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Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1886. No wrappers. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles.", Tome XX., 2. issue. With titlepage to volume XX. Pp. 95-170 (=2. issue). Lorentz's paper pp. 129-170. Clean and fine. A faint stamp on titlepage. First appearance of this paper which can be regarded as one of the steps towards Lorentz's electron theory of 1892.

Kiøbenhavn, A.Soldin, 1797. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og skindtitel. En smule skind mangler ved nederste kapitæl. Kobberstukket titelvignet afbildende en bille. (14),248 pp. Spredte brunpletter. Også med titelbladet: "Samlede Skrifter Første Deel". - Bogen er et betydningsfuldt bidrag til trykkefrihedsdiskussionen i Danmar/Norge. Birckners politiske ideer var inspirerede af oplysningsfilosofferne Immanuel Kant og Jean-Jacques Rousseau og han argumenterer for, at affattelsen af frihedslovene bør være mere klare og præcise end i de tidligere udkast, da der ellers vil opstå usikkerheder, som domstolene derefter skal tage stilling til. - Bogen gav anledning til bred debat og blev trykt i flere oplag, endda udgivet på tysk. Værkets frihedstanker er aktuelle helt op i nutiden, f.eks. påviser Peter Germer i sin disputats Ytringsfrihedens Væsen (1973), at Birckner i sin bog foregreb den amerikanske ytringsfrihedsteori, mest nærliggende Alexander Meiklejohns tanker i hans værk Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government (1948). - Danica I:1064.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1912. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 35, 1912. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1-28. [Entire volume: (4), 398, (1), 27, 19 pp]. First appearance of Poincaré's report on 1910 Bolyai Prize which was awarded to David Hilbert in recognition of his work in fields of invariant theory, transcendent number (e constant after Lindemann), arithmetic, the (Hilbert-)Waring theorem, geometry, integral equations and the Dirichlet’s principle.In 1910, Hilbert became only the second winner of the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was the recognition of the fact that Hilbert was one of the leading mathematicians of his time. The first winner of the prize in 1905 was Henri Poincare, the most prolific mathematician of the 19th century.Poincaré about the works and achievements of David Hilbert in fields of invariant theory, transcendent number (e constant after Lindemann), arithmetic, the (Hilbert-)Waring theorem, geometry, integral equations and the Dirichlet’s principle.

Smukt næsten samt. hldrbd. m. 4 ophøjede bd., rig rygforgyldn. og rødt skindtitelfelt på ryg. Enkelte lidt brunplettede blade. Originaludgave af Blichers sidste værk, som kom i et lille oplag. Bertelsen 34.

Paris, Librairie Schwarz, 1920. Large 4to. Bound in 3 orig. decorated full morocco, spine and boards richly gilt; front boards with polychrome ceramic centrepiece by Dunand. Stamp on titlepages. With numerous illustrations by Berne-Bellcourt, Bonfils, Fremond, Fouqueray, Galanis, Jonas, Lebedeff, Raynolt. Woodcuts by Aubert, Gasperini, Malcouronne, Schmaechtens. Maps and plans by Trinquier.

Berlin und Stuttgart, Nicolaischen Buchh., 1823-33. Nice cont. full cloth, gilt back. Engraved portrait (Bode) and engraved titlepage with vignette. XVI,662 pp. and 3 large folded engraved plates, 3 halfpage textengravings. - Nachtrag: IV,168 pp. This edition is the last edited by Bode himself, and it is the first printing of Oltmann's "Anhang".

Leipzig, 1833. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Tears in top of spine. XXVIII,416 pp. and 35 engraved plates with 82 figs. Text a little brownspotted. First German edition. A ranslation from English of Rennie's work "Bird Architecture" (Zimmer p. 518). This is the only edition with engraved plates, otherwise they have woodcuts in the text.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1829. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 16, Siebentes Stück. (2) + pp., 1 folded engraved plate. Entire issue offered with titlepage to volume 16. Berzelius's paper: pp. 387-415. Clean and fine. First German printing - printed simultaneously with the English and Swedish version - of the paper in which Berzelius described his discovery of Thorium, the first element after Uranium to be identified as such. In 1829, Jöns Jakob Berzelius of the Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm extracted thorium from a rock specimen sent to him by an amateur mineralogist who had discovered it near Brevig and realised that it had not previously been reported. The mineral turned out to be thorium silicate, and it is now known as thorite. Berzelius even produced a sample of metallic thorium by heating thorium fluoride with potassium, and confirmed it as a new metal. He called the black mineral thorite, in honor of the Scandinavian god Thor.Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1829 C.

Hagae-Comitum, Apud Isaacum vander Kloot, 1731. Large 8vo. All edges uncut in orig. cardboard-boards. Back worn, showing cords. Internally in excellent condition. Stamp on t-p. (Aalborg Skole). T-p. printed in red and black, engr. frontispiece, engr. title-vignette. A few leaves w. marginal annotations in pencil. Frontisp., (6), 1322, 46 (Index) pp. An excellent edition by Westerhovius, the result of thorough research. With the learned observations of Culphurnius and the excellent commentaries of Donatus. Dibdin quotes the 1726 Westerhovius-edition in 4to in two volumes printed in Hag. Com., and states "A very useful edition of Westerhovius for young students was published in 1732, and 1745, in 8vo. Hag. Com." (Dibdin II:475).

