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(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part II. Pp. 163-173 a. (Dalton:) pp. 174-187. First appearance of both works as printed together in the "Transactions".A classic paper by CHARLES BELL on the function of the nervous system, one of the researches in preparation of his famous work "The nervous Systems of the Human Body" from 1830.In his paper JOHN DALTON takes up themes which had occupied him since his great work from 1793 "Meteorological Observations and Essays" and in his Manchester Papers of 1801, where he established the atomic theory.

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.

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

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

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.

Paris, Moutard, 1777. Bound in 5 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs, tome-and titlelabels in leather. Back lightly rubbed. Top of spines a bit worn.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, 1895). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", Bd. 20, pp. 59-142. First edition. In this paper Poincaré succeeded in converting differential equations into integral equations. "It became a major technique for solving initial-and boundary-value problems of ordinary and partial differential equations and was the strongest impetus for the study of integral equations." (Morris Kline).

Heidelberg, Carl Winther, 1925. 4to. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in fine cont. hmorocco, raised bands, gilt back. XVI,256 pp. The original printing.

London, Crokatt, 1728. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Gilt boarders to boards. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. (8), 468, (12) pp. + 3 maps and 4 plates (wanting 1 map). Third edition of vol. 7 of Salmon's extensive 'Modern History' containing information on Poland, Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia, Hungary, Transilvania, Sclavonia, Servia and Croatia. Salmon’s "Modern History” is an ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the world’s countries, their histories, and their contemporary states during Salmon’s time and stands as a monumental achievement in the history of 18th-century historiography. His work is a fine example of the Enlightenment's goal for cataloging and comprehending the world, offering a unique snapshot of global perspectives as understood by Europeans in the early modern period. It represents one of the earliest comprehensive attempts to document and analyze the state of nations worldwide.

København, 1778. Indbundet i eet samtidigt papbind uden rygtitel, ryggen noget slidt.Forløberen for Berlingske Tidende.

London, C. Drin (et) C. Harper, 1694. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, gilt spine (faint). Light wear to top of spine. Spine a bit rubbed.Engraved frontispiece. (28),491,(38) pp., a few textillustrations. Macrobius was one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West, and his conception of the world geography as an equatorial and meridional ocean (depicted in the book) dividing the earth into four quarters, dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages. - His "Saturnalia" deals with Roman feasts in form of table-talk at a banquet in Rome, giving information of food and drink and their preparation.and is fascinatingly rich in philological, historical, antiquarian and scientific lore, throwing a clear light on the interests and taste of the period.

London, George Routhledge & Sons, (n. date, ca. 1890). 8vo. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Uncut. X,(2),400 pp. and 30 fine engraved and handcoloured plates by Cruikshank. Internally fine and clean.

Copenhagen und Leipzig, 1790. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Some wear to tome-and titlelabels. on spine. Marbled coverpapers and corners renewed. XXXVI,330,487,(3) pp. Internally fine. First German edition of Bang's renowned work on pathological case studies, a translation of his work "Selecta diarii" from 1789.Bibl. Danica I:802. - Not in Waller.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 10, 7. Heft With Titlepage to vol. 10.. Pp. 337-512 a. 1 folded plate, (entire issue offered "Heft" 7). Hertz's paper: pp. 414-448. First printing of Hertz's first paper by which he won the Philosophical Faculty Prize (Berlin) in 1879, earning a medal, a first publication in Annalen der Physik and Helmholtz' deepening respect."To encourage experimental work in the notoriously difficult domain of unclosed currents, Helmholtz proposed for the prize of the Berlin Philosophical Faculty in 1878 a problem dealing with an implication of Weber’s theory: when oscillations of electricity are set up in an unclosed circuit, Weber’s hypothetical electrical inertia should reveal itself in a retardation of the oscillations. Through the experiments that Helmholtz had suggested on the self-induction of doubly wound spirals, Hertz won the Philosophical Faculty prize; he proved that the inertia of electricity is either zero or less than a very small value, thereby lending experimental support to Helmholtz’ theoretical judgment of the improbability of Weber’s theory."(DSB).

Erfurt, Weber 1747 - 1749. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, missing upper half of marbled paper to back board. Light occassional brownspotting throughout, a good copy. (8), 108, 868 pp. (Included in the pagination is the 8 title-pages accompanying each part).

