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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 713-891. A few textilustr. Clean and fine. First printing of a main work by the "Father of Geophysics", in which he set up the hypothesis, that the results from his earlier investigations on the relations between the tidal frictions on the earth and the motion of the moon away from the earth, could be used to explain the formation of satellites of the other planets and their movements in relation to the sun.. (In DSB it is called "a monumental paper")."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB).

Small 4to. Orig. wrappers, uncut. No 391 of 450 "sur vélin", a total of 500. Fine colourplates by Laborde.

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. Small 4to. Later full cloth. Titlelabel in leather. Lithographed portrait as frontispiece. XI,363 pp., 1 lithographed portrait, 1 mezzotint plate by Constable: Spring. The plates having a small stamp outside the image. Text clean.

Antwerp, 1626. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Soiling to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (30), 548 (but 338), (22), (4), 548, (36) pp.

Madrid, Patrimoni Nacional, 1946. Large 4to. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. VII,303,CXCIX pp. and 193 plates in collotype. No. 735 of 1000 copies. On fine paper.

Paris, 1650. 12mo. In contemporary limp vellum. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small tear to spine, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (2), 333, (3), 96 pp. The uncommon first edition of the account of the trial of Louis de Marillac who was decapitated on 10 May 1632 at the Place de Grève in Paris. The present work function as part two of “Memoires du cardinal de Richelieu”, but is a separate work in itself.

(London, W. Nicol, 1827). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1827 - Part II. Pp. 355-388 a. 2 engraved plates. (a small dampstain to lower margin of plates). Text clean and fine. First printing of this milestone paper, containing the first scientific classification of foodstuffs as carbonhydrates, fats, proteins, and water."The brilliant demonstration in 1824 that the gastric juices of animals contains hydrochloric acid appeared incredible to many of Prout's contemporaries. Yet in 1827 (in the paper offered) they readily adopted his classification of foodstuffs into water, saccharinous (carbonhydrates), oleagineous (fats), and albuminous (proteins). Although Prout promised detailled analyses of the three organic aliments, only those of the saccharinous class were published by him. As a vitalist, Prout maintained that organized bodies (which were composed from organic substances) contained "independent existing vital principles."Under the influence of these teleological agents, the four aliments were transformed into blood and tissues. Prout termed the process of digestion and blood formation "primary assimilation." "Secondary assimilation" (Liebig's "metamorphosis of tissues") included both the process of tissue formmation from blood and the destruction and removal of unwanted parts from the animal system. The absorption and removal of water from processed aliments were the principal chemical features of chylification and sanguification, respectively. Organization of processed aliments could not occur, however, without the presence and admixture of minute amounts of water or of elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In 1827 Prout coined the word (in the paper offered) "merorganized" to denote the isomerism and vitalization of organic substances by the presence of these incidental materials."(DSB XI, p. 173). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1827 C.

Leipzig, Barth, 1883. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann", Neue Folge, Bd. XIX. VIII,956 pp. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 358-378. Internally clean and fine. Stamp to titlepage and verso of. First apperance of Planck's third scientific paper, not to mention his dissertation and his habilitationsschrift (1880). The paper deals with thermo-dynamic equilibrium of gas-mixtures.Akademie No. 5.The volume contains further importent papers by Heinrich Hertz, W.C. Röntgen, Kohlrausch, Elster & Geitel etc.

Berlin, Himburg, 1793. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. XXXVIII,908 pp. and 19 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1940. Large 8vo. Bound in blue half cloth with silver lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 5. Small paper label to lower part of spine and upper inner margin of front board. Stamp to title-page and last leaf, otherwise internally fine. Pp. 56-68. (Entire copy: IV, 188 pp.). First printing of Church's seminal paper in which he introduced his Type Theory: A simpler and more general Type Theory than the one introduced by Bertrand Russell in 1908 and Whitehead & Russell in 1927."Church's type theory is a formal logical language which includes first-order logic, but is more expressive in a practical sense. It is used, with some modifications and enhancements, in most modern applications of type theory. It is particularly well suited to the formalization of mathematics and other disciplines and to specifying and verifying hardware and software. A great wealth of technical knowledge can be expressed very naturally in it. With possible enhancements, Church's type theory constitutes an excellent formal language for representing the knowledge in automated information systems, sophisticated automated reasoning systems, systems for verifying the correctness of mathematical proofs, and certain projects involving logic and artificial intelligence." (SEP) Order-nr.: 48379

