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Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1881. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrapper (only rearwrapper a. backstrip, frontwr. lacks). Wrapper a bit frayed at edges. A faint stamp on titlepage. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par E.H. von Baumhauer", Tome XVI. VI,476,(1) pp. a. 9 lithographed plates. plates. Uncut and unopened, clean and fine. (The entire volume offered). Lorentz's paper pp. pp. 1-46. First appearance of an importent paper on the kinetic theory of gases and thermodynamics in which Lorentz worked out a number of problems still existing in the molecular-kinetic interpretation of thermodynamics, and he corrects here Boltzmann's proof of the H-theorem.

Odense, Hempel, 1839-42. Indbundet i 5 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldte titelfelter. Rygge med lette brugsspor. Hver Bog af loven behandles i sit bind.

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1876. Small 8vo. Fine contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. (4),327,(1) pp. Clean and fine. The scarce first edition.

Paris, Anselin, 1835. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Stamp on title-page. XXIII,381,(2) pp., 14 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1711" and "Année 1712. Pp. 282-302 and 3 large folded engraved plates. + pp. 22-44 and 5 large folded engraved plates. First appearance of a classic paper on sea-weeds and marine alga."Examination for the reproductive structures had already started. In 1711, R.A.F de Réaumur gave an account of Fucus in which noted the two types of external openings in the thallus: the non-sexual cryptostromata (sterile surface cavities) and the conceptacles (fertile cavities, immersed but with a surface opening) containing the sexual organs, which he thought were female flowers. With a lens he was able to see the oogonoa (the female sex organs) and the antheridia (the male sex organs) within the conceptacles, but he interpreted these as seeds, correctly noting that each conceptacle had an opening externally through which they could escape."(A.G. Morton "History of Botanical Science", p. 245."Réamur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared him favorably with Darwin."(DSB XI, p. 331).

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1888 - Vol. 179 - B. Pp. 303-327 a. 3 lithographed plates. Clean and fine. First printing of a definitive paper in neurophysiology, starting the determination of the location in the cortex of the visual and sensory centers. It describes the effects of damage on the temporal lobe in monkeys and established the visual area in the occipital lobes.

Kiøbenhavn, Lauritz Christian Simmelkiær, 1787. Uden omslag. 44 pp. Originaltrykket. Zoëga var en af hovedmændene bag planerne om at skabe et pengevæsen i Hertugdømmerne med sedler, der var indløselige med sølv. - Bibl. Danica II:854.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1846. Lex8vo. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. full calf, gilt spines, gilt covers. Small nick to lower end of spine on part 1. Some small scratches to covers. One fronthinge weakening. All edges gilt. Woodcut frontispieces. 464 pp. Profusely illustrated with plates and textillustrations in woodcut.

Copenhagen, Leipzig etc., 1914-30. Lex8vo. Bound in 6 uniform solid hfabrikoid.

Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, 1843. Contemp. hcloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. X,142 pp., textillustrations. Clean and fine printed on heavy paper. First edition. - Poggendorff I,799 and II,1329.

København, Poppske Bogtrykkeri, 1826. Nær samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. (2),16, 339,(1) pp., 1 kobberstukket planche med faksimiler. Originaludgaven. "- altsaa maa Ord som lyde forskjellig ikke skrives lige, og omvendt de, som lyde ens, maa ikke skrives ulige. Dernæst maa intet unyttigt og overflödigt findes i Skrivningen...."(Rask).

Berlin, Voss und Sohn, 1790. Unbound, but stitched. XII,428 pp. With 9 (of 12) engraved plates, one plate defective. The first 6 leaves loose. A few scattered brownspots. Light traces of use. First German edition.(Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Bd. 2). Also with the series titlepage.

Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University, 1971. 4to. Orig. full cloth. XV,784 pp. Textillustrations. Fine and clean.

4to. Orig. wrappers. With 4 original lithographs by H. Sturm, Zimmer, Asger Jorn, Prem.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 13, 6. Heft. Pp. 209-384 a. 1 folded plate, (entire issue offered "Heft" 6). Hertz's paper: pp. 266-275. First printing of Hertz' doctoral dissertation on the electromagnetic induction in rotating conductors, a purely theoretical work that took him only three months to complete."It was not a pioneering work but a thorough study of the problem that had been partially treated by many others, from Arago and Faraday to Emil Jochmann and Maxwell. He submitted the dissertation in January 1880 and took his doctoral examination the following month, earning a magna cum laude, a distinction rarely given at Berlin."(DSB).

Kiøbenhafn, Daniel Paulli, (1681). 4to. Senere blank omslag, hvorpå Bjørn Kornerup har anført datoen 15 Decbr. 1923 (vel anskaffelsestidspunktet). 221,(3) pp. Svag skjold i øvre margin på nogle blade. Bibl. Dan. I,287.

