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(Wien, Kaiserlich=königlichen Hof= und Staats=Druckerey, 1806). Large 4to. (29 x 20,5 cm.). Uncut in original blue wrappers. Tears to spine. 46 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.

(Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1735). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Prima continens Mathematica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tomus IV ad Annum 1729. The whole section of "Mathematica"offered. Pp 1-118 pp. and 10 engraved plates. Euler's papers: pp. 49-67 a. 2 engraved plates. Pp. 67-89 a. 1 engraved plate. Wide-margined, clean. Both first editions and some of the earliest mathematical papers by Euler. The first paper is a masterful work, in which Euler first establishes a surprisingly simple geometric condition for tautochronic curves, and then shows how to generate such curves, both analytic and algebraic, starting from the familiar cycloid ; the next paper extends the analysis to a resistive medium where the resistance is in proportion to the square of the speed. - Enestroem E12 and E13.The section (Mathematica) also contains papers by Jacob Hermann, Christopher Maier, G.W. Krafft and Daniel Bernoulli "Problema astronomicum inneniendi altitudinem poli,....", pp. 89-94.

Münch., 1832. Cont.hcalf. Atlasvol. in cont.hcloth. Back somewhat worn. St.o.t. XVI,VIII,198, XVI,234 pp. and Atlas in folio-oblong with 8 litogr.plates.

Amsterdam, Jacob van Royen, 1700. Small8vo. Contemp. full vellum. handwritten title to spine. Engraved titlepage and printed. (16),224,(16) pp., 1 folded engraved map (Belgium vet. oudt Nederland en desselfs Bevolkinge), 14 engraved plates and 7 large engravings in the text. Some of the plates a bit shaved in right margins. Light traces of use. The work offered here is the fourth edition of his "The Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten", published from 1613 onwards, and is an adaptation of his "Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities", published in Antwerpen 1605 and considered his main work. From 1617 to about 1630 Verstegan was a prolific writer in Dutch, producing epigrams, characters, jestbooks, polemics etc. The work is remarkable as perhaps the first endeavour to persuade Englishmen that they should regard with special predilection the remains of Anglo-Saxon in their language, customs, and laws a matter in which (despite obvious faults) he was far in advance of his age, when the influence of Latin was so predominant.

Amsterdam, Chatelain et Fils, 1764. Bound in 4 nice uniform contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spines. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece (portrait). ca. 1800 pp., 1 folded table, 7 folded engraved maps and plans. Clean and fine.

Leipzig, Fleischer, 1827-39 a. 1877. 8vo. Bound in 8 uniform hcalf (ca. 1880). Gilt lettering to spines. Faint stamp on title-pages. Internally fine. The original edition, complete.

London, T.Wilcox, 1760. Cont.full mottled calf. Gilt back. St.on halftitle. Engr.frontisp. XXI,403,141 pp.

Upsala, Regae Academiae Typographi, 1819. 4to. No wrappers as issued, uncut. (4), 8 pp. + folded plate. Scarce first edition of Thunberg's important paper in which he descibed 12 new plant species of which 2 (Edulis and Volubilis is depicted).Rookmaaker & Svanberg: 437

Uppsala, Henric Curio, 1670. Lille 8vo. Hldrbd. fra omkr. 1850, rig rygforgyldning. Slid ved øverste kapitæl og fals. Gl. ejernavn på titelblad. Hjørner lidt stødte. (8),210,(14) pp.Small 8vo. Later half calf (from ab. 1850) w. ichly gilt back. Upper capital and hinge worn. Old owner's name to title-page. Corners a bit bumped. (8), 210, (14) pp. Warmholtz 1416. Fiske, 364.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2e series, tome 74. 448 pp., 1 folded plate. Hess' paper: pp. 325-335. Stamps on verso of titlepage. Internally clean. First edition of Hess's most famous paper, in which he outlined his law on thermochemistry. His principle, a progenitor for the first law of thermodynamics, came to be called Hess's law. It states that in a series of chemical reactions, the total energy gained or lost depends only on the initial and final states, regardless of the number or path of the steps. This is also known as the law of constant heat summation. Hess described here his newly discovered law, known as Hess's Law, in form of a letter to Arago. (The letter was also published in Comptes Rendus in a slightly modified form). "Here thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands of Germain Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps..." (Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry", pp. 329-332). This paper preceded the larger papers also published in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" and the original (and larger) paper in "Bulletin scientifique, Academie impériale des Sciences (St. Petersbourg, 1840)". The volume contains also papers by Laurent, Biot, Mulder, Melloni etc.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1840 C.

Ca. 1880. Folio-oblong. (53,5 x 66 cm.). Samtidigt hldrbd. Med håndskreven titeletiket. Indeholder 43 plancher i varierende foliostørrelse (numm. 60-102), visende bestykningen - med detaljer - inden for de forskellige områder af dansk søforsvar.

