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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.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part I. Pp. 1-22 and 1 engraved plate. Last textleaf slightly browned, otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper in which Wollaston introduces the "chemical slide rule"."In 1814 he draw up "A Synoptic Table of Chemical Equivalents", wherein many "equivalents" (a term apparently first used in the chemical sense by him) were arranged in a logarithmic scale. Chemists found this device of great practical assistance, and it survives today in the form of the chemical slide rule." (A Source Book in Chemistry p. 221)."The design of the scale here proposed by the author (Wollaston) is to save chemists the labour of many troublesome computations in estimating the ingredients of neutral salts, and the reagents and precipitates by whic these ingredients might be ascertained." (Abstract).

London, Du Gardianis (Elzevier), 1651. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Last inner hinge weak. Woodcut device on title-page. (20),244 pp. Clean. A small tract has been removed at the end. One of the imprints from 1651 (second edition ?) with the same collation as the original (1650) of Milton's polemic defence of the peoples of England and the English Parliament, against a royalist tract (Defensio Regia pro Carolo I), defending absolute monarche, a tract published under the name of Salmasius (Claude de Saumaise) and probably sponsored by the King himself. "The best apology that ever was offered for bringing kings to the block." (T. Warton).Willems, 1134.

Amsterdam, Lorme & Roger, 1696 (+) Amsterdam, Braakman, 1697 (+) A La Haye, Van Dole, 1698. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, other wise nice and clean. (Frontispiece), 5-178, (Blank), (Frontispiece), (14), 244, (4), (Frontispiece), (6), 152 pp. Interesting sammelband containing three works all sharing a focus on the values, virtues, and social roles of nobility and the upper classes in European society.

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.

Lüneburg, Joh. Fried. Wilh. Lemke, 1787. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) printed boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page with note in margin in contemporary hand. (2), IV, (3)-132 pp. Rare first German translation of chapter 34 and 35 of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Before the first complete German translation was published several smaller part were translated, the present being among some of the earliest.

London, John Murray, 1817. 8vo. Bound in three nice uniform contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spines with wear. Front board and spine detached from book-block on volume 1. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all three volumes. A fine set. The fifth edition of this political and economic classic, which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work, because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace.This present fifth edition contain several important additions (price of grain) and the third chapter of Book III was completely rewritten. The book, then as now, is considered highly controversial, and it has influenced all demographers ever since, as well as being of immense importance to the study of economic theory and genetic inheritance. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe.... "Parson" Malthus, as Cobbett dubbed him, was for many, a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted.... But his influence on social policy, whether for good or evil, was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." (PMM 251).Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), called the "enfant terrible" of the economists, was an English demographer, statistician and political economist, who is best known for his groundbreaking views on population growth, presented in his "Essays on the Principle of Population", which is based on his own prediction that population would outrun food supply, causing poverty and starvation. Among other things this caused the legislation, which lowered the population of the poor in England. Malthus actually turned political, economic and social thought upside down with this work, which has caused him to be considered one of the 100 most influential persons in history (Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential Persons in History, 1978). Of course, he was condemned by Marx and Engels, and opposed by the socialists universally, but the work was of immense impact on not only politics, economics, social sciences etc, but also on natural sciences. "Later in the "Origin of Species" he [Darwin] wrote that the struggle for existence "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage" [p. 63]. Alfred Russel Wallace, who arrived at a worked-out formulation of the theory of evolution at almost precisely the same time as Darwin, acknowledged that "perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's "Principles of Population" (My Life, p. 232). Although there were four decennial censuses before Malthus' death, he did not himself analyze the data, although he did influence Lambert Quetelet and Pierre Verhulst, who made precise statistical studies on growth of populations in developed countries and showed how the early exponential growth changed to an S curve." (DSB, IX, p. 69). As Malthus realized that his theories were not satisfactorily presented or sufficiently demonstrated in the first edition from 1798, he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics, and then published the second edition in 1803. Among other places he travelled through Northern Germany, and his detailed diaries of these journeys provided him with some of the evidence necessary for the development of his theory on population growth. The observational information that he gathered on his travels in Europe were crucial to the development of his theories, which also means that the work is of great interest for other European countries, and not only Britain. "In 1819 the Royal Society elected Malthus to a fellowship. He was also a member of the French Institute and the Berlin Academy, and a founding member of the Statistical Society (1834)." (DSB, IX, p. 67). Printing and the Mind of Man 251 (first edition). Einaudi 3670Mattioli 2210Goldsmith 21761Kress B6974

(Montpellier), 1840. Small folio. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Orig. lithographed frontwrapper pasted on upper board. (2),104 pp., many textillustrations, 10 folded lithographed plates. Textleaves autographed (zincographed).

