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(Copenhagen, 1799). 4to, Without wrappers. In "Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 5. A few loose leaves. Pp. 333-340 + folded plate. Arctides guineensis is a species of slipper lobster which lives in the Bermuda Triangle. It is known in Bermuda as the small Spanish lobster. First descriptiobn of Arctides guineensis, a slipper lobster, also known as the small Spanish lobster. In this original description of the species, Lorenz Spengler gave the type locality as "Dens Fædreneland er Kysten af Guinea", probably meaning Ghana. However, A. guineensis is not known to have ever occurred near Africa, and this locality is probably an error. The species was also described by Pierre André Latreille in 1818 under the name Scyllarus sculptus, citing a type locality of "Méditerranée" (Mediterranean Sea), which is also unlikely.

Folio. Uncut with all orig. wrappers. This copy is unnumbered and with an extra suite of the 15 lithographed plates, the suite beein on another type of paper. Total of 218 copies. With a facsimile-letter from Barrés to Ch. Maurras relating to the work.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 85, No 12, 14 a. 15.. Pp. (733-) 776, (841-) 908, (909-) 984. (Entire issues offered). Daubrée's paper: pp. 733-39, 864-69 a. 928-931. First apperance of this classic paper in experimental geology."Gabriel Daubrée describes the apparatus and results of experiments simulating the folding and faulting of strata through the exertion of horizontal and vertical pressures on beds of wax or metal. Daubrée finds that fairly uniform folds form when homogenous beds under spatially uniform vertical pressures are subjected to sufficient horizontal pressure, the amount of the pressure indfluencing the number and shape of the folds. Continued pressurein such a case results in a regular series of synclines and anticlines. By contrast, spatial nonuniformities in the bed thickness or in the vertical pressure can produce marked asymmetries in the resulting folds, with, for instnace, fewer folds in regions of greater vertical pressure."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1878).

Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1833. Samtidigt hshirtbd. Rygtitel i guldtryk. Stempel på titelbladet. (8),210 pp., 2 foldetabeller, 8 litograferede plancher. Enkelte svage brunpletter.

Paris, Pissot, 1770. Contemp. hcalf. Spine rubbed and titlelabel gone. Some wear to boards. 174;224 pp. Internally with light browning, but fine. First edition.

Hambourg, Fauche, 1795. Small 8vo. Bound in 3 nice contemp. hcalf. Raised bands title-and tomelabels on spines with gilt lettering. Stamp on htitles. XX,387,(1);(4),310,(6);(4),514,(2) pp. Printed on good paper, clean.

Stockholm, Beijer, 1903. 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica, 27. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 365-390. First printing of Fredholm's landmark paper which is considered to be the publication which established operator theory, thereby anticipating Hilbert Spaces. David Hilbert developed the abstraction of Hilbert space in association with research on integral equations prompted by Fredholm's.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1762. Small 8vo. Cont. fullcalf with raised bands. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Lower compartment of spine with a taped label. Stamp on title-page. (16),160 pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean.

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777. 4to. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part I. Pp. 260-265. Clean and fine, broadmargined. First apperarance of this paper, constituting the first reliable account of colour blindness.Usually Goethe or John Dalton - Huddart's case was cited in Dalton's paper of 1794 - is supposed to have discovered colourblindness. However, the English oculist Joseph Huddart was the discoverer of this phenomenon. The first physiological explanation of it does come from Goethe.Garrison & Morton: 5832.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Royal8vo. Orig. pictorial cloth. Back strenghtened with transparent tape. XX,411 pp., 98 illustrations on plates and 2 maps. Internally clean. First edition.

Ca. 1920. 19 x 20 cm. Unsigned. Black/white etching showing a smiling nude girl wearing only shoes lying in bed. Top of plate with tears not affecting picture.

