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Jena, Christian Henrich Cuno, 1761. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Large engraved titlevignette. (26),602,(38) pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. - Poggendorff II, 1046.

Small 4to. Fine hmorocco, richly gilt back, top-edge gilt, uncut. Bound with all orig. wrappers. No 531 of 490 (numb. 139 a 628) "sur Rives", a total of 678 copies. Colour-illustrations (pochoir) by Dignimont.

Lugdunii Batavorum (Leiden), Joannem à Kerkheim, 1743. 4to. Original full blindstamped vellum, raised bands. (16),408,(28) pp. + (8),99 pp. Titlepage printed i red/black with engraved titlevignette. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1902. Contemp. hcloth. Top of spine with light wear, bottom of spine with small nicks. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 8. Hrsg. von Paul Drude." VIII,928 pp. and 7 plates. Einstein paper: pp. 798-814. Internally fine and clean. The whole volume offered. First editon. - Weil No 2.

Hafniae (Copenhagen), C. Steen, 1835. Royal8vo. Uncut in contemp. boards, leatherbacked later. VIII pp. and 111 engraved plates, among these 11 plates with species of whales. First edition. The mammals are arranged according to Classes after Linné and depicted after Blumenbach. - Nissen ZBI: 2180 (listing only 110 plates).

Kbhvn., Brünnich, 1812. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitel. Ryg lidt slidt, lille revne øverst i fals. Hjørner stødte. XIV,698 pp. Bogen har tilhørt Paul Bergsøe, og bærer hans navn på fribladet. Første danske udgave af dette vigtige værk indenfor den kemiske teknologi. - Bibl. Danica II:147.

Kjøbenhavn, Johan Jørgen Høpffner, 1744. 8vo. In later half calf pastiche binding with richly gilt spine by the renowned Danish bookbinder Anker Kyster. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Wear to capitals (lower worn away) and outer hinges. Ownership signature to inside of front board and lower margin of title page. Title page printed in red and black. Evenly browned and insignificant water mark to upper outer margin throughout. (34), 3-613, (25) p. Rare first edition of the first Danish translation of Wolff's 'Vernünfftige Gedancken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen' (Halle, 1720).

København [Copenhagen], Bianco Luno,1943. Lex8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. The first upper right corners a bit bumped. 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.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1868 8vo. 2 volumes, both uncut (and volume 2 unopened) in publisher's green embossed full cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Light wear to capitals. Previous owner's name to half titles in both volumes. Light occassional brownspotting throughtout. A fine copy. XVI, 444, (1), 17 pp; (4), 531, (6) pp.

Bruxelle, Guyot Fréres, 1888. Folio (52 x 40 cm.). Original clothbacked printed boards. Boards brownspotted. Stamp on title-page. With 15 double-page plates. Plates clean.

Paris, Huzard, 1835. 3 cont. hcalf, gilt backs. Stamp on titles. 583,558,284 pp. Very slightly brownspotted.

Kjøbenhavn, Bing & Søns Forlag, (1839). Tvær-8vo. Samtidigt papbind med skindryg. Lidt rygforgyldning. Titel i guldtryk på forpermen. Kanter lidt slidte. 40 pp. samt 16 håndkolorerede kobberstik. tekstblade med en del brunpletter, kobberne med få brunpletter.

Lüneburg, Johannem Petrum Cubach, 1683. 4to. In later marbled paper covered board. Fine and clean.(34), 161, (4) Rare first printing of Johan Buno's defense for absolutism. Baron Oluf Rosenkrantz had been jailed for his critique of Buno's World History from 1670 in which he argued absolutism was the best way to organize society. Biblioteca Danica II, 734.

