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Kiøbenhafn, Bockenhoffer, 1695. 12mo. Samtidigt helldrbd. Ryg med blindtrykte dekorationer. Håndskreven titeletiket.Rrevnedannelser ved false. Titelbald i rød/sort. 590,(34) pp. Indvendig ren. Anden forøgede udgave. En tysk udgave udkom 1697. - Bibl. Danica II: 233 - Thesaurus II: 703.

Argentorati (Strasbourg), Joh. Reinholdi Dulsseckeri, 1698. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Covers and spine a bit soiled. First inner hinge weakening. Engraved titlevignette. (138),76 pp. + Indexes. Scattered brownspots.

London, 1922. Orig. full cloth. Back faded. XV,365 pp. 4 maps, plates in b/w, 3 fine colourplates. Zimmer p. 39. First edition. A very thorough account of the subject, entertainingly written, with voluminous notes on the natural history of the Country, a large number of which are ornithological.

(London, Macmillan & Co, 1948). Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth. In "Nature", Vol. 161, 1948. Entire volume offered. Bookplates and library stamp to front free end-papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 777-8. [Entire volume: Pp. 495-1028.]. First publication of this seminal paper introducing holography for which Dennis Gabor was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1971."In July 1947 Gabor, assisted by Ivor Williams, began experiments at B.T.H. to establish the principle by using a purely optical model-that is, using visible light instead of electrons-with a mercury vapor lamp as a source of coherent light, to produce the interference photographs of simple two dimensional images. Five months later he was able to show his close confidant Lawrence Bragg his first successful wavefront reconstructions: hazy im ages of simple printed words used as objects. Even when Bragg fully understood the theory, he still stated that it was a miracle it should work. The first public indication of Gabor's success came with a preliminary note to Nature, published on 15 May 1948. The following year he wrote a more complete theoretical treatment, for the Proceedings of the Royal Society, in which he introduced the word "hologram" and indicated possible applications in light optics. Among these was the ability, using the same method, to record the data associated with 3-D objects in one interference photograph." (DSB)

Paris, Pepingue, 1655. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Small worm tract to back board and lower margin of last 55 ff. not touching text. Small hole to title-page, with loss of text. (12), 502 pp. Fourth edition.

Mannheim, 1819. Uncut in cont. boards. Back a little worn. VIII,296 pp., textillustr. and 29 engraved plates, of which 24 are handcoloured.

Paris, Barrois l'ainé, 1817. Later cloth-backed boards with printed titlelabel on frontcover. Stamp on titlepage. (4),IV,199,(1) pp. and 1 engraved folded map. A few brownspots, orherwise clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Erlangen, Johan Jakob Palm, 1796. Contemp. hcalf. A small paperlabel pasted on back. Stamp. on title. (16),256,(3) pp. Scattered brownspots, but a good copy. First edition.

Le Caire, Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais, 1930. 4to. Fine, solid full cloth. XIII,252 pp. (Bibliotheque D'Études Coptes...Tome II).

London, Boffe; Marseille, Mossy; Paris, Buisson, 1790. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. All edges coloured in red. A few scratches to boards. Spines with wear and parts of gilting worn off. Internally very nice and clean. (4), 90, 329 pp. + frontispiece and folded plate; (4), 410 pp.; (4), IV, 398, (1) pp. + 1 plate; (4), XVI, 160, 247 pp.

Copenhagen, London, Gyldendal, 1934-35. Large 4to. The 8 parts, separately paginated bound in 2 solid hcalf. Stamp on title-apge. With plates, textillustrations and maps.

