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(Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1740). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Prima continens Mathematica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tomus VII ad Annum 1735, &..... Euler's paper: pp. 99-122 a. 2 engraved plates. Wide-margined, clean. First printing of Euler's first paper on vibrating bars. Euler here solves the partial differential equation for a forced harmonic oscillator and notices the resonnance phenomenon. - Enestroem E40.

Strasburg, Amand König, 1770. Contemp. hcalf over wood. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Covers a bit wrinkled. Stamps on title-page. (16),152 pp., 10 large folded engraved plates and plans, 1 folded table.

Ldn., 1830. 4to. Cont.hcalf. One hinge weakening. Back slightly rubbed. 42 plates with 84 engraved views and descriptive text. Some browning. The area depicted is Cambria.

Berlin, Borntraeger, 1918. Large8vo. Bound with the original six front wrappers (bound in the back) in full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With author's presentation inscription to title-page: "Hr Mag. Hjalmar Jensen / med Hjertelig Hilsen / og tak / fra Forfatteren" (i.e. English: "Mr. Mag. Hjalmar Jensen / with kind regards / and thanks / from the author"). Damp stain to upper margin of first and last leaves, otherwise a nice and clean copy. VIII, 988, 64 pp. Third German edition, presentation copy, of the founding work on Plant ecology and Plant communities. The present copy was given by Warming to Hjalmar Jensen (1865–1948) a Danish botanist. He studied natural history and geography, worked at the University of Copenhagen and an agricultural station in Karlsruhe and spent several years on tobacco plantations in Java. In 1922 he became a lecturer in microbiology at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, where he was made professor in 1933. "Warming was the founder of plant ecology. The term "ecology", first used by Haeckel in 1866, was introduced into botany by H. reiter in 1885M but is was Warming who made ecology a preferred field of activity for many botanists. In "Plantesamfund" (1895) - (the work offered) - he formulated the program of his research: "To answer the question: Why each species has its own habit and habitat, why the species congregate to form definitive communities, and why these have a characteristic physiognomy.". The book created an enormous senstaion as a new attempt at grouping and characterizing the plant communities - a new phytogeographical term by which Warming meant a group of species forming a physiognomically well-defined unity, such as a meadow. In all essentials the species of a community are subject to the same external conditions arising from the ecological factors. These factors are of a fundamental importence to the ecology ofthe individual plant and the plant community. Considering water to be the most importent factor, Warming divided plant communities into four types: hydrophytic, xerophytic, halophytic, and mesophytic."(DSB XIV, p. 181). “It was Warming, in an 1895 Danish botanical textbook called Plantesamfund (Plant Communities), who defined the nature of the discipline. He pointed out that organisms, plant and animal, live in highly developed communities, the tenure of which depends on such things as temperature, rainfall, soil constitution, elevation, and countless other factors. He noted that communities change over time, moving toward what he called "climax" communities, which will remain dominant until conditions change. But he also advised that conditions will change, through wildfire, or floods, or man-made alterations, and that such changes are often irreversible, so that a forest turned into grassland will seldom revert to a forest community again.” (Linda Hall)

Berlin, Weltkreis-Verlag, 1928. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Uncut. Some sunning and soiling to extremities. A small tear to upper part of spine. Internally fine and clean. 46, (2) pp. First printing of Carnap's publication in which asserted that many philosophical questions were meaningless, the way they were posed amounted to abuse of language. An operational implication of this opinion was taken to be the elimination of metaphysics from responsible human discourse. This is the statement for which Carnap was best known for many years.The publication also introduces for the first time his universal "meaning criterium". He indicates that the elimination of metaphysics serves philosophy, not science. All in the Vienna Circle followed Carnap's judgement in Pseudoproblems of Philosophy and Schlick's contention in his response to Planck's renewal of anti-Machian polemics that questions like that of the reality of the external world were not well-formed ones but only constituted pseudo-questions. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Carnap himself said about the publication: "The pamphlet Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie… was first written in the Spring of 1927, at the end of my first year in Vienna. It shows, therefore, a stronger influence of the Vienna discussions and Wittgenstein's book [Tractatus]. [the] condemnation [in Scheinprobleme] of all theses about metaphysical reality, which I sharply distinguish from empirical reality, is more radical than that in Aufbau, where such theses are only excluded from the domain of science. My more radical outlook was influenced by Wittgenstein's view that metaphysical statements, while in principle unverifiable, are therefore senseless. This view was accepted by the majority of the members of the Vienna Circle and other empiricists." (Nieli. Wittgenstein: From mysticism to ordinary language. P. 63.).

