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Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1882. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XII,608 pp., textillustrations, 5 large folded maps/plans.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening. First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 1 Viertes Stück und Bd. 2, Drittes Stück. (The entire issues offered). Pp. 379-518 a. 2 folded engravd plates + pp. 249-368 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Rumford's papers: pp. 436-463 a. pp. 249-286. First German editions of Rumford's central essays on heat flows in liquids, describing his DISCOVERY OF THE CONVECTION OF HEAT and his experiments that led to his theory of the CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE OCEAN. The papers appeared originally in the Philosophical Transactions in 1798.

Kiøbenhavn, 1790, Poulsens Forlag, 1790. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raise bands. "Den Classenske bogsaml paa Corselitze" (i.e. "Classen's bookcollection in Corselitze Manor House") in contemporary hand to title-page and small stamp to lower part of title-page. Internally nice and clean. XXIV, 112 pp. Uncommon second expanded Danish edition of Rousseau’s collection of letters on botany written by Rousseau to Madame Delessert, the mother of one of his young students. The work shows his appreciation for Linnaean classification and includes both scientific and philosophical reflections on nature. Bibliotheca danica II, 186.

Kiel, 1908. Lex8vo. 2 orig.hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Portr.,ca 1.450 pp.

Amsterdam, Gerard Kuyper, 1704. 12mo. Contemp. full calf. Spine gilt, but with wear, extremities rubbed. Engraved frontispiece. X,189 pp. A brownspot in inner margin on the last 5 leaves. Internally clean, printed on good paper. The first edition appeared in Paris 1699 - this is the scarce second edition, later reprinted many times.

Paris, Bernard Brunet 1743. 4to. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges of boards with gilt ornamentation and edges coloured red. Boards with a few scratches, internally very fine and clean. (2), XLVIII, 516 pp. First edition of Aube's treatise on law and morals. The second part is dedicated to the natural law of nations.

Amsterdam, Rod. & jacob. Westenios & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. Bound in a fine well-preserved full contemp. calf, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt letering, blindtooled and with "mirror" on covers (Cambridge-binding). Danish bound. Engraved frontispiece. Title-page printed in red/black. (22),717,239 pp. 1 large engraved vignette. Printers device engraved on title-page. Internally clean and fine, wide-margined and printed on good paper.

Freyberg, Barthelischen Schriften, 1776. 4to. Cont. hcalf, raised bands, slightly rubbed. (8),224,(22) pp. and 7 large folded engraved plans, partly handcoloured (with numbering I-X). First edition, forming II. Stück (vol. 2) of Teilcke's "Beyträge zur Kriegs=Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763". - Also having the generel titlepage with engraved vignette.

Berlin, J.W. Boicke, 1820-24. Uncut in 3 contemp. marbled boards, later clothbacking. Stamp on title. XII,463,(1);XXIV,440;XII,406 pp. 4 folded tables and 48 folded engraved plates with positions handcoloured. Scattered brownspots.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1822. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine. In: "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 12 (= Bd. 72 der Reihe). (12),436 pp., 2 folded tables and 4 engraved plates. Small stamp to verso of titlepages. Internally clean and fine, except for browning to upper right corners on the last 75 leaves. Faraday's paper: pp. 113-129. Ampere's appers: pp. 257-276 a. 32-36. First German versions, in Gilbert's preparations, of these fundamental papers by Faraday and Ampére, the papers that established electro-magnetic rotation, the first electromotors. - Apparatus depicted on the plates.The volumes contains further notable papers by Döbereiner, Berzelius, Sertürner etc. etc.

Kjøbenhavn, Andr. Schous Forlag, 1886. 8vo. Indbundet i det originale komponerede shirtingsbind. Navnetræk på verso af forsatsbladet. Noget brunplettet. XX,403,(1) pp. Nydeligt eksemplar af et af Bangs hovedværker i det særdeles sjældne komponerede shirtingsbind.

Kbhvn., 1905-33. Lex8vo. 9 hshirtbd. Ialt ca 6.000 pp.

Sorøe, (Jonas Lindgren), 1769. 4to. I samtidigt hellæderbind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. False svage og permer med slitage. Titelblad med annotation i højre hjørne i senere hånd, ellers indvendig pæn. (14), 318, 96, (1) pp.

