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Leipzig a. London, Hahn a. Balck & Armstrong, 1838-39. 8vo. 3 solid full recent cloth. Stamp on verso of titles. LX,582;XXXII,656;XVI,800 pp. Occasional some browning to leaves. Text in Greek, Latin translation and commentary. Brunet IV:455. This edition is ranked as one of the best modern critical editions.

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.

Paris, Victor Masson, 1859. No wrappers as extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Tome 55, Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 55, pp. 129-210 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. First printing of Dumas's importent lecture on the chemical equivalents of the elements in which he attempts to prove that all elements is multiples of the hydrogen atom, Prout's thesis."He also published two papers (the present) in which he tried to develop the view that for the classifications of the elements it was possible to discover 'generating' relations similar to thosee defining the series of organic compounds. The elements could be divided into 'natural families'. The atomic weights of all the members of the same family were linked by a simple arithmetic relationship; they increased by multiples of sixteen."(DSB IV, p.247). - Neville p. 397.

Wien und Triest, Geistinger'schen Buchhandlung, 1811-12. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on first title-page.(2),VI,(2),316;(2),432 pp. and 21 large folded engraved plates (8 + 13). A few faint scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 3779.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1858-72. 8vo. Indbundet i tre pæne, samtidige halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning og forgyldte rygtitler. Kapitæler og kanter noget slidte. Stempler på forsats- og titelblade. Enkelte spredte marginalnoter og understregninger. (4),312;313-768;(4),256 pp. Den ualmindelige originaludgave af Sibberns socialistisk-utopiske roman.

Orig. full cloth, gilt. Top of spine a little worn. Corners slightly bumped. Internally fine. XIV,324 pp. folded map and textillustr. Inner last hine weakening. First edition.

Milano, Giovanni Silvestri, 1822. Small 8vo. Bound in 6 cont. full vellum with title-and tomelabels in green and red leather, gilt. Engraved portrait as frontispiece.

Coloniae (Köln), Iacobi Stoer, 1618. Cont. full vellum. (16),568,(56) - 551,(6) pp.

(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1865. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 61, No 13. Pp. (493-) 535. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 506-512. First printing of Pasteur's first report on the silkworm disease. Between 1855 and 1865 a widespread epidemic among silk worms called pebrine alarmed the south of France, so much so that finally, in 1865, it drew national attention. In June 1865 the government sent Pasteur down to investigate the disease, and the first report was already finished by the 25th of September, the paper offered. Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1865 B. - Bunch 1865, Biology.

(København, 1832-34. Folio. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rifter ved kapitæler. Ryg slidt. Med 68 dobbeltsidede folioplancher i litografi med 961 figurer.

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.

Leipzig, Im Industrie-Comptoir, 1825. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. A few marks to wrappers and internally with light occassional brownspotting. A good copy. (6), 58, (16) pp First appearance of Gustav Fechners' (written under the pseudonym of "Dr. Mises) humorous work on the anatomy of angels. Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German philosopher, physicist, and psychologist who is best known for his work in psychophysics, particularly his theory known as "Fechner's Law." Fechner's Law is a principle that describes the relationship between the physical intensity of a stimulus and the psychological perception of that stimulus.

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.

Zittau und Leipzig, bey dem Verfasser/ Gerhard Fleicher, (ca. 1822) - 1821. 4to-oblong. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. X,81,(1);XII,76;4,80 pp. Scattered faint brownspots. With music.

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

No. place, no date, ca. 1880. Imperial folio. (72 x 49,5 cm.). Contemp. full cloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Containing 9 double-folio plates printed in blue, each measuring 70 x 94 cm.

Geneve, DuVillard Fils & Nouffer, 1779. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (4),348;349,(1) pp.

London, David Mallet, 1754. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary half calf bindings. Wear to extremities, corner bumped and boards scratched. Spine-ends chipped. Stamp to each title-page (crossed out in vol. 1). Ex-libris (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) pasted on to all pasted down front end-paper. With occassional marginal browning, but internally generally nice. First edition of Bolingbroke's posthumously published collected philosophical works. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 – 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology."Bolingbroke was also much attracted to the study of philosophy, which increasingly absorbed his attention from about 1720. He gave priority to experimental philosophy rather than to metaphysical speculation, and he rejected both Plato's philosophy and the Cartesian approach to deductive reasoning. He became a disciple of the intellectual approach of Locke and Newton, but he paid particular attention to the study of religion and morality. He was very interested in natural law and natural religion, and gradually developed into a deist. Professing a harmless rationalism, he came to believe in a supreme being, but one that was distinct, even remote, from the world. He rejected the notion of particular providence and of a God actively involved in the affairs of men... Although they did not appear until 1754, three years after his death, most of Bolingbroke's philosophical essays were the result of his studies started in France and continued after his return to England in 1725... He strove in particular to erect an ethical and religious system based on reason and natural law" (ODNB).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1767). 4to. Without wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXI, pp. 191-230. First edition of Euler first work on the probability in lottery. He examines the Genoise Lottery, which was the first number lottery. As the name implies he asks for the probability that various sequences of numbers to be drawn."In the lottery here considered 90 tickets are numbered consecutevily from 1-90, and 5 tickets are drawn at random. The question may be asked, what is the chance that two or moree consecutive numbers should occur in drawing ? Such a result is called a sequence; thus, for example, if the numbers drawn are 4,5,6,27,28, there is a sequence of three and also of two. Euler considers the question generally." (Todhnuter).

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.”).

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.

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.