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Berlin, Amelang, 1838. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. XXII,602 pp., 8 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean.

Norimbergae (Nuremberg), J.L. Buggelii, 1688. 4to-oblong. In contemporary full calf. Wear to extremities boards with scratches, upper part of spine missing leather, cords showing. Inner hindges partly split. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. First and last quires detached. Brownspotting throughout. (4), 48, (28) pp. + 51 engraved plates. Rare first (and only) edition of this illustrated verson of Vergil's Aeneid, presumably intended for children.

(København, 1841). 4to. Uniformly bound in two very nice recent half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. In "Videnskabenes Selskabs Historiske og philosophiske Afhandlinger. Sjette Deel." A fine and clean set. (3), 30-45, (1), 26, (2), 387-660 pp. + 14 plates; (3), 48-386 pp. First edition. Contains all four of Magnussen’s substantial treatises on runes and the Runamo inscriptions.

Edinburgh: Printed For Archibald Constable And Co., & Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, London, 1826. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners worn, but all in all a nice copy. [xvi], 315; [ii], 332; [ii], 370 pp. Old names on flyleaf. First edition.

Berlin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1773. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back, gilt titlelabel. 2 small paperlabels pasted on backs. Stamps on title. Occasional some brownspots and yellowing to leaves. XLIII,462 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. First German edition.

Bound in 4 cont. boards, gilt backs. Backs somewhat torn. Stamp on titles. 367,435,613,786 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Slightly brownspotted. The author of vol. 1 is General Sarrazin. Of vol. 2: E. Labaume.

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1849-50. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome XXVI a. XXX., Juin 1849 a. Octobre 1850. (The entire issues offered). Titlepages to vol. 26 a. 30. Pp. 129-256 a. pp. 129-256. Fizeau & Foucault's paper: pp. 138-148 a. pp. 146-159, 2 folded engraved plates. Some scattred brownspots. First appearance of thispaper in which the authors demonstrated importent similarities between sound - and lightwaves, and that interference takes place between rays of light of different wavelenghts thus giving considerably evidence for the wave theory of light."By analyzing the white light source into simpler constituents by means of a spectroscope, Fizeau and Foucault were able to observe fringes produced by interfering light rays with a difference of travel equal to more than 7,000 wavelenghts, thus showing hat light waves, like sound waves, remain geometrically constant over a large number of periods. But light waves, because of their transverse vibrations, are more complex than sound waves. Light can assume different forms of planes of vibration as well as different intensities. Using the same spectroscopic apparatus as in the preceeding experiment, Fizeau and Foucault observed the interaction of two rays produced by passing a single polarized ray through a birefringent crystal. In this case, instead of obtaining alternating bands of light and dark, they obtained bands of light periodcally polarized in different planes of vibration."(DSB V, p. 19).

(Amsterdam ca. 1607). 35,3x48 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Holsten. Ukoloreret. Velbevaret. På bagsiden latisnk tekst (pp.89-90) Daniae III Tabula, In qua Slesvicensis Ducatus, & Holsatia.

London, Du Gardianis (Elzevier), 1651. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Last inner hinge weak. Woodcut device on title-page. (20),244 pp. Clean. A small tract has been removed at the end. One of the imprints from 1651 (second edition ?) with the same collation as the original (1650) of Milton's polemic defence of the peoples of England and the English Parliament, against a royalist tract (Defensio Regia pro Carolo I), defending absolute monarche, a tract published under the name of Salmasius (Claude de Saumaise) and probably sponsored by the King himself. "The best apology that ever was offered for bringing kings to the block." (T. Warton).Willems, 1134.

London, Longmans, Huret etc., 1816-26. Bound in 4 modest (not professionally bound) full cloth. Uncut. Name cut from title in vol. one loosing the "An" in "An Introduction". Some offsetting to titles in vol. 3 and 4 from the engraved portraits. XXIII,517,(4),529,(3),V,(3),732,634,(2) pp., 30 engraved plates of which 5 are handcoloured. Some plates a little brownspotted, text in general clean and fine. Horn & Schenkling 11740. Nissen 2189.

Kiøbenhavn, G.L. Lahde (trykt hos Seidelin), 1798-1806. 3smukke samtidige hldrbd. Forgyldte rygge med indfarvede rygfelter. Kanter med svage skrammer. 3 kobberstukne titelblade med allegoriske vignetter af Abildgaard, stukket af Lahde. (184);(210);(208) pp., 12 kobberstukne portrætter efter tegninger af Juel og Lahde, alle stukket af Lahde. Med flere store kobberstukne slutvignetter, delvis af Abildgaard (den vingede Genius). Trykt på skrivepapir. Originaltrykket. Heri portrætter af Bernstorf, Birckner, Ryberg, Saxtorph, Balle, Huth, Suhm, Wiedewelt, Anker, Baden, Baggesen og Tode. - Birkelund 199. - Bibl. Danica III:934.

Lüneburg, Joh. Fried. Wilh. Lemke, 1787. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) printed boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page with note in margin in contemporary hand. (2), IV, (3)-132 pp. Rare first German translation of chapter 34 and 35 of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Before the first complete German translation was published several smaller part were translated, the present being among some of the earliest.

