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Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1738. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. (6), 710, (42) pp + 6 plates. The offered volume contain many papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Leipzig, Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1779-80. 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. 2 engraved titlevignettes. 738,(2);(2),680,(2) pp.

Lund, Håkan Ohlssons,1953. 8vo. In the original grey printed wrappers. Offprint from "Comptes Rendu du Douzième Congrès des Mathématiciens Scandinaves tenu à Lund 10-15 août 1953". A very fine clean copy, near mint. Pp. (2), 35-39. Scare offprint of Elfving's important paper on "Elfving sets". Elfving are famous for having introduced optimality theory of regression theory.

4to. Indbundet i papirsbd. m.titeletiket i guldtryk. Manuskriptet omfatter 46 sider i 4to samt noter. Nogle rettelser og tilføjelser.

Berlin, Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 51, 1928. Entire issue offered. Embossed stamp to title page and library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper, 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.

Berlin, Springer, 1934. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 92, 1934. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 172-93. [Entire volume: VIII, 830 pp.]. First appearance of Renner's seminal paper containing what was to become known first as the Renner effect, later the Renner-teller effect. It was the first work to study the dynamic effects that go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, in which the nuclear and electronic motions in a molecule are uncoupled.Because Renner is the only author of the 1934 paper that first described the effect, it was long called the Renner effect. However, as Herzberg's prestigious books refer to it as the Renner-Teller effect (after Edward Teller), it is now more common to use both names.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, ( 1876)-77. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Slightly rubbed. "Annalen der Physik und Chemie", Ergänzungsband VIII und neue Folge Band II. VIII,676 pp. and 10 plates + VIII,680 pp. and 6 plates. (Entire volumes offered). Ostwald's papers: pp. 154-168 a. pp. 429-455, 671-672. Internally clean and fine. First printing of Ostwald's first importent papers on chemical affinity. "Ostwald furnishers chemical with a new method for solvingt some of the most difficult problems; and Guldberg and Waage lead the way in the application of mathematical reasoning to the facts of chemical science. Thus Ostwald’s important position in physical chemistry was already recognized when he was but twenty-six years old." (Pattison Muir).

Kjøbenhavn, Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1883. 8vo. I et nydeligt samtidigt halvlæderbind med fem ophøjede bind. Med dedikation fra udgiveren på forsatsblad: "Hr Distrikslæge Sophus Möller / med tak for ydet Bistand / venskabeligt / fra / Udgiveren. Pænt eksemplar. XV, 742 pp. Originaludgaven, her med dedikation fra udgiveren, af denne meget om fattende fortegnelse over danske kunstneres arbejder i 1800-tallet.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1787. Uden omslag. (4),29 pp. Originaltrykket af det skrift som startede "Pjecekrigen" . Det var F.L. Bang, som med sit anonyme skrift "Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en ny Møntindretning i Holsten" 1786, åbnede "Pjecekrigen" om den nye møntindretning i Holsten og oprettelsen af banken i Altona. - "Pjecekrigen" kan med en vis ret betegnes som grundlæggende for dansk økonomisk teori.Bibl. Danica II:862.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1946 & 1947. Lev8vo. Bound in red half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 11 & 12 bound together. Barcode label pasted on to back board. Small library stamp to lower part of 6 pages. A few minor scratches to extremities. A very fine copy. Pp. 33-64. [Entire volume: IV, 164 pp]. First printing of Carnap's important work modality and semantics, in which he, as the first logician ever, uses semantics to explain modalities. This led to an interest in the structure of scientific theories, and his main concerns here were to describe the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements and to suitably formulate the verifiability principle; -he thus wishes to find a criterion of significance that can be applied to scientific language.

[No place, nor year, but Göttingen, 1800]. Folio. In contemporary marbled wrappers with white title-label pasted on to front wrapper. Plates brownspottet and with a few tears (not affecting the motif. 3rd part out of 4. 8 plates.