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1756. Small 8vo. 2 cont. full mottled calf. Gilt backs, gilt borders on covers. Titlelabels in leather. Spine ends repaired. Endpapers renewed. Stamps on titles and at ends. 232;223 pp. and 11 large folded engraved plates.

Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1740. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Spine ends with wear and corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. (20), 1002, (106) pp. Later edition, here with the often missing map, of Hübner’s highly popular ‘Geographie’, first published in Leipzig in 1693. Hübner was the director of the Johanneum in Hamburg. During his lifetime alone, 36 editions of the present work were published.

Berlin, Vita deutsches Verlagshaus, (1901). Small 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. XV,485 pp., 2 portraits, 5 folded maps. Clean and fine.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),106,342 pp., 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de la Hire, Homberg, Varignon, Reaumur, Mrs de la Hire, Cassini & Maraldi, Lemery, Litre, Cassini le fils, Parent, de la Hire le Fils, Reaumur, de Jussieu, Maraldi, Geoffroy le jeune, Bomie, Mery, Saulmon, Nisolle.

Kiøbenhafn, Joh. Phil. Bockenhoffers Efterleverske, (1705). 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind over træpermer med tre ophøjede bind. Bind med en del slitage og forperm med to ormehuller. Noter i samtidigt hånd på verso af for- og bagpermer. Titleblad trykt i rødt og sort. Indvendig en smule misfarvet. (2), 279 pp. Originaludgaven.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 22, 5. Heft (= No 5). Pp. 1-144 a. 1 folded plate. (entire issue offered). Boltzmann's papers: pp. 31-39 a. pp. 39-72 First appearance of an importent paper in which Boltzmann followed up his theoretically confirmation of Stefan's experimental findings - the "Stefan-Boltzmann law" - by combining the Second Law of Thermodynamics with the theory of the pressure of radiation.

Kjøbenhavn, A. P. Liunge, 1829. Bound in 5 recent uniform marbled cardboardbindings. Gilt title labels to front boards. Minor wear to capitals. Some brownspotting. Five early first printings by Hans Christian Andersen, all published in the periodical Kjøbenhavns-Posten, 1829, when Andersen was merely 24 years old. These five printings constitute some of the earliest printed pieces by the great fairy-tale author. 1829 constitutes the true breakthrough-year for Andersen and a turning-point in his career and life.BFN 38-42,43,44,45,50.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 132, No 22.. Pp. (1277-) 1375. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 1289-1291. First printing of a milestone paper in medical physiology as the report given of the physiological effects (radiactive burns) on his own arm lead directly to study the actions of radium on different diseases and its medical use in general. Radium's use gave promising results as it destroyed diseased cells, tumors and some cancers. The therapeutic method was to be called "Curietherapy"."The German scientists Walkhoff and Giesel announced in 1900 that the new substance had certain physiological effects; Pierre Curie at once applied the technique which seemed to him most practical. Indifferent to danger, he exposed his arm to the action of radium. To his joy, a lesion appeared. He watched over it, followed its evolution and, in a report to the Academy, phlegmatically described the symptoms observed (the offered paper).After the action of the rays, the skin became red over a surface of six square centimetres; the appearance was that of a burn, but the skin was not painful, or barely so. At the end of several days the redness, without growing larger, began to increase in intensity; on the twentieth day it formed scabs, and then a wound which was dressed with bandages; on the forty-second day the epidermis began to form again on the edges, working toward the centre, and fifty-two days after the action of the rays there was still a surface of one square centimetre in the condition of a wound, which assumed a greyish appearance indicating deeper mortification." (Third Millenium Library. Biohistory).

Berlin, Springer, 1932. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 75, 1932. Entire volume offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 622-647. [Entire volume: VIII, 850 pp + frontiespiece]. First appearance of Fock's seminal paper in which he introduced his algebraic construction used in quantum mechanics to construct the quantum states space of a variable or unknown number of identical particles from a single particle Hilbert space, often referred to as Fock space. Technically, the Fock space is (the Hilbert space completion of) the direct sum of the symmetric or antisymmetric tensors in the tensor powers of a single-particle Hilbert space H."Between 1928 and 1934, Fok obtained important results in the quantum field theory. He completed the mathematical method of secondary quantization proposed by Paul A.M. Dirac and developed by Pascual Jordan and Eugene Wigner. It has been shown that this method does not go beyond the traditional framework of quantum mechanics (as Jordan argued) and that the two ways of description are completely equivalent. As early as 1934 Fok suggested describing a system with a variable number of particles (bosons) in the representations of the secondary quantization with the aid of a generating functional ("Fok’s functional").In his papers Fok introduced a number of new notions. such as "the Fok space" (a Hilbert space in the representation of secondary quantization). In papers written with Dirac and Boris Podolsky (1932), Dirac’s results on interaction of charged particles by the exchange of virtual photons were extended. The one-dimensional problem solved by Dirac was generalized to the realistic three-dimensional case: the multitime formalism of Dirac, Podolsky, and Fok was introduced; and quantum electrodynamics was formulated in its modern form." (DSB).

Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, 1843. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Edges slightly rubbed. Corners bumped. XII,820 pp. Faint dampstains to margins of first 10 leaves. Light scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition of this separately printed part of Liebig's praparation of Geiger's "Handbuch der Pharmacie..." - Duveen p. 359 - Bolton I:630.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1768) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXII, Année 1766. Pp. 119-170 , pp. 171-201 and 2 folded engraved plates., pp. 202-212 and 1 folded engraved plate. First printing of three importent Euler-papers on the construction of composite lenses in order to avoid confusion. Euler presents the mathematical theory to explain the effects. The third paper describe how to analyze refraction phenomena in glasses by way of prisms. - Eneström E 359, E 360, E 361.

Berlin, Springer, 1928. 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. VIII,120. With the name of Bent Schultzer (Former Danish professor in philosophy) on first leaf. Internally clean. First edition. (Die Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenshaften in Einzeldarstellungen, Band XXVII). In the years 1917-22 Hilbert gave three seminal courses at the Univeristy og Göttingen on logic and the foundation of mathematics. He received considerable help in preperation and eventual write up of these lectures from Bernays. This material was subsequently reworked by Ackermann into the monograph 'Grundzüge der Theoretischen Logik' (the offered item). It containes the first exposition ever of first-order logic and poses the problem of its completeness and the decision problem ('Entscheidungsproblem'). The first of these questions was answered just a year later by Kurt Gödel in his doctorial dissertation 'Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls'. This result is known as Gödel's completeness theorem. Two years later Gödel published his famous 1931 paper 'Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I' in which he showed that a stronger logic, capable of modeling arithmetic, is either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's second incompleteness theorem). The later question posed by Hilbert and Ackermann regarding the decision problem was answered in 1936 independantly by Alonzo Church and Allan Turing. Church used his model the lambda-calculus and Turing his machine model to construct undecidable problems and show that the decision problem is unsolvable in first-order logic. These results by Gödel, Church, and Turing rank amongst the most important contributions to mathematical logic ever.

København, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1879. Orig. komponeret violet helshirtbd. Rigt forgyldt. Ryg falmet. Ganske let slid ved øverste kapitæl. Helt guldsnit. rent eksemplar. Originaludgaven.

Wien, Kreisel & Gröger, 1896. 4to. Orig. pictorial full cloth, richly gilt in silver on covers and spine. (12),916,(1) pp. and 6 portraits in heliogravure (incl. frontispiece), 1 colourplate and 1 large folded map.

Paris, Henri Plon, 1865-66. 4to. a. folio. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. VII,415;VII,583,83) pp., 32 lithographed maps and plans (all called for in the index to vol. II). Internally clean, a few brownspots.