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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.

(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.