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Wien, 1829. 2 cont.hcalf. w.gilt backs. XII, 338, IV, 324 pp. St.o.t. First edition.

Augsburg, G.B. Probst, ca. 1780. Engraved and hand coloured vue d'optique. 30 x 40 cm. Mirrored titel with small tear not affecting text. Colours slightly faded, margins a little foxed. Vues d’optique: perspective views produced as hand-colored prints generally intended to be viewed through a convex lens. Georg Balthasar Probst was a German artist, engraver and publisher in Augsburg, a major European publishing center in the 17th and 18th centuries. He produced architectural views of places around the world, including vues d’optique, which were published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London. He was also known for his portraits.

K., 1824. Næsten helt frisk orig.kartonnage. En smule brunplettet. Ellers velbevaret ekspl.af denne sjældne bog. - Orig.udg. De romantiske digte omhandler idyllerne i haven, en lyrisk pendent til Liselund. Den er illustr.med 12 store vignetter med motiver fra haven. Kobberst.titelblad. Titelkobberet med prospekt af Sanderumgaard, og alle øvrige kobbere er raderet af J.F.Clemens efter tegninger af Johan Hanck. Birkelund nr.217.

Sth., 1933-46. Lex8vo. 5 solide hshirtbd.

Kiøbenhavn, 1824. Orig. bogtrykt kartonnage, lidt nusset og med brunet ryg, men sjældent velholdt. False professionelt forstærkede. Lidt brunplettet. Kobberst. titelbl. , kobberst. frontispiece og 12 halvsides kobbert. vignetter i teksten. Den sjældne originaludgave af dette smukke værk, der indeholder vignetterne med motiver fra haven og frontispiecen med prospektet af Sandegumgaard, alle raderet af J.F. Clemens efter tegninger af Johan Hanck. De romantiske digte omhandler idyllerne i haven, -en lyrisk pendent til Liselund.

Kiøbenhavn., Udgiverens Forlag, 1810-11. Lille 8vo. 3 velbevarede samtidige hldrbd., rygforgyldning og titelfelter i skind. Nederste del af ryg med en påsat papirsetiket. Stempel på titelblade. VIII,539;315,(2);522,(4) pp. samt 46 store udfoldelige kobberstukne planer og kort., hvoraf 1 er i xerox-kopi og 3 andre løse. Rent ksemplar på skrivepapir. Bibl. Danica II:332. Første danske udgave af dette berømmede værk om krigskunsten, forfattet af Ludvig d. 14's feltmarskal.

Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, marbled boards.Titlelabel gone, but spine fine. XXIV,158 pp., textfigs. Internally fine and clean. Second edition. - Warda 105 ("apodictische", not "apoditisch="). Here Kant made the distinction between "relative space" and "absolute space", and hereby reformulating Newton's idea of "absolute space".

Schleswig, Taubstummen-Institut, 1828. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Stamp on titlepage. Engraved frontispiece. 288 pp. Clean and fine printed on good paper. A fine copy.

Havniæ, Universit. Typhographéo, 1712. Lille 8vo. Sener marmorert stift omslag. Forsatse fornyet. Lille rift i ryg. (16),63 pp. 5 blade med svag skjold. Trykt på svært papir. Gl. ejernavn på titelbladet, Frans Thestrup 1737. Fortalen er forfattet af Otto Sperling. Originaltrykket. Yderst sjælden.

Duisburg, Bädeker, 1820-24. Bound in 8 contemporary marbled boards (first 3) and modest, worn half calf (last 5). A reading copy. Stamp on flyleaves. With 10 folded engraved plates (maps, plans) and 2 folded tables. Lacking July 1820-July 1822.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzels Bo og Arvinger, 1854-55. Indbundet i 11 velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Førstetrykket af "Samlede Skrifter", her afsluttet med "Mit Livs Eventyr" (Bind 21-22). Med Andersens litograferede portræt i bind 21.

Fiorenza, (Florece), Apresso di Giunti, 1574. 4to. No wrappers. (26) pp. Large printers woodcut device at end. 3 large woodcut initials, portrait of Cosimo in woodcut. " leaves with brownspot to margin, otherwise fine. First edition of Betti's funeral sermon on Cosimo Medici (1519-1574). - Adams B:845.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. Offprint from 'Mathematische Zeitschrift' volume 30, pp. 3-42. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. First edition offprint issue.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 117-140 and 4 folded engraved plates. Fine and clean. By this paper Camus was the first to work out the mathematical theory of gearteeth into a systematical and general theory of the mechanism.

Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1978). 8vo. Orig. full cloth in orig. dust jacket w. minor taning to top. In fine condition, internally mint. XIII,396 pp. First edition of the first presentation of multiple-conclusion logic.The authors, D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, "in surveying the multiple consequences of taking multiple consequence seriously, have taken a huge first step in founding a new branch of the subject (i.e. logic). Their book provides a solid conceptual foundation and a wealth of results whose breadth and dept has hardly any equal" (Phil. Qual. Vol. 30, Nr. 121, p. 379).

