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Berlin, Paul Parey, 1915. Lex8vo. Bound in a fine solid hcalf with raised bands. Blindtoolings to compartments. VIII,836 pp., 18 colourplates a. 242 Textill.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1894. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 18, 1894. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page and light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 155-59.[Entire volume: (4), 421, (2) pp]. First printing of Hilbert's paper in which he introduced The Hilbert Matrix. In linear algebra, a Hilbert matrix is a square matrix with entries being the unit fractions. The Hilbert matrix is symmetric and positive definite and is also totally positive (meaning the determinant of every submatrix is positive). The Hilbert matrix is an example of a Hankel matrix.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1802. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. XVI,356;(4),374;(4),384,(4) pp., 1 large folded engraved map (by Lapie). A closed tear to map. A few scattered brownspots.

(St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1740). 4to. No wrappers. In: Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae, Volume 7, pp. 67-85, 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First edition. - Eneström,37.

(Paris, Bachelier, 1839). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome IX, No 14). Entire issue offered. Pp. 415-436. Daguerre's letter: pp. 423-429. First printing of Daguerres letter to Arago in which he relates the process of heliography and describes his contract with Niépce to exploit the heliogrphis process. The Heliogravure was invented by Niépce.

Paris, Bernard, AN VI, 1797. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Spine very attractive, but part of leather on frontcover with some small nicks. (4),213 pp. Internally fine and clean. First edition. Cousin was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and his mathematical works inspired Sophie Germain.

Paris, Bachelier, 1837. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Back worn and loosening. Block and covers tight. XVI,734,(2) pp., 5 folded engraved plates. Some browning throughout. Fifth edition of Lacroix's famous work, which was used in his teaching, particularly at the École Polytechnique as a popularization of his great mathematical contribution "Traité du Calcul differentiel 1797-98."

Kiel, 1906. Lex8vo. Nice orig.hcalf. Gilt back. Portr, 1092 pp.

Bergen, 1931. 4to. 264 pp. Textillustreret. Omslag løst. Med dedikation til C. Neergaard.

Berlin, C.G. Lüderitz, 1843. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Top of spine with alittle wear and taped. X,568 pp., 2 lithographed portraits (Belling a. Blücher) and 1 facsimile-plate. Light yellowing to leaves. First edition.

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1903. Cont. hcloth. With original printed frontwrapper pasted on frontcover. (6),253 pp. A few pencil underlinings. First edition of this collection of Lexis' importent statistical papers, where his famous Q coefficient of dispersion were re-examined. In a review of it Bortkiewicz concludes, that Lexis has known to clarify and synthesize the most general problems of moral and demographic statistics. Lexis' coefficent foreshadowed the statistics of K. Pearson and R.A. Fisher, in particular X2 for the analysis of variance.

Kjøbenhavn, Schønbergs Forlag, 1860. Samtidigt hshirtbd. med rygforgyldning. (6),132 pp., litograferet kort samt 2 træsnitillustrationer, det ene helsides, det andet halvsides. Spredte brunpletter, mest bagerst.

Schleswig, Serringshauses Buchdruckerei, 1790. Contemp. hcalf. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (16),XIV,174 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate.

Copenhagen, 1781. 4to. Without wrappers. In "Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1". A few leaves detached. Pp. 240-248 + plate. First appearance of the first description of Madrepora Cochlea (Coral).

Bruxelles, Lesigne, 1925. 4to. Later hfabrikoid. Printed titlelabel on spine. Bound with original printed frontwrapper. Stamp on htitle. 620,(2) pp., 8 plates, richly textillustrated. Internally clean and fine.

Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1850. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Light wear along edges. Stamp on title-page. XVI,356 pp., 1 folded table, 9 folded lithographed plates.

Leipzig, Caspar Fritschens Witwe, 1748-49. 2 contemp. boards. Spine and covers worn, paper on spine nearly all gone on vol. 2. (16),647;(8),528,(22 Register) pp., 6 folded engraved plates, showing chirurgical instruments. Scattered brownspots and internally traces of use. First German edition. A wide used chirurgical work in Germany in the 18th century, running through several editions. Translated from the authors main work "Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis..." Leipzig 1745.

London, W. Nicholson, 1808. Contemp. hcalf, but clothbacked later. Corners bumped. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson. Vol. XXI. VIII,384,(8) pp. a. 10 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Avogadro's paper: pp. 278-290. Internally clean. First English edition of Avogadro's first printed paper (originally in Journal de Physique LXIII, 1806). It deals with electricity. "He considered the state of a nonconductor placed between two oppositely charged elementary layers. If there was air between two charged bodies, it would become charged. In the later terminology of Faraday the claim could be made that Avogadro had some conception of the polarization of dielectrics." (DSB).

A Rouen, Thomas Daré, 1616. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Traces of use. Small loss of vellum to last cover. Inner hinges weak. (4),318,(23) pp. Not in Brunet, not in Graesse.

Paris, Masson et Cie Editeurs, 1955. Lex8vo. 2 orig. boards. Small tear in first hinge on vol. 1. 2300 pp. Textillustr.

Leipzig, C.E. Kollmann, 1839. Cont. hcalf. IV,176 pp. (Bibliothek von Vorlesungen...bearb. u. red. von Friedr. J. Behrend, Bd. XIX). First German edition. Magendie was the pioneer of experimental physiology in France. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological lines.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1746). 4to. Without wrappers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCXLIII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiques & de Physique, pour la même Année." Pp. 17-32 and 3 folded engraved plates. First printing of this controverial paper. "In 1743 Clairaut read before the Academy a Paper entitled "L’orbite de la lune dans le systeme de M. Newton," Newton was not fully aware of the movement of the moon’s apogee, and therefore the problem had to be reexamined in greater detail. However, Clairaut - and d’Alembert, and Euler, who were also working on this question - found only half of the observed movement in their calculations. It was then that Clairaut suggested completing Newton’s law of attraction by adding a term inversely proportional to the fourth power of the distance. This correction of the law elicited a spirited reaction from Buffon, who opposed this modification with metaphysical considerations on the simplicity of the laws of nature. Clairaut, more positive and more a pure mathematician, wanted to stick to calculations and observations. The controversy that arose between these two academicians appears in the Mémoires of the Academy for 1745 (published long afterward)." (DSB).

Regensburg, J.L. Montag, 1764. 4to. Titlepage browned.(24) pp., 3 engraved handcoloured plates (of which 1 is half-page). Uncut on good paper. Unbound and not sewn. Horn-Schenkling 19044. First edition.

Kbhvn., 1885. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. First edition. The most importent Danish work in psychology. It is a psychofysiological study on vasomotor disturbances and conditioned reflexes during period of emotional stress - the theory is known as the James-Lange theory.

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