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London, Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. Small8vo. Orig. full red cloth. Edges gilt. Blindstamped and frontcover and spine stamped in gold (each with 2 angels on wasps). Tears to cloth at hinges, no loss. Spine ends a bit worn. Engraved frontispiece and engr. title, all titles, htitles, dedic-leaf etc. (8),175,(1) pp. + 2 pp. of advertisements. Internally clean and fine. First edition, 4th issue. - Eckel p. 122.

Paris, Boudeville, 1651. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, parts of gilting worn off and a few small wormholes to boards. A few small wormtracts to lower margin, far from affecting text, otherwise internally nice and clean. (2), 256 pp.

2 cont. hcalf. backs worn. Upper part of leather on back of vol. 1 lacks (3 cm). A few brownspots. Internally good.

Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1929-37. 4to. 5 orig. hcalf. Gilt spines. Light wear to top of spines. Small stamp on title-pages. Richly illustrated.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1930. Original full fabrikoid, gilt lettering to spine. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Vol. 9, 1930. (10),842 pp., textillustrations and plates. The entire volume offered. Shewhart's paper: pp.364-389, textfigs. Clean and fine. First printing of one of the major papers by Shewart, who is called "the father of statistical quality control". This paper, together with some earlier works on statistical control in productions, expanded to his great book, issued in 1931 with the samer title as the offered paper.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik". bd. 49. Library stamp to titel page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 73-94. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 896 pp.]. First appearance of this important paper which explains certain aspects of atomic spectra in terms of the quantum mechanics of electron spinIn 1928 and 1929, shortly after von Neumann had begun publishing his landmark papers on the axiomatization of quantum mechanics, he and his friend Wigner (Nobel Laureate in physics, 1963) issued a series of papers on the spectra of v arious atoms, clarifying the data and putting it into rigorous mathematical form. "Sixty y ears later, in 1989, Hans Bethe was still calling these among the most remarkable of Johnny [v on Neumann's] works" (Macrae, John von Neumann, p. 146).

Tours, 1867. Royal8vo. Nice cont.hmorocco,richly gilt back. Uncut. IX,403 pp. Engr.portr.(loose) and 18 fine en gravings. A few brownspots.

(Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927.) Recent marbled boards. Extracted from "Zeitschrift der Physik, Bd. 43", pp. 601-623. First edition. Upto this paper, the formulation of quantum mechanics, the material particles were considered as characterized by positional coordinates only. It now became an urgent task to incorporate the phenomenon indicated by the term 'spin' into the new sscheme of things. The initial step was taken by Pauli himself - in the paper offered - who proposed that the wave function of an electron, besides being by the continously variable positional coordinates, should be considered as also depending on a spin variable, capable of two values only...Thereby Pauli paved the way for the relativistic theory of the electron and of hydrogen-like atoms which we owe to Dirac. (R. Kronig in Memorial Volume to Wolfgang Pauli).

Düsseldorf, Econ, 1959. 4to. Orig. cloth. 549 pp. Illustrated in colour and black/white.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1924. Cont. hcalf. Bound uncut with orig. printed wrappers. Back faded. No. 102 of 120 "sur papier Hollande van Gelder". First edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1867 - 1884. 4to. Fire bind, alle i de originale halvshirtbind med trykte permer. Ex-libris (Einar Andersen) påsklistret verso af forpermer. Hjørner stødte, ellers et nydeligt sæt. Originaludgaven af statsvirksomheden ’Den danske Gradmaaling’, som udførte gradmålinger, altså grundlæggende geodætiske arbejder med nivellement, astronomiske bredde- og længdebestemmelser og indmåling af triangulationsnet. Arbejdet blev banebrydende for geodæsien. Heri blev fastlagt parametrene for en dansk omdrejningsellipsoide med jordradius ved ækvator sat til 6.377.019 meter og fladtrykning sat til 1/300. ”I årene 1853-1884, kun afbrudt af perioden som minister, var Andræ direktør for Den Danske Gradmaaling og udarbejdede Den danske Gradmaaling (1867-1884), som blev banebrydende for geodæsien, videnskaben om udmåling af Jordens overflade.” (Den Store Danske)

(London, J. Nichols, 1778). 4to. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part II. Pp. 816-857 a. 1 folded engraved plate. First apperance of the Committee's paper, for the greatest part written by Cavendish. He was named the head of the Committee to review the entire body of meteorological instruments, and the Committee included also Heberden, Maskelyne, Aubert, Deluc and others."Concurrently with his work on airs Cavendish published several papers on the freezing points of mercury, vitriolic acid, nitrous acid, and other liquids. This work was an extension of his published study of the Royal Society’s meteorological instruments in 1776 (the paper offered), and it drew heavily upon his early knowledge of latent heats."(DSB).Together with Nevil Maskelyne "Account of a new Instrument for measuring small Angles, called the prismatic Micrometer". Pp. 799-815 a. 1 engraved folded plate.

