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Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1914. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck.", Bd. 43. (Heft 1), No 1,1914. The entire issue offered. The block is punched in inner margins after cords.Titlepage to vol. 43. Small stamp at foot of titlepage. Pp. 1-168. Debye's paper: pp. 49-95. First appearance of this importent paper in which Debye announced his discovery of the so-called Debye-factor, later extended by Ivar Waller (1924) and then named the Debye-Waller factor."The Debye-Waller factor (DWF), named after Peter Debye and Ivar Waller, is used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of x-ray scattering or coherent neutron scattering caused by thermal motion. It has also been called the B factor or the temperature factor. Often, "Debye-Waller factor" is used as a generic term that comprises the Lamb-Mössbauer factor of incoherent neutron scattering and Mössbauer spectroscopy.""Within a year of the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals by von Laue and the Braggs in 1912. Debye published three papers proving that the thermal movement of the atom in the crystal affected the X-ray interferences. Here he was examining from a different point of view the atomic lattice treated in his specific heat work. Late in 1913 he sent in for publication a long paper (the paper offered) deriving a factor now called the Debye factor, which gave the decrease of intensity of the diffration spotss as a function of wavelenght, diffraction angle, and absolute temperature."(DSB III, p. 619.

Sorø, Petri Jansonii Morsingi, 1652. + Sorø, Petri Jansonii (Morsing) Acad. Typograp., (1654). Lille 4to. Indbundet i et senere marmoreret papbd. med skindtitel på forpermen. (48) pp. + (50) pp. Lidt tæt beskåret foroven, ellers rene friske eksemplarer, trykt på godt papir. Begge disputatser i originaltryk, trykt af Peder Jensen Morsing, som blev leder af det trykkeri som blev oprettet i tilknytning til Akademiet i Sorø. - Både Brochmand og Bording var en overgang professorer i historie ved Akademiet.

Prag, Joh. Stiassny, 1798. 8vo. Bound in an exquisite light brown full calf binding with richly gilt spine and boards. Boards with wide ornamental gilt borders and gilt centre-pieces with a lamb and a cross. Gilt initials "F. F." to front board. All edges gilt. Housed in a lovely contemporary marbled paper vertical case with a gilt red lacquered heart to the front of the upper part. the lower part of the case has been renewed. Ownership signature to verso of title page (josef Hemmerle). Printed on good paper. Leter handwritten notes to last page and back free end-paper. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. A later edition of Karl (later Hofrath) von Eckartshausen's "God is the purest love" in a lovely binding, presumably given as a wedding gift.

Hamburg & Leipzig, Liebezeit, 1716. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands. Wear to extremities. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally nice and clean. (14), 240, (16), 72, 124, (3), 64, 224, 62 pp.

K., 1864. 2 velbevarede samt.hldr bd. m.rygforgyldn. (10),88,682,35,(6) pp. Talrige kort og plancher i litografi.

Göttingen, Vandenhoek Ruprechtschen Verlage, 1801. Cont. hcalf. Back a little rubbed. XIV,608 pp. + Inhaltsverz. (26) pp. Slightly brownspotted.

Jena, Cröker, 1705. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Closely trimmed margin, primarily affecting upper margin. (3), VII, 250, (56) + 30 plates (wanting 1 plate) Later German edition of this scarce work on chiromancy and physiognomy (prediction of personality and destiny based on the lines of one's palm and on the pattern of lines on one's forehead).

Paris, Crochard, 1823. 8vo. In a bit later half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 23. Entire volume offered. No institutional stamps. (Buch's paper: pp. 276-304). (Poisson's paper:) pp. 337-352. (The entire issue:) 448 pp. + 2 plates. First printing of this important geological survey and description of the Alphs with the first geological mapping of the area."His (von Buch's) explorations in the southern Alps had suggested to Buch that the towering heigh of the Dolomites might be the result of upheaval, for which he thought the active agent in porphyry, including monozite. he concluded that the magnesia in which this rock is rich would also have been active in transforming the original limestone into dolomite. Buch thus came to vizualize great subterranean activities..."(DSB II, p. 555). _____________________ First appearance of Poisson's important paper on the mathematical treatment of "specific heats"."In "Sur la chaleur des gaz et des vapeurs," published in August 1823 in Annales de chimie et de physique, Poisson developed ideas published four months before by Laplace in Book XII of Mécanique céleste. Poisson introduced all the precautions needed to render the confused notion of quantity of heat susceptible to mathematical analysis. He called quantity of heat the magnitude that characterizes the transition of a given mass of gas from an arbitrary initial state of temperature and pressure to another state. This definition makes more abstract the quantitative aspect that naturally follows from the concept of heat as a caloric fluid. Poisson could thus deal comfortably with this magnitude, since for him it is simply a function q of p, p, and ø (pressure, density, and temperature). The equation of state p= ap(1+aø) was already classic, and the growing acceptance of the notions of specific heats, at constant pressure and constant volume, allowed him to write the simple partial differential equation of which should be the integral. He also showed that independently of any additional hypothesis, and whatever the arbitray function used in the integration, the adiabatic transformations (the term did not yet exist) correspond to the formulas p · py = constant and (?+266.67)·p1y= constant, y being the ratio of the specific heats, assumed constant."(DSB).