A la Haye, Abraham, Arondeus, 1699. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Parts of gilting worn off. Internally with a few occassional brownspots. (10), 235 pp.

(Leipzig, Barth, 1907). 8vo. Extract from "Annalen der Physik IV,23", pp.197-198. Some slight browning to leaves. First edition. Weil No. 17.

Cassel, Luckhardt, 1828. Orig. clothbacked printed wrappers (wrappers mounted on cardboard). Stamps on title-page. (2),174,(8) pp., 1 folded lithographed plate and 2 folded tables. A few scattered Brownspots.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 21, pp. 83-97. First edition. In this paper Poincaré arrives at a new theorem about canonical transformation, and in his later "Methodes Nouvelles", he proved this theorem using a variiational principle of mechanics, known today as the Hamilton principle.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1907). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", Bd. 31, pp. 1-63. First edition. Clebsch and Riemann tried to solve the problem of the uniformization for curves. "In 1882 Klein gave a general uniformization theorem, but the proof was not complete. In 1883 Poincaré announced his general uniformization theorem but he too had no complete proof. Both Klein and Poincaré continued to work hard to prove this theorem but no decisive result was obtained for twent-five years. In 1907 Poincare (in the offered paper) and Paul Koebe independently gave a proof of this uniformization theorem...With the theorem on uniformization now rigorously established an improved treatment of algebraic functions and their integrals has become possible." (Morris Kline).

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1879. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 88, No 7. Pp. (313-) 352. (Entire issue offered). Boisbaudran's paper: pp. 322-324. First apperance of the paper in which Boisbaudran revealed his discovery of a new earth that precipitated had a unique spectrum. De Boisbaudran named it samaria, after the mineral from which it was derived. The mineral samarskite is named for a Russian mining engineer and Chief of Staff - Corps of Mining Engineers, Colonel Vasili Evgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets."Samarium was discovered by French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1879. He noticed in his research that impure didymium (praseodymium and neodymium with other impurities), seemed to contain more than just didymium based on spectroscopic work on various rare-earth minerals. When Lecoq de Boisbaudran added ammonium hydroxide to a concentrate prepared from the mineral samarskite he observed a precipitate that formed before the didymium (Weeks and Leicester, 1968, p. 685). Partington "Breakthroughs" 1879 C.

Ulmae, Kühn, 1668. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with blindstamped ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities and few scratches with minor loss of leather to boards and spine. Last blank with annotations in contemporary hand, otherwise internally nice and clean. (24), 405, (17) pp. Uncommon later edition of Eckhard’s popular moral-theological treatise that presents a comprehensive view of what it means to live as a true Christian.

Ldn., 1830. Recent full cloth. X,282 pp. First edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Stadthagen, 1797 - 1800. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Wear to extremities, spine-ends chipped and spines miscolured. Internally very nice and clean. XXIV, 832 pp.; VIII, 832 pp.; (4), 832 pp.; (4), 834 pp. The rare first edition of Horrebow's theological periodical noted for its radical rationalist perspective. Horrebow used the journal as a platform to critique traditional Christian doctrines, engaging in polemics against prominent religious figures including Bishop Nicolai Edinger Balle.

London, Kegan Paul etc., 1931 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. 2 frontispieces. X,582;VIII,633 pp., profusely illustrated on numerous plates, textillustrations, 1 folded map. Clean and fine.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1879. 8vo. In the original wrappers without backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 15, heft 3 + 4, 1879. Entire issue offered. Very fine and clean. Pp. 533-554. [Entire issue: 305-576 + 1 folded plate]. First printing of what later was to be known af Belyi's theorem or Belyi functions named after G. V. Belyi in 1979. Belyi functions and dessins d'enfants dates to the work of Felix Klein; he used them in this study an 11-fold cover of the complex projective line with monodromy group PSL.

