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Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1964. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Physics Letters", Vol. 13, 1964. Library stamp to upper part of pasted down front free end-paper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 168-171. [Entire volume: 368 pp.]. First printing of this seminal paper which provides a unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions. Their theory predicted the existence of new elementary particles, the W and Z bosons. These particles were found in experiments performed in 1983. For this work Salam shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 with Glashow and Weinberg."Beginning in the late 1950s, Salam's group at Imperial had become perhaps the most active of the groups working in gauge theories during a period in which quantum field theories had been displaced by another approach, the S-matrix model. While many theorists were looking toward this latter method in the hopes of avoiding the seemingly intractable difficulties that had begun to arise with field-theoretic calculations, Salam believed that a more "fundamental" explanation would have to come from invoking the standard perturbation method for quantum field theory. This conviction, shared by his collaborators at Imperial, was transmitted to his students. In 1964 the group started a research program on gauge theories. The aim of this program was to find the mathematical group of transformations that left "invariant" the laws that rule an interaction: The question was whether or not the interaction depended on certain physical properties of the particles, such as electric charge or other "quantum numbers."The aim was to find symmetry groups that showed that interactions that seem essentially different are just manifestations of a more general one, such as in the electromagnetic theory, in which Salam's goal was to unify electromagnetic and weak interactions." (DSB)

København, Philipsen, 1893. Indbundet i et simpelt helbind af rødlig-orange oaseged med fire ophøjede bind og forgyldt titel på ryg. Enkel streg-forgyldning på inderside af permer. Forsatse af håndtrykt bøttepapir. (Petersen & Petersen). Ryg falmet og bind en lille smule nusset. Indvendig helt ren. Originaludgaven.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8vo. Orig. full blue cloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to capitals and corners. Previous owner's signature to front board and fly-leaf. Internally, nice and clean, but with some pencil underlinings in text and marginal notes. VIII, 223, 6 pp. First edition, first issue of this important work by the greatest economist of the 20th century."A Revision of the Treaty" is written as a "sequal" to "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", which was printed in 1920 and was based on a literal interpretation of the Treaty of Versailles. In this most important sequal, Keynes argues that, not alone it will be nearly impossible to go through with the treaty, the fulfillment of it will also have disastrous consequences. The work turned out to be prophetic, as it foresaw the rise of revolutionary governments, and the fact that no country would live up to the Treaty; Germany paid nothing near the amount bestowed upon her, and neither that country nor the other European nations received the economic assistance needed to create a healthy democratic economy. The disorder and revolutionary feelings foreseen by Keynes led to a Germany run by Hitler and an Italy run by Mussolini .It is probably due to the prophetic character of the work that it still remains a classic of economics and historical studies, but it also had direct political consequences; the work was used by the United States in justifying the rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and thereby a League of Nations.

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1851. Indbundet i et pænt nyere halvmaroquin med forgyldt rygtitel. Håndsyede kapitælbånd og fladstrøgne kapitæler. (Sign. Axel Jensen). Nogle spredte brunpletter især på de første og sidste blade. (6),92 pp. Originaludgaven. Himmelstrup 136.Exlibris Paul Hauge.

København, Schubothe, 1890 + 1892 8vo. Indbundet i ét samtidigt halvlæderbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Ryg falmet og næsten løs. Kapitæler og kanter af permer med en smule slid. Begge smudstitelblade med egenhændige dedikationer fra Bang: Under Aaget: "Andreas Winding - / Herman Bang. / De er alt for grusom. De / latterliggør endogsaa / Menneskenes Glæde." Teatret: "Til Fru Windings Mand - / H. B." Ren og pæn indvendig. To nydelige dedikationseksemplarer til Andreas Winding. Windings hustru, skuespillerinde Agis Winding, medvirkede i filmatiseringen af Bangs De fire Djævle.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. XXII [22], No. 148. Entire issue offered. Wrappers with light soiling, spine lacking upper and lower part of paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 46-47. [Entire issue: 51 pp.]. First printing of this important paper in which Maxwell describes an attempt to establish the relaxation time: "In 1866 I made some attempts to ascertain whether the state of strain in a viscous fluid in motion could be detected by its action on polarized light" (from the present paper.)

Ét samt. brunt hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn., blindtrykte dekorationer og rygtitelfelter af blåt skind; false og hjørner m. brugsspor. Indvendig helt ren. 2 originaludgaver, uden halvtitelbl. Himmelstrup 272 + 100.

