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Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1841. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome 1. 512 pp. a. 3 folded engraved plates (showing experimental apparatus).Small stamp to verso of plates. (The entire volume offered). Dumas & Stas' paper: pp. 1-59. Clean and fine. First appearance in full of this paper, stating the correct weight of the carbon atom, which had profound influence on the development of organic chemistry. The first announcement (in extrait) came out in Comptes rendus, Tome Xi, 1840."From 1840 onward he carried out an important revision of the atomic weights of thirty elements. His most valuable contribution in this field was his very precise determination of the atomic weight of carbon (jointly with his pupil Stas) in 1840.2 A previously accepted weight, determined by Berzelius as C = 12.20 (O = 16), was shown to be incorrect. Dumas proved that C = 12±.002 (O = 16) or C = 75 (O = 100). The analysis was made by burning diamond and artificial and natural graphite in oxygen; the carbon dioxide formed was weighed in potash solution. The results were in close agreement. The "new" weight of carbon had a great effect on the progress of organic chemistry."(DSB).The volume contains further notable papers by Gerhardt et Cahours "Recherches chimiques sur les huiles essentitielles", pp. 60-110, by Laurent, Boussingault, Regnault, Dulong, Melloni et al.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. The bird on a branch, fruits and foliage.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Stamp on title. 886 pp. Fine and clean.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", 1. Bd. (31. Bd. der Reihe), No. 21, 22 a. 23. Pp. 321-368. Liebig's paper: Titlepage to 1. Bd. pp. 321-360. Clean and fine. First appearance - the paper was published at the same time in "Annalen der Pharmacie" - of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia.

Leipzig u. Grimma u. Wurzen, 1852-55. Lex8vo. Bound in 3 contemp. hcloth., blindtoolings to spine. Stamp on titlepages. Ca 3.300 pp. and 36 steelengraved portraitplates. Titlepages a bit brownspotted, otherwise fine with only a few scattered brownspots.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1842). No wrappers. In: In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Ergänzungsband (Nach Bd. LI einzuschalten), Stück 1. With titlepage to the volume (Erg.-Bd.). Pp. 1-192 a. 3 plates. (Entire issue offered). Wheatstones paper: pp. 1-48. Brownspots to inner margin on the first page, otherwise clean. Stamp to titlepage and verso of plates. First appearance in German of this classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 (published first in the Transactions). In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus, in the stereoscope, an arrangement of lenses or mirrors, two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors, and bringing it into its existing form with lenses."As the inventor of the stereoscope, later developed by Brewster, Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye..."(DSB XIV, p. 290).Garrison & Morton No. 1498. Also with K.E. von baer "ueber das Klima von Sitcha und den russischen besitzungen an der Nordwestküste von Amerika", pp. 129-154.

Göttingen, Rosenbusch, 1797-1800. Bound in 4 contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spines. Raised bands.Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped to lower compartments. Stamp on title-pages. With the gilt monogram of king Christian 7 on upper covers on all volumes. XVIII,241,XXII,242-554,45; (2),402,XXXXII,403-1222 pp. Internally clean and fine.

(London, W. Nicol, 1823). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1823 - Part II. Pp. 189-198. Clean and fine. First appearance of this classical paper in chemistry, Faraday announces his success with the liquefaction of gases, and where he for the first time liquefied sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sylphide, chlorine dioxide, cyanogen, and ammonia.

