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Kbhvn., 1947-58. 4to. Rigt illustr.

Small 4to. All orig. wrappers. Loose in publishers portfolio and slipcase. No 495 of 500 copies. Many fine colour-engravings by Traynier.

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1883. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, without wrappers. No. 7, Vol. 7, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 36 pp. + 1 plate. First edition of Arrhenius very first published work. "After attending the Cathedral School in Uppsala, Arrhenius entered the University of Uppsala at the age of seventeen. He studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and passed the candidate's examination in 1878. Arrhenius chose physics as the principal subject for his doctoral study, but he was not satisfied with his chief instructor, Tobias Robert Thalén, Although Thalén was an eminent and competent experimental physicist and lecturer, he was interested only in spectral analysis. Arrhenius went to Stockholm in 1881 with the intention of working under Erik Edlund, physicist of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The results of his first independent research, entitled "The Disappearance of Galvanic Polarization in a Polarization Vessel, the Plates of Which Are Connected by Means of a Metallic Conductor" [The present work]. (DSB)

København, 1781. Forløberen for Berlingske Tidende.Indbundet ubeskåret i eet samtidigt papbind uden rygtitel, ryg lidt slidt.

München u. Berlin, R. Oldenburg, 1930 2 orig. hcloth. XXVII,396;XVI,348 pp. and portrait-plates.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1862. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1862. Vol. 152 - Part I. Pp. 225-252. A very faint dampstain to upper corners on the last 2 leaves, otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined.. First appearance of one of Boole's last papers.George Boole is mostly known for his "An Investigation on the Laws of Thought" 1854 and his developments of a form of symbolic logik, called Boolean Algebra. But he also did importent work on the Calculus, Differential Equations and the heory of probabilities.

Stuttgart, J.B. Wetzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1819-20. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. full cloth. Spines gilt with gilt lettering. Some wear to spine ends. Some wear along hinges on 2 volumes. XXIV,414,II;(4),522,(2);(4),394,(2);(4),413 pp. Some brownspots and browning throughout. Scarce first edition.

(No place nor printer), 1688. 12mo. In contemorary coloured wrappers with leather spine. Title-page with underlinings i red. Last 50 pp. with loss of paper in upper outer margin, not affecting text, otherwise nice and clean. (4), 296 pp. First French translation of Johnson‘s "Julian the Apostate". Samuel Johnson, the rector of Corringham, is famous for the present work which compares Julian the Apostate, a Roman Emperor who attempted to revive paganism, to James, Duke of York, (later King James II) who was a Catholic and a potential successor to the English throne.

Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-1838 8vo. 3 volumes, uncut recently bound with the original blank wrappers in black half cloth with gilt lettering to spines. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas, with blue stamp to all three title-pages. Light brownspotting to plates, otherwise a fine set. (2), VIII, (4), 463; (4), 681, (3); (4), 24, 16 pp + 24 plates. First edition of Lacordaire’s important introduction to entomology beautifully illustrated with 24 plates Horn & Schenkling 12605 Nissen ZBI 2354

Adorf, Verlags=Büreau, 1841-45. 4 cont. full cloth. Extremities a little rubbed, paperlabels pasted on backs. Stamp on titles and halftitles. Around 2.000 pp. Occasionally brownspotted.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 253-258 and 1 engraved plate showing the Goniometer. Clean and fine. First appearance of this paper describing Wollaston's invention of the Goniometer."Nor was it only in chemistry that he (Wollaston) left his mark. He invented a goniometer, a device to measure the angles between crystal faces, which greatly advance mineralogical research. A calcium silicate mineral is named wollastonite in his honor." (Asimow)."When a surface is so small as one fiftieth of an inch in breadth, it becomes axtremely difficult to apply the short radius of a goniometer to it with correctness. But since a surface of that magnitude may reflect a very brilliant light, the reflected ray may be employed as radius, and may at pleasure be taken of such a lenght that the angles of small crystals can be known with as much precision as those of the largest surfaces."(Abstract).

London, 1770. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf, gilt back. Slight cracking along hinges, covers not loose. (4),247 pp. Occasional a little brownspotted. Printed on good paper. Halkett and Laing p. 1433. The authorship remains unsolved. This early edition having 35 letters. Lowndes III p. 1240 ff., but the edition seems not to be listed here.