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.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1960. 8vo. Volume XXXIX (49), January, No. 1, 1960 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Entire issue offered in the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of sunning to spine and previous owner's stamp to top of front wrapper, otherwise a very nice, clean, and fresh copy. Pp. 235-255. [Entire issue: 264 pp.]. First printing of this seminal paper in which the push-button telephone is first described. Push-button telephony was considered a revolution within telecommunication. It replaced rotary dial telephones that had been in use since 1891 and the technique behind the touch-tone format is today used for all cell phones.The first prototypes were invented in 1941 by the Bell System, these were, however, never fully functional and therefore not brought to the commercial market. The research was shelved during WWII and was not prioritized until later, after the transistor had been developed and tones could be produced with electronic oscillators in the late 1950ies. The first push-button telephone reached the commercial market in 1963, though in the mid 1970ies the majority of phone users still had rotary phones.The issue contains the following papers:1. Feiner, A.; Lovell, C.A.; Lowry, T.N.; Ridinger, P.G. The Ferreed - A New Switching Device. Pp. 1-30.2. James, D.B.; Johannesen, J.D. A Remote Line Concentrator for a Time-Separation Switching Experiment. Pp. 31-57.3. Malthaner, W.A.; Runyon, J.P. Controller for a Remote Line Concentrator in a Time-Separation Switching Experiment. Pp. 59-86.4. Bakanowski, A.E.; Forster, J.H. Electrical Properties of Gold-Doped Diffused Silicon Computer Diodes. Pp. 87-1045. Legg, V.E. Analysis of Quality Factor of Annular Core Inductors. Pp. 105-126.6. Benes, V.E. General Stochastic Processes in Traffic Systems with One Server. Pp. 127-160.7. Unger, Hans-Georg. Round Waveguide with Double Lining. Pp. 161-167.8. Thurmond, C.D.; Kowalchik, M. Germanium and Silicon Liquidus Curves. Pp. 169-204.9. Trumbore, F.A. Solid Solubilities of Impurity Elements in Germanium and Silicon. Pp. 205-233. 10. Schenker, L. Pushbutton Calling with a Two-Group Voice-Frequency Code. Pp. 235-255.

Wien, Carl Schaumburg und Comp., 1828. Cont. marbled boards. Gilt back, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. (4),482,(2) pp. Slightly browned. First edition.

Berlin, Springer, 1931. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 71, 1931. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page and a three cm tear to upper front hindge, otherwise fine. Pp. 205-226. [Entire volume : VII, (1), 823 pp.]. First appearance of Bethe's paper containing his famous and much used method for finding the exact solutions of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. Bethe here found the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model Hamiltonian. Since then the method has been extended to other models in one dimension: Bose gas, Hubbard model, etc.

Berlin, Springer, 1931. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 71, 1931. Entire issue offered. Library stamp to title page and a three cm tear to upper front hindge, otherwise fine. Pp. 205-226. [Entire volume : VII, (1), 823 pp.]. First appearance of Bethe's paper containing his famous and much used method for finding the exact solutions of certain one-dimensional quantum many-body models. Bethe here found the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model Hamiltonian. Since then the method has been extended to other models in one dimension: Bose gas, Hubbard model, etc.

Berlin, 1818. 4to. Cont.hcalf. Stamp on title. Slightly brownspotted. IV,116 pp. Frontisp.(bound at end) and 7 fold. engr.plates.

New York, (American Telephone and Telegraph Company), 1967. 8vo. Volume XLVI, July-August, No. 6, 1967 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of sunning to spine, previous owner's stamp to front wrapper. Otherwise a very nice and clean, internally near mint, copy. Pp. 1288-1295. [Entire issue: Pp. 1055-1300]. First publication of Khang and Sze's seminal and exceedingly influential paper on Floating Gate MOSFET. The technology is today used in flash memory cards."In 1967, Kahng and Sze reported the first floating-gate structure as a mechanism for nonvolatile information storage. Since then, floating-gate transistors have been used widely to store digital information for long periods in structures such as EPROMs, EEPROMs, and Flash memories." (Hasler, Paul. FLOATING-GATE DEVICES, (1) p.).

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1838. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 18. Band, 1-2 Heft, 1838". Both issues in the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Gudermann, 1 heft:] Pp. 1-54. [Gudermann, 2 heft:] Pp. 142-175. [Entire issue, heft 1: IV, 100, (2) pp. 2 Heft: 101-188, (2) pp. + 2 plates, one of them detached.]. First printing of Gudermann's two papers on modular functions and modular integrals, ideas which anticipated his 1844-book."Gudermann devoted much more attention to the theory of special functions. After the earlier works of Leonhard Euler, John Landen, and A. M. Legendre (Gauss's results were still in manuscript), Niels Abel's studies on elliptical functions, published mostly in A. L. Crelle's Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik, represented an important divide in treating this area. In 1829 Carl Jacobi's book Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum was published. At the time Gudermann was one of the first mathematicians to expand on these results. Beginning with volume 6 (1830) of Crelle's Journal, he published a series of papers which he later summarized in two books: Theorie der Potenzialoder cyklisch-hyperbolischen Functionen (1833) and Theorie der Modular-Functionen und der Modular-Integrale (1844), which were to have had a sequel which was never written." (DSB).

