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Reykjavik, Ísafoldarprentsmidja H.F., 1938-49. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Light wear to corners.. One orig. frontwrapper withbound. 524 pp., 14 plates, textillustr. Bookplate of Lorenz Ferdinand.

(Paris, Crochard, 1820).. No wrappers. Extracted from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Series 2, Tome 13. Pp. 384-409 a. 1 folded engraved plate. The plate with some brownspots. First French edition of this groundbreaking paper in microscopy and biology. The paper was first published in Italian as "De microscopi cattadiottrici memoria", Modena 1818, and here he explains how, by the improved acromatic microscope, he was able to observe the circulation of protoplasm in Chara cells. He thereby became immediately famous not only as an optician but also as a microscopic biologist.After improving his microscope "Amici immediately applied his instrument to the study of the circulation of sap in the Chara. The main matters that he clarified were "the dependence of this circulation on the series of chlorophyll grains, that the sap flows faster in the cell wall than in the internal cell space, that there is no dividing wall between the rising current and the descending current of sap and the possibility of dividing the sap current into two separate circuits by constricting the cell" (H. von Mohl).Garrison & Morton: 266.

London, Printed and Sold by Booksellers in Town and Country, (1738 or 1740). Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Covers with gilt lineborders and blindtooling. Spine rubbed. A nick at foot of spine. A crack in leather on hinge at upper compartment. Engraved frontispiece (portrait). (2),96,96,96,VIII,(9-) 108 pp. Light browning to the first few leaves. Printed on good paper. A few brownspots.

(Copenhagen, 1754). 4to. In recently blue paper covered card board binding with white paper-label title-label to front board. Previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper. Without wrappers as issued in "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter", a nice and clean copy. Pp. 249-254. First edition of Kraf’s paper in which he explores the relationship between principles of physics and metaphysics attempting to bridge the gap between Newtonian physics and Leibnizian metaphysics.

Pei-p'ing. Imprimerie de l'Université Catholoque, 1933. 4to. Nice hmorocco with raised bands, titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. XIV,521 pp. Clean and fine. The original printing. "Publications de L'Université Catholique de Pékin"

London, Egerton, 1791. Contemp. full calf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine. Spine rubbed. Fronthinge weakening. Stamp on title-page. XV,222,32 pp., 28 folded engraved plates (1 in xerox-copy). A few scattered brownspots.

Tübingen, Osiander, 1826. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. VIII,(2),234 pp., 4 folded lithographed plates. A few scattered brownspots.

Lugdunii Batavorum (Leiden), Joannem à Kerkheim, 1743. 4to. Original full blindstamped vellum, raised bands. (16),408,(28) pp. + (8),99 pp. Titlepage printed i red/black with engraved titlevignette. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1902. Contemp. hcloth. Top of spine with light wear, bottom of spine with small nicks. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 8. Hrsg. von Paul Drude." VIII,928 pp. and 7 plates. Einstein paper: pp. 798-814. Internally fine and clean. The whole volume offered. First editon. - Weil No 2.

Hafniae (Copenhagen), C. Steen, 1835. Royal8vo. Uncut in contemp. boards, leatherbacked later. VIII pp. and 111 engraved plates, among these 11 plates with species of whales. First edition. The mammals are arranged according to Classes after Linné and depicted after Blumenbach. - Nissen ZBI: 2180 (listing only 110 plates).

Kbhvn., Brünnich, 1812. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitel. Ryg lidt slidt, lille revne øverst i fals. Hjørner stødte. XIV,698 pp. Bogen har tilhørt Paul Bergsøe, og bærer hans navn på fribladet. Første danske udgave af dette vigtige værk indenfor den kemiske teknologi. - Bibl. Danica II:147.

Kjøbenhavn, Johan Jørgen Høpffner, 1744. 8vo. In later half calf pastiche binding with richly gilt spine by the renowned Danish bookbinder Anker Kyster. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Wear to capitals (lower worn away) and outer hinges. Ownership signature to inside of front board and lower margin of title page. Title page printed in red and black. Evenly browned and insignificant water mark to upper outer margin throughout. (34), 3-613, (25) p. Rare first edition of the first Danish translation of Wolff's 'Vernünfftige Gedancken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen' (Halle, 1720).

