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Edinburgh, London, (1959). 4to. Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. IX,230 pp., 44 plates (18 in colour).

A Cosmopolis, se vend à Paris, 1760. Small 8vo. 3 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Wear to top of spines. Small cracks to leather at upper joint on volume I. Stamp on title-pages. XII,150,XIV,191;VIII,456;XII,381 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, Brødrene Salmonsen, 1876. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Lttere brugsspor ved kanter. XXIII,570,(1) pp., portræt, et foldekort, 7 tonede litografier. Indvendigt rent frisk eksemplar. First Danish edition of "Journal of Recherches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy. 1839." - Freeman No. 174.

Kbhvn., 1867-83. Ubeskåret med originale omslag. Ialt 16 bind(hefter).

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 55, Heft 4. The whole number present, pp. (241)-336. Einsteins paper, pp. (241)-244. First printing, the periodical form. Einstein believed, around 1918, "in the relativity of inertia that in 1918 (in the paper offered) he stated as being on equal footing three principles on which a satisfactory theory of gravitation should rest: 1. The principle of relativity as expressed by general covarianc. 2. The principle of equivalence. 3. Mach's principle (the first time this term entered the literature): 'Das G-Feld ist 'restlos' durch die Massen der Körper bestimmt.', that is, the g.. are completely determined by the mass of bodies, more generally bu T.."(Pais, The Science of Albert Einstein, p.287). - Weil:96. - Boni: 100.

Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1757-62. Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. Light wear to two top of spines. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. In all ca. 3700 pp. Internally clean.

Paris, Jombert pere, 1772. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XVI,482,(4) pp. Clean and fine.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part I. Pp. 62-73 a. pp. 74-93. First appearance of two importent papers i chemical analysis.. The first contains accounts of the 'combining proportion' of fluorine and the efforts to isolate the radical he called fluorine after a suggestion by Ampere. "It also contains experiments and remarks on the elementary nature of chlorine, and Davy used Gay-Lussac's law of volumes in correcting the experimentaælresults."(Partington IV, pp. 58 ff)."Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lectures." Another notable paper comes together with avy's papers: THOMAS BRANDE "The Bakerian Lecture: on some new Electro-chemical Phenomena. Read November 25, 1813." Pp. 51-61 a. 1 engraved plate showing the experimental apparatus used.

Berlin, 1907. 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt backs. Four raised bands. Title- and tome lables with gilt lettering. Spines rubbed. Loss to upper capital and crack to back hinge on vol. I. White library numbering to lower compartments of spines. Stamps to title pages. Internally clean. V,(3),398,(2) + 8 maps;XII,483 + 8 maps pp. Second and third printing.

Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1837-38. Indbundet i 4 pragtfulde røde saffiansprægede hellæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Permer med brede forgyldte rammebordurer og blindtrykte. Forgyldte hjørnestemplet i indre rammer. Indvendige forgyldte bordurer, helt guldsnit og kantforgyldning. Ialt omkr. 800 pp., 9 foldeplancher (kort og planer). Her og der lidt brunpletter i teksten.

København, Høst & Søn, 1917. 4to. Bound uncut with the original wrappers in a very nice recent half calf with gilt lettering to spine. With the author's presentation inscription to front wrapper. In "D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter". A very nice and clean copy. 208, (2) pp. + 7 plates, 7 maps & 50 illustrations in text. First appearance of Wesenberg-Lund's famous and extensive study on the Furesø Lake.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 128, No 13. Pp. (753-) 852. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 771-777. First appearance of Henri Becquerel last paper on radio-activity in the first period, two years after his monumental discovery of radioactivity.

(Kiøbenhaffn, Henrik Kruse/ Peder Andersøn, 1630). 4to. Samtidigt helpergamentsbd. (6),302,(2) pp. Lettere brunplettet. Ikke komplet: mangler titelbladet, 4 blade i registeret og sidste blad med kolofonen er defekt. Originaludgaven. Thesaurus II,648. - Bibl. Dan.V,221.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1877. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 12., 1877. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 87-89; Pp. 90-122. [Entire volume: IV, 576 pp.]. First printing of Brill's paper which was of seminal importance in the development of the discriminant of an algebraic number field.The definition of the discriminant of a general algebraic number field, K, was given by Dedekind in 1871. Hermite's theorem predates the general definition of the discriminant with Charles Hermite publishing a proof of it in 1857. In 1877, Alexander von Brill determined the sign of the discriminant.The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1852. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 86, No 6. Pp. 161-336 a. 1 plate. Clausius' paper: pp. 161-205. With titlepage to volume 86. An early paper on electrodynamics in which Clausius determines the "Potentialfunktion", introduced by George Green in 1828 . The issue contains also Plúcker un Geissler's importent paper "Studien über Thermometrie und verwandte Gegenstände", pp. 238-279."The first account of Geissler’s activity dates from 1852, when, with Julius Plücker, at Bonn, he constructed his famous standard thermometers. They differed from the thermometers then in use by their thin glass, by the application of capillarity, and by their high precision. For calibrating he used his new glass balance that had a sensitivity of 0.1 mg. of mercury."(DSB).

Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, (1974). 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. X,306 pp. (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization No. 37).

Paris, Levy et Cie, (1896). Folio. (43x32 cm). Bound uncut with orig. printed wrappers in a recent fine full cloth. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering on spine. X,240,(6) pp. 34 engraved plates and 104 textillustrations. Internally clean and fine, printed on fine paper.

Bruxelles, S.B. Petit, 1840. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Wear to spineends and spine. Apart from engraved titlepage, there is notext but 153 fine lithographed plates of portraits. A dampstain in lower left corners of last 20 portraits, mostly marginal. Some scattered brownspots.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1887. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 10, 1887. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 310-12. [Entire volume: (4), 397 pp]. First printing of Poincaré's reply to Thomé's critique of an earlier paper by Poincaré. In his reply Poincaré "seems to have created a theory of asymptotic expansions where previously there had only been ad hoc techniques, and to have opened the door for the return into rigorous mathematics of divergent series." (Bottazzini, Hidden Harmony).

Leipzig, Barth, 1917. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vol. 53, 1917. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, stamp to title page. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 575-614. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.]. First printing of Kretschmann famous paper in which he claimed that Einstein's use of the principle of covariance in General Relativity is vacuous. Kretschmann claimed that the demand that a theory be put in generally covariant form does not limit or restrict the range of acceptable theories, but is simply a challenge to the mathematician's ingenuity. According to Kretschmann, any theory can be put in generally covariant form. Einstein responded that even if general covariance is not a purely formal limitation on acceptable theories, it plays "an important heuristic role" in the formulation of General Relativity."Erich Justus Kretschmann (born in Berlin in 1887) had just gotten his doctorate under the guidance of Max Planck by attempting to provide a Lorentzcovariant theory of gravitation. In December 1915 he published a two-part paper with a certain epistemological flavor (Kretschmann, 1915), in which, by relying on the work of Henri Poincaré and Ernst Mach, he argued that only "topological" relations encoded in pointcoincidences are directly accessible to experience (Sect. 3). It was only shortly after the paper was distributed that Einstein started to use the expression "point-coincidences" in private correspondence with Paul Ehrenfest, MicheleBesso and Hendrik Lorentz, in order to convince them that solutions of the field-equations that differ only by a coordinate transformation are physically equivalent (Sect. 2). Einstein then abruptly inserted the argument into thequite different mathematical tradition that had culminated in Ricci and Levi-Civita’s absolute differential calculus (Sect. 4). Kretschmann himself swiftly realized this, and in August 1917 he turned the public version of the pointcoincidence argument against Einstein in a paper that would make him famous [The present]. The paper rediscovered by James L. Anderson in the mid-1960s was destined to become a classic and has therefore been widely discussed in the historical and philosophical literature."

Kiøbenhavn, Berlingske Arvingers Bogtrykkerie, 1756. Samt. helldrbd. Rygforgyldning, 4 ophøjede bind. Titel i skind på ryg. Øverste kapitæl slidt ned. Permer let skrabede og hjørner lidt stødte. IV,608 pp. Ganske velbevaret eksemplar. Ehrencron-Müller X:323. Optryk af Berlings originaludgave fra 1744.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1802. Indbundet i 2 samtidige hldrbd. med tidstypisk rygforgyldning, Forgyldte skindtitler på rygge. XV,566;728,(2) pp. Nogle få brunpletter. Udmærket eksemplar.

Mid 19th century. Ring and jewelry handpainted in gold. 13 x 12 cm. In a colour frame. Inserted in intricate wooden frame.

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1913. 4to. (Reprint Oxford 1977). XII,49 pp. and 43 plates. (Archaelogical Survey of Egypt Edited by F.Ll. Griffith. 21. Memoir).

Kaupmannahöfn, Bianco Luno, 1851. Lille folio. Samtidigt helldrbd. uden rygtitel. Kapitæler slidte. Bindet med nogle brugsspor. VI,596 pp. Trykt i 3 spalter. Gl. ejernavn på fribladet: Bjørn G. Blöndal. Ordbogen blev et vigtigt redskab for udviklingen af det islandske skriftsprog.