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(København, 1861). 4to. Ubeskåret uden omslag som udkommet i "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter", Nat.Vid. og math. Afd, 5. Række, bd. 5. Titelblad. Pp., 433-592, tekstillustrationer samt 6 dobbeltsidede foldede litograferede plancher. Rent frisk eksemplar. Importent early monograph on the Greenland-Whale, illustrated in the text and with 6 fine double-page lithographed plates.

Sthlm., 1838 - 39. Indb. m. orig. bogtrykt for- og bagomsl. midt i bogen samt det fælles titelbl. og begge separate titelblade i et nydeligt nyere marmoreret papbd. m. skindtitelfelt på ryg. Nydeligt ekspl., dog m. revne og plet på det fælles titelbl. Første svenske udgave.

Kbhvn., 1894. Orig. bogtrykte omslag. Uden ryg. XIII,221 pp., 35 plancher, 3 kort. Træsnitillustr. i teksten.

Paris, Magimel, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVI,424 pp., 1 folded table and 13 folded engraved maps and plans. Internally clean.

Leipzig, (F.A. Brockhaus), 1833-36. Small 4to. 4 uniform cont. full cloth. Gilt backs. Edges and capitals and corners a little worn. Occasionally brownspotted. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts.

Berlin, Akaemie der Wissenschaften, 1880. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. In "Monatsbericht der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.", August 1880, pp. 719-43. Weierstrass' papers: pp. 707-717 and 719-43. Both papers first edition. In "Zur Funktionenlehre" Weierstrass continues his polemic with Riemann's ideas. Here it is on the topic of the very concept of an analytic function, where Weierstrass placed power series as the starting point, in opposition to Riemann's idea.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1922. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, band 68. Entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of title-page and a few light occassional brown spots Lower corner of back board torn off, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 177-240. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 632 pp. + 1 plate.) First appearance of Pauli's extended doctoral thesis in which he presents what was later named the Pauli-Niessen Model. Their works helped to show the inadequacy of the old quantum mechanics, which gave physicists the impetus to explore new paths which led to the matrix mechanics formulation of quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg and Max Born in 1925 and the wave mechanics formulation by Erwin Schrödinger in 1926, which were shown to be equivalent.Karel Niessen, Dutch theoretical physicist, published his doctoral thesis the year after Pauli.

Berlin und Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1782 - Berlin u. Leipzig, carl August Nicolai, 1795 (3. Theil) Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf, raised bands. Spines a bit rubbed. Top of spine on part 3, frayed. Part of coverpapers loosening and on one cover abit torn. (22),191;(24),270,(1):XXVI,270 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. First 20 leaves in part one with a dampstain to upper part. Last 2 plates a bit soiled. Internally clean.

London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1869-74. Royal8vo. Bound in 8 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Profusely textillustrated.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Bound in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire band 83 offered. Library stamps to front free end-papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.]. First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1699. 12mo. Bound in a beautiful contemporary full calf binding with gilt spine and boards. Five raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Gilt fleurs de lis to compartments of spine. Boards with beautiful gilt ornamental borders inside which another gilt border worth corner-ornamentation and a gilt centre-ornamentation. All edges gilt. Writings in ink to the first and last leaves, otherwise internally clean. (2), 252, (4) pp.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1864. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 58, No 2 and No. 6. Pp. (93-) 140 a. pp. (261-) 296. (2 entire issues offered). hermite's paper: pp. 93-100 a. pp. 266-273. First appearance of a famous paper in which Hermite introduced "Hermite-functions", solving differential equations over infinite intervals."The Hermite polynomials are a classical orthogonal polynomial sequence that arise in probability, such as the Edgeworth series; in combinatorics, as an example of an Appell sequence, obeying the umbral calculus; in numerical analysis as Gaussian quadrature; in finite element methods as Shape Functions for beams; and in physics, where they give rise to the eigenstates of the quantum harmonic oscillator. They are also used in systems theory in connection with nonlinear operations on Gaussian noise. They are named after Charles Hermite (1864) (the paper offered) although they were studied earlier by Laplace (1810) and Chebyshev (1859)."(Wikipedia).

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 186-194. Textfigs. Clean and fine. First appearanceof an importent paper on the Calculus."Clairaut’s "Sur quelques questions de maximis et minimis" (1733) was noteworthy in the history of the calculus of variations. It was written, as were all his similar works, in the style of the Bernoulli brothers, by likening the infinitesimal arc of the curve of three elementary rectilinear segments."(DSB).

Wittemberg, Meisnei, 1613 (+) (No place nor printer), 1617. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Inner hinges split. Underlinings in text thoughout and with occassional foxing. (14), 768 (i.e. 176), (24), 441, (3) pp. 6th edition of this philosophical treatise written by the Dutch humanist Justus Lipsius first published in 1584. The book addresses the theme of maintaining inner peace and personal integrity in political and social turmoil drawing on Stoic philosophy.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1858. Contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Stamp to title-page. Portrait as frontispiece. XXIII, 316 pp. + 1 folded map. Rare first Danish translation of Mac-Clure important work on the search for John Franklin.(First edition: Lada-Mocarski 145).

