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Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, 1801 Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. X,(2),331;(2),326;(2),356,(2) pp. and 46 engraved plates, some folding. Some scattered brownspots.

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.

Kiøbenhaffn, Melcior Martzan og Jørgen Holst, 1652. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. Ryg fornyet omkr. 1850. Titelkobberet mangler. (38),858,(1) pp. + Tractat Offuer alle de Caldsmaal oc Bøder...1652. 49 pp. Nogle svage skjolder, særlig i starten, spredte brunpletter. Enkelte tilskrifter i gl. hånd. Anden, stærkt forøgede udgave af den første dansk-norske juridiske lærebog. - Bibl. Danica I:640.

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.

Hamburg, Brandt, 1753 & 1754. 8vo. Two volumes uniformly bound in two nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. A few scratches to boards, otherwise a fine and clean set. (10), 280, (4), 280, (4), 286, (2), 270, (12) pp. + frontispiece; (4), 1134, (10) pp. + frontispiece. First edition of vol. 1 and 2 of this collection of various treatises on theological, philological and historical topics.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1722. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to spineends. Engraved frontispiece. (6),132,463 pp., 15 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: Maraldi, Mery, Saurin, Geoffroy l'Aine, Chevalier de Louville, Winslow, Lemery, Varignon, Cassini, de Lagny, Geoffroy le Cadet, de Mairan, Vaillant, de Jussieu, Delisle l'Aine, d'Isnard, Reaumur, Littre, Boulduc, Bon.

Manchester, T. Sowler and Co., 1878. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "The Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society", April 30. Author's presentation inscription to front wrapper "Edmund J Mills / with the Author's Compliments". Miscolouring to lower part of front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. 25 pp. + 1 folded plate. Scarce offprint issue, with author's presentation inscription, of Wilde's contribution to the origin of elements and his views on the newly created periodic system.Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.

Nyere blåt blankt omsl. Lidt brunplettet. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 121.

(Nürnberg, 1696). (25,5 X 32 cm.). Kobberstukket planer over Køge by of dets fæstningsværker. Den ene del viser byen, den anden del byen omgivet af fæstningsværket som byen så ud 1659-60 under Svenskekrigen. Stikket foreligger her i fin håndkolorering med to barokkartoucher. Under glas i bred "sølvramme". Rammen med lidt kantstød. Fra Samuel Pufendorf' værk om Karl X Gustavs krige "De rebus a Carolo Gustavo gestis...", tegnet af Erik Dahlberg.

Washingt., 1890. 4to. Orig.full cloth. First inner hinge weak. X,665 pp.

Bound in 50 volumes of which most are in original wrappers. Generally in good condition. Contains works by Paul V. Rubow, Peter P. Rohde, Carl Jørgensen, Paul Müller, Frithiof Brandt, Hjalmar Helweg et al.

Kbhvn., 1917-69. Alt indbundet. (1917-39 i hpluvbd. - 1940-55 i hshirtbd. - 1957-69 i orig. hldrbd.). Mangler 1 årgang (1956).