Kiøbenhavn, Thomas Larsen Borup, 1756. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg fornyet med bevarelse af oprindelig ryg med lidt slid. Rygstempler svage. 580,(6) pp., incl. 3 foldede genealogiske tabeller. Originaludgaven. Hovedværket om den dansk-norske landmilits, dens udstyr og underhold, er således et vigtigt kildeskrift til kendskabet om dansk-norske landboforhold i ældre tider. - Bibl. Danica II: 865.

Halle, Orphanotrophii, 1732. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from paper-label to upper part of spine. Scratches to boards, with a bit of loss of leather, primarily to back board. Internally nice and clean. (32), 728, (32) pp. Later edition. Johann Franz Buddeus (1667-1729) born in Pomerania, was professor of Greek and Latin, moral philosophy and theology at Leipzig and Halle.

Leipzig, Literarisches Museum, 1833. Small 8vo. Hcalf from around 1880, gilt back, titlelabel in leather. XI,367 pp. Some browning and brownspots. First edition.

Kbhvn., 1952-53. Fol. Orig. hpergament. (palmeblads permer) samt topguldsnidt. 665,577 pp. Illustr.

Berlin, Reuther & Reichard, 1922. 8vo. Bound in a newer full brown immitated calf w. gilt title to spine. 87 pp. First edition of Carnap's first publication, his doctoral dissertation. Printed in Kant-Studien, Ergänzungshefte, Nr. 56. Issued by H. Vaihinger, M. Frischeisen-Kähler and A Liebert. Rudolf Carnap (born 1891 in Ronsdorf, Germany, died 1970 in Santa Monica, California) was an immensely influential analytic philosopher, who has contributed decisively to the fields of logic, epistemology, semantics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle, and a prominent logical positivist. He studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, and worked at the universities of Jena, Vienna and Prague until 1935, when he, due to the war, emigrated to the U.S., where he became an American citizen in 1941. In America he became professor of the University of Chicago. In Jena he was appointed Professor of Mathematics, though his main interest at that time was in physics. By 1913 he planned to write his dissertation on thermionic emission, but this was interrupted by World War I, where he served at the front until 1917. Afterwards he studied the theory of relativity under Einstein in Berlin, and he developed the theory for a new dissertation, namely on an axiomatic system for the physical theory of space and time. He thus ended up writing the important dissertation under the direction of Bouch on the theory of space (Raum) from a philosophical point of view. The dissertation was submitted in 1921, and, due to the clear influence from Kantian philosophy, it was published the following year in this supplement to the "Kant-Studien". After the publication of his first work, Carnap's involvement with the Vienna Circle began to develop. He met Reichenbach in 1923 and was introduced to Moritz Schlick in Vienna, where he then moved to become assistant professor at the university. He soon became one of the leading members of the Vienna Circle, and in 1929 he, Neurath, and Hahn wrote the manifest of the Circle.As the title indicates, "Der Raum" deals with the philosophy of space. Partly influenced by Husserl, under whom he studied at Freiburg, Carnap poses the question weather our knowledge of space is analytic, synthetic a priori or empirical. His answer is that it depends on what is meant by "space", and thus differentiates between three kinds of theories of space: Formal (which is analytic [a priori]), intuitive (which is synthetic a priori), and physical (which is empirical [or synthetic aposteriori]). He compares this division of space with that of geometry into: projective, metric and topological. This, of course, anticipates much of his later philosophy, and some of his theories developed in this paper became the official position of logical empiricism on the philosophy of space. In this work he also develops a formal system for space-time topology, which became quite influential.

København, reykjavik, 1937-82. Heftet med alle orig. bogtrykteomslag. Hefterne/bindene rene.

