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2 cont. full calf. Rebacked. Edges on covers worn. Engraved handcoloured portrait (Wardle). V,564,658 pp. and 14 engraved portraits. Somewhat brownspotted throughout.

Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 1909. Small 4to. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip partly gone, Sewing loose. A bit of lower right corner of frontwrapper gone. (6),356 pp., 5 large folded panopramas, plates, textillustr., maps. Internally clean.

(Stockholm, 1857-60 ?). Et beskedent hshirtbd. 298,233 pp. samt 29 delvis farvelagte plancher med byplaner. Tekstillustrationer i træsnit. Spredte brunpletter. Sidste blade tæt beskåret foroven. Nogle blade og plancher med svag skjold i nederste højre hjørne. Det foldede Göteborgskort med en revne, dog uden tab. Her foreligger kun et halvtitelblad: "Sveriges Städer II". Forrest en håndskrevet indholdsfortegnelse: I. fra Linköping til Skanör og Falsterbo. II. fra Halmstad til Strömstad.

Prague, Gerle, 1771. Uncut in original green, blank stiff wrappers. Stamp on foot of title-page. This Prag-edition not in Klaus Jordan.

Lüneburg, Herold und Wahlstab, 1839. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepage. XXVIII,316 pp. and 7 folded lithographed plans (positions coloured).

No Place, No Publisher, 1769. Contemp. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges and spine-ends. Scattered brownspots.

Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1674. Small 8vo. Uncut in cont. boards. Handwritten titlelabel on back. Back a little rubbed. Name cut from title and htitle in upper part (no loss of letters). (12),503,(23) pp., wodcuts and diagrams in the text. Faint dampstaining to 6 leaves. Last edition. Rumpf 5995.

Kbhvn., P.G. Philipsen, 1862. Smukt samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. XVI,476 pp., 9 tonede litograferde plancher og 1 foldekort. Fint frisk eksemplar. First Danish edition of "Wanderungen durch die Prairien und Wüsten des westlichen Nordamerika vom Mississippi nach den Küsten der Südsee. Lpz., 1860" (Sabin 49916). The author joined the Government Pacific Railroad Survey Expedition in 1857. With fine lithographs depicting Indians.

Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1834. Indbundet ubeskåret i et smukt nyere marmoreret halvlæderbind med forgyldt rygtitel. (Sign. Anker Kysters Eftf). Øverste højre hjørne af titelbladet restaureret. Sidste blad udbedret i indre margin uden teksttab. Noget brunplettet. Originaludgaven. BFN 250.

Cont. full vellum. XLVI,(2),698,(10) pp.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1879 - Vol. 170 - Part I. Pp. 87-134, textillustrations. Clean and fine. This paper, recording a series of further experiments with "The Crook Tube" and "the lines of pressure" under radiation, is an importent paper in the history of vacuum physics.Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. He early attracted attention by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. He was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases.

(Paris, Crochard, 1820). No wrappers as extracted fron 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 15 (2e Series). Pp. 93-102. First appearance of this importent paper in which Arago gives an account of his discovery of how iron and steel could be magnetized by the action of the voltaic current, THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. "Arago .... made several important contributions to electromagnetism on his own. On 20 September 1820 he announced the discovery of the temporary magnetization of soft iron by an electric current, which suggested to Ampère a theory about the nature of magnetic "currents" and provided the technological key to the electric telegraph. Ampère calculated that the magnetic power could be multiplied by twisting the current-carrying wire into a helix, and with Arago he carried out the first experiments on primitive solenoids. In his historical articles Arago was always careful to credit Ampère with the major share of this discovery, which ultimately depended upon Ampère’s mathematical theory."(DSB).Arago formed a close freinship with Fresnel,whose views on the nature of light he ardently supported. He assisted Fresnel in some of his most importent work and made original discoveries in the same field.Magie "A Source Book in Physics", p. 443 ff.

Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale, 1854. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Remains of a paperlabel pasted on back. Back gilt. Stamps on titlepage. 282 pp. and 31 lithographed plates with many figs.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1821. Later hcloth, uncut. Stamps on title-page. 67 pp. Printed on thick paper. The original printing. - Sabin, 73497.

Leipzig, Barth, 1891. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik und Chemie" pp. 1-23 and 1 plate. First edition in the scarce offprint and with "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" printed on frontcover.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Beijer, 1902. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 25, 1902. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. pp. 1-86.[Entire volume: (4), 383 pp]. First appearance of Painlevé's important paper in which he introduced some of his transcendents, now know as "Painlevé transcendents".Painlevé transcendents are solutions to certain nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations in the complex plane with the Painlevé property (the only movable singularities are poles), but which are not generally solvable in terms of elementary functions. "In old problems in which the difficulties seemed insurmountable, Painlevé defined new transcendentals for singular points of differential equations of a higher order than the first. In particular he determined every equation of the second order and first degree whose critical points are fixed. The results of these studies are applicable to the equations of analytical mechanics which admit rational or algebraic first integrals with respect to the velocities. Proving, in the words of Hadamard’s éloge, that "continuing [the work of] Henri Poincaré was not beyond human capacity," Painlevé extended the known results concerning the n-body problem. He also corrected certain accepted results in problems of friction and of the conditions of certain equilibriums when the force function does not pass through a maximum."Paul Painlevé later became the French prime minister.

(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. 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.

København, 2018. 3 bind. I originale papbind. 3066 pp. 2. udgave.

London, C. & J. Rivington, (1823). 12mo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Light brown spotting to first and last leaves. Frontiespiece, (1), VIII, 196 pp. Small pocket edition of Vicar of Wakefield

Washington, U. S. Hydrographic Office, 1890. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamp to front board, pasted down front free end-paper and stamps to title-page, otherwise a fine copy. 25 pp + folded map. Rare first edition of the report received by U.S.S. Thetis on the ice and ice movements in the Bering Sea and the Arctic Basin.

Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1835. 8vo. Cont. modest hcalf. Traces of use. (1),475 pp. and 1 large folde engraved map and 2 engraved plates. Some foxing. Stamp on title. (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors vol. XCII (= htitle)).

Kbhvn., 1905-19. Indbundet i 4 samt. hldrbd. Den ene ryg løs. Med brugsspor.

Paris, Fréres de Bure 1778. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Head and foot of spine chipped with minor loss of leather. Hole in front hinge showing cords. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A nice and clean copy. (2), XII, (2), 492, (4) pp. + frontispiece and 6 plates (plates numbered 2,3,4,5,6,8). Sixth edition of this popular guide to the art treasures of Paris with plates of major sites and monuments in Paris.

(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 41, No 6. Pp. (161-) 228. (Entire issue offered). Hermite's paper: pp. 181-183. Light marginal browning. First apperance of the paper in which Hermite introduced the so-called Hermetian Matrix, which later should be of great importence for Quantum Mechanics.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1903. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. In: "Mathematische Annalen begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann.", 57. Bd., 2 Heft. Pp. 137-264. The whole issue offered (Heft 2). Hilbert's paper:pp. 137-150 a. 7 textfigs. First edition and first printing of Hilbert's importent proof of the possibility of the non-euclidean parallel-construction, in which he showes that only with the aid of ruler and compass it is possible to draw with the samer instruments, the common perpendicular to two lines which are not parallel and do not meet each other (the non-intersecting lines), the common parallel to the two lines which bound an angle; and the line which is perpendicular to one of the bounding lines of an acute angle and parallel to the other, and how these constructions can be carried out. (Bonola: Non-Euclidean Geometry). The paper was reprinted in the second edition of his "Grundlagen der Geometrie" as Appendix III. (Sommerville: 1903 p. 196).