Stockholm, Benjamin Gottlieb Schneider, 1733. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. Ryg noget slidt. Første titelblad trykt i rød/sort. (8),98;(8),220,(12);(8),95,(7) pp. Sidste dels titelblad er uden år, men er sandsynligvis tryks samme år som de to første dele, selv om privilegiet er dateret 1724. Nogle spredte brunpletter og lette brugsspor. 2 blade med rift uden teksttab. De første 12 blade med en skjold i nederste indre marginer. Portrættet af Runius mangler.

Leipzig, Ambrosius, 1905. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Fourth series, No. 16, 1905. Entire issue offered. Library labels pasted on to front end-papers and stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 589-93. [Entire volume: VIII, 960 pp + 6 folded plates]. First appearance of Hasenöhrl important paper on inertia of a cavity containing radiation. Since J. J. Thomson in 1881, many physicists like Wilhelm Wien (1900), Max Abraham (1902), and Hendrik Lorentz (1904) used equations for the so-called "electromagnetic mass", which expresses how much electromagnetic energy contributes to the mass of bodies. And Henri Poincaré (1900) implicitly used the expression m=E/c2 for the mass of electromagnetic energy."When Hasenöhrl returned to Vienna he wrote the series of papers for which he is best known, on electromagnetic radiation. of these the most important is the prizewinning essay on the effects of radiant energy within a moving cavity.2Using classical theory he showed that the trapped radiation increases the kinetic energy of the motion, the effect being equivalent to an increase in the apparent mass of the cavity.In his formula h?0 is the total radiant energy in the cavity and c is the velocity of light. Like other similar anticipations, this result was displaced by Einstein's more general theorem on the equivalence of mass and energy." (DSB)

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1905. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen, 61. Band, 2. Heft, 1905". Entire volume 61 offered. Wear to extremities. Book plate to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to verso of title page. Pp. 251-80. [Entire volume: IV, 588 pp.]. First printing of Lebesque's paper in which he extended and accepted Fourier's work that stated that any arbitrary function, defined in a finite interval, can be expressed as a sum of sine and cosine functions: "In 1905 Lebesgue gave a new sufficient condition for the convergence of the Fourier series to a function f(x) that include all previously known conditions". (Kleine, P. 1047)

Bound uncut in a private green fullclothbinding with a large stain on front-cover and some minor water-foxing on the bottom of both covers. Internally some brown spots. First edition with a dedication from the author: "A moy Ami Emile Rochard,/ de tout coeurs,/ Francois Coppee." And with two original, autographed handwritten letters both for "Cher Ami." The first one is dated "Mercredi", 1 page 12mo. The letter is about some friends of the author, among other things he asks if the receiver of the letter can find "une petite loge" for one of his friends. The other letter is dated "11 Juillet.", 1 page 8vo. It seems that the receiver of the letter is by the theatre and Coppee recoments him "l'auteur d'un drame" called M. Louis Dumid(?)...

London, Blackie & Son, 1886 Royal8vo. 4 fine orig. full brown cloth, gilt spines a covers, borders tooled in black. 43 plates. Clean and fine.

Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1860-63. Bound in 2 nice recent full cloth. Titlelabel with gilt letters. VIII,471,(1);VIII,598 pp. A faint dampstain to upper inner corners on the first 75 leaves in volume one. Scarce first edition.

Paris, Compagnie des Libraires du Palais, 1665. 12mo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities, parts of gilting worn off. Small worm tract in lower outer corner of both volumes, not touching text. Otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 352 pp.; 382 pp. Later edition of these memoires covering events in France from the assassination of Henry IV (Henry the Great) in 1610 to the peace agreement with the Huguenots in June 1629. (Brunet IV, 1354)

