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(Kiøbenhaffn, Henrik Kruse/ Peder Andersøn, 1630). 4to. Samtidigt helpergamentsbd. (6),302,(2) pp. Lettere brunplettet. Ikke komplet: mangler titelbladet, 4 blade i registeret og sidste blad med kolofonen er defekt. Originaludgaven. Thesaurus II,648. - Bibl. Dan.V,221.

(Paris, Baudouin, AN XI (1803)). 4to. Without wrappers. Uncut. Extracted from "Mémoires de L'Institut National des Sciences et Arts", Tome Quatrieme. Pp. 209-218 and 2 large folded engraved plates. (The plate depicting "Areng à Sucre" measuring 42x33 cm.). Clean and fine. First printing of the first description of a new genus of palms, which he named it Arenga after the name Areng given to it in the Moluccas.Labillardière was a French explorer and botanist, he travelled in the Near East in 1786 and he joined the expedition in search of La Perouse.

Amsterdam, D'Etienne Roger, 1699. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine with raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. In middle of covers a gilt armorial stamp with blindstamped fleur-de-lis. Engraved frontispiece (Sokrates). 231,(17) pp. + Engraved frontispiece (Sokrates9. (14),307,(13) pp. Frontispiece and the first 20 leaves with some foxing in lower right corners. Last few leaves with a faint dampstain in lower right corners.

4to. Orig. full cloth. XI,686,56 pp. Very richly illustr. with plates and textillustr. This volume contains also "Die V. Triennale, Mailand 1933 und das neue Bauen in Italien" (= pp. 391-454).

Londres (London), No printer, 1777. Uncut in orig. blue cardboards, later rebacking with cloth. Stamp on title. (2),679;(4),640 pp. Internally clean and fine. First edition.

Amsterdam, 1760. 8vo. Uncut unopened in contemporary (original?) marbled paper wrappers. Wanting part of the paper to top of the spine, otherwise a very nice copy. VIII, 388 pp. Second edition, published the same year as the original.

Hafniae (Copenhague), I.H. Schultzii, 1833. 4to. Bound in recent half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Annotations in contemporary hand throughout. Lower margins with repairs, far from affecting text. (2), 12 pp. The years 1834-1837 supplied in facsimilie. Rare seed catalogue issued by the Botanical Garden of the University of Copenhagen - These kinds of publications - common among botanical gardens in the 18th and 19th centuries - served to list seeds available for exchange with other gardens and scientific institutions across Europe and beyond. Printed in low number and intended for use only between European botanical gardens these catalogues rarely find their way to the trade.

Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1786. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers. In: "Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell", 1786:1. Bd., 1. Stück. The whole issue (=1. Stück). (2),96 pp. Scheele's paper: pp. 3-17. First appearance of this importent paper, by the discoverer of oxygen, which is the second paper by Scheele which deals with the action of sulphuric acid on fluorspar. (Parkinson III: p.214).

Berlin, Hayn, 1826. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. A bit of titlelabel gone. Stamp on title-page. VIII,390,(2) pp., Tabellen etc.

(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1772). 4to. Without wrappers, extracted from "Nouveau Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles-Lettres", Année 1770, pp. 51-57 and pp. 58-67. Both papers first edition. In the first paper the design of a new lamp is presented, modelled after Lambert's previous studies on the "porte-voix". The second deals with ink and paperdegeneration. Because a lot of Lambert's manuscripts became unreadable through water damage during the time they were stored in Switzerland before being transported to Berlin, Lambert goes into the causes of ink and paper degeneration. Through experimentation he arrives at the kind of ink and paper that withstand humidity best.

Carlscrona, Ameen och Comp., 1842. Orig. hshirtbd. Bogtrykt titeletiket på ryg. kanter lidt slidte. Stempel på titelbladet. XII,230 pp., 3 tabeller, 5 graverede plancher. En meget svag gennegående skjold nederst på siderne.

Dresden, No printer, 1796-97. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on first title-page. (8),218,(24 = Tafeln Logarithmen);(12,267,(1) pp. and 8 (2 + 6) folded engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots. One plate with inkspots.

Paris, Jombert, 1755. Large 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Spine gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to spine ends. Some cracking to hinges at upper and lower compartments. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XIV,(1),366,(2) pp. Internally clean.

