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Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1935. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. With dustjacket. Jacket frayed, mainly at upper edges and on top of spine. VIII,(2),365,(1) pp., 2 plates, textillustrations. Clean and fine. First edition of Milne's controversial work "in which he introduced a new deductive system of theoretical physicswhich came to be called kinematic relativity. He introduced the useful term "cosmological principle" to signify that observers associated with galaxies in his model and in many others, including those based on general relativity, would see similar "world pictures". Milne went on to derive from his model many properties analogous to the laws of dynamics, gravitation, and electromagnetic theory. These developments of his theory were not generally accepted, and it is now thought that the most important effect of his work was that it led to fresh attempts to analyze the concepts of time and space-time." (DSB).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. A few scratches to spine. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 8. (10),526 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. Small stamps onverso of titlepage. (Entire volume offered). Unverdorben's paper: pp. 253-265, 397-410, 477-487. Clean and fine. First appearance of the paper in which Unverdorben describes the method by which he discovered Aniline, which became so importent in the manufacture of dyes, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. "Aniline (from the Portugese anil, applied to indigo, and derived from the Arabic an-nil, the blue substance), was first obtained by Unverdorben by heating indigo, and was given the name 'crystalline'. In 1841 Carl Julius von Fritzsche (1807-71), an assistant to Mitscherlich and, later, a member of the Academy of Sciences in St. petersburg, obtained the same compound from anthranilic acid, which was produced by the action of caustioc alkalis on indigo, and called it 'aniline'... in 1843 Hofmann showed that the three substances, crystalline, aniline and benzidam, were identical with the base isolated from coal tar."(Findlay "A Hundred years of Chemistry", p. 134).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1826 C.The volume contains other importent papers Antoine Jerome Balard "Ueber eine besondere Substanz im Meereswasser" in which he describes his discovery of the element BROMINE, first German edition, pp. 114-124 a. pp. 319-336. (Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1826 C.). And Eilhard Mitscherlich "Ueber eine neue Klasse von Krystallformen", pp. 427-442.

Large 4to. Loose as issued with all orig. wrappers in publishers portfolio and slipcase. No 102 of 227 "sur velin des papeteries d'Arches", a total of 247. With 20 fine original lithographies by Andreu.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, Ph. Heinrich Perrenon, 1783. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel in leather on back. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of back. XXII,159 pp., 5 engraved plates and 6 large folded engraved handcoloured maps, each measuring 42x49 cm. Titlepage with a little soiling to upper part and with stamps. Some scattered brownspots. The maps clean and fine on thick paper. First German edition. The 6 handcoloured maps are: 1.Carte de France. 2. Carte de Pologne. 3. Turquie en Europe. 4. L'Empire Russe en Europe. 5. Hongrie, Transilovanie, Esclavonie et Croatie. 6. Carte D'Allemagne.

Berlin, Adolf Gumprecht, 1845. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),LIV,192,118 pp. and 1 large folded lithographed map, outline coloured (Uebersichtskarte zu v. Reden's Eisenbahn- und Dampfschiffbuch). Scattered brownspots.

København, Reitzel, 1913. Royal8vo. Orig. printed frontwrapper. Small nick to wrapper and spine. Uncut. 474 pp., 24 plates, 4 portraits, textillustr. Internally clean and fine. Text in English. First edition of the scientific results from the famous Denmark-Expedition, the first volume only. - Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 41.

Delft, P. de Groot, 1821. Contemp. marbled boards. Orig. printed titlelabel on spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine and small tears to hinges at top of spine. Stamp on halftitle. (6),XIV,383,(1)pp. and 6 large folded engraved plates with many figs. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper.

København, Levin & Munksgaard, 1928. Folio. Indbundet i lidt senere hellæderbind med titel på ryg og permer. Enkel ramme på permer. Ren og pæn indvendig. Nydeligt eksemplar af Det danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskabs faksimileudgave af Christian III's bibel fra 1550.

