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London, Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Engraved and printed title-pages. Throughout illustrated with engraved plates and textillustrations. 2 leaves in volume I a bit loose. Marginal browning to the two engraved title-pages. Internally clean and fine. First edition in bookform.

Ca. 1920. 24 x 20 cm. Not signed. Pencil on heavy paper. Sketch of a naked couple with a stool. 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.

Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1743. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, a few wormholes and parts of gilting worn off. Small worm-tract to lower margin throughout, occassionaly slightly touching text, otherwise internally nice and clean. 15 ff., 3104 columns, 4 ff. + frontispiece. First edition of this lexicon on the antiquity, each entry with information on the source. "One of the most useful, & most used, of the literary reference works of the day" (Jantz, German Baroque Literature, no 167).

Paris, Crochard, 1834. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 57, Cahier Oct. Pp. 113-224 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered with halftitle to tome 57). Avogadro's paper: pp. 113-148. Browning to halftitle. Smoe scattered brownspots. First printing of this paper in which Avogadro analyzed the connection between specific heats and atomic weights of chemical compounds and liquids after Dulong and Petit has announced their discovery of a relationship between heats and atomic weights of substances (the Law of Petit & Dulong). Avogadro tries to expands their law onto compounds as well.

London, Longmans, Huret etc., 1816-26. Bound in 4 modest (not professionally bound) full cloth. Uncut. Name cut from title in vol. one loosing the "An" in "An Introduction". Some offsetting to titles in vol. 3 and 4 from the engraved portraits. XXIII,517,(4),529,(3),V,(3),732,634,(2) pp., 30 engraved plates of which 5 are handcoloured. Some plates a little brownspotted, text in general clean and fine. Horn & Schenkling 11740. Nissen 2189.

Paris, Victor Masson, 1855. 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 3 , tome 30, December-issue. With halftitle to vol. 30. Pp. 385-508 a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Wurtz's paper: pp. 443-506. First appearance of the entire memoir in which Wurtz describes his outstanding discovery of Liebig’s prediction, that there might be organic compounds analogous to ammonia and derivable from it by the replacement of hydrogen - the amines. The discovery was announced in 1849, and a small extract was printed in "Comptes rendu" (4 pp.). The offered paper is the memoir in full.Wurtz is most noted for his investigation of glycols and for his discovery of the amines. The latter discovery in 1849 (the paper offered) was very significant at the time, for ot suggested the possibility of a new type, the ammonia type, which helped to explain the behaviour of nitrogenous compounds. (Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book..", pp. 362-63). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1849 C.Charles Adolphe Wurtz, was born at Strasbourg 1817. For many years he was Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole de Médicine and at Sorbonne in Paris. He was known not only for his researches in organic chemistry but also for his many literary works. He was editor of a Dictionnaire de Chemie Pure et Appliquée, and after 1868 one of the editors of the Annalen der Chemie et de Physique. He died in Paris in 1884.

København, ca 1850. Lille tvær-folio. Med 58 tonede litograferede prospekter af herregårdene på Fyn, Lolland og Falster, samlet fra værket værket "Prospekter af Danske Herregaarde", som udkom i årene 1844-68.

London, Bulmer et Soc., apud White et Miller, 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. (4),130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning, further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name.

Argentorati, Ex Offic. Ioh. Philippi Mülbii, 1647. 4to. Recent full cloth w. leather title-label on back (Isacsons). Title-page in red and black, printer's device on t-p. Clean copy. 10, 352, (118), (1), 587, (1) pp. Dibdin p. 440: "Isaac Casaubon was the first who wrote a valuable commentary on Suetonius, and his edition is greatly to be preferred to every preceding. This commentary... is replete with various and profound learning, and is called by J. Scaliger "the most perfect thing of the kind he has seen." Both editors present us with many excellent observations and rules of criticism, but the LAST edition of 1647 is the fullest, and contains the fragments of Suetonius, and the dissertation by Boeclerus." The first edition is from 1595-1615.

Reykjavik, 1919-26. 4 private hshirtbd. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. 454,645,774,885 pp.

K., 1654. 4to. Beskedent samt.hldrbd. Ryg slidt. Eksemplaret har nogle fugtskjolder og mangler den træskårne frontisp. (14), 687, (5) pp. Stadig værdifuld i historisk-topografisk henseende.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1884. Bound in one contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A small chip to top of spine. XI,396;XII,380 pp., textillustrations in woodcut. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition.

Kjöbenhavn, Hartv. Frid. Popps Bogtrykkerie, 1829 4to. Indbundet i et senere halvshirt bind. Særtryk fra det Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Tidligere ejers signatur [Jonas Collin] øver på titelblad. Sporadiske brunepletter, ellers pænt eksemplar. 58, IV pp. + 12 kobberstukne plancher, heraf 6 udfoldelige, alle håndkolorerede. Særtryk af Herholdts anatomiske beskrivelse af menneskelige misfostre. Jonas Collin er især kendt for at være mæcen for nogle af Danmarks mest kendte guldalder-digtere, herunder H.C. Andersen,

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.

