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Kiøbenhavn, Frid. Christ. Pelt, 1775. 8vo. Nydeligt, velbevaret samtidigt hellæderbind med simpel rygforgyldnin. Fire ophøjede bind og forgyldt rygtiteletiket på ryg. Biblioteksnummer skrevet i hånden øverst på ryg. Ryg med en smule revner. Lettere slid ved kapitæler, ydre false og kanter af permer. Mindre tilskrifter på titelblad. Ren og pæn indvendig. (16), 868, (24) p. Første danske udgave af "Die vornehmsten Wahrheiten der natürlichen Religion." - Bibl. Danica: I:938.

Paris, Charles-Estienne Hochereau, 1720. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Gilt borders on covers. (8),140,336 pp. and 12 engraved plates (some folding). Internally clean. Papers by: Tschirnhaus, De la Hire, Cassini le fils, Carré, Littre, Homberg, Varignon, Chazelles, Cassini, Amontons, Rolle, Boulduc, Du Verney, Tournefort, Bernoulli, Sauveur.

(Leipzig, 1697). 12mo. Cont. full vellum. Binding rubbed and somewhat worn. Lacks titlepage and 2 first leaves (a1-a3, starting with a4). (62),744 pp. and 2 (of ?) engraved plates (showing American fauna and 1 map of the islands in the West Indies). Some broownspots, traces of use. First German edition, probably of Blume's work "The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz. Jamaica, Barbados,...Carolina, Virginia etc. London, 1687" (Sabin no. 5972), but Sabin gives no further details of this German edition in his listing No. 5971.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1876) Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Ergänzungsband VII, Stück 2. Pp. 177-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Clausius's paper: pp. 215-280. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent contribution to the second law of thermodynamics."Ckausius..devoted several years to the elaboration of what he thought represented a new and unique contribution to theoretical mechanics, his idea of a variation in the force function itself. He ignored the new directions in Boltzmann's yhought and, surprisingly, never once thought to find a mechanical explanation for the irreversible increase in entropy. In fact in his final attempt (the paper offered), he even adopted a model in which he reduced the admittedly disordered collissions of molecules to a case of noncolliding mass points in ordered motion."(DSB III, p. 309).

Paris, Jombert, 1755. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full mottled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red and edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Front board of vol. 1 with a bit of loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper of vol. 2. Internally nice and clean. XII, 266 pp.; (2), 311 pp. Nice set of this collection of letters originally written in Swedish by Count Carl Gustaf Tessin. The letters were addressed to the young Prince of Sweden who later became King Gustav III, during the time Tessin served as his governor. The letters focus on the prince's education, reflecting Tessin's role in shaping the future king’s intellectual development and political thought.

Kopenhagen, Johann Gottlob Rothe, 1770. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. Light wear to spine ends. (12),324 pp. Internally clean and fine. First German edition of Pott's classical description of the hydrocele or watry rupture. Pott was one of the busiest and most famous surgeons in England during the middle of the eighteenth century. His surgical writings were wide-ranging and included descriptions of congenital hernia, lacrimal fistula, hydrocele, fistula in ano, and cancer of the scrotum in chimney sweeps.Garrison & Morton: 4164 (the English original). - Waller: 7592.

Kiöbenhavn, Thieles, 1826. 8vo. In the original blank wrapper. With presentation inscription from the author: "Til Generalløjtnant Juel / fra Thorseng / fra / forfatteren". (i.e. "to Lieutenant general Juel / from Thorseng / from / the author"). Wrappers miscoloured and leaves with bended corners. Internally nice and clean. Printed on good paper. (2), 154 pp. Presentation copy of the uncommon first edition edition of Bishop Tetens’ eulogy in honor of Ansgar written for the Millennium Celebration of Christianity’s introduction in 1826. Stephan Tetens (1773 - 1855) was a Danish bishop. In 1804, he became parish priest at Trinitatis Church in Fredericia, and in 1811 at Saint Canute's Church in Odense, as well as cathedral provost for the Diocese of Funen, in which role he, famously confirmed H.C. Andersen.

Kjöbenhavn, Oversætterens Forlag hos Bianco Luno, 1841. Lille 4to. Originalt rødt moirepræget papbind i udstyr som gaveeksemplar. Helt guldsnit, brede forgyldte borter på permer. Stempel på titelbladet. Ryg med små krakeleringer. XII,86 pp., 4 træsnitillustrationer i teksten. Med dedikation på fribladet til Admiral M:v: Bille... "allerærbödigst af den gamle taknemmelige Discipel Hjorth".