(Berlin, 1793). 12 engraved maps with outline-colouring, each measuring 32 x 47 cm. Unbound as loose sheets. Light browning and faint scattered brownspots. No title-page. Old handwritten title in upper margin of the first map.

Leipzig, Ambrosius, 1904 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Fourth series, No. 15, 1904. Entire issue offered. Library labels pasted on to front end-papers and stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 344-70. [Entire volume: VIII, 1064 pp + 4 folded plates]. First printing of Hasenöhrl's important paper in which he showed that electromagnetic energy E, enclosed in an empty box with perfectly reflecting walls, behaves, when the box is set in motion, as if it had a mass proportional to E - also often referred to as inertia of a cavity containing radiation. Since J. J. Thomson in 1881, many physicists like Wilhelm Wien (1900), Max Abraham (1902), and Hendrik Lorentz (1904) used equations for the so-called "electromagnetic mass", which expresses how much electromagnetic energy contributes to the mass of bodies. And Henri Poincaré (1900) implicitly used the expression m=E/c2 for the mass of electromagnetic energy."When Hasenöhrl returned to Vienna he wrote the series of papers for which he is best known, on electromagnetic radiation. of these the most important is the prizewinning essay on the effects of radiant energy within a moving cavity.2Using classical theory he showed that the trapped radiation increases the kinetic energy of the motion, the effect being equivalent to an increase in the apparent mass of the cavity.In his formula h?0 is the total radiant energy in the cavity and c is the velocity of light. Like other similar anticipations, this result was displaced by Einstein's more general theorem on the equivalence of mass and energy." (DSB)

Lyon, V. Reguilliat, 1769. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel, gilt. Top of spine worn. Spine a little rubbed. XVI,445,(7) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Light yellowing to leaves. First edition. The plate showing the instrument, invented by the author, for operating on the black cataract. (The Star-Schnepper). - Wellcome III:p. 176. - Waller No. 3804.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1862. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", 115. Bd., 1. issue ("Heft" No 1, 1862). Titlepage to vol. 115. Pp. 1-176 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offereed ("Heft" 1)). Clausius' paper: pp. 1-56. Some brownspots to right marginon some leaves. First printing of this importent paper, the seciond of C's papers in the working out of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. In the paper he states that he found an error in Maxwell's theory of gases, an error Maxwell was to admit as far more serious. "In his initial approach to the conduction of heat in gases, Maxwell drew a brilliant analogy between diffusion (a transfer of mass) and conduction (a transfer of kinetic energy), thereby making it possible to use the form of his diffusion equation to represent conduction, simply replacing the mass of a molecule with its kinetic energy. Clausius critized this adoption of the diffusion equation, because, given the assumptions, mass transfer would accompany the heat conduction and the process would not be one of energy transfer alone. He then offered a revised theory of conduction. "(DSB III, p. 308)."Clausius was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases and of the science of thermodynamics. He and Lord Kelvin at about the same time and independently announced the Second Law of thermodynamics. Clausius particularly developed the theory of thermodynamics by applying it to the study of gases and vapors."(Magie in "A Source Book in Physics", p. 228).

Bruxelles, Guyot, 1896-99. 8vo a. folio. (39,5 x 29,5 cm.). 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. XVII,252 pp. + Atlas with 14 lithographed plates, of which 3 are in double-folio.

Upps., 1927-38 + Sveriges Bibliografi 1600-Talet. 2 Bd. Upps., 1942 46. Lex8vo. Ialt 5 Bd.m komplet i 19 dele.

N.Y., Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. Orig. full blindtooled cloth. Spine ends worn. Light wear along edges. Gilding and gilt illustration on back faint. XVI,436 pp. Frontispiece, textillustrations, 4 plates and 2 maps. Lower right corner of titlepage and frontispiece lightly stained, otherwise internally fine and clean. First American edition (issued the same year in London) of this historical importent first-hand account of the Assyrian Excavations.

