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Stockholm, Beijer, 1887. 4to. With the original wrappers in "Acta Mathematica, 9:4. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 321-380. [Entire issue: Pp. 321-400] First printing of Poincaré important - but partly unrecognized - paper which coined the term 'Poincaré lemma'. Even though it is named after Poincaré the discovery has by attributed to the Italian mathematician Vito Volterra who published a series of papers in 1889 on this subject.

Paris, Chez Bernard, 1808. Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. A few scratches to binding. In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.." Vol. 65. Entire volume offered. 336,(8) pp. a. 1 plate. (The plate in facsimile, not belonging to Chenevix). Chenevix's paper: pp. 5-43, pp. 113-60 a. pp. 225-276. Small stamps to verso of titlepage. Light browning to htitle. Otherwise clean and fine. First apperance of an importent work in mineralogy in which Chenevix strongly advocates the specifications of Haüy, taking the physical condition of the surface as the guiding principle in mineralogical classification, disputing the system of Werner. Later the work appered in a separate form, and it was also published in English in 1811."In these years he published a significant paper, "Sur quelques méthodes minéralogiques" (1808), in which he disputed Abraham Gottlob Werner’s classification of minerals by their chemical composition. He himself adopted R. J. Haüy’s criterion of classification, the physical characteristics of minerals."(DSB)

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences". Année 1699. With the fine engraved frontispiece and the titlepage to the volume. (22) pp.. Stamped in blind on the 2 first leaves, in margins. First appearance of Fontenelle's famous program for the philosophy of science of the Enlightment, stipulating the nature of scientific research in terms of the analytical geometry."From 1699 to 1740 Fontenelle devoted himself almost exclusively to his task of editing the Histoire de l’Académie royale des sciences . . . avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique pour la même année, tirés des registres de cette Académie. The volume for the year 1699, which appeared in 1702, opens with an untitled preface usually called "Préface [sometimes "Discours préliminaire"] sur l’utilitë des mathématiques et de la physique et sur les travaux de l’Académie (the paper offered), which contains essential material on the philosophy of science and is a sort of bridge between Descartes’s Discours de la méthode and Claude Bernard’s Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale. Here one finds the first literary expression of the idea of the interdependence of the sciences and of the constancy of the laws of nature."

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1963. 4to. Original full black cloth with the original illustrated plastic dust-wrapper. Richly llustr. in black/white and colour. Text in Italian. Leaflet with translations into English, French and Geman enclosed. 30 ff. Inscribed by Jorn to the Danish art critic Pierre Lübecker; inscription dated Christmas 1965.

(Halle, Schimmelpfennig, 1804). Folio-oblong. (24 x 40 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Original printed titlelabel pasted on upper board. Stamp in margin of first plate. Atlas alone, complete with 22 engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 3083.

Bergamo, Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche, 1909. 4to. 2 orig. full cloth, richly gilt. Light wear to back of vol. 1. 2 frontispieces. 554,(1);779,(2) pp., Numerous textillustrations, many mounted plates, some in colour, some in heliogravure.

Kopenhagen, Reitzel, 1837. 12mo. Original pictorial printed boards depicting air-balloons. Fine condition. First German edition of the poem entitled "The Airship" (1836) by the world-famous Danish scientist, Ørsted (Oersted, Örsted), who is renowned for the discovery of electro-magnetism.

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1898, 1901 Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge, Bd. 65, No. 7. (Entire issues offered). Pp. 241-480. . And Vierte Folge, Bd. 5. Pp. 241-488, textillustr. Wien's paper pp. 440-452, textillustrations and pp. 421-435, textillustrations. Clean and fine. The second issue punched in inner margin after cords., no loss of text. First appearance of Wien's importent paper in which he shows that the cathode rays are particles, that their velocity is about a third to that of light and he establish the ratio between the mass and the charge.In the paper are "described the experiments by which Wien determined the properties of the canal rays. The firstpart of the paper conatins a description of observations on the cathode rays, made with a Lenard Tube, in which the cathode rays passed through an aluminium window into an extension of the tube where as high a rarefaction as possible was maintained. The magnetic and electrostatic deflexions of a narrow cathode stream were observed and Wien concludes that it is proved by his investigation that the cathode rays which pass through the windoww carry with them strong negative charges."(Magie "Souce Book in Physics", p. 597 ff.).Wien was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for physics for his discoveries regarding laws governing the radiation of heat.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1834. 4to. No wrappers. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 12, Heft 1, IV,88 pp. (the whole issue(Heft 1) offered with titlepage to volume 12). Jacobi's paper: pp. 1-69. a. 1 engraved plate. First edition of a main paper dealing with n-dimensional geometry."Of the papers devoted to n-fold integrals Jacobi's 1834 paper "De binis quibuslibit...." is of crucial importence in this connection (the theory of algebraic forms of variables). Here, besides the problem of computing multiple integrals, an importent problem of the theory of algebraic forms is solved." (Andrei Nik. Kolmogorov).

Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1820. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. XXIV,344;XII,436 pp., 2 folded engraved plates.

London, Lockyer Davis, 1773. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 63, part 1. A fine copy. Pp. 333-340 First appearance of John Nooth's attempt "to find out the best method of increasing the excitation of a glass, and of taking from it that fire for electrical purposes which might be collected on its surface."

Kjøbenhavn, Waisenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1744. Samtidigt helldrbd. med spejl og med ophøjede bind på ryggen, rig rygforgyldning. Permerne med lettere brugspor. 411 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk med enkelte understreginger. Første græske grammatik på dansk. Munthe var professor i Græsk på Københavns Universitet.Bibl. Danica IV, 10.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1892. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 115, No 24. Pp. (1029-) 1112. (Entiere issue offered). Moissan's paper: pp. 1031-1033.nA few small tears to frontpage. First printing of the paper in which Moissan described his famous invention of the Electric Furnace and hereby laying the foundations for high-temperature chemistry. For this invention and his isolation of flourine Moissan received the Nobel Prize in 1906."Moissan had turned his attention to the production of artificial diamonds and in the process constructed his famous electric furnace, which, although simple in design, proved to be a technological tool of the first order. The original model, which he subsequently improved, was demonstrated to the Academy of Sciences in December 1892 (the paper offered). It consisted of two blocks of lime, one laid on the other, with a hollow space in the center for a crucible, and a longitudinal groove for two carbon electrodes which produced a high-temperature electric arc. In one experiment Moissan heated iron and carbonized sugar in his electric furnace, causing the carbon to dissolve in the molten iron..... Moissan’s electric furnace provided great impetus to the development of high-temperature chemistry. With this apparatus he prepared and studied refractory oxides, silicides, borides, and carbides; he succeeded in volatilizing many metals; and, by reducing metallic oxides with carbon, he obtained such metals as manganese, chromium, uranium, tungsten, vanadium, molybdenum, titanium, and zirconium. The electrochemical and metallurgical applications to industry of Moissan’s work became immediately apparent, for example in the large-scale production of acetylene from calcium carbide."(DSB).Moissan received the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1906 "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation nd isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him".Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1892 C.This issue also contains another notable paper by PIERRE CURIE in which he describes his invention of a quadrant electrometer that improved upon the one devised by Kelvin by adding an ingenious magnetic damper.

København, Gyldendal, 1912. Lex8vo. 2 samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Forgyldte tome-og titelfelter. En revne i bagerste fals på første bind. Øvre kapitæler lidt slidte. En meget svag skjold i øverste højre hjørner på nogle blade i første bind. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. (6),528;(6),424 pp., plancher, kort og tekstillustrationer. Originaludgaven.

Leipzig, Vogel, 1826-39. Bound in 5 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Spines rubbed, gilding on 2 vols. nearly gone. "Beilage-Bd." with loss of leather at top of spine (1 cm.). A stamp on titlepages. XXIV,200;XII,228;VI,345;XXII,482;XIV,392,VI,418;XIV,226 pp. Internally clean. The scarce first edition of Doederlein's main work.

(Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829). 4to. No wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 4. - Plücker's paper pp. 349-370 First edition of a major paper in the arithmetization of geometry introducing the so-called triangular coordinates. "In 1829 Plücker contributed to Crelle's Journal (the paper offered here) with a revolutionary point of view that broke completely with the old Cartesian view of coordinates as line segments. The equation of a straight line in homogenous coordinates has the form ax + by + ct=0....Plücker saw that one could modify the usual language and call (a,b,c) the homogenous coordinates of a line....Plücker had discovered the immidiate analytic counterpart of the geometric principle of duality, about which Gergonne and Poncelet had quarreled; it now became clear that the justification that pure geometry had sought in vain was here supplied by the algebraic point of view." (Boyer, History of Mathematics).