Kjøbenhavn, Triers Bogtrykkeri, 1876. 8vo og folio. 2 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titeletiketter. Stempler på titelbladet. (6),68 pp. Atlas med 5 store dobbelsidede fravelitograferede kort.

Paris, (s.a) [late 18th century]. 8vo. Bound in a splendid 19th century brown full morocco binding with richly gilt spine and boards. Five raised bands and gilt title to spine. Wide gilt floral borders to boards. Edges of boards and all edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Wear to corners. Internally clean. Engraved title-page + pp. 167-250 + pp. 349-644.

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates. First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.

..Aus.d.Franz. übers. mit Anmerkungen...Anhange vermehrt durch R.v.L. 2.Ausg. Dresden, 1816. 8vo. Cont.hcalf.Back a little worn. 431,(3) pp.

Paris, G. Masson, 1880. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 5e Series, Tome 19. 576 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Crooke's paper: pp. 195-231 with 21 fine textillustrations of his apparatus. First apperance - simutaneously with an English version - of the paper in which Crookes is summing up his importent investigations on cathode-rays, describing the "Crooke Tube", the "Lines of pressure", his "Light-Mill", his Radiometer and the electric discharge in rarified gases etc., investigations leading to the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897."With his thorough grounding in the experimentally difficult art of vacuum physics, Crookes laid the foundation for the fuller investigation by J. J. Thomson of the behavior of radiant matter in the discharge tube, showing, for example, that it induced phosphorescence in minerals like the diamond; that it caused the glass of the discharge tube to phosphoresce; that its stream could be deflected by a magnet; and, most important of all, that since it cast a shadow of an opaque object (for example, a Maltese cross), it traveled in straight lines and was corpuscular in nature..."(DSB).The volume contains further notable papers E.H. AMAGAT: "Mémoire sur la Compressabilité des Gaz à des Pressions élevees", pp. 345-385. LOUIS CAILLETET: "Sur la mesure des hautes Pressions", pp. 386-389.

Francofurti, Libraria Hermanniana, 1817. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. VIII, 598 pp. Rare edition - and according to Brunet "Édition la plus estimée" - of Aratus' two works 'Phaenomena' and 'Diosemeia' .Brunet I, 376

Paris, Crochard, 1821. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Redigées par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago", Tome XVII - Mai Issue. Pp. 1-112 including titlepage to vol. 17. - The rapport: pp. 80-102. Fresnel's paper: pp. 102-111. Clean and fine. First appearance of the joint report. This investigation of Fresnel's paper by Arago (mainly written by Arago as a polemic directed at Biot) and Ampère is a central document in the rather bitter confrontation between Arago and Biot on the wave theory of light put forward by Fresnel.Fresnel's paper is the first part of three of his "Calcul des teintes".

Nördlingen, 1861-68. 8vo. Bound in 8 uniform cont. hcloth. Stamp on titles. Vol. 8 lightly dampstained on the first leaves. Ca. 3000 pp.

London, J. Millan, 1752. Uncut, without wrappers as issued. A few corners gone. Htitle and some leaves frayed. First and last leaves browned. Faint scattered brownspots. Stamp on title-page. VIII,68 pp.

København, 1938-39. Folio. Indbundet i 3 solide hshirtbd. Illustreret. Avisen var Dansk Samlings hovedorgan.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1870. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen, 2. band, 1870". Entire issue offered. Two library labels pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamt to verso of title page. [Gordan:] Pp. 227-280. [Entire issue: IV, 649, (1), pp.]. First printing of Gordan's important paper in which he proved that any finite system of binary forms of arbitrary degree had a complete system of invariants. These archievement earned Gordan the name "King of invariant theory". (Kolmogorov, Mathematics of the 19th century, p. 85).Paul Gordan, German mathematician, was a major contributor to the field of invariant theory. He collaborated with Rudolf Clebsch on both invariant theory and algebraic geometry, and also developed proofs demonstrating that the numbers e and ? are transcendent numbers, numbers that are not the root of any algebraic equation with rational coefficients. A strict mathematical logician, Gordan commented that David Hilbert's less formal approach to mathematics was "not mathematics, it is theology." (Schlager, Science and Its Times, P. 269)