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Berlin, Schlesinger'schen Buch-und Musikhandlung, 1836-39. 6 cont. hcalf. A little wear to 2 top of spines. 1 folded table and 8 folded maps and plans (coloured in outline). Table and 1 map in xerox-copy.

Leidae, Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. 4to. Recent full cloth w. leather title-label on back. Engr. frontispiece, engr. title-vignette, title-page in red and black. (158), 760, (99) pp. Brunet V:1046.

Genova, Matheo Garvizza, (ca. 1730-) 1756. Small 4to. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (6),346;336;(2),383 pp. Faint dampstain to last leaves in volume II. First edition. With the Supplement-volume published years later.

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle etc., 1888. Orig. pictorial full cloth, gilt. Light rubbing to edges. XV,368 pp. + 32 pp. of Advertisements and 1 folded map. Fine and clean copy, uncut. First edition.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1811. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine on vol. 1. X,622;(6),690 pp. The map of "Rothen Meere" lacks, the engarver was ill at the publication date, and it should be delivered later, announced at end of vol. 2. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 44. u. 45. Bd.). Also having the series titlepages, these with a stamp.

Amsaterdam, Ioannem Ianssonium, 1651. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. Engraved title-page. 377,(7) pp.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926. 4to. Uncut in orig. full cloth. Spine gilt. LXXV,351 pp. 6 facsimiles.

Copenhagen, 1938. 4to. Bound with the original printed frontwrapper in a fine solid hmorocco, blindtooled compartments, gilt bordwers and gilt lettering to spine.. XVIII,251 pp., frontisp. and 12 plates. The 5 last leaves with faint creasing.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2me Series - Tome 75. 447,(1) pp. a. 1 plate. (Entire volume offered). Hess's paper: pp. 80-103. The first and last leaves somewhat brownspotted. First edition in French of Hess' first fundamental law in thermodynamic: "the law of heat formation" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the "LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that "the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages"Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia)."Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri 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. This generalization, known now as "Hess's Law", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable."(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329."The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866 a. 1877. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 156 - Part II a. vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 781-859 a. pp. 35-116. Clean and fine. First appearance of both papers, controversial as Brodie here tries to established a new chemical philosophy, refusing atomism and founding the calculation of chemical processes on Boolean Algebra, defining chemical symbols with mathematical terms and notations. The work is a remarkable attempt to set chemistry on a rational deductive basis. - The introduction in the second paper meets the main points raised by his critics."In 1866 the Royal Society began to publish Brodie’s "The Calculus of Chemical Operations" (Philosophical Transactions, 156 [1866], 781-859; 167 [1877], 35-116) which introduced Greek symbols for the chemical elements to replace the roman alphabet (Berzelian) symbols that contemporary chemists used to represent atomic weights. Brodie’s symbols, however, represented operations on space (volumes), not weights for, besides its revolutionary symbolism, the calculus also demanded an appreciation of George Boole’s algebraic logic, which Brodie had studied after the publication of Boole’s Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854. In this an equation such as y = xy is a symbolic statement that y is a subset of x in which the symbol x is an operator on y. Although professional mathematicians like William Donkin and Henry Smith later advised Brodie, it appears that he developed the system without professional help. The principal difficulty about the calculus for the present-day historian and philosopher of science is the need to explain it before going on to discuss it and the difficulty of giving any concise description of it. Boole had developed the concept of symbolic operators in algebraic analysis. These provided a code as to how the symbols were to be understood and manipulated. Brodie exploited this in the idea of a chemical operator, or chemical operations, that he symbolized by Greek letters. It is probably unwise, therefore, to interpret Brodie’s philosophy as analogous to Percy Bridgman’s later operationism. He proposed that if two substances with the empirically-derived weights, x and y combined to form a new compound with weight xy, then x + y = xy. From such weight equations he constructed a symbolic algebra that bypassed any atomistic interpretation."(William H. Brock in "Hyle Biography").

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1858 a. 1859.). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 148 - Part I and Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 1-16, textillustr. and 1 lithographed plate with 12 figures of induction coils, apparatus, tubes and striae. A few minor brownspots to plate. First leaf a bit shaved in inner margin, no loss. + Pp. 137-160, textfigs and 1 lithographed plate showing apparatus and tubes. First appearance of this importent paper in the development of early televison."Faradays discovery in 1838 of the negative dark space had revived intyerest in the glow discharge caused by conduction of electricity through gases at low pressure, but Gassiot's interest in this discharge was directly stimulated by W.R. Grove's almost incidental report in 1852 that the discharge was "striated by transverse non-luminous bands..." In his initial investigations showed that if enough care were exercised to achieve a sufficiently low pressure, situations could be produced in the Torricellian vacuum. Next he demonstrated that both a static electric machine and a Ruhmkorff coil with a Grove cell produced a striated discharge. This once again confirmed the identity of these two electricities. He also noticed that a powerfull elexctromagnet divided the striations into what appeared to be two distinct columns. The paper in which Gassiot announced these discoveries (the first paper offered) was honoured as the Royal Society's Bakerian lecture for 1858."(DSB V, p. 292).(Shiers & Shiers "Early Televison. A Bibliography to 1940", No. 25 & 29)

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1882. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XII,608 pp., textillustrations, 5 large folded maps/plans.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening. First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.

(Paris, Didot, 1818). 4to. Uncut, no wrappers as ectracted from "Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences de L'Institut de France" Année 1816 - Tome Ier. Pp. 71-186. Clean and fine. First appearance of a major work on water waves (Poisson's first memoir on the subject), in which he derives the Fourier integral in about the same manner as Cauchy when he set up the general hydrodynamical equations.

Braunschweig u. Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1923. Contemp. hcloth. . Stamp on titlepage. In "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", Bd. 13. IV,406 pp. Bohr's paper: pp. 117-165. Clean and fine. First edition. As Bohr in his 1918 paper (The quantum theory of line spectra) had discussed the expectation that there was a necessary connection between the classical and the future theory in the limit of large quantum numbers, and in a later paper (1920) named it "Korrespondenzprincip" (Principle of Correspondance), Bohr now in the paper offered discussed again the fundamental principles of Quantum Theory in connection with the Principle of Correspondence.Rosenfeld No 29.

(Nürnberg, Weigel, 1711 (or 1724). Small 4to. 2 later hvellum. Containg 2 engraved frontispieces and 210 engraved plates (in vol. I: 105 of 141 plates and vol. II: 105 of 108 plates). Printed title and text missing. Only plates.

Kjøbenhavn, Kongl. Wáysenhuses Bogtrykkeri, 1766. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. over træ. Ryg og permer med blindtryk.Permer med spejl. Bindet med brugsspor. Hjørner slidte, 2 lukkestroppe (defekte). (8),710;614,(2) pp. Første og sidste blade med brugsspor. Indvendig ganske velbevaret.

Geneve, Antoine Philibert, 1750. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and blind-tooled ornamentation spine. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 24, 215 pp. The Geneva-edition of the French translation of this interesting treatise which devotes a large part to the trade with American plantations and contains discussions of British trade with Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and New England. First published in 1729, the work was frequently reprinted throughout the eighteenth-century. Translated by J.B. de Secondat, son of Montesquieu.

Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, 1801 Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. X,(2),331;(2),326;(2),356,(2) pp. and 46 engraved plates, some folding. Some scattered brownspots.

(London, W. Nicol, 1823). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1823 - Part II. Pp. 189-198. Clean and fine. First appearance of this classical paper in chemistry, Faraday announces his success with the liquefaction of gases, and where he for the first time liquefied sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sylphide, chlorine dioxide, cyanogen, and ammonia.

