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London, Black and White Publishing Company, 1899-1900. 4to. Bound in 2 original full blindstamped cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and upper covers. All edges gilt. Ca. 1600 pp. profusely illustrated after photographs. Nos 1-25 separately paginated.

København, Bjerregård-Jensen's Bogtrykkeri, 1962. Lille 4to. Orig. farvetrykt omslag. En smule slid ved øverste kapitæl. (116) pp. Rigt illustreret. Med 2 farveplancher, som er håndkoloreret og signeret af Freddie/62. Med egenhændig dedikation på indersiden af titelbladet "9 - sept. 62/ til min gode ven/ Jean Grandjean/ Wilhelm Freddie.. ." Oplaget var 200 eksemplarer Bogen omfatter et repræsentativt udvalf af hans arbejder i perioden 1927 til 1962. Af bogens 200 ekspl. vil 100 være til salg..

Basileæ, Th.Quarinum, 1575. Small 8vo. Cont.full vellum. Small incision in title, repaired. (32),578 pp. + Index.

Berlin, Uppsala u.Stockholm, Paris, 1885). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", vol. 7, pp.201-258. First edition of Minkowski's Inaugural-Dissertation in the periodical form."Minkowski received his doctorate in 1885 at Königsberg; he taught at Bonn undtil 1894, then returned to Königsberg for two years. In 1896 he went to Zürich.where he was Hurwitz' collegue until 1902; Hilbert then obtained the creation of a new professorship for him at Göttingen, where Minkowski taught until his death. From his Grand Prix paper (1883) to hisd last work Minkowski never ceased to return to the arithmetic of quadratic forms in n ariables ("n-ary Forms"), Ever since Gauss' pioneering work on binary quadratic forms at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the generalization of his results to n-ary had been the goal of many mathematicians, including, Eisenstein, Hermite, Smith, Jordan, and Poincaré."(DSB). - An error in this paper was found and corrected by C.L. Siegel in 1935.

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.

Wien, Beck, 1815. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A nick in leather at upper cover. Wear to top of spine. All edges gilt. Stamps on title-page. 86 pp. and 1 large folded, full handcoloured engraved plan of Valenciennes ("Plan der franzoesischen Festung Valenciennes... 13 July 1793"). (48 x 54,5 cm.). A small closed tear to the plan. Internally clean and fine, on good paper.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 26, No 8. Pp. (233-) 264. (Entire issue offered). Semmelweis's paper: pp. 254-255. Clean and fine. First French announcement of this epochal event in the history of medicine, the discovery of the etiology and prevention of childbed fever. First announce by Ferdinand von Hebra in December 1847, then followed (only 2 months) after by the French announcement."Although Semmelweis's importent discoveries were made in the 1840s, he did not publish them immediately. The first printed reports of his findings were written by his collegues and were published in various German, French, or English Journals. Semmelweis himself gave three lectures before the Imperial and Royal Medical Society of Vienna in 1850 but did not publish his complete discussion of "The etiology, concept, and prophylaxis of childbeed fever" until 1861, having previously contributed several shorter accounts to Hungarian medical journals."(Norman "One Hundred Books famous in Medicine", p. 265).Semmelweis demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) was contagious and that this incidence could drastically be reduced by appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers. He made this discovery in 1847 while working in the Maternity Department of the Vienna Lying-in Hospital. His failure to convince his fellow doctors led to a tragic conclusion. However, he was ultimately vindicated. While employed as assistant to the professor of the maternity clinic at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria in 1847, Semmelweis introduced hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions for interns who had performed autopsies. This immediately reduced the incidence of fatal puerperal fever from about 10 percent (range 5-30 percent) to about 1-2 percent.Toward the end of 1847, accounts of Semmelweis's work began to spread around Europe. Semmelweis and his students wrote letters to the directors of several prominent maternity clinics describing their recent observations. Ferdinand von Hebra, the editor of a leading Austrian medical journal, announced Semmelweis's discovery in the December 1847 and April 1848 issues of the medical journal. Hebra claimed that Semmelweis's work had a practical significance comparable to that of Edward Jenner's introduction of cowpox inoