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Kopenhagen, Prost, 1802. Contemp. marbled boards. Nicks to spine. Uncut. (6),148 pp., 3 (of 4) engraved plates. Inscribed to the the Portugese ambassador, Commandeur Souza, in Paris. On good paper. First edition in bookform of Münter's importent contribution to the deciphering of the cuneiform texts of Persepolis.

København, 1769. Indbundet i eet nyere mønstret papirbind med skindtitelfelt. Indholder Nr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 25, 27, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 58, 60, 61, 65, 68, 70, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 93, 100, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 116, 117, 119, 123, 126, 127, 129, 133, 134, 135, 136, 145, 146, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 168, 170, 176, 177, 178, 181, 182, 184, 186, 187, 191, register. Den ældste, danske egentlige annonce-avis.

København, 1771. Indbundet i eet nyere mønstret papbind med skindtitelfelt. Indeholder Nr. 1, 2, 3, 6, 8,10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 154, 156, 157, 158, 162, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 200, 201, 202, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, register. Den ældste, danske egentlige annonce-avis.

Kiøbenhavn, Soldin, 1805-12. Ubeskårede i originale blå hollanderede bind, rygge forstærket med shirt. 766,697,241 pp.

Kbhvn., 1759. 4to. Helldrbd. fra 19.årh. Titelbladet mangler. (12),633 pp. samt 7 kobberstukne og håndkolorerede kort (glober,landkort). Med brugsspor.

Stockholm, lars Salvius, 1749. Samtidigt hldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryg. Ryg slidt. Titeblad trykt i rød/sort. (32),292 pp. First Swedish edition of Walch's "Theologisches Bedencken von der Beschaffenheit der Herrnhutischen Sechte".

Paris, Didot Jeune, 1802-06. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcalf, titlelabel, gilt spine, but spine taped. Bound with all 6 orig. printed wrappers. 1ere Livraison: VIII,68 pp. and 9 engraved plates, some large and folded. Tome II, 4. Livraison: pp. 199-262 and 4 folded engraved plates. 6. Livraison: pp. 323-385 and 10 folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots.

Leipzig, Barth, (1891). Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik und Chemie" pp. 24-51 and 1 folded plate. First edition in the scarce offprint and with "Von den Verfasser überreicht" printed on frontwrapper.

Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1838. 8vo, Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt, with gilt lettering. Royal monogram in gold on frontcover. Stamp on titlepage. In: "Bulletin de la Société de Géographie". 2 Series, tome 9. 376 pp. a. 2 folded maps. (Entire volume offered). Fitzroy's paper: pp. 145-160. First French version of Fitzroy's sketch of the Beagle-voyage, based on his paper from The Journal of the Royal Society of London vol. 6, 1836, in which Darwin is mentioned. The sketch was published before Fitzroy's "Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships...", 1839 ff.

Amsterdam, Zachariae Chatelain, 1733. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. full motteld calf, raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. Title-pages in red and black. Scattered brownspots. First separate editon.

Berlin, Morawe & Scheffelt, 1912. Lex8vo. Bound uncut in cont. hcalf, gilt lettering on back. XII,224,(1) pp. Engraved title and 14 engraved plates (on yellow vellum-like paper after the original lithographed plates from the first edition of 1838). A fine, clean and uncut copy.

Bruxelles, 1945-52. Folio. 2 fine recent full cloth. 266,197 pp. and 22 plates.