Christiania, Johan Dahls Forlag, 1864. 8vo. Indbundet i et samtidigt halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. En smule slid ved kanter og kapitæler. Med Christian Richardts navnetræk øverst på titelbladet. Spredte brunpletter. Med tillægget 'Margretes Vuggesang'. (4),217,(5) pp. Digteren Christian Richardts (1831-1892) eksemplar af originaludgaven.

Parism, J. Corréard, 1867. 8vo and 4to. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted on backs. Stamp on titles. XVI,440 pp. and Atlas-vol. with 18 double-page lithographed plates. The first and last few leaves of textvol. a little brownspotted. Otherwise fine and clean.

Dresden, Walther, 1757. Uncut in contemp. boards. Some wear to covers. Stamp on foot of title-page. (4),491,(4) pp., 13 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean, on good paper.

New Haven, A.H. Maltby and Herrick & Noyes, 1837). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Light wear to titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. In: "The Amrican Jounal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman", Vol. 31.- January, 1837. Engraved portrait (Dr. Prince). VIII,428 pp. and 1 folded map, 4 engraved plates (partly folded). The entire volume offered. Hildreth's paper: pp. (1-) 84 a. 20 woodengraved textillustrations (maps, fossils, startigraphy). Apart from a brownspots in upper margin of the first 7 leaves, a fine clean copy. First appearance of this classic travel account from Ohio, mainly describing the geology and teh fossils of the area. - Sabin: 31796.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. XII,149 pp., 16 tables and 4 folded engraved plates. Some scattered, mainly marginal brownspots. Wide-margined. First edition. - Poggendorff II, 1202.

London, The Times, 1914-21. 4to. Bound in 22 contemporary half calf bindings, spines with raised bands, gilt titles and paper library labels. Index volume in orig. cloth. All volumes rubbed and slightly worn. About 475 pages each with numerous photos and maps in the text, also a number of folding maps in colour. Library stamps. Vols. 1-21 were issued in weekly parts from August 25, 1914, to July 27, 1920. There was a further volume published in 1921 which forms the general index.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1855. 8vo. Contemporary brown half calf with gilt spine. Wear to hinges and corners. A tear to top of back hinge, but binding tight. Internally nice and clean. (4), 284, (2) pp. Scarce first edition of this historical account of the Danish West Indian islands: St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John. It offers an overview of the islands' history and includes a foreword by Bernard V. Petersen. The book is primarily based on John P. Knox: A Historical Account of St. Thomas etc...1852 as a source. Sabin 61222.

Stuttgart, Gustav Weise, 1868-81. 4to. Bound in 4 contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Spine slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-pages. 3 colour-printed frontispieces. In all ca. 1100 pp. of text, 1485 textillustrations and 379 plates. Scattered brownspots.

Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. Contemp. hcloth. Stamp on titlepage. In "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel", vol. 6., IV,416 pp. Bohr's paper: pp. 1-9. A faint dampstain in right margin. First edition. "...in the hands of Bohr and his school the correspondence principle was like "a magic wand that allowed the results of the classical wave theory to be of use for the quantum theory...but a costly price had to be paid. For taking resort to classical physics in order to establish quantum-theoretic predictions, or in other words, constructing a theory whose corroboration depends on premises which conflict with the substance of the theory, is of course a serious inconsistency from the logical point of view. Being fully aware of this difficulty, Bohr attempted repeatedly to show "the correspondence principle must be regarded purely as a law of quantum theory, which can in no way diminish the contrast between the postulates and electrodynamic theory." The earliest allusion to such a conception may perhaps be found as early as 1921 in a paper (the paper offered) in which Bohr briefly discussed the function of the principle..."(Max Jammer).

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1719. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),92,304 pp., 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de la Hire, Nicole, Maraldi, Lemery, Cassini, de la Faye, de Jussieu, Varignon, Reaumur, Winslow, Geoffroy l'Aine, Danti d'Isnard, Littre, Delisle le Cadet, Dalesme.