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Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Leich, 1837. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. VIII,(4),83,(1) pp., 1 large folded lithographed plate. Scattered brownspots.

Paris, Pegasus Press, 1935. Large 4to. Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. A tear to jacket. X,(3),168 pp., 28 textillustrations and 83 plates. No. 304 of 450 copies. Fine and clean.

Kiøbenhavn., Melchior Martzan, 1652. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med to lukkestroppe med messinglukke. Ryg lidt slidt. (38),858,(1) pp. samt 49 pp. (Tractat offver alle de Faldsmaal och Bøder som findis). Uden det kobberstukne titelblad og de 2 tabeller mangler. Bibl. Dan. I:640. Anden stærkt forøgede udgave af den første egentlige juridiske lærebog på dansk/norsk.

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1872. Small 8vo. 2 orig. full green cloth. Gilt backs. Uncut and fine. A few scattered brownspots. IV,321;IV,282 pp. + Advertisements. 2 wood-engraved frontispieces. Vignettes on titles. Bookplate of Comte de Chambord. First edition.

Kjöbenhavn, Poppske Bogtrykkerie, 1836. 4to. In recent half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Offprint from "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". A nice and clean copy. Pp. (2), 145-188. Offprint of Lund’s work on the vegetation in Brazil. Lund is today considered the father of Brazilian paleontology and archaeology. He was the first to describe dozens of species of pre-historic Pleistocene megafauna, including the fabled Saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator. He also made the then ground-breaking discovery that humans co-existed with the long-extinct animal species, something which possibly prompted him to terminate his scientific work. His comprehensive collections are today found at the Danish Natural History Museum in Copenhagen.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799, 1800. Without wrappers extracted from "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 2. p. 483 (one page). and Bd. 6, pp. 105-115. Some scattered brownspots. First German translation of Davy's announcement (the announcement on 1 page) of his discovery of the unusual, anaesthetic, effects of nitrous oxide which, on being inhaled, gave rise to a giddy, intoxicated feeling. On announcing his discovery he says, that he will publish a paper discribing the experiments with the gas, later. This is the paper offered here, also in the first German version. Both the announcement and the paper were issued in the "Annalen" the same year as they appeared in Nicholson's Journal.The gas was first synthesized by English natural philosopher and chemist Joseph Priestley in 1772, who called it phlogisticated nitrous air."Following Priestley's discovery, Humphry Davy of the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, England, experimented with the physiological properties of the gas, such as its effects upon respiration. He even administered the gas to visitors to the institute, and after watching the amusing effects on people who inhaled it, coined the term 'laughing gas'! Davy even noted the anaesthetic effects of the gas: "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place".(Wikipedia)."Davy discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide and suggested its use during surgiical operations, a suggestion which was not turned to useful account until 1844."(Garrison & Morton, 5646, not mentioning the announcing of its discovery in 1799).

Bruxelles, Guyot, 1863. Folio. (48 x 32,5 cm.). Original printed clothbacked boards. Wear to extremities and front board partly detached. First plate with 30 cm long tear. With 38 (I-XXXVII + Plan) double-folio-plates. Internally clean.

Wien, Peter Bohrmann, 1843. 4to. Modest hcloth with orig. printed frontwrapper pasted on frontboard. Spine defective, but still holding. Stamp on titlepage. (4),76,(1) pp. and 25 lithographed plates, partly coloured.

Göttingen, Rosenbusch, 1797-1800. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. XVI,XVIII,554,XVII-XX,44,(1);(2),1222,(2) pp. Internally clean.

Amsterdam, (Paris, Lambert), 1756. Uncut in contemp. blank boards. Stamp on foot of title-page. IV,213 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. Written in reply to the book "The Commercial Nobility" , of the Abbe Coyer.

Augsburg, (ca. 1770). Original hand colored copper engraving. Made for viewing in a zograscope (ge: guckkasten). 32 x 43 cm. An app. 4 cm wide margin (not included in the 32 x 43 cm.) is slightly frayed. Part of the series: "Collection des Prospects". Engraved by Balthazar Frederic Leizelt

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854-56. 8vo. Bound in 6 contemporary full calf prize bindings with richly gilt spines ("Godolphin School / Midsummer / 1863."). Gilt title- and tome labels. Gilt line borders to boards, edges of boards gilt. Spines faded. Slight wear to capitals and edges of boards. Boards of first and sixth vol. loose. Exlibris to inside of front boards. Internally clean. A neat set of the complete works of Burke, lacking the two supplementary volumes (7: Speeches on the impeachment of Warren Hastings; 8: The speeches on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, to which is added a selection of Burke's epistolary correspondence).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1855. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Light wear to top of spine. A few scartches to binding.Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome 44. Pp. 512 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. (entire volume offered). Light scattered brownspots. Wurtz's paper: pp. 275-313. First printing of an importent paper in the history of organic chemistry in which Wurtz describes his methodof syntheesizing longchain hydrocarbons by using hydrocarbon iodides and sodium, a method essential for the synthesis of a series of hydrocarbons.Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1855 C.Charles Adolphe Wurtz, was born at Strasbourg 1817. For many years he was Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole de Médicine and at Sorbonne in Paris. He was known not only for his researches in organic chemistry but also for his many literary works. He was editor of a Dictionnaire de Chemie Pure et Appliquée, and after 1868 one of the editors of the Annalen der Chemie et de Physique. He died in Paris in 1884.

