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(Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1850). 4to. Later marbled wrappers. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 39. Band, 24 Heft. Jacobi's paper takes up the whole issue . pp. 293-350. First printing of main paper in Rigic Body Dynamics, where Jacobi studied the motion of a top and derived the analytic solution for the motion of a free body and defined the so-called "Jacobi analytic functions". The problem was first treated by Leonhard Euler in 1758 in the case where the fixed point is the centre of gravity of the top, but it was Jacobi who first solved the problem completely, making use of elliptic functions which he himself had introduced.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome XI , No 25. Pp. (991-) 1020. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. (991-) 1008. A bit of marginal soiling and some creasing to leaves. First appearance of the paper which states the correct weight of the carbon atom. This research had profound influence on the development of organic chemistry. The paper in full was published the year after (1841) in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique"."From 1840 onward he carried out an important revision of the atomic weights of thirty elements. His most valuable contribution in this field was his very precise determination of the atomic weight of carbon (jointly with his pupil Stas) in 1840. A previously accepted weight, determined by Berzelius as C = 12.20 (O = 16), was shown to be incorrect. Dumas proved that C = 12±.002 (O = 16) or C = 75 (O = 100). The analysis was made by burning diamond and artificial and natural graphite in oxygen; the carbon dioxide formed was weighed in potash solution. The results were in close agreement. The "new" weight of carbon had a great effect on the progress of organic chemistry."(DSB).

Berlin, Maurer, 1800. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, gilding weak. Lacks leather at lower part of spine. Wear to spineends. Wear to spine. Stamp. on title-page. Frontispiece (aquatint). X,126,(2) pp. a. 7 folded engraved plates.

Kopenhagen und Leipzig, Pelt, 1757-59. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. stamp on title-page. (8),230,(6),231-582,(16) pp., 2 engraved plates. First German edition. A "Drittes Buch" was published 12 years later (1771). - Bibl. Danica III,68.

Kjøbenhavn, Cohen/ Philipsen, 1868-73. 10 samtidige hldrbd. Forgyldte rygtitler. De første bind med lidt slidte rygge. Heri 4 førstetryk af H.C. Andersen. - BFN, 970, 983, 998, 1019, 1020.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1839-40. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from: "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 19 a. Bd. 21, pp. 324-369 a. pp. 1-12.. 4 leaves in part 1 with browning, due to the poor paperquality. First appearance of this importent paper in which he introduces the "Dirichlet series", applicating analysis to the theory of numbers. The paper is especially known for its central use of the limiting proces.

Hannover, Helwing'schen Hof=Buchhandlung, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-page. XXVIII,544,(2) pp. Internally clean.

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.

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.

(Michigan), 1947. 8vo. Ogiginal printed wrappers, black cloth back-strip. A nice and clean copy of this lithoprinted publication. (6), 64 pp. + 2 leaves of maschine-written (probably mimeographed) corrections laid in loose. First printing of Tarski and Jónsson's important first joint publication, which constitutes the starting point of the influential Jónsson-Tarski algebras and the Jónsson-Tarski duality. The important Icelandic mathematician and logician Bjarni Jónsson (born 1920) received his PhD the year before the present publication at the University of Berkely, under the supervision of Alfred Tarski, the great Polish-American who has contributed seminally to the fields of mathematics and logic in a number of ways, and who together with Frege, Russell and Gödel now ranks as the most important contributor to the field of logic. He is thus considered one of the four greatest logicians of all times.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 94, No 8. Pp. (473-) 548 (entire issue offered). Michelson's paper: pp. 520-523, 1 textillustr. First printing of this importent paper in which Michelson corrected an effect on his inteferometer which he had neglected in his first experiment on the ether drag of 1881."Michelson himself, on presenting in 1882 (the paper offered) an account of his first esperiment to the Academie des Sciences, acknowledged that he had made an error in his earler report of 1881 and had neglected the effect of the earth's motion on the path of light in the inteferometer arm at right angles to the motion" (Holton "Thematic origins of Scientific Thought", p. 265)."

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1890). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1889 - Vol. 180 - Series B., Pp. 215-296 a. 17 fine lithographed plates. Textillustr. First printing of an importent work in the taxonomy of dinosaurs and extinct reptilia. Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist who determined that dinosaurs fell into two great groups, the Saurischians and the Ornithischians, based on the nature of their pelvic bones and joints. He published his results from 1888 and onwards.

(Paris, Crochard, 1834). Without wrappers as extracted from: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 57, 2e Series. Titlepage to vol. 57. Pp. 5-70. A few marginal brownspots. First French edition of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" (1833), Gauss' first work on magnwetism, in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units, distance, mass, time to measure nonmechanical quantity (magnetism and electricity). - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" (Magie, A Source Book in Physics, p. 519).G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver Cat.: 867 (Latin ed.).

(Paris), P. Didot l'Ainé, 1808. (53 x 68 cm.). A fine engraved map in original handcolouring showing the world in two hemispheres. With extensive text under the hemispheres.

Paris, Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1857. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. XXII,(2),114 pp., 17 folde engraved plates (4 maps, 13 coastal profiles). Inrenally clean and fine.