København [Copenhagen], Bianco Luno,1943. Lex8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. The first upper right corners a bit bumped. Clean. 116 pp. The seminal first edition of this breakthrough work in linguistics, which constitutes the basis of linguistic analysis and served as a main inspiration for Derrida's "De la Grammatologie". In 1943 the first edition of the main work of the great Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) appeared. The work appeared in the series "Festskrift udgivet af Københavns Universitet i Anledning af Universitetets Aarsfest" and bore the title "Omkring Sprogteoriens Grundlæggelse". The work was translated into English as "Prolegomena to a Theory of Language" and later into French as "Prolegomenes a une theorie du langage ". This work came to represent a breakthrough in linguistics and formed an entirely new branch of this field.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 scool, 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 inflenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.In his main work, "Prolegomena to a Theory of Language", Hjelmslev begins by ascertaining that "- Language - human speech - is an inexhaustible wealth of manifold values. Language is inseparably linked to man and follows him in all of his doing. Language is the tool with which man moulds thought and feeling, mood, aspiring, will and action, the tool with which he influences and is influenced, the last and deepest condition of human society. [...]" ("- Sproget - mennesketalen - er en uudtømmelig rigdom af mangfoldige værdier. Sproget er uadskillelig knyttet til mennesket og følger ham I al hans færd. Sproget er det redskab hvormed mennesket former tanke og følelse, stemning, stræben, vilje og handling, det redskab hvormad han paavirker og paavirkes, menneskesamfundets sidste og dybeste forudsætning." p. (5) ). He then goes on to unfold a criticism of the linguistic methodologies in use at the time. He accepts Saussure's theories of language as a system of signs, the leading theories in this field at the time, but he claims that this only applies to theories of language use. Hjelmslev, however, wishes to establish a regular linguistic system, in which language is seen as a complex system made up of small units. He sees earlier linguistic methodologies as being merely descriptive, and as the first, he wishes to provide a methodology that is systematizing and provide a linguistic theory that is to found the basis of a rational form of linguistics. The theory that Hjelmslev thus develops here came to constitute an important contribution to modern general epistemology, a contribution that likewise constitutes the starting point of linguistic analysis. Linguistic analysis is set off with the theory propounded in this work that a sign not merely refers to one form, but to two, namely a content form and an expression form. At the same time, every function of a sign is twofold in that it is manifested by both the content substance and the expression substance, the first being the psychological manifestation of the sign, the second being the material substance, in which the sign is manifested. Thus, Hjelmslev puts forth a new form of semiotics, one in which language and linguistics are not necessarily bound to a spoken language, and one which is constituted by a scientific method of analysis. Because of this theory, a new philosophical tradition also sees the light of day, one inspired by the opposition to the widely accepted idea that images, in order to be understood, had to be translated into a phonetic substance or something more concrete. For Hjelmslev, the linguist finds meaning in from the form of content, and it is from the point of view of this form that the content substance must be analyzed. This theory deeply influenced both Deleuze, who often mentions Hjelmslev throughout his works, and Derrida, who's "Grammatologie" is deeply inspired by Hjelmslev's work, to which it bears numerous references and long quotations.

Bruxelle, Guyot Fréres, 1888. Folio (52 x 40 cm.). Original clothbacked printed boards. Boards brownspotted. Stamp on title-page. With 15 double-page plates. Plates clean.

[Various places and printers], 1946 - 1968. Collection of 13 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Four papers with dedication from the author to top of front wrapper. Contained in a black kassett. Collection of offprints by Finnish mathematician and statistician Gustav Elfving known as one of the founders of the modern theory of the optimal design of experiments.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1830. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von C.L. Crelle", Bd. 5 u. 6. With titlepage to Bd. 5. Pp. 1-36 and pp. 107-146. One engraved plate. First printing of Plückers invention of separate homogenous coordinates. Plücker introduced trilinear coordinates, and he "starts with a fixed triangle and takes the coordinates of any point P to be the signed perpendicular distances from P to the sides of the triangle; each distance can be multiplied by the same arbitrary constant...by using homogenous coordinates and Euler's theorem on homogenous functions.....Plücker was able to give elegant algebraic representations of geometric ideas...and his efforts to treat duality algebraically led him to a beautiful idea, line coordinates....With this notion of line coordinates Plücker was able to give an algebraic formulation and proof of the principle of duality. (Morris Kline).

Wien, Anton Strauss, 1823. 4to. (27,5 x 22,5 cm.). Fine full lightbrown morocco. Broad gilt floral borders between gilt lineborders on covers, broad blindtooled border and large inner panel stamped in blind with large lozenge and stamped diamonds. Cornerpieces. Cover-edges gilt, edges gilt, inner gilt floral border. Spine divided in 6 compartmenst, profusely gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Double sewn headbands.Two corners slightly bumped. 236 pp. Printed on fine heavy paper. A paperpocket pasted on inside frontcover. The binding signed "Joseph Drechsler Relieur à Vienne." on front free endpaper.

