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London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. Small 8vo. 2 nice solid recent full cloth. XVI,428;VIII,404 pp. and 1 folded map. verso of titlepages with stamp. Fine and clean throughout. First edition.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1716. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),80,364 pp., 9 partly folded engraved plates,2 folded tables. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de la Hire, Littre, Cassini, Lemery, Maraldi, Geoffroy le jeune, Homberg, Reaumur, Saulmon, Lemery le Cadet, Mery, Varignon, Geoffroy l'Aine, Marchant, Rolle, Cassini, de Jussieu, Imbert, Maraldi & Cassini, Sauveur, Haguenot.

(No place nor printer), 1745. 8vo. Two parts bound in one nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Crowned super ex-libris to front board. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. A nice and clean copy. (4), VIII, 137, (2), (22), 177, (3) pp. First edition of Léonor Jean Soulas d'Allainval’s (also referred to as abbé d'Allainval) work on Peter the Great.

Linz, Edlen von Trattnern, 1786. Contemp. boards. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Some corners a bit bumped. Stamps on title-page. XIV,396 pp., 27 folded engraved plates. Light toning to leaves.

Royal8vo. Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a full calf. Covers and back richly blindtooled. Within a blindtooled border onboth covers a blindtooled illustration showing a centaur playing the flute. No 67 of 500 "sur papier Vélin à la forme", a total of 550. Fine illustrations in colour by Guignebault.

Gotha, Ettingersche Buchhandlung, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel gone. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVIII,220 pp., 13 folded tables and 2 large folded engraved plates.

Odense, Iversen, 1795. Originalt papbind. Forpermen løs. Ryg slidt. Øverste 3 centimeter af ryggen mangler. Med tidligere ejers navnetræk (s. Hauch), senere exlibris samt en håndskreven dedikation fra 1960 på indersiden af forpermen. Gennemgående mindre vandskjold for neden og øverst på de første blade. Enkelte tidlige understregninger i teksten. 264, (12) pp. First edition of this early Danish work on gardening, being the first general work on gardening in Danish - i.e. the first not confined to either growth on free land or the growth of trees specifically. This work came to define the view on pleasure-gardens in Denmark and constitues a defining moment in the history of Danish gardening. The work, which was written by the gardener at the estate of Hollufgaard, also introduced Danish words for plants that had hitherto only been referred to by foreign names.Bibl. Dan. II 315.

Lancaster PA, The Science Press, 1942. Royal8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in full cloth. In "Science", New Series, Volume XCVI [96], July - December, 1942. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Wawra and Webb's paper:] Pp. 302-3. First appearance of Wawra's important paper in which he announced that he for the first time had isolated Vitamin P.Garrison & Morton 1097

Ca. 1920. 25,5 x 22 cm. Unsigned. Pencil on heavy paper. A couple in the act, the woman on top. Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923.

Dresden und Leipzig, Gerlach W. und Sohn, 1769. Cont.hcalf. Gilt spine, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small tear to top of spine. Remains of a paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on titlepage. Engraved frontisp. (54),384 pp., 4 Tables a. 29 folded engraved plates. (all). Missing the last 8 leaves of text= pp. 385-400). Internally fine. The first edition of "Das eigentliche Standardwerk der Epoche" (Jähns 2734). - Jordan: 3770.

Berlin, Asher & Co., 1891-90. Lex8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. VII,243,120;VII,574 pp. 43 plates and 4 maps. Clean and fine.

München, Lehmanns Verlag, 1911-12. 2 orig. full pictorial cloth. Spines slightly faded and slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-page. XVI,507;XVI,685 pp., 43 tables, 46 plates (some folding), profusely textillustrated. Internally clean.

Breslau, Ferdinand Hirt, 1842. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. Lithographed title and printed. XII,228 pp., textillustrations. Some scattered brownspots.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Papirsetiket øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. (2),LXVI,(6),553,(1) pp. samt 10 store foldede kobberstukne plancher. Nogle få blade i forordet lidt brunplettede, ellers ren. Første danske udgave, her med Ørsteds kommentarer og anmærkninger.- Bibl. Danica II,148.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),207,414 pp., 12 partly folded engraved plates, 1 table. Clean and fine. With original papers by: du Hamel, de la Caille, Daubenton, de Parcieux, l'Abbé Nollet, le Chevalier d'Arcy, Morand, Maraldi, Rouelle, le Monnier, l'Abbé de la Caille, Guettard, de Thury, de Fouchy, d'Ons-en-Bray, de Thury & Maraldi, Malouin, Boguer, le Monnier le fils, de L'Isle, Montet.

Randers, Elmenhoff, 1839. 12mo. Fint vel-bevaret samt.helshirthd. Bertelsen 23. Godt eksemplar of originaludgaven. Heri bl.a. "Skytten paa Aunsbjerg".

