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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.

Large 4to. Loose as issued in publishers portfolio. No 173 of 430 "sur Velin blanc Rives", a total of 535 copies. With large fine colourplates by Rompaey.

Leipzig, J.F. Gleditschens seel. Sohn, 1726. Large8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Text in two columns. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Leather on spine slightly cracked and front board with a few scratches with a bit of loss of leather. Internally nice and clean. (26) pp. 1628 columns, (2), 1682 columns, (3) pp. + frontispiece. Second edition, here in an attractive binding, of Jörcher's popular lexicon. Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1694-1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.

København [Copenhagen], 1943. Lex8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Spine and part of back wrapper faded, otherwise very nice and 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.

Lübeck, Ulricus Wetsteinius, 1670. Lacking printed wrappers, bookblock only. (120) pp. 8vo. Text in Latin and German. Samuel Rachel (1628-91), German jurist, diplomat and professor in moral philosphy. At thesis on duels and their legality including the Royal resolution on duels from 1668.

Wien, Carl Gerold, 1827. Later clothhbacked blank covers. Stamps on title-page. 40 pp. and 1 large folded lithographed plate. Describing the invention of a new instrument for perspectivistic drawing.

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.

(Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome IX. Pp. 345-381 a. 2 folded engraved plates. And pp. 382-440 a. 3 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First printing of two importent papers by Monge in differential functions and infinitesimal geometry, - in the first he discussed the nature of the arbitrary functions involved in the integrals of, finite difference equations. He also considered the, equation of vibrating strings, a topic he later investigated more fully. In the second memoir Monge returned to infinitesimal geometry. Working on the theory of developable surfaces outlined by Euler in 1772, he applied it to the problem, of shadows and penumbrae and treated several, problems concerning ruled surfaces. "It is in this paper that he gives a general representation of developable surfaces..."(Morris Kline "Mathematical Thoughts from Ancient to Modern Times", p. 567).

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.

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.

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1736. 12mo. Bound in a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Crowned super ex-libris to front board. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine and boards with a bit of loss of leather. Title-page with dampstain in outer margin. (2), 230 pp. First Amsterdam-edition, published the same year as the original Paris-edition.

(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.

Stockholm, Beijer, 1893. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 17, 1883. Entire volume offered. Stamps to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 169-197. [Entire volume: (6), 416 pp]. First edition. This important paper constitutes Hilbert's own version of part of the solution of his "Mathematische Probleme" listed at the International mathematical Congress in Paris 1900 (as problem 17) on the "Expression of definite forms by squares". "....But since as I have shown, not every definite form can be compounded by addition from squares of forms, the question arises - which I have answered affirmatively for ternary forms (the paper offered here)- whether every definite form may be expressed as a quotient of sums of squares of forms...."

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.

Paris, Crochard, 1826. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago", tome 32. 448 pp., 3 folded engraved plates. Balard's paper: pp. 337-84. Entire volume offered with original memoirs by Savart, Berzelius, Humboldt, Arago, Poisson, Liebig, Dumas et al. First printing of Balard's famous memoire in which he records his discovery of the new element Bromine (le brôme). While he was studying the flora of a salt marsh, he notized a deposit of sodium saulfate which had crystallized out in a pan containing mother liquer from common salts. "In an attempt to find a use for the waste liquers he performed a number of experiments, and notized that when certain reagents were added, the mother liquer bacame brown. His investigation of this phenomenon,...ked to the remarkable discovery....(Weeks p. 264). "The discovery of a new chemical element by a young and obscure provincial pharmacist caused a sensation in Paris. Balard's achievemnt was recognized by the Academie des Sciences and he was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London."(DSB I, p. 416). "The discovery of bromine is a very importent acquisition to chemistry, and gives M. Balrad honorable rank inthe career of the sciences. We are of the opinion that this young chemist is every way worthy of the encouragement of the Academy, and we have the honour to propose that his memoir shall be printed in the "Recueil des Savants Étrangers" (The report from the French Academy, signed by Vaugelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac).

1832. Small 4to. Cont.full calf.Edges gilt. Hinges weak. Both printed on good paper. The facs. of Griseldis is only printed in 42 copies-that of Garin in No. 20 of only loo copies. Inscribed by Armand Silvestre and Eugen Morand. Brunet III:1969.

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.

Kiøbenhavn, Godisches Efterleverske, 1770. Senere beskedent hshirtbd. Håndskreven rygtitel. Stempel på titelbladet. (10),395,(1) pp. Indvendig ganske ren, kun enkelte brunpletter. Originaltrykket.