Reykjavik, 1919-26. 4 private hshirtbd. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. 454,645,774,885 pp.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. XII,200 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 28. Bd.: 2. Theil).

Ratzeburg, H. Linsen, 1857. Fine cont. full cloth, gilt back. A small stamp on title and verso of. (2),886 pp. Fine and clean.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1884. Bound in one contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A small chip to top of spine. XI,396;XII,380 pp., textillustrations in woodcut. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition.

Kjöbenhavn, Hartv. Frid. Popps Bogtrykkerie, 1829 4to. Indbundet i et senere halvshirt bind. Særtryk fra det Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Tidligere ejers signatur [Jonas Collin] øver på titelblad. Sporadiske brunepletter, ellers pænt eksemplar. 58, IV pp. + 12 kobberstukne plancher, heraf 6 udfoldelige, alle håndkolorerede. Særtryk af Herholdts anatomiske beskrivelse af menneskelige misfostre. Jonas Collin er især kendt for at være mæcen for nogle af Danmarks mest kendte guldalder-digtere, herunder H.C. Andersen,

Wien, Fr. Beck, 1840. Contemp. half calf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. XII,283,(1) pp., 10 large folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1206.

London, T.Wilcox, 1760. Cont.full mottled calf. Gilt back. St.on halftitle. Engr.frontisp. XXI,403,141 pp.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1748). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1744.". Pp. 462-774, textillustrations. First printing of this importent paper in which Maupertuis proves that the Loxodromic line or Rhumbline is the shortest way between two points on the globe after he had proved, by the measuring results, that the globe is a spheroid. The paper is of great importence in the history of navigation.

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1915. 8vo. Unopened, uncut in the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"]. Offprint from "Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften", Abteilung IIa, 124. Band, 3. und 4. Heft. A very fine and clean copy. 14 pp. First printing of Smolukowski's important paper the Average deviation in Brownian motion in relation to Brillouin's experiments on diffusion.Einstein and Smolukowski work simultaneously and independently in the beginning of the 1900ies Brownian Motion. Smolukowski continued his work in this field and he work is distinct from Einstein's since Einstein relate it to diffusion. "From about 1900 Smoluchowski worked on Brownian movement. He wished to use experimental data to verify the theory he had obtained desire complicated by the confused situation of experimental research. In the meantime Einstein, in papers of 1905 and 1906, had presented a solution to the problem. Smoluchowski then decided to publish his results in 1906, which presented his different method. Einstein started from general relations of statistical physics, an approach that was universal but did not lend itself to visualization. For example, Einstein said nothing of the collisions between a Brownian particle and the surrounding molecules. Smoluchowski started by examining the effects of successive collisions and obtained a final formula that differed little from Einstein's. Smoluchowski's further works in this field extend through an examination of the Brownian movement of a particle undergoing the influence of a quasi-elastic force to the Brownian movements of macroscopic bodies. At the Conference of Natural Scientists at Münster in 1912, Smoluchowski proposed the observation of the Brownian rotative movement of a small mirror suspended on a thin quartz fiber and the observation free end of a similar fiber. The first experiment was performed by W. Gerlach and E. Lehrer in 1927, and later by Eugen Kappler; the second, by A Houdijk and P. Zeeman, and by E. Einthoven. In 1925, Both experiments confirmed Smoluchowski's calculations."

Altona, Joh. Friedr. Hammerich, 1845. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Remains of a paperlabel on upper part of spine, the label partly removed. Stamps on titlepage. XVI,452,(1) pp. Engraved view of "Alcier" as frontispiece (Rouargue freres del. et sc.), 1 engraved plate and 4 plates, all handcoloured, showing cavalry uniforms on soldiers. Somewhat brownspotted throughout.

Odense, 1774. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice and clean copy. (16), 208 pp. The rare first edition of Bøgh’s final publication. A few years before his death, he considered starting a weekly publication where religious teachings would be addressed in verse. He had written over a hundred sheets but lacked the money and time to publish it. Only a fragment, the present, was published. Niels Seidelin Bøgh (1717—1778) was a pastor born in Trige, Denmark. As a theological candidate, he published a large original collection of hymns titled "Den sjungende Theologus" in 1742. In 1743, Bøgh became a ship's chaplain and accompanied Danneskjold's squadron to Algiers in 1746. After his return, he wrote "Den algierske Freds Historie" (The History of the Algerian Peace) in verse. In 1747, he was appointed parish priest in Kerteminde, became district provost in 1761, and died on August 23, 1778. OCLC only list two copies, both in Copenhagen. Not in Biblioteca Danica.

Münch., 1832. Cont.hcalf. Atlasvol. in cont.hcloth. Back somewhat worn. St.o.t. XVI,VIII,198, XVI,234 pp. and Atlas in folio-oblong with 8 litogr.plates.

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1759. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt, raised bands and titlelaber with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pastd on spine. Stamps and old owners name on titlepage. (10),XIII,267 pp., 10 folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. First edition.- Klaus Jordan: 2100.