Franckfort & Leipzig, Aux Depens de Compagnie, 1759. Small 8vo. 2 cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs, slightly rubbed and wear to spine ends. Stamp on titles and verso of. Paperlabels pasted on lower compartments of back. Engraved frontispiece (Fr. d. Grosse), 2 engraved titlevignettes. (2),230;(4),230 pp. and (2) pp. of Publisher's advertisements. 9 large folded engraved plates. printed on good paper.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1816). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1816 - Part I. Pp. 156-178 a. 2 engraved plates. First appearance of an importent paper in optical theory in which Brewster describes his discovery that double refraction phenomena can be induced by mechanical means on different kinds of crystals by compression and deflection.Together with Brewsters paper comes a paper by Everard Home "Some account of the feet of those animals whose progressive motion can be carried on in opposition to gravity." Pp. 149-155 and 2 engraved plates.

Stockholm, L. L. Grefing, 1768-1775. 8vo. Indbundet i tre smukke samtidige halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning samt forgyldte skindtitelfelter. Fem ophøjede bind på rygge. Kapitæler og ydre false med noget slid. Permer slidte. Hjørner stødte. Samtidige navnetræk på forsatsblade. Lidt spredte brunpletter, ellers rene indvendig. Første bind med forfatterens frontispieceportræt og kobberstukket titelblad. (12), 675, (21); (6), 762, (22); (6), 267, (13); (4), 77 pp. Den sjældne originaludgave (med første bind i andet oplag).

Kjøbenhavn, Schubothe, 1879. 8vo. Indbundet i et samtidigt halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Ryg falmet. Kapitæler og ydre false med slid. En smule slid ved kanter af permer. Hjørner stødte. Med lang, egenhændig inskription fra Bang, skrevet på tværs af fribladet: "Jeg aabner aldrig nogen af min første / Ungdoms Bøger uden en stille / Undren over, hvordan i Alverden / jeg dog vidste alt det ... Men / maaske har jeg fra min Slægt / arvet ikke blot Essentsen af dens / Laster men ogsaa, paa hemmelig- / hedsfuld Maade, nogle af dens Kundskaber. / 17.3.1907." Med frontispieceportræt af Bang. Ren og pæn indvendig. Særdeles nydeligt eksemplar af originaludgaven med en lang egenhændig inskription fra Bang.

Wien, Fr. Beck, 1840. Contemp. half calf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. XII,283,(1) pp., 10 large folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1206.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1748). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1744.". Pp. 462-774, textillustrations. First printing of this importent paper in which Maupertuis proves that the Loxodromic line or Rhumbline is the shortest way between two points on the globe after he had proved, by the measuring results, that the globe is a spheroid. The paper is of great importence in the history of navigation.

Hamburg, Frickweiler, 1722. Folio (340 x 230 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and richly gilt spine. Binding with wear, upper and lower compartment on spine missing parts of leather. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Boards with scratches. Edges of boards chipped with small parts of leather missing. First leaves chipped in margin and a few leaves (both text and plates) detached, but otherwise internally good and clean. (36), 1090, (142) pp. + frpntispiece and 23 full page engraved plates and 5 double page engraved plates. Second edition of this work on ancient Jewish practices, religious ceremonies and customs, specifically focusing on the Levitical priesthood.

Paris, Dugast, 1646. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Traces from small paper-label to upper part of spine. Wear to extremities, a few holes to spine corners bumped. Title-page with underlignings in red. Vague dampstain to inner margin. (16), 607 pp. with numerous woodcuts in text. Twelfth edition of this highly popular work on the curiosities of nature, minerals, animals, flowers, metals, pharmaceuticals, architecture, mathematics, music etc.etc.

Ca. 1920. 22 x 18 cm. Drawing in ink and grey watercolour with the text "Le Bijout Indiscret." Unsigned. It looks like a sketch of a titlepage: a nude girl and two nude men on a stage. 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.

Glogau, H. Prauschnitz, 1836. Near contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Stamp on titlepage. (12),536,(2) pp. and 11 large folded lithographed plates with numerous figs. Light yellowing to tilepage, otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper. First German edition.

(New York), American physical Society, 1960. Lex8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "Physical Review Letters", Volume 5, No. 10, November 15, 1960. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 464-66. [Entire issue: 459-494]. First printing of Giaever's influential paper (the second paper publlished on the subject the same year) in which he demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity that had been developed in 1957 by Bardeen. Giaever was awarded the nobel prize in physics in 1973 for his "discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".The present paper is regarded a contemporary classic within engineering and applied sciences.

Kbhvn., Hög, 1702. 4to. Smukt nyere hldrbd. i brun oaseged med rygtitel i skind. (16),167,(5) pp. Titelbladet med et kobberstik af Domkirken. Frisk eksemplar.

(Berlin, 1930). Small 4to-oblong. Orig. colour-printed wrappers. 268 pp. Their sales catalogue, profusely illustrated, partly in colour and with prices on the animals sold, together with equipments for aquaries etc. etc.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1733). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1731". Pp. 85-102 and 1 engraved plate. First printing of this importent paper, as the invention described represents one of the main advancements in the art and science of amputation in the eighteenth century. "Petit's tourniquet is considered by many sources to be one of the "most important surgical advancements before the advent of anesthesia.""