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1757. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt backs. A few holes in the leather. Lightly rubbed, label pasted on back. Gilt titlelabel. Stamp and name on titlepage. Title in red/black with engraved vignette. XXVI,(6),148 pp. + Publisher's advertisements (4) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Third edition in French of this classic treatise on ancient warfare and technology. - Brunet (V:1111) having a translation published in Paris 1759.

Leipzig, Gleditsch & Martini, 1732. 4to. The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with brownspotting. (6), 594, (32) pp + 6 plates. First issue of Nova Acta Eruditorum with Friedrich Otto Mencke as editor, the grandson of the founder of the journal, Otto Mencke. The offered volume contain many reviews by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Amsterdam, Henri du Sauzet, 1750. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 fine contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spines. 4 engraved titlevignettes. VI,(2),471;(4),472;(6),423;(4),440 pp. Some scattred browning.

Lpz., 1871-74. Cont.hcalf. Back a little worn. (4), 636, 646 pp. Many textillustr.in woodcut. Some pages brownspotted. First edition.

Chemnitz, Gewerbeblattes für Sachsen, 1839. Modest contemp. hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. VIII,402 pp. and 24 mostly folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots throughout. First German edition. A main work on Gas lighting, Gas chemistry, Gas production etc.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1886. Large 4to. Orig. full calf. Gilt titlelabels. Spine rubbed. (4) pp., 59 folded plates. (The Executive Documents of the House of R epresentatives for the first Session of the forty-ninth Congress 1885-86, Volume 28. Parts 2. - Plates).

Cambridge, 1956. 4to. 4 volumes, all in orig. printed wrappers - fine condition. Offprints from Philosopphical Transactions of The Royal Society. Series B. Biological Sciences. First editions of these monumental investigations on the physics of insect flights.

N.Y., Charles Scribner, 1852. Orig. full blindtooled cloth. 1 cm. of upper part of back lacks. Corners bumped. 271 pp. Tinted lithographed frontispiece (View of the Town of St. Thomas) and 1 folded lithographed map. Occasional brownspotted. First edition. Sabin 38170.

(Leipzig, Barth, 1830). Folio-oblong. (24,5 x 42 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Spine rubbed. The atlas contains 26 (22 + 4) engraved plates (in folio and 4to) which are the plates belonginging to volume 1-2.

London, John Martyn and James Allestry, 1665 - 1664. Folio (290 x 195 mm). In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands. Wear to extremities, upper and lower part of front hinge split. Corner bumped with loss of leather to upper corner of front board. Previous owner's name and annotation in contemporary hand to title-page. First leaves miscoloured and frontispiece detached. (22), 648, (10), 439 pp. + frontispiece.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1894. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in contemporary half calf. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 45., 1894. Entire volume offered. Library label to upper part of spine. Extremities with wear, internally very fine and clean. Pp. 309-340. [Entire volume: IV, 599 pp.]. First printing of Hilbert's influential paper on the theory of quadratic number fields. Hilbert's work enabled mathematicians to attack successfully the theory of quadratic forms with any number of variables and with any algebraic numerical coefficients. This lead in particular to the interesting problem: to solve a given quadratic equation with algebraic numerical coefficients in any number of variables by integral or fractional numbers belonging to the algebraic realm of rationality determined by the coefficients.The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. Entire volume 45 of "Zeitschrift für Physik" bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page. Corners and lower capital bumped, hinges a bit weak. An overall fine and clean copy. Pp. 751-765; 766-775. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 910 pp.]. First publication of Jordan and Klein's influential paper (the first mentioned) which contributed to the close connection between quantum fields and quantum statistics, today known as Jordan-Klein matrices. "Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan had indicated, and Dirac had demonstrated, the close connection between quantum fields and quantum statistics. Second quantization guarantees that photons obey Bose-Einstein statistics. What about other particles which obey Bose-Einstein statistics? The year 1927 was not over before Jordan and Klein addressed this question [in the present paper]." (Pais, Inward bound. p. 338). "Jordan and Klein found that "one can quantize just as well the non-relativistic Schroedinger equation. In honor of these contributions the matrices have been named Jordan-Klein matrices." (ibid. p. 339). "Convinced that the many-body problem in quantum mechanics can be stated correctly only in the context of quantized matter waves ("repeated" or "second" quantization. as it was called later by Léon Rosenfeld), Jordan started working out his ideas together with Wolfgang Pauli. Oskar Klein, and Eugene Wigner. During his stay in Copenhagen in the summer 1927 Jordan established, together with Klein, the first nonrelativistic formalism of second quantization for a system of interacting Bose particles." (DSB).The second paper, "Über Wellen und Korpuskeln in der Quantenmechanik", "contained several other formal and mathematical generalizations, but its main practical value is that, in the newly established theory of the 'quantized wave field', the fluctuations in the Bose case now satisfied all requirements following from Einstein's light-quantum treatment of 1924 and 1925." (Mehra, The historical development of quantum theory, 2000, p. 231.