Bamberg, 1823-38. 3 cont.hcalf. Top of spines worn. Gilt backs. VIII, 232, 204, 226 pp.

Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 1954. 8vo. Orig. self-wrappers w. a bit of soiling and a few small tears to top. Old owner's name on verso of title-page (Gustav Sprandel/ 1956). Some marginal markings and notes, mostly in pencil, otherwise a fine copy. (8), 174, (1) pp. First edition of one of the most important and influential works of the later Heidegger, which presents us with his unravelling of science, technology, Metaphysics and thinking (Denken), "What is Called Thinking?"The work contains the lectures given on this subject in the Winter of 1951-52 and the Summer of 1952.Heidegger here poses the question of what it is, that which is called thinking. A further question asked is, weather there is a "thinking", which has its purpose in itself and an aim that is not without itself, i.e. a thinking, which is self-sufficient and fulfilled through itself. We are thus confronted with two ways of thinking; one, which allows us to see the thing or nature in itself; the other, which challenges nature and thereby makes it appear to us in a certain way, which we can deduct and calculate our way to, -in this way nature remains a system of information, within which we will never experience what it might really be.

Cracovie, Imprimerie de L'Université, 1907. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "Bulletin de L'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie", Mars, 1903. "Überricht vom Vorfasser" written to top right corner of front wrapper. Very fine and clean copy. Pp. 143-182. Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski's on the theory of motion of viscous liquids.

(New York), American physical Society, 1962. Lex8vo. Volume 9, No. 11, December 1, 1962 of "Physical Review Letters", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 439-443. [Entire issue: 439-477]. First printing of Giocconi's seminal paper in which the discovery of cosmic x-ray sources is presented for the first time, thereby documenting the first observation of an x-ray source outside the Solar System. The x-ray detector was launched on a rocket to look for x-ray emissions from the Moon; instead they found a bright source of soft x-rays in the constellation Scorpius. This source, now known as Scorpius X-1, is the brightest x-ray source in the sky after the Sun. It has since been identified as a neutron star in a binary-star system some 9,000 light years away.The discovery had immense consequences for cosmology, since Hoyle's Hot Universe continuous creation theory could not account for this emission. Riccardo Giacconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for his discovery.

Kiøbenhavn, Kongl. Waysenhuuses Bogtrykkeri af C.F. Risel, 1761. Indbundet i 2 samtidige helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning og skindtitler på rygge. Rygge med lettere brugspor. 988,795 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Værket er oversat efter Blairs "Our Saviour's divine Sermon on the Mount, contained in..."

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. Full cloth. Spine gone. In: "Mathematische Annalen begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann.", 88. Bd. (4),312 pp. (Entire volume offered). Hilbert's paper: pp. 151-165. Internally clean and fine. First edition as a continuation of his paper from 1922 "Neubegründung der Mathematik. Erste Mitteilung"."This articlee, delivered as a lecture to the deutsche Naturforscher Gesellschaft in Leipzig, September 1922, is a sequel to (neubegründung...), and brings Hilbert's proof theory to maturity. Hilbert here introduces several technical refinements and clarification to his theory. Specifically: (i) he improves the formal system by adding a special sign for formal negation...(ii) he refines his account of the distinction between formal language and the metalanguage....(iii) he outlines a consistency proof for an elementary, quantifier-free formal system of number-theory. (iv) he begins to extend his proof theory to analysis and set theory....sketches a strategy for proving the consistency of a version of Zermel's axiom of choice for real numbers...(etc. etc). (William Ewald in from Kant to Hilbert, vol. II, pp.1134-35).

[No place nor year, but presumably 1827] 4to. In contemporary board with black leather title-label with gilt lettering to front board. Round paper label pasted on to front board. Stamp to front free end-paper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. (2)-323-423 (all folded plates but paginated)

Firenze, Edizioni Ginnelli, 1976-77. Small folio. One fine solid full cloth. 68;86 pp. and 50 large folded plates. (Papyrologica Florentina a cura di Rosario Pintaudi vol. I-II).

Hanau, Schäfer, 1689. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, foot of spine chipped. Internally nice and clean. (28), 480, 120, 388, (4) pp. + frontispiece. Third German edition.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1979. 8vo. Original full green cloth. Volume 58, 1979 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. XXX, (2), 807 pp. First publication of the cellular standard AMPS, the first modern cellular phone system which remained in operation until 2008 in the United States. Service started in Chicago on October 13, 1983."Advanced Mobile Phone Service is the analog cellular telephone service provided in the United States. Cellular service increased capacity of mobile technology because it reuses frequencies in hexagonal-shaped cells. The AMPS standard was used in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia and several other countries.