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Kjøbenhavn, C.H. Robert, 1829. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helshirtbd. med forgyldt rygtitel. (8),124,(2) pp. Inclusiv subskribentliste med kun 60 subskribenter, heraf H.C. Andersen selv. Spredte brunpletter. Indeholder 3 tidlige digte af den dengang 24-årige forfatter: 1. Kunstner=Livet. Pp. 43-48. - 2. Phantasie og Vanvid. Pp. 49-52. - 3. Ingenting og Noget. Pp. 53-54.BFN. 31, 32 og 33. - Bibl. Danica IV,202.

Dresden, Waltherischen, 1788. Contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on foot of title-page.88),184,103 pp., 2 engraved plans (on 1 folded sheet). Some scattered brownspots.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1790. Senere hldrbd.(omkr. 1850). Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. stempel på titelbladet. 479,(1) pp. Det sjældne originaltryk af det første værk i dansk søkrigshistorie. - Bibl. Danica II,890.

Wien, Strauss, 1813-14. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. XXIV,288,294,XII;XX,334,360 pp. Some scattered brownspots.

Kiel, 1853. Cont.boards. Back a little worn. (126),278,258,(2) pp.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik" Vol. 48. VIII,891 pp. (Entire volume offered). Neumann's paper: pp. 868-881. A stamp to titlepage. Clean. First printing of a famous paper in which Neumann extends the relativistic wave equation of the electron set forth by Dirac earlier the same year and Neumann here gives the five fundamental covariants of the Dirac theory."Von Neumann’s most famous work in theoretical physics is his axiomatization of quantum mechanics. When he began work in that field in 1927, the methods used by its founders were hard to formulate in precise mathematical terms; "operator" on "functions" were handled without much consideration of their domain or definition to their topological properties: and it was blithely assumed that such "operators," when self-adjoint, could always be "diagonalized" (as in th finite dimensional case), at the expense of introducing "Dirac functions" as "eigenvectors." Von Neumann showed that mathematical rigor could be restored by taking as basic axioms the assumptions that the states of a physical system were poinds of a Hilbert space and that the measurable quantities were Hermitian (generally unbounded) operators densely efined in that space."(DSB).

Moskau, 1916. Large 4to. Contemp. hcloth. VI,146 pp., 24 plates with 175 figs. (collotype). Titlepage repaired for 2 tears, otherwise interbally fine. Text throughout in Russian.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1845). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1845 - Part I. Pp. 155-177, 1 textillustr. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry in which Faraday takes up a renewed analysis his great discoveries from 1823 in relation to his liquefaction of gases under pressure and the relation to temperatures. Faraday did pioneer work on liquifaction of gases.

Breslau und Leipzig, Pietsch, 1754. - Berlin, haude, 1747. - Frankfurth und leipzig, 1757. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on first titlepage. (24),116 pp., 5 folded engraved plates. - Vauban: 31 pp. - Groschuss: XX pp. clean and fine. Goulon: Klaus Jordan, 1492. - Humbert: Klaus Jordan, 1725.

Stockholm., 1826. 8vo og 4to-oblong. 2 samt.hldrbd. XXXII,376 pp. samt atlas i 4to med 15 kobberst.plancher.

Ribe, Odder, 1869-84. 2 samt.hldrbd. Rygge slidte. 690, 922 pp. Med 8 bilag samt prospekt og kort.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1693. Contemp. full vellum. Stamp on title-page. (8),102,(2) pp. 11 engraved plates (of 12). One plate and 1 leaf with a whole, caused by some glue between plate and leaf.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1918. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. Stamps on foot of titlepage. VI,406,(4) pp., textfigs. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper. Some pencil underlinings by Jørgensen. First edition of a main textbook in modern symbolic logic and having an interesting provenance as the copy has belonged to the Danish logician Jørgen Jørgensen."Modern interest in modal Logic begins with the work of C.I. Lewis, first published in book form in his 'Survey of Symbolic Logic' of 1918. This theory is commonly called the logic of strict implication, because it was originally put forward in opposition to an account of implication which Lewis thought mistaken."(Kneale and Kneale "The Development of Logic" 1962, p. 548 ff.).