London, Cambridge University Press, 1944. Large 4to. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Owner's signature of statistician Anders Hald (the author of "A History of Mathematical Statistics"). (123 pp.). First edition, offprint issue of this important paper in the history of statistics. "Mahalanobis's contributions to large scale sample surveys are among his most significant and lasting gifts to statistics. He started his work on sample surveys with estimation of area and yield of jute crop in Bengal in 1937. However, it was not easy for him to get these estimates; controversy between him and the advocates of complete enumeration continued for over a decade. Ultimately he was able to demonstrate that estimates based on sample surveys were often more accurate than those based on complete enumeration, and that sample surveys could yield estimates with small margins of error within a short time and at a smaller cost than complete enumeration. He made many methodological contributions to survey sampling that included optimal choice of sampling design using variance and cost functions, and the technique of interpenetrating network of sub-samples for assessment and control of errors, especially non-sampling errors, in surveys. The concept of pilot surveys was a forerunner of sequential sampling developed by Abraham Wald, as acknowledged by Wald in his book. In addition to introducing these concepts, Mahalanobis raised important and difficult philosophical questions on randomness and representativeness of a sample, which remain relevant and challenging even today. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Statistical Sampling in 1947, and held this post until 1951. His tireless advocacy of the usefulness of sample surveys resulted in the final recommendation of this Sub-Commission that sampling methods should be extended to all parts of the world. Mahalanobis received the Weldon Medal from Oxford University in 1944 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1945, for his fundamental contributions to statistics, particularly in the area of large-scale sample surveys." - Heyde: Statisticians of the Centuries, p.436.

Berlin, C.F. Amelang, 1818. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. XVI,266 pp., 9 large folded engraved plans. Internally clean and fine. First German edition.

Rome, Franzesi et Cajetanus Paperi, 1760. 8vo. In contemporary boards. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Book block split between p. 64 and p. 65, but generally a nice and clean copy. 126 pp. Second Rome-edition, third overall, of Slaughter’s popular Hebrew grammar, which was still in print as late as 1867. It was first published in 1699. "Slaughter, Edward (1655–1729), hebraist, born in Herefordshire in 1655, entered the Society of Jesus on 7 Sept. 1673, and was ordained priest on 28 March 1682, in which year he was sent to the mission of Swaffham, Norfolk. He was appointed to teach Hebrew in the college of the English jesuits at Liège about 1677; he subsequently taught mathematics there, and eventually became professor of theology. Slaughter afterwards became rector of the jesuit colleges at St. Omer and Ghent.” (DNB).

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin,1824. 8vo. Indbundet i et nyere grønt helshirtbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Lettere brunet, ellers ren og pæn indvendig. XII,180 pp. Den sjældne originaludgave af det andet af Howitz' vigtigste filosofiske skrifter, hans andet indlæg i striden mod Ørsted om viljens frihed. Heri findes tillige den første danske Hume-oversættelse: "Om Frihed og Nødvendighed", oversættelsen af afsnit 8 i "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." I datidens Danmark var der få lærde, der kunne engelsk, og engelske skrifter var langt mindre indflydelsesrige end tyske og franske. Hume var således ikke tidligere særligt kendt i Danmark, og det er Howitz, der sætter fokus på ham og hans filosofi i Danmark.Med sin afhandling fra tidligere samme år, "Om Afsindighed og Tilregnelse, et Bidrag til Psykologien og Retslæren", indledte Howitz i 1824 det 19. århundredes danske diskussion om viljens frihed." (Koch, Den danske idealisme, p. 183). Howitz mente, at samtidens retslærde (med Ørsted i spidsen) ikke forstod forholdet mellem menneskets normale fornuftstilstand og den afsindige tilstand, og han påbegyndte dermed en diskussion af det juridiske begreb om tilregnelighed, bag hvilket han mente at se Kants frihedslære. Hans mål var at få ændret synet på domme i straffesager, hvor ydre omstændigheder burde siges at kunne svække den sagsøgtes evne til at handle fuldt rationelt, - dette foregriber således et fokus på faktorer, der i dag lægges megen vægt på, når der afsiges domme.Med Hume søger Howitz således at gendrive Kants lære om menneskets frihed. Han sætter lighedstegn mellem forholdet motiv-handling og forholdet årsag-virkning, og således kan der, ifølge Howitz, når det gælder menneskelige handlinger, heller ikke findes noget, der er uden årsag. Howitz opfattede dog ikke, helt på linie med Hume, denne naturnødvendighed som værende i modstrid med friheden.Efter Howitz' første skrift svarer Ørsted i 1824 igen med sin "Et Par Ord; i Anledning af den foranstaaende Afhandling". Howitz' værk, "Determinismen eller Hume imod Kant" er et gensvar på Ørsteds svar, og Howitz fastholder sine meninger fra det første indlæg, og sætter trumf på ved bl.a. at påpege, "at den kantske frihed er en videnskabelig uting, idet det må gælde for såvel den moralske som den fysiske natur, at den er underkastet love." (Koch, p. 191)"Med Howitz' 180 sider store antikritik fik striden om viljens frihed en uheldig litterær drejning og kom mere til at handle om den rette tolkning af filosofiske påstande end om den sag, der lå Howitz på hjerte. Han citerede talrige autoriteter og diskuterede indgående, hvorvidt Kants erkendelsesteori og moralfilosofi rummer indre modsigelser eller ej. Da Ørsted kort efter vendte sig imod Howitz' antikritik, fandt han rig anledning til at understrege, at Howitz' filosofiske indsigt var betydelig mindre end hans arrogance over for anderledes tænkende." (Koch, p. 191).

