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Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, (1963). Folio. (35 x 26,5 cm). Originalt rødt hellæderbind med helt guldsnit, forgyldt rygtitel og stort forgyldt kors på forpermen. 1248 pp. samt bibelatlas med 18 kort. Talrige farveplancher. Forrest 8 blade, ubeskrevet men ment som Familjekrönioka. Rent, frisk eksemplar.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Band 82. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Traces after a paper label to lower part of spine. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 257-64; Pp. 265-73. [Entire volume: VIII, 1168 pp. + 14 plates. First appearance of Schrödinger's famous treatment of the Compton effect."Schrödinger approached the wave mechanical treatment of the Compton effect in his own paper [the present] on a far less technical level [than Gordon]. He practically went back to the optical analogies that had stimulated the whole development in November 1925, and in which the properties of microscopic particles were described by matter waves and their propagation in homogeneous media. From such consideration, he now - a year later - drew the following conclusion: "It is to be expected, nay, even demanded, that we should be able, by means of quite simple phase considerations…, to explain the connection between the changes in direction and frequency of the ether wave which occur in the Compton effect and the change of velocity of the electron." (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)"Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons." (Asimov)

Hannover, 1871-73. 2 cont. modest hcloth. orig. wrappers as covers. Back on vol. I defective, repaired with tape. Uncut. Annotations mostly in vol. I. (4),377,XXVI,464 pp. Wood p. 546 (only vol.I). First edition.

(Paris, Bachelier, 1838). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 7, No 11. Pp. (543-) 601. Morse's paper: pp. 593-95. Steinheil's paper: pp. 590-593. A faint dampstain in upper margin, otherwise clean and fine. First printing of Morse's French announcement of his first successfull display of his invention at an 1838 exhibition in New York (January 6) where Morse transmitted 10 words per minute. He had retired his number-word dictionary, using instead the dot-dash code directly for letters. Although other changes would eventually be made, the Morse Code that would become standard throughout the world had been born. In the paper he also gives full credit to Carl August von Steinheil for his discoveries concerning the electrical telegraph.In the paper Steinheil describes his own telegraph and its predecessors. In reality, Steinheil's telegraph was the first recording telegraph, and it predating Morse.

Copenhagen, 1940-45. Royal8vo. and folio. 364,19 pp. and atlas with 21 plates in folio. Dedication from Lauge Koch on upper wrapper. (Meddelelser om Grønland Bd. 130 - Nr 1).

WW Norton & Company, Inc., (1930). Royal 8vo. Orig. green full cloth w. gilt lettering to spine, traces of wear. Some spots to boards; capitals and corners a bit bumped. One leaf w. a hole, not affecting text. XII, (2), 325 pp. First edition of this classic in the development of philosophical Realism in the United States. Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873-1962) was one of the leading American Critical Realists and an influential intellectual historian, who founded the field of "history of ideas".In his seminal "Revolt Against Dualism", Lovejoy sets out to state and defend epistemological dualism against direct theory of perception. Lovejoy claims that such a dualism, as opposed to the views of Idealism or other forms of Realism, is rooted in our human nature, and as such it can be validated by philosophical reflection upon this nature. With the ownership signature of Samuel Skulsky, the famous Jewish philosopher of science and logic.

N.Y., Halcyon House (Scribner's Sons), (1932). Orig. black full cloth w. gilt and red-coloured decoration to spine. Author's signature in gilt on front board. Coloured frontispiece ("The Bullfighter" by Juan Gris). Many black/white illustr. (of bullfighting). Minor wear to capitals. Internally, nice and clean. A rare reprint-edition from the same year as the first edition.

(Copenhagen, 1799). 4to, Without wrappers. In "Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 5. A few loose leaves. Pp. 333-340 + folded plate. Arctides guineensis is a species of slipper lobster which lives in the Bermuda Triangle. It is known in Bermuda as the small Spanish lobster. First descriptiobn of Arctides guineensis, a slipper lobster, also known as the small Spanish lobster. In this original description of the species, Lorenz Spengler gave the type locality as "Dens Fædreneland er Kysten af Guinea", probably meaning Ghana. However, A. guineensis is not known to have ever occurred near Africa, and this locality is probably an error. The species was also described by Pierre André Latreille in 1818 under the name Scyllarus sculptus, citing a type locality of "Méditerranée" (Mediterranean Sea), which is also unlikely.

Folio. Uncut with all orig. wrappers. This copy is unnumbered and with an extra suite of the 15 lithographed plates, the suite beein on another type of paper. Total of 218 copies. With a facsimile-letter from Barrés to Ch. Maurras relating to the work.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 85, No 12, 14 a. 15.. Pp. (733-) 776, (841-) 908, (909-) 984. (Entire issues offered). Daubrée's paper: pp. 733-39, 864-69 a. 928-931. First apperance of this classic paper in experimental geology."Gabriel Daubrée describes the apparatus and results of experiments simulating the folding and faulting of strata through the exertion of horizontal and vertical pressures on beds of wax or metal. Daubrée finds that fairly uniform folds form when homogenous beds under spatially uniform vertical pressures are subjected to sufficient horizontal pressure, the amount of the pressure indfluencing the number and shape of the folds. Continued pressurein such a case results in a regular series of synclines and anticlines. By contrast, spatial nonuniformities in the bed thickness or in the vertical pressure can produce marked asymmetries in the resulting folds, with, for instnace, fewer folds in regions of greater vertical pressure."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1878).

Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1833. Samtidigt hshirtbd. Rygtitel i guldtryk. Stempel på titelbladet. (8),210 pp., 2 foldetabeller, 8 litograferede plancher. Enkelte svage brunpletter.

Paris, Pissot, 1770. Contemp. hcalf. Spine rubbed and titlelabel gone. Some wear to boards. 174;224 pp. Internally with light browning, but fine. First edition.

Hambourg, Fauche, 1795. Small 8vo. Bound in 3 nice contemp. hcalf. Raised bands title-and tomelabels on spines with gilt lettering. Stamp on htitles. XX,387,(1);(4),310,(6);(4),514,(2) pp. Printed on good paper, clean.

Stockholm, Beijer, 1903. 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica, 27. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 365-390. First printing of Fredholm's landmark paper which is considered to be the publication which established operator theory, thereby anticipating Hilbert Spaces. David Hilbert developed the abstraction of Hilbert space in association with research on integral equations prompted by Fredholm's.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1762. Small 8vo. Cont. fullcalf with raised bands. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Lower compartment of spine with a taped label. Stamp on title-page. (16),160 pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean.

London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777. 4to. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part I. Pp. 260-265. Clean and fine, broadmargined. First apperarance of this paper, constituting the first reliable account of colour blindness.Usually Goethe or John Dalton - Huddart's case was cited in Dalton's paper of 1794 - is supposed to have discovered colourblindness. However, the English oculist Joseph Huddart was the discoverer of this phenomenon. The first physiological explanation of it does come from Goethe.Garrison & Morton: 5832.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Royal8vo. Orig. pictorial cloth. Back strenghtened with transparent tape. XX,411 pp., 98 illustrations on plates and 2 maps. Internally clean. First edition.

Ca. 1920. 19 x 20 cm. Unsigned. Black/white etching showing a smiling nude girl wearing only shoes lying in bed. Top of plate with tears not affecting picture.

Paris, Victor Masson et Cie, 1843. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome IX. 512 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's papers: pp. 21-70 a. pp. 257-322. Some scattered browspots and foxing. First appearance of two importent papers on heat, electricity and light. In the first paper he showed that Joule’s law governing the production of heat in the passage of an electrical current applied to liquids as well as to solids and in the second paper he revealed in the presence of Fraunhofer lines in photographs of the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum by spectroscopy. Earlier he had shown that rays at the red end of the spectrum reinforced or continued the chemical action initiated by rays at the violet end. He also demonstrated that phosphorescence was stimulated in different substances by specific frequencies of light and that at some frequencies the phosphorescent glow seemed to stop immediately after the cutting off of incident light rays.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1807. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VIII,,177 pp., 3 large folded tables and 2 large folded engraved maps or plans, both with handcolouring. Beilage A loose and with a tear (no loss). First map loose and with small closed tears. Scattered brownspots.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 105-145 and 3 fine engraved plates, showing instruments. First appearance of the importent description of the division of the circle, invented by Troughton.One of Troughton's most important contributions was a method of dividing a circle. His paper on this, An account of the method of dividing astronomical and other instruments by ocular inspection in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1809 won him the Copley medal of the Royal Society. In this invention is described in detail and also put into context. "Troughton made many contributions to the development of instrument making: in 1788 an improvement of Hadley's quadrant; in 1790 a mercurial pendulum; and in 1796 a refined version of the Borda, or reflecting circle. He was responsible for substituting spider web filaments for hair or wire in his optical instruments.....Troughton's most notable achievement was the improvement of the method of dividing a circle. His paper on this in 1809 won him the Copley Medal from the Royal Society, which elected him as fellow the following year."(DSB). - Poggendorff II: 1140.

London, Davis, Taylor, and Wilks, (1800). 8vo. Contemp. boards. Spine with gilt titlelabel. A few scratches to spine. (6),378 pp. and 11 engraved plates, some folding. 2 leaves in "Content" and 3 leaves in the text torn with loss of some letters. First printing, not a reprint. With the spectacular plate depicting Rodman's Trepanning Instrument accompanying his article describing its use.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 37, 1890. 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. Fine and clean. Pp. 182-228. [Entire volume: IV, 604 pp.]. First printing of Peano's correct and complete Existence Theorem. Peano first published the theorem in 1886 with an incorrect proof. In 1890 he published a new correct proof using successive approximations. The theorem is also known as Peano existence theorem, Peano theorem or Cauchy-Peano theorem.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1829. Smukt samt. hldrbd. i rødt saffian. Rig rygforgyldning. Slid ved øverste kapitæl. (8),197 pp. Trykt på velin. 4 sider trykt tilegnelse til Greve Adam Wilhelm Moltke. Originaludgaven af Danmarks første kunsnerleksikon i udstyr af gaveeksemplar. - Bibl. Danica II:975.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth with dust jacket. XIV,471,(1) pp. Clean and fine. First English edition of 17 papers by Tarski including 'The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages'. The papers have been revised by Tarki himself, bibliographical and historical notes have been added.