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London, John Murray, 1912. 8vo. 3 orig. full cloth. Topedge gilt. 3 frontispieces in heliogravure. XII,300;X,458;IX,581 pp. Many plates.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1878 - Vol. 169 - Part II. Pp. 365-383 and 1 lithographed plate. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper, having the same title as his famous paper from 1845, in which he discusses problems relating to his discovery of the first law of thermo-dynamics and the principle of the conservation of energy."In December of 1840 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on the production of heat by the electric current. His course of thought led him to the consideration of the relatio between heat and and mechanical work. The results of his investigations were embodied in a series of papers which culminated in his great memoir on the mechanical equivalent of heat, published in 1850. Joule was one of the founders of the principle of the cosservation of energy. Some of his work was done in collaboration with Lord Kelvin."(Source Book in Physics p. 203).

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 56, No 8. Pp. (317-) 364. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 330-339. First apperance of this detailled report and examination by the French mathematiciens Mathieu, Chasles and Delaunay of the calculating machine invented by Martin Wiberg as an improvement on the Scheutz machine. The machine could produce tables of logarithms."Wiberg modified the Scheutz difference engine, making it smaller and lighter, and used it to calculate a series of interest tables published in 1860. Efter improving the print mechanism of his machine, Wiberg presented it to the Academy of Sciences in Paris, which voted in 1863 to "accorder son approbation à cette belle et ingénieuse machine" (the paper offered). Wiberg later used the machine to produce a set of tables of seven-place logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 1000,000 together with logarithms of trigonometric functions, published in 1876 under the title 'Tables de logarithmes calculées et imprimées au moyen de la machine à calculer sw M. Wiberg'. (Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyberspace", No. 82).

Paris, Strassourg, Berger-Levrault et Fils, 1856. Orig. printed boards. Edges with wear. LVI,1024 pp. and 109 lithographed plates. Plateleaves printed on both sides.

Magdeburg und leipzig, Scheidhauerschen Buchhandlung, 1779-1780. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Coners bumped. (14),452,81);(16),512,(36) pp. leaves with light browning.

Halle, Eduard Anton, 1829. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. In: "Jahrbuch der Chemie und Physik für 1829. Hrsg. von W. Schweigger-Seidel" Bd. I.(Journal f. Chemie u. Physik..LV.Band und = Jahrbuch der Chemie u. Physik..XXV. Bd.). XXIV,480,(19 - Plan und vorläufige Statuten des pharmaceutischen Instituts zu Halle) pp., 3 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. Entire volume offered. Ohm's paper: pp. 1-64 + Beiträge pp. 64-74. First printing. Ohm continues in this major paper with experiments on the "Galvanische Kette" (Ohm's Law). The offered volume having many other importent papers in chemistry.

Stuttgart, G. Weise, 1866-69. 8vo. 4 cont. hcalf. Backs a little rubbed. Brownspotted and vol. 1867 somewhat dampstained. With 51 chromolithographed plates (of 52), some double-page, 42 wood-engraved plates and textillustr in woodcut and 1 coloured lithographed map.

(Berlin, G. Reimer, 1834) 4to. No wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd.12. - Plücker's paper pp. 105-108. First printing of the paper containing the famous "Plücker Equations". "...one of Plücker's great achievements, published in Crelle's Journal for 1834, was the discovery of four equations, bearing his name (the paper offered), that relate the class and order of a curve with the singularities of the curve." (Boyer. History of Mathematics).

Erfurt, Fr. Bartholomäus, no date (ca. 1860). Contemporary clothbacked decorated boards, somehat soiled and worn, inner hinges weak. 63 pp. With 10 coloured litographies by Adolph Karst. Last page with small hole in text. slightly foxed throughout. Frontisp. loose. Old name on titlepage: Gustav Wilhelm Hirschfeld. Very scarce.

Paris, Libr. Plon, 1896-97. Bound in 10 contemporary full cloth. With portraits in photogravure.

No place, no printer, 1760. Contemp. full calf. Spine gilt. Title-label partly gone. Wear to spine. Stamp on title-page. (12),268 pp., 18 large folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots and mild toning. Uncommon first German (only?) translation of this work on military strategy in which Folard’s detailed commentaries on Polybius was presented into an accessible summary intended for military officers. Jean-Charles de Folard was a French military officer and theorist known for his work on the use of infantry in battle, particularly his advocacy for the column formation over the line formation, which was the dominant military strategy at the time.