Neapel, Cessari, 1744. Cont. full vellum. Lower 2 cm. of back gone. Rubbed. Engraved frontisp., engraved titlevignette. XXXIV,(2),452,(3) pp. and 7 folded engraved plates. Withbound: ORLANDO, JOSEPHO. Sectionum Conicarum Tractatus. Selectus earundem ex Veteribus & Recentioribus Geometris proprietates continens...Nova Geometriæ Editione...Neapoli, Superiorum Facultate, 1744. 120 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Slightly browned.

Oxford, Blackwell, (1982). 8vo. Orig. full cloth w. gilt lettering to spine, minor bumping to capitals, otherwise a near mint copy in the orig. d-j., which is also near mint. X, 150 pp. First edition of the immensely influential work on Wittgenstein by the exceedingly influential and important logician and philosopher of language, Saul Aaron Kripke. Kripke was professor of philosophy in America, and his works are quite rare, since many of them remain unpublished and are only known in privately circulated manuscripts. In 2001 he received the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. Kripke is renowned for his studies of Wittgenstein, which are printed in this work for the first time. The subject of Kripke's book is usually referred to as "Kripkenstein", since the results (as well as the method) have very little to do with what is commonly accepted as the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Kripke's main claim in this (in)famous book is that all previous commentaries on Wittgenstein's Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations) have failed to understand W.'s argument against "private language". According to Kripke Wittgenstein's "private language argument" is principally to be explicated in terms of the problem of "following a rule". The "meaning scepticism" presented in this work has caused a wide range of secondary litterature and very harsh critique. The book has been called a scandal of philosophy, and the number of well-esteemed philosophers who have lined up to criticise the book is very large indeed. Among these can be found Noam Chomsky, John Searle, Peter Winch, Gordon Baker etc etc. However flawed the reading of Wittgenstein is considered to be, though, the work has received overwhealming attention, and is considered highly important and interesting.

K., 1862 - 63. Indb. m. de illustrerede titelblade i 2 samt. ensartede hldrbd. Rygge m. brugsspor. Indvendig ren. BFN 843 + 847. Denne udgave blev senere forøget med tre bind, illustreret af Frølich. Denne udgave ver den første af "Eventyr og Historier", som H.C.A. selv anerkendte.

Berlin, Springer, 1934. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 92, 1934. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 172-93. [Entire volume: VIII, 830 pp.]. First appearance of Renner's seminal paper containing what was to become known first as the Renner effect, later the Renner-teller effect. It was the first work to study the dynamic effects that go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, in which the nuclear and electronic motions in a molecule are uncoupled.Because Renner is the only author of the 1934 paper that first described the effect, it was long called the Renner effect. However, as Herzberg's prestigious books refer to it as the Renner-Teller effect (after Edward Teller), it is now more common to use both names.

Paris, Crochard, 1823. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering spine and five raised bands. The original wrappers withbound in the back. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", tome 24. Entire volume offered. Paper label pasted on to top of spine. Two stamps to verso of title-page and stamos to verso of all plates. A few light occassional brownspots, otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 163-191. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 4 folded plates. First appearance of Dumas and Pelletier's importent paper in which they analyzed nine alkaloids by combustion and found for the first time the number of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in them. Dumas' name is still associated with the two procedures which he devised here, the determination of vapor density and combustion analysis. "The most important problem with which Dumas was concerned throughout his career was the classification of chemical substances. He sought to devise comprehensive classificatory schemes for organic compounds and for the elements. Dumas’s earliest contribution to organic chemistry was his study of nine alkaloids, published in 1823, jointly with Pierre Pelletier.1 He analyzed the elemental constituents of these organic “bases” and attempted to prove that their relative proportions of oxygen followed Dalton’s law of multiple proportions. He had embraced the ideas of the two reigning theories in contemporary chemistry: dualism, with its division of substances into electronegative (acid) and electropositive (alkaline); and atomism, which Dalton had used to explain his law. Dumas spent the next few years attempting to create an adequate system of classification of organic compounds based upon these two theories."(DSB). The Present volume also contain papers by Faraday, Becquerel and many other.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1929. Lex8vo. Volume VIII, April, No. 1, 1929 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Even soiling to spine and back wrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 217-224. [Entire issue: Pp. 217-434]. First edition of Davisson's paper on electrons and quanta. Together with George Paget Thomson he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his discovery of electron diffraction."The experiments by the author and L. H. Germer, by G. P. Thomson and by others from which the wave properties of electrons are adduced are briefly described. The agreement between the results of these experiments and the prediction of L. de Broglie is pointed out. The wave and corpuscular properties of electrons are compared with the similar properties of light quanta." (From the introduction to the present paper).Other papers contained in the present issue:1. Williams, R.R.; Murphy, E.J.The Predominating Influence of Moisture and Electrolytic Material Upon Textiles as Insulators. Pp. 225-242.2. Glenn, H.H.; Wood, E.B. Purified Textile Insulation for Telephone Central Office Wiring. Pp. 243-256.3. Townsend, J.R.Telephone Apparatus Springs: A Review of the Principal Types and the Properties Desired of These Springs. Pp. 257-266.4. Herman, J.Effect of Signal Distortion on Morse Telegraph Transmission Quality. Pp. 267-285.5. Johnson, J.B.A Braun Tube Hysteresigraph. Pp. 286-308.6. Bailey, Austin; Dean, S.W.; Wintringham, W.T.The Receiving System for Long-Wave Transatlantic Radio Telephony. Pp. 309-367.7. Marrison, W.A.Oscillographs for Recording Transient Phenomena. Pp. 368-390.8. Darrow, Karl K.Contemporary Advances in Physics, XVIII, The Diffraction of Waves by Crystals. Pp. 391-428.