(Paris, Crochard, 1818). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 9 (Sec. Cahier), pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Pelletier & Caventou's paper: pp. 194-196. Clean and fine. In this paper the two famous French chemists announced the first isolation of, and the naming of the substance Chlorofyll, the green substance essential for photosynthesis.Chlorophyll is the molecule that absorbs sunlight and uses its energy to synthesise carbohydrates from CO2 and water. This process is known as photosynthesis and is the basis for sustaining the life processes of all plants. Since animals and humans obtain their food supply by eating plants, photosynthesis can be said to be the source of our life also.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1862. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 116, No. 5. Pp. 1-192 a. 1 folded lithographed plate. (Entire issue offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 73-112. With titlepage to volume 116. First appearance of the paper in which Clausius makes importent contributions to the generalization and understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by introducing the concept of disgregation and proving the equivalence of the transformation of heat."Clausius began that search for understanding in 1862 by introducing the concept of disgregation, a concept that, he said, was based on an idea he had long held: that the force of heat for performing mechanical work (both internal and external together) was proportional to the absolute temperature.13 Clausius had never stated this idea explicitly before, although he had argued in 1853, by adopting an analogy between a reversible steam engine and a thermocouple, that the potential difference at a thermocouple junction should be proportional to the absolute temperature. In any event, he now wished to assert that the work which can be done by heat in any change of the arrangement of a body is proportional to the absolute temperature multiplied by a function of molecular arrangement, the disgregation Z. Given this assumption and his postulate that the heat in a body H was only a function of temperature, he was able (1) to prove his theorem of the equivalence of transformations and (2) to separate the equivalence function (entropy) into a temperature-dependent term and a configurational-dependent term..."(DSB).The issue contains other notable papers, Plücker "Ueber recurrente Ströme und ihre Anwendung zur Darstellung von Gasspectra", pp. 27-54, Tyndall "Ueber Strahlung und Absorption der Wärme durch gasförmige Materie", pp. 1-27.

Nürnberg, Renner & Comp., 1838. 4to. Original printed frontwrapper. Some soiling to upper part and a tear in wrapper. Spine defective. VIII,230,(2) pp., textillustrations and 8 folded lithographed plates. The 2 first leaves soiled in upper part.

Londres, no printer, 1799. Near cont. hcloth. A little rubbed. (6),IV,183 pp. Engraved portrait of Barthelemy. Halftitle and portrait loose. Halftitle soiled and browned. Large copy, but slightly browned. At end a part of another work withbound. There exists different print bearing the same year 1799, A second edition was issued also in 1799. - Sabin: 67627.

K., 1834-38. 3 orig.blå kardusbind, ubeskårede. 422,354,562 pp. samt registre og 31 foldetabeller.

(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.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 192 - Series A. Pp. 403-453. Textillustrations. Clean and fine. First printing of Wilson's second importent paper describing his further experiments with his "Cloud Chamber"."To the period 1895-1912 belongs the development of an instrument which to my mind is the most original and wonderful in scientific history.I refer to the cloud or expansion chamber of C.T.R. Wilson...It was a wonderful advance to be able to se, so to speak, the details of the adventures of these particles in their flight through the gas...."(Lord Rutherford)."C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays." (Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity." II, p. 4).

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)

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1800. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 6, Drittes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 3). Titlepage to vol. 6. Pp. 249-376. Nicholson's paper: pp. 340-359. Light browning. A faint dampstain to upper right corners on some leaves. First German edition of Nicholson's famous paper in which he, together with his friend Anthony Carlisle, succeeded in breaking up molecules into the constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen. They thus established the usefulness of the converse of the voltaic cell, by using electricity to produce chemical actions."On March 20 of that year (1820) Volta wrote to Banks, president ofthe Royal Society, informing him of his construction of an electric battery. Nicholson heard of this and with the aid of a friend built his own Voltaic pile by May 2. It was the first in England. Nicholson's great contribution was to place wires attached to the two ends of the pile in water. He found that with the current flowing, bubbles of gaz (hydrogen and oxygen) ere given off. He had "electolyzed" water, breaking up the molecules into the individual elements. He thus reversed the demonstration of Cavendish, that hydrogen and oxygen could unite to form water. This was the first demonstration that an electric current could bring about a chemical reaction - the reverse of olta's demonstration that a chemical action could bring about an electrical current."(Asimov). Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1800 C. - Magie "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 431 ff.

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.