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Havniae (Copenhagen), Berling, 1846. 4to. Orig. hcloth with printed upper board. X,122 pp. Clean and fine. It is a cataloque of the Indian and Iranian Manuscripts in the Danish Libraries (Royal Library and University Library), collected by Rasmus Rask, Carsten Niebuhr and others. (Part I of "Codices Orientalis Bibliothecae Regiae Havniensis. Pars Prior Codices Indicos continens.").

Treviso, Fabritio Zanetti, 1604. H:284to. Contemp. full vellum. Some spots to spine and covers. 22,(28),488,112 FF. A bit of fraying to margins of the first 5 leaves. Both parts with large printers wood-cut device. Internally clean.

Berlin, Posen und Bromberg, Ernst Siegfried Mittler, 1832. Bound in a nice contemp. hcalf, spine richly gilt. Stamps on titlepage. XIV,(1),285,(1) pp. and 3 folded engraved plans (one handcoloured). Occasionally with a few brownspots mainly to margins. First German edition. - Klaus Jordan: 3192.

London, Lintott and Clements, (1709). Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering renewed. Covers with blindtooled borders. Spine a bit rubbed. (32),536,(2) pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper. The parts with separate title-pages. First edition. The work includes "Animadversions on a Pretended account of Denmark" (Molesworth), "A Journey to London, in the Year, 1698" etc. etc.

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.

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

Göttingen und Gotha, Dieterich, 1773. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. 108 pp., 18 folded engraved plates. A few faint scattered brownspots.

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.

Zürich, Strasbourg, Paris, Orell Fussli, Levrault, Anselin, 1836. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Stamps on htitle and title-page. (4),XXXIII,528,7 pp., 39 lithographed plates with many figures. Internally clean and fine.

Venezia, Presso Agostino Savioli, 1771. 8vo. Bound together in contemp. blue boards. Small tears to spine. 71;68;68;71 pp. Light scattered brownspots.

London, Blachford and Imray, 1844. Orig. full blindstamped cloth, rebacked. First inner hinge broken. Stamps on title-page. (2),8,VIII,429,(3) pp. Internally clean and fine.

Coph., 1956. 4to. 2 orig.cloth. 598 pp. Richly illustr.

Kiøbh., 1809. 8vo. Samt. hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. og grøn skindtiteletiket på ryg. Øvre kapitæl repareret. Første og sidste blade brunplettede, ellers pæn. X, 341 pp. Originaludgave.

Odense, 1832. 4to. Meget smukt nyere hldrbd. i blå oaseged (Axel Jensen). 88),109 pp., 4 tabeller, rettelsesblad og 1 litograferet foldekort.

Paris, Vis à vis le Cheval de Bronze, 1739. 12mo. Bound uncut in later full calf (around 1900), raised bands, blindstamped on spine and covers. Engraved coat of arms pasted on inside front free endpaper. (6),303,(1) pp. A few faint brownspots. First edition. - Barbier III,228. - Gay-Lemonnyer III, 172-73.

Amsterdam, P.H. Charlois, 1741 (+) A La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1725. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Stains and soiling to extremities. Ex-libris (Juel to Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Inner hinges split. Last blank leaf with the following inscription: "Ce livre appartient / à Mademoiselle / Berthe Catherine / Juel 1784 / reçu de Mademoiselle / L. B. Kramer / un souvenir d'elle / quand elle partit écrire / le même soir et en / même temps je". (i.e. "This book belongs / to Miss / Berthe Catherine / Juel, 1784 / received from Miss / L. B. Kramer / a keepsake from her / when she left to write / the same evening and at / the same time I"). Title-page of first work browned and last leaves with a dampstain, otherwise internally nice and clean. (6), 190, 142, (2), 323, (8), (2), 290, (6), 23 pp.

Wien, Edlern von Trattnern, 1779. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. 136,(6) pp., 13 pplans on 12 large folded engraved sheets. Internally clean.

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 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.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1742. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. Two small stamps on titlepage. In: "Nova Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXLII". Occassional brownspotting. The entire volume offered. (4), 720, (33) pp + 6 engraved plates]. First edition of the 1742-edition of Nova Acta Eruditorum which are including two reviews of Voltaire and one of Newton's Principia.

Wien, Leipzig, 1841-42. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-pages. With 23 large folded lithographed plates. Some scattered brownspots.