(Leipzig, Barth, 1907). 8vo. Extract from "Annalen der Physik IV,23", pp.206-208. Some slight browning to leaves. First edition. Weil No. 18.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume VI, October, Number 4, 1927. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 722-735. [Entire issue: 551-752 pp.]. First appearance of Shewhart's seminal second publication on Quality control which gave birth to the entire field of statistical quality control thus created the basis for the control chart by experiments that are now an integrated part of all statistical control. "Shewhart successfully brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics and became known as the father of modern quality control. Shewhart was concerned that statistical theory serve the needs of industry. He exhibited the restlessness of one looking for a better way. A man of science who patiently developed and tested his ideas and the ideas of others, he was an astute observer of developments in the world of science and technology. In that respect, the field of quality control can claim a genuine pioneer in Shewhart." (Berger, Roger W. The Certified quality engineer handbook, 2002, P. 55).

Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1931. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten....pp. (1)-11. Fine fresh copy. First edition of the rare Offprint with separate title and separate pagination. Se Weil No. 180, where this is not mentioned. - Mayer came to America in 1933, and about him as his collaborator, Einstein said "It is he who produced all my calculations, his skill is fantastic, You know."The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten..." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 (including this). From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe...". - Before 161 (up to 160) the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination (the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical). From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - ( So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck", but with separate title and pagination). These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies.

Paris, Louis Billaine, 1683. 8vo. Four parts bound in one contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, some of gilting worn off and small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page of part 1 slightly soiled and with underligning, othewise internally fine and clean. 365, 412 pp. Second French edition of Rycaut's (the original English edition being from 1680) popular work on the Ottoman Empire during the period of Sultan Amurat, Ibrahim and Mehmet IV. It is considered to be a source of inspiration for Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1875. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. raised bands. Spine slightly rubbed. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 154. X,644 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Weber's paper: pp. 367-423 a. pp. 553-582. First appearance of this importent paper in which Weber was able to explain why the Law of Dulon & Petit, based on the specific heat of only thirteen elements, was only approximately true. "An explanation of this anomalous behaviour is to be found in the fact that, as shown by the physicist Heinrich Friedrich Weber, and confirmed by many workers in more recent times, the atomic heat increases at different rates with rise of temperature.... A theoretical basis for this law was obtained in more recent times by P. Debye."(Findley "A Hundred Years of Chemistry", p. 77-78)."The three curious exceptions (C, B, Si) to the Dulong-Petit Law which were until now a cause for despair have been eliminated: the Dulong-Petit law for the specific heats of solid elements has become an exceptional rigorous law..."(Weber).On Albert Einstein and Weber's specific heat, see Pais: "Subtle is the Lord", pp. 389 ff.

London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, (1866). Folio. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on upper board. Stamps on title-page. (2),54 pp., 16 lithographed plates, of which 7 in colour and 6 in photolithography. Internally clean.

København, H. Hagerups Forlag, 1926. Indbundet med de originale omslag i et samtidigt halvlæderbing (af Peter Egebjerg). Med dedikation fra forfatteren på halvtitel: "Til Frk Lotte Langkilde! / Da jeg er yderst genert / overfor kvinden / sveder jeg / voldsomt, mens jeg skriver / denne hilsen. / Deres hengivne / Tom Kristensen. Ryg misfarvet og med ridser, indvendig pæn og ren. Originaludgaven, med dedikation fra forfatteren, af Kristensens rejsebilleder og skitser fra Spanien i 1920’erne. Turen til Spanien blev et kunstnerisk og eksistentielt pusterum for Tom Kristensen. For første gang i sit 32-årige liv stod han over for at være helt alene i en længere periode. Han håbede her han ville møde en stærkere og mere mandig udgave af sig selv, med roligere og fastere træk - nærværende dedikation tyder ikke på han til fulde opnåede dette.

Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigeln, 1726. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Double-page engraved frontispiece. Double-page title-page with stamps. (16),347 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Münch., 1805. 12mo. 2 cont.hcalf. Gilt backs. St.o.t. XXII, 288, XII, 276 pp. a. 12 charming engr.plts. (gest.von Mettenleiter).