Search Results

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.

Lund, Lundblad (og Swanborg & Co.), 1801-14. Indbundet i et samtidigt hldbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldt skindtitel. Slidt ved øverste kapitæl. 394 pp. Originaltrykket. Med betydeligt indhold om Skånes arkæologi, personalhistorie og topografi.

(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, Reimer, 1837. Fine contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XVI,256,(2) pp., 8 folded lithographed plates. Clean and fine.

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1895. Folio. In contemporary half cloth. The blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Blue printed wrapper with a few tears. Miscoloured. Stamp to upper part of title-page. Title-page with repairs in inner margin and lower outer corner, otherwise internally fine. XXI, 180 pp. + 6 folded and coloured maps. plates. First edition of the official British report on ship wrecks, casualties and collisions in United Kingdom's waters for the period 1st July 1893 to the 30th June 1894.

Kopenhagen, Nicolaus Møller, 1776. Samtidigt hellæderbd. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rygforgyldning (svag). Forgyldt skindtitel (med lidt tab). Øverste kapitæl udbedret. Stempler på titelblad. XVI,387,(1) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir. Indeholder blandt andet: Ove Giedde: beschreibung der ersten Dänischen Reise nach Ostindien... pp. 1-103. - Ove Gieddes eigenhändiger Bericht von seinem Unterhandlungen mit dem Kaiser von Ceilon und dem Raiken von Tanjour. pp. 104-184. - Christian des Vierten Reise um ganz Norwegen bis an die Russische Grenze, im Jahre 1599, durch Jonas Carisius, seinen Secretair und Begleiter. pp. 185-222.

København, Det Nordiske Forlag, 1898. 8vo. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et samtidigt halvmaroquinbind med rygforgyldning og fem ophøjede bind (Anker Kyster). Ryg falmet. Fladstrøgne kapitæler og topguldsnit. Med tilskrift fra Herman Bang på fribladet: "Fritz - / Herman Bang." Ren og pæn indvendig. (6),VIII,233,(7) pp. Særdeles nydeligt eksemplar med kortfattet tilskrift fra Herman Bang til Jørgen Frederik Boesen, 'Fritz', (1877-1931). Fritz var som ung skuespilelev hos Bang og blev stærkt favoriseret af ham. En omfattende korrespondance mellem de to er bevaret.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1804. 8vo. In contemporary marbled calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Spine with light wear and parts of gilting worn off. A nice and clean copy. (8), 872, (2) pp. Rare first edition of this collection of laws, decrees, ordinances, resolutions and official correspondence concerning the medical profession, surgeons, pharmacists and midwives in Denmark and Norway. Compiled by Hans Munk, a Doctor of Medicine and licensed surgeon the book serves as a reference on the regulation and governance of medical practice. It includes royal ordinances, administrative decisions and legal provisions regarding various aspects of healthcare providing official directives on how healthcare should be practiced in Denmark and Nowray.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1805 - Part II. Pp. 233-256 a. 1 engraved plate, folded. Clean and fine. First printing of an importent paper in cosmology in which Herschel's by analyzing a large number of stars, believed that he could explain the regularities he observed by assuming that the sun itself was moving toward a point in the consellation of Hercules. "Just as Copernicus had detroned the earth as the motionless center of the universe, so Herschel detroned the sun."(Asimov). - In this paper he tries to estimate the speed of the sun's motion.In a memoir published in 1783 Herschel had been occupied with the possibility that the sun was moving relative to the stars. "More than 20 years later (1805, in the paper offered) Herschel took up the question again, using six of the brightest stars in a collection of the proper motions of 36 published by Maskelyne in 1790, which were much more reliable than any earlier ones, and employing more elaborate processes of calculation; again the apex was placed in the constellation of Hercules, though at a distance of nearly 30 degr. from the position given in 1783. Herschel's results were avowedly to a large extent speculative and were received by contemporary astronomers with a large measure of distrust; but a number of far more elaborate modern investigations of the same subject have confirmed the general correctness of his work."(Berry "A Short History of Astronomy", p. 346.).

