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Bombay, Government Central Book Depot, 1870. Orig. full cloth. part of printed titlelabel preserved. XV,260 pp. Internally clean and fine. On halftitle: "With the Author's best Compliments" First edition.

(Bergen, 1937). Smukt privat hldrbd. med orig. for-og bagomslag medindbundet. 261,374 pp.

København: F.H. Eibes, 1863-88. 8vo. 5 uniforme samtidige halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. XV,451;XIII,423;XII,409,CXIX;XIV,314;VII,620 pp.

8vo. 7 cont. boards. Back slightly worn. Uncut. "Erste Rechtmässige Ausgabe".

Paris, Anselin, 1828. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVI,543,(1) pp. and 21 large folded engraved plates. A variant edition (1830) listed by Klaus Jordan no. 3336, not this (1828).

Edinburgh and London, Blackwood and Sons, 1859. Uncut in orig. blindtooled cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Small stamp on title-page. VI,210 pp. + Publisher's announcements 14 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1845-46. Small8vo. 5 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Spines rubbed. Stamp to titlepages. Some scattered brownspots.

Kbhvn., 1949-51. Lex8vo. 5 orig.hldrbd. Med talrige farveplancher.

No Place, Auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1806. Small 8vo. Contemp. clothbacked boards. The orig. engraved wrappers pasted on covers. Stamps on titlepages. (1),,LXXVI,280;(1),XL,160 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Widemargined.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1813 - Part II. Pp. 263-279. Clean and fine. First printing of an importent paper in the history of chemistry in which he decomposited ammonium salts by heated potassium."In 1812 Davy,,,,said that fluoboric acid and fluosilicic acid are 'compounds of a principle unknown in the separate state but analogous to chlorine, with silicium and boron', and 'the hydrofluoric acid is a compound of the same principle with hydrogene and water'. In 1813-14 ( 1813 the paper offered) Davy described his attempts to isolate the radical, which following a sugesstion by Ampere, he called fluorine.." (Partington IV, p.58)."Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lectures." Another paper printed together with Davy's paper: John Pond: "Catalogue of North Pole Distances of Eighty-four principal fixed Stars, deduced from Observations made with the Mural Circle at the Royal Observatory.", pp. 280-304.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1764.) 4to. Without wrappers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCLXII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiques & de Physique, pour la même Année." Pp. 17-52. Clean and fine. First printing of a main work on algebraic elimination theory, being Bezout's first paper in this field. This paper provides the method of solution for certain nth-degree equations.

(Paris, u.år ca 1800). 33,5 x 44 cm. Kobberstukket Danmarkskort, frisk velbevaret og konturkoloreret. Brede marginer. (P.F. Tardieu sculpsit - P.J. Valet scripsit).

Florentiae, Ex Bibliotheca Iunctarum, 1574. 4to. No wrappers. (24) pp. Portrait of Cosimo on titlepage in woodcut. Printers woodcut device on the last page. Marginal brownspots to 4 leaves. First edition of Gini's funeral sermon on Cosimo Medici (1519-1574). - Adams G623.

Erlangen, Palm und Enke, 1820. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp. on top of title-page. (4),IV,380,(2) pp., 8 folded engraved plates and 2 folded tables. First and last few leaves brownspotted. A few scattered brownspots.

München, 1823. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Lower part of upper joint, weakening. Stamp on title-page. (44) pp. = 88 columns and 1 large engraved, handcoloured map. Internally clean. Text and maps on thick heavy paper.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1894). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1893, Vol. 184. Pp. 647-673 a. 2 plates. First appearance of an importent paper in the history of physical chemistry in which the authors for the first time shows experimentally that "the molecular surface energy decreases linearly with the temperature, and that the temperature coefficient of molecular surface energy is a colligative property. Determination of the temperature coefficient of molecular surface energy, therefore, were largely employed for the purpose of calculating the molecular weights, and therefrom the molecular complexity, of substances in the liquid state."(Findley "A Hundred years of Chemistry", p. 79).

