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Bln., 1900. Small 4to. Cont.hcalf.Gilt back. Old name on title. XXII, 516 pp.

Wien, 1861. Cont.hcalf. Back loose. VI, 444 pp. and 2 litogr.plts.

London, H. Allen, 1844. Bound with orig. printed blue stiff wrappers in a later hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on title-page. IV,191 pp. First edition.

London, J. Lackington, 1788. Small8vo. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Spine gilt. Wear to spine ends and spine slightly rubbed. Engraved frontispiece and engraved titlevignette. XXVI,(1),193;X,VI,198,(2) pp. Internally clean.

Paris, Durand, Pissot, 1753. Small 8vo. Uncut with broad margins in later marbled boards. Lower right corner of titlepage mended. (6),231,(1) pp. and 2 large folded tables. Light scattered brownspots. First edition.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 123,, No 21. Pp. (771-) 854. (Entire issue offered). Fabry and Perot's paper: pp. 802-805. First printing of one of Becquerel's importent papers relating to his discovery of radioactivity this same year. Here he confirms that uranium salts emits some forms of radiation and these rays he names "rayons uraniques" (URANIUM RAYS)

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1910. Lex8vo. Ubeskåret og uopskåret. Heftetråd i midten løs. XXXVII,532 pp. and 4 plates. Rent, frisk eksemplar. (Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. 35).

kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1858. 4to. Uncut in orig. blue boards. Offprint from "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter" Nat.Vid. og Math. Afd. Femte Række, Bd.5". 78 pp. and 11 fine engraved plates with many figs. and 1 map. Clean and fine. First edition. - Stafleu & Cowan: 7019.

Napoli, Luigi Gargiuli, 1865. Bound with orig. green printed wrappers in a later full cloth. 45,(1) pp., 1 folded table and 1 large folded lithographed map. First edition.

Paris, Ducher, (1847). Large 4to. Cont.hcalf. 550 coloums and 46 engraved plates.

Paris, Ledoyen, 1857. Uncut and unopened in orig. blue printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and with a few tears, mainly backstrips. XXIX,249,(1);288;280,(1) pp.

Stuttgart, Carl Mäcken, 1855. 8vo a. folio. Bound in 2 contemp. half calf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. X,349 pp. + Atlas: (2) pp. and 31 engraved plates in double-folio. Scattered brownspots.

Baltimore & London, John Hopkins University Press, 1989. Folio. In the original uniform three full blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. A very fine and clean set. XXVI, 386; XXVIII, 328; 329-730 pp.

Orig. wrappers, uncut. No 346 of 600 "sur velin Montgolfier", a total of 718 copies. With 6 original etchings by Dignimont.

Berlin und Stettin, Friedrich Nikolai, 1818. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine and top of, somewhat worn. A Paperlabel on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlepage. XIV,(2),297,(12) pp. and 3 large folded engraved maps, all handcoloured. One map with a tear, but no loss. Some browning and brownspots throughout. With 3 leaves of handwritten notes by the Danish military historian H.J. Blom.

Anspach, Posch, 1773 - 1775. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities. Title-page slightly browned and upper margin with small stain, but internally generally nice and clean. XIV, 296, XXVIII, (2), 212, (6), 204, (1) pp. With numerous vignettes throughout.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1815. Lille 8vo. Samt. hldrbd. Lette brugsspor. XII,312 pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter.

Freyberg, Barthelischen Schriften, 1775. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Top of spine worn. Titlelabel in leather. Slightly rubbed. (24),130 pp. and 5 engraved folded plans. Light browning to leaves. First edition, forming I. Stück (vol.1) of Tielcke's "Beyträge zur Kriegs=Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763" - Also having the general title with engraved vignette.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars (as a paperlabel pasted on B.Tignot), (1891). Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Unopened. Sewing broken on back. Nearly all of backstrip preserved. (4),IV,432 pp.Textillustrations. Scattered brownspots, mainly marginal. A good copy. First French edition of "Theory of Heat" from 1871. The work contains the description of the so-called "sorting demon", a member of a class of "very small BUT lively beings incapable of doing work but able to open and shut valves which move without friction and inertia", and thereby defeat the second law of thermodynamics. The demon points to the statistical characyer of the law. (DSB IX, p. 227).

Kbhvn., 1924. Lex8vo. Samt. hldrbd. 547 pp. samt 87 tavler. Indeholder: 1. Nørlund, Poul. Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes. 2. Jonsson, Finnur. Interpretation of the Runic Inscriptions from Herjolfsnes. 3. Hansen, F.C.C. Anthropologia Medico-historica Groenlandica antiquæ I.

København, Gyldendal, 1912-30. Lille 4to. 7 smukke private hldrbd. med ophøjede bind på rygge. Oplaget var 235 eksemplarer. Originaltrykket.

Leipzig, Barth, 1880. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik und Chemie..." pp. 771-786 and 1 plate. First edition in the scarce offprint.

London, Halton & Truscott Smith, (1924). 4to. Bound in 4 orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt. Richly illustrated with plates in blac/white and colour. First edition.

Augsburg, Probst, 1768 u. 1776. Folio. Recent full fabrikoid. Gilt lettering on spine. (10),97,(5) - 55 pp. (Zugabe, with its own titlepage dated 1776) and 39 foldede engraved plates and 2 engraved vignettes. Lower third of all leaves and all plates heavely soiled and foxed.

Stuttgart, Johann Benedict Mezler, 1769. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. A nick to lower compartment. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (14),580 pp. and 4 engraved plates. Poggendorff I, 456.