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Leipzig, Caspar Fritschischen Handlung, 1759. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments. Light wear to top of spine. A faint stamp on titlepage. (8),238;222,(38) pp. and 4 folded genealogical tables. Internally clean and fine.

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1949. Lex8vo. Volume 76, October 15, No. 8, 1949 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's name to vaguely stamped to top right corner of front wrapper. Minor traces of wear to extremities and a few small tears to spine. Overall a very nice and clean copy. Pp. 1226-1231. [Entire issue: Pp. 1005-1274]. First printing of Mayer's seminal paper which led to the finding of "magic number" and the Goeppert-Mayer "shell model". Marie Goeppert-Mayer and Marie Curie are the only two women to have received the Nobel Prize in Physics.The nuclear shell model is partly analogous to the atomic shell model which describes the arrangement of electrons in an atom. The nuclear shell model describes the structure of the nucleus in terms of energy based on the Pauli exclusion principle."With Edward Teller in 1947, Marie Goeppert-Mayer began work on the origin of elements, which led to the finding that stable elements contained what would become known as "magic numbers", or patterns in the number of particles their nuclei contain. This ultimately led Goeppert-Mayer to the "shell model" of the nucleus - the theory that atomic nuclei owe their stability to the existence of relatively fixed "shells" or orbits upon which proton and neutrons travel. While other physicists also had envisioned a shell model, there was no convincing evidence until Marie Goeppert-Mayer, acting on a suggestion made by Enrico Fermi, and German scientist H. H. D. Jensen, working simultaneously but seperatly, discovered that spin-orbit coupling occurred within nuclei." (Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. Encyclopedia of women's history in America, 2000, p. 102) "When Teller and I worked on a paper on the origin of elements, I stumbled over the magic numbers. We found that there were a few nuclei which had a greater isotopic as well as cosmic abundance than our theory or any other reasonable continuum theory could possible explain. Then I found that those nuclei had something in common: they either had 82 neutrons, whatever the associated proton number, or 50 neutrons. Eighty-two and fifty are " magic " numbers. That nuclei of this type are unusually abundant indicates that the excess stability must have played a part in the process of the creation of elements." (Marie Goeppert-Mayer's Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1963)

Brussel, Chez Francois Fopens, 1723. 8vo. 5 nice cont. uniform full mottled calf w. 5 raised bands on backs, backs richly gilt. Vol. 1 w. small loss of leather on back and a few small wormholes on back. 2 capitals worn. Internally minor brownspotting. W. frontispiece to vol. 1, woodcut title-vignettes, 2 folded tables and 12 engr. plates (portraits), one w. a repaired tear. In vol. 1 a leaf w. a portrait cut from a newspaper inserted.

Hafniæ, Joh. Jac. Bornheinrich, 1696. Lille 8vo. Næsten samtidigt papbind med skindtitel på forpermen. Ryggen løs i forreste fals. (8),151 pp. Indvendig ren og velbevaret. Sperlings kritiske udgave af Absalons testamente, skrevet mens Sperling var professor i historie og retsvidenskab ved Chr. V's Ridderakademi i København. - Thesaurus II: 655.- Bibl. Danica III:951.

Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1837. 8vo. In half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 64, Cahier 2 (Fevrier 1837). Entire issue offered. Light occassional brownspotting. No institutional stamps, otherwise fine. Wöhler a. Liebig's papers: pp. 185-209 a. pp. 209-217. [Entire issue:] 447 pp. First appearance of this classic paper in organic chemistry in which Wöhler and Liebig showed how Amygdalin could be decomposed by a vegetable emulsion, the first example of a glycoside. The papers were issued at the same time in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie"."The conclusions which you have drawn from the investigation of bitter-almond oil," wrote Berzelius to Liebig and Wöhler, "are certainly the most importent which have so far been reached in the domain of vegetable chemistry, and give promise of shedding an unexpected light over this part of the science...The facts which you have set forth inspire such reflections that they may be regarded as the dawn of a new day in vegetable chemistry."(Berzelius-Wöhler Briefwechsel)."During the years that Liebig was preoccupied with the ether theory and with organic acids, he also carried out two importent investigations with Wöhler. In october 1836 Wöhler wrote that he had discovered a way to transform amygdalin to oil of bitter almonds and hydrocyanid acis, by distilling it with manganese and sulfuric acid, and he invited Liebig to join in pursuing the topic. Two days later he made a more remarkable discovery. It had occurred to him that perhaps thetransformation of amygdalin could be effected by the albumin in the almonds, in a manner similar to the action of yeast in sugar...Wöhler suspected that the decomposition was an example of what Berzelius had recently defined as catalysis. Liebig and Wöhler then divided up the detailed examination of the properties and composition of amygdalin. They precipitated from the emulsion of almonds a substance which when dissolved retain its action. They named the active substance "emulsion". Its effectiveness in very small quantities confirmed that it acted like yeast."(DSB VIII, p. 342).

Bouillon, Societe Typographique, 1771. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands. Titlelabel in leather. 220 pp. Printed on good paper, fine and clean. First edition.

(No place, nor printer), 1741. 8vo. In contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. All edges coloured in red. A nice and clean copy. (16), 367 pp. First edition of Necker’s work on the government of the Germany based on various laws and juridical material. Karl Friedrich Necker (French: Charles Frédéric Necker) was the farther of Jacques Necker, Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI.

Cambridge University Press, 1954. 8vo. Orig. full cloth w. gilt lettering to spine, orig. blue and white dust-jacket in near mint condition w. only a few very minor spots. An excellent, near mint copy. (6), 129 pp. First edition of Ryle's second main work, in which he sets out to discuss true issues and dilemmas of the actual life of man.Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was an immensely influential British philosopher, who represented the ordinary language philosophers so strongly influenced by Wittgenstein. He was also greatly influenced by Bertrand Russell and his theory of descriptions and the conception of analysis embodied in that. Influenced by the idea of misleading expressions, which can be sorted out only with the help of logic, Ryle establishes his view of philosophy as cartography. Just like the inhabitants of a space on earth can talk about that space to the cartographer, so the ordinary user of a language can talk to the philosopher. However, in both cases the practical knowledge of the ordinary user must be transformed into the universal terms of the expert in order for him to say anything meaningful.In his "Dilemmas" Ryle, with the aid of the tools of the practicing philosopher, solves a number of puzzles for everyday man and makes him understand the meaning and use of philosophy in general.

København, 1903. Indbundet ubeskåret med det originale for- og bag-omslag i et samtidigt brun-sort halvlæderbind med forgyldt titel og lille forgyldt ornamentering på ryg. Blindtrykt bort på permer. Ryg med brugsspor. Forreste friblad lidt læst i falsen. og et lille mærke for oven på halvtitlen. Ellers meget ren og frisk. Originaludgaven.

Kristiania & Kjøbenhavn, 1908. Originalt komponeret brunt helshirtbd. En smule slitage ved kapitæler og hjorner. Indre false svage. Samtidigt ejernavn på haltitlen. Ellers indvendig helt ren. Originaludgaven.

Kbh., 1839-41. 4 samt. ensartede hshirtbd. 3 bd. m. gennemgående skjold i nederste højre hjørne, ellers renere end vanligt. M. 9 udfoldelige nodebilag, den udfoldelige stamtavle over den rantzauske familie samt det udfoldelige litograferede kort over "Stjernebilledernes Hovedgrupper." M. bidrag af bl.a. Grundtvig, Ingemann, Oehlenschläger, Blicher, Wergeland, Heiberg, Ørsted, Holst m.fl.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1718. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXVIII". 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. 248-262. [Entire volume: Pp. (4), 564, (40) + five engraved plates.]. First printing of Bernoulli's paper on trajectories. The volume contains many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

