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(München, 1849). 4to. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. Some browning to title-page and last page. A dampstain in upper margin on the first 4 leaves. Some marginal brownspots to the last 3 leaves. Title-page (2) pp. and pp. (779-)840, some textillustrations. In "Abhandlungen der H. Cl. d.k. Ak. d. Wiss. V.Bd. III Abth." First edition. Here Steinheil investigated the German telegraphic lines, and gives suggestions for improvements. From 1849 to 1852 he organized telegraph communications in Austria."Steinheil exerted great influence on the scientific life at Munich. He was a keen-witted discoverer and inventor, especially in optics and telegraphy. In 1838 he theorized that the earth could serve as the second half of a telegraphic circuit; and in 1842 he constructed an ingenious photometer." (DSB).Ronalds, p. 485. - Wheeler Gift, 1166. - Poggendorff II, 997.

Amsterdam, Alex. Jombert, 1782. 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. full sprinkled calf. Spine ends worn. Spines richly gilt, but somewhat worn. Title-and tomelabels gone. Corners bumped. (4),397;(4),454 pp. Old name on titlepage. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. Translation into French of machiavelli's "Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio".

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Clothbacked with blank wrappers. Ca. 2.700 pp., 3 folded tables and 33 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. Lower right corners on the first leaves in volume 4 with a dampstain. Third edition of Thenard's classic and influential text-book. "Thenard was the author of a large and important chemistry textbook that went through six editions and was translated into German, Italian, and Spanish (the section on analysis was translated into English). Through this book he helped restore France to its traditional role as supplier of chemistry textbooks to the rest of the world; his only serious rival was the British chemist Thomas Thomson, who during the first two decades of the nineteenth century produced successive editions of his own textbook." (DSB).

Stuttgart, 1856-59. 3 cont.hcalf. Backs somewhat worn. 574,592,588,(107) pp. Richly illustr. a. with plates.

London, W. Nicol, 1826. 4to. "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part I. With titlepage to Part I. (2),391,,XVIII pp. Titlepage with a stamp on verso. A faint brownspots to p. 1. One leaf a bit creased. First printing of South's second large star catalogue of the distances and positions of double and triple stars."Double stars, essentially discovered by Wiiliam Herschel, were of great interest throughout the nineteenth century—new ones being found and position measurements made more precise with each improvement in telescope construction. South, working with John Herschel during the years 1821–1823. reobserved the double stars charted originally by William Herschel, mainly for the purpose of detecting position changes. Their observations helped verify the newly recognized orbital motion of these neighboring stars. Their resulting catalog of 380 double stars, presented to the Royal Society in 1824, earned them the gold medal of the Astronomical Society and the grand prize of the Institut de France. For his second catalog of double stars, two years later, South was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society."(DSB).

Kiøbenhavn,, Frid. Christ. Pelt, 1762. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryg, rig rygforgyldning. Øverste rygfelt slidt foroven. Papirsetiket nederst på ryg. (12),674,(25) pp. I dette tredie oplag er tilføjet et betydningsfuldt kapitel "Om de Midler og Anstalter, som ere giorte til Manufacturernes og Handelens Forbedring, siden den sidste Edition af dette Skrift, eller rettere at sige fra Hans Kongel. Majestets regierings Begyndelse" pp. 609-74. Afsnittet er forfattet af Vilh. Matthias Skeel dog uden navns nævnelse.Ehrc.-M. X, 142-44.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. (4),XXVIII,159 pp. and 1 folded engraved map of Celebes. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 24. Bd.: 1. Theil). Also with the series title, this with a stamp.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1837 - Part I. Pp. 141-160 and 1 engraved plate. First appearance of Daniell's second paper on the construction of the famous "Daniell-Cell". In 1836 (in a paper in the Transactions, also addressed to Faraday with the title "On Voltaic Combinations"), he announced his invention of the battery. In his second paper, the paper offered here, he further develops his invention. In the new invention by Charles Wheatstone of the electric telegraph in 1837, the Daniell cell was used as the electric source.In 1831 Daniell was appointed proffesor of Chemistry at King's College London. He invented several scientific instruments, including a hygrometer for measuring humidity he is best known for his work in electrochemistry, his interests having been aroused by the work of his good friend faraday. Volta's battery had the defect of rapid diminution in current. What was needed, however, was a battery yielding a constant current over a considerable lenght of time. In 1836 Daniell succeeded, producing the Daniell cell, of copper and zinc. his was the first reliable source of electric current.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel,1884. Stor 4to. Nyere hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. X,180 pp., 5 litograferede kort samt 36 kobberstukne plancher med talrige figurer. Originaltrykket.

Göttingen, Wandenhöck und Ruprecht, 1794. Contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some wear at upper compartment of spine. Small cracks to leather at lower part of fronthinge. Stamp on title-page. 459,324,(4) pp., 7 folded engraved plans and maps, 1 engraved plate. Internally fine. First German edition.

Paris, Crochard, 1833. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 55, Cahier 1. Pp. - 112 pp. (The entire issue offered with halftitle and title-page to vol. 55). Avogadro's paper: pp. 80-111. Scattered brownspots. In 1819 Dulong and Petit announced that there was a simple relationship between specific heats and atomic weights. Although they suggested that their law might be extended to compounds, it was F. E. Neumann who, in 1831, first applied the law practically to solid compounds. Avogadro, who began his research in this field in 1833 (in the paper offered), ivestigated both liquids and solids.He decided that the formula of a compound in the liquid or solid state could not be the same as that in the gaseous state. He therefore introduced the arbitrary division of molecules and considered, for example, that a molecule of water or ice contained only a quarter as many atoms as one of steam.(DSB).Also with Eilhard Mitscherlich "Sur le Rapport de la Densité des gaz à leur poids atomiques", pp. 5-41, textillustr. and his "Sur la Benzine et les Acides des Huiles et de Stároptes", pp. 41-59.