Paris, Crochard, 1823. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 22 (Cahier 4), With titlepage to vol. 22. Pp. 337-444. (Entire issue offered). Oersted & Fourier's paper: pp. 375-389 and 1 folded engraved plate. showing apparatus used. First appearance of this importent paper - which can bee seen as the precursor of OHM'S LAW - in which Ørsted explains the experiments he did together with Fourier on the thermo-electric effects discovered by Seebeck. They proved with different experiments, that the effect depended solely on the heating of the plates in the voltaic arrangements. Ørsted calls Seebech's observations "the most beautiful of the discoveries which have as yet grown out of mine (his discovery of electromagnetism three years before)""We learn from his letters that thet the experiments on which the paper was founded had taken him 3 weeks, a space of time which evidently much too short for the performance of the work; thus Ørsted himself points out a fundamental flaw in the experiments, but there has been no time to remedy it. The work is of interest, both by what has been gained through it, and by what does not plainly appear; in some of its results it is the precursor of Ohm's law and by its defects it shows how great was the feat of the actual discovery of this law."(Kirstine Meyer).The offered issue contains further Poisson "Sur le Phénomene des anneaux colorés", pp. 337-347., Ørsted "Sur le Multiplacateur électro-magnetique de M. Schweigger, et sur quelques applications qu'on en a faites", pp. 358-365, Ampère "Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Ampère à M. Faraday", pp. 389-400.

(ca. 1750-1800). Original hand colored copper engraving. Picture description below image in Latin and French. 31,5 x 34 cm.. An app. 2,5 cm. wide margin (not included in the 30 x 41 cm), is frayed. Slightly brownspotted.

Braunschweig, Vieweg uund sohn, 1850. Bound in a very nice contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. XII,426 pp., 568 fine textillustr. in woodcut showing apparatus and experimental set ups. First edition of this importent work, which ran through 7 editions, the last issued in 1909.

Leipzig & Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1932. 8vo. A mint copy, in the original wrappers, still contained in the original plastic protection. In "Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums, unter Mitwirkung von Kurt Gödel und Georg Nöbeling, herausgegeben von Karl Manger, Heft 2". Pp. 27-28. [Entire volume: 38 pp]. First edition of Gödel's important paper, which constitutes a supplement to his "Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionskalküls" (1930). In the present paper, Gödel seminally formulates his earlier incompleteness results from the standpoint of first-order logic, thereby contributing substantially to modern mathematical logic."In 1932 Godel published his formulation of the incompleteness results from the standpoint of first order logic. If number theory is regarded as a formal system in first-order logic, then the above results about incompleteness and unprovability of consistency apply to S. If, however, S is extended by variables for sets of numbers, for sets of sets of numbers, and so on (together with the corresponding comprehension axioms), then we obtain a sequence of systems S; the consistency of each system is provable in all subsequent systems. But in each subsequent system there are undecidable propositions. Going up in type in this way, he noted, corresponds in a type-free system of set theory to adding axioms that postulate the existence of larger and larger infinite cardinalities. This was the beginning of Gödel's interest in large cardinal axioms, an interest that he elaborated in 1947 in regard to the continuum problem." (DSB).The issue contains several papers by Karl Menger.

Elbing, Hartmann, Heymann & Compagnie, 1786-87. Orig. blank boards. Boards worn and spine taped. Uncut. Stamp on first title-page. (2),196,241,216 pp. Scattered brownspots.

Amsterdam, Harrevelt, 1762. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. richly gitl spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Covers richly blindtooled, Cambridge-binding style. Marbled edges. Stamp on foot of title-page. Title-page in red/black. Engraved titlevignette. XXVIII,148 pp.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1828. 8vo. Bound with the contemporary (original?) blank blue wrappers in a later half cloth binding with gilt lettering and stamp to front board. Offprint from "Annales Maritimes et Coloniales". Stamps to front wrapper and title-page. 31 pp.

Rostock Neu-Brandenburg, zu finden in der Fritschischen Handlung, 1738. 4to. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities. First and last leaves slightly browned, otherwise internally nice and clean. (4), 46, (2), 94 pp. First edition of these two theological and ecclesiastical treatises dealing with church governance and theological controversy in 18th-century Germany—particularly in Mecklenburg.

Stuttgart u. Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1830-1834. 12mo. Later clothbacked boards. With numerous lithographic portraits. Stamp on titlepage.

