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Lugduni Batavorum (leiden), Ex Officina Franciski Hackii, 1662. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. Engraved titelepage. (32),845,(27) pp. + Indexes. and 12 full-page engraved portraits. The 3 first leaves with a brownspot to upper ttight corner (incl. titlepage). A few scattered brownspots.

Berlin, Schneider, 1874. Folio. (65 x 70 Cm.). Orig. printed portfolio. Spine defective. With 21 large coloured maps.

Paris, 1871. Folio. Orig. full cloth. Litogr. title and 17 fine tinted lithogr. plates.

Wien, Carl gerold, 1824. 8vo a. folio-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Platevol. in contemp. hcalf. Titlelbel with gilt lettering on upper board. XVIII,534,(1) pp., 7 lithographed plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Kjøbenhavn, Waysenhuus tryckt af G.F. Kiesel, 1757. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg slidt og permer næsten løse. (16),740,(12) pp. En mindre brun skjold på titelbladet øverst, ellers indvendig ren og pæn. Originaludgaven af den humanistiske pietismes betydeligste pastoralteologi for Danmark og Norge. Efter hjemkomsten fra biskopembedet i Bergen, holdt Pontoppidan pastoralteologiske forelæsninger, som således i samlet form udkom her.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1883. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 22., 1883. Entire volume offered. Wear to extremities. Library label pasted on to top of spine. Small library stamp to lower part of verso of title page. Very fine and clean. VI, 592 pp. First printing of Klein's papers on geometry."One of the leading mathematicians of his age, Klein made many stimulating and fruitful contributions to almost all branches of mathematics, including applied mathematics and mathematical physics. Moreover, his extensive activity contributed greatly to making Göttingen the chief center of the exact sciences in Germany. An opponent of one sided approaches, he possessed an extraordinary ability to discover quickly relationships between different areas of research and to exploit them fruitfully." (DSB).

Kjøbenhavn, Johan Christoph Groth, 1741. 4to. Samtidigt halvlæder bind. Udvendig med en smule slittage. Indvendig gennemgående brunplettet. (8), 200, (1) pp. Originaludgaven af Niels von Hauen hovedværk hvormed han påbegyndte den "den ortografiske fejde" med Th. Clitau."(Niels von Haven) gjorde sit navn kendt ved udgivelsen af Et lidet orthographisk Lexicon eller Ord-Bog, 1741, ikke mindst fordi dette leksikon gav anledning til "den ortografiske fejde" mellem v.H. og Th. Clitau og som derpå foranledigede J. P. Høysgaards første skrift. Bogen indeholder et forslag om afskaffelse af store bogstaver undtagen ved egennavne, og af verbernes flertalsformer. Samtidig er den et interessant forsøg på at sammenstille homonymer, enslydende, men forskelligt stavede ord. Det er ikke helt vellykket, men det giver ved sine sammenstillinger, tit også ved direkte oplysninger, sproghistorisk værdifuld besked om rigsmålsudtalen i Odense omkr. 1750, ligesom det indeholder en stor del ordsprog og talemåder." (Den Store Danske Encyklopædi).Biblioteca Danica IV, 69.

Kjøbenhavn, London, Leipzig, Paris, 1878. Folio. Originalt bogtrykt papbind med læderryg. Ryg med en del slitage, mangler dele af læderet. Indvendig sporadisk brunplettet. 320, (16) pp., 3 foldekort, 1 grundplan, 46 kobberst. tavler og 7 litografer samt talrige afbildn. i teksten. Originaludgaven.

Stuttg., 1908-09. Lex8vo. 2 orig.hcalf. Backs with traces of use. MIII, 459, X, 960 pp. With 38 plts.a.many textillustr.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1835). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1835 - Part II. Pp. 263-274. Clean and fine. First appearance of this paper in which Faraday describes his improvements of the Voltaic battery."This paper relates altogether to the practical construction and use of the voltaic battery. Guided by the principles developed in former series, the author concluded that in voltaic instruments in which the copper surrounded the zinc, there was no occasion for insulation of the contiguos coppers, provided they did not come into metallic contact; and therefore in the cionstruction of some new instruments he interposed paper only between the coppers instead of the usual insulating plate of porcelain or glass."(Abstract)..From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).

