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(Sorø, Lindgren, 1757). 4to. In contemporary black half calf with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Boards with scratches. Printed on good paper. Internally fine and clean. 27 ff. The rare first edition of this mourning sermon was delivered following the death of Christiana Henriette Lovise of Schleinitz who passed away on 12 August 1756 at Thorsinge Castle. She held the prestigious position of former Ober-Hofmesterinde (Chief Lady-in-Waiting) to two Queens of Denmark.

Wien, Tendler, 1830. 8vo a. folio-oblong. Contem hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Atlas in contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and a bit rubbed. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. (8),317 pp. Atlas with 24 partly folded lithographed plates. Klaus Jordan, 696.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire volume offered. Schrödinger's paper: Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.]. Stamp to inside frontcover, stamped in blind on titlepage. Internally clean. First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1808. 4to. Uncut and unopened in original blank wrappers. original printed title-label on spines. XXIX,405;XX,404;VI,(2),111,64,8,(16) pp. Wide-margined. Internall clean and fine. Atlas missing.

Paris, Theodore Le Gras, 1742. Small 8vo. Contemporary full calf. Spine and covers worn. From the library of Count A.G. Moltke with his large gilt coat of arms on both covers. (6),475 pp. With 30 engraved plates. (5 zoological plates, 19 botanical plates, 6 arts & crafts: Moulin a Sucre, folding, Moulin a Vent , folding, Camble de Moulin, folding, Moulin Rond, folding, Moulin a Eau droit, folding, Moulin a Eau couché, folding). Internally fine with only light yellowing to margins. This volume describes the islands Guadeloupe, Martinique, Isles des Saintes."A very pleasant and instructive work in many respects"(Chalmers) - "The most copious that we possess on the Antilles; very full on the Natural history and productions of the islands." (Sabin: 38412).

Lille folio. Indbundet ubeskåret i 3 orig. hpergamentsbd. (Petersen & Petersen) med tome-og titelfelter i skind. 583,585,588 pp. Rigt illustr. Trykt på fint papir (kludepapir). Originaltrykket.

London, John Murray, 1828. 12mo. 5 later full fabrikoid. Uncut. Stamp on title-pages. 4 engraved frontispieces., 4 engraved plates, 1 folded engraved map. Some scattered brownspots, some toning to leaves.

London, T. Cadell & W. Blackwood, 1835-36. Small 8vo. Bound in 10 later full solid cloth. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. Stamp on verso of portrait and verso of titlepage and in upper corner of a few leaves. Title and portrait a little browned, otherwise fine and clean.

2 samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning (C.J.F. Rasch, Graabrødretorv 5). (12),682,35,(2) pp. Rigt illustreret med litograferede kort, plancher, prospekter etc.

Paris, Bachelier, 1820. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. (4),IV,58 pp., 3 large lithographed plates, depiction installation of steam engines in ships.

Darmstadt, 1834. Contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabel gone. Stamp on title-page. (4),372,LXVIII,(2) pp., 12 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.

Strassburg, Levrault, 1775. Contemp. marbled boards. Nicks to spine. Top of spine tape-repaired. Stamp on title-page. (6),208 pp., 26 folded engraved plates, each plate with descriptive text. Internally clean.

Kjöbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1836. 8vo og folio-oblong (33,5 X 53 cm.). Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. Planchebindet i hshirt med forgyldt skindtitel på forpermen. Tekstbindet trykt på godt papir og ren. Plancherne lettere brunplettet. Originaltrykket af den første egentlige danske lærebog i veterinævidenskaben vedrørende hesten.

London, The Royal Astronomical Society, 1934-1935. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", Vol. 95. Entire issue offered. A very fine and unmarked copy. Pp. 226-60; Pp. 676-93. (Entire volume: (7), (1), 778, 2, 3, (1), 2, (2), 2, (6), 3. pp]. First printing of one of the final papers in the famous controversy between Chandrasekhar and Eddington over the fate of stars of mass greater than the so-called Chandrasekhar limit.According to Chandrasekhar a star with mass less than the limit will eventually collapse until this is prevented by 'degeneracy pressure' and result of the Pauli exclusion principle. The star will then become a white dwarf. But what happens to a star whose mass is greater than the limit. Chandrasekhar predicted that such stars will continue to collapse. Eddington could not accept this and a controversy ensued, with Bohr, Pauli and others becoming involved. But Chandrasekhar was eventually proved right, and the final state of such a star is now known to be a neutron star or a black hole.Chandrasekhar's work on the limit aroused controversy, owing to the opposition of the British astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington. Eddington was aware that the existence ofblack holes was theoretically possible, and also realized that the existence of the limit made their formation possible. However, he was unwilling to accept that this could happen. After a talk by Chandrasekhar on the limit in 1935, he replied:The star has to go on radiating and radiating and contracting and contracting until, I suppose, it gets down to a few km radius, when gravity becomes strong enough to hold in the radiation, and the star can at last find peace. - I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!

