentlemen the art of living at court - and how to remain there.

Kbhvn. 1952. 4to. Orig. halvshirt. 188 pp. Nr. 394 af 600 numm.ekspl.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 41. Entire issue offered. Pp. 81-102. [Entire volume: VIII, 934 pp.]. First appearance of this important paper in which Pauli (in a footnote) introduced for the first time the probability for a many-particle system with coordinates.The following paper is included in volume:LAUE, Max von & Lise MEITNER: "Die berechnung der reichweitestreuung aus Wilson-Aufnahmen." Here Meitner and von Laue report their inconclusive efforts to test a theoretical formula of Bohr's that related statistical variations in range to the mechanism by which alpha particles lost energy to the atoms they encountered.

Copenhague et Geneve, Philibert, 1775. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. All edges coloured in red. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches, parts of gilting worn off. First and last leaves brownspotted, otherwise internally nice and clean. XXXII, 228 pp.; 228 pp. Third edition of Bonnet's work on psychology. "Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" (Caillet, 1402).

Leipzig, Weigel, 1810. 8vo. Contemp. modest hcloth with handwritten papertitle on spine. (2),CCXXXVIII,172,180,164,(2) pp. A small tear at foot of title-page repaired, no loss. Internally fine, printed on good paper. Text in Greek and Latin. Second printing (the best) of De Furia's noted edition. "Reprinted at Leipzig (the offered item), in a very handsome and more copious manner, in the following year (1810). This beautiful and elaborate editions presents us with the Fables of Æsop before they had been corrupted (as is supposd) by their first editor, Planudes. The text is taken from a celebrated and very ancient MS, preserved at Florence, in the Library of the Cassini Monks; written in a different style, and greatly departing, from the received text... This appears to be, upon the whole, the very best edition of Æsop extant." (Dibdin I, p. 252).

Paris, Chez Fuchs, An VII, (1799). Without wrappers..In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 29, 2. Cahier. Pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Humboldt's paper: pp. 125-160. First printing of perhaps Humboldt's most importent paper in chemistry."In fact, immediately following this clash (the clash with Fourcroy over the vitalistic principle in organic chemistry, where Fourcroy considered "that Mr. Humboldt proceed to quickly in his explanations"), Humboldt went to Vauquelin and Fourcroy's laboratories in Paris where he sought to gain experience on the new French methodology. Thanks to this training, Humboldt wrote a memoir on the earth's absorption of oxygen that was soon to become famous (the paper offered). This memoir is also the evidence that Humboldt had joined the new way of reasoning in chemistry."(Angela Bandinella)

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1857. Small 8vo. Bound with both original front wrappers in a later (ab. 1900) green full cloth w. gilt leather title-label to spine. Some brownspotting. W. half titles. VIII, 314; VIII, 298 pp. First Tauchnitz edition of the first biography of Charlotte Brontë by the important English novelist of the Victorian era, the author of "Mary Barton" and "Cranford", and a close friend of Charlotte Brontë. This edition appeared in the same year as the first edition (London, 1857), in the series "Collection of British Authors".

Kjøbenhavn, Popp, 1809. Smukt samtidigt helldrbind i marmoreret kalv. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Bred forgyldt bordure på permer. Indvendig forgyldt bordure. Kantforgyldning.Stempel på titelblad. (10),260;272,(2) pp., 5 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Trykt på skrivepapir. I udstyr som gaveeksemplar.

Kbhvn., 1921. Lex8vo. Omslagene med rifter, lidt løs i heftningen. (12),567,795 pp. + Atlas med 20 plancher. Tekstillustr. og 153 plancher.

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1900. Contemp. hcloth. Orig. printed frontwrapper pasted on upper board. Stamp on title-page. XI,336 pp., numerous plates and textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.

London, HSMO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1875 Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities, and a few brown spots to the first leaves, otherwise fine and clean. VI, 448 pp. + 8 folded coloured plates. Rare first edition of the official British report on ship wrecks and casualties in United Kingdom's waters for the year 1874/1875.

København, 1894. Originalt komponeret lysebrunt helshirtbd. Helt guldsnit. Navnetræk på forsatspapir. Rent, friskt og fast eksemplar. Også indvendig ren og frisk. Originaludgaven.

Kjøbenhavn, Höpffner, 1757. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and blind stamped ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Miscolouring to upper margin of front board and scratches to back board. Internally with light occassional foxing. From pp. 779 with wormtract in lower margin, occassionally affecting text. 858, (21) pp. Third edition. Ehr.-Müller X:59.

Paris, Freien Deutschen Hochschule, 1938. Orig. printed wrappers. In. "Zeitschrift für Freie deutsche Forschung", Vol. I, no. 1:pp. 5-19 a. no. 2, pp. 1-14. Whole issues present: "Nummer" 1 u. 2., pp. 1-168 a. pp. 1-144. The German version from the same year in which the paper was printed in "Franklin Institute Journal", vol. 221, 1936. - Weyl. 197.

