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Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1897. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 21, 1897. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. pp. 83-97; Pp. 331-341.[Entire volume: (6), 376 pp + 4 plates]. First printing of this paper in which Poincaré arrives at a new theorem about canonical transformation, and in his later "Methodes Nouvelles", he proved this theorem using a variiational principle of mechanics, known today as the Hamilton principle.Also included is the first printing of Poincaré's principal address at the first International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zürich in 1897.

Vasa, 1922-37. Lille 4to. Indbundet i 4 ensartede solide hshirtbd.

(Berlin & New York, Springer), 1970. Royal8vo. In the original blue wrappers. In "Astronomy and Astrophysics", Volume 5, No. 1, March 1970. Entire issue offered. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 84-89. [Entire issue: (2), 170 pp]. First printing of Zeldovich's seminal paper in which he documented that gravitating bodies will collapse along each of their principal axes in succession, producing pancake-like and filament-like structures along the way, hence the "Zeldovich Pancake".It has long been known that galaxies tend to distribute themselves in filament and pancake-like structures, but it is hard to reproduce analytically because the mathematics of non-linear gravitational collapse are tricky. Although originally created for different purposes, Zeldovich's model now provides an excellent means of deriving the initial conditions to cosmological N-Body simulations.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1909. 8vo. Recent attractive full cloth with gilt title to spine. A fine and unmarked copy. (4),332,(2) pp. First edition of 'the first true exposition of electrodynamics from an atomistic point of view' - "Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940" pp.781.

Franckfurt & Leipzig (PARIS), Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1760. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on first title-page. 454,(2);280 pp., 13 folded engraved maps and plans, 2 engraved plates, 1 folded table. printed on good paper. internally clean.

Paris, 1896. Orig.wrappers. Uncut. First edition.

Hmbg.,1833. 8vo. Cont.full calf. Small traces of use. St.o.t. (24),515 pp.

København, Reitzel, 1913. Royal8vo. Uncut unopened in the original printed wrappers. Wrappers with a few nicks and lightmiscolouring, otherwise fine and clean. 474 pp., 24 plates, 4 portraits, textillustr. Text in English. First edition of the scientific results from the famous Denmark-Expedition, the first volume only. - Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 41.

Lille, J.B. Henry, 1781. 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather on back, gilt. Slightly worn. Titlepage and (7)-(8)= "Extract",XLVIII,334,(2) pp. and 23 folded engraved plates. Titlepage and first lvs. a little soiled, last 2 lvs. with marginal repairs. Some brownspots, some tracesof use. First edition. - Pritzel No 5236.

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Engraved and printed title-pages. Throughout illustrated with engraved plates and textillustrations. 2 leaves in volume I a bit loose. Marginal browning to the two engraved title-pages. Internally clean and fine. First edition in bookform.

Hafniæ & Lipsiæ, Christian Gottlob Mengel, 1745. Samtidigt helldrbd. med titeletiket på ryg. Ryggen slidt særligt nederst. Kobberstukket frontisp. Kobberstukket titelblad.(18),382,(2) pp. Med 3 kobbere, det ene med en rift (uden tab). En del gl. understregninger i teksten. Gl. ejernavne, det sidste Carl S. Petersen. Brugsspor. Editio secunda af Holbergs berømte utopiværk, Niels Klim i Undervendenen. Ehr.-M. XII:226 ff.Second edition of this influential utopian mastepiece.

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1900-02. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. 3 heliogravures as frontispieces. LV,401,(2);433;417 pp., plates and textillustrations.

London, Bell & Dadly, 1865. Lex8vo. Newer half morocco with gilt skin title on the back. XIII,442 pp. with 6 wood engraved plates and 45 wood engraved tail pieces of engraved gems. First edition.

London, Bulmer et Soc., apud White et Miller, 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. (4),130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning, further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name.

Argentorati, Ex Offic. Ioh. Philippi Mülbii, 1647. 4to. Recent full cloth w. leather title-label on back (Isacsons). Title-page in red and black, printer's device on t-p. Clean copy. 10, 352, (118), (1), 587, (1) pp. Dibdin p. 440: "Isaac Casaubon was the first who wrote a valuable commentary on Suetonius, and his edition is greatly to be preferred to every preceding. This commentary... is replete with various and profound learning, and is called by J. Scaliger "the most perfect thing of the kind he has seen." Both editors present us with many excellent observations and rules of criticism, but the LAST edition of 1647 is the fullest, and contains the fragments of Suetonius, and the dissertation by Boeclerus." The first edition is from 1595-1615.

Paris, A.and W. Galignani, 1827. Small 8vo. Bound in 9 contemporary hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs a little rubbed. Stamp on titles. Faint dampstains to the first 10 leaves of volume one. Scattered brownspots. This Paris-edition is published the same year as the original from Edinburgh.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1762). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1757". Pp. 52-86 and 7 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition of this landmark paper in geological literature, for it appeared eighty years before Murchison's Silurian System made known the sequence and abundant organic remains of the Silurian rocks of Wales."Guettard was the first to recognize trilobites in the Silurian slates of Angers. In some specimens which had been sent up to the Academy from the quarries of that district, he observed numerous impressions of organic remains, which he referred to seaweeds and Crustacea. The latter he sagaciously compared 25 to modern crabs and prawns." (Archibald Geikie).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1757.