La Haye, Héritiers Doorman, 1830 Partly uncut in original printed boards. Boards slightly spotted. Stamp on the general title-page. X,156;VI,84 pp. and 18 (8 + 10) folded engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a fine hmorocco with gilt back (Erik Larsen). no 582 of 912 "sur papier de Rives", a total of 1088 copies. Fine original woodcuts by Falké.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1830. 4to. No wrappers. As extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle, 5. Band". No backstrip. A fine and clean copy. 287-295 pp. [Entire issue: 287-318 pp]. First printing of Dirichlet's paper in which he uses his methods to simplify the treatment of a problem by Fourier (theory of Fourier series): the temperature distribution in a thin bar with given temperatures at the endpoints.

København, Schubothe, 1891. 8vo. Ubeskåret, uindbundet, uden de originale omslag. Ryg revnet og forstærket med tape. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Med egenhændig, uadresseret dedikation fra Bang på smudstitelbladet: "Fra en dramatisk Digter / til / en anden dramatisk Digter. / Juleaften 96. / Herman." Originaludgaven med dedikation fra Bang.

Paris, Cailleau, 1724. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. Titles in red and black. Around 2000 pp.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1950. 8vo. Volume XXIX, Number 1, January 1950 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. With previous owner's name to front wrapper. Sunning to spine and margins of front wrapper. A two centimeter long tear to top of spine, no loss. Internally a nice and clean copy. Pp. 1-59. [Entire volume: Pp. 1-116]. First publication of Pierce's seminal and exceedingly influential paper on traveling-wave tube amplifiers. A Traveling-wave tube is an electronic device used to amplify radio frequency signals to high power. Even though the invention is widely contributed to Rudolf Kompfner in 1942-43, and Nils Lindenblad patented a device in 1940 similar to the traveling wave tube, is it Pierce that invented a fully functional and useable device."It was Pierce who exploited its [the Traveling-Wave Tube] great potential as a broadband ultrahigh frequency and microwave amplifier. Pierce's initial successes with the new amplifier and his theoretical analysis of the operation of the traveling wave principle provided stimulus for colleagues at Bell Labs and workers elsewhere to enter this field of research." (Millman, S. A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 177).The first communication satellite the Telstar had not been able to send signals back to earth without Pierce' Traveling-Wave Tube. The issue also contains:1. Rice, S. O. Communication in the Presence of Noice - Probability of Error for Two Encoding Schemes. Pp. 60-93.2. Darlington, Sidney. Realization of a Constant Phase Difference. Pp. 94-104.3. Eggleston, Richard C.. Conversion of Concentrated Loads on Wood Crossarms to Loads Distributed at Each Pin Position. Pp. 105-116.4. Richardson, J.M. The Linear Theory of Fluctuations Arising from Diffusional Mechanisms - An Attempt at a Theory of Contact Noise. Pp. 117-141.

Leipzig, Grossii, Gleditschii & Weidemannum, 1736. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. Two small stamps to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. Occassional brownspots throughout, otherwise fine. (4), 562, (34) + 5 folded plates. First edition containing many papers and reviews by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Paris, Victor Masson, 1846. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Troisieme Series - Tome 18. 512 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. Laurents paper: pp. 266-298. Somewhat brownspotted. First printing of this classic work in the history of organic chemistry in which Laurent made clear "the distinction between equivalents, atoms and molecules, by attaching to these terms meanings similar to those given to them at the present day. Like Avogadro and Ampère, Laurent regarded the molecules of hydrogen, of oxygen, of chlorine, etc., as consisting of two atoms and of forming "homogenous Compounds" which could then give rise to "heterogenous compounds" by double decomposition -(HH) + (CICI) = (HCI) + (HCI) - as had long before been pointed out by Avogadro."(Findley "A Hundred Years of Chemistry", p. 32."A founder of modern organic chemistry, Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure, which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path, from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way."(DSB).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XV, pp. 89-184 and 1 folded engraved plate. First edition. Redern, curator to the Berlin Academy presents here an historical account of the development in Optics, from Kepler to Euler, together with its mathematical theory.Poggendorff II:582-83.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1870. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Herausgegeben von A. Clebsch und C. Neumann. 11. Band. 2. Heft." Entire issue offered. Minor loss to wrappers, internally fine and clean. [Neumann:] Pp. 182-186. [Entire issue: IV, 191, (1) pp.]. First printing of these three paper by Klein, in which he for the first time presented his much used theory regarding line complexes, algebraic geometry.