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London, Cadell & Davies, 1812. 77,5x56 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Danmark i original konturkolorering. Island i lille format indsat i øverste venstre hjørne. Det store Danmarks-kort udkom i Pinkerton's "Modern Atlas", men solgtes også i løsblad.

Hauniae, Schultz, 1841. 4to. In recent boards with leather title-label to front board. First and last leaves with brownspotting. (2), 14 pp. Rare first edition of this official Latin address by Hans Christian Ørsted delivered as part of a formal academic convocation at the University of Copenhagen. Issued to mark the dual occasion of the commemoration of ecclesiastical reforms in Denmark and the inauguration of a new academic magistrate, the work reflects Ørsted’s ceremonial role as rector and his participation in shaping the intellectual and institutional life of the university.

Paris, Bilaine, 1716. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some neath repairs to joints and edges. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece (mounted). (14),913,(30) pp. Neath repairs to the first 3 leaves.

Lond., 1731. Cont. full calf. Back rubbed. On good paper. (12), XXXII, 342, XLII pp.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 18154 - Part II. Pp. 436-439. First appearance of an importent paper in which Brewster reveals his discovery of a new connection between light and heat: "glass brought to a certain temperature forms two images, and polarises them in opposite manner, like all doubly refracting crystals, the one image being coincident with the other"(p. 437). Brewster was the discoverer of the law of polarization, of biaxal crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression.Independently of Seebeck, in 1814 English physicist David Brewster started investigating birefringence in glass caused by inhomogeneous heating. He also investigated the effect of sudden cooling of heated glass and discovered that in broken glass birefringence vanishes. Brewster considered his discovery so important* that he hastily published a paper, in which he only verbally described the creation of birefringence in glass by heat.With 2 other notable papers by HENRY KATER "An improved Method of dividing Astronomical Circles and other Instruments", pp. 419-435a. 2 folded engraved plates. And JOHN W.F. HERSCHEL "Consideration of various Points of Analysis", pp. 440-468.

Lpz., 1805-06. Uncut in cont.(orig.) blank wrappers. XX, 620, 476 pp.

Leipzig, Meissen und Riesa, Goedesch's Buchhandlung, (1853). Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. Engraved frontispiece (Stadtbad). IV,28 pp., 1 litographed colouplate (Badeloge 5) and 1 large folded lithographed plan in colour. Some foxing to text.

Paris, G. Masson, 1883. 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 IX. 576 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Mendeleev's paper: pp. 111-119. First printing of this paper in which Mendeleev, in connection with his aerobautical researches, investigated the compressability and elasticity of gases.The volume contains other importent papers DES CLOIZEAU'S "Mémoire sur L'Existence, les propriétes optique et christallographiques, et la Composition chimique du Microline,nouvelle Espèce de feldspath...", pp. 433-499 and illustrated with 12 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC textillustrations. Also with original contributions by Berthelot, Raoult, and CLAUDE BERNARD "Critique experimentale sur la ormation du Sucre dans le Sang ou sur la Fonction de la Glycémie physiologique", pp. 207-265.

[København], 1872. Folio-oblong. In contemporary half calf. Extremities with wear. Spine with a nicks and tears. With the authors dedication to upper part of title-page. Plates with light brownspotting througout. 36 plates.

Hamburg, Hoffmann, (1808-09). Bound in 8 cont. hcalf. Back on vol.4 (1808) torn. A little worn. Stamp on titles.

(Nwe York, Johnson Reprint Company Ltd., 1977). Folio. Orig. full cloth portfolio. (8) pp. of text in-4to. and 8 facsimile plates in colour.

Berlin/Lyon, Woss/Bruyset, 1761. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Light wear to top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Title-page printed in red and black. VIII,378 pp., and 24 large folded engraved plates.

Kjøbenhavn, F. Brummers Forlag, 1818. Small 8vo. Bound in a slightly worn contemporary hcalf. with gilt spine. Gilt title label. Corners bumped. Some brownspotting. The rare first printing of the sixth volume of Peter Foersom's and P.F. Wulf's translation of Shakespeare's tragic works. This volume contains the first danish translation of Richard III.The present translation of Shakespeare's works is considered the most important in Danish literature and became the standard version of the works.The copy belonged to the Danish literary historian Mogens Brøndsted and the renowned zoologist J. Reinhardt.

Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1749. Hcalf. Covers detached and gone. Block intact. Engraved titlevignet. (12),171 pp. and 15 engraved plates (of which 9 are folded). Light browning.

København., Gyldendal, 1825. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. XVI,578,(5) pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven. - Bibl. Danica I:601.

Aalborg, J.P. Holtzberg, 1757. Hldrbd. fra omkr. 1850 med rig rygforgldning, forgyldt skindtitel. En smule slidt ved øverste kapitæl. (10),310 pp. Siderne lettere brunede. Et blad i gl. veludført faksimile (239/240). Originaltrykket af den første egentlige Helsingør-beskrivelse.

Illustr.from Paintings by James Holland. Ldn., 1839. Orig.hcalf. Back rubbed. XII,290 pp. and 17 fine engr.plates.(The Landscape Annual for 1839).

Havniæ (Copenhagen), 1741. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities. Scratches and holes in the leather on boards, showing the wooden boards underneath. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Internally with a few ink stains. (14), 398, (100) pp. + frontispiece and 2 maps. New and revised edition. Biblioteca Danica IV, 118

(København), Godiches Bogtrykkerie, (1745). 4to. Senere hshirtbind, indbundet af Wied selv og med hans bogbinderetiket på indersiden af bagpermen. (2),30 pp. Signeret af Wied på titelbladet "Wied/ Marts 1905". Originaltrykket. Bibl. Danica I, 960.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1846. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 33 Band, 1. Heft, 1846". In the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. Last leaf with repair. [Eisenstein:] Pp. 59-70; Pp. 71-88. [Entire issue: IV, 92, (2) + 2 plates.]. First printing of two papers by Eisenstein, one of them (Beiträge zur Theorie...) being the first of his 1846-47-period where he mainly occupied himself with the theory of elliptic functions.Even though the German mathematics prodigy Eisenstein's died prematurely at the age of 29, he managed to prove biquadratic reciprocity, Quartic reciprocity, Cubic reciprocity, to be imprisoned by the Prussian army for revolutionary activities in Berlin and making Gauss state that: "There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein". Alexander von Humboldt, then 83, accompanied Eisenstein's remains to the cemetery. The papers presented in the present issue is among his most prominent and made him famous throughout the mathematical world. (James, Driven to innovate, P. 88). The issue also contain papers by famous contemporary mathematicians such as: C. G J. Jacobi, A. Cayley, Dirichlet and J. Steiner."Eisenstein soon became the subject of legend, and the early literature about him is full of errors. His treatises were written at a time when only Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet had any conception of what a completely rigorous mathematical proof was. Even a man like Jacobi often admitted that his own work sometimes lacked the necessary rigor and self-evidence of methods and proofs." (DSB)

Leipzig, Bibliopolo Hahniano, 1811. 4 contemp. boards. Light wear along edges. CL,559;(2),516;(2),692;(2),586 pp. Last leaves of Index in vol. 1 a bit souiled.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1908. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1908 durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann. 65. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. Wrappers with a few nicks, internally fine and clean. [Hausdorff:] Pp. 435-505. [Entire issue: Pp. 433-575]. First printing of Hausdorff important paper in which a generalization of Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis was presented for the first time. This is equivalent to what is now called the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.The continuum hypothesis is a hypothesis, put forth by Georg Cantor in 1877, about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states: "There is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers."Felix Hausdorff is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and he contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.

(Copenhagen, (1827) 1828-29). 4to. Uden omslag. Første bind ubeskåret. Rent frisk eksemplar på skrivepapir. Fra (Extracted) "Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter" Pp. 21-248 samt pp. 1-236. First printing of this important botanical work, describing in total 345 new species of Guinean plants, 245 is supplied with Latin descriptions made by Thonning and about 100 by Schumacher. There is 18 new genera described. - Stafleu & Cowan 11.360. - Carl Christensen Bd.2: p. 116.

Paris, Henri Plon, 1872. Small folio. (33 x 24 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Original printed wrappers pasted on boards. Atlas alone, complete with 15 maps and plans, partly folded and partly coloured. Faint brownspots to the first map.

Berlin, Posen und Bromberg, 1828. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. stamp on title-page. XVI,302,(2) pp., 8 folded engraved and handcoloured plates. Mild browning to title-page. Clean and fine.