Paris, Crochard, 1835. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, tome 59. 446,(2) pp. (Entire volume offered). Some scattered brownspots. Laurent's papers: pp. 107-111, 196-220,376-397 a. 397-422. First printing of these importent papers in the history of organic chemistry explaining the differences to Dumas' law of substitutions, and introducing a "new type" and what he calls "fundamental and derived radicals". The introduction of the "Nucleus Theory" was the basis for the unitary theory formulated by Gerhardt."While studying the reactions of naphthalene and its compounds with the halogens and nitric acid, Laurent was from the start characteristically concerned with the construction of an explanatory theory that would account for these phenomena. Like most creative scientists, he generalized his solution to a specific problem through the imaginative use of analogy, leading to the elaboration of the first comprehensive theory adequate for dealing with the whole domain of contemporaneous organic chemistry." (DSB)."A founder of modern organic chemistry, Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure, which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path, from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way."(DSB).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 41, 11. Heft. Pp. 369-640 (entire issue offered, Heft 11). Hertz's paper: pp. 369-399. cLEAN AND FINE. First edition of this importent paper in which Hertz went beyond Maxwell and hereby took the first step on the way to RELATIVITY THEORY.In his second theoretical paper (the paper offered), Hertz applied Maxwell’s equations to moving, deformable bodies. Maxwell had not treated this problem systematically in the Treatise although, unknown to Hertz, he had done so elsewhere. Hertz recognized that to develop an electrodynamics of moving bodies, it was first necessary to specify whether or not the ether moves with bodies. For his part he would assume that the ether is mechanically dragged by moving bodies. The first ground for this assumption was that within the restricted domain of electromagnetic phenomena there was nothing incompatible with the idea of a dragged ether. The second ground was that its denial entailed the complication that two sets of electric and magnetic vectors had to be assigned to each point of space, one for the ether and one for the independently moving body. He recognized at the same time that a dragged ether was an unsure foundation for electrodynamics...."(DSB).Schilpp "Einstein" pp. 31 ff. - Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", pp. 328 ff.

8vo. Old hcalf. Gilt. 4 raised bands. Back loose. Internally fine. Engraved & printed title. (44),1129 pp. + Indexes. Brunet II,1524.

Paris, Jombert, 1768. Uncut in contemp. marbled boards. Handwritten titlelabel on spine. Spine rubbed. Stamps on title-page. VIII,294 pp., 12 large folded engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Paris, Jean Villette, 1697. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Super ex-libris to both front and back board. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Light wear to extremities and a few scratches to boards, but overall a very nice copy. (42), 482, (2) pp. Later edition of Aubery's popular work on Holland and it's political climate in the 17th century.

Paris, Deter Ville, 1807. Bound in 3 later hcloth. LXXIX,302;VIII,544;(4),VIII,534 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates (chemical apparatus). Mild foxing to half-titles and title-pages. Some scattered brownspots. 3 plates with some dampstains in upper part of plate. First edition. But last volume missing.