Stockholm, Johan Höberg, 1835-42. 4 samtidihge hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. En smule slid på en kapitæl. Stempel på titelblade. (8),1692 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk.

Wien, 1802. 4 cont.hcalf. Backs slightly worn. St.o.t. Ab. 1000 pp.

Kjöbenhavn, Reitzel, 1829-32. Indbundet i 3 samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning og forgyldte titler. En papirsetiket påsat øverst på ryg.(2),392;454;430 pp. samt 42 foldeplancher. Bibl. Danica II, 54.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1901. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 6, No. 11. (Entire issue offered). Pp. 433-458. Lebedew's paper: pp. 433-458., textillustrations. Clean and fine. First printing of Lebedew's importent paper which he presented at an international conference (1899), and in which he described his detection of the pressure of light."He was interested in the possibility that light might exert pressures. This had been predicted by Maxwell's equations and it was a handy explanation, for instance, for the fact that comet's tails always pointed generally away from the sun whether the comet was approaching the sun or receding. In 1901 (in the paper offered), using very light mirrors in a vacuum, Lebedew was actually able to observe and measure the pressure exerted by light, again confirmning Maxwell's theories, as well as providing a vehicle for Arrhenius' life-spores."(Asimov).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1899 C.

(Paris), Minuet, (1979). [Recte: Les Ateliers de Normandie, 1988]. 8vo. Original wrappers. A bit of minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise very fine. Apart from some underlinings to the first few pages, internally very nice and clean. 109, (3) pp. Author's presentation-inscription "pour Jen,/ avec ironie/ et myopathie/ J-F Lyotard/ Sharlony [?]/ Janvier 1991". Lovely presentation-copy of a later issue of the groundbreaking work that introduced the term "post-modernism" and fundamentally altered the interpretation and course of (post-)modern philosophy. With this book, Lyotard set the agenda for the discussion of the postmodern, which began in the 1980'ies. Lyotard's main point is that modern society has become postmodern because man no longer believes that scientific and technological progress will lead to freedom, prosperity, and enlightenment for all. For postmodern man, doubt is the dominating factor. The term "postmodernism" was previously only used by art critics, but with "The Postmodern Condition", Lyotard introduced it in philosophy, with the following quotation: "Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives", altering our comprehension of this most recent period of philosophy. "The term "postmodern" came into the philosophical lexicon with the publication of Jean-François Lyotard's "La Condition Postmoderne" in 1979 (English: "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge", 1984), where he employs Wittgenstein's model of language games (see Wittgenstein 1953) and concepts taken from speech act theory to account for what he calls a transformation of the game rules for science, art, and literature since the end of the nineteenth century. He describes his text as a combination of two very different language games, that of the philosopher and that of the expert. Where the expert knows what he knows and what he doesn't know, the philosopher knows neither, but poses questions. In light of this ambiguity, Lyotard states that his portrayal of the state of knowledge "makes no claims to being original or even true," and that his hypotheses "should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the questions raised" (Lyotard 1984, 7). The book, then, is as much an experiment in the combination of language games as it is an objective "report."On Lyotard's account, the computer age has transformed knowledge into information, that is, coded messages within a system of transmission and communication. Analysis of this knowledge calls for a pragmatics of communication insofar as the phrasing of messages, their transmission and reception, must follow rules in order to be accepted by those who judge them. However, as Lyotard points out, the position of judge or legislator is also a position within a language game, and this raises the question of legitimation. As he insists, "there is a strict interlinkage between the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics" (Lyotard 1984, 8), and this interlinkage constitutes the cultural perspective of the West. Science is therefore tightly interwoven with government and administration, especially in the information age, where enormous amounts of capital and large installations are needed for research." (SEP).

Stutgart, Mezler, 1780. Fine contemp. full speckled calf. Raised bands, profusely gilt spine. With the monogram of the Danish King Chr. 7, stamped on red background on frontcover. Stamp on title-page. Engraved titlevignette. (22),416 pp., 6 folded engraved plates. Marginal browning on title-page. Internally clean and fine.

Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Comp., 1815. 4to. Orig. blue boards with orig. printed titlelabel on frontboard. Uncut. Engraved portrait of Sanzio (Raphael Urbin pinx - H. Lips sculp - a dampstain in lower right corner). Title with engraved portrait. IV,86 pp., 2 textengravings. Printed on good paper, a few brownspots.

London, Chapman & Hall, (1848). Later solid hcalf. Frontispiece. Engraved title-page and printed. Illustrated with 38 plates by H.K. Browne. A few leaves loosening. Internally clean and fine.

N.Y., 1829. Later full cloth. First inner hinge broken. VI,638,(2) pp., 2 fold. engr.plates and many textillustr. Some pages browned.