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(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences". Année 1702. Pp. 101-134 and 4 folded engraved plates (celestial maps). First printing of these 5 papers accounting the observations of the comet. Bianchini and Maraldi discovered the comet in the morning sky on April 20, 1702. The comet was a short distance above the horizon and was said to resemble a "nebulous star".An independent discovery was made by Maria Margarethe Kirch (Berlin, Germany on April 21, 1702 and by Philippe de la Hire (Paris, France) on April 24. The last observation of the comet was made by Bianchini and Maraldi on May 5, 1702.

London, Pierre Dunayer,1736. Small8vo. 4 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines with raised bands. Gilt lettering. Lower compartment of spine on volume 1 with a tear. Stamp on title-pages. With 10 (of 13) folded engraved plans. The lacking 3 supplied in xerox-copy. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

Wien, 1819. Cont.hcalf. Back slightly worn. XVIII,762,(4) pp. and 9 fold.engr.plts.,some textillustr. A few marginal annotations in old hand. First German edition.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1881. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 93, No 17. Pp. (613-) 654 (entire issue offered). Laveran's paper: pp. 627-630. First printing of the paper in which Laveran - in detail - described the agents responsible for malaria - the discovery was first announced in a small note in "Bulletin de l’Académie de Médecine". On November 6th, 1880, while examining the blood of a patient, without any staining and using a x40 objective, he saw for the first time a number of filiform elements, flagellum-like, which moved with great vivacity around a pigmented, spherical body. Seventeen days after the discovery Laveran sent a note describing his discovery to the National Academy of Medicine of France. This discovery was exemplary in the simplicity of the means used and by the fact that Laveran's work went against all the theories then accepted by the greatest scholars of the time. Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1907) for the discovery of the agent of malaria.The offered issue contains another interesting paper ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL "Sur un appareil permettant de déterminer, sans douleur pour le patient, la position d'un projectile de plomb ou d'autre métal dans le corps humain.", pp. 625-627 with 2 illustrations showing the electrical apparatus by which Bell tried to detect the bullit which murdered president Garfield. This is the first description of Bell's invention.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1821-22. 3 samtidige hldrbd. hvor dog alle rygge er fornyede med guldstryk og titler. Stempel på titelblade.VIII,392;VIII,410;VI,584 pp. Her og der lidt brunplettet. Originaludgaven.

Stockholm, Frans Svanström, (1864). 4to. Orig. helshirtbd. Kapitæler slidte. Med blindtryk og forgyldning.. Frontispiece, 104 pp. og ialt 48 farvelitograferede plancher. Plancherne med lidt spredte brunpletter.

California, California Institute of Technology, 1946. Royal8vo. In the original blue full cloth. Minor wear to extrimities, othervise a very fine and clean copy. XIV, 406 pp. First printing of this restricted report on ballistic rocket-curves. The back of half title states that: "This document contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act, U.S.C. 50; 31 and 32. Its transmission of the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law." The report contains a ballistic analysis of 65 different types of rocket from chemical warfare rockets, demolition rockets to forward-firing aircraft rockets and rocket grenades.

Kiøbenhavn, 1832. 4to. In recent half calf with black leather title-label to spine with gilt lettering to spine. In "Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab". (3), 64, 104, (10) pp. + 2 folded plates.

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792. Unbound, but stitched. XVI,(2),292 pp. A few brownspots. (Magazin von merkwürdigern neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Bd. 7: 1. Theil). Also having the series-titlepage, this with a stamp. - Sabin: 8033.

Paris, Paul Dupont, 1850. 8vo. Bound in later half cloth with the original wrapper pasted on to front board. Offprint from "Annales Hydrographiques". Three small stamps to title-page. Printed on good paper. 27 pp.

Ca. 1910-20. 10,8 x 10,5 cm. Unsigned drawing in ink. Showing a nude couple against a background of curtains.

Kbhvn., 1879. Smukt senere papbd. med skindtitel, de orig. blå blanke omslag medindbundet. (22) pp. 6 plancher, heraf 4 i farvelitografi visende geologiske formationer (efter tegninger af Kornerup) og 2 litograferede foldekort (udarbejdet af J.A.D. jensen). Eksemplaret har dedikation "fra Forf." Heri gennemgåes de indvundne geologiske resultater fra Grønland, Steenstrups og Rinks m.fl. Før kortene er indsat en original tegning i tusch, delvis koloreret, visende et typisk grønlands landskab, hvor en person er anbragt ved en stor rokkesten med et iagttagende selskab i baggrunden. Er personen Steenstrup eller Johnstrup ?, tegnet af Kornerup ? (14,5x20,5 cm). Fra Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. I:6.

(Amsterdam), Algemeene Lands Drukkerij, 1841. 8vo. Contemporary clothbacked blue boards. Stamps on front board and two stamps on titlepage. With a few marginal annotations in contemporary hand, otherwise fine. 23 pp.