Stockholm, P. G. Berg, 1859. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear and some of gilting worn off. Brownspottet throughout. Stamp ("Axel Carlberg") to verso of four our the plates. (6), 546 pp. + 8 coloured plates depicting various shipwrecks. Rare first partial Swedish translation of Eyries' "Histoire des naufrages" containing descriptions of shipwrecks, winterings, abandonments, fires and other fatal events at sea.

Kjøbenhavn, Berling, 1747. Lille8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Blindtrykte stempler i rygfelter. En papirsetiket påsat nederste rygfelt. Revner i skindet ved forreste kapitæl, men permen ikke løs. Stempel på titelbladet. (12),260 pp., 1 blad Mangler (pp.153/54), tekstfigurer. + (4),140 pp. Lettere brugsspor.

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.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1839 - Part I. Pp. 1-12., 1 textillustr. Some discolouring to the 2 first leaves. First appearance of this paper in which Faraday finds, by experimenting with a species of Gymnotus (a group of electric fishes, one was send to him by Humboldt), proves that its electricity is of the same nature as all other kinds of electricity "The skock, in very varied circumstances of position, was procured: the galvanonmets affected, magnets were made, a wire was heated, polar chemical decomposition was effected, and the spark obtained."(Abstract).From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. IV,52 pp. A few brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 28. Bd.: 3. Theil).

Frankfurt am Main, Hermannischen Buchhandlung, 1793-94. 2 original blue boards. Uncut. A paperlabel pasted on spines. Stamp on title-pages. (14),268;XXXV,(2),256 pp. Some scattered brownspots. The German translation of "Strategematum". - Rumpf,315.

København, 1893-1903. Indbundet i 2 ensartede samt. hldrbd. Rygge lidt falmet. (10),292;VIII,612 pp. Enkelte blyantsindtregninger.

Kbhvn., 1778-86. 2 samt. helldrbd. Titel-og tomefelter fornyet. Rygge med brugsspor. Kobberst. frontisp. samt 4 kobberstukne titelvignetter. (32),98,(12),88,(8),(10),126,(13),(18),294 pp. På skrivepapir. Sporons sjældne førsteudgave, og her med begge bind, der hver har 3 afdelinger (6 Stykker).

Leipzig, Barth, 1882. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann", Neue Folge, Bd. XV. VIII,680 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 446-475. Internally clean and fine. Stamp to titlepage and verso of. First apperance of Planck's second scientific paper, not to mention his dissertation and his habilitationsschrift (1880).Akademie No. 4.The volume contains further importent papers by E. Goldstein (4 papers on Cathode-Rays), by Ångström, Kohlrausch etc.

Paris, Ioannem Iost, 1656. Small 8vo.. Contemp. full vellum. Engraved titlevignette. 598 pp.

Kjøbenhavn,, Thiele, 1891. Folio. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. 113 pp. 39 litograferede plancher med talrige afbildninger af skibskonstruktioner, skibsindretninger, bestykning, våbenlære-og beskrivelse, kanoner, armering m.v. En del udvidende tilskrifter i samtidig hånd.

Hannover, Schlüter, 1778. Contemp. full mottled calf. profusely gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel on spine. Wear to top of spine, taped. Stamp on title-page. (18),369,(3) pp., 6 folded engraved plates. Some browning and brownspots on the first leaves.

New York, The Science Press, 1930. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Science", Vol. 71, 1930. Small stamp to lower part of front free end-paper. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp.608-10. [Entire volume: VIII, 670 pp + advertisements]. First printing. Einstein was invited to give a lecture at the University of Nottingham by a lecturer there, Henry Brose, who also acted as interpreter. Einstein came with his wife Elsa on 6th June 1930. He was due to start the lecture at 3.45pm but did not arrive until 6.30 as he took a detour to visit the birth place of Isaac Newton. The blackboard on which he wrote was quickly varnished over when the lecture was over and is still preserved in the university. While in Nottingham Einstein commented on George Green's contribution to mathematics, saying that he had been 20 years ahead of his time.Weil no 174a.

Novellen. Bln., Fischer Verlag, 1914. Orig.boards. Good copy. First edition.