Kiøbenhavn, Soldin, 1796. Lille8vo. Originalt blåt blankt kardusomslag. Stempel på titelbladet "Hvedholm Bibliotek". På indersiden af foromslaget i egen hånd "Bille Brahe". 46,(2) pp. Den sjældne originaludgave. "Aristokraternes Catechismus" er en efterligning af P.A. Heibergs købmandskatekismus."Malthe Conrad Bruun var under indflydelse af ateisten Otto Horrebow (se bl.a. hans artikel i Jesus og Fornuften, 1799) og gav her sin samfundssatire og sine voldsomme angreb på adel og enevælde en gudsbespottelig form. Satiren fik biskop Nicolai Edinger Balle til under henvisning til Danske lov (6,4,14) at indberette skriftet til kancelliet. Af frygt for konsekvenserne flygtede Malthe Conrad Bruun."(DBL).

Berlin, Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1769. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),234 pp. Internally clean. Saluze thought that the 'elastic fluid' (= fixed air) evolved by gunpowder was atmospheric air, although he pointed out that it would not support combustion or respiration. Saluzzo was president for the Academy of Science in TurinPartington III, p. 127. - Poggendorff I, 744.

Lpz., 1827. 12 cont.hcalf, backs worn,but repaired.

London, John Murray, 1817. 8vo. Bound in three nice uniform contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spines with wear. Front board and spine detached from book-block on volume 1. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all three volumes. A fine set. The fifth edition of this political and economic classic, which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work, because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace.This present fifth edition contain several important additions (price of grain) and the third chapter of Book III was completely rewritten. The book, then as now, is considered highly controversial, and it has influenced all demographers ever since, as well as being of immense importance to the study of economic theory and genetic inheritance. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe.... "Parson" Malthus, as Cobbett dubbed him, was for many, a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted.... But his influence on social policy, whether for good or evil, was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." (PMM 251).Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), called the "enfant terrible" of the economists, was an English demographer, statistician and political economist, who is best known for his groundbreaking views on population growth, presented in his "Essays on the Principle of Population", which is based on his own prediction that population would outrun food supply, causing poverty and starvation. Among other things this caused the legislation, which lowered the population of the poor in England. Malthus actually turned political, economic and social thought upside down with this work, which has caused him to be considered one of the 100 most influential persons in history (Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential Persons in History, 1978). Of course, he was condemned by Marx and Engels, and opposed by the socialists universally, but the work was of immense impact on not only politics, economics, social sciences etc, but also on natural sciences. "Later in the "Origin of Species" he [Darwin] wrote that the struggle for existence "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage" [p. 63]. Alfred Russel Wallace, who arrived at a worked-out formulation of the theory of evolution at almost precisely the same time as Darwin, acknowledged that "perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's "Principles of Population" (My Life, p. 232). Although there were four decennial censuses before Malthus' death, he did not himself analyze the data, although he did influence Lambert Quetelet and Pierre Verhulst, who made precise statistical studies on growth of populations in developed countries and showed how the early exponential growth changed to an S curve." (DSB, IX, p. 69). As Malthus realized that his theories were not satisfactorily presented or sufficiently demonstrated in the first edition from 1798, he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics, and then published the second edition in 1803. Among other places he travelled through Northern Germany, and his detailed diaries of these journeys provided him with some of the evidence necessary for the development of his theory on population growth. The observational information that he gathered on his travels in Europe were crucial to the development of his theories, which also means that the work is of great interest for other European countries, and not only Britain. "In 1819 the Royal Society elected Malthus to a fellowship. He was also a member of the French Institute and the Berlin Academy, and a founding member of the Statistical Society (1834)." (DSB, IX, p. 67). Printing and the Mind of Man 251 (first edition). Einaudi 3670Mattioli 2210Goldsmith 21761Kress B6974

København, Torben Eriksson, 1960. Folio. (35x23,5 cm.) Orig. papbd. (10) pp. samt med 9 originale træsnit, de fleste i farver, heraf 3 dobbeltsidede af de på titelbladet anførste kunstnere. Nr. 28 af 200 eksemplarer.

Paris, Anselin, 1827. 8vo and 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf, gilt spines with paperlabels pasted on spines. (6),354,(2) pp. and atlas with 3 large folde engraved plates in double-folio. Some scattered brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 0699.

London, Lovell Reeve, 1854. Small 8vo. Orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt and blindtooled. Uncut. XII,304 pp. and advertisements (2) pp. With 20 fine chromolithographed plates. First edition. - Nissen ZBI No. 3912.

Aarhus, 1923-27. 4to. 4 solide hldrbd. i gedeskind. Rig rygforgyldning. Bindene med lettere brugsspor. 752,832,872,846 pp. Afbilder gårdene fotografisk med tilhørende beskrivelse af ejerforhold, størrelse m.v.