Firenze, M. Cellini E C., 1875. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. 329,(1) pp.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1874 - Harrison and Sons, 1886. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 164, pp. 289-336 and 10 lithographed plates, some coloured. - Vol. 176, pp. 1-275,(3) and 39 tinted lithographed plates.

Paris, Jombert, 1768. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. XXXII,430,(8) pp., 2 folded plates. Large engraved vignette on dedication-leaf. Internally clean, printed on good paper. Poggendorff I, 1398.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1872). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1871. Vol. 161- Part I. Pp. 77-118. Clean and fine. First appearance of an a milestone paper in the theory of accoustics - Lord Rayleigh's first paper on the theory of sounds.Certain references in Helmholtz's treatise "Lehre von der Tonempfindungen" "to the properties of acoustic resonators attracted his attention and led to his first elaborate research, reported in a long paper in the Philosophical Transactions (the paper offered). This article furnishes a clear indication of the method of thinking about problems that remained characteristic of all Rayleigh's later work. He endeavored to develop the mathematical theory of the subject in a form related as closely as possible to experimentally realizable situations, and then followed up the results by the attempt at direct experimental verification....In thsi paper Rayleigh first introduced the the useful concept of the 'Acoustic Conductivity' of an orifice. It has remained a standard acoustical quantity ever since, even if rather difficult to estimate theoretically for all sort of openings."(Robert Bruce Lindsay in his introduction to Rayleigh's Theory of Sound).

Erfurt und Gotha, henningsche, 1818. 4to. Uncut in orig. blue boards. Backstrip defective. Fronthinge weakening. (8),104 pp., 1 folded engraved plate of music and 12 engraved plates, some folded (folded view over Eisenach und die Wartburg, Fr. Bartel sc.). Some brownspots. Having fine engraved portraits of Luther, Catharina v. Bora, Melanchton, Friedrich der Weise, Carl V, Leo X, Joh. tetzel.

Halle, Waisenhause, 1783. Small 8vo. Very nice red full vellum, back faded. All edges gilt and tooled. Broad gilt borders on sides, gilt back. 1079,308,(4) pp. Fine condition.

Edinburgh, Doig & Stirling, 1813. Bound in 6 contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. Few scattered brownspots.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886 a. 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1885. Vol. 176 - Part II. Pp. 307-342. + 1887. Vol. 178 - Series A. pp. 471-526. First appearance of these importent papers, containing the ideas which was the foundations for his later developed theory of the electron theory of metals."In a series of papers (the two papers offered), and a book..., Thomson illustrated how to guess at a term in the Lagrangian from a consideration of known phenomena and how, from the term once admitted, to deduca the existence and magnitudes of other effects. he also showed that a time-average of the Lagrangian could play a part of the entropy in certain problems usually handled by the second law of thermodynamics. One of his most importent contributions in this line, was the development of of the notion, perhaps original with him, that electricity flows in much the same way in metals as in electrolytes. He was to return to this idea in founding the electron theory of metals....

London, Quaritch, 1902. Small 4to. Orig. full cloth, gilt. Uncut printed on fine paper. XXVI,87 pp. incl. 86 beautiful toned lithographed plates. No. 221 of 250 copies, printed on O.W. paper by Taylor and Francis.

Londres (London), No printer, 1777. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on one spine. Stamps on title-pages. (4),640;(2),679 pp. Internally clean and fine.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702". Pp. 281-288 and pp. 289-297. First printing of two importent papers on the calculus. Bernoulli shows that the substitution of some equations leads to the differential of the logarithm of an imaginary number, and since the original integral also leads to the arc tan function he had thus established a relation between the trigonometric and logarothmic functions. (Based on Kline).

München und Leipzig, Oldenbourg, 1891. Fine orig. full pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Frontispiece portrait. VI,(2),560 pp., plates and textillustrations, folded map in pocket at end. Clean and fine. First edition, first issue (Erstes Tausend).

Paris, Crochard, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Tome XXI, 2. Series. 448 pp. a. 1 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Fresnel's papers. pp. 225-241, textillustr. and pp. 260-263. Clean and fine. Both papers first appearances. Fresnel explains the phenomena of refraction and the refraction law in terms of his new undulatory theory of light and his postulate of the transversal motion of light.Also with Lagrange paper "Surla Théorie de la lumière d'Huygens", pp. 241-246.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1801 - Part I. Pp. 265-318 and 2 folded engraved plates. Wide-margined. A few small marginal brownspots. First appearance of an remarkable paper containing an extensive set of observations on the sunspots intermingled with what Herschel called "ideas that obtruded themselves" at the time of observation."Herschel's interest in the sun was naturally stimulated by the realization that, of all the stars, it alone is close enough for detailled examination. he was aware of the various existing theories of the physical constitution of the sun. In a long paper published in 1795 he mentions some of them before his own observations...In 1801, in a second long paper (the paper offered here) in which he arranged his observations according to relevant physical questions, he modified his earlier account of the sun to include in its constitution an interior layer of dark clouds not unlike our own, this layer serving to shield the solar inhabitants from the exterior, luminous layer.