London, Rowland Ward, 1909. Orig. full cloth. Gilt spine. Stamp on half-title. Ligt fraying to top of spine. Frontispiece. XV,252 pp., profusely illustrated with plates and textillustrations, folded map in pocket at end. Clean and fine. First English Edition.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1889). 4to. No wrappers. Disbound. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 109, No 20. Pp. (723-) 758 (entire issue offered). Bollée's paper: pp. 737-739. Disbound but clean. First printing of the paper in which Bollée describes his invention of a new calculating machine, later called "The Millionaire", based on a multiplying mechanism which was capable of performing multiplication directly instead of using repeated addition. As it allows multiplication by any digit it was used by government agencies ans scientists, especially astronomers, well into the twentieths century.Bollée did not produced his machine comercially, "... but in 1893 Otto Steiger of Munich patented a calculator based on Bollée's approach, which was manufactured between 1895 and 1935 by the firm Hans W. Egli of Switzerland and marketed under the name of "Millionaire".... Forty-six hundred "Millionaires" were sold, primarly in Europe." (Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyberspace" : 288).

London, William Clowes and Sons, 1882. 8vo. In the original printed sown wrappers. With author's inscription to top of front wrapper: "from the Author". A few occassional brown spots. Has been bended vertically. Otherwise a fine copy. 7 pp. First printing, with author's presentation inscription, of Siemens' proposal to create an universal unit of measurement of resistance. "Siemens' outstanding contribution to scientific technology was his discovery of the dynamo principle, announced to the Berlin Academy of Sciences in January 1867. Having already introduced the double-T armature, the electromagnetic field, and the external load of an electrical generator in a single circuit, thereby avoiding the costly permanent magnets previously used in the field. Other inventors and scientists discovered the dynamo principle at about the same time; but Siemens foresaw the consequences of his "dynamo" for heavy-current, or power, uses and developed practical applications. His company pioneered in using electricity for streetcars and mine locomotives, in electrolysis, and in central generating stations." (DSB)

Leipzig, Gleditsch & Lanckisiii, 1755. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. A fine copy. (4), 720, (24) pp + 6 plates. First issue of Nova Acta Eruditorum with Karl Andreas Bel as editor.The offered volume contain many reviews and original contributions by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1819 - Part I. Pp. 145-160. First appearance of one of Brewsters importent paper in the field of optical mineralogy, a field he himself created. In the paper he investigates the polarization-force of double refracting crystals. In 1819 he was able to group all but a few of hundreds of minerals and crystals into mutually consistent optical and mineralogical categories: the primitive form determined the number of axes of double refraction."He regarded "all the various phenomena of polarisation of light by reflexion and refraction as brought under the dominion of laws as well determined as those which regulate the motions of the planets." In 1816 he received the Copley Medal, in 1819 two Rumford Medals, and in 1831 a Royal Medal for the papers in which he announced these discoveries. On the popular level, Brewster’s reputation was established in 1816 by the fad for his kaleidoscope. Its invention was a direct result of his studies of the ory of polarization by multiple reflections."(DSB).

Zwickau, 1827-28. 12mo. Bound in 10 cont.hcalf., richly gilt backs, slightly rubbed.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1889. 8VO. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Top of spine worn and some wear to upper compartment. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 37. VIII,680 pp. a. 7 folded plates. Pockels' paper: pp. 144-172, 269-305, 372-394. Small stamp to htitle, title-page and verso of. Internally fine. First printing of Pockels' paper in which he announced the discovery of the effect which bears his name. He shows that the optical property is changed by a change in the dieelectric function induced by electric deformation of a solid. The discovery became to have a wide use in semiconductor technology.The volume contains further notable papers ELSTER & GEITEL "Ueber die Electricitätserregung beim Contact verdünnter Gase mit galvanisch glühende Drähten", pp. 315-329. - HEINRICH HERTZ "Ueber die Fortleitung electrischer Wellen durch Drähte", pp. 395-407. - W. HALLWACHS "Ueber den Zusammenhang des Elektricitätsverlustes durch beleuchtigung mit der Lichtsabsorption" (The photo-electric effect !), pp. 666-674, papers by Lenard, Ferdinand Braun (2 papers) etc.