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Paris, Bernard, 1806. Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires...Par MM. Guyton, Monge et. al." Tome 57, Issue (Cahier) 1. Halftitle to vol. 57. Pp. 5-112. Vaugelin & Robiquet's paper: pp. 88-93. A few scattered brownspots. First appearance of this founding paper in which the authors announced their isolation of the first amino acid, the fundamental bricks of protein, from asparagus.

Quedlinburg, Friedrich Joseph Ernst, 1792. Uncut in orig. blank blue boards. Backstrip with wear to ends. XXVIII,302 pp. and 5 (of 7) leaves (lacks 2 last leaves of "Register" from the letter N.). Some scattered brownspots and browning. Listers classic work on spiders in the second German edition. Nissen ZBI: 2528. - Not in Horn & Schenkling.

Paris, Foulon et Comp., 1819. 8vo. Nice contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (4),245 pp. Some browning to the first and last leaves. First edition of the authors most importent work, a classical wok on Liberalism, arguing for freedom of opinion and speech. Daunau was a famous French statesman and responsible for the creation of Institut de France.

Eisenberg, Schöne'schen Buchh., 1813-17. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines with some wear and titlelabels gone. XXIV,496;XIV,466,(1);XII,542;X,469 pp. Scattered brownspots. Occasional browning and foxing. First edition.

Holmiae, Elmenianis, 1818. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning. Graveret portræt af Rasmus Rask som frontispiece. (10),288 pp. Nogle få spredte brunpletter. Fiske I,108.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series B. Pp. 267-526, textillustr. and 7 photoprinted plates. Clean and fine. First printing of this importent pioneer work in the physiology of the nervous system."Gotch and Horsley showed that electrical currents are produced in the mammalian brain, and they recorded them with the string galvanometer or the capillary electrometer. Their work led eventually to the development of the Electroencephalograph."(Harrison & Morton No. 1285).

Copenhagen, Fr. Bagge, 1909. 4to. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Spine with light wear and a few scratches. (4),VII,431 pp. and 27 lithographic plates with many figs. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Levinsen's main work. A great book which made his name known all over the world, as it introduced a revolutionary new taxonomy and graduation of the bryozoans or moss-animals.

Paris, Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1858. Bound to style with orig. printed wrappers in a very fine hmorocco, raised bands, richly gilt spine. (4),429 pp. Clean and fine. First edition.

Wien, Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1883. 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Tear in leather at frontjoint on volume1. Spine a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. XIX,598,(2);XI,(601)-990,(2) pp., 12 folded plates (mostly maps), textillustrations. internally fine and clean.

(Paris, Baudouin, AN XI (1803)). 4to. Without wrappers. Uncut. Extracted from "Mémoires de L'Institut National des Sciences et Arts", Tome Quatrieme. Pp. 363-466. A few minor brownspots on the first leaves, otherwise fine and clean, unopened. First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, in which the authors gave the first satisfactory account of of urea, which they named."Hundreds of concretions from various parts of human and animal bodies were analyzed by Fourcroy and Vauquelin. Most were urinary calculi which, independently of Wollaston, they classified according to chemical composition from 1798 onwards.They confirmed the frequent presence of uric acid and phiosphate of lime (discovered in calculi by Scheele and Georg Pearson respectively) and also found urate of ammonia, the double phosphate of magnesia and ammonia, and occasionally other compounds....In an attempt to find why urinary calculi were formed, Fourcroy and Vauquelin investigated urine, and in 1799 they gave (in the paper offered) the first satisfactory account of ures, which hey named....(they) isolated it by recrystallization from alcohol, and in 1808, achieved a purer state by adding alkali to the crystalline nitrate that they had discovered."(DSB V, p. 92-93).

Stockholm, (1898). 4to. Orig. hldrbd. med rig dekoration på shirtpermerne. Ryg slidt, særligt ved øverste kapitæl. XV,342,7,II pp. samt 69 kromolitograferede tavler, afbildende talrige arter ( fra 4 til 12 på hver planche). Navne tilskrevet arterne på afbildningerne. Anker No. 270. Wood p. 421.

Berlin et a la Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1751. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richlygilt spine, raised bands. Old owners name on titlepage. Engraved titlevignette. XXIII (page III engraved Privilege, signed in the plate: Frederic),(1),405 pp., 1 large folded genealogical table, 1 folded table and 2 large folded engraved maps.

K., 1834. Samt.hshirt m.rygforgyldn. Lidt slidt ved kapitæler og false øverst og nederst. (4),315,(3) pp. Kobberst.foldet prospekt og 3 kobberst.foldeplancher.

A Geneve, Biblioth. Britannique, AN VI (1798). 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards. Paperlabel with handwritten volume- title on spine. Boards rubbed. In: "Bibliotheque Britannique", Tome Dixieme. Sciences et Arts. Lower right corner of title-page torn away, only loss of paper, no loss of letters. Entire volume offered. 384 pp., 3 engraved plates, 6 folded tables. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. Hall's paper: pp. 62-76. First printing of this fundamental paper in vulcanology, explaining the occurrences of basalts.This French version published at the same time as the English from Nicholson's Journal, vol. 2, pp. 285-88 (the English version being only an abstract of a paper wich was published in full in1805)."James Hall demonstrates experimentally that lavas when cooled quickly can be fused into glass, which then, if remelted and cooled slowly, can transform back into a more stony substance. He thereby offers an explanation for the occurrence in some dykes of a vitreous outer portion in contact with the surrounding rock (the rock having been relatively cold as the original lava rose into it, hence causing rapid cooling) and a more crystalline structure in the central portions." (Parkinson, "Breakthroughs", 1898 E).