Paris, Victor Masson et Cie, 1843. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome IX. 512 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's papers: pp. 21-70 a. pp. 257-322. Some scattered browspots and foxing. First appearance of two importent papers on heat, electricity and light. In the first paper he showed that Joule’s law governing the production of heat in the passage of an electrical current applied to liquids as well as to solids and in the second paper he revealed in the presence of Fraunhofer lines in photographs of the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum by spectroscopy. Earlier he had shown that rays at the red end of the spectrum reinforced or continued the chemical action initiated by rays at the violet end. He also demonstrated that phosphorescence was stimulated in different substances by specific frequencies of light and that at some frequencies the phosphorescent glow seemed to stop immediately after the cutting off of incident light rays.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1807. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VIII,,177 pp., 3 large folded tables and 2 large folded engraved maps or plans, both with handcolouring. Beilage A loose and with a tear (no loss). First map loose and with small closed tears. Scattered brownspots.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 105-145 and 3 fine engraved plates, showing instruments. First appearance of the importent description of the division of the circle, invented by Troughton.One of Troughton's most important contributions was a method of dividing a circle. His paper on this, An account of the method of dividing astronomical and other instruments by ocular inspection in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1809 won him the Copley medal of the Royal Society. In this invention is described in detail and also put into context. "Troughton made many contributions to the development of instrument making: in 1788 an improvement of Hadley's quadrant; in 1790 a mercurial pendulum; and in 1796 a refined version of the Borda, or reflecting circle. He was responsible for substituting spider web filaments for hair or wire in his optical instruments.....Troughton's most notable achievement was the improvement of the method of dividing a circle. His paper on this in 1809 won him the Copley Medal from the Royal Society, which elected him as fellow the following year."(DSB). - Poggendorff II: 1140.

London, Davis, Taylor, and Wilks, (1800). 8vo. Contemp. boards. Spine with gilt titlelabel. A few scratches to spine. (6),378 pp. and 11 engraved plates, some folding. 2 leaves in "Content" and 3 leaves in the text torn with loss of some letters. First printing, not a reprint. With the spectacular plate depicting Rodman's Trepanning Instrument accompanying his article describing its use.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 37, 1890. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Fine and clean. Pp. 182-228. [Entire volume: IV, 604 pp.]. First printing of Peano's correct and complete Existence Theorem. Peano first published the theorem in 1886 with an incorrect proof. In 1890 he published a new correct proof using successive approximations. The theorem is also known as Peano existence theorem, Peano theorem or Cauchy-Peano theorem.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1829. Smukt samt. hldrbd. i rødt saffian. Rig rygforgyldning. Slid ved øverste kapitæl. (8),197 pp. Trykt på velin. 4 sider trykt tilegnelse til Greve Adam Wilhelm Moltke. Originaludgaven af Danmarks første kunsnerleksikon i udstyr af gaveeksemplar. - Bibl. Danica II:975.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth with dust jacket. XIV,471,(1) pp. Clean and fine. First English edition of 17 papers by Tarski including 'The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages'. The papers have been revised by Tarki himself, bibliographical and historical notes have been added.

Kbhvn., Chr. Ursin, 1862. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Nederste 2 cm. af ryg slidt, hjørner stødte. 26 pp. samt 33 litograferede plancher, hvoraf de 32 er håndkolorerede. tekstsider med lidt brunpletter. Tavlerne har ofte tilskrifter med dyrenes navne.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1773. Contemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine ends worn. Spine somewhat worn. (10),398 pp. Titlepage with a small stamp and a few brownspots. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Sulzer's collected (14) memoirs as he published them in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Berlin. The memoirs appeared originally in French and they are here translated into German by Christian Garve.

Ldn., 1894. Orig. cloth. Uncut. Capitals a bit bumped. Clean copy. First edition.

London, Woodfall and Kinder, 1852. Folio. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper boards. (4),37 pp. and 3 fine aquatint plates: H.M. Ship Surinam (being struck by lightening), H.M. Ship Thisbe (on fire by lightening), H.M. Ship Scylla (in a perilous thunder squall). "Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin."(Wikipedia).Ronalds, p. 230. -

Paris, Briere et Brissot-Thivars, 1822. 8vo. Uncut in cont. blue wrappers. Frontwrapper torn. XXXII,423 pp. Occasionally brownspotted. First edition of the translation by Collin de Plancy.

Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1781. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Upper right corner of title-page with a repaired tear, loosing part of 2 letters. XIII,(3),853,(21) pp. and 24 folded engraved plates. First edition. Deals with Arithmetics, Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Statics, Hydraulics, Perspective, Machine theory, Artillery, Optics, Dioptrics, Catroptics, Astronomy, Gnomonics, Civil- and military Architecture. - Karsten was a pupil of Leonhard Euler. - Poggendorff I, 1225

Kjøbenhavn, Høpffner, (1737) - 1741. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Internally very nice and clean. (12), 195, (5), 197-392, (4), 393-707, (5), 709-960, (32) pp. Rare first Danish priest Zacharias Poulsen Danchel (1643 - 1715) discourses on the human soul. Biblioteca Danica I, 216.