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Breslau, Korn, 1797-1802. 4 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Volume 3 slightly different. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. Internally clean and fine.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1813 - Part I. Pp. 1-7. First appearance of this importent historical paper in which Davy describes how he produced Nitrogen Chloride."In September 1812 Davy heard from Paris of a compound of 'gaz zote et de chlore....", The discoverer and method of preparation were not stated, and Davy found no notice of it in the French literature. n a paper read on 5 November ....(the paper offered) he described its preparation by the action of chlorine on cooled solutions of ammonia, nitrate of ammonia, and oxalate of ammonia, and some of its explosive properties. He was seriously injured in the eye by an explosion."(Partington IV, p. 57-58).This explosion induced Davy to hire Faraday as a co-worker.Together with J.F.W.HERSCHEL "On a remarkable Application of Cote's Theorem. Communcated by by W. Herschel. Read November 12, 1812." Pp. 8-26 and 1 engraved plate.

Halle, Hendel und Sohn, 1819. Later hcloth, faint gilt lettering to spine. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (4),224,(2) pp. First and last leaves with some scattered brownspots.

Baltimore, The Franklin Press, (1811-12). Royal8vo. Bound in one contemp. full sprinckled calf. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Spine ends repaired. Slightly rubbed. (4- Titlepage a. Index),480 pp. (With all 26 issues). Light browning and some scattered brownspots. First edition of the first volume of Niles' Weekly Register. Niles edited and published the Weekly Register until 1836, making it into one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States and himself into one of the most influential journalists of his day. Devoted primarily to politics, Niles' Weekly Register is considered an important source for the history of the period.

(FRANKFURT am M., ca. 1690). Stort kobberstukket prospekt, 26 x 69 cm. (i passpartou), sammensat af 2 plancher, visende Københavns belejring 1658 under svenskekrigen, med Karl X Gustavs hær stående i forgrunden, København i fugleperspektiv med sundets bombarderende skibe i baggrunden og belejringsstyrkerne op til voldene. Det kobberstukne prospekt blev udgivet i Merian's Theatrum Europäum, som udkom med flere forskellige trykår.

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".

Dresden, Arnoldischen Buchh., 1820. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel gone. A little rubbed. Stamp on titlepage. XIV,136 pp., 1 large folded engarved plate. The first 4 leaves with brownspots in upper margin, a few scattered brownspots. Yellowing to the engraved plate. The scarce first edition.

(Paris), Éditions du Bélier, (1931). 4to. Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a fine longgrained hmorocco, gilt and blindtooled back. In slipcase. (Anker Kyster). No 379 of 857 "sur velin de chiffon..", a total of 1000 copies. Original woodcuts by Andreu.

Kbhvn., 1834-35. 2 samt. hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. XXX,750,V,688 pp. Her og der brunplettet. Første kirurgi på dansk.

Paris, 1878. Lex8vo. 625, 3, 583, 618 pp. Richly textillustr. a. 3 fold. litogr. plts.

London, 1912. 2 orig. full cloth. Slight wear to top a. bottom of spines. X,1598 pp., maps and a large folded map in pocket. - First edition.

K., 1853. Samt. slidt hldrbd. Nedre kapitæl revet op. Gennemgående skjold, plettet. BFN 616. Indeholder 4 førstetryk: Hjertesorg, "Alt paa sin rette Plads!", Nissen hos Spekhøkeren, Under Piletræet.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1803 - Part II. Pp. 383-508 and 8 engraved plates (3 folio size and folded, 1 map), depicting the apparatus for measuring. 4 plates with some marginal brownspots. First appearance of an importent paper, which contributed to the discussion of the dimension of the earth. William Mudge was appointed in 1791 to the ordnance trigonometrical survey, and became superintendent of the survey in 1798 and in that same year was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Shortly afterwards, he completed the first ever measurement of an arc of meridian stretching from Dunnose on the Isle of Wight to Clifton in Yorkshire. This was regarded as a very considerable advance in the scientific work of what had by then become the Ordnance Survey and contributed significantly to the international debate about the precise figure of the earth.

A Paris, 1796. Later hcalf. Gilt back. VI,264 pp. Engr.portr.,2 engr.plts. a. 1 engr.fold. map. A little brownspotted.

Paris, Octave Doin, 1907. Small 4to. 2 fine cont. hcalf. Backs with a few scratches. Backs gilt. 892,861 pp. and 222 + 219 illustr. in the text.

Torshavn, 1922-23. Med de tre orig. bogtrykte foromslag i et pænt privat hshirtbd. med skindtitel på ryg. 152,(2);142,(4);166,(2) pp. Med dedikation på foromslaget "Sprog-og Stednavneforskeren Gunnar Knudsen/ venligst fra/ Færingerne"

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1799 - 1804. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full flaming calf binding with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Light wear to extremities. Two small paper-labels pasted on to top of spines. Internally nice and clean. VIII, (6), 532 pp.; (12), 611 pp. Biblioteca Danica IV, 73. Provenance: From the library of Valdemar's Castle.

Paris, G. Masson, 1882. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 5e Series, Tome 27. 576 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 312-347 and 1 folded engraved plate. Textillustrations. (apparatus). First apperance of Becquerels first optical paper. Becquerel’s early research was almost exclusively optical. His first extensive investigations dealt with the rotation of plane-polarized light by magnetic fields (the paper offered). He turned next to infrared spectra (in the paper offered), making visual observations by means of the light released from certain phosphorescent crystals under infrared illumination. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the halfdozen years when he was most active in it.

Cologne & Francfort, Metternich, 1766. 4to. 2 contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richgly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spineends restored. Stampon title-pages. (8),882;(2),570,154,218 pp. Clean and fine. First edition.

Coph., London, 1930. 4to. Solid hcalf. XVI,129 pp. and plates with descriptions.

(Berlin, Haude & Spener, 1770). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles- Lettres", tome XXIV, pp. 384-408 and 1 table. Fine and clean. First Edition. - This paper concerns the following problem: Any number of persons of one same age, half men, half women, are married together the same year, to find the probability that, the half of this complete number of married persons being dead, all the marriages will be broken. - Todhunter: History of the Theory of Probability 624 (p. 335).

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).

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.

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

Berlin, Schenck 1892. 4to. Later half cloth. Stamp on titlepage. 272 pp.