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal (Trykt i Sorø 1775 hos J. Lindgrens Enke), 1775. Smukt, velbevaret samtidigt hldrbd., rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind på ryggen. Kobberstukket titelvignet. (16),424,(1) pp. Et blad professionelt reparert i margin,uden teksttab. Originaludgaven af den første egentlige indføring i retorik på dansk.

Berlin, Veit & Comp., 1854. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. VIII,335,(1) pp., 1 large folded lithographed map. Faint scattered brownspots.

Paris, 1854-64. 4to. Cont.hcloth. Backs a little worn on a few volumes. Richly illustr.with wood-engravings.

Torino, Cassone, 1830-32. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spiune. Gilt lettering. a paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on first title-page. (8),191,(2);128,(16) pp., 9 folded lithographed plates, textillustrations, 1 folded table. Clean and fine.

La Haye, Aus Depens de la Compagnie, 1753. Uncut in contemp. stiff blank wrappers. Stamp on title-page. Title-page in red/black. 96 pp., 3 folded tables. Faint scattered brownspots. First edition.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1879 - Vol. 170 - Part II. Pp. 727-845 and 3 plates. The plates slightly brownspotted, otehrwise fine and clean. First printing of this classic paper on "thermal respiration" in which Reynolds explains how some of the movements of the vanes in Crookes' Radiometer can be accounted for. "The correct solution to the problem (the problem of finding the cause of the movement of the vanes in Crooke's radiometer) was provided qualitatively by Osborne Reynolds, better remembered for the "Reynolds number". Early in 1879 Reynolds submitted a paper to the Royal Society in which he considered what he called "thermal transpiration", and also discussed the theory of the radiometer. By "thermal transpiration", Reynolds meant the flow of gas through porous plates caused by a temperature difference on the two sides of the plates. If the gas is initially at the same pressure on the two sides, it flows from the colder to the hotter side, resulting in a higher pressure on the hotter side if the plates cannot move. Equilibrium is reached when the ratio of pressures on either side is the square root of the ratio of absolute temperatures. This counterintuitive result is due to tangential forces between the gas molecules and the sides of the narrow pores in the plates. The effect of these thermomolecular forces is very similar to the thermomechanical effects of superfluid liquid helium. This liquid, which lacks all viscosity, will climb the sides of its container towards a warmer region. In fact, this form of liquid helium climbs so quickly up the sides of a thin capillary tube dipped into it, that a fountain is produced at the tube's other end."(Philip Gibbs).

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1879. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 88, No 12. Pp. (625-) 676. (Entire issue offered). Nilson's papers: pp. 642-645 a. 645-648. First leaf with a tear to right margin, no loss of paper. First apperance of the papers in which Nilson describes his discovery of a new element and its properties, and naming it Scandium. It was the second new element found after Mendeleev's prediction of its existence as "Eka-Boron"."Mendeléeff had predicted that another element, which he called eka-boron and which he said would have an atomic weight between 40 (calcium) and 48 (titanium), would some day be revealed. It was discovered in 1879 by Lars Fredrik Nilson.... Nilson extracted 63 grams of the rare earth erbia from gadolinite and euxenite, and converted it into the nitrate. Upon decomposing this salt by heat, as Marignac had done, he obtained some very pure ytterbia and, to his great surprise, an earth that was unknown to him.Upon thoroughly investigating this new earth, he found that it contained an element whose properties concided almost exactly with those Mendeléef had predicted for ekaboron. Nilson called it scandium in honour of his fatherland."(Weeks "Discovery of the Elements" pp. 219-20).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1879 C.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1845). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1845 - Part I. Pp 143-145 . pp. 147-153. Clean and fine. First appearance of these highly influential papers as Herschel here reported the first observation of the fluorescence of a quinine solution in sunlight. - In a footnote to the report Herschel points out that he was writing from memory, having carried out the experiment more than twenty years before. Nevertheless, his reminiscence was enough to spark further exploration, eventually resulting in the modern understanding of fluorescence. In fact, even today, quinine is one of the most commonly utilized fluorophores for spectroscopy, enjoyed by many for the strange, but beautiful fluorescence that was first observed, but unable to be unexplained, by Herschel.

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, (1827). Folio. Orig. papbd. med overtræk af grønt glanspapir. Nederste del af ryg med tab af rygpapir. (4),56,XLVI,(2) pp., 3 kobberstukne plancher visende bygningerne, grundtegning, generalplan m.v. Trykt på kraftigt skrivepapir.

Kjøbenhavn, G.F. Kiesel, 1757. 4to. Nær samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv. Rygforgyldning. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. (16),740,(12) pp. Første og sidste blade med lidt brunpletter. Originaludgaven af den humanistiske pietismes betydeligste pastoralteologi for Danmark og Norge. Efter hjemkomsten fra biskopembedet i Bergen, holdt Pontoppidan pastoralteologiske forelæsninger, som således i samlet form udkom her.

Wien, Tendler u. v. Manstein, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spine. Stamp on titlepage. XIII,408,(2) pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.