Kjøbenhavn, Johan Christoph Groth, 1741. 4to. Samtidigt hellæder bind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. Med forgyldt tekst og ornamentik på ryg. Kapitæler og permer med slitage. Indvendig pæn og ren. (8), 200, (1) pp. Originaludgaven af Niels von Hauen hovedværk hvormed han påbegyndte den "den ortografiske fejde" med Th. Clitau"(Niels von Haven) gjorde sit navn kendt ved udgivelsen af Et lidet orthographisk Lexicon eller Ord-Bog, 1741, ikke mindst fordi dette leksikon gav anledning til "den ortografiske fejde" mellem v.H. og Th. Clitau og som derpå foranledigede J. P. Høysgaards første skrift. Bogen indeholder et forslag om afskaffelse af store bogstaver undtagen ved egennavne, og af verbernes flertalsformer. Samtidig er den et interessant forsøg på at sammenstille homonymer, enslydende, men forskelligt stavede ord. Det er ikke helt vellykket, men det giver ved sine sammenstillinger, tit også ved direkte oplysninger, sproghistorisk værdifuld besked om rigsmålsudtalen i Odense omkr. 1750, ligesom det indeholder en stor del ordsprog og talemåder." (Den Store Danske Encyklopædi).Biblioteca Danica IV, 69.

Paris, Victor Masson et Cie, 1843. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 3e Series, tome 7, Fevrier- issue and tome 8 Juin-issue. Entire issues offered. Pp. 129-256 and pp. 129-256. Cerhardt's papers: pp. 129-143 a. pp. 238-245. The salicine-paper: pp. 215-229 (tome 7). With halftitlepages to vol. 7 and 8. First appearance of Gerhardt's first papers on the new concept of "homology", perhaps his most notable contribution to organic chemistry."Gerhardt’s most conspicuous contribution to the developemfent of organic chemistry was his homologous series. His earliest publications were characterized by attempts to arrange organic compounds in series of increasing complexity: his "ladder of combustion," rising from water and carbon dioxide at the foot to albumin and fibrin at the summit, was analogue of the biologists’ ladder of nature, another biological analogy was to underlie the application of his homologous series when they were refined in 1843: Gerhardt presupposed a principle of plenitude in organic chemistry which dictated that hitherto undocumented members of any series must exist. In addition, the concept of homology itself was of biological origin, deriving from Cuvier. For Gerhardt, however, it did not carry that structural connotation which it had for Cuvier. On this subject Gerhardt, simply asserted: "We call substances homologues when they exhibit the same chemical properties and when there are analogies in the relative proportions of their elements." (DSB).

Kjøbenhavn, Jæger & Klein, 1844-45. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 4 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning, parvis ensartet. Litograferet portræt. (2),VIII,204,(4) - (2),96 litograferede nodesider., samt 24 håndkolorerede litograferede plancher. - (2),123,(2) - (2),63 litograferede nodesider.pp. samt 12 tonede litograferede plancher. Som altid med en del brunpletter og bruning af tekstsiderne p.g.a. papirkvaliteten. Plancherne med lidt spredte brunpletter. Den eftertragtede første illustrerede udgave med Bærentzen's kendte litografier (efter forlæg af Schiewitz og Vilhelm Pedersen). Skønt trykt og publiceret i København, er teksten den oprindelige på svensk.

Indb. ubeskåret m. orig. for- og bagomsl. i pænt samt. rødt hldrbd. m. sort skindtitelfelt på ryg. Friskt ekspl. Originaludgave. Zetterlund 8.

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, 1833. Uncut in orig.(?) full cloth. Titlelabel in leather on back, gilt lettering. A small paperlabel at food of spine. Bottom of title with a stamp. Engraved frontispiece, engr. portrait and 6 engraved plates.(Complete). Many woodcut-illustrations in the text. Internally and externally clean and fine.

Paris, Orléans, Durand et Pedone-Lauriel, 1872. Recent private hvellum. Handwritten title on spine. VIII,227,(3) pp., 3 folded plates, strenghtened on verso in foldings. Htitel and title-page frayed. 3 first and last 4 leaves browned. Marginal dampstained on last 6 leaves. Occassional faint scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition. Only 200 cpies printed.

Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1824. Uncut in orig. stiff blue wrappers. Handwritten titlelabels. Paperlabels pasted on spines. Edges and spines with wear. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved plan of Moskau as frontispiece. XVI,409,(1);VI,(1),404,(2) pp. + Kupferheft: (4) pp., 4 folded tables, 4 folded engraved maps and plans. Scattered brownspots to text and maps. One map with closed tears, strenghtened on verso.

Stockholm, Wennberg et Nordström, 1771. 8vo. In contemporary haf calf. Wear to extremities, hindges and head and foot of spine missing some of the leather. Corners bumped and boards missing parts of the marbled paper. Two stamps to pasted down front and back end-paper and three stamps to title-page and previous owner's name crossed out, otherwise internally fine. (4), 540, (34) pp. Third edition of Rosenstein's seminal work on pediatrics. "Sir Frederic Still considered this work “the most progressive which had yet been written”; it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of pediatrics. Rosén was particularly interested in infant feeding. The Underrättelser were originally published in the calenders of the Academy and were later collected and issued in book form in 1764. English and German translations were published in 1776." (Garrison & Morton 6323). (Garrison & Morton 6323 - the first edition).