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1724. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXXIV". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Pp. 356-66. [Entire volume: (2), 543, (43) pp. + five engraved plates.]. First printing of one of the famous Swizz mathematician Johann Bernoulli's papers. He is known for his contributions to the infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler in his youth.The offered volume contains many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1957. 8vo. Original full green cloth, bound with the original blue wrappers. Volume 36, 1957 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. [Entire issue:] 20, 1513 pp. First edition of the first technical description of the TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. The 2,240-mile cable was laid by the cableship Monarch and ran from Gallanach Bay, near Oban in Argyll, to Clarenville, Canada. The initial capacity was 36 calls at a time at a price per call of $12 for the first three minutes. Since trans-Atlantic service opened in 1927, calls had traveled across the ocean via radio waves. But cables provide much higher signal quality, avoid atmospheric interference and offer greater capacity and security."The papers that follow describe the design, manufacture and installation of the first transatlantic telephone cable system with all its component parts, including the connection microwave radio-relay system in Nova Scotia." (From the introduction to the present papers)."Years of development led up to 1956 when the first transatlantic telephone cable system started carrying calls; this is an interesting story in itself. Two coaxial cables about 20 miles apart carried 36 two-way circuits. Nearly 50 sophisticated repeaters were spaced from 10 to 40 miles along the way. Each vacuum tube repeater contained 5,000 parts and cost almost $100,000." (Petruzzellis, Thomas. Telephone Projects for the Evil Genius, 2008, p. 4). The electronic repeaters, the devices that held together the many separate cables, were designed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In terms of reliable operation, the most critical component of the system was the repeater. These devices, spaced at intervals of 37.5 nautical miles along the cable, compensated for loss. The repeaters were of a unique flexible design, which allowed them to be handled in the same manner as cable.TAT-1 carried the Moscow-Washington hotline between the American and Soviet heads of state.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:1. Kelly, Dr. Mervin J.; Radley, Sir Gordon. Transatlantic Communications - An Historical Resume. Pp. 1-5.2. Mottram, E.T.; Halsey, R.J.; Emling, J.W.; Griffith, R.G. Transatlantic Telephone Cable System - Planning and Over-All Performance. Pp. 7-27.3. Lewis, H.A.; Tucker, R.S.; Lovell, G.H.; Fraser, J. M. System Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 29-68.4. Gleichmann, T.F.; Lince, A.H.; Wooley, M.C.; Braga, F.J. Repeater Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 69-101. 5. Lamb, H.A.; Heffner, W.W. Repeater Production for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 103-138. 6. Meszaros, G.W.; Spencer, H.H. Power Feed Equipment for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 139-162.7. McNally, J.O.; Metson, G.H.; Veazie, E.A.; Holmes, M.F. Electron Tubes for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 163-188.8. Lebert, A.W.; Fischer, H.B.; Biskeborn, M.C. Cable Design and Manufacture for the Transatlantic Submarine Cable System. Pp. 189-216.9. Halsey, R.J.; Bampton, J.F. System Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 217-244.10. Brockbank, R.A.; Walker, D.C.; Welsby, V.G. Repeater Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 245-276.11. Thomas, J.F.P.; Kelly, R. Power-Feed System for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 277-292.12. Jack, J.S.; Leech, Capt. W.H.; Lewis, H.A. Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 293-326.And many other.

(Atlantic City, N. J., 1947). Large 4to. (278x214 mm / 10.94x8.43 inches). Offprint from Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 18, pp.495-513, December, 1947. Original printed wrappers with holes punched in the back (as issued). Lower left corner with traces after having been bended. Lower 2 cm of spine loosened, otherwise fine and clean throughout. Pp. 19. Scarce offprint issue of Olmstead and Tukey's important paper in which a new method for the association of two continuous variables are proposed. "Its notable properties are: (1) Special weight is given to extreme values of the variables. (2) Computation is very easy. (3) The test is non-parametric." (From the present paper). "One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Brown University, he joined the faculty at Princeton; in 1945, he also began work at Bell Laboratories. Equally committed to both Princeton and Bell Labs, Tukey chose to work concurrently at both institutions. He was also a consultant for many companies, such as Merck and Company, Xerox Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service, and was a frequent advisor to the government for such programs as the US Census. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC's election night projections. Among other projects Tukey analyzed Alfred Kinsey's research and examined data on ozone depletion. Tukey made many important contributions to the field of statistics, such as work in time series analysis, exploratory data analysis, and multiple comparisons. In early 1945, Tukey began working for Bell Labs, a lifelong association, as it would turn out. While at Bell Labs, Tukey worked with B. D. Holdbrook to develop the Nike missile system although the scant correspondence within this collection is rather routine and doesn't reflect their extensive contribution. Tukey also had a reputation for being discreet regarding his more sensitive projects." (American Philosophical Society).

Berlin, Springer, 1931. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 68, 1931. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 97-113. [Entire volume: VIII, 845 pp.]. First printing of Tamm and Schubin's important paper in which they showed that the external photoeffect is caused by the presence of a jump in potential on the border of the metal vacuum."In 1931 - 1933 Tamm studied the quantum theory of metals, specifically the external photoeffect in metals and the state levels of the electrons on the surface of the metal. His work with S. P. Shubin was the first to show that the external photoeffect is caused by the presence of a jump in potential on the border of the metal vacuum and is associated with the effect of surface absorption of light, while the optic absorption of light by the metal is associated with the volume effect."

Wien, Strauss, 1812-13. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine on Part I. Stamp on title-pages. 221;372;440;407,(1) pp., 11 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table. A few scattered brownspots.