London, William and Norgate, 1883,1885. 8vo. 3 uniform volumes partly uncut in the original embossed cloth. Volume 1 being the revised and enlarged third edition, Volume II (in two parts) being the second edition. Miscolouring to extremities, otherwise a fine set. XII, 883, 16 pp.; (2), II, (2), 237, (1), 16 pp.; Pp. VI, (4), 229-682, X, 16. A collected set of the second edition and much enlarged third edition of this magnum opus of biology, in which Spencer coined the term "survival of the fittest". "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life"". (Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Biology, Vol. I, p. 444).Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His greatest and most influential work in this connection was his "The Principles of Biology", which forms the biological part of his grand project for a Synthetic Philosophy, which he worked on from 1862 to 1893. It is on this work that his fame today mainly rests, not least because it was here that he was the first to use the term "survival of the fittest" and due to this work that he greatly helped spread the acceptance of the theory of evolution."The Principles of Biology attempted to reconcile the new Darwinian theory of natural selection with the Lamarckian mechanism of acquired characteristics which Spencer had endorsed long before publication of the Origin of the Species. In Spencer's view, while the Darwinian theory could explain most of biological evolution, the Lamarckian mechanism was necessary to explain 'higher' evolution, and especially the social behavior of humanity. Both theories however, instantiated the principle of evolution. In this sense, therefore, it is incorrect to characterize Spencer as a follower of Darwin. Although he coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', and is often misrepresented as a thinker who merely applied the Darwininan theory to society, he did not aim to generalize Darwin, but rather to show that natural selection could be accommodated within an overarching principle of evolution that Spencer had independently developed. Biological organisms could be shown to progress, both as individuals and as species, from simple, undifferentiated, homogeneity to complex, differentiated, heterogeneity; the Darwinian theory was only of significance in providing a partial explanation for this universally observed tendency" (Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy vol. 2:1055)."Spencer saw higher forms emerging from a gradual process of adaptation to the environment. The Principles of Biology analyzes the principal mechanisms by which this occurs and relates them to the specialized structures and function of plants and animals." (D.S.B.: XII, 571).The work was originally issued to subscribers in parts from January 1863 to October 1864 (Vol. I) and January 1865 to March 1867 (Vol. II).

Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1651. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Soiling and stains to extremities. Lower part of front yapp edge with loss of vellum. Internally nice and clean. 584, (146) pp. Wanting the frontispiece.

Fayard, 1992. 8vo. Seven full cloth bindings, housed in a matching slipcase. Very fine and clean.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1750). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", 1748, tome IV, Titlepage to the volume in red/black with engraved titlevignette a. pp. 356-364. A stamp on titlepage.c First printing of this memoir. In various connections Bernoulli used the principle of the coservation of 'Vis Viva' within the main areas of mechanics. "Similarly, in an essay (1747) on the motion of a heavenly body and the three-body problem he worked out from the first integral of Newton’s second law, which related the square of its velocity to, in effect, its level of potential under attraction. In a sequel study (1750, the paper offered) on the generality of the principle he included the case where the body was acted upon by more than one centre of force. This was a most unusual way of working within celestial mechanics; Newton had rarely invoked energy equations or relationships, although he had also found results about external attraction and equipotential surfaces."(I. Grattan-Guiness).

Kbh., 1740. 4to. Ét lidt senere (ca. 1800) hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. Bd m. en smule brugsspor. False forstærkede indvendig. Rent ekspl, dog lidt tæt beskåret. Uden titelbl. til 2. Tome. (16), 368, 368, (39) pp. Anden udgave.

Slagelse, Peter Magnus, (1820). Lille 8vo. Lidt senere hshirtbd. med marmorerede permer. Håndskrevet titeletiket på forpermen. Lille stempel på titelbladet. IX,(2),180 pp. Indvendig ren. Originaludgaven.

Berlin, Hermann Barsdorf, 1910. Lex8vo. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in 2 fine orig. full pictorial cloth. LXXXVIII,406;XII,526 pp. With 240 textillustrations.

Brøndums forlag, 1967. Løse ark i de originale omslag i karton kassette i halvshirt. Nr. 97 ud af 400, signeret af begge forfattere. 101 pp. Trykt i 400 nummererede eksemplarer. Eksemplar nummer 97. Signeret af både Ole Sarvig og Palle Nielsen.

København., Forlagsinstituttet, 1877. Samt. hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. CII,667 pp. Portrætfrontispiece, 146 illustr. i træsnit og 3 litograferede foldekort. Rent frisk eksemplar.

Kjøbenhavn, Jæger & Klein, 1844-45. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 2 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning, næsten ensartede. Lettere kantslid. Litograferet portræt. (2),VIII,204,(4) - (2),96 litograferede nodesider., samt 24 håndkolorerede litograferede plancher. + (2),123,(2) - (2),63 litograferede nodesider.pp. samt 12 tonede litograferede plancher. Som altid med nogle brunpletter. Den eftertragtede første illustrerede udgave med Bærentzen's kendte litografier (efter forlæg af Schiewitz og Vilhelm Pedersen). Skønt trykt og publiceret i København, er teksten den oprindelige på svensk.

Odense, 1979-88. 4to. 10 originale helshirtsbind med smudsomslag samt 1 kassette med kort.

Odense, 1826. 4to. Lidt senere velbevaret hldrbd. (8),130,(1) pp.

København, C. Steen, 1839. Lex8vo. Samtidigt halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Enkelte blade løse og gennemgående en smule brunplettet. 382 spalter + 24 stålstik, hvoraf flere er koloreret.