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. Wrappers loose. In "Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik", 10. bd., Heft 1. Pp. 1-138 (entire issue offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 34-54, textillustrations, showing apparatus and 5 photographic plates, showing ionizing by Alpha-, Beta- and Röntgen- radiation). Together with the English version - published 1912 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - this is Wilson's main paper relating "that the track of an ionizing particle might be made visible and photographed by condensing water of the ions which is liberated". The first trails were obtained in 1911 where he submitted a short note of this to the Proceedings. In the offered paper he published the first tracks made by the ionizing particles of alpha, beta and Röntgen-rays. This, Wilson Cloud-Chamber, became an extremely valuable instrument of fundamental research, the discovery of the positron in 1932 and the kaon in 1963 were made by using cloud chambers as detectors."But the whole course of the particle appears infinitely more clearly by the method invented by C.T.R. Wilson in 1911 and named after him. The radiation is allowed to enter an expansion-chamber, containing a gas saturated with water vapour. A sudden expansion of the chamber cools the gas, and cloud-drops are then formed instantly around the ions produced along the tracks of the particles. By suitable illumination these tracks can be made to stand out clearly as if they had been described by luminous projectiles. The "Altmeister" of modern nuclear physics, Lord Rutherford, once called the Wilson chamber "the most original and wonderful instrument in scientific history"."Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air. Very rapidly he discovered that ions could act as centers for water droplet formation in such chambers. He pursued the application of this discovery and perfected the first cloud chamber in 1911. In Wilson's original chamber the air inside the sealed device was saturated with water vapor, then a diaphragm is used to expand the air inside the chamber (adiabatic expansion). This cools the air and water vapor starts to condense. When an ionizing particle passes through the chamber, water vapor condenses on the resulting ions and the trail of the particle is visible in the vapor cloud. Wilson, along with Arthur Compton, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his work on the cloud chamber. (Wikipedia).

Paris, Lucien Laveur, 1909 4to. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in a fine cont. hmorocco, profusely gilt back, raised bands. Portrait in heliogravure. 214,(2) pp., 53 plates, six autographed letters, 22 textillustrations.

København, H. H. Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1901. Lex. 8vo. Indbundet i et nydeligt halvmaroquinbind med rygforgyldning og fem ophøjede bind. Ryg falmet. Med dedikation fra Gustav Wied på titelbladet: "Fred. Hartvig / fra / Gustav Wied / 2 Aug 1902." Ren og pæn indvendig. (6),X,388,(1) pp. Med tre udfoldelige plancher. Nydeligt eksemplar med egenhændig dedikation fra Gustav Wied til vennen Frederik Hartvig.

Paris, Correard, 1849. Folio. (43 x 28 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Stamp on title-page. With 18 lithographed plates in double-folio. Klaus Jordan, 4202.

Halle a.d.S., Weisenhauses, 1911. Small 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. XII,847 pp. Internally clean and fine. First edition. The original printing.

(Paris, Chez Fuchs, An Xe, 1803). In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 45, Cahier 2 a. Tome 46, Cahier 3. Pp. 113-212 (entire issue offered) and pp. 225-336 (entire issue offered). Dalton's papers: pp. 177-181 a. pp. 250-272. First appearance in French of these importent papers. publication of which at once gave him European reputation. The first paper combated Rumford's view that the circulation of heat in fluids is by convection only. Second paper is the French translation of the first of the 5 seminal papers which appeared under the general title "Experimental Essays on the constitution of mixed Gases; on the Force of steam or vapor etc..."(published 1801-3). The paper expresses the generalisation that the maximum density of a vapour in contact with its liquid remains the same whether other gases be present or not and the view that the particles of every kind of elastic fluid are elastic only with regard to those of their own kind, the LAW OF PARTIAL PRESSURES. Smyth No 27 and No 29:1. - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1801 M/C.

Berlin, C. Fr. Anet, 1826. Contemp.hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with giltlettering. Stamp on titlepage. VIII,984 pp., 7 large folded engraved plates with numerous figs. A few scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan,4075.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1765 u. 1767). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" 1758, tome XIV a. XVI, pp. 284-353 a. 2 folded engraved plates + pp. 261-284 a. 1 folded engraved plate. First printing of Johann Albert Euler's importent paper in which he set forth the so-called "Theorem of Johann-Albert Euler", stating that the trajectory of a ball is a parabola followed by a straight line. The eldest son of Leonhard Euler was a prominent geometer in his own right. In 1758, Johann-Albert Euler (1734-1800) published a study of the motion of a sphere on an horizontal plane in the presence of Newtonian friction. His main result would be rediscovered independently by Gaspard Coriolis as part of his authoritative theoretical work on the topic: Théorie mathématique des effets du jeu de billard (1835). Johann Albrecht Euler, born in St. Petersburg 1732 was a Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician and he was the first child born to the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.

Berlin, Christian Friedrich Himburgh, 1801. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved portrait. Engraved title-page with vignette. XVI,632 pp. 12 folded maps and 3 folded engraved plates. Lower right corners with a faint dampstain. Faint scattered brownspots.

Brest, L'Imprimerie de Michel, 1817. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (8),VII,498,(2) pp. Textillustrations in woodcut. clean and fine. First edition.

Nürnberg, Kraus, 1758. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Embossed title to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Ex-libris (F. v. Iuel of Valdemar's Castle). Light wear to extremities, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (30), 454, (26) pp. + 1 map.