Amsterdam, Rod. & jacob. Westenios & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. Bound in a fine well-preserved full contemp. calf, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt letering, blindtooled and with "mirror" on covers (Cambridge-binding). Danish bound. Engraved frontispiece. Title-page printed in red/black. (22),717,239 pp. 1 large engraved vignette. Printers device engraved on title-page. Internally clean and fine, wide-margined and printed on good paper.

Freyberg, Barthelischen Schriften, 1776. 4to. Cont. hcalf, raised bands, slightly rubbed. (8),224,(22) pp. and 7 large folded engraved plans, partly handcoloured (with numbering I-X). First edition, forming II. Stück (vol. 2) of Teilcke's "Beyträge zur Kriegs=Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763". - Also having the generel titlepage with engraved vignette.

(Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1859). Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome 55, Cahier Janvier 1861. Pp. 5-128 a. 2 large folded engraved plates (emission-lines and the phosporoscope). The entire issue offered. First appearance of Becquerel's first two pioneering studies on lluminiscent phenomena. "It was in these studies that Becquerel first described the phosphoroscope, an instrument of his own invention consisting of a box sealed with two disks mounted on the same axis and pierced with holes arranged in such a way that light could not at any one time pass through the entire apparatus. By rapidly revolving these perforated disks, an observer could continously view substances in the dark only fractions of a second after they had been exposed to brilliant light; and by regulating the speed of the revolution of the disks, one could measure the lenght of time that substances continued to glow after the exposure to light. Using this device, Becquerel was able to identify many new phosphorescent substances and to show that the phenomenon G.C. Stokes had named fluorescence in 1852 was in reality only phosphorescence of an extremely short duration....In this manner substances could be analyzed without physical or chemical alteration."(DSB I, p. 556).Becquerel dis his most importent work in optics on the phenomena of luminescence. In the middle years of the nineteenth century, he virtually monopollized the significant discoveries made inthis field.(DSB).

London, Macmillan & Co., 1963. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with black leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 197, 1963. Bookplates pasted on to front free end-papers, library stamp to title page. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. P. 1040. [Entire volume: XLIX, II, (1), 1332 pp]. First publication of the very first observation of a quasar. "The nature of the quasars remained a mystery, but the discovery of this very bright example enabled Maarten Schmidt to obtain a high-quality optical spectrum of 3C 272 with the Palomar two-hundred-inch telescope, in California. Maarten Schmidt's elucidation of its nature opened completely new perspectives for astronomy and high-energy astrophysics" (A Century of Nature). A quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) is a very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies.This volume of Nature also contains three other seminal papers on 3C 273: J. B. Okie's "Absolute Energy Distribution in the Optical Spectrum of 3C 273;" Jesse L. Greenstein and Thomas A Matthew's "Red Shift of the Unusual Radio Source 3C 48;" and C. Hazard, M. B. Mackey, and A. J. Shimmin's "Investigation of the Radio Source 2C 273 by the Method of Lunar Occulations."

Kiöbenhavn, Thiele, 1848-50. 4to. Indbundet i 2 beskedne samtidige hshirtbd. En fals med revne. 2 kobberstukne frontispiecer. (2),157;226 pp. samt 205 kobberstukne plancher. Spredte brunpletter.

Grenaa, 1939-57. Lex8vo. Indbundet med orig.foromslag i 4 solide helshirtbd. Med dedik. hvert bind. 823,529,500,941 pp. Illustr.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1798. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Uden rygtitel. Lettere brugsspor. (12),340 pp. Her og der noget brunplettet Originaludgaven. Med dette værk blev Kant's filosofi introduceret i Danmark-Norge.

Gera-Untermhaus, (1902). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. (4),307 pp. and 29 (each 38x28 cm.) fine chromolithographed plates. Anker no.356. The old text from the edition in 1822-60 has been preserved unaltered, corrections in footnotes. The figures for all the plates have been re-drawn and show the birds in their natural surroundings. Among the many artists are O.Kleinschmidt, J.G. Keulemans, O. van Riesenthal and others. The eggs are figured in a series of special plates, based on Eugene Rey's Collection.

København, A. C. Riemenschneiders Forlag, 1883. 8vo. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et nydeligt millimeterbind af sort maroquin. Forgyldt rygtitel. Fladstrøgne kapitæler. (Juul-Lassen). En smule ubetydeligt slid på permer. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang på fribladet: "Kære Fru Behrend - / et venligt Minde om / Deres Ven / Herman Bang. / 25.4.1910." Særdeles rent eksemplar. 146,(2) pp. Nydeligt dedikationseksemplar af originaludgaven.

Sorøe, (Jonas Lindgren), 1769. 4to. I samtidigt hellæderbind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. False svage og permer med slitage. Titelblad med annotation i højre hjørne i senere hånd, ellers indvendig pæn. (14), 318, 96, (1) pp.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1805. 4to. Unden omslag. En smule brunplettet. 30, (4) pp. Originaltrykket af karantæne-forordning fra 1805, hvor en nyordning af karantænevæsnet blev gennemført bl.a. herunder indførelsen af karatænepasset.