(New Haven), 1878. Both issues with modern blank wrappers. In: The American Journal of Science and Arts", Third series Vol. 15, No 88 and Vol. 16, No. 94. Pp. 245-524 and pp. 247-334 (2 entire issues offered). Mayer's papers: pp. 276-277 with textfig., pp. 247-256 with 2 pp. of illustrations. First appearance of the papers in which Mayer describes his invention of the method of floating tiny magnets in a magnetic field, used in the early twentieth century as a key to discovering or illustrating atomic structure."Mayer is most remembered (and cited) for his experiments in which magnetized needles were inserted into corks, which were then ftoated on water with their south poles upward, under the north pole of a powerful electromagnet. Under these conditions, certain definite stable configurations were observed “which suggested the manner in which atoms of molecules may be grouped in the formation of definite compounds and which illustrated various properties of the constitution of matter. These experiments won high praise from Kelvin ... and were later used by J. J. Thomson (Electricity and Matter [New Haven, 1904], ... and others as a key to the way in which a characteristic number of electrons might be arranged within the atoms of each chemical element in relation to the periodic table. Mayer thus made a small but significant contribution to the theory of atomic structure." (DSB)Issue 94 of vol. 16 contains an importent paper by HENRY A. ROWLAND "Research on the Absolute Unit of Electrical Resistance", pp. 281-291, in which he established an authoritative figure for the absolute value of the Ohm. - Wheeler Gift: 3967.

New York, John Wiley, 1853. Small 8vo. Original full cloth, blindtooled. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on title-page. The first few leaves with faint brownspotting. 168 pp. This edition not in Sabin.

(Paris, Crochard, 1816) No wrappers as extracted fron 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 1 and 2 (2e Series). Pp. 295-308 a. pp. 373-394 (Vol. 1), pp. 5-32 a. pp. 105-125 (Vol. 2). With both halftitles to vols. 1 a. 2. Htitles shaved in inner margins, no loss of letters. All 4 papers having some scattered brownspots. First appearance of Ampere's notable memoir (issued in 4 parts) in which he tries to set up a classification system for the elementary entities in chemistry tieing the elements together in a natural classification, a dim foreshadowing of the periodic table."Here (in the paper offered) he drew attention to the similarities between Lavoisier's and his fellowers classification of elements in terms of their reactions with oxygen and Linnaeus' classification of plants in terms of their sexual organs. Bernard de Jussieu had successfully challenged Linnaeus with a natural system that took the whole plant into account and sought affinities between all parts of the plant, not just the flowers, as the basic classification. Ampère now wished to do the same thing for chemistry. By discovering a natural classification, i.e., one that tied the elements together by real and rather than artificial relations, Ampère hoped to prove a new insight into chemical reactions. His classificatory scheme, therefore, was not merely an ordering ofthe elements but, like the later periodic table of Dimitri Mendeleev, a true instrument of chemical research. Ampères system was as artificial as Lavoisier's...Thepapermay be noted, however, as an early attempt to find relationships between elements that would bring some order into the constantly growing number of elementary bodies."(DSB I, p. 143).

København, Levin og Munksgaard, 1932-35. Lex8vo. 3 originale hldrbd. Forgyldte titel- og tome i skind på rygge. 328,378,403 pp. Rent frisk eksemplar.

Cambridge, University Press, 1948. 4to. Orig. full cloth, gilt. VIII,557 pp., 1 plate. First edition.

Berlin, Vieweg u. Sohn, 1923. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel. 16. Band", entire volume offered. Embossed stamp to title page. P. 228. [Entire volume: IV, [2], 409 pp]. First printing of Einstein commentary to Friedman's seminal papers in which he "introduced into cosmology two concepts of revolutionary importance, the age og the world and the creation of the world"(Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy). Also contained in the volume are:BOTHE, W.: Eichmethoden für Emanationselektrometer (+) Über eine neue Sekundärstrahlung der Röntgenstrahlen. - First appearance of Bothe's early paper on the Compton effect which, together with his later paper (in Bd 32, Zeitschrift für Physik), awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith".PAULI, JR. W. : Über die Gesetzmässigkeiten des anomalen Zeemaneffektes. LANDÉ, A.: Zur Theorie der Röntgenspektren.HEISENBERG, W. (+) M. BORN.: Die Elektronenbahnen im angeregten Heliumatom.Weil 122

Adorf, Verlagsbureau, 1845. Uncut in orig. brown blank boards, original printed titlelabel on spine. Wear to top of spine. Some small nick to paper at fronthinge. Stamps on title-page. VIII,382 pp. and 2 large folded lithographed plans (Paris, Lyon). First leaves brownspotted. A few scattered brownspots. Some foxing to plans. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 2535.

Stockholm, Bonniers, (1850). Samt. helshirtbd. med rygforgyldning, velbevaret. 570 pp. Tekstsider her og der med brunpletter og gulning. Sidste blad repareret i margin. Med 35 håndkolorerede plancher, hver med mange figurer. Sidste planche repareret for rift i margin.

Stuttgart, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1910. 4to. Orig. hcloth. With coloured frontcover. VI,114,518 pp. and 53 fine chromolithographed plates.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome IV, No 24. Pp. (897-) 916. (Entire issue offered). Cagniard-Latour's paper: pp. 905-905. First apperance of a milestone paper in biology in which Cagniard at the same time as Theodor Swann, and independently stated that yeast was a living thing.The first illuminating account of the yeast cell was given in 1836 by ... Cagniard-Latour... In a séance of the Societe philomatique... he dealt with the nature of beer yeast and its composition of non-motile globules. He stated that the globules were organized bodies probably belonging to the vegetable kingdom... A short résume of his work was given by Cagniard-Latour and was also published in the "Comptes Rendus Acad. des sciences" on 12 June 1837 (the paper offered). This communication is importent, for in it he stated his belief THAT IT WAS BY THE VITAL ACTIVITY OF THE YEAST CELLS THAT CARBONIC ACID AND ALCOOL WERE FORMED FROM THE SOLUTION OF SUGAR. All Cagniard-Latours work on yeast was finally summed up in his classic paper in the Annales de chimie et de phusique (1838)." (William Bulloch "The History of Bacteriology", pp. 46-48.