Paris, Dumaine, 1847. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine partly gone. Corners on upper wrapper torn. Containing 24 folded lithgographed plates in folio with many figures. Faint scattered brownspots.

Schleswig, 1827. Cont. mottled boards. Back a little rubbed. Paperlabels pasted on back. Stamp on title. XVI,472,(2),81,(5) pp. Without the Panorama-plate. Scarce first edition.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Andreas Gutterwitz), 1577. Lille 4to. Uden omslag. Titelblad med træstukken ramme. (2),54,(1) blade. De ca 15 første blade noget flossede i bladkanter og her med tab af nogle fangord og marginalier. Brugsspor. Opbevares i portfolio af hshirt. Anden-udgaven af det første danske værk om kvindesygdomme og obstetrik. - Thesaurus I:269

4to. All orig. wrappers in publisher's box. No 194 of 350 "pur fil Lafuma", a total of 401. With 20 full page heliogravures and 90 in the text.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1920-1936. 8vo. Alle bind ubeskåret og i original blå kartonnage med de originale bogtrykte rygetiketter. Enkelte bind med lidt slitage ved kapitæler, false og titeletiketter samt lettere brunplettede rygge, men overvejende i særdeles god stand. Tidligere ejers navnetræk på forsatsbladene. Et enkelt bind med indstregninger og noter i marginen ellers helt ren og frisk. The second edition of Kierkegaard's collected works, uncut in the original blue boards with the original title labels.

Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1857. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Some brownspotting. Engr. portrait. 199 pp. Rare first Danish edition of one of the main works of the famous American philosopher, one of America's most influential and important authors, lecturers, thinkers and philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson.Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts and died in 1882. He is regarded as one of the founders of American transcendentalism and the intellectual centre of the American Renaissance. He is considered a thinker of bold originality, and his essays and lectures offer models of clarity, style, and thought, which made him a formidable presence in 19th century American life."For an abstract thinker he was strangely in love with the concrete facts of life. From the pages of his teeming notebooks he took the materials for his lectures, arranging and rearranging it [...]. When the lectures had served their purpose he rearranged the material in essays and published them." (Encycl. Br.). His important work "Representative Men", originally published in Boston in 1850, is the second of these collections. In it he deals with "The Uses of Great Men", and thereby treats the highly important question at the time: The differences between the genious and the "ordinary" man. He firmly believed that "There is one mind common to all individual men, and that "in every work of genious we recognize our own rejected thoughts." The work was published in Danish in the late Golden Age of this country, and might very well have influenced intellectual life at the time immediately after Kierkegaard. Emerson was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, and he often took walks with them in Concord. It was Emerson who encouraged Thoreau's talent and early career, and the land on which Thoreau built his cabin on Walden Pond belonged to Emerson. He was a great supporter of abolitionism, and his anti-slavery statements caused him many problems. In 1856 he said: "I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom."

K., 1890-1903. 5 samt.hshirtbd.

Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1804. Small 8vo. Nice contemp. hcalf. Gilt back and titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Having titlepage and htitle. 1 leaf,(1-4)5-224 pp. Clean and fine printed on thick paper. On front free endpaper:"Til den danske Litteraturforsknings Primas Prof. Dr. Paul V. Rubow fra hans hengivne Ejnar Munksgaard. Kbhvn. 20/2 1939." This first edition was issued in "Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1804", but the copy does not mentions this. - Hagen: 290 - Wilpert-Gühring: 72.

Berlin, Maurerschen Buchhandlung, 1821-27. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. (6),V,250,(2);VI,398;(4),156 pp. Without the 2 Plans.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 120, No.11. Pp. 337-512 a. 2 plates. (Entire issue offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 426-452. With titlepage to volume 120. First appearance of one of Clausius' importent papers in which he gives further proofs of the Second Law of thermodynamics."Clausius discovered that if he took the ratio of the heat content of a system and its absolute temperature, this ration would always increase in any process taken place in a closed system. (A closed system is one that loses no energy to the outside world and gains no energy from it.) With perfect efficiency, which is never realized in the real world, of course, the ratio would remain constant, but i would never, under any circumstances, decrease."(Asimov).

N.Y., Grosset & Dunlop, (1935). Orig. brown full cloth w. blue line. Very minor wear to capitals and corners, else very fine and clean. Internally mint. The Grosset & Dunlop-print from the same year as the original, also printed in N.Y.