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Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Light miscolouring to spine, otherwise a nice and clean copy. 575, (1) pp. The engraved title-page included in the pagination. Willem 321.

(London, 1913). Later blank wrapper. Extracted from "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", vol. 89 A, 1913. Pp. 277-291, 12 textfigures. First appearance of one of the first "fruits" of the Bragg's invention of the X-Ray Crystallography, the determination of the crystal structure of diamond. The Braggs (father and son) shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1915 for their study of crystal structure by means of X-rays."The potential of X-ray crystallography for determining the structure of molecules and minerals - then only known vaguely from chemical and hydrodynamic experiments - was realized immediately (after the finds of von Laue). The earliest structures were simple inorganic crystals and minerals, but even these revealed fundamental laws of physics and chemistry. The first atomic-resolution structure to be "solved" (i.e. determined) in 1914 was that of table salt.The distribution of electrons in the table-salt structure showed that crystals are not necessarily composed of covalently bonded molecules, and proved the existence of ionic compounds. The structure of diamond was solved in the same year, proving the tetrahedral arrangement of its chemical bonds and showing that the length of C-C single bond was 1.52 angstroms."(Wikipedia).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1851. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Some scratches to spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome 32. - 512 pp. a. 2 folded plate. (The entire volume offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's paper: pp. 373-381 a. 381-383. Some brownspots. First printing of this paper in which he described his invention of the so-called "HELIOCROMS", a pioneer paper in the development of colour-photography. Niepce de Saint Victor discovered there was a connection between the color that chloride salt produced in a flame with the color light produced on a chloride salt-treated plate. Heliochrome was the name of this process, which enabled Mr. Niepce de Saint Victor to produce copies of color engravings and landscapes. He did not produce daguerreotypes, and soon learned that the images he produced using the heliochrome process were not fixed and began turning gray with increased light exposure. Applying transparent coatings did not prove effective, and therefore Mr. Niepce de Saint Victor soon abandoned this unfeasible method. However, his experiments with heliochrome did lead to the successful daguerreotype color process developed by a New York Baptist minister named Levi L. Hill (1816-1865).

(Chicago, The Econometric Society. 1958). Large8vo. Bound without wrappers in light green full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Econometrica, Journal of the Econometric Society, Volume 26, 1958". Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to front free end-paper. Frontispiece of Wassily Leontief (President of the Econometric Society, 1954). Minor miscolouring to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Tobin:] Pp. 24-36. [Entire issue: VIII, 641 pp. + 1 page of advertising + frontispiece). First publication of economist James Tobin exceedingly influential Tobit model, "a seminal contribution to the estimation and testing of multiple". (Buiter, James Tobin - An appreciation of his contribution to economics, P. 18). The Tobit model is today a standard economic technique within econometrics. The Tobit model regression models with limited dependent variables statistical model to describe the relationship between a non-negative dependent variable.James Tobin (1918-2002) was a highly influential economist within Keynesian Economics in the 20th century. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, fiscal and monetary policy and financial markets. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1981.Outside of academia, Tobin was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax". This was designed to reduce speculation in the international currency markets, which he saw as dangerous and unproductive. He suggested that the proceeds of the tax could be used to fund projects for the benefit of Third World countries, or to support the United Nations.The issue contain the following papers of interest:1. Deberu, Gerad. Stochastic Choice and Cardinal Utility, Pp. 440-44.1. Luce, R. Duncan. A Probabilistic Theory of Utility, P. 196-224.

(Gotha, Justus Perthes), 1831. Engraved map (34,5 x 43 cm.). Handcoloured in outline. Gestochen von Joh. Carl Ausfeld. From Stieler's Hand-Atlas, No. 47.

Paris, Barrois l'âiné, et Fils, AN XIII. (1805). Bound in 2 later hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. XLIII,(1),388;IV,380 pp. and 18 large folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. One plate with tears in right margin and a bit of one corner gone, repaired. Klaus Jordan, 1948.

Lpz., Wien, Mr., Int. Psych. Verlag, 1924. Orig.printed wrappers. 49 pp. A few pages torn, no loss of paper and text. First edition.

Krakowie, Nakladem Akademii Umiejetnosci, 1907. 8vo. Unopened, uncut in the original printed wrappers. Light miscolouring to wrappers. Fine and clean. 16 pp. Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski's on the theory of motion of viscous liquids.

Halae Magdeburgicæ, Orphanotrophei, 1741. 4to. Contemp. full velum with a few brownspots to covers. Handwritten title on back. Title printed in red/black. (6),176 pp. Engraved titlevignet. From the library of F. Münter, with his name Havn. 1778. First edition of this estimated Syrian grammar.

