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(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 56, No 8. Pp. (317-) 364. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 330-339. First apperance of this detailled report and examination by the French mathematiciens Mathieu, Chasles and Delaunay of the calculating machine invented by Martin Wiberg as an improvement on the Scheutz machine. The machine could produce tables of logarithms.

Kiøbenhavn, H.J. Graae, 1783. Lille8vo. Smukt samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryg, rig rygforgyldning, forgyldte bordurer på permer. XIV,(2),216 pp. ent frisk eksemplar, trykt på svært skrivepapir. Yderst sjælden, nok Gamborg's filosofiske hovedværk, stærkt påvirket af Hutchinson, Hume og Adam Smith. Bogen udkom endda i tysk oversættelse og i to udgaver. Gamborg blev i 1788 udnævnt til professor extraordinarius i praktisk filosofi ved Københavns Universitet, en stilling han ikke blev længe i, da han i 1796 udnævntes til sekretær og assessor i konsistoriet, samtidig med at han afgik som regensprovst. Bibl.Danica I, 966.

Padova, Tipi della Minerva, 1836. Large 8vo. Bound in a fine cont. hmorocco, partly untrimmed. Top edge gilt. Raised bands. 144 pp. and 20, partly large folded engraved plates. Throughout fine and clean, printed on good paper.

Paris, 1908-24. 4to. Bound in 3 hvellum. 460,428,559 pp. Richly illustr.

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.

Julius Springer, Berlin 1924. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary dark blue full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen, 92 Band, 1924." Light writing in pencil to title page, other fine and clean throughout. [Hilbert:] 1-32 pp. [Entire volume: (2), 316 pp.]. First printing of Hilbert's important contribution to the unification of gravitational theory and electrodynamics. Hilbert stated that the present paper essentially was a reprint with insignificant alterations. This is, however, not entirely true as several Hilbert biographers have pointed out, that this version contain "major conceptual adjustments and a recognition of its deductive structure" (Renn, The Genesis of General Relativity, p.930). "...it was Hilbert's aim to give not just a theory of gravitation but an axiomatic theory of the world. This lends an exalted quality to his paper, from the title, 'Die Grundlagen der Physik', The Foundations of Physics, to the concluding paragraph, in which he expressed his conviction that his fundamental equations would eventually solve the riddles of atomic structure" (Pais: Subtle is the Lord, pp. 257-258). In Hilbert's 1915-paper he falsly believed that electromagnetism was essentially a gravitational phenomenon. "These and other errors are expurgated in an article Hilbert wrote in 1924 [the present paper]. It is again entitled 'Die Grundlagen der Physik' and contains a synopsis of his 1915 paper and a sequel to it written a year later. Hilbert's collected works, each volume of which contains a preface by Hilbert himself, does not include these two early papers, but only the one of 1924" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord…, p. 258)

Paris, n.d.(ab. 1835). 12mo. Very nice cont.full longgrained morocco. Richly gilt back, broad gilt borders on sides, edges gilt. Contains all 72 fine engr.plts. Bound with all 4 orig. blue printed wrappers. Plates brownspotted in margins.

Geneve, Merigot le jeune, 1784. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (4),XL,308,(4) pp., 1 large folded engraved plate, 2 large folded engraved maps. On good thick paper.

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1887. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Orig. printed frontwrapper pasted on upper cover. Frontispiece. 88),154 pp., textillustrations, 7 plates, 1 folded map.

Berlin, Amelang, 1838. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Top of spine strenghtened with tape. Stamp on title-page. XXII,602 pp., 8 large folded engraved plates. A few faint scattered brownspots.

Altona, David Iversen, 1763. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A crack at hinge on upper compartment. 175 pp. text in English and German. Marginal browning to first and last leaf. First German edition. The original was published 1762.

