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Wien, Strauss, 1813-14. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. XXIV,288,294,XII;XX,334,360 pp. Internally fine.

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887. Folio. In contemporary half cloth. The blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Blue printed wrapper with a few tears. Miscoloured. Stamp to upper part of title-page. Title-page with repairs in inner margin and lower outer corner, otherwise internally fine. XV, (2) 172 pp. + 6 folded and coloured maps. plates. First edition of the official British report on ship wrecks, casualties and collisions in United Kingdom's waters for the period 1st July 1884 to the 30th June 1885.

Paris, Lottin/ Cellot, 1783. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XX,294 pp., 48 engraved plates. Some foxing and staining to right margins of plates only occassionally toutching the engraved area. some brownspots to title-page. Textleaves clean with only a few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. First edition. - Rumpf,61.

1798-1806. 3 samt.hldrbd. Ene bind lidt slidt ved kapitæl. (184), (210), (208) pp. 3 kobberst.titelblade med vignetter af Abildgaard. 12 kobberst. portrætter samt en del slutvignetter, alle stukket af Lahde.

Bologna, dell' Editore ed Annotatore, 1844-56. Small8vo. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. 423,(7);389;328 pp. Fine and clean. First edition.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, 1893). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Vol. 17, pp. 169-197. First edition. This importent paper constitutes Hilbert's own version of part of the solution of his "Mathematische Probleme" listed at the International mathematical Congress in Paris 1900 (as problem 17) on the "Expression of definite forms by squares". "....But since as I have shown, not every definite form can be compounded by addition from squares of forms, the question arises - which I have answered affirmatively for ternary forms (the paper offered here)- whether every definite form may be expressed as a quotient of sums of squares of forms...."

Hannover, Helmingschen, 1800. Contemp. hcalf. Wear to extremities. Titlelabel gone. Stamps on foot of title-page. (2),252,(2) pp., 5 large folded engraved plates, of which 4 are handcoloured. Internally fine and clean. First edition. - Poggendorff I,1129.

Viborg, 1795. 8vo. I samtidigt halvlæderbind. Ryg med slitage og indvendig med spradiske understergninger med blyant. Lettere brunplettet. XVI,298,(1) pp. Førsteudgaven af denne topografiske klassiker. Niels Blicher var far til St. St. Blicher. Bibl. Dan. II,709.

Upsala, Regae Academiae Typographi, (1822) 4to. No wrappers as issued. Orig. marbled spine-paper. (4),8 pp. Browning to upper right corner. Scarce first edition of Thunberg's description of some species of the fauna of Surinam from his collections brought home from his great voyage.

A la Haye, Jean van Duren, 1741. Contemp. full calf. raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Title-page in red and black. Engraved frontispiece. (2),166,(2) pp., 24 large folded engraved plates. Clean and First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 166.

Kiøbenhavn, Poulsen, 1805. Samtidigt hellæderbd. i flammet kalv. Rig rygforgyldning. Tome-og titelfelter. Stempel på titelbladet. XXX,452 pp. samt 24 foldede kobberstukne plancher. indvendig ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven. - Bibl. Danica II:333.

Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek, 1931. Lexvo. Orig. full cloth. XII,423 pp.

Amsterdam, Henri Schelte, 1702. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Spine-ends chipped. Internally fine and clean. (22), 315, (5), 342, (10) pp. 9 fullpage engravings. Beautiful later edition, first published the year before in 1702, of Boileau-Despréaux's collected works. Brunet I, 1058: "Jolie reimpression de l'in-4. de 1701, dans laquelle sont ajoutes les passages des poetes latins imites par l'auteur, le Chapelain decoiffe et les deux satires faussement attribuees a Despreaux."

Stuttgart, Cotta'schen Buchh., (1846). 4to. Orig. full cloth, gilt and blindtooled. Extremitie rather worn, back loosening, tear in hinges, corners bumped. 257 pp. Engraved titlepage and 36 engraved plates. Some sheets and plates loose, some corners damstained. Occasionally brownspots. A few loose plates frayed in right margins.

Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1880-82. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. In: "Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften", 81. Band, 1. Heft - Jänner. (Jahrgang 1880) + 84. Bd. , 1. Heft - Juni. (Jahrgang 1881). + 84. Bd. - December. (Jahrgang 1881). 221 pp. and 438 pp. a. 17 plates and pp. VIII,(933-) 1335. (3 entire issues offered). Boltzmann's papers: pp. 117-158, pp. 40-135 and pp. 136-145. First apperance of Boltzmann's large work to determine the transport properties of gases.

Cologne, Chez Claude Joly, 1702. Small8vo. In a bit later full calf binding witt four raised bands and black leather title-label and gilt ornamentation to spine. Previous owner's stamp to spine. Upper part of hindges detached making the spine partly detached. Internally a fine and clean copy. (48), 642, (30) pp. Missing the five plates. Rare eights edition of Venette's important work, considered to be the first treatise on sexology in West. It proved to be a bestseller and was translated into English, Spanish, German and Dutch. There were 33 editions published until 1903.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1968). XVI,226 pp. and 7 photographic plates (of the letter to Delbrück telling of the double helix). Original purple boards. The double helix gilt on spine. Owners signature on blanck fly leaf - else clean. Fine dust jacket. A fine copy. First British edition of Watson's controversial best selling account of the events surrounding the discovery of the structure of DNA. Forward by Sir Lawrence Bragg.

Kopenhagen, berlingschen Officin, 1846. Cont. boards. Backstrip worn. frontcover detached from spine. 188 pp. Lithographed frontispiece and 9 lithographed plates. P.Fr. Rists copy with his name. First edition. Uncoloured copy.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire band 83 offered. Small library stamp to title page and library cards pasted on to front free end-papers. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.]. 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.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1864. 8vo. Later full buckram. Stamp on title-page and a few brownspots. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", Vol. XIII. (Entire volume offered). IX,566,XIX pp. textillustr. and 6 plates. Stokes' paper: pp. 355-64., 1 textillustr. Firts printing of this landmark paper being the first to describe the function of blood in chemical terms. Stokes records the optical spectra of "cruorine" (hemoglobin) during the process of respiration and reports two widely different spectra for the oxidised and non oxidised form. He also shows that the spectra are different when the animal part of the product is omitted. He concludes from his experiments that oxygen is weakly bound to the norganic compound of the blood "cruorine"."Discovery that oxygen can be removed from haemoglobin by reducing agents." (Garrison & Morton, No. 872).

London, Tonson and Watts, 1733. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Rebacked to style. Orig. red moroco titlelabel preserved. Engraved title-vignette.(14),194 pp. Scattered brownspots. Engravings fine. With 50 half-page engravings. This edition is dedicated to William Duke of Cumberland. (Kent & Wooton inv. - G. Van'd Gucht sculp.).

(New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1951). 8vo. The complete issue in original blue printed wrappers. Pp. 50-64. [Entire volume: pp. 1-212.]. First edition of Shannon's famous article in which he measures the entropy rate of English text to be between 1.0 and 1.5 bits per letter, or as low as 0.6 to 1.3 bits per letter."A new method of estimating the entropy and redundancy of a language is described. This method exploits the knowledge of the language statistics possessed by those who speak the language, and depends on experimental results in prediction of the next letter when the preceding text is known. Results of experiments in prediction are given, and some properties of an ideal predictor are developed." (From the introduction to the present article)."Natural languages are highly redundant; the number of intelligible fifty-letter English sentences is many fewer than 26*50, and the number of distinguishable ten-second phone conversations is far smaller than the number of sound signals that could be generated with frequencies up to 20.000 Hz. This immediately suggests a theory for signal compression. If you can recode the alphabet so that common sequences of letters and abbreviated, while infrequent combinations are spelled out in lengthy fashion, you can dramatically reduce the channel capacity needed to send the data." (Sethna, Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 100).

Stuttgart, Schickhardt & Ebner (Konrad Wittwer), 1910. Lex8vo. 2 fine orig. hcalf, richly gilt backs. Engraved portrait. VIII,709;(4),738 pp., 20 plates and 960 textillustrations. A fine clean copy.

(Leipzig), Gleditsch, 1739. Large8vo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards, leather on spine cracked. Upper part of spine missing leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. (12) ff., 2335 columns + frontispiece.

Kbhvn., 1827-36. 4 samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. Alt som udkom af Molbechs litterær-historiske tidsskrift.