(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 16, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-445. (The entire issue offered). Rapport: pp. 389-427. First printing of the official raport on captain Freycinet's voyage. He sailed from Toulon on 17 September 1817 in L'Uranie with his wife Rose who secreted herself aboard, and who wrote a separate account of the voyage. After refreshing at the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius he landed at Shark Bay on 12 September 1818 where he set up an observatory, thoroughly surveyed the inlets and the coastal districts and removed the plate left by Willem de Vlamingh, which he had found and re-erected in 1801. He then sailed north to Timor. His accounts and description of the landscape and life and customs of that and other islands in the East Indies captivated the attention of people in Europe much more than his Australian reports, and a widespread interest developed in the expedition. Leaving Timor on 27 November he sailed via the Moluccas, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Sandwich Islands and reached Port Jackson on 19 November 1819, the scientists on board adding constantly to their store of information on hydrography, botany, cartography and anthropology. After spending Christmas ashore, they sailed on 26 December and, falling in with the westerlies, set a course for Cape Horn.On 13 February 1820 L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands; the scientific records and notes were saved before the vessel foundered, but 2500 of the 4175 plant specimens were lost. Freycinet returned to France in November 1820 and died on 18 August 1842.

Berlin, Springer, 1931. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 67, 1931. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 270-77; pp. 826-844. [Entire volume: VIII, 863 pp.]. First printing of Mathisson's two important papers (being his two first published papers ever) in which he presented the correct formulation of equations of motion of spinning bodies in general relativity today known as the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations. The two papers is essentially Mathisson's Ph.D. thesis since the original thesis not has been preserved.The Einstein-Mayer theory of 1932, the equations of motion of a spinning particle, is derived from the generalized field equations and are essentially the same as the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations.Those papers contain an implicit polemic with Einstein and his approach to the problem of motion. The first paper contains an essential generalization of Einstein's linearization of the field equation. Mathisson allows the back-ground metric to be curved. In the second Mathisson shows that nonlinearity of the field equation is not essential for obtaining from them the equations of motion. (Sauer, Myron Mathisson: What little we know of his life).

London, Cambridge University Press, 1966-67. Original full cloth. Royal 8vo. VIII,429,VI,327,299 pp. Reprints of more than 60 papers plus bibliography.

No place (but Florenz), 1796-98. 8vo. Bound in 8 contemp. full calf with title-and tomelabels to spine. Spines worn, some covers detached and 2 volumes lacks some leather at spine and 2 volumes with some dampstaining. Engraved portrait, 1 folded table, 1 folded engraved plate. Wide-margined, internally otherwise clean printed on good paper.

Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1772. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Annee 1770. With titlepage to 1770 with engraved vignette. Pp. 327-342. First appearance of this importent paper in which Lambert established a mathematical theory of order in all sorts of classifications. He treats the problem of order and its measures not only in relation to natural history or any domain of particulars, but abstractly as a problem of epistemology in general. He attempts to create a new mathematics of ordered systems and to measure by a fraction the elements to which any collection of items departed from the ordered system, and he carries his mathematical ideal even into taxonomy and systematics.

Stuttgart, 1838. 8vo. Contemporary black bardborard binding with gilt lines and gilt title to spine. Corner of front board bent, and extremities worn. Light brownspotting to first and last leaves. Half title woth owner's stamp and old owner's inscription. XXIV, 656 pp + 7 plates. Numerous tables in the text. First edition of the first German translation of Quetelet's main work (Sur L'Homme et le Développement de ses Facultés, 1835), which founded a new statistical science. "With Quetelet's work of 1835 a new era in statistics began. It presented a new technique of statistics or, rather the first technique at all...There were not very many statistical figures in the book, but each figure reported made sense. For every number, Quetelet tried to find the determining influences, its natural Causes, and the pertubations caused by man. The work gave a description of the average man as both a static and a dynamic phenomenon...Quetelet's impact on 19th century thinking can in a certain sense be compared with Descarte's in the 17th-century. He certainly gave science new aims and tools...(DSB XI:p. 237).