(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1964. 8vo. Volume XLIII, September, No. 4, Part 1 and 2, 1964 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper, and very light brownspotting to spine, otherwise a near mint copy. Pp. 1155-1479 + two folded plates, one loosely inserted. First publication of AT&T's first submarine telephone cable across the pacific. It went from Japan to Hawaii, where it connected to two cables linking Hawaii with the mainland. This brought the same improvements to trans-Pacific service that the TAT-1 had brought to trans-Atlantic service in 1956. (See link below). Since the 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.Due to uncertainties in global politics, the economic involvement by the US government in the project was minimal. Papers contained in the present issue:1. Ehrbar, R.D.; Fraser, J.M.; Kelley, R.A.; Morris, L.H.; Mottram, E.T.; Rounds, P.W. The SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1155-1184.2. Bowker, M.W.; Nutt, W.G.; Riley, R.M. Design of Armorless Ocean Cable. Pp. 1185-1208.3. Lerch, B.W.; Phelps, J.W.Armorless Cable Manufacture. Pp. 1209-1242.4. Brewer, S.T.; Dickinson, F.R.; Von Roesgen, C.A. Repeaters and Equalizers for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1243-1273.5. Johansson, S.G.Manufacture of Rigid Repeaters and Ocean-Block Equalizers. Pp. 1275-1310.6. Holdaway, V.L.; Van Haste, W. ; Walsh, E.J. Electron Tubes for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1311-1338.7. Bishop, J.D.; Mottel, S.Cable Power Facility. Pp. 1339-1366.8. Ehrbar, R.D. A Cable Laying Facility. Pp. 1367-1372.9. Grismore, O.D.Cable and Repeater Handling System. Pp. 1373-1394.10. Gretter, R.W.Cable Payout System. Pp. 1395-1434.11. Butler, J.H.; Altenburg, C.J.; McSweeney, R.J.; Sutton, L.E. Design and Powering of Cable Ship "Long Lines". Pp. 1435-1459.

(Paris), 1917-20. 8vo. Comprising 51 volumes (including some titles in doublo), all in orig. full cloth, orig. boards or with orig. printed wrappers. Stamps on titlepages. Some library marks to extremities. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps in the text and maps from the First World War.

Meissen, Goedsche, 1834. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Lower half of spine with a taped label. Lithographed title-page. (6),IV,126,(2) pp., 2 large folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots.

Göteborg, Amund Grefwe, (1658). Uden omslag. 16 sider. Sidste blad repareret for en revne, uden tab af tekst.Tæt beskåret. ANON - Collijn 292. Amund Grefwe (ca. 1610-1677), was the first printer in Göteborg. He studied Latin at the University of Uppsala and was the author of a few minor works. He began his printing career in Uppsala working for Professor Wallius's private press and later for Laurentius Paulinus Gothus. Grefwe moved to Stockholm, where he worked for the royal translator Ericus Schroderus and when he moved back to his place of birth in Nyköping Grefwe goes with him. In 1646 he was offered a job in Göteborg. When he had finished the work on "Carionis Chronika" he moved to Göteborg in 1650. He was not satisfied with the promised conditions and complained to the Governor of Västergötland. In 1653 he was given priviliges by Queen Kristina, which allowed him to publish and sell his own works and also scholarly books. In 1650 he published the first book printed in Göteborg: " Christelige Gåfwors Apoteek."

No place, no date, ca. 1880. Imperial folio. (59,5 x 42,5 cm.). Contemp. full cloth. Titlelabel on upper cover with gilt lettering. Half- title: "Atlas des Batiments". With 8 plans in double-folio.

(London, Harrisn and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1888, Vol. 179 - Series B. Pp. 503-537, textillustr. and 2 lithographed plates. Fine and clean. First appearance of this importent paper describing for the first time a new species of the Jurassic flying reptile.The skull was collected in the 1880s by D.W. Purdon, who is honoured in the specific name "Scaphognatus Purdoni, s Newton nmd it. It was recognizd as a distinct genus only decades later in 1919 by Gustav von Arthaber.

Small 8vo. Bound in 7 later hcloth, gilt backs. Stamp on htitles and on verso of titles. With 23 engraved portraits of Napoleons generals.

Washington, 1871. Large 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering to upper board. Light wear along joints. VI pp., 39 engraved plates, some folding. Clean and fine.