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Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1816. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Gilt lettering. A tear in fronthinge at lower compartment, taped. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. VIII,398,(2) pp., 4 engraved plates (1 folding). A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

Cöthen, 1860. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back. Traces of use and brownspotted. XCVI,656 pp. + Repertorium 230, (2) pp.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1858. 4to. As extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 55. Band, 1858"., without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Aronhold:] Pp. 97-191. First printing of Aronhold's important paper on the theory of invariants: Aronhold was particularly attracted by the theory of invariants, which was then the center of mathematical interest, and was the first German to do research in this area. The theory of invariants is not, however, connected with Aronhold alone - others who worked on it were Sylvester, Cayley, and Hesse - but he developed a special method that proved to be extremely successful. Aronhold stresses that he arrived at his principles as early as 1851, citing his doctoral dissertation and the treatise "Theorie der homogenen Funktionen dritten Grades... (1858). Since the subsequent theory and terminology did not yet exist, he claimed priority." (DSB).

Halle, a.S., Vilhelm Knapp. 1888-90. Lex8vo. Two cont. halfcloth. 365,266 pp. Many detailed constructions and illustrations.

Leipzig, Grosse & Fritschium, 1696. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. (2), 603 pp. + 10 engraved folded plates. The offered volume contain many papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1739. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. Occassional brospotting, otherwise fine and clean. (4), 720, (39) pp + 5 plates. The offered volume contain many papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Copenhague, Berling, 1749 & 1748. 8vo. Cont. full calf Cambridge-style bdg. w. 4 raised bands and richly gilt back. Blindstamped frame-ornamentation on boards. Title-label partly missing. Bdg. solid, but w. overall wear. Internally fine w. only minor brownspotting. First French translation, based on the Danish original from 1744. Ehr.-M., X:350.

York, Robert Horsfield, 1773. Bound in a lovely contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Five raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Single gilt lineborders to boards. Upper right corner of title page neatly restored. Printed on good paper. Internally nice and clean. The copy belonged to the renowned historian and literary critic C. Molbech and has his signature to verso of front free endpaper. A note from Molbech indicates that the copy was bought at Knud Lyne Rahbek's auction in 1830.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1762. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf with raised bands, blindtoolings. Leathertitle on back. Spine ends worn. (16),160 pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. Faint stamp on titlepage.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. Entire volume 12 of "Zeitschrift für Physik" bound in contemporary black half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page and paper label pasted on to lower part of spine. Minor wear to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 342-75. [Entire volume: IV, 380 pp.]. First printing of Bohr's conceptions about atomic structure including electronic orbits. The paper was written in the months during which element 72 was discovered (first named Hafnia, the Latin name for Copehagen, then Danium, and finally the official name became Hafnium), and in the paper, element 72 is mentioned but not named. This is Bohr's first paper with joint authorship."Element 72 is included, but it is still indicated as unknown. In the second section of the paper a classification is given of the known X-ray spectra of 48 elements, from magnesium to uranium." (Bohr. Collected Works: The periodic system (1920-1923), p. 33).The volume also contains the following paper by Erwin Schrödinger:"Über eine bemerkenswerte Eigenschaft der Quantenbahnen eines einzelnen Elektrons" in which he made a new remarkable characteristic of the quanta channnel of a single electron.

N.Y., Halcyon House (Scribner's Sons), (1932). Orig. black full cloth w. gilt and red-coloured decoration to spine. Author's signature in gilt on front board. Coloured frontispiece ("The Bullfighter" by Juan Gris). Many black/white illustr. (of bullfighting). A little wear to extremities and a white spot to back board, otherwise nice and clean. A rare reprint-edition from the same year as the first edition.

Leipzig: Gleditsch, 1733. Bound in 2 contemporary full calf bindings, upper part of spines split, rubbed, gilt lettering. (30) pp., 1888 columns.; 2102 columns., (4) pp. With 1 engraved frontisp.

Leipzig, Lanckisiii & Blochbergerum, 1750. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with brownspotting. (6), 722, (28) pp + 6 plates. The offered volume contain many reviews by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1912. 8vo. Orig. brown full cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's symbol to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Spine a bit soiled and darkened. Internally very nice and clean. (2), 371, (3) pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. First German edition, first issue (Erstes bis drittes Tausend) of Bergson's seminal main work, the "Creative Evolution", his most famous and influential book, which constitutes the great philosopher's cult-like showdown with Darwinian mechanism, which resulted in a theory of cosmic evolution that covered everything from biology and other sciences to metaphysics and religion.In 1907, when Henri Bergson's third book, "Creative Evolution", was originally published in French, the seminal French philosopher, who had studied both mathematics and philosophy, possessed the professor chair of modern philosophy at the Collège de France. Though the book was the result of several years of extremely thorough research, Bergson himself could have hardly foreseen the effect that this book was going to have throughout the 19th century with an amazing revival in the 20th century, making him one of the most important philosophers of his time.Always committed to the reality of time as the basis and as a source of creative change, Bergson, in his magnum opus, sets out to free the sciences of psychology and biology from the materialism and mechanism that had dominated them in the late nineteenth century and due to which they had been made unable to explain creativity, growth and change. He makes an amazing new contribution to the theory of knowledge by providing an account of creative evolution and the creative mind, thereby freeing psychology and biology from a number of problems otherwise unsolvable through philosophical and scientific explanations. Bergson accepts the historical facts of evolution but rejects all the mechanistic and materialistic explanations of the evolutionary process. Like Darwin, he accepts natural selection as an explanation of extinction, but he does not accept it as an explanation of evolutionary change, and likewise with Lamarck, Spencer, and the orthogenesists, he accepts the foundational theories of evolution but only to the point at which mechanism or materialism sets in, instead of which, he basically explains further change and growth with a basic vital principle that accounts for creative changes.As such, "Creative Evolution" sets out to found a philosophy that can account for the continuity of all living things, for both the creation of life and the diversity that results from creation, and Bergson does this with his idea of an original vital principle, a governing immaterial force of life, a sort of natural creative impulse, that embraces the whole of life in one. The book was hugely popular when it appeared, and its immediate immense influence throughout Europe, also mediated throgh the main translations of it (German, English) lasted a couple of decades, making Bergson an internationally acknowledged cult-like hero of a French intellectual. After the Second World War, though, the interest in Bergson decreased, only to be reawakened in the late 1960'ies where a growing interest in his works re-emerged, making him to this day one of the most read philosophers of the early 20th century. There can be no doubt as to the continued influence of his works.

Wien, Hölder, 1881. 2 orig. full pictorial cloth, richly gilt spines and boards. Frontispiece. XVI,528;X,(2),532 pp., 235 illustrations, partly on plates, 4 folded maps. Clean, solid, and fine.

London, Williams and Norgate, 1901. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers w. some loss to upper and lower part of spine and a bit of wear to inner hinges, otherwise nice and clean. Uncut. Frontisp. (Portrait of its Immanence the Absolute), 141, (3) pp. Not common first (and only) edition of this parody on the important philosophical quarterly "Mind", which contained important articles and reviews of almost all important analytic philosophers of the early 20th century. This issue, which is called the "Special Illustrated Christmas Number", substituting the vol. 10, no. 4 of Mind, is written by the philosopher and treasurer of the Mind Association from 1900 to 1936, F.C.S. Schiller (1864-1937), who unsuccessfully tried to hand in his "Riddles of the Sphinx" from 1891 as a Ph.D. thesis. At a first glance it looks exactly like the "real" periodical w. same colour of wrappers, same sort of typing etc., but at a second glance, all of the contents are sarcastic. There are articles like "The Critique of Pure Rot" by I. Cant; "New Platonic Dialogues. I. the "Aporia" of the "Lysis"; II. A Sequel to the "Republic"; III. "Congratulations" "; "Zur Phänomenologie des absoluten Unsinns" by Prof. Dr. G. W. Flegel; "Pholisophy's Last Word" by I.M. Greening; New Aphorisms of Herakleitos (like "Asses prefer the sweepings of the lecture rooms to my original researches", "There is a way to lecture and a way not. But the drier way is better than the damper", "There is a way to lecture and a way from lecture; and the way to and the way from are the same: it is a short cut") etc., etc.

Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1859. 4to. Contemp, hcalf. Gilt spine. A small stamp to titlepage. VI,532 pp. and 20, partly folded, lithographed maps and plans. Text as well as maps fine and clean. At end A.VIBE. Küsten und Meer Norwegens. Gotha, 1860. (Ergänzunghsheft). 2 chromolithographed views (on one plate) and 1 lithographed map. With importent expediton reports and original maps from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, Polar regions etc.

Egenhændigt manuskript m. underskrift. 21 sider 4to. + Maskinskrevet renskrift m. adskillige egenhændige rettelser. + 1. korrekturtryk ligeledes m. adskillige egenhændige rettelser. + 3. korrekturtryk m. enkelte egenhændige rettelser. + Originaludgaven, udgivet for Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab. K., 1944. Indb. i ét nydeligt hldrbd. m. skindtitelfelt på forperm. 1. side af det håndskrevne manuskript m. dedikation: "Kære Dr. Munksgaard. Venligst/ fra Hans Brix." Derudover er der mellem 1. og 3. korrekturtryk indsat et orig. håndskrevet brev m. underskrift fra Hans Brix til "Kære Dr. Munksgaard." Dat. "Hellerup 28.Nov. 1943." 1 s. 4to. H.B. takker for nogle bøger og kommenterer en telefonsamtale dagen forinden, han ender brevet: "Gud ved hvad jeg/ tænkte paa, da jeg satte de linjer ind."... Værkets endelige udgivelse kom i 600 ekspl.

Kjøbenhavn, 1851. Pænt samt. hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. Lidt brugsspor v. hjørner og kapitæler, ellers et nydeligt og indvendig rent ekspl. M. smudstitelbl. Originaludgaven. BFN 591.First edition. Nice cont. hcalf w. gilt back. Traces of use at corners and capitals, otherwise a very nice and internally clean copy. W. htitle.

Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Neueste Folge, Bd. 32, Fünftes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Titlepage to vol. 32. Pp. 1-114. Scoresby's paper: pp. 1-58 and 1 folded engraved map "Karte des Groenländischen Meeres" (17x24 cm.). Gilbert Spitzbergen: pp. 59-67, Krusenstein et al.: pp. 67-71. Clean and fine. This issue contains also a paper by E.F.F. Chladni: "Einige Ideen über das Innere Erde", pp. 72-80, in which he set forth the view that the core of the earth is melted iron. - A paper byFaraday: "Ueber das Vestium oder Sirium", pp. 80-92. First German edition.

Paris, Garnier Freres, 1870-73. Bound in 4 uniform contemp.hcalf., spines gilt, title-and tomelabels. One label with some loss of letters. The first volume having a dampstain in lower margin of leaves. Otherwise clean and fine.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1744). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences", L'Annee 1744, pp. 191-238 and 2 folded engraved plates. First edition. "The Abbé La Caille was an immensssely industrious observational astronomer whose career was climaxed by a scintific expedition to Cape of Good Hope; his studies here made him "the father of of southern astronomy", and his names for fourteen southern constellations remain as his most enduring monumnt." His results in measuring the parallax of the moon, especially from Cape of Good Hope - provided an exact computation of the earth-moon distance - indicating a distance to the moon of about 60 times the earth's radius.

Kjøbenhavn, (ca. 1730). 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldningen svag og ryg med lettere brugsspor. 480,(8);116,(4) pp.

(Stockholm, F.& G. Beier), 1885. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers (to Acta Mathematica 4:3). Extracted from "Acta Mathematica", Vol. 4. Pp. 201-312. Clean and fine. First appearance of a major paper on differential equations of the first order"...the whole theory of automorphic functions was from the start guided by the idea of integrating linear differential equations with algebraic coefficients. Poincaré simultaneously investigated the local problem of linear differential equation in the neighborhood of an "irregular" singular point, showing for the first time how asymptotic developments could be obtained for the integrals. A little later (1884, the paper offered) he took up the question, also started by I.L. Fuchs, of the determination of all differential equations of the first order (in the complex domain) algebraic in y and y' and having fixed singular points; his rechearches was to be extended by Picard for equations of the second order, and to lead to the spectacular results of Painlevé and his school at the beginning of the tweentieth century."(DSB).