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1916. Orig.bogtrykt omslag. Lidt løs i heftningen. Ubeskåret. Stempel på foromslaget. (6),246,(2) pp., 3 tabeller, tekstillustrationer og 8 foldeplancher i farvelitografi (kort og prospekter). Rent frisk eksemplar. Indeholder de første videnskabelige geografiske og geologiske kort over disse områder. - (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bd. 2. - 2. Oplag).

(Copenhagen, ca. 1820). Paper-size: 61 x 44 cm. Plan: 57 x 40,5 cm. Fine plan of "Festung Minden", pen and ink with watercolour. The author states (in Danish), that it is sketched after memory, but he has been on the spot.

Hamburg, Felginer, 1723. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, leather cracked on spine and parts of gilting worn off. Head of spine slightly chipped. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small worm-tract to lower margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally nice and clean. (62), 861 pp. + frontispiece and 8 engraved plates. Rare devotional work, the present copy being the third edition, offering spiritual guidance and protection against the temptations and attacks of the devil, beautifully illustrated with 8 full page engravings.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1897. Lex8vo. Orig. hcalf. Gilt lettering on back. X;483 pp. Small stamp on the 2 first pages and a few light pencil underlining to the first few leaves. Clean and fine. First edition. Fechner is noted for the introduction of quantitative methods into psychology (e.g. Fechner's Law). His most importent contribution to statistics is his posthumously published book on the measurements of collectives, his "Kollektivmasslehre" from 1897. The main examples he treated are to be found in anthropology, zoology, botany, meteorology and aesthetics."Fechner's Kollektivmasslehre was of immediate influence on many of his colleagues in Leipzig. The psychologists Gottlob Friedrich Lipps, Wilhelm Wirth and to some extent also Wilhelm Wundt used the new methods in psychophysics. Charles Edward Spearman who obtained his Ph.D. under Wundt extended Fechner's ideas and studied the correlation between magnitudes. The Leipzig astronomer and mathematician Heinrich Bruns (1848-1919) soon gave a general solution to Fechner's problem of a mathematical representation of frequency distributions, the so-called Bruns-series (today called Gram-Charlier series) and tried to unify Fechner's theory of collectives with probability theory. His most illustrious student was Felix Hausdorff who carried this tradition further. (Girlich 1996) Bruns and Hausdorff, however, dropped Fechner's requirement of chance variation of the collective object, thus obscuring any trace of Fechner's indeterminism." (The Encyclopedia sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies).

Paris, G. Masson, 1877. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 5e Series,Tome 12. - 576 pp. a. 1 folded plate. (The entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 5-87. First edition of Henri Becquerel's importent study of the magnetic substances in which he sets forth his discovery that "the magnetic rotation of the bodies is connected with their refractive index and with another function that varies with their specific magnetism". For the first time it was showed that there is a connexion between the rotatory power and the magnetic properties of matter.The volume contains other importent papers, more than 10 papers by , MARCELLIN BERTHELOT, mainly on Thermo-Chemistry.