Gera-Untermhaus, (1902). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. (4),276 pp. and 28 (each 38x28 cm.) fine chromolithographed plates, 3 of which depicts the eggs. Anker no.356. The old text from the edition in 1822-60 has been preserved unaltered, corrections in footnotes. The figures for all the plates have been re-drawn and show the birds in their natural surroundings. Among the many artists are O.Kleinschmidt, J.G. Keulemans, O. van Riesenthal and others. The eggs are figured in a series of special plates, based on Eugene Rey's Collection.

Lpz., 1834. 8vo. Cont.boards. VI,320, pp.St.o.t.

Kiel (Hamburg und Dessau), Kosten des Verfassers, (1781-) 84. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Paperlabels pasted on spines. Stamps on title-pages. (14),X,(8),548,(24);XXXII,518,(42) pp. Internally clean.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1888 - Vol. 179 - B. Pp. 1-45 a. 7 lithographed plates. Clean and fine. In this seminal paper in neurophysilogy Horsley and Schäfer definitely showed that total removal of the occipital lobe produced permanently blind animals, but only if the lesion extended on the ventral surface into the temporal lobe. This was impotent as the observations conclusively established a relation between areas (localization) in the brain and their specific functions. Garrison & Morton 1419.

Orig. wrappers, uncut. No 496 of 1050 "sur Velin de Rives", a total of 1151 copies. Original etching by David, 11 fill-page, initials and vignettes.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, male and female on willow branches with fruits. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

London, Witherby, 1928. Small 4to. Orig. full cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. A brownspot on frontcover. Very slight wear to extremities. XII,310 pp., 1 map and 25 fine colourplates by H. Grønvold. Wood p. 540.

Kbhvn., 1950-66. Lex8vo. 8 orig. hldrbd.

Minneapolis, The Collegiate Press, 1927. 4to. As extracted from "The Physical Review, Volume 30, Second Series, July-December, 1927". Title-page detached, with vague library stamp to top right corner. A fine and clean copy. (2), 704-740 pp. First printing of Davisson and Germer's paper in which they present some additional discoveries not published in their groundbreaking paper "The Scattering of Electrons by a Single Crystal of Nickel" published the same year. This led directly to Davisson receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937. It advanced understanding of physics at the quantum level and led to inventions such as the electron microscope."Davisson and Germer submitted their results to Nature in early March and their paper was published on 16 April. It contains a detailed comparison between their replcted beams and those that would be produced by illuminationg the crystal with X-rays. There were thirteen reflected beams in all, of which ten corresponded to those seen in X-ray diffraction". (Gerwin, A Century of Nature, 28 p.) They could not account for the last three wave and this was not published in their first paper. "The remaining three peaks for which Davisson and Germer could not find any correspondence with X-ray data were later identified as being due to diffraction from atoms absorb ed on the surfaces of the target crystal." (Ibid.). This information was published in the present paper. "Davisson's investigations on the scattering of electrons entered a new phase when, in April 1925, his taget was heavily oxidized by an accidental explosion of a liquid-air bottle. He cleaned the target by prolonged heating and then found the distribution-inangle of the secondary electrons completely changed, new showing a strong dependence on crystal direction. Prior to the accident the target had consisted of many tiny crystals, but heating converted it to several large crystals. Davisson and L. H. Germer, who had replaced Kunsman before the accident, at once began bombarding targets of single crystals. [...] When Davisson returned from England, he and Germer began a systematic research for some sort of interference phenomenon, and in January 1927 they observed electron beams resulting from diffraction by a single crystal of nickle. The results were in good agreement with de Broglie's prediction. For his confirmation of electron waves Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 with G. P. Thomson." (DSB, III, 597b-598a).Davisson and Germer's confirmation of the de Broglie hypothesis if today known as the Davisson-Germer experiment.

Glasgow, 1827 (and) The History of Scotland from The Union to the Abolition of the Heritable Jurisdictions in 1748...by James Struthers. 2 vols. Glasgow, 1827-28. 6 nice cont.full calf. Gilt backs a.covers. 9 engr. portr. a. 1 engr.fold. map.

Augsbourg, (ca. 1738). Original hand colored copper engraving. Made for viewing in a zograscope (ge: guckkasten). Picture description below image in German and French. 29 x 41,5 cm. An app. 4 cm wide margin (not included in the 29 x 41,5 cm.) is slightly frayed. Part of the series: "Collection des Prospects". Engraved by Johann Christoph Nabholz.