København, Høst & Søn, 1928. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. A bit of minor wear to extremities and a bit of wear to spine. An excellent, very nice and clean copy. 362, (1 - errata) pp. The rare first edition of Hjelmslev's first major book, in which he anticipates many of the views that led to the foundation of the seminal theory of language "Glossematics" which he framed together with H.J. Uldall. This foundational work treats the general laws of the formation of language and is an invaluable source for the understanding of Hjelmslev's linguistic theories. Hjelmslev had studied comparatvive linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, when in 1931 he co-founded the "Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague", also known as the "Copenhagen School of Linguistics" with Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942). Hjelmslev's linguistic theories formed the basis of this seminal school, which soon became one of the most important centres of structuralism in the world. The single most important cornerstone of this internationally highly influential school was the new theory on language that Hjelmslev had developed together with Hans-Jørgen Uldall. This theory consisted in the double duality of the linguistic sign and is now known as "Glossematics", a now generally used term, which was coined by the two. "Glossematics" represents an attempt to analyze the contents and the form of language on a coherent basis. Hjelmslev's theories of semiotics became hugely influential, and virtually all of the greatest European thinkers interested in language and theories of language throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were hugely influenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1722. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXXII". 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. [Johann Bernoulli's paper:] Pp. 361-70. [Entire volume: (2), 571, (35) pp. + six engraved plates.]. First printing of this original contribution by the famous Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli.The offered volume contains many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Leipzig, Ambrosius, 1916. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Fourth series, No. 50, 1916. Entire issue offered. Library labels pasted on to front end-papers and stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 489-520. [Entire volume: VIII, 972 pp + 5 folded plates]. First printing of Epstein's seminal paper in which he was able to derive equations for the linear and quadratic Stark effect in hydrogen."In his classic paper on the theory of the Stark effect [The present], the splitting of the spectral lines in a hydrogen atom by a strong electric field, he worked out the quantization rules in an invariant form and then used them to calculate the splitting of the hydrogen lines. The splitting effect, first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913, could not be explained along classical lines. Showing that Niels Bohr's Quantum description of the hydrogen atom could solve the problem made Epstein's reputation as a theoretical physicist. The match between his theoretical predictions and Stark's data furnished striking support for the RutherfordBohr atomic theory.Working independently, the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild publicly announced the solution to the same problem one day after Epstein's paper appeared. (As Epstein relates it, Schwarzchild initially had the wrong formula. He corrected it after seeing an announcement of the development of Epstein's result.) Epstein's other contributions to the development of the quantum theory of atomic structure between 1916 and 1921 ranged from his extension of Bohr's theory to nonperiodic motions, including beta decay and the photoelectric effect, to the interference of spectral lines." (DSB).

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Ltd. [1927]. Orig. pictorial cloth spine slightly sunned. 92 pp. With 71 fullpage colourplates, consisting of the Flower Fairies of the Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Nürnberg, Bauerischen Buchhandlung, 1782. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Scattered faint browning. First edition.

Berlin, Offentliches Leben, 1937. 8vo. In the original wrappers. With repair to lower part and lower right corner bended, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. [Hermann:] Pp. 309-398. [Entire issue: Pp. 273-504, (3) + frontispeice depicting Jakob Friedrich Fries.]. First printing of Hermann's publication on the historical development and foundation of physics. Today she if famous for her pioneering work with respect to the interpretation of quantum theory, the present paper being her most extensive on the philosophical aspects of the development of research in physics.Attempts to interpret and understand what was then new and very puzzling physics were of great contemporary importance when Grete Hermann entered the field, and her work in physics was mainly related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. More specifically, her main work in physics was on the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics, the significance of modern physics for the theory of knowledge, and causality in physics. She was one of the active early contributors to the historic debates on causality in quantum mechanics, and on the completeness of quantum mechanics and its description of reality.Hermann's work during the 1930s reveals the influence of her background in the neo-Kantian school, yet it also owes much to the way in which Heisenberg and Weizsäcker had interpreted Bohr's doctrine of the indispensability of classical concepts in the description of experience.Heisenberg has written that Grete Hermann came to Leipzig for the purpose of challenging the philosophical basis of atomic physics. Heisenberg devoted an entire chapter of his book "Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations" to a reconstruction of discussions that he had on quantum mechanics and Kantian philosophy with Grete Hermann and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1963. Lex8vo. Volume 130, 15 June, No. 6, of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire volume offered in the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper. Wear to spine and extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 2529-38. [Entire issue: Pp. 2135-2622]. First publication of this seminal paper in which the first thorough development of the quantum theory of optical coherence was presented. The present paper led directly to Glauber being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2005 "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence". His theories are today widely used in the field of quantum optics."After the discovery of the maser and the laser in the sixties new ideas for quantum effects of the radiation field were in the air. However, there was no theory for their observation. It was only in 1963 that Roy [Glauber] had developed the quantum theory of optical coherence [in the present paper]. Here the concept of coherence state plays a central role. Coherent states had been proposed for the first time by Erwin Schrödinger in order to show that a wavepacket needs not always to be bound to spread. The coherent state became the crucial tool for Roy's theory of optical coherence. In particular, he could show that for coherent fields all correlation functions factorize." (Scully. Quantum theory of optical coherence. 2009. P. xv.).Glauber's work was essential for understanding and the further development of the laser.

Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Company, 1908. Royal8vo. Offprint, uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Reprinted from "The Journal of Experimental Zoölogy", Vol. V [5], No. 4. Light miscolouring to front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 577-632 pp. Scarce offprint of Jennings' important work in which he published the results of his investigations of heredity and selection in Paramecium. "Most of this lons paper was devoted to a study of the effects of environment and growth upon the sizes of Paramecium, both effects were found to be quite large. (Provine, The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics, P. 100)"Herbert Spencer Jennings was widely recognized and greatly respected not only as a pioneering biological investigator but also as a thinker, philosopher, and educator . He was a master of the art of setting forth simply, clearly, and vividly, in print and in public lectures, the current state of genetics and general biology and of recognizing and pointing out their implications for the general public and for specialists in various disciplines. "Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947), American botanist who was trained at Illinois Normal School and the University of Michigan, then spent a year studying protozoans with Max Verworn at the zoological station in Naples. In the early twentieth century, Jennings began studying inheritance and evolution in protozoans and introduced new experimental methods for laboratory study. By 1920 he had left the laboratory to popularize genetics and harmonize the relationship between biology, religion, and the humanities.

Copenhague, Jaques Preuss, 1741. Newer private full vellum (ca. 1920) w. author, title and year printed in red and black on back. Evenly browned titlepage, and occasional browning, but a tight and clean copy. W. both engr. plates and the folded engr. map of the underworld. Engr. frontispiece missing. First french edition, published same year as the latin original, of this important and highly popular utopic work by the famous Danish professor of Law and Philosophy, Ludvig Holberg. Ehr.-M.: XII, 314

København, Gyldendal, 1832. 8vo. Bound in the original gift boards covered in green glazed paper. Wear and tears to spine. Front board slightly loose. Internally clean. Printed on good paper. With a long inscription in Latin to the inside of front board from Rasmus Rask's half-brother to the Danish theologian Jens Møller: "Jano Möller, Professori in alma nostra universitate / summo, Doctori Celeberrimo reverentiæ et / animi gratissimi documentum libellum postmortem / Beati Fratris editum / modestissime obtulit / discipulus tuus gratissimus / Jo. Ch. Nic. Rask." (4),112 pp. A beautiful gift copy of the first edition of Rask's 'English Morphology', inscribed by his half-brother Hans Kristian Rask to the Danish theologian and professor Jens Møller (1779-1833). Møller is best known for his biographical works. Hjelmslev I, 200.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1704. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCIV". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. Two small stamps 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. 375-80. [Entire volume: (2), 592 pp. + six engraved plates.]. First printing of Bernoulli's paper on infiniti series. Many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians are to be found in the present volume.

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1909. Lex8vo. Original publishers half calf. XVI,766 pp. with 21 plates (8 chromolithographed) and 115 text figures with key tissue guards. Second edition.