Paris, Bureau de la Bibliotheque Scientifique, 1838-40. Large 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Spine on vol. I with a small nick and a tear at upper part of fronthinge. Stamps on title-pages. VIII,584,(4);620,(4);488,(4) pp. and 80 folded engraved plates. Internally clean.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1848 4to. No wrappers. In "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 27, No 24. Pp. (593-) 616. (Entire issue offered). Bravais' paper: pp. 601-604. Frst appearance of a landmark paper in crystallography and mathematics as Bravais here begins his rechearches of the rotations and translations of crystals into themselves, and he thereby, in this process, advanced the studies of both crystalline structure and of group theory."Bravais Lattice is a type of spatial crystal lattice first described by the French scientist A. Bravais in 1848. Bravais expressed the hypothesis that spatial crystal lattices are constructed of regularly spaced node-points (where the atoms are located) that can be obtained by repeating a given point by means of parallel transpositions (translations). When straight lines and planes are constructed through these points, the spatial lattice becomes divided into equal parallelepipeds (cells). There are a total of 14 types of such lattices, by which the structure of any crystal can be described in the first approximation."(The Free Dictionary).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1848 C/M.

Frankfurt & leipzig, Bartholomæus, 1725-25. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. handwritten title on spine. Titlevignettes. Ca. 1550 pp. Clean and fine.

Paris, Magimel, AN XIII - 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XII,724,(3) pp. Clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, Udgiverens Forlag, 1831-32. Indbundet i 7 samtidige ensartede hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte rygtitler. Lettere spredte brunpletter. BFN: 151, 152, 163, 164, 170, 175, 180, 181, 182, 189-93 og 198.

Leipzig, Gleditschen, 1717 & 1719. 8vo. In contemporary half vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. revious owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Light wear to extremitities, internally nice and clean. (6), 382, (2), 302, (18), (22), 310, (1) pp. + 2 frontispieces. Rare first and second edition, respectively, of these two works by Trier on moral philosophy and law.

Fankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 1943. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A bit of brownspotting. Some underlinings, mostly in pencil. 28 pp. The scarce first edition of Heidegger's important and early Freiberg-lecture from 1931, "The Essence of Truth" (not the one printed in Wegmarken).In this work Heidegger assumes the general determination of truth as the accordance of an utterance with a thing as his starting-point. Truth is thought as the accuracy of an accordance, but how, is the question posed by Heidegger, does this accordance between the utterance and the thing come about? And thus the question of the Essence of truth arises.One of the conclusions of the work is that "Das Wesen der Wahrheit ist die Freiheit."The "Essence of Truth" completes a line of thought begun with "Sein und Zeit". Truth is understood as the accuracy of an accordance and is traced back to the resoluteness (Entschlossenheit) of existence, which is now understood as freedom. "Der hier vorgetragene Versuch führt die Frage nach dem Wesen der Wahrheit über das Gehege der gewohnten Umgrenzung im üblichen Wesensbegriff hinaus und verhilft zum Nachdenken darüber, ob die Frage nach dem Wesen der Wahrheit nicht zugleich und zuerst die Frage nach der Wahrheit des Wesens sein muss. Im Begriff des "Wesens" aber denkt die Philosophie das Sein" (p. 27).

Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 1953. 8vo. Orig. full brown cloth w. gilt lettering to spine and blindstamped publisher's mark on front board. Orig. dust-jacket, spine of d-j. darkened, tears to upper part. (4), 156, (1) pp. First edition of the highly important work that consists of Heidegger's lecture of 1935 as well as later contributions concerning the question of "Sein" ("Being"), which gave this term a more radical meaning than it had in "Sein und Zeit".This, Heidegger's "renewal" of Metaphysics, presents the philosophy of the 20th century with one of its greatest challenges.The centre of Heidegger's reflections in this work is the "Entmachtung des Geistes" ("The Disablement of Spirit"). Spirit is reduced to an instrumental reason, which Heidegger calls "Intelligens".

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1907. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", 64. Band, 1907. Hinges and extremities with wear. Bookplates to pasted down front free end-paper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 248-263. [Entire volume: IV, 576 pp]. First printing of Perron's important paper on positive matrices which profoundly influenced several fields of science. "Today the Perron-Frobenius mathematics of nonnegative matrices enjoys wide applications, the most sensational perhaps being its implicit use by millions of internet surfers, who routinely activate Google's PageRank algorithm every day. Such a remarkable worldwide application in an electronic search engine is a far cry from the original theoretical articles, written more than a century ago, by Perron and Frobenius. These two German scholars preferred to concentrate on pure mathematics. Especially Frobenius in Berlin considered applications as inferior subjects that should be relegated to technical schools" (PARYS, How pioneers of linear economics overlooked Perron-Frobenius mathematics).The volume also contain Hjelmslev's important paper: "Neue Begründung der ebenen Geometrie" and Brill's paper on three-dimensional algebraic curves: "Ueber algebraische Raumkurven".