Nürnberg, Jacob Seitzischen Buchh., (ca. 1761). 8vo. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels on spine. Engraved frontispiece. (12),852 pp. + Register. Richly textillustrated with half-page engravings (mainly the wars).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. Without wrappers. In "Zeifschrift für Physik, 51 Band., Dritte und Viertes Heft. Titlepage to Bd. 51. Pp. 165-308.(Entire issue offered). Gamov's paper: pp. 204-12., textillustr. A stamp on titlepage. First printing of Gamow's first major contribution to physics, his theory of alpha-decay.By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle is trapped in a "potential well" by the nucleus. In classic physics, it is forbidden to escape, but according to the then newly discovered principles of quantum mechanics, it has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of "tunneling" through the barrier and appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus. Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived from first principles a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission. Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899."One of the first applications of quantum tunneling was by the physicist George Gamow in 1928, soon after the development of quantum mechanics. Alpha particles, which consist of two protons and two neutrons, are emitted by some nuclei. For example, ordinary uranium, 238U, with a lifetime of 4.5 billion years, decays by emitting an alpha particle.For decades alpha decay had presented a problem: the emitted alpha particles seemed to have too little energy to get out of the nucleus. The Coulomb barrier arises from the combined effect of the Coulomb repulsion between the alpha particle and the nucleus (both positively charged) and the nuclear force that attracts the two particles. The energy of the emitted alpha particle is less than the top of this barrier. Classically, the particle would be unable to get out of the nucleus, but it obviously does.Gamow suggested that alpha particles tunnel through the barrier. If so, the half-life of the decay should depend on the width and height of the barrier, and it does: the lower and thinner the barrier, the greater the chance of penetrating it. As the alpha particle's energy increases, the particle sees both a lower and thinner barrier so the probability of getting through increases extremely rapidly. For example, the energies of the alphas emitted by 232Th and 212Po are 4.05 MeV and 8.95 MeV, respectively, while their respective half-lives are 14 billion years and 0.3 millionth of a second. Thus, a factor of about two in energy produces a difference in half-lives of sixteen orders of magnitude (that is, sixteen powers of ten)!" (Rigden, Building Blocks of Matter: A Supplement to the Macmillan Encyclopedia of , p. 393).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1928 P.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1898). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1897 - Vol. 190 - Series A.. Pp. 301-422, 6 plates and textillustr. Clean and fine. First printing of a classic paper in thermodynamics. In this paper Reynolds describes his construction of laboratory apparatus for better measurement of Joule's mechanical equivalent of heat"Reynolds' most extensive experimental work concerned the mechanical equivalent of heat; specifically, he found the mean specific heat of water (in terms of work) between the freezing and boiling points. The results rank among the classic determinations of physical constants." (In the paper offered).(DSB XI, p. 393)

(London, W. Nicol, 1823). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1823 - Part I. Pp. 160-165. Clean and fine. First appearance of this famous paper in which Faraday describes his procedure to obtain liquefaction of chlorine and some of its properties. Faraday made an analysis of chlorine hydrate..., finding the composition... He showed the results to Davy, who suggested that he should heat this compound in a sealed tube. The result was the liquefaction of chlorine, reported in a note at the end of the paper"(Partington IV:p. 105).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1823 C.The paper comes together with Humphry Davy "On a new phenomenon of electro-magnetism", pp. 153-159 and Charles Bell's importent works on the physiology of the eye "On the Motion of the Eye, in illustration of the uses of the muscles and nerves of the orbit", pp. 166-186 a. 1 engraved plate. + "Second Part of the Paper on the nerves of the Orbit", pp. 289-307.

København, 1890 + København, 1899. Indb. m. det orig. foromslag til "Hedda Gabler" i ét lidt senere blåt hshirtbd. "Hedda Gabler" m. gl. ejernavn på titelbl. og maginalrestauration til sidste teksblad, ellers er begge værker helt rene og friske. To originaludgaver.First editions of both works bound w. the orig. front-wrapper for "Hedda Gabler" in one a little later blue full cloth. Old owner's name to title-page of "Hedda Gabler" and marginal restauration to last leaf, otherwise both works are very nice and clean. "Ibsen's influence on the whole course of modern drama may be indicated by the inclusion of his plays in the repetoire of every Anvant-garde theatre of his day - the Théâtre Libre, Paris, 1887, Die Freie Bühne in Berlin, 1887, and The Independant Theatre in London, 1891-" (Printing and the Mind of Man: 375).