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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.

Kjøbenhavn, Schultz, 1812 - 1814. Indbundet i 5 nær samtidige ensartede hellæderbind med forgyldte forgyldte titel- og tomeetiketter på rygge. Kapitæler en smule slidte ellers særledes nydeligt eksemplar. Proveniens: et herregårdsbibliotek.

La Haye, Van Bulderen, 1692. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear and miscolouring to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (22), 401, (47) pp. + engraved half-title.

Kopenhagen, Chr.Gottlob Prosts Forlag, 1789. No wrappers. 78,(1) pp. Originaltrykket af et væsentligt og tidligt dansk nationaløkonomisk værk hvori han også behandler den tabsgivende kompagnihandel.Bibl. Danica II: 854.

Pei-p'ing. Imprimerie de l'Université Catholoque, 1933. 4to. Nice hmorocco with raised bands, titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. XIV,521 pp. Clean and fine. The original printing. "Publications de L'Université Catholique de Pékin"

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 223-230. Light browning to first leaf. Wide-margined. First appearance of this fundamental paper in the history of organic chemistry in which Wollaston announced his discovery of "Cystine", the very first of the amino acids, the building blocks of protein, to be discovered.Wollaston "in 1812 (correct 1810) identified a new and rare type of stone, which he called "cystic oxide" since it occurred in the bladder. This was later renamed cystine, the first of the amino acids to be discovered. Fourcroy and Vauquelin reported similar investigations, but unaccountably gave no recognition to Wollaston. This led Alexander Marcet, a physician, to set matters right in a popular work dedicated to Wollaston."(DSB XIV, p. 492).Garrison & Morton: 668.1.

London, J. W. Norie, 1825. 8vo. In contemporary (Original?) coardboard binding with cloth backstrip. Three stamps to front board. Three small stamps to title-page. Wear to extremities, and internally with occassional light brownspots. (8), 152 pp. Rare eighth edition of Norie's pilot to the English channel.

Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1794-96. Indbundet i 3 samtidige bind. Del 1-2 i to ensartede hldrbd. med titel- og tomefelter i skind på rygge. Del 3 meget smukt helldrbd. i rød maroquin med rig ryg og sideforgyldning, helt guldsnit. (6),268;(6),323;(6),385 pp. samt 18 store kobberstukne foldeplancher, kort og planer, heriblandt foldede prospekter af "Stene Skantz" og "Långsten uti Norge". (begge ca. 15x34 cm.) og 2 foldede tabeller.

K., 1925-84. Lex8vo. 3 orig.hldrbd. samt. 3 h-og helshirtbd. Rigt illustr.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1877. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 85, No 3. Pp. (101-) 168. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur & Joubert's paper: pp. (101-) 115. First appearance of one of the founding papers in the realm of antibiotics, being the discovery of "Vibrion septique" (Cl. septicum), the first pathogenic anaerobe to be found. "Pasteur and Joubert were probably the first to realize the practical implications of antibiosis. They noted the antagonism between Bacillus anthracis and other bacteria cultures (in the paper offered)"(Garrison & Morton: No. 1932.1 and 2490).

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1838. 8vo. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering on upper cover. Stamp on title-page. 60 pp. Offprint/Extrait from "Annales Maritimes et Coloniales. - Decembre 1837". Internally clean and fine. Not in Sabin.

Easton, PA., Mack printing Compagny, 1927. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. In: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America", Vol. 13. IX,865 pp. (Entire volume offered). Condon's paper: pp. 466-470. First printing of pioneering paper uniting chemistry with Quantum mechanics. Condon explains the chemical bond by means of the new wave mechanics. A wave function is formulated that involves the introduction of a pair of electrons (the hydrogen molecule) in an electron orbital that extends about two ore more atomic nuclei. Together with a paper by Heitler and London from the same year, this paper marks the beginning of a new era in chemistry as it explains the chemical bond in terms of the new physics.Henry M. Leicester "Source Book in Chemistry 1900-1950", pp. 151-156.The volume contains also Condon's paper. "Coupling of electronic and nuclear Motions in Diatomic Molecules", pp. 462-466.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1830. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von C.L. Crelle", Bd. 5 u. 6. With titlepage to Bd. 5. Pp. 1-36 and pp. 107-146. One engraved plate. First printing of Plückers invention of separate homogenous coordinates. Plücker introduced trilinear coordinates, and he "starts with a fixed triangle and takes the coordinates of any point P to be the signed perpendicular distances from P to the sides of the triangle; each distance can be multiplied by the same arbitrary constant...by using homogenous coordinates and Euler's theorem on homogenous functions.....Plücker was able to give elegant algebraic representations of geometric ideas...and his efforts to treat duality algebraically led him to a beautiful idea, line coordinates....With this notion of line coordinates Plücker was able to give an algebraic formulation and proof of the principle of duality. (Morris Kline).

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1819. 8vo a. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Remains of paperlabels on spines. XLVIII,480 pp. and "Atlas" with 7 large folded engraved plates. brownspots to plates. First edition.

Wien, Anton Strauss, 1823. 4to. (27,5 x 22,5 cm.). Fine full lightbrown morocco. Broad gilt floral borders between gilt lineborders on covers, broad blindtooled border and large inner panel stamped in blind with large lozenge and stamped diamonds. Cornerpieces. Cover-edges gilt, edges gilt, inner gilt floral border. Spine divided in 6 compartmenst, profusely gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Double sewn headbands.Two corners slightly bumped. 236 pp. Printed on fine heavy paper. A paperpocket pasted on inside frontcover. The binding signed "Joseph Drechsler Relieur à Vienne." on front free endpaper.