København, Beekens Forlag, 1824. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Lidt slid øverste kapitæl og forreste fals. 22,226 pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven. - Rask Bibliografi I,49.

Wien, Ant. Strauss, 1823. 8vo. A little later hcalf. Gilt back. Slightly rubbed. Small stamp on titlepage. XII,299 pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates. A few brownspots, otherwise clean.

Kiøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Poulsens forlag, 1796. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, spine miscoloured. Internally very nice and clean. (6), VI, 372, 27 pp. + 12 plates. First edition of Bugge's textbook on theoretical astronomy in which Bugge made it clear to university students that physics meant Newtonian physics. ”Newtons sindrige System er fra ikkun Hypothese; men det gaaer over til mathematisk Vished, fordi alle Planeternes Bevægelser, ingen undtagen, deraf kan ei allene forklares, at de maa være til, og hvorfor de er saadanne, som de ere; men endog deres Maal og Størrelse lader sig beregne og bestemme.” (The present work, p. 132 – i.e. English: “Newton’s ingenious system began as a mere hypothesis but has become a mathematical certainty because it not only explains the motion and existence of all planetary motions without exception, and why they are as they are; but it even makes it possible to calculate and determine their measures and magnitudes.”).

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1848. 8vo. Indbundet i et smukt samtidigt havlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Ryg falmet. En smule kantslid. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bournonville til "mine kjære, haabefulde Elever, Edouard og Laura Stramboe" på fribladet. En smule brunet, ellers ren og pæn indvendig. (4),261 pp. Den sjældne originaludgave af Bournonvilles erindringer med dedikation til de to unge skuespillere Edvard og Laura Stramboe.

Ulm, Stettin'schen Buchhandlung, 1825-1830. Folio. Bound in 2 contemporary half cloth bindings, spines cracked and worn. With 29, 18, 38, and 48 double-page printed plates.

Ca. 1920. 16 x 15 cm. Unsigned yellow-toned etching showing a sitting nude girl holding a puppet og harlequin. Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923.

Berlin, Friedr. Aug. Herbig, 1832. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip at places torn. Wrappers a bit darkened. VI,102 pp. + (4) pp. of advertisements. One leaf with a weak dampstain to right margin. First edition of this importent work on the history of the Black death in the Middle Ages. - Wellcome III, p. 231.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1909. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in black full cloth. A small white barcode pasted on to top left corner of front board. Library stamp pasted on the pasted down front free end-paper and stamp to verso of title page. A very nice and clean copy. [Faber:] Pp. 81-94. [Entire issue: IV, 575, (1) pp.]. First printing of Faber's important paper in which he introduces the 'hierarchical basis' and uses it for the representation of functions. Faber was building on the idea of Archimedes who computed approximately using a hierarchy of polygonal approximations of a circle. In the 1980s Faber's idea became an important ingredient for the efficient solution of partial differential equations.The issue contain the following papers of interest:Weyl, H. Singuläre Integralgleichungen. Pp. 273-324.Weyl, H & F. Jerosch. Über die Konvergenz von Reihen, die nach periodischen Funktionen fortschreiten. Pp. 67-80.And many other papers by contemporary mathematicians.

Stockholm, Johan Hörberg, 1833 og 1834. Indbundet i et samtidigt hldrbd. Lidt rygforgyldning, skindtitel, hvoraf lidt er bortrevet). Ryg noget slidt. Litograferet titelblad. VIII,XVI,336 pp. + Litograferet titelblad, 87,(1) pp. Med 1 stort foldet kobberstukket og håndkoloreret kort "Karta öfver Götarike Södra Delen af Swerige, utgifven af Friherre S.G. Hermelin...författad af C.P. Hällström. Graverad af C.G. Lundgren" (ca. 85x58 cm.). Kortet med en lille revne ved falsen, 5 cm., intet tab. Bladkanter her of der brunede, lidt spredte brunpletter, blad 335/336 løst. Originaltrykket, ikke faksimile.