(Leipzig, Barth),1912. 8vo. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik IV, Bd. 38", No 7. Pp.249-472 a. 3 plates. (Entire issue offered). Einstein's papers: pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. Clean and fine. Both papers in first edition, and they are considered as the first appearance of a Nonlinear Field Equation for Gravitation. "Einstein published two remarkable memoirs in 1912 which were efforts to construct a complete theory of gravitation incorporating the equivalence principle. In these memoirs Einstein supposed that the gravitational field can be characterized completely by one function, the local speed of light, analogous to the Newtonian description, where only the gravitational potential appears. By an extraordinary argument he extended the potential equation of Newton...In his second Memoir in 1912, he used the equivalence principle to show the influence of a static gravitational field on electromagnetic and thermal processes." (DSB IV p.320 ff). - Weil No. 47 and 48.

Amsterdam, Juxta Exemplar Parisinum. 1690. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Upper part of backcover soiled and cracking to backhinge at upper end. Ms title on spine. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved titlevignette. (26),864 pp. + Index. 6 last leaves of index with browning and holes in outher margin. Free endpapers at end defective.

(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Compagny, 1959. Orig. printed wrappers. A stamp on frontwrapper and first leaf. "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume 38, Number 3, pp. 611-907. The Shannon paper: pp. 611-656. First edition. "A study is made of coding and decoding systems for a continous channel with an additive gaussian noise and subject to an average power limitation at the transmitter. Upper and lower bounds are found for the error probability in decoding with optimal codes and decoding systems. These bounds are close together for signaling rates near channel capacity and also for signaling rates near zero, but diverge in between. Curves exhibiting these bounds are given." (Shannon p. 611). - Hook & Norman: 898.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1857. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 100, No 2 . Pp. 177-252 a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Kirchhoff's paper: pp. 193-217. With titlepage to volume 100. First printing of an importent papers on the theory of electricity in conductors, telegraph-cables etc., determining the velocity of the electrical propagation. He found that the propagation velocity of electricity to be "very close to the velocity of light in empty space"."The work of Thomson on signalling along cables was followed in 1857 (the paper offered) by a celebrated investigation by Kirchhoff's, on the propagation of electrical disturbance along a telegraph wire of circular cross-section. (Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", pp. 230 ff.)."The field was still open (the nature of the electric current) when Kirchhoff entered it in 1857 with his own general theory of the motion of electricity in conductors. His first paper, in which he treated linear conductors from the same premises as Weber, turned out to coincide in all essentials with an investigation carried out by Weber shortly before but delayed in publication. Both physicists noticed a remarkable implication of their theory: in a perfectly conducting circuit, oscillating currents could be propagated with a constant velocity, independent of the nature of the conductors, and numerically equal to the velocity of light. Both Kirchhoff and Weber, however, pointing to the extreme character of the condition of infinite conductivity, dismissed this result as a mere accidental coincidence."(DSB)

(Hamburg), No printer, 1743. Folio. Senere hldrbd. med rygtitel. Stempel på titelbladet. 80,11 pp. Tekstsiderne bruntonet hele vejen igennem. Processen mod de to generaler Lewenhaupt og Buddenbrok foregik efter den Russisk-Svenske krig 1741-43. Begge blev dømt og mistede hovedet.

Prag, Haase Söhne, 1845. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Upper joint weakening. XII,656;(4),438 pp., 5 folded plates. Scattered brownspots.

Geneve, Antoine Philibert, 1750. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and blind-tooled ornamentation spine. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 24, 215 pp. The Geneva-edition of the French translation of this interesting treatise which devotes a large part to the trade with American plantations and contains discussions of British trade with Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. First published in 1729, the work was frequently reprinted throughout the eighteenth-century. Translated by J.B. de Secondat, son of Montesquieu.

Hildesburghausen, 1839-4to. 4to.-oblong. One cont.hcalf.Gilt back. Text a little brownspotted. Plates generally good. 131,152 pp., 2 engr.titles and 93 steel-engr.plates(47 + 46).

Chicago, Open Court, 1902. Small 8vo. Orig. full red cloth, gilt. A rather faint dampstain along first hinge on frontcover, otherwise fine. VII,143 pp. First English edition of Hilbert's "Grundlagen der Geometrie" from 1899, one of the most influential publications in 2oth Century mathematics.Throughout the 19th century geometry was developed far beyond our intuitive conception of space; hyperbolic geometry was discovered by Gauss, Bolyai, and Lobachevsky and elliptic geometry by Riemann. However, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry still involved an intuitive idea about the concepts 'point', 'line', 'lies on', 'between', etc. In his 'Grundlagen' Hilbert set out to give a strictly formal formulation of geometry were points, lines, planes are nothing more than abstract symbols and concepts as 'lies on' are simply algebraic relations between these symbols. Through his method Hilbert could analyse independence and completeness of the axioms for geometry and he presented a new smaller set of axioms for Euclidean geometry. It can not be said that the 'Grundlagen' contains new and surprising discoveries, its importance lies in the great influence which Hilbert's method had on all fields of mathematics, and even other sciences as physics, chemistry, and biology. The 'Grundlagen' initiated a whole new paradigm shift and eventually evolved mathematics, throughout the 20th century, into a network of axiomatic formal systems.