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Leipzig, Freidrich Lanckischens sel. Erben, 1705. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Spine worn and with some nicks. Scratches to covers. Engraved portrait (with a closed tear and a small loos of picture at lower left corner). (6),1044 pp. + Indexes. Old nams on titlepage. Some scattred brownspots and some marginal browning.

Halle, Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1789-90. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on both title-pages. (14),XXXVI,331,(1);(10),415,(1) pp. and 3 folded enraved plates. A dampstain to upper inner corners on volume 2.

London, HSMO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1882. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities, and a few brown spots to the first leaves, otherwise fine and clean. viii, 161 pp. + 5 folded coloured plates. Rare first edition of the official British report on ship wrecks and casualties in United Kingdom's waters for the year 1880/1881.

Liege, Bassompierre, Paris, Lacombe, 1777. Bound in 2 uniform blue boards. Tome- and titlelabels on backs with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spines. A few scratches to covers. Engraved frontispiece. (1),271;(1),278 pp. and 10 engraved plates. Plates after Moreau le Jeune, engraved by de Launay and others. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. Seems to be a "contrefacon" with the plates unsigned. Volume 1 has 2 printed titlepage, one with Liege imprint and one with Paris.(Cohen, Henry, p. 380).

(København, 1826, 1828, 1832). 4to. Indbundet i et hshirtbd. Alle 3 afhandlinger fra Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. (36) pp. samt 4 håndkolorerede plancher. + (16) pp.+ (24) pp. 3 originaludgaver af den tidlige Forchhammer. I den første afhandling undersøges den sjællandske "kalk", i Fakse, på Møn osv. og bjergarterne differeintieres og klassificeres, heriblandt den nu så berømte etage med fiskeleret. Afhandlingen om Sylts geologi er den første videnskabelige undersøgelse af tertiæret på Sylt. - I arbejdet om leret beskrives den mekansike og kemiske forvitring - et pioneerarbejde.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1904. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers a little soiled. Backstrip repaired with paper pasted on, reaching inner margin of frontwrapper. Internally clean. VIII,138 pp. First edition of Lebesgue's lectures on integration, held 1902-03 at Cours Peccot at the Colege de France, summing up his work on the Lebesgue Integral, which is now considered definitive."Although Lebesgue was primarely concerned with his own theory of integration, he played a role in bringing about the development of the abstract theorie of measure andd integration that prdominate in contemporary mathematical research."(Thomas Hawkins in DSB).

Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1643. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Some browning to spine and covers. Ms title on spine. Engraved title-page (mounted). (22),672,44 pp. Some old underlining to the first 150 pp. A faint dampstain to some upper right corners of some leaves in the middle of the book. A few scattered brownspots. Angraved medaillon of Ersamus in the text (foreword). Second Elzevier-edition, the first 1636. - Willems: 552.

Lund, 1950-65. Lex8to. Del 1 til 2 i 2 private halvlæderbind med orig. foromslag, ryg med ophøjede bind. 3. del heftet. Skånsk Senmedeltid och Renässans, 4-6. Med dedikation fra udgiverne til professor Poul Andersen.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part II. With titlepage to Part II. Pp. 221-231 a. 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First printing of Cavendish's last paper.This paper relates to his astronomical interests and describes three improved methods of graduating astronomcal instruments.

Paris, Balliere, 1864. 8vo. In a later half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) to pasted down front end-paper. Internally occassionally brownpostted and with underlignings and annotations in pencil. VIII, 157 pp. The first edition of Taine's study on Mill and English Positivism in general in which he advocates for an alternative, distinctly French philosophy. Taine criticizes Mill for his excessive empiricism, arguing that by limiting himself to experience and its immediate data, Mill has merely described the English mind while believing he was describing the human mind.

Jena, Joh. Martin. Gollnerum, 1713. 4to. No wrappers. Uncut. (8),48 pp. The first quire (8 pp.) heavely browned.

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1949. Lex8vo. Volume 76, November 1, No. 9, 1949 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor browning to extremities very slight wear to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper (C. Møller). A fine and clean copy. Pp. 1403-1405. [Entire issue: Pp. 1275-1422]. First publication of Bardeen's paper on diffusion in binary alloys.Bardeen is known as the inventor of the transistor, for which he, together with Shockley, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Bardeen is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, first in 1956 and again in 1972 for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory) and thus also became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1869. Samtidigt hldrbd. i flammet kalv med rygforgyldning og blindtryk. Rygforgyldningen svag. Hjørner stødte. IX,186 pp. Spredte brunpletter, mest forrest og bagerst i bogen. Første danske udgave af kvindefrigørelsens kampskrift, her oversat og udgivet samme år som originalen "The Subjection of Women" (1869).Scarce first Danish edition of Mill's "The Subjection of Women".

(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.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 183-244. Clean and fine. First printing of a classic paper on the theory of sound propagation, containing the famous fog signal experiments aiming at establishing fog-signals on the Coast of England. The investigations started from South Foreland near Dover at the signal-station.

Paris, Janet (1805). 24mo. Contemporary full calf, spine and boards gilt. (16), 24; (22), 40, (20) pp. With engraved title, a calender for 1806 and 12 engraved plates. A few notes in old hand. Calendar for the year XIV of the Republic, with the corresponding dates in the old calendar.

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.

London, Faber and Faber, (1958). Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. Previous owners name on front free endpaper, otherwise mint condition. First English edition.

Landshut, Thoman, 1830. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. (6),178,(2) pp. A few faint brownspots.

København., 1904-10. Lex8vo. 2 samt.hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. 559,667,VII pp. Illustr. med tekstillustrationer og foldekort. Heri talrige artikler om grønland, Dansk Vestindien, Island og Færøerne.

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)

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.

Lugd.Bat.(Leyden), 1660. 8vo. Cont.full vellum. Engr.title. (26),938 pp. + Index.

Stockholm, Carl Délen, 1805. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Lille papirsetiket påsat nederst på ryg. Stempel på titelbladet. (6),(4 = Prenumeranter),602,(2) pp. Tilskrift i blæk på foden af 1 blad. De første 10 blade med en svag skjold, ellers ren og velbevaret.