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Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1864-65. 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges, spines slightly rubbed.. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 4e Series - Tome 2 a. 4. 512 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. + 512 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (The entire volumes offered). Raoult's papers: pp. 317-372 a. pp. 392-426. First printing of these pioneering papers in thermochemistry and electrochemistry."Raoult’s work may be divided into three stages: physical, chemical, and physicochemical. During the first stage, which lasted until Raoult moved to Grenoble, he discovered that the chemical heat of reaction of galvanic cells of the Daniell type was generally different from the heat equivalent of the electrical work done in these cells. He also used a voltameter, an instrument that measures the quantity of electricity by the amount of electrolysis, to study the heat evolved in voltaic cells. Raoult was one of the first to recognize that the electrical work done by voltaic cells was not equal to the heat evolved by the chemical reaction driving these cells. He showed that whenever the electrical work done in voltaic cells was less than the heat of all reactions, heat was evolved. Moreover, he stated that changes in concentration, oxidation, and in acid-base relationships, but not changes in aggregation such as dissolving, melting, or solidifying, were the sources of the electromotive force of voltaic cells."(DSB).

Uppsala, u.år(l877). Tvær-folio. Smukt orig.komp.helshirt. Komplet med lo plancher i tonet litografi

Magdeburg, 1921-13. Lex8vo. 2 cont. hcalf. Slight wear to backs. 896,573 pp., 62 colourplates, 600 textillustr.

Amsterdam, Yntema en Tieboel, 1774-76. 8vo. Later clothbacked blank wrappers. XII,70;(1),80,98 pp. Stamps and old owners name on first titlepage. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Modena, Soliani, 1866. Large 8vo. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in hvellum , titlelabel with gilt lettering. A good copy. Only printed in 250 copies. First edition. An importent series of letters by famous artists ranging from the 16th to the 19th centuries selected for their first publication by Giuseppe Campori from his fine collection. Among many others, there are letters of Corregio, the Bellini's, Boticelli, Michelangelo, Hans Burkmair, Hans Holbein, Vasar etc.

Copenhagen, Reitzel, 1924. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. Frontwrapper with a faint dampstain reaching the first leaves to be a little creased. (8),484 pp., 300 textillustrations and 1 map. First edition of one of the main works on greenlandic ethnography. - (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bd. 66).

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1823-25. 4to. Bound in 6 uniform contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spines. Fronthinge on one volume weakening. Stamp on titlepages. Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, 3 folded engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, 2 folded tables. Ca. 3000 pp. Internally clean and wide-margined. First edition.

Folio-oblong. 2 orig. hcalf. Richly gilt clothcovers. Engr. title and 156 engraved plates, 4 in chromolithography.

London a. Edinburgh, William and Norgate, 1860. 3 orig. full cloth, neathly rebacked, preserving orig. blindtooles and gilt spines. Covers blindtooled. LX,400;VIII,468;IX,500 pp. On inside front free endpaper: "From the author". Internally fine and clean. First translations into English of selections from "folkevisor" (The Danish corpus of folksongs). The work also contains translations from the Old Norse Sagas. (Not in Klose and Fiske). In "Danske Studier" 1990 is found an article on this work by Larry Syndergaard: "An Amateur" and his Translations of the Danish Ballads - Identity and Significance", this article also present here.

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Small 8vo. Bound in 10 uniform fine contemp. hcalf with richly gilt spines. !0 engraved portraits as frontispiece and 10 engraved titlepages (dated 1835). With many engraved plates, views, portraits a.facsimiles. Fine and clean.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1798. 2 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte skindtitler. Nederst på ryg en lille etiket påsat med tape. Stempel på titelblade. 82),384;(4),330 pp. Indvendig ren. Originaludgaven af dette hovedværk i dansk historieskrivning. N.F.S. Grundtvig anfører i fortalen til sin Saxooversættelse at denne bog ikke var kommet frem, "dersom ikke S.s forelæsninger over fædrelandets historie på tunge og på tryk havde ligesom banet den vej".

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1791. Unbound, but stitched. First leaves loose. In "Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet.", Bd. 4:Theil 1. XXVIII,302 pp., 1 (of 2) folded engraved maps (the map lacks some part of the lower right part, repaired with loss), 1 folded table: "Proben von den Sprachen der Kamtschadalen, Koriäken, Tschukeschen und Lamuten". A few scattered brownspots. Light traces of use. First German edition. The series titlepage present.

A Paris, 1818. Recent hcalf. Uncut. XXXVI, 238 pp. First edition.