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in half cloth with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik, 48. Band, 1948." Library stamp to front free end paper. A very nice and clean copy. [Fermi:] Pp. 73-79. [Entire issue: VIII, 891 pp.]. First printing of Fermi's paper on the statistical method for the determination of properties of the atom. "During the years 1926-1932 Fermi and his associates did first-class but conventional theoretical physics, within the pattern laid down by the physicists of northern Europe. These were the concluding years of the theory of atomic structure; with the invention of wave mechanics and the relativistic explanation of the electrons' intrinsic angular momentum, the theory as we know it today was completed, and Fermi helped complete the picture. He applied his degenerate gas theory to the electrons in atomic structure, producing a statistical atomic model [In the present paper]". (Allison , Enrico Fermi - A Biographical Memoir, 1957, P. 127). Fermi is widely regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 20th century, Along with Oppenheimer he is frequently referred to as "the father of the atomic bomb". The volume contain the following paper of interest: NEUMANN, J. V. Einige Bemerkungen zur Diracschen Theorie des Drehelektrons. Pp. 868-81.And many other.

Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1868. 2 cont. hcalf. Early owners name on titlepage. Front free endpapers with corners cut, but repaired. XX,354;VI,333 pp. Occasionally slightly brownspotted. First German edition. Martins is wellknown for his investigations on glaciers in Spitzbergen and Schwitzerland. He travelled together with Gaimard in Norway and Lappland. - Schiøtz Nr. 665 c.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1961 4to. Original full blue cloth with gilt spine. Apart from a few light pencil-marginalia, a very nice, clean, tight, and fresh copy - in- as well as externally. XX, 416 pp. + 72 plates (on 72 pp.), (4, - Table of Letters) pp. First edition of this monumental classic, in which the chronology of archaic inscriptions was established for the first time."This is the only modern work to survey in depth the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC.... The original text attempts to reconstruct, for Greek inscriptions from the eighth to the fifth centuries BC, a chronological system (divided tentatively into twenty-five year periods) similar to those already generally accepted for Greek sculpture and pottery. It includes surveys of the origin and dissemination of the alphabet among the city states, the development and content of early inscriptions, and the techniques of the craftsmen, followed by a discussion of the inscriptions of each state. Each section contains a list, with bibliography, of all significant inscriptions, while numerous photographs and facsimiles of the inscriptions provide an important instrument of control. The approach is primarily archaeological, but account is taken also of the many historical, philological, and artistic problems involved."This is a monumental, an altogether superb, book ... It is a book worth waiting for, a major work for reading and for reference, in its field incomparable, and a contribution to the history of our civilization." Classical World.". (Revied of the Oxfiord University Press new, revised edition).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XI, 1756 pp. 300-321 and 1 folded engraved plate. First appearance of this paper in which Euler examines some peculiar differential equations that can be solved through the rather paradoxical method of integration by differentiation. He presents four such problems, which were found to all be members of the same family of differential equations, thus this presentation will focus on reworking several of these problems to make use of this generalization.Together with a paper by Eulers son (Euler le Fils - Johann Albrecht): Des Cerfs - Volans. Traduit du Latin. Pp. 322-364 and 3 folded engraved plates. - Johann here exposes his electrical theory in relation to kites, and indicates that kites were not only children's toys but had been used by the celebrated Romas in his electrical experiments.Enestroem E236.

Seghers, (1947). 12mo. Uncut in original printed wrappers; wrappers brownspotted, but internally nice and clean. 76, (2) pp. First separate printing, one of 100 copies "Hors Commerce" (outside of commerce - i.e. not for sale), of this important work on Francis Ponge.Francis Ponge was very important for Sartre's thought. He was the only communist that Sartre happily associated with after the war and he calls him "the only authentic writer in communist literature". The work was originally printed in "Situations I" (December 1944) and for the first time separately as it is here. This printing is constituted in 100 copies on vélin Johannot, 880 copies on Alfa Marais, and 100 copies that were not for sale, marked "H.C.", of which this is one.