Leipzig, Weidmann, 1839. 4to.-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. XLIV,443 pp. Some scattered brownspots, mainly on the first 2 leaves. First edition of this importent critical edition of the extant part of Festus' grammar. The text, even in its present mutilated state, is an important source for scholars of Roman history. It is a treasury of historical, grammatical, legal and antiquarian learning, providing sometimes unique evidence for the culture, language, political, social and religious institutions, deities, laws, lost monuments, and topographical traditions of ancient Italy.Brunet IV, 798.

Carlsruhe u. Freiburg, Herder'schen Kunst= und Buchhandlung, 1831. 4to. a. folio-oblong (29 x 48 cm.). 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Spines a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (8),XVI,218 pp. Atlas with lithographed title-page and 34 lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan,2441.

(Paris, no date, ca. 1860). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine a bit rubbed. 264 pp. and many textillustraions. At end 2 folded maps and 1 folded plan. The text is autographed and reproduced in zincography. The work comprises 22 lectures (lecons) on interieur waterbuilding, richly illustrated with drawings.

Leipzig, Dykischen Buchhandlung, 1782. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. A little waterstained in top of the first 10 leaves and last 4. (8),334,82) pp. Occasional some underlinings and brownspots. First German edition of Sir John Floyer's work on asthma. "Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above (the English edition) includes (p.239) an importent early account of the emphysenia." (Garrison & Morton No 3166).

Leipsic, 1802. Small 8vo. One cont. half calf. Back with traces of use. 71 full-page engr. pl. with 3 illustr. on each. 202, 142, 253 pp.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 60 Heft 2 (= Jahrgang 1818, zehntes Stück). Pp. 113-218 a. 1 engraved plate (map). The entire issue offered (Heft 2). Stromeyer's paper pp. 193-210. Clean and fine. First appearance of Strohmeyer's account of his discovery of Cadmium. The history of its discovery was very complicated as some other laid claim to its discovery.Stromeyer was inspector general of apothecaries in Hannover. "In 1817, fulfilling the duties of his office, he came across an apothecary's shop in which a bottle labeled zinc oxide contained zinc carbonate. Following this up, Stromeyer found himself interested in zinc carbonate, which turned yellow on strong heating as though it contained iron as an impurity, yet it contained no iron. He traced the yellow to an oxide not of zinc but of a hitherto unknown metal rather like it chemically. He named it cadmium for a zinc ore in which it is usually found accompanying the zinc."(Asimov).Weeks "Discovery of the Elements", pp. 135-39.

(Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840). 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e Series, tome 73. Pp. 73-103 (incl. Note de Liebig pp. 100-103) and pp. 113-166. Some scattered brownspots. This paper, which was published at the same year in "Comptes Rendues" (3 Fevrier), is the most importent on the theory of structural types and the nomenclature of organic compounds, refuting the electrochemical theory of Berzelius. "The development of this idea (type organique) into what is sometimes called the "Older Type Theory", as distinguished from Gerhardt's Type heory, is contained in Dumas' importent memoir on the substitution and the theory of types, presented on 3 febriary 1840."(Partington IV, p. 365). In the second paper Stas and Dumas record the first use of 'potash-lime', the precursor of soda-lime, an invaluable reagent in organic chemistry."Jean Baptiste Dumas advances a theory that the chemical properties of an organic compound are determined by its structure and not, as seems to be the case with inorganic compounds, by its electrical properties. he illustrates the concept with the example that the basic qualitative properties of acetic acid are retained even after replacing three fourths of the hydrogen by chlorine. As a consequence, he calls for a revision of chemical nomenclature for organic compounds, basing terms on common features, not on elemental composition."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1840 C).

Ulm, Dan. Bartholomaeus, 1712. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Title written in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece. (14),869,(23) pp. + 88 pp.