Berlin, Jul. Springer, 1863. 8vo. nice cont. twotoned hcalf w. gilt back. Internally only occational minor brownspotting. Old owner's name to front free endpaper ("Madme Rothe née Roux"). (4), XLII, 327 pp. The Berlin-edition of the seminal work, which was immensely influential on European thought, philosophy, history and religion from the date of its appearance. The first edition appeared in Paris in the same year, and the Berlin-edition appeared about simultaneously.The work caused an immediate scandal when it appeared. Renan's masterpiece, which constitudes the first attempt to write a biography of Jesus the man and strongly puts forth the notion that the Bible too can be subject to historical investigation and critical scrutiny. The work enraged the Roman Catholic Church but was an immediate success in most of Europe. "In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition. Renan regarded the book as the first of a series on the "Origins of Christianity", which he continued with "The Apostles" (1866), "Saint Paul" (1869), "The Anti-Christ" (1873), "The Gospels" (1877), "The Christian Church" (1879) and "Marcus Aurelius" (1881) but none of these emulated the success of the "Life of Jesus"... Immediate success was partly a "succès de scandale" but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence." (PMM 352). This groundbreaking work analyses the personality of the man Jesus, -a figure created by Renan out of his mind but based on historical sources. "It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality -the son of man, but not the Son of God... In this great work it seems clear that the audience he has found was the one he sought: the general reading public rather than the limited coterie of scholars; and there is no doubt of the fact or the degree of his success." (PMM 352). "C'est le livre plus célèbre d'Ernest Renan (1823-1892) et le premier volume de l'Hisoire des origines du Christianisme"... on peut considérer cette "Vie de Jésus" comme une oeuvre de vulgarisation: l'auteur cherche à déterminer ce qui, au point de vue "scientifique", est de créance dans la vie du Nazaréen?" (Laffont-Bompiani IV:681). Apart from causing a world-wide scandal, the work was also a world-wide success, and no matter how many harsh words can be said about the historical and religious contents of the work, there is no doubt about the fact that it influenced the destiny of Catholocism decisively and that it is a masterpiece of 19th century French literature. It is very elegantly written and is renowned for its description of the historical setting, charming descriptions of sceneries, its penetrating psychological analysis and its overall style and class. "Il faut ajouter que la "Vie de Jésus" compte au nombre des livres les mieux écrits de son temps; le charme de la peinture des paysages, le pittoresque géneralement exact des évocations historiques, l'analyse pénétrante de l'âme des personnages, des seductions du style enfin, n'ont pas été pour rien dans le succès universel de cette oeuvre." (Laffont-Bompiani IV:681). Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was a French philologist, philosopher and historian. His father died when he was aged five, and his mother wanted him to become a priest. Until he was about 16 years old, he was trained by the Church, but due to his investigative and truth-seeking nature as well as his studies (e.g. Hebrew), he was in doubt as to the historical truth of the Scriptures, and with the help of his sister he chose his own path in life. "He studied intensively the languages of the Bible and filled a number of minor academic positions, frequently encountering difficulties because of the heterodoxy and outspokenness of his religious opinions." (Printing and the Mind of Man 352). In 1840 he began studying philosophy and later philology, in 1847 he took his degree as Agrégé de Philosophie and became master at the Lycée of Vendome. After having returned from a mission to Italy in the year 1850 where he gathered material for his historical-philosophical masterpiece, "Averroës et l'Averroisme", he was offered employment at the "Bibliothèque Nationale" (at the manuscript department). In 1861 he was chosen to become professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France, but because the emperor refused to ratify the appointment (inspired by the Clerical party), he was not established in the chair untill 1870. In 1878 he was elected for the Academy. Renan is considered a scolar of the greatest excellence and an impressive writer.

St-Petersburg, 1864. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. (4),VIII,XXXVIII,323,57,(2);324-727,129,(2) pp. A few faint brownspots.

Jena, Crökerschen Buchandlung, 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XII,516 pp. a. 6 folded enraved plates.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1848. 4to. In the original printed wrappers, without back strip. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik", 36. band, Heft 3, 1848. Entire third heft offered. Fine and clean. Pp. 185-244. [Entire volume: Pp. 185-282 + 3 plates.]. First printing of Clausius early and important paper on the influence of the atmosphere on sunlights."In one paper, dealing mainly with the problem of reflected light in the sky, Clausius’ distinctive approach to many physical questions was already apparent: an excellent grasp of the fundamental facts and equations relevant to the phenomena, a microscopic model to account for them, and an attempt to correlate the two with mathematics. For example, Clausius imagined that the blue color of the sky arose from the preferential reflection of blue light from thin films of water. He postulated, therefore, the existence of water bubbles in the earth’s atmosphere and investigated mathematically the requisite conditions of number, size, and thickness." (DSB).

