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Kbhvn., 1899-1943. 8vo og Lex8vo. Indbundet i 7 pragtfulde private hldrbd. i grøn oaseged (Axel Jensen).

Ca. 1930. 23,5x16 cm. Ryg lettere falmet. Yderst velbevaret og signeret Jakob Baden. Indeholder: Valdemar Vedel. Firsernes Førere. Karakteristiker og Kritiker. Kjøbenhavn, 1928. Indbundet med orig. for-og bagomslag.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Klossen, 1723. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style binding with four raised bands, richly gilt spine with blindstamped boards. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the placement in an estate library. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities and a few wormholes to spine. An overall fine and clean copy. (14), 860, (1) pp. + frontispiece and 5 plates. The rare first edition of Müller's work on natural philosophy

(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.

London, Macmillian, 1914. 8vo. Publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering. Extremeties lightly bumped and rubbed. Internally fine and clean - no markings at all. XII,266,(2) pp. and four plates (one loose). First edition of Eddington's first monograph."In his first book, Stellar movements and the structure of the universe (1914), Eddington brought together all the material of some fifteen papers, most of which had been published in the Monthly notices of the Royal astronomical Society between 1906 and 1914. The cosmological knowledge of the period was summarized and the most challenging problems were delineated, and he clearly declared his preference for the speculation that the spiral nebulae were other galaxies beyond our Milky Way, which was itself a spiral galaxy". (DSB IV p. 279).

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.

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.

Kjøbenhavn, Seidelin, 1803. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. Forgyldt titeletiket. (2),184,(2) pp. En svag skjold i indre øverste hjørner er tiltagende mod slutningen. Spredte brunpletter. Den sjældne originaludgave.Da Steffens i 1802 vendte tilbage til København holdt han en forelæsningsrække på Elers' Kollegium i København, hvis første, introducerende del han udgav som Indledning til philosophiske Forelæsninger. Hans virke vakte ikke udelt begejstring hverken hos magthaverne, som anså ham for en fantast, eller hos tilhørerne.

London, Steel, Goddard, & Co., 1818. Later hcloth. Bound with orig. blue covers, original printed titlelabel on upper cover. Stamps on title-page. (4),114 (i.e.116) pp. Textillustrations in woodcut. Internally fine.

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1902. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Some scratches along edges. Stamp on halftitle and title-page. "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 entire volume offered. First editon. - Weil No 2.

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.

Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1841. 4to. Originalt papbd., rygstrimlen mangler. Særtryk af Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. (2),104 pp.,8 tekstillustrationer i træsnit. Indvendig ren og frisk. Med dedikation på fribladet "Min kjære Broder/ Auditeur M.W. Steenstrup/ "som er den ældste, fører evig.... (?) an"/ med broderlig Hengivenhed/ fra/ Forfatteren./ Sorøe d. 10 Martz 1842". Originaltrykket (særtrykket) af et af mosegeologiens pioneerværker.

Freyberg, Barthelschen Schriften, 1784. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt titlelabel. Upper compartment of back repaired. (24),316,(4) pp. and 6 folded engraved plates. The plate "Plan des verschantzten Lagers von Colberg measuring 43,5x88 cm present and showing the camp and coastline with many ships in the sea. First edition, forming V. Stück (vol. 5) of Tielcke's "Beyträge zur Kriegs=Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763. - Also having the general titlepage with engraved vignette.

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.

Indb. ubeskåret m. orig. for- og bagomsl. i pænt samt. rødt hldrbd. m. sort skindtitelfelt på ryg. Omsl. rensede og reparerede og m. brugsspor, ellers et friskt ekspl. Originaludgaven, der jo udkom på tysk, og som foårsagede en trykkefrihedsanklage mod S. i Berlin. Zetterlund 58.

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.

Leipzig, Weidmannischen Buchhandlung, 1800. Bound in 2 fine uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. With the royal monogram in gold on red background of Christian 7 on upper covers. Stamp on title-pages. XVI,536;XXII,478 pp., 5 folded engraved plates and 1 large folded handcoloured plan. The first volume "Encyclopädie" seems to be a revised edition of the first volume of his "Militärisches Handbuch" (1798).

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.

Patavii (Amsterdam), Gerhardum Nicolaum V., 1664. Small8vo. Contemp. full vellum. (16),175 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Light browning to leaves. Petronius Satyricon: Leipzig, Casparum Fritsch, 1731. (16),184 pp. The Priapeia is a collection of short Latin poems in the shape of jocose epigrams affixed to the statues of the god Priapus. These were often rude carvings from a tree-trunk, human-shaped, with a huge phallus which could at need be used as a cudgel against robbers, and they were placed in the gardens of wealthy Romans, for the twofold purpose of promoting fertility and of preventing depredations on the produce.Brunet IV, 869.

Hafniae, 1952. Large4to. Four volumes, all uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. Very light wear to extremities, otherwise a very nice and clean set. XXXII, 480 pp. + 1 portrait; (8), 481-1027, (1) pp. + 1 portrait; IX, (3), 508, (1) pp.; (6), 574 pp. First and only edition of Gustav Scherz's monumental work with Steno's collected works. No. 14 out of 500 copies.

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.

Jena, Johann Felix Bielcken, 1732. Bound in 2 contemp. full vellum. Gilt lettering on spines. Engraved frontispiece. (10),720;(2),808,(28) pp. Clean and fine.

Cont. full calf. Gilt backs, gilt titlelabels. Back somewhat worn on vol II. Bindings with some wormtracts, esp. vol. II. 15 engraved plates and 1 fold map (of ? - vol. III having no plates). Internally clean. Printed on good paper. (4),502-(4),469-(4),515 pp. The 3 volumes forming a concluded part of the work, as the 3 vols. were reprinted in 1792 under the title "Fragments de Voyages dans toute la Russie". Barbier II:744.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1824. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 2, Jahrgang 1824, Zwölftes Stück. Pp. 345-448 (entire issue offered). Fourier's paper: pp. 359-402. First German edition (in the same year as the French " Résumé théorique des Propriétés de la chaleur rayonnante") of this importent paper which gives an analytical account of surface-emissions and absorption based on the principle of equilibrium of temperature, forecasting the more elaborated theories which he published in his famous work "La Therorie analytique de la chaleur. 1822". His analytical mathematical method, that any continous function can be represented as a sum of sine and cosine curves, is here applied to physical problems f.i. his treatment of the warming (and cooling) of the earth and terrestrial temperatures. The theory of terrestrial temperatures played a central role in Fourier's mathematical physics.

Paris, Bachelier, 1833. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on title-pages.(4),XXX,(2),696;(4),782 pp. and 7 folded engraved plates. Few scattred brownspots. Second edition of this classic work, written in the style of Laplace and Lagrange it was for a long time a standard work in analytical mechanics. Here he introduced many novelties such as an explicit usage of momenta.