Amsterdam, Ravestein, 1664. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Title-page with red underlignings. Vague dampstain throughout, primarily affecting last leaves. (14), 418, (14), 450, (22) pp. + frontispiece. The Fourth French edition of Lucian’s collected works, translated by Nicolas Perrot. Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-180 AD) was a Syrian rhetorician and satirist known for his witty and humorous works that criticized society and religious beliefs. His writings, nearly all of which have survived, are celebrated for their sharp satire and influence on later literature.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Later hcloth. Stamp on title-page. VIII,602 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Jena, Seidler, 1809. Small 4to. Contemp. Marbled stiff wrappers. Backstrip gone. Wear to spine. Stamp on title-page. (2),129 pp., 8 fine engraved plates of which 2 are handcoloured. A small nick to a few leaves in bottom of lower margin. Occassionally light browning. Wide-margined.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1833. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 28., 6. u. 8. Stück. (Entire issues offered) Pp. 244-448 a. pp. 530-646 a. 4 engraved plates.. Gauss' paper: pp.241-273 a. pp. 591-615. Clean and fine. First German translation of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata", Gauss' first work on magnetism, issued the same year as this first German edition, and in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units, distance, mass, time to measure nonmechanical quantity (magnetism and electricity). - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" (Magie, A Source Book in Physics, p. 519).The volume contains other notable papers: , by Mitscherlich, Döbereiner, Dutrochet, Graham, Berzelius, Stromeyer, F. Wöhler, Heinrich u. Gustav Rose, Hansteen, Arago, Pelouze, Liebig etc. etc.G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver: 867 (Latin ed.).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1811. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd.9 (= Bd. 39 der Reihe), Neuntes Stück. Pp. 1-128. (The entire issue offered). Davy's papers: pp. 3-42, pp. 43-89 and pp. 90-100. First appearance in German of these importent papers in the history of chemistry in which Davy announces his proofs of the elementary nature of clorine, describing the preparation, physical and chemical properties of a new gas, which he called 'euchlorine'. It is unstable and explodes on heating to give chlorine and oxygen. Davy here suggested the name 'chlorine', from a greek work for green, because of the greenish colour of the gas.Thorpe said of this first paper "As a piece of induction, the memoir is a model of its kind, and as an exercise in "the scientific use of ofthe imagination" it has few equals."Davy's researches on chlorine are of an importence with those on the alkali metals. Chlorine, first discovered by Scheele, was regarded by him as "dephlogisticated muriatic acid". As phlogistion was perfectly synonymous with hydrogen to Scheele, this view was essentially correct. Lavoisier, however, chiefly occupied with phenomena of combustion, assumed that chlorine was an oxide of an unknown "radical". avy performed many experiments endeavouring to confirm the presenceof oxygen and finally concluded that chlorine was an element."(Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry", p. 243 ff).

København., 1887-1897. Indbundet i 4 samtidige hldrbd.med rygforgyldning, tome-og titelfelter i skind. Originaltrykket.

Leipzig, Kummer, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),X,298,(4) pp. and 17 large folded engraved plates and plans (4 plans with handcolouring). Scattered brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1577.

Kiøbenhavn, Sebastian Popp, 1810-11. 3 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitler. Rygge og kanter lidt slidte. Stempler på titelblade og forsatse. VIII,539;(2),315,(2);(2),522,(6) pp. og 41 foldede kobberstukne kort og planer. Her og der med lidt brunpletter. Bibl. Danica II:332. Første danske udgave af dette berømmede og ansete værk om krigskunsten, forfattet af Ludvig d. 14's feltmarskal.

Halle im Magdeburgischen, Hendel, 1721. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raise bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Leather on spine cracked, spine-ends slightly chipped. Internally nice and clean. (14), 620, (28) pp. First collected edition of Alberti’s essays. Alberti (1682–1757), professor of medicine and philosophy at Halle and later rector of the university, was a leading disciple of Georg Ernst Stahl who considered the soul as having control on the body. Therapies involved dealing with the internal senses and feelings.

Cambridge, 1897 Lex8vo. Uncut in 2 original half cloth bindings with gilt spines. A bit of wear to spine and corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. A very good copy. XXVI, (2, -half-title and errata), 456; VI, (4, -half-titles and errata) pp. + pp. 459-686 + 1 leaf of advertisements and 1 folded plate (Table of Alphabets). First edition of Conway's great classic on the Italic dialects."Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of Rome's neighbours. The second volume provides an outline of the grammar of the Italic dialects, the surviving remains of which were collected in the first volume. There are six dialect alphabets given, followed by a sketch of their accidence and syntax. The first appendix discusses the Oscan measures of the mensa ponderaria at Pompeii; a second gives alien, doubtful or spurious inscriptions. The bulk of the volume consists of indexes of geographical and personal names, a glossary of the dialect words, and an index of Latin words used in the work." (From the review of the new 2013-paperback-edition).

Genova, Matheo Garvizza, (ca. 1730-) 1756. Small 4to. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (6),346;336;(2),383 pp. Faint dampstain to last leaves in volume II. First edition. With the Supplement-volume published years later.

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle etc., 1888. Orig. pictorial full cloth, gilt. Light rubbing to edges. XV,368 pp. + 32 pp. of Advertisements and 1 folded map. Fine and clean copy, uncut. First edition.

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.