(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1964. 8vo. Volume XLIII, September, No. 4, Part 1 and 2, 1964 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper, and very light brownspotting to spine, otherwise a near mint copy. Pp. 1155-1479 + two folded plates, one loosely inserted. First publication of AT&T's first submarine telephone cable across the pacific. It went from Japan to Hawaii, where it connected to two cables linking Hawaii with the mainland. This brought the same improvements to trans-Pacific service that the TAT-1 had brought to trans-Atlantic service in 1956. (See link below). Since the trans-Atlantic service opened in 1927, calls had traveled across the ocean via radio waves. But cables provide much higher signal quality, avoid atmospheric interference and offer greater capacity and security.Due to uncertainties in global politics, the economic involvement by the US government in the project was minimal. Papers contained in the present issue:1. Ehrbar, R.D.; Fraser, J.M.; Kelley, R.A.; Morris, L.H.; Mottram, E.T.; Rounds, P.W. The SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1155-1184.2. Bowker, M.W.; Nutt, W.G.; Riley, R.M. Design of Armorless Ocean Cable. Pp. 1185-1208.3. Lerch, B.W.; Phelps, J.W.Armorless Cable Manufacture. Pp. 1209-1242.4. Brewer, S.T.; Dickinson, F.R.; Von Roesgen, C.A. Repeaters and Equalizers for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1243-1273.5. Johansson, S.G.Manufacture of Rigid Repeaters and Ocean-Block Equalizers. Pp. 1275-1310.6. Holdaway, V.L.; Van Haste, W. ; Walsh, E.J. Electron Tubes for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1311-1338.7. Bishop, J.D.; Mottel, S.Cable Power Facility. Pp. 1339-1366.8. Ehrbar, R.D. A Cable Laying Facility. Pp. 1367-1372.9. Grismore, O.D.Cable and Repeater Handling System. Pp. 1373-1394.10. Gretter, R.W.Cable Payout System. Pp. 1395-1434.11. Butler, J.H.; Altenburg, C.J.; McSweeney, R.J.; Sutton, L.E. Design and Powering of Cable Ship "Long Lines". Pp. 1435-1459.

(Paris), 1917-20. 8vo. Comprising 51 volumes (including some titles in doublo), all in orig. full cloth, orig. boards or with orig. printed wrappers. Stamps on titlepages. Some library marks to extremities. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps in the text and maps from the First World War.

Meissen, Goedsche, 1834. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Lower half of spine with a taped label. Lithographed title-page. (6),IV,126,(2) pp., 2 large folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots.

London, J. Millan, (1747). Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. A small crack in leather at lower compartment. Wear to top of spine. XV,(5),261 pp. + (3) pp. of announcements., 25 engraved plate, but plate 6 in xerox-copy. Internally clean. First edition. - Klaus Jordan,2660.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1888-1890 4to. Bound with the front wrappers in contemporary half cloth. In "Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées". With two paper labels to spine and with the author's name to top of each wrapper. A stamp to front free end paper and first wrapper. Otherwise fine. First appearance of this collection of important papers which, amongst others, contains the questions to whether the involutes are algebraic."Besides his two pedagogical works, it was through numerous memoirs (approximately 150, which have been collected) that Humbert held a major place in the mathematical discovery and production of his time. His writings were inspired by his interest in the study of algebraic curves and surfaces and were marked by the lucidity with which he related the problems biography in encountered in this area to questions of analysis and number theory.He thus enriched analysis and gave the complete solution of the two great questions of the transformation of hyperelliptic functions and of their complex multiplication. He also pointed out the resulting consequence: the existence of a group of transformations of certain surfaces into themselves constitutes an essential difference between the geometry of surfaces and that of curves. But, most important, he completed the work of Hermite by pursuing the applications to number theory throughout his life."The present volume also contain contribution by Caspary and Hilbert.

Paris, Henri Plon, 1865-66. 4to. a. Folio. 4 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt title to spines. Raised bands. Spines and hinges worn. Corners bumped. Upper catital of atlas restored with tape. Label pasted to front board. Minor brownspotting, otherwise clean. VII,415;VII,583,(2)pp., 4 coloured lithographed maps + 32 lithographed maps and plans.

Tübingen, Osiander, 1826. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. VIII,(2),234 pp., 4 folded lithographed plates. A few scattered brownspots.

Cologne & Gotha, Gioanni Andrea Reyher, (no year).

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1869 - Vol. 159 - Part I. Pp. 127-161 and 10 lithographed plates, showing the telescope and its parts. A few small weak brownspots to top of some plates. First printing of the detailled description of the Great Melbourne Telescope, by Robinson, member of the commitee and Thomas Grubb, the constructor. With it a number of importent observations of Nebulae were carried out. For 20 years it was the largest in the world, and it was the first instrument to document gravitational lens light refraction. The telescope was destroyed during the bush fires of January 2003."The construction of the grand instrument was entrusted to Mr. Grubb, F.R.S., of Dublin, Ireland. At the Commencement of the year 1868 the telescope was completed, and examined by the Commitee of the Royal Society, made up of Lord Rosse, Dr. Robinson and Warren de la Rue. Intheir report they expressed their opinion that the equatorial was a masterpiece of astronomical mechanism."

[Various places and printers], 1946 - 1968. Collection of 13 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Four papers with dedication from the author to top of front wrapper. Contained in a black kassett. Collection of offprints by Finnish mathematician and statistician Gustav Elfving known as one of the founders of the modern theory of the optimal design of experiments.