Brunswig, G.C.E.Meyer, 1825-28. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf., gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamps on foot of titlepages. The first few leaves in volume 2 brownspotted. VIII,373;IV,363 pp.

K., (1749). 4to. Et samt.helldrbd. Ryg slidt. Begge false revnet, men rep. udvendig. (22),456,(28),88 pp.

A Barby, Frederic Laux, 1782. Fine contemp. hcalf, raised bands and titlelabel in leather gilt lettering. 636,(12) pp. Clean and fine. First French edition of his "Idea Fidei Fratrum..", the declaration of faith of the Moravian Church. Spangenberg succeeded Zinzendorf as bishop of the Moravian Church, and he was active in establishing settlements and Churches in Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. - This French edition not in Sabin.

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".

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1806). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1806. Pp. 99-108. First apperance of a milestone paper in plant physiology as the concept of tropistic behaviour arose from the experiments described in this paper. Knight showed that forces, generated by means of a water-wheel, made roots and shoots of seedlings orient themselves to centrifugal forces, just as they do to gravity.Knight's investigations on geotropism "enabled Knight to distinguish between geotropic and hydrotropic reactions of the root, and opened the whole question of tropic responses, of their physical basis and adaptive significance in the lfe of plants."(Morton, "History of Botanical Science", p. 390.)."His most famous work was on what are now called geotropisms. In a letter read by Banks to the Royal Society in 1806, Knight described how he eliminated the influence of gravitation on germinating seeds: He attached them at various angles to the rim of a vertical wheel which was driven by a stream in his garden to revolve continuously at a rate of 150 r.p.m. As the germinating plants grew, each shoot was directed to the center of the wheel; when a shoot passed the center of the wheel its tip turned back so that growth was still centripetal; the roots grew away from the center. Next he set up a similar structure with the wheel horizontal and rotating at 250 r.p.m. so that the seedlings were influenced by both gravitation of the earth an the centrifugal force. In this case, growth was at an angle of 80° to the vertical, the shoot upward and inward, and the root downward and out. Reducing the rotation to 80 r.p.m. decreased the centrifugal force to such an extent that the plants grew at an angle of 45° to the vertical."(DSB).

Kbhvn., G.L Lahde, 1808-12. Håndkoloreret kobberstik. 25 x 18 cm. Lidt gulplettet. Fra "Dansk Klædedragter". Krohn 1214. Tegnet af Johannes Senn (1780-1861).

Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1840. Indbundet i et nydeligt nyere halvmaroquin med blindtrykte dekorationer ved kapitælerne. Forgyldt rygtitel. Håndsyede kapitælbånd og fladstrøgne kapitæler. (Sign. Rigmor Birkedal Kragh). Svage brunpletter. Originaludgaven. BFN: 368.

Helmstedt, Weygand, 1755. 4to. Contemp. full calf.Raised bands, gilt spine. Upper compartment repaired. Rubbed. Engraved titlevignette. (16),1034,(34) pp.

Kbhvn. u.år (ca. 1890). Folio. Samt. hldrbd. Med håndskrevet titelblad, da et trykt ikke udkom. 131,IX pp. samt 7 kobberstukne tavler, delvis håndkolorerede. H.F. Hansens bidrag til Zoologia Danica vedrørende edderkopperne, blev aldrig afsluttet da udgivelsen af Zoologia Danica ophørte.

Lipsic, Gerard Fleischer Le Cadet, 1804-05. 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs somewhat worn, especially top of spines. 1 engraved frontisp. A little brownspotted.

London, Day & Son, (1865). Orig. full cloth, covers richly decorated in gold and with a framing in chromolithography. Rebacked to style with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Chromolithographed title-page. 25 chromolithographed plates with chromolithographed text on verso. Last leaf verso: Illuminators Owen Jones, Henry Warren. On Stone A. Warren. One plate with a neathly repaired closed tear.

Göttingen, H. Dieterich, 1803. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. A bit rubbed. LVI,468;(2),400 pp. + 3 Indexes. Large engraved titlevignette. Some quires with browning to paper. Scattered brownspots. Greek and Latin text. "If Heyne hasd never published another edition of an ancient classical writer, the present would have entitled him to stand in the formost rank of critics and scholars." (Dibdin I:272).