Stockholm, Peter Hesselberg, 1784. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryg, rygforgyldning og forgyldt titelfelt. (4),XXIV,(2),558,(10) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Svensk oversættelse af den humanistiske pietismes betydeligste pastoralteologi for Danmark og Norge. Efter hjemkomsten fra biskopembedet i Bergen, holdt Pontoppidan pastoralteologiske forelæsninger, som således i samlet form udkom her. Den svenske udgave indeholder tillæg, som relaterer til svenske forhold.

København, Poppske Offisin, 1837. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the original blue wrappers. Internally near mint. 12,56 pp. First Danish edition of Rask's 'Grammar of the Danish Language', translated by his half-brother H. K. Rask. This edition often appears with the variant title page stating: "R. K. Rasks / Danske Sproglære, / fra Engelsk oversat / og indrettet til Brug for Danske." The most significant difference between the two variants is the "K.", short for Kristian, in Rask's name. Due to his critical thoughts on Christianity, and religion altogether, Rask stopped using 'Kristian' as a middle name. Accordingly, it is reasonable to assume that the title page of the present copy is the second title page, added later as desired by H. K. Rask. Hjelmslev I, 211.

(Oslo), 1951 - 55. Alle 10 hefter, alle ubeskårne og uopskårne i orig. omsl. En smule slidtage ved hjørner og kanter, ellers særdeles velholdt sæt. Originaludgave. Ikke almindeligt forekommende i denne stand.

Leipzig, Moritz Ruhl, (ca.1915). Small 8vo. 2 later full fabrikoid. Gilt lettering to spines. Stamps on title-pages. 37,(1);16,2 pp. With 40 (2 x 20)chromolithographed plates, leporello-style.

Tübingen, Heerbrandt, 1786. Contemp. hcalf. Spine rubbed. Top of spine taped. 240,(8) pp., 7 folded engraved plates.

Paris, Victor Masson, 1854. No wrappers. Extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome 41. With titlepage to Tome 41. Pp. 120-164 and 1 large folded engraved plate showing the experimental apparatus. Some foxing throughout. The periodical issue of Foucault's doctorial thesis in which he for the first time showed that light slows down in water, thus giving experimental evidence for the undulatory theory of light."He...made use of his mirror method to measure the velocity of light through water and other transparent media. As long before as the time of Huygens and Newton it had been suggested that one way of settling the dispute as to whether light was a wave form or a stream of particles was by measuring its velocity in water. According to the wave theory, light should slow down in water; according to the particle theory, it should speed up. In 1853 showed that the velocity of light was less in water than in air, a strong piece of evidence in favor of the wave theory. He presented this work as his doctoral thesis."(Asimov).

København, Andr. Fred. Høst, 1919. 4to. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et des Letteres de Danemark". Light miscolouring to extremities. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 287-384, XVI + 4 plates. Offprint issue of Kramer's doctorial thesis. Kramer was Niels Bohr's first assistent when Bohr's Institute opened in 1920, later he returned to Utrecht and became sucessor to Ehrenfest. - The frequency of spectral lines did not coincide with a kinetic frequency of electrons, but was only partly explained by Bohr's correspondence principle. Kramers developed here in this work the mathematical formalism required to unite these ideas, leading to an interpretation of the intensities of Stark Components."In his 1919 dissertation, Kramers calculated in detail the intensities and polarizations of the hydrogen spectral lines, including Zeeman and Stark effects. His results were in good, if not perfect, agreement with experimental data". (Kragh, Quantum Generations, P. 157).

Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1928. Original printed wrappers. Frontwrapper with a small closed tear. Lower right corner strenghtened on verso. A few spots to wrappers. No XXV of CXX copies "hors commerce". Inscribed by the author "Jules Supervielle" to "A Monsieur Henri George..." First edition.