Leipzig, 1937-42. 3 orig. full cloth. Backs and covers slightly rubbed. XXIV,474,X,545,XII,568 pp., 2 colourplates, many textillustr.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. VIII,888 a. 4 plates. (entire volume offered). Sommerfelds paper: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. A stamp on verso of titlepage. Clean and fine. First appearance of Sommerfeld's elaborated version of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, in which he was the first to show, that relativity theory gives a quantitative account of the fine structure, and thus creating a general theory of spectral lines based on the quantum concepts."Sommerfeld's two papers...and a more elaborate version (the paper offered)...surely deserves a lenghty chapter in the history of the old quantum theory..."Pais, Bohr p. 186 ff)."This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr’s theory by Sommerfed contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr’s first publication Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of this quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. HisAtombau and Spektallinien, of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920’s, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of the introduction of quantum mechanics."(DSB). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1916 P.The volume contains other notable papers by Paul S. Epstein "Zur Quantentheorie", Stark, P. Ehrenfest "Adiabatische Invarianten und Quantentheorie" and A. Einstein "Über Friedrich Kottlers Abhandlung "Über Einsteins Áquivalenzhypothese und die Gravitation" pp. 639-642.

No place, no publ., 1760. Small8vo. Contemp. Full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Title-page in red and black. (4),196 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. Dealing with the less costly ways of organizing the militia in France. - Goldsmith's, 9638. - Higgs, 2410.Claude Bourgelat (1712-1779), is known to all those familiar with the history of veterinary education as the founder of the first veterinary school in the world at Lyons in 1762.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, Pluviôse an XII (1804). 4to. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on htitle and title-page. (6),46 pp. Scarce first edition.

Aus d.Franz.übers. and mit Zusätzen vermehrt von E.W.von Greipel. Lpz., 1819. Cont.boards. Corners bumped. Name on t. XXIV,684,(4) pp. First German edition.

Kbhvn., Schultz, 1798. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. XII,168 pp. N.C. Kall Rasmussens eksemplar.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part II. Pp. 345-372. Clean and fine. First printing this importent paper in which Ivory introduces his well-known theorem which bears his name. It states that the attraction of an ellipsoid upon a point exterior to it is dependent upon the attraction of another ellipsoid upon a point interior to it."In 1809 J. Ivory proved the three-dimensional version of this theorem by straightforward calculation and by using an appropriate parametrization. This theorem holds in the n-dimensional Euclidean space (n > 1). It has been shown that it is also true in the pseudo-Euclidean plane (Minkowski)" (H. Stachel)."Ivory's scientific reputation, for which he was awarded many honours during his lifetime, including knighthood of the Order of the Guelphs, Civil Division (1831), was founded on the ability to understand and comment the work of the French analysts rather than any great originality of his own...Ivory's work, conducted with great industry over a long period, helped to foster in England a new interest in the application of analysis to physical problems." (DSB VII. p. 37).

(Kiøbenhavn, Johan Rudolph Thiele, 1799). 4to. Without wrappers. In: "Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter." Vol. V. Pp. 116-143. First printing of a remarkable paper, probably being the first to give a mathematical treatment of the probability distribution of votes in the cases where voting - yes or no - selects itself into undergroups also voting yes or no and thus relating the result to the primary voting.The author, called "The German Hume" is well known for his work "Einleitung zur Berechnung der Leibrenten und Anwartschaften", which is a landmark work in actuarial science.

Dresden, 1802. Contemp. hcloth. paperlabels pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. (12),267,(1) pp., 6 large folded engraved plates.

(London, G. and W. Nicol, 1825). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1825 - Part I. Pp. 87-130 and 2 engraved plates with many figs. Upper right corner dampstained, mostly on the first page and here only slightly touching a few letters. First appearance of this importent paper in which Whewell gave crystallography a mathematical foundation."In a paper read before the Royal Society in 1824, Whewell, according to Herbert Deas, "laid the foundations of mathematical crystallography." His system for calculating the angles of planes of crystals assumed that crystals are aggregates of small rhomboids that can be thought to shrink below the level of possible measurement, thus suggesting that crystals are latticelike. In 1825 Whewell visited Mohs in Germany. In 1828, the year in which Whewell became professor of mineralogy, he published a revision of Mohs’s system of mineralogical classification."(DSB).

London, Macmillan and Co., 1886. Bound in 2 orig. pictorial full cloth, gilt. Stamp on title-pages. XXVIII,676;XII,803 pp., 15 plates and numerous textillustrations in woodcut. 1 large folded map in colour. Internally clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1886. Folio. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning og forgyldt skindtitel. kanter med lettere slid. XIV,114 pp. samt 60 litograferede plancher (1039 afbildn.). Rent frisk eksemplar.