Hmbg.,1833. 8vo. Cont.full calf. Small traces of use. St.o.t. (24),515 pp.

Halle im Magdeburgischen, Hendel, 1721. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raise bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Leather on spine cracked, spine-ends slightly chipped. Internally nice and clean. (14), 620, (28) pp. First collected edition of Alberti’s essays. Alberti (1682–1757), professor of medicine and philosophy at Halle and later rector of the university, was a leading disciple of Georg Ernst Stahl who considered the soul as having control on the body. Therapies involved dealing with the internal senses and feelings.

(Paris), Lithog. de l'Ecole d'Application, 1833). Small folio. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Original blue frontwrapper, engraved (= title-page). 183 pp., 1 lithographed plate, textillustrations and textfigs. Throughout in lithographed handwriting.

[Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887]. 8vo. In later cardboard binding with cloth back strip. Red paper title-label pasted on to front board. Stamp to front board and front free end-paper. White paper label pasted on to verso of front board. Internally fine and clean. 10 pp.

Schleswig, Taubstummen-Institut, 1828. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Stamp on titlepage. Engraved frontispiece. 288 pp. Clean and fine printed on good paper. A fine copy.

Duisburg, Bädeker, 1820-24. Bound in 8 contemporary marbled boards (first 3) and modest, worn half calf (last 5). A reading copy. Stamp on flyleaves. With 10 folded engraved plates (maps, plans) and 2 folded tables. Lacking July 1820-July 1822.

Leipsic, 1802. Small 8vo. One cont. half calf. Back with traces of use. 71 full-page engr. pl. with 3 illustr. on each. 202, 142, 253 pp.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 60 Heft 2 (= Jahrgang 1818, zehntes Stück). Pp. 113-218 a. 1 engraved plate (map). The entire issue offered (Heft 2). Stromeyer's paper pp. 193-210. Clean and fine. First appearance of Strohmeyer's account of his discovery of Cadmium. The history of its discovery was very complicated as some other laid claim to its discovery.Stromeyer was inspector general of apothecaries in Hannover. "In 1817, fulfilling the duties of his office, he came across an apothecary's shop in which a bottle labeled zinc oxide contained zinc carbonate. Following this up, Stromeyer found himself interested in zinc carbonate, which turned yellow on strong heating as though it contained iron as an impurity, yet it contained no iron. He traced the yellow to an oxide not of zinc but of a hitherto unknown metal rather like it chemically. He named it cadmium for a zinc ore in which it is usually found accompanying the zinc."(Asimov).Weeks "Discovery of the Elements", pp. 135-39.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 117-140 and 4 folded engraved plates. Fine and clean. By this paper Camus was the first to work out the mathematical theory of gearteeth into a systematical and general theory of the mechanism.

Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1978). 8vo. Orig. full cloth in orig. dust jacket w. minor taning to top. In fine condition, internally mint. XIII,396 pp. First edition of the first presentation of multiple-conclusion logic.The authors, D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, "in surveying the multiple consequences of taking multiple consequence seriously, have taken a huge first step in founding a new branch of the subject (i.e. logic). Their book provides a solid conceptual foundation and a wealth of results whose breadth and dept has hardly any equal" (Phil. Qual. Vol. 30, Nr. 121, p. 379).

A Paris, Saillant, 1772. Cont. full mottled calf. Back worn as the golddecoration is nearly gone. Engraved frontisp. XXIV,342,(2) pp. A few lvs. slightly browned, otherwise internally fine. Scarce first French edition.

Paris, Levrault, An X (1802). 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear and stains to spine. Hinges weak. Annotations in pencil to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very nice and clean. LXVIII, 424 pp. First French translation, from the library of Jonas Skougaard, of Johan Christian Fabricius’ account of his travels in Norway in summer of 1778. This journey was supported by a government grant and was a part of his extensive travels throughout Europe, during which he made significant contributions to the field of entomology. Biblioteca Norwegica II, 2864. Skougaard III, p. 259.

Ulm, Dan. Bartholomaeus, 1712. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Title written in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece. (14),869,(23) pp. + 88 pp.

(Paris, Crochard, 1830). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" 2e Series, Tome 45, Cahier 3. Pp. 337-448 a. 1 engraved map (entire issue offered). Duperrey's paper: pp. 371-386. Text with scattered brownspots. Map with a small closed tear in lower left corner, otherwise fine.The map: "Configuration de LÉquateur Magnétique.... faites dans la campagne de la Corvette de S.M. la Coquille, pendent les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Par M.L.I. Duperrey Commandant de L'Expedition" Left: Dressée par L.I. Duperrey, en 1829. Right corner: Gravée par Ambroise Tardieu. (29x80 cm. (the map-sheet)) In 1820, the islands were named the Gilbert Islands or îles Gilbert (in French). Duperrey was the first to put together on a map the whole Gilbert Islands archipelago with the name given to it by Admiral Krusenstern after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788. Duperrey commanded La Coquille on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822-1825).