Sth., 1875-83. 4 samt.hshirtbd. St.p.t. Med 18 kortbilag.

Odense, Christian Iversen, 1783. Høj 8vo. Samtidigt hellæderbd. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. To titelblade. Stempel på 2. titelblad. (12),879 pp. Også med titelbladet: "Samtlige Europæiske Rigers og Staters Historie indtil vore Tider, et fuldstændigt pragmatisk Udtog af de beste Historikers Verke med hvert Riges Geographie og Statistik, Første Bind: Kongeriget Sverrig." (Alt som udkom). Rift udbedret på 2. titelblad, uden tab.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1764). 4to. Without wrappers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCLXII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiques & de Physique, pour la même Année." Pp. 337-401 and 1 large folded engraved map (Cours de la Riviere d'Yvette, de celle de Biêvres ou des Gobelins, et du Canal qui doit mener à Paris l'eau de l'Yvette, Prise à Vaugien). (30x52 cm.). First edition of the paper in which Deparcieux laid out the plan for bringing the water of the Yvette River to Paris, - the plan which was first carried out after his death.

Calcutta, 1913-14. 8vo. Bound in 2 cont. modest full cloth. Somewhat worn and not uniform. XXXI,444 pp. and 78 plates with many illustr. 2 leaves repaired with japan-paper. Upper of the plates dampstained. A few small wormtracts. First edition. Garrison & Morton No 6488.

Kopenhagen & Leipzig, Heineck und Faber, 1780. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Light wear to extremities. Tear to head of spine. Internally with a few occassional brown spots, but otherwise a good copy. (4), 234, (2), 237, 338, (2) pp. Second expanded edition of Tode's famour work in which he proved that gonorrhoea and syphilis are two different diseases. Not in Garrison & Morton.

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1951. 8vo. In the original full cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Small stamp to front free end paper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. VII, (3), 347 pp. First edition, second impression of Katona's seminal work constituting one of the very first to advocate a rapprochement between economics and psychologists.Katona contrasted "genuine decision" and "habitual behavior". In fact, neoclassical economics deemed human decision making as genuine decision (with complete rationality), whereas evolutionary economics emphasized that economic behavior take a form of habits and customs. "Katona developed the theory and substance of psychological economics, with particular attention to the effects of national events on the confidence, expectations, plans and ultimately behaviour of masses of individual. From a background in Gestalt psychology, he noted that there can be major restructuring of the way people interpret their world and its future, leading to sometimes dramatic shifts in behaviour." (The New Palgrave).

Berlin, Himburgischen Buchhandlung, 1806. Uncut in 4 volumes with original printed pink wrappers. Stamp on title-pages. 256,244,254,275 pp.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1840. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 1840, 3 Heft". Without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Guderman:] Pp. 240-292. First printing of the second part of Gudermann's papers on modular functions and modular integrals, ideas which anticipated his 1844-book."Gudermann devoted much more attention to the theory of special functions. After the earlier works of Leonhard Euler, John Landen, and A. M. Legendre (Gauss's results were still in manuscript), Niels Abel's studies on elliptical functions, published mostly in A. L. Crelle's Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik, represented an important divide in treating this area. In 1829 Carl Jacobi's book Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum was published. At the time Gudermann was one of the first mathematicians to expand on these results. Beginning with volume 6 (1830) of Crelle's Journal, he published a series of papers which he later summarized in two books: Theorie der Potenzialoder cyklisch-hyperbolischen Functionen (1833) and Theorie der Modular-Functionen und der Modular-Integrale (1844), which were to have had a sequel which was never written." (DSB).

Paris, 1806 8vo. In three uniform contemporary half calf bindings with red leather title-labels to spines with gilt lettering. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Corners bumped, otherwise a fine and clean set. XII, 112 pp.; Pp. 113-176 pp.; Pp. 177-256 + numerous plates depicting French artworks. Eights edition of French archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir's important work on France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Saint-Denis and Sainte-Geneviève.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume XXIII, Number 3, January 1944. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine and previous owner's signature to front wrapper. Other wise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 282-332. [Entire issue: Pp. 207-336.]. First printings of this seminal paper which constitute the beginning of the research with was to be known as Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. it is considered a classic within the field of statistics and probability theory. The Rice distribution is an extension of the Rayleigh distribution that adds a coherent signal to the backscattered signal that underlies the Rayleigh distribution.The model is named after Stephen O. Rice who worked at Bell Labs for nearly forty years. His most famous and influential publication is the present article; in 1983 he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. "In 1944 and 1945, S. O. Rice published a monumental study of noise, generally regarded to be the single most useful source of information about Gaussian noise." (Millman, A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 41).