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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.

Gotha, Justus Perthes, o.J. (Ca. 1890). Small folio. (33x22 cm.). Orig. full cloth, gilt lettering with title on frontcover. Small tears to backstrip, edges with light wear. 23 pp. and Africa-map 100x85,5 cm. coloured and folded, mounted on cloth. The map in fine condition. Original separate extract from Stieler's Handatlas.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1897. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. 48. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. Minor soiling to back wrapper, internally fine and clean. [Dedekind:] Pp. 548-61. [Entire issue: 433-606, (2) pp.]. First printing of Dedekind groups, named named after Richard Dedekind, who investigated them in proving a form of the above structure theorem (for finite groups). He named the non-abelian ones after William Rowan Hamilton, the discoverer of quaternions.In group theory, a Dedekind group is a group G such that every subgroup of G is normal. All abelian groups are Dedekind groups. A non-abelian Dedekind group is called a Hamiltonian group

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres", Année 1767, tome XXIII, pp. 131-164 a. 1 engraved plate. First printing, dealing with compound lenses for making telescopes and the mathematical theory.Enestroem: E 383.

Kiøbenhavn, Pelt, 1760. Lille8vo. Yderst velbevaret samtidigt hldrbd. i flammet kalv, rig rygforgyldning og skindtitel. Stempel på titelbladet "Hvedholm Bibliotek". 751 pp. helt rent eksemplar, trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven.

Paris, Cavelier fils, 1719. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to spine-ends. 816),314,(6) pp. First edition.

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

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.

København, 1770. Indbundet i eet nyere mønstret papbind med skindtelfelt. Indeholder Nr. 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 37, 38, 43, 44, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 91, 93, 97, 112, 115, 116, 119, 120, 121, 125, 132, 133, 134, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 165, 167, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 190, 192, 193, 195, 196, register.Den ældste, danske egentlige annonce-avis.

London, Trübner & Co., 1879. 4to. Orig. green pictorial cloth, gilt. rebacked preserving original spine. Light wear along edges. Stamp on title-page. Engraved portrait as frontispiece.(10),L,644 pp., maps, plates, portraits, textillustrations and 1 large folded map linen-backed map in pocket at end. Neath repairs to edges of title-page. Internally clean.

London, Davis, (1799-1800). 8vo. Contemp. blue boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: "The Philosophical Magazine. By Alexander Tilloch", Vol. V. - VI,422,4 pp. and 7 engraved plates. (Entire voulume offered). Rumford's paper: pp. 162-174. (November 1799). Internally clean. Rumford's paper was published the same year in "Philosophical Transactions". His experiments with heat tried to show that heat is not a material substance, are famous episodes in the history of physics as they gave the death blow to the so-called caloric theory of heat.The volume contains also WILLIAM HERSCHEL "On the nature and Construction of the Sun and Fixed Stars", pp. 114-123 a. 222-232, originally published in the "Transactions" in 1794.

Kjøbenhavn, Gad, 1864. Indbundet i et samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Lille revne ved fals øverst. (8),88,(682,35,(2) pp. Talrige plancher, kort, prospekter, planer m.v. i træsnit og litografi. Originaludgaven.

Paris, Garnier Freres, n.d. (ca. 1920). 8vo. 8 fine orig. hmorocco, richly gilt backs. With 26 heliogravures.

Stockholm, Nordström, 1793-94. 3 samtidige hldrbd. med ophøjede bind på rygge, titel-og tomefelter i forgyldt skind. n papirsetiket nedesr på bind 1. Lette brugsspor. En kapitæl lidt slidt. Stempel på titelblade. XII,408;592;652,(4) pp. Bind et med nogle blade lidt brunede. Lidt spredte brunpletter.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1914. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"]. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 45, 1914. Light miscolouring to left margin of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy, near mint. Pp. 1098-1102. First edition, in the scarce author's presentation offprint issue, of Smoluchowski's comment of B. Baules paper on theoretical treatment of phenomena in rarefied gases.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872. 8vo. In later half cloth with the original front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamp to front board and title-page. Three small holes in inner margin, presumably from a previous binding. Internally clean. 46 pp.

Kjøbenhavn, Høpffner, (1763). 4to. Senere hshirtbd. Forgyldt titeletiket på forpermen. Stempler på titelbladet. (16) pp. Gennemstukket med samtidigt tilskrevne blade, som tillæg eller revision af de 47 §§ som forordningen indeholder.

[Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Beijer, 1897]. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrdg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 20, pp. 59-142. First printing of Poincaré's paper in which he 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).

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-1924. Royal8vo. Bound in 5 half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. With many text illustration and folded plates. Light wear to extremities. The set comprise of the following 9 volumes: Atlas (1880).Erster Band. Erstes Kapitel. Fünfte Auflage (1924).Dritte Abteilung. Dritte vermehrte Auflage (1900).Vierter Band. Vierte, vermehrte Auflage (1912).Vierte Abteilung. Dritte vermehrte Auflage (1903).

München, Georg Franz, 1857-61. Small 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf, gilt spines. Stamp on titlepages. VIII,602;XII,(603-) 1314 pp., 13 textillustr. and 30 lithographed plates with 197 figs. Internally clean and fine.

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

Berlin, Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1931. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Small nicks to margin of wrapper. "Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften", issue XII, pp. 233-247. Einstein paper: pp. 235-237, Schrödinger paper: pp. 238-247. Both papers first edition. - Weil No 179.

Bremen, Geisler, 1843. Original clorthbacked printed boards. XVI,80 pp., 2 lithographed plates (one folded and handcoloured). Clean and fine.

Lugd. Batav. et Rotterod., Ex Officina Hackiana, 1664. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Cracking along fronthinge, but still firm. Gilt spine, gilt covers with a gilt coat of arms (two lions) on both covers. Binding rubbed. Engraved title-page. (14),604 pp. + Index. The text is compiled by Schrevelius. (Dibdin II, 154).