Berlin, Wilhelm Baensch, 1889. 4to. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Some wear to top of spines. 2 hinges weakening. 2 spines a bit damaged. Inernally clean. The 2 added works are dated 1887 and 1893. Stamp on title-pages.

Danzig, Troschel, 1808. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. IV,316 pp., 1 folded table. Faint brownspotting to the first leaves.

(Lille, Geus Edit., 1986-95). 4to. Plates and textillustrations.

(London, Bulwer and Co., 1804). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1804-Part II. Pp. 419-430. Clean and fine. First appearance of the paper in which Wollaston announced his discovery of the metallic element Rhodium."Dr. Wollaston dissolved a portion of crude platinum in qgua regia, and neutralized the excess acid with caustic soda. He then added salammoniac to precipitate the platinum as ammonium chloroplatinate, and mercurous cyanide to precipitate the palladium as palladium cyanide. After filteringoff the precipitate, he decomposed the excess mercurous cyanide inthe filtarate by adding hydrochloric acid and evaporating to dryness. When he washed the residue with alcohol, everything dissolved except a beautiful dark red powder, which proved to be a double chloride of sodium and a new metal, which because of the rose color of its salts, Dr. Wollaston named 'Rhodium'. He found that the sodium rhodium chloride could be easely reduced by heating it in a current of hydrogen, and that after the sodium chloride had been washed out, the rhodium remained as a metallic powder. he also succeeded in obtaining a rhodium button."(Weeks: Discovery of the Elements. p. 104-05.)

Small 4to. Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a fine hmorocco, gilt back (Anker Kyster 1942). No 243 of 800 "sur vélin D'Arches", a total of 873 copies. With 6 fine etchings in colour by Dignimont.

Berlin, Schöne, 1794-1803. Bound in 4 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on all 4 title-pages. Engraved frontispiece, 1 folded engraved plate, textfig. and textillustrations. Some scattered brownspots.

Breslau, Korn, 1780. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel on lower compartment. Stamp on title-page. (16),518 pp, 30 large folded engraved plates and maps. Light scattered browning to leaves. First German edition.

Ebersbach, Dressler, (1871). Lex 8vo. Contemporary modest half cloth. 399 pp. With 50 hand-coloured plates. Pp. 367-368 corner torn with loss of text. Occasional foxing.

Kopenhagen, Rothens Erben und Prost, 1772. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldningen og titeletiketten lidt slidt. Ryg lidt slidt, særligt ved kapitæler. (8),312 pp. Få spredte brunpletter. Trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af Münters gengivelse af samtalerne med Struense under dennes fængselsophold. - Bibl. Danica III:1489.

Paris, Chez Bernard, AN XIII (1805). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.." Vol. 55, Cahier 2 (30 Thermidor an XIII). Pp. 113-224 (entire issue offered). Htitle to vol. 55 present. Robiquet's paper: pp. 152-171. First appearance of Robiquet's first chemical paper, in which he relates his discovery of asparagine by analysis of asparagus juice, the first amino acid to be discovered. The following year he made the first isolation of this amino acid together with Vaguelin. Pierre Jean Robiquet was a French chemist, who laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental bricks of proteins, through recognizing the first of them, asparagin, in 1806, in the take up of the industry of industrial dyes, with the identification of alizarin in 1826, and in the emergence of modern medications, through the identification of codeine in 1832, a powerful molecule today of widespread use with analgesic and antidiarrheal properties.

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1812-21. Indbundet i 5 nær samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titel- og tomeetiketter på rygge. 2 kapitæler en smule slidte.

Kiøbenhavn, 1796-1800. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with gilt ornamentation to spines. Wear to extremities. Inner hinge in vol. 2 split. Internally fine and clean. (4), X, 722, (2) pp.;X, 840, (4) pp. Engraved title-pages (included in the pagination). Uncommon first edition of this flora of Denmark and Holstein.

(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1760). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome III. Pp. 321-325. A faint dampstain to inner margins. First apperance of Boskovic's paper in which he explains how light is refracted and reflected in droplets of water, creating the coloured rainbow - he discusses the sphericity in connection with both refraction and reflexion of light and he comments on Newton's optics.