Berlin, Boike, 1829. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and slightly rubbed. Paperlabel pasted to upper part of spine. A stamp on second titlepage. Lithographed titlepage a. printed. (2),XX,398,(2) pp. and 13 folded engraved maps with positions handcoloured. Stamp on printed titlepage. A few scattered brownspots.

Inverness, John Young, 1804. A little later hcalf, raised bands, gilt back. Bound with: An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Oranu, Ulin, An others Bards, who flourished in the Same Age. Collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum. Montrose, James Watt, 1816. VIII,460 pp. and 241,(2) pp. M'Callums work is first edition, a work inspired by Macpherson's fake.

(København), 1846-47. Lex8vo. Smukt nyere papbd. med marmoreret overtrækspapir. Skindtitel på ryg. Talrige træsnit i teksten. Velbevaret række. De manglende numre er: 294, 305, 307, 313, 326, 347, 353, 360 og 367-376

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Small crack in leather at lower compartment. Stamp on title-page. IX,(3),339 pp. Internally clean.

Genova, Nicolo Armanino, 1853. Large lithographed plan of Genova. Ca. 46 x 70 cm.

Dresden, Rudolf Kuntze, 1858. 4to. Orig. back gone and repaired modestly with cloth. Corners bumped. Stamp on title. Binding worn but content fine. XVIII,182 pp. and 32 double-page lithographed plates.

Fine cont. hcalf. Uncut. XXIII,527 pp.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1761. Later hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamps on title-page. (16),160 pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. 3 leaves at end with a faint inkspot on foot. First edition.

Berlin, Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 51, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 165-80. [Entire volume: VII, (1) 903 pp]. First appearance of Born and Fock's important paper in which they introduced their adiabatic theorem, a concept in quantum mechanics which they stated as follows: " A physical system remains in its instantaneous eigenstate if a given perturbation is acting on it slowly enough and if there is a gap between the eigenvalue and the rest of the Hamiltonian's spectrum." (From the present paper). The concept of this theorem deals with the time-dependent Hamiltonian - a subject of Quantum dynamics - where the Hamiltonian changes with time.The present issue also contain Gamow's "Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes" containing the first direct calculation of the Geiger-Nuttall law.

Trykt i dette Aar (= Kbh., 1752). Samt. eller lidt senere hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. Øverste forreste fals repareret. Mgl. portræt, men m. alle 14 træskårne tavler. Sidste udgave af Peder Paars i Holbergs levetid, det såkaldte 3. eftertryk. Ehr.-M. II:28.

Kjøbenhavn, C. L. Buchs Forlag, 1794. 8vo. I samtidigt halvlæderbind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. Bind med slitage og tidligere ejers navnetræk på titelblad. Indvendig pæn. (10), 400 pp. + 9 foldede plancher (hvoraf en er kolloreret). Første danske oversættelse af Carl Ludwig Wildenows hovedværk om botanikken. Forøget med anmærkninger om botanikken i Danmark af Henrik Steffens.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences". Année 1705. Pp. 300-331, textillustrations. First apperance of this importent paper in which Varignon describes the function and theory behing his invention of the manometer, a term which he coined in this paper. 'Manometre' from Greek (manos + metron) = sparce measure.Stitched together is another importent paper JOSEPH TOURNEFORT "Observations sur les Maladies des Plantes", pp. 332-345 in which he made the first classification of plant diseases.

Amsterdam, Antoine Michel (i.e. Elzevier), 1658. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one contemporary full vellum binding with yapp edges. Small paper-label paste on to top of spine. Light soiling to extremities, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (24), 599 pp. Later edition of this work on “the Passions, Virtues, Vices, Manners, and Customs of Peoples, their Inclinations, Temperaments, and Facial Features, blending the finest aspects of Medicine, Morality, and Politics" as Marin Cureau de La Chambre stated himself. Marin Cureau de La Chambre (1594-1669) was a French physician and philosopher, serving as a counselor and physician to Louis XIV.

Regensburg, Montag= und Weissischen Buchhandlung, 1792. Contemp. full calf. The gilding on spine faded. Spine rubbed. XXXII,214 pp. Old owners names to titlepage. The first 8 and the last 8 leaves with a dampstain to top of leaves. Armstrong is noteworthy as the founder of the first children's dispensary in Europe and as the author of one of the best paediatric works of the period.

Kjøbenhavn, Lorentz Reistrup, 1800. 8vo. In the original blue card-board binding. Spine miscoloured, small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally nice and clean. XVI, XVI, (4), 144 pp. Rare first Danish translation of Gutsmuths' "Kleines Lehrbuch der Schwimmkunst zum Selbstunterrichte" originally published in 1798. Biblioteca Danica I, 1120

Boulogne, Leroy-Berger, 1810. Large 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. (8),98 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Printed on heavy paper. Some marginal brownspots. Wide-margined.