Kjøbenhavn, 1735 12mo. Bindet defekt. I samtidigt halvlæderbind over træpermer. Papir på permer mangler, så træpermerne blottet. Helsides træsnit som frontispiece (69) pp. Originaludgaven.

London, Whittle and Laurie, 1817. 8vo. In later half cloth with gilt lettering and stamp to spine. Stamps and annotations to tite-page, otherwise internally fine. VIII, 182, (2) pp. Third edition.

Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1711. 8vo. In a fine contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly spine. Traces from old paper-label to top of spine. Ex-libris to pasted down front end-paper. A nice and clean copy. (22), 575 pp. + frontispiece. Late edition of Sulpicius Severus 'World History'.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1877. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip and a small nick to front wrapper. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. XII. [12]. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Klein:] Pp. 503-60. [Entire issue: Pp. pp. 433-576]. Frist printing of Klein's paper on the icosahedron."A problem that greatly interested Klein was the solution of fifth-degree equations, for its treatment involved the simultaneous consideration of algebraic group theory, geometry, differential equations, and function theory. Hermite, Kronecker, and Brioschi had already employed transcendental methods in the solution of the general algebraic equation of the fifth degree. Klein succeeded in deriving the complete theory of this equation from a consideration of the icosahedron, one of the regular polyhedra known since antiquity. These bodies sometimes can be transformed into themselves through a finite group of rotations. The icosahedron in particular allows sixty such rotations into itself. If one circumscribes a sphere about a regular polyhedron and maps it onto a plane by stereographic projection, then to the group of rotations of the polyhedron into itself there corresponds a group of linear transformations of the plane into itself. Klein demonstrated that in this way all finite groups of linear transformations are obtained, if the so-called dihedral group is added. By a dihedron Klein meant a regular polygon with n sides, considered as rigid body of null volume." (DSB VII, p. 400).The icosahedron is a regular polyhedron with 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids.

K., 1832. Senere mønstret papbd. m. skindtitel på forperm (Carl Lund). Brunplettet. BFN 174. Originaludgave.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1799. 2 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og forgyldte skindtitler. Papirsetiket pålimet øverst på rygge. Stempler på titelblade. XX,774 pp + Register.

Helsinki, Druckerei- A.G., 1936. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. In "Acta Philosophica Fennica Fasc. II." Outer margin of front wrapper slight miscoloured, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 101 pp. First appearance of Kaila's important work. Here testabillity became the main thesis of logical empiricism, accompanied by the principles of induction and simplicity together with the analyticity of the formal sciences. Kaila sent the book to Carnap who replied: "I have read it with liveyl interest and also with complete agreement in the essential point. Diverging opinions in detals, of course, are inevitable."

Amsterdam, Elzervir, 1664. 12mo. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges and author and title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling and a few stains to extremities. Lower part of yapp edges torn or broken off. Internally nice and clean. (16), 631 pp. Engraved title-page included in the pagination . Fourth Elzevir-edition. Willem 1324.

Amsterdam, Boeteman, 1697. 8vo. In contemporary coloured floral ornamented wrappers with leather spine. Small pape-label on to top of spine. Wrappers creased. Internally nice and clean. (46), 408 pp. + frontispiece, portrait (included in the pagination), 1 engraved plate and 1 folded plate.

Sulzbach, J.E. Seidel, 1820-21. Large 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. hcalf with profusely gilt spines, title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. VIII,295,(1);IV,266,(1);IV,250,(2);IV,314,(4) pp. Additional engraved portrait of Bossvetus (Bossuet) pasted on front free endpaper. The corners on the first 4 leaves in both volumes browned (offsettings from corners of binding),otherwise fine and clean. A small stamp on foot of first titlepage.