Paris, G. Masson, 1888. Bound with the original printed wrappers to all 4 issues (8 wrappers) in contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 6. Series - Tome XIV. 576 pp. The entire volume offered. Becquerel's papers pp. 170-257 a. pp.257-279. First printing of Henri Becquerel's doctorial thesis. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the half-dozen years when he was most active in it.After studying infrared spectra "He then studied the absorption of light in crystals (1886-88), particularly its dependence of the plane of polarization of the incident light and the direction of its propagation through crystal (the papers offered). With these researches Becquerel obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (1888) and election to the Academy of Sciences (1889)."(DSB I, p.558).The volume has other notable papers by Chappuis et Riviere, E. Edlund, M. Berthelot (3 papers).

Berlin, Springer, 1931. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with black leather title label to spine with gilt lettering. In "Die Naturwissenschaften", 19 Jahrgang, 1931. Pp. 1-7 with a nick to upper corner, not affecting text.. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. P. 39. [Entire volume: XXII, 1048 pp.]. First printing of Bethe's famous paper. Bethe was known for his sense of humor, and once published a parody in 1931, On the Quantum Theory of the Temperature of Absolute Zerowhere [the present paper] he calculated the fine structure constant from the absolute zero temperature in Celsius units, causing a scandal in the scientific world.

Hannover, Helwingischen Hofbuchhandel, 1794. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather. Upper compartment with a paperlabel pasted on. Stamps on titlepage. VIII,VI,(2),390 pp., 8 large folded engraved maps and plans, 1 folded table. Slightly brownspotted.

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1661. 12mo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with gilt ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards, a few holes to back board. and a bit of loss to upper part spine, showing headbands. Internally with underlignings in red throughout. 197 pp. Uncommon later corrected edition of this work which contains the memories of Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre and France, wife of Henri IV.

London, Nichols and Son for Baldwin et al., 1801. Bound in 12 uniform contemp. full marbled calf. Richly gilt spines. Some joints starting. Light wear to spine-ends. Slightly rubbed. Some wear along edges. Small loss of leather on lower part of spine on volume 1. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. Internally clean.

(København), Generalstabens Lith. Anstalt, omkr. 1876. Imperial folio-oblong. (51 x 69 cm.). Original hshirt. Indeholder 16 folio-plancher i litografi, hver med talrige figurer. På bindets forside, på fribladet og på nogle plancher er anført "Skal Hemmeligholdes".

Nürnberg, 1650. Small 4to. Later clothbacked boards (ca. 1870) with leathertitle gilt on frontcover. A faint dampstain and light browning. Repairs to inner margin of titlepage. 24 pp. From the library of P.Fr. Rist. Karl Gustav's peace pact with the German electorates.

Paris, Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. remains of ties. Wear to backcover around lower corner. Light marginal browning. (24),703,(101),(4),291,(7) pp. With the name of the wellknown Danish historian C. paludan-Müller on front free endpaper. Denis Pétau was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labours of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849.

Kbhvn., 1907-28. 8vo. Indbundet i 11 samt. hshirtbd. Rygge med nogle pletter. Indvendig friske. Rigt illustreret.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. Later full cloth. In: "Mathematische Annalen begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann.", 88. Bd. (4),312 pp. Hilbert's paper: pp. 151-165. The whole volume offered. First edition as a continuation of his paper from 1922 "Neubegründung der Mathematik. Erste Mitteilung"."This articlee, delivered as a lecture to the deutsche Naturforscher Gesellschaft in Leipzig, September 1922, is a sequel to (neubegründung...), and brings Hilbert's proof theory to maturity. Hilbert here introduces several technical refinements and clarification to his theory. Specifically: (i) he improves the formal system by adding a special sign for formal negation...(ii) he refines his account of the distinction between formal language and the metalanguage....(iii) he outlines a consistency proof for an elementary, quantifier-free formal system of number-theory. (iv) he begins to extend his proof theory to analysis and set theory....sketches a strategy for proving the consistency of a version of Zermel's axiom of choice for real numbers...(etc. etc). (William Ewald in from Kant to Hilbert, vol. II, pp.1134-35).

Augustae Tavrinorum (Torino), Pomba et Filiorum, 1822-23. Large 8vo. Bound in 5 fine cont. full vellum, profusely gilt backs, title-and tomelabels in red and brown. Large copy on good paper.

Kbh., 1839-41. 4 samt. hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. Bd. 4 afvigende indbundet. Indvendig her og der lidt brunplettet. M. de 9 udfoldelige nodebilag, den udfoldelige stamtavle over den rantzauske familie samtdet udfoldelige litograferede kort over "Stjernebilledernes Hovedgrupper." Med bidrag af bl.a. Grundtvig, Ingemann, Oehlenschläger, Blicher, Wergeland, Heiberg, Ørsted, Holst m. fl.

Ldn., 1913. Folio. 2 orig.full vellum, gilt. Cold. frontisp., 639 pp. a. 122 plts. No. 37 of 1050 copies.