London, Cambridge University Press, 1944. Large 4to. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Owner's signature of statistician Anders Hald (the author of "A History of Mathematical Statistics"). (123 pp.). First edition, offprint issue of this important paper in the history of statistics. "Mahalanobis's contributions to large scale sample surveys are among his most significant and lasting gifts to statistics. He started his work on sample surveys with estimation of area and yield of jute crop in Bengal in 1937. However, it was not easy for him to get these estimates; controversy between him and the advocates of complete enumeration continued for over a decade. Ultimately he was able to demonstrate that estimates based on sample surveys were often more accurate than those based on complete enumeration, and that sample surveys could yield estimates with small margins of error within a short time and at a smaller cost than complete enumeration. He made many methodological contributions to survey sampling that included optimal choice of sampling design using variance and cost functions, and the technique of interpenetrating network of sub-samples for assessment and control of errors, especially non-sampling errors, in surveys. The concept of pilot surveys was a forerunner of sequential sampling developed by Abraham Wald, as acknowledged by Wald in his book. In addition to introducing these concepts, Mahalanobis raised important and difficult philosophical questions on randomness and representativeness of a sample, which remain relevant and challenging even today. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Statistical Sampling in 1947, and held this post until 1951. His tireless advocacy of the usefulness of sample surveys resulted in the final recommendation of this Sub-Commission that sampling methods should be extended to all parts of the world. Mahalanobis received the Weldon Medal from Oxford University in 1944 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1945, for his fundamental contributions to statistics, particularly in the area of large-scale sample surveys." - Heyde: Statisticians of the Centuries, p.436.

Berlin, C.F. Amelang, 1818. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. XVI,266 pp., 9 large folded engraved plans. Internally clean and fine. First German edition.

London, Cassell and Company, (1956-58). Lex 8vo. Bound in 4 original red full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Library stamps to front free endpapers and title pages. Exlibris to pasted down endpapers. Internally clean. A nice set. XXI,416;XI,344;XI,332;XXI,416 pp. First edition.

Rome, Franzesi et Cajetanus Paperi, 1760. 8vo. In contemporary boards. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Book block split between p. 64 and p. 65, but generally a nice and clean copy. 126 pp. Second Rome-edition, third overall, of Slaughter’s popular Hebrew grammar, which was still in print as late as 1867. It was first published in 1699. "Slaughter, Edward (1655–1729), hebraist, born in Herefordshire in 1655, entered the Society of Jesus on 7 Sept. 1673, and was ordained priest on 28 March 1682, in which year he was sent to the mission of Swaffham, Norfolk. He was appointed to teach Hebrew in the college of the English jesuits at Liège about 1677; he subsequently taught mathematics there, and eventually became professor of theology. Slaughter afterwards became rector of the jesuit colleges at St. Omer and Ghent.” (DNB).

Kiøbenhavn, Joh. J. Höpffner, 1722. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt marmoreret papbd. Håndskreven titeletiket på forperm. 48 pp. Forrest en side med samtidige tilskrifter. Her og der lidt brunplettet, nederste højre bladhjørne af titelbladet repareret uden tab. Den yderst sjældne 2. udgave af "Kongeloven", udgivet af Frederik Rostgaard. - "Efter Hans Kongl. Mayst. allernaadigst Befaling...er den Souveraine Konge=lov i denne liden Format eftertrykt, paa det at de, som ikke have Leilighed at bekomme den meget ziirlige edition af samme Verk, so in "folio" paa Kobberplader ere udstukken, kunde for en gandske ringe Priis faa den til kiøbs i denne mindre format, om med allerstørste Fliid er efterseet, saa at enhver kand være fuldkommen forsikret o, at denne edition med Originalen er ligelydende; Hvorved den kiøbende dog vilde i agt tage, at hvert Exemplar (som ikke skal ansees for u=rigtigt, , og af en falsk Eftertryk) med mit Signet bør være stemplet." Rostgaard's efterskrift til udgivelsen). - Rostgaards signet-tryk foreliggernederst på sidste side. - Bibl. Danica II: 739.