A Paris, Saillant, 1772. Cont. full mottled calf. Back worn as the golddecoration is nearly gone. Engraved frontisp. XXIV,342,(2) pp. A few lvs. slightly browned, otherwise internally fine. Scarce first French edition.

Paris, Levrault, An X (1802). 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear and stains to spine. Hinges weak. Annotations in pencil to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very nice and clean. LXVIII, 424 pp. First French translation, from the library of Jonas Skougaard, of Johan Christian Fabricius’ account of his travels in Norway in summer of 1778. This journey was supported by a government grant and was a part of his extensive travels throughout Europe, during which he made significant contributions to the field of entomology. Biblioteca Norwegica II, 2864. Skougaard III, p. 259.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1811. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine on vol. 1. X,622;(6),690 pp. The map of "Rothen Meere" lacks, the engarver was ill at the publication date, and it should be delivered later, announced at end of vol. 2. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 44. u. 45. Bd.). Also having the series titlepages, these with a stamp.

Amsaterdam, Ioannem Ianssonium, 1651. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Engraved title-page. 377,(7) pp.

Leidae, Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. 4to. Recent full cloth w. leather title-label on back. Engr. frontispiece, engr. title-vignette, title-page in red and black. (158), 760, (99) pp. Brunet V:1046.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926. 4to. Uncut in orig. full cloth. Spine gilt. LXXV,351 pp. 6 facsimiles.

Copenhagen, 1938. 4to. Bound with the original printed frontwrapper in a fine solid hmorocco, blindtooled compartments, gilt bordwers and gilt lettering to spine.. XVIII,251 pp., frontisp. and 12 plates. The 5 last leaves with faint creasing.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2me Series - Tome 75. 447,(1) pp. a. 1 plate. (Entire volume offered). Hess's paper: pp. 80-103. The first and last leaves somewhat brownspotted. First edition in French of Hess' first fundamental law in thermodynamic: "the law of heat formation" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the "LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that "the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages"Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia)."Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps. This generalization, known now as "Hess's Law", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable."(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329."The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866 a. 1877. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 156 - Part II a. vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 781-859 a. pp. 35-116. Clean and fine. First appearance of both papers, controversial as Brodie here tries to established a new chemical philosophy, refusing atomism and founding the calculation of chemical processes on Boolean Algebra, defining chemical symbols with mathematical terms and notations. The work is a remarkable attempt to set chemistry on a rational deductive basis. - The introduction in the second paper meets the main points raised by his critics."In 1866 the Royal Society began to publish Brodie’s "The Calculus of Chemical Operations" (Philosophical Transactions, 156 [1866], 781-859; 167 [1877], 35-116) which introduced Greek symbols for the chemical elements to replace the roman alphabet (Berzelian) symbols that contemporary chemists used to represent atomic weights. Brodie’s symbols, however, represented operations on space (volumes), not weights for, besides its revolutionary symbolism, the calculus also demanded an appreciation of George Boole’s algebraic logic, which Brodie had studied after the publication of Boole’s Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854. In this an equation such as y = xy is a symbolic statement that y is a subset of x in which the symbol x is an operator on y. Although professional mathematicians like William Donkin and Henry Smith later advised Brodie, it appears that he developed the system without professional help. The principal difficulty about the calculus for the present-day historian and philosopher of science is the need to explain it before going on to discuss it and the difficulty of giving any concise description of it. Boole had developed the concept of symbolic operators in algebraic analysis. These provided a code as to how the symbols were to be understood and manipulated. Brodie exploited this in the idea of a chemical operator, or chemical operations, that he symbolized by Greek letters. It is probably unwise, therefore, to interpret Brodie’s philosophy as analogous to Percy Bridgman’s later operationism. He proposed that if two substances with the empirically-derived weights, x and y combined to form a new compound with weight xy, then x + y = xy. From such weight equations he constructed a symbolic algebra that bypassed any atomistic interpretation."(William H. Brock in "Hyle Biography").

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1858 a. 1859.). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 148 - Part I and Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 1-16, textillustr. and 1 lithographed plate with 12 figures of induction coils, apparatus, tubes and striae. A few minor brownspots to plate. First leaf a bit shaved in inner margin, no loss. + Pp. 137-160, textfigs and 1 lithographed plate showing apparatus and tubes. First appearance of this importent paper in the development of early televison."Faradays discovery in 1838 of the negative dark space had revived intyerest in the glow discharge caused by conduction of electricity through gases at low pressure, but Gassiot's interest in this discharge was directly stimulated by W.R. Grove's almost incidental report in 1852 that the discharge was "striated by transverse non-luminous bands..." In his initial investigations showed that if enough care were exercised to achieve a sufficiently low pressure, situations could be produced in the Torricellian vacuum. Next he demonstrated that both a static electric machine and a Ruhmkorff coil with a Grove cell produced a striated discharge. This once again confirmed the identity of these two electricities. He also noticed that a powerfull elexctromagnet divided the striations into what appeared to be two distinct columns. The paper in which Gassiot announced these discoveries (the first paper offered) was honoured as the Royal Society's Bakerian lecture for 1858."(DSB V, p. 292).(Shiers & Shiers "Early Televison. A Bibliography to 1940", No. 25 & 29)