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(Leipzig), 15. December 1913. 4to. "Physikalische Zeitschrift No. 25, 15. December 1913. 14 Jahrgang", pp. 1249-1312. Einsteins paper: 1249-1266 (Discussion pp. 1262-66). First edition. This is the famous address that Einstein gave on the occasion on the 85th Congress "Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Wien" in their meeting September 23, 1913, together with the ensuing discussion. - Weil No. 54.

Madrid, Pedro Peyreyra, 1800. Bound in 3 cont. full mottled calf. Gilt backs and titlelabels in leather. Engraved frontispiece. XCIII,290;311;320 pp., 25 fine engraved plates and 1 folded engraved map.

Hauniæ, 1931-57. Folio. Ubeskåret i 2 orig. hlærredsbd. LI, 609, XXVII, 890 pp.

Royal8vo. All orig. wrappers, uncut. With dedic: "á Karin et John Drumm, entout amitié. J.V. Pellerin". No 157 of 300 "exemplaires sur papier fil Lama", total of 330. With 7 original lithographs in colour.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1956. 4to. In publisher's red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front hinge almost detached. Internally fine and clean. XXX, (2), 452 pp. First edition of Ventris and Chadwick's exceedingly important work which constitutes the very first practical translation of Linear B (a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek - the earliest form of the Greek language) and certainly the earliest thorough discussion of Linear B translation. The decipherment of Linear B was not only of great interest to scholars and researchers, but also profoundly influenced European cultural history and affected how to define 'The Cradle of Europe': It demonstrated a Greek-speaking Minoan-Mycenaean culture on Crete, and presented Greek in writing some 600 years earlier than what was thought at the time.Linear B was initially deciphered by Ventris and Chadwick between 1951 and 1953. They published they first theories is 1952 in a short paper, a work which is still surrounded by much controversy; the present work is the first to contain what is generally accepted as the first thoroughly satisfying deciphering of Linear B. In a BBC radio program in 1952 Ventris concluded that the tablets (the ones translated in the present work) were Greek, and that there finally seemed to be a logical explanation to the mysterious signs: "One of the most interested listeners to the broad cast was a young Cambridge philologist specializing in Greek, John Chadwick. At the time, the Ventris theory was just the latest in a long line of supposed "solution", every one of which had failed. But Chadwick, who had himself failed to read the tablets on the assumption that they were Greek, was interested. On July 9, Chadwick wrote to [Ventris], congratulating him on the solution. They formed a close association and together wrote a report of the decipherment [Their 1952-paper]. It gave a decidedly confusing explanation of the decipherment. And it did not gather up all the loose ends." (Kahn, The Code Breakers, P. 933.)."At the time [in the early 50ies] the Linear B tablets from Knossos in the island of Crete were considered to be the earliest documents in the Greek language. Now the ancient Greeks have been claimed by Hellenists from the late 18th century onwards to be the founders of European civilization, all other peoples with an Indo-European linguistic heritage being excluded for some reason or another. In the description mankind's history, the absence or presence of the art of writing is even used for making the rather haphazard distinction between prehistory and history. So one can very well imagine why the island of Crete in offering hospitality to the first writing Greeks was proclaimed [...] the cradle of Europe." (Binsbergen, Black Athena Comes of Age, Pp. 102-3.).

Hamburg, B.G. Hoffmann, 1795. Small 8vo. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Top of spines somewhat worn and one volume having a nick to upper compartment Stamp on titlepages. (8),536;(6),424,(3);462,(6) pp. Some sporadic browning to leaves and scattered brownspots.

Kbhvn., Reitzel, 1843. Ubeskåret i kartonnage, lavet af samtidigt blå kardus. VI,(1),404 pp. samt 10 store foldede kobberstukne plancher. Her og der med lidt brunpletter.

(Paris, Crochard, 1829). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 , tome 40, Cahier 2. With halftitle to vol. 40. Pp. 113-224 a. 3 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Babinet's paper: pp. 166-176 a. 1 plate. First appearance of the paper in which Babinet expounds his importent law, stating the formula that holds between diffraction and diffraction pattern in optics. The principle plays an important role in antenna design and Babinet’s principle is particularly interesting to consider in this case where the metasurfaces and their complements can be regarded as variations on a folded dipole antenna array and patch antenna array, respectively. Babinet was together with Fresnel one of the pioneers in the development of the new optics, the wave-theory of light."An early proponent of the wave theory of light which had recently been perfected by Fresnel and Young, Babinet devoted much of his research to extending its applications. His first published paper on optics. "Sur les couleurs des réseaux," dealt with Fraunhofer’s discovery that white light viewed through a wire grating produces a series of continuous spectra. Babinet derived the formula that relates the deviation of rays of a given color to the ratio of their wavelength divided by the sum of the diameter of the wires plus the distance between any two wires. He also showed that diffraction experiments could yield an improved measure of wavelengths and presented a table of new values.Babinet realized that the grating was only one of a number of means of producing diffraction effects, so he extended his theoretical work to include other systems. The result was a concept known today as Babinet’s principle: "If parallel rays fall normally on a diffraction system formed from a large number of openings... the diffraction phenomena will remain identically the same if the transparent parts become opaque, and reciprocally."(DSB).

Dresden, Georg Conrad Walther, 1746. 8vo. 4 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spine-ends slightly worn. Minor scratches to covers. With engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved titlevignettes and 6 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots and some light browning. Brunet I, 1059.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1774. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. med ophøjede binf på ryggen. Rygtitel. Ryg noget slidt, mest ved kapitæler. (18),429,(1) pp., talrige textfigurer. Brugsspor. Et bladhjørne bortrevet. Nogle samtidige notater og tilskrifter. De første 6 bøger blev oversat for første gang på svensk i 1744 (også af Mårten Stroemer), mens udgaven her er den første svenske oversættelse, som også omfatter 11. og 12. Bog.Riccardi: 1774-2 - Steck: V29.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1878. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 3, 2. Heft. Pp. 161-320 a. 1 folded plate. (entire issue offered). Helmholtz' paper: pp. 201-216. With titlepage to volume 3. First apperance - in full - of this importent paper in which for the first time the 2 laws of thermodynamics were applied to electrical phenomena. Parts of the paper were published already in 1877."In 1877 Helmholtz attempted to predict theoretically the electromotive force of a galvanic cell for different concentrations of a salt solution. Under certain conditions the cell can be treated as a reversible cycle and the laws of Carnot and Clapeyron applied to it. The theory was in substantial agreement with experimental data by James Moser."(DSB). - The Moser-paper confirming Helmholtz theory is printed here on pp. 216-219, taken from Monatsberichte der Berl. Akad., 1877."In his work 'On Galvanic Currents', Helmholtz was the first to apply the two laws of thermodynamics to electricity. In order to keep up a current of electricity through any conductor it is necessary to expend a certain amount of chemical or mechanical work; the supply of positive electricity in the positive end of the conductor must be perpetually renewed, in order to oppose the repulsive force of the positive electricity there accumulated, and the same holds for the negative electricity at the negative end."(Koenigsberger "Hermann von helmholtz", pp. 309-12).

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1853. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Slightly rubbed. A small weakness to upper part of fronthinge. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plates. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome XXXVII. 512 pp. and 3 plates. (The entire volume offered). Gerhardt's paper: pp. 285-342. Light scattered brownspots. First printing of an importent paper in which Gerhardt introduced the concept of "type" in organic chemistry in order to understand all substitution reactions."Gerhardt adopted Laurent's nucleus, or unitary theory and combined it with the theory of types and radicals. In 1852 he discovered the anhydrides of organic acids and explained their structure by an extension of the water type of Williamson. He further proposed that all organic compounds could be related to one of four inorganic types: water, hydrogen, hydrogen chloride, and ammonia. These types could be used to explain most organic reactions as double decompositions. Since Gerhard felt that the formula of organic compounds never ecpressed the actual structure of the molecule, but only its reactions, he was satisfied with this theory and carried it no farther. However, it was a great advance in systematization and helped to bring order into the confused field of organic reactions."(Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900", p. 351.)."Gerhardt will occupy a permanent position in the history of Chemistry for his services to organic classification, for his concept of homology, for his preparation of acid anhydrides, and for his reform of equivalents."(DSB V, p. 374).The volume contains further importent papers Marcelin Berthelot "Sur la Bichlorhydrate D'Essence de Térébenthine", pp. 223-230, by Arago, Edmond Becquerel etc.etc.

Stuttg.,1865,. Lex8vo. 2 cont.hcalf. Backs a little worn. X, 1928 pp., 23 maps, 60 steel-egr.plts.a. 454 illustr.

Dresden, Gerlachen, 1723. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A nice and clean copy. (38), 1062, (12) pp. + frontispiece and 20 plates. First edition of Engelschall’s work on the spiritual devotion that Christians experience through meditating on and commemorating the Passion of Jesus Christ.

Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1711. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum. Author in contemporary hand to spine. Binding miscoloured. Inner hindges split, but book block firmly attached. A good copy. (62), 608 pp + 10 engraved plates. Originally published in Amsterdam in 1686 under title "Tableau de l'amour humain considéré dans l'état du mariage" (Table of human love considered in the state of marriage) and under the pseudonym Salocini Venetian (anagram of Nicolas Venette) is 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 sporadically until 1903.

Paris, Paulin etc., 1859. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Back somewhat worn and upper part taped. With 65 (of 66) engraved maps.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1887-1901. 4to. All 13 offprints from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bde. 100-123. Some of the offprints with traces after having been folded. All first printing.

Hamburg, L. Friedrichsen & Co., 1911. Small 4to. Orig. hcalf, back gilt, gilt covers in cloth with illustration. XVI,307 pp., 106 textillustr., 6 colourplates and 1 large folded map in pocket at end. Fine, clean copy. First edition of this narrative of the German expedition to Polynesia and Melanesia 1908-10. (Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung).

Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Buchhandlung, 1793-86. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XL,594,(4);XII,598,(4) pp. and 18 folded engraved plates. Poggendorff I, 1496.

Zürich, Strasbourg, Paris, Orell Fussli, Levrault, Anselin, 1836. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. XXXIII,528,(2),7 pp., 39 plates with many figs. A few scattered brownspots on the first leaves, otherwise clean and fine.

Paris, Crochard, 1835. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, tome 59, Entire volume offered. Wear to extremities, internally very fine and clean. Laurent's papers: pp. 107-111; 196-220; 376-397; 397-422. [Entire volume: 446,(2) pp.]. First printing of these importent papers in the history of organic chemistry explaining the differences to Dumas' law of substitutions, and introducing a "new type" and what he calls "fundamental and derived radicals". The introduction of the "Nucleus Theory" was the basis for the unitary theory formulated by Gerhardt."While studying the reactions of naphthalene and its compounds with the halogens and nitric acid, Laurent was from the start characteristically concerned with the construction of an explanatory theory that would account for these phenomena. Like most creative scientists, he generalized his solution to a specific problem through the imaginative use of analogy, leading to the elaboration of the first comprehensive theory adequate for dealing with the whole domain of contemporaneous organic chemistry." (DSB)."A founder of modern organic chemistry, Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure, which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path, from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way."(DSB).

Kristiania, Aschehoug & Co., 1890. Lex8vo. Samtidigt velbevaret hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldt titel. Mindre stænkpletter på ryg. Stempel på smudstitelbladet. En mindre papirsetiket pålimet nederst på ryg. XII,704 pp. Rigt illustr. med tekstillustrationer og plancher, samt 4 litograferede foldekort. Gl. ejernavn på titelbladet: Anton Petersen (direktør for Grønlands Styrelse). Rent, frisk eksemplar uden de sædvanlige brunpletter. Originaludgaven.

(Paris, Dumaine, 1847). Large folio. (62 x 44,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Spine rubbed. With 7 folded engraved plates in double-folio. Faint scattred brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 706.

Wien, Hof= und Staatsdruckerei, 1854. 4to. a. large folio. 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Spines slightly rubbed. (4),383 pp., 15 Tables. Atlas with 25 fine engraved double-page plates. Internally clean.

København, 1926. 4to. (27 x 20,5 cm.). Elegant hellæderbind i brun oaseged med indfarvede rammer samt stregforgyldninger på begge permer samt ryg. Stor indfarvet stjerne med indflettede ringe med forgyldning på for-og bagperm. den indfarvede ramme gentages på indersiderne af permer. Indvendige skindfalse. Helt guldsnit. Titlen trykt i guld på forperm og ryg. Usigneret mesterbind fra omkr. 1930.