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Gotha, F.H. Perthes, 1856. 4to. Later hcloth. (4),88,(6) pp. Name on title. Titlepage a little brownspotted. First edition of Ahlwardt's first work.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884 a. 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1883. Vol. 179 - Part II. Pp. 891-918 and 1885. Vol. 176 - Part II. Pp. 691-723 and 1 plate (chromolithographed spectra), many textillustr. of spectra. The plate with small spots in margins. First appearance of these papers in which Crooles continues his cathode rays experiments with his Crookes tube, obtaining spectra of elements which he regarded as new. His experiments lead him here to his speculative theory of the elements having a common ancestor, a primordial matter.Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. he early attracted attentuion by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. he was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases.

Leipzig, Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchh., 1900. Orig. pictorial full cloth. VI,(2),396 pp., 4 Tables, 16 plates and 2 textillustr. A fine, fresh and clean copy. Scarce first edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1835-39. Bound in 4 contemp. hcloth. Light wear to top of spines. IV,325;(4),328;338;384,(1) pp. Internally with some scattered brownspots. First Danish edition of Dupuytren's famous work "Lecons orale de clinique chirurgicale", Paris 1832 ff. The work contains his classical classification of burns and is also a pioneer-work in the field of plastic chirurgy."Dupuytren was born in poverty and died as a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was "a shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivalled aplomb, a wonderfull clinical teacher, and a good experimental physiologist and pathologist"(Garrison); his greatest contribution were in the field of surgical pathology."(Garrison & Morton: 2247 (the French edition).

København., Brødrene Salmonsen, 1876. Lex8vo. Cont.hcalf., four rasied bands and richly gilt spine. Portrait. XXIII,570 pp., textillustr., 7 litographed plates and 1 lithographed folding map. A fine clean copy. First Danish Edition of "Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy". 1839. - Freeman No. 174.

Ribe, Niels Siersted Hyphoff, 1823-43. Et hldrbd. fra ca. 1850. Ialt ca. 625 pp.

Madrid, 1952. 4to. 2 vols in orig. wrappers. XV,703,(1) pp., 51 plates (mostly in colour) and textillustrations. (Ictiologia Iberica Tomo III).

Geneva, Chez Cramer, 1754. 8vo. Bond in 2 nice contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spines and five raised bands. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on both volumes. A small tear to upper capital on volume I and title labels on spines are missing. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. (50), 432; (2), 435-915, (4) pp. Second edition of Voltaire's history of France. In it he gives a chronological account of the French Empire from the year 742 till 1648. Voltaire exercised immense influence on the development of modern historiography through his innovating new ways of interpreting the past. "Essential to the new conception of a history in the place of histories is the recognition of the role of process and development. There is a central theme to this development, as in Voltaire's [present work]: the progressive development of intellect, culture, and society. This awareness of a theme fundamentally changes the character of historical writing and introduces a developmental structure to the great narrative historical writings of the eighteenth century." (Iggers. Progress and its discontents, 1982, p. 44). Voltaire explains his view of historiography in his article on "History" in Diderot's Encyclopédie: "One demands of modern historians more details, better ascertained facts, precise dates, more attention to customs, laws, mores, commerce, finance, agriculture, population.". The present work is a fine example of this tradition.Barbier I,194.

(København, Jørgen Lamprecht, 1646 eller 1666). Lille 8vo. Samtidigt blødt helldrbd. Slidt. Mangler skind på nederste del af ryg samt en del af bagpermen. Titelbladet (A1) mangler. (46),775,(6) pp. Brugspor. De 3 registerblade med ormhul og et lille hul med tab af enkelte bogstaver. Hvert blad med træskåren, sammensat ramme. Lidt brunpletter og svage marginaskjolder. Bibl. Danica I: 405

(Paris, Bachelier),1853. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome XXXVI, No. 26 and tome XXXVII. No. 3,4,6,7,9,10 (entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 1114-1122, 64-69, 100-109, 198-206, 264-272, 326-334, 381-385. Some scattered brownspots. First printing of these importent papers in probability theory, introducing the Cauchy-Distribution and proving the Central Limit Theorem (CLT)."In the course of these investigations Cauchy proved the central limit theorem by means of Fourier transforms in a much more general setting than Laplace had done." (DSB).

Braunschweig, Friedr. Vieweg, 1921. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Lower right corner of frontwrapper gone, no loss of text. 2 small nicks in upper part of frontwrapper. Some of the first quires loosening. XX, 156 pp. Internally clean. Backstrip intact. A collection of 8 papers by Bohr. First edition of "Die Anwendung der Quententheorie auf periodische Systeme" and 7 first translations into German of nearly all Bohr's papers published between 1913 and 1916, beginning with his "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules".

Bln., 1798. Cont.boards. VIII,832,(4) pp. and 35 fold.engr.plates. (Krünitz: Oekonomisch-technologische Encyclopädie oder allg.System der Staats=Stadt=Haus=und Landwirtschaft, 73.Theil).

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1877. 4to. og folio-oblong. Samtidigt hshirtbd og halvldr. Stempel på titelbladet. (4),143 pp. samt tavlebind med 9 store litograferede folio-plancher, som er tonede. Plancherne med talrige figurer visende konstruktionen af de samtidige militære rifler og revolvere fra Sverige, Norge og Danmark, Rusland, Tyskland, Holland og England, Schweitz og Italien, Østrig og Frankrig. Titelbladet en smule brunplettet. Et mindre stempel på plancherne.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1881). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1881 - Vol. 172 - Part II. Pp. 387-434, textillustr. and 4 plates (3 double-page folding). One plate showing apparatus. First appearance of an importent paper which reports a series of experiments with the radiometer, invented 1875 by Crookes. In these experiments Crookes showed how the radiometer confirmed Maxwell's prediction that the viscosity of a gas was independent of its pressure except at the highest exhaustions.Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. he early attracted attentuion by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. He was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases. -(PMM: 386 describing J.J. Thomson's Cathode Rays). - Magee, Source Book in Physics p. 564 ff.

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).