Helmstad, Buchholtz, (1727). 4to. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches. Title-page with repair to upper margin, otherwise internally nice and clean. (16), 168, (4), 54, (2) pp. Biblioteca Danica I, 74.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1924. Royal8vo. In the publisher's pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spines and front board. In "Nature", January - June, 1924, Vol. 113. Entire volume offered. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. P. 192 [Entire volume: (2), 948, III-LVII pp.]. First printing of this important paper which constitutes the original treatments of the Schwarzschild solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations (now known as a black hole), there was an apparent singularity at the Schwarzschild radius (now known as the event horizon). In this paper Eddington introduces a new coordinate system that is non-singular at the event horizon, showing that this is not a true singularity. The coordinates were rediscovered by Finkelstein in 1958.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1770). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", L'Année 1763, tome XIX, , pp. 235-254 + pp. 255-266 + pp. 267-291. Lambert's paper: pp. 292-310. First printing of all 4 papers. D'Alemberts letters to Lagrange deals with the mathematical treatment of a problem that taxed the minds of the major mathematicians of the day, discussing Bernouilli's and Eulers solutions on the vibrating string. D'Alembert had introduced the wave-equation in physics for the first time in in 1747.Lambert made importent contributions to the theory of equations.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1870. 4to. As extracted without backstrip with the original front wrapper from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik". 71. band, 4. heft, 1870. Occasional brown spots, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 316-52. [Entire volume: Pp.305-84]. First printing of Pochhammer's seminal publication in which Generalized Hypergeometric Functions (or Pochhammer Symbols) was introduced for the first time. Pochhammer symbols are now generally used for expressing hypergeometric functions in a compact notation.

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 62, 1930. Entire volume offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 188-200. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp]. First printing of this important paper containing the first appearance of the Landau-Peierls wave function. "Landau and Peierls argued that field measurements could not be performed unambiguously and hence that current quantum electrodynamics was inconsistent. The Landau-Peierls criticism caused concern until 1933, when Bohr and Rosenfeld showed that the consequences of quantrum electrodynamics were consistent with the best possible measurements of electromagnetic field quantities. (Kragh, Quantum Generations).

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1888 - 1901. Small folio. Collection of 13 offprint all in the original printed wrappers from "Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik", A. L. Crelle. All with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrappers "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"] and the author's signature: "Thomé". All have been bended vertically, otherwise fine and clean. A collection of offprints by the influential German mathematician L. W. Thomé, all signed by the author. L.W. Thomé worked closely with Bernhard Riemann on continued fractions.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1890. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 110, No 8. Pp. (369-) 428. (Entire issue offered). Rydberg's paper: pp. 394-97. In this paper Rydberg announced his formula, later termed "Rydberg's Constant - the paper being a shortened version of the larger paper, published at the same time in Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlinger with the title "Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d’émission des éléments chimiques" - in which he stated as a fundamental principle that "in the spectra of all the elements analyzed and so far thjere are series of rays whose wavelenghts or wave numbers are functions of consecutive integral numbers". The equation became an importent inspiration for the development of quantum theory and for the formulation of quantum states by Niels Bohr. Bohr’s view provided an immediate interpretation of the combination principle by identifying each Rydberg spectral term multiplied by hc (Planck’s constant times the speed of light) with the energy of an allowable stationary state of the atom. The difference between two such states equaled the energy in the light quantum emitted in the transition from a higher allowable atomic-energy state to a lower one."His major spectral work, "Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d’émission des éléments chimiques", published in 1890, mapped out Rydberg’s total approach with remarkable clarity. He conceived of the spectrum of an element as composed of the superposition of three different types of series - one in which the lines were comparatively sharp, one in which the lines were more diffuse, and a third that he called principal series even though they consisted mostly of lines in the ultraviolet. The first lines were located in the visible spectrum and were usually the most intense. The members of each series might be single, double, triple, or of higher multiplicity. Any particular elementary spectrum might contain any number (even zero) of series of each of the basic types."(DSB).

A Paris, Pierre Prault, 1718. Cont. full calf. Backs and corners worn. Engr. frontisp. X,286,63,(9) pp. and 12 engraved plates. Old names on title. First edition. Barbier IV:1005.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1886. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 226 pp. and 26 plates, of which 11 are chromolithographed and depicting birds. 15 with fishes in black a. white. Clean and fine. First edition. - Anker No 512. - Zimmer p. 643.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1887. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 105, No 7. Pp. (325--) 563. (Entire issue offered). Maupas' paper: pp. 356-359. First appearance of this classic paper in whic Maupas determined that fertilization in protozoa is essential to the indefinite continuation of a cell strain. His discovery proved an importent stimulus to subsequent investigation not only upon protozoa but also in the area of parthenogenesis."He found in Paramecium that after generations of division, the stock becomes infeebled. Ultimately the individuals die, unless they meet partners for conjugation. When two such enfeebled individuals meet, their bodies are approximated and they interchange nuclear elements. Next, division takes place. The stock has regained its vigour. No differentiation of sexes is evident in the conjugatory process, though such differentiation can be traced in other prorozoa."(Singer "The Story of Living Tings", p. 531 ff.).Thomas Hall "A Source Book in Animal Biology", pp. 458-60.