No Place, Auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1806. Smal 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel. Spine a little rubbed and a paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamp on title. LXXVI,280;XL,160 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate.

Strassburg, Trübner, 1893-1900. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A crack to fronthinge on the first volume but covers no loose. XXIV,796;XVII,560;XX,608 pp. Internally clean and fine. First edition of the founding work on Indo-European syntax.

Paris, A. Ferraud, 1891. Bound partly uncut with all original printed wrappers. Engraved portrait on upper wrapper and on title-page. With 19 fine etchings (incl. titleportrait). Internally clean and fine. No. 417 (of 211-525) printed on "papier vélin d'Arches", a total of 525 copies. First edition in bookform.

Antwerpen, Imprimerie Plantinienne, 1664. 12mo. I contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and title-page in contemporary hand to spine. Light wear to extremities and internally with a few stains and underlinings. Overall a nice copy. (8), 473, (46) pp. Third edition.

Dateret "Holmenkolveien 13 B, Oslo, 28/12 - 56." 1 side 4to. Hoel beder om at få sendt en del af sit tilgodehavende til en person i Danmark, Gerd Brændstrup (hans illegitime datter).

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part II. Pp. 557-570. First printing of this importent paper in which Davy "finally put it beyond doubt that carbon and diamond were chemically identical; that neither all acids nor all alkalies contained oxygen; and that oxygen enjoyed no unique status as the supporter of combustion, but rather that heat was a consequence of any violent chemical change."(DSB)."In Florence he (Davy) burnt a diamond in oxygen, using the burning glass of the Accademia del Cimento, and foundthat it has the same composition as pure charcoal. He found that a diamond ignited in oxygen by a burning glass continued to burn when the source of external heating is removed, and only carbonic acid gas and no moisture was formed."(Partington IV:p. 61).

Kbhvn., T.G. Ranget, 1814. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Øverste kapitæl repareret. (12),88 pp. Bibl. Danica II:54. Bemærkelsesværdigt dansk filosofisk forsøg, hvor det matematisk-dynamiske ligevægtsbegreb opfattes som et cetralbegreb, der kan overføres på psykologien, samfundsvidenskaberne, videnskaberne i almindelighed etc., således at et filosofisk system kan tage form. Kreydal var elev af Treschow og nær ven med Rasmus Rask.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1876. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 9., 1876. 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. Very fine and clean. Pp.163-165 [Entire volume: IV, 575 pp.]. First printing of Lüroth's Theorem, a celebrated case of rational variety within algebraic variety. "In 1876 he demonstrated the "Lueroth theorem", whereby each uni-rational curve in rational-Castelnuovo in 1895 proved the analogous but more difficul theorem for surfaces" (DSB).Lüroth's problem concerns subextensions L of K(X), the rational functions in the single indeterminate X. Any such field is either equal to K or is also rational, i.e. L = K(F) for some rational function F. In geometrical terms this states that a non-constant rational map from the projective line to a curve C can only occur when C also has genus 0. That fact can be read off geometrically from the Riemann-Hurwitz formula."In addition, Lueroth worked in other areas of mathematics far removed from algebraic geometry. He obtained partial proof of the topological in variance of dimension (proved in 1911 by L. Brouwer) and, following the work of Staudt, did research in complex geometry. He was also involved in the logical researches of his friend Schroder and published two books in applied mathematics and mechanics. These were Grundriss der Meclumik, in which he used the vector calculus for the first time* and Vorlesungen Uber immerisches Rechnen. Lueroth collaborated in editing the collected works of Hesse and Grassmann." (DSB)

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1706". Pp. 418-432 and pp. 516-521. With 7 large folded engraved plates (antomy and physiology). First appearance of du Verneys rather famous description and dissection of two children linked together by the lower abdomen and lacking an anus.Jacques du Verney was "medicin ordinaire du roi". During a conference open to the public he exhibited a "monstre double" to a crowd of Parisians and provincials in order to refute the fortuitous and haphazard accidentalist theories...According to Verney, the very form of this monster leaves little doubt as to God'øs agency in nature...the monstrous fetus are read as a sign of celestial "Telos". (Based on "The Faces of Eighteent-Century Monstroisity).Together with LEMERY: Que les Plantes contiennent réellement du fer, & que ce metal entre necessairement dans leur composition naturelle. Pp. 411-418 and 2 large folded engraved plates.

Paris, Paulin, 1859. Folio (425 x 275 mm). In contemporary half calf with red leather title-label to front board. Light wear to extremities and occasional marginal brownspotting throughout. A good copy. 66 maps in various sizes (complete).

Dillingen, Bencard, 1681. 8vo. In a nice blindstamped full vellum binding over wooden boards with two clasps. Light wear to extremities and light brownspotting throughout. (6), 279, (7), 232 pp.