(No place), 1963-64. Xerox-copies (A4) inserted in brown folder with author's inscription to top right corner of title page. (1), 7, 5, 11, 13, 7, 10, 6, (2), 10 pp. Minor corrections throughout the text. A very nice and clean manuscript. Erling Svendrup's own copies of his teaching-papers for the Fall Term 1963 and Spring Term 1964. They give a unique insight into how Svendrup taught and how his ideas were developed. Erling Sverdrup was a founding father of mathematical statistics and modern actuarial science in Norway. He exercised profound influence on how statistical studies were formed and executed in Norway. The Norwegian edition of his statistics textbook Laws and chance variations had a great impact on a generation of Norwegian actuaries and statisticians, and his lecture notes in actuarial mathematics were decades ahead of contemporary textbooks. Unfortunately, these lecture notes were never translated and widely publicized.He has made important contributions to life-insurance mathematics, survival analysis and event history analysis, where he, at an early stage, advocated the use of Markov chain models for studying disability. a number of important contributions have only appeared in lecture notes or technical reports.

Paris, Barbin, 1693 & 1694. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Bindings with wear, boards with a few scratches and stains. Head of spine on vol. 2 chipped. Wormtract in upper inner margin of vol. 1, with some loss of text. Dampstain to upper half of leaves in vol. 2. (14), 414 pp. + frontispiece and 1 engraved plate (included in the pagination); (8), 488 pp. + 1 engraved plate (included in the pagination).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1857. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3ieme Serie, Tome 50. 512 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 497-507. Stamp to verso of titlepage. Internally clean. First French version of this milestone paper on the Kinetic Theory of Gases - "Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Wärme nennen", 1857 - in which Clausius gives the physical explanation for the evaporation of a liquid and presents the first physical argument in support of Avogadro's hypothesis that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules."In the paper "Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Wärme nennen.", Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) established mathematically that the heat in a gas cannot be accounted for exclusively by translational motion of the molecules and asserts that molecules have rotational and vibratiional motion as well as translational motion. He consequently rejects the contentions the the translational kinetic energy is conserved during molecular collisions and that all molecules have equal, constant velocities. His allowancee for differing molecule velocities enables him to offer a new explanation of evaporation, asserting that he molecules able to overcome the attractive forces of the liquid and "escape" to the gaseous state are those with high velocities (and hence high kinetic energies). hence evaporation produces a loss of energy in the liquid and a decreasein temperature."(Parkinson in "Breakthroughs", 1857 C/P)."This 1857 paper (the paper offered) also marked another importent beginning in physical theory, for it presented the first physical argument in support of Avogadro's hypothesis that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. Clausius argued that if it were assumed that all types of molecules possess the same translational energy at equal temperatures, then, since all gases have the same relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature, they would necessartly contain equal numbers of molecules in equal volumes at the same temperatur and pressure. Avogadro's hypothesis, therefore, found support in the mechanical theory of heat, independently of the usual chemical arguments."(DSB III, p. 307).The volume contains JOULE'S famous paper "Remarques sur la nature de la chaleur et la constitution des fluides élastiques" (Extraits par M. Verdet). Originally published (1848) 1851. First French version. pp. 381-83.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1783. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og rygtitel. Ryggen en smule slidt. (24),371,(37) pp. Titelbladet og de første få blade med lidt brunpletter i hjørnerne, ellerss ren indvendig og trykt på blåligt skrivepapir. Med kobberstukket titelvignet. Første danske udgave og samtidig den første almene kunsthistorie på dansk. Oversat efter forfatterens "Entwurf einer Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste", Hamburg 1781, og her med oversætterens tilføjelser vedrørende danske og norske kunstnere. Bibl.DanicaI:1102.

London, 1913. Without wrappers, but stitched. In "Philosophical Magazine and Journalof Science", Vol. 26, No. 154. Oct. 1913. Pp. 549-800 and 2 plates (the whole issue No. 154). Rutherford's papers: pp. 702-712 a. pp. 717-729 and 1 folded plate. Both papers first editions. Basic works on the spectra of alfa and beta particles constituting an experimental proof of Rutherford's atomic nucleus theory.In this issue is also found importent papers by J.J. Thomson: On the Structure of the atom.. Pp. 792-799 and Rayleigh: On the Motion of a Viscous Fluid. Pp. 776-86.

Leipzig, J.F. Gleditschens seel. Sohn, 1726. Large8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and blindtooled ornamentation to spine. Text in two columns. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Extremities with a few scratches and upper inner corner of front board with black mark. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A few annotations in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. A nice copy. (26) pp. 1628 columns, (2), 1682 columns, (3) pp. + frontispiece. Second edition, here in an attractive binding, of Jörcher's popular lexicon. Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1694-1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.

Darmstadt, (1821). Small folio-oblong. Cont.hcalf. Atlas alone with 15 + 15 (30) engr.plates. Slightly brownspotted. Upper corner on a few plates stained, not effecting the print.

Kiøbenhavn, Holm, Seest, Popp, 1792. Lille 8vo. Pænt, men senere hshirtbd med rygforgyldning og rygtitler. (2),92;61;100;(2),92,(2);110,(2) pp. Lille stempel på første titelblad. Indvendig ren og frisk. Originaltrykkene af de sjældne indlæg i debatten og kritikken af det helsingøerske fattigvæsen, hospitalsvæsen, skolevæsen som var fremført af pastor Sandal i tidsskriftet Iris. - Henrik Paulin Sandal var præst ved den tyske menighed i Helsingør og garnisonspræst.

New York, The Viking Press, 1964. In publishers red half cloth with gilt lettering to spine with the original dust jacket. Top of dust jacket with minor wear, otherwise a very fine and clean copy, near mint. First edition of Miller's highly personal and controversial play about Quintin, a New York Jewish intellectual who decides to reexamine his life in order to determine if he should marry his love, HolgaMiller was criticized for making the play to similar to his own personal life; Maggie's suicide is very similar to the suicide of Miller's renowned wife, Marilyn Monroe and the protagonist Quintin's thought about his failed marriages is often believed to be Miller's own thoughts about his failed marriage. "After the Fall" refers to mankind's fall from grace in Genesis and the loss of innocence. It also refers to Camus's novel The Fall, which likewise deals with guilt and lost innocence.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 149 - Part I, pp. 91-131, 2 textillustrations. Fine and clean. First appearance of this paper which "contains a detailed account of experiments bearing on the thermo-eleastic relations of metals and india-rubber. Suggested by Sir William Thomson, these investigations concerns the "heat developed by longitudinal compression and that absorbed on the application of tensile force." (Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 178).

Stockholm, Beijer, 1897 (+) Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1899. [Acta Mathematica] 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica, 21. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 99-242 + 4 plates. [Mathematische Annalen] 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Herausgegeben von A. Clebsch und C. Neumann. 51. Band. 4. Heft." Entire issue offered. A fine and clean copy. [Darwin:] Pp. 523-583. [Entire issue: Pp. 481-607 + 4 plates.]. First printing of Darwin's famous paper (including the abridgement published two years later) which contained the first systematic search for periodic orbits and work on the three body problem. "The paper, which had taken him three years to complete, contained the numerical calculations of periodic solutions of the restricted three body problem, together with a discussion of their stability. It provided not only extensive details of the numerical results but also a full description of the mathematical methods used to obtain them." (Barrow-Green, Poincaré and the three body problem, P. 194). Darwin was introduced to the three body problem through the works of Poincare. Following his accession to the Plumian chair Darwin delved even more deeply into the problems of the origin and evolution of the solar system, making numerous investigations of the figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid and, later, making extensive studies of periodic orbits in the restricted problem of three bodies, carried out with special reference to cases obtaining for the particular values of the mass ratio of the two finite bodies of 1:10 and 1:1048 (the latter approximating the mass ratio of Jupiter to that of the sun). (DSB)

Wien, Karl Schaumbur und Comp., 1811. Cont. marbled cardboard-bdg. w. a few traces of use. Clean copy. (12), 564 pp. First edition.

Kristiania (Oslo), Jacob Dybwad, 1902. 4to. Ubeskåret i orig. grønt helshirtbd. Forgyldt rygtitel og permtitel. En smule slid ved øverste kapitæl. Portræt af Abel i heliogravure. (12),112,128,62,56,(2), 6 faksimiler (breve etc.) og 1 planche. Eksemplaret har tilhørt Harald Bohr ifølge tilskrift på fribladet: "Til Harald Bohr paa hans Faders Vegne fra Sophus Torup". Rent frisk eksemplar.

(Wien), Lith. Anstalt, 1858. Large panoramic view of the Arsenal. (39,5 x 59,5 cm.). Lithographed in colour. "Lith. in Farben gedruckt in der lithogr. Anstalt der k.k.. ArtillerieComité. 1858 - Unter der Leitung Oberlieutnant J. Riedl". Mounted on cardboard with broad margins. The cardboard strenghtened with linen on verso.

(Holland ?), ca. 1830. Paper size. 45,5 x 56 pp. Manuscripts elevations, profiles, and plans of the some of the buildings on the site. Pen and ink with watercolour on thick paper. Drawn by C. Krag, a Danish military officer. With scale.

Stuttgart und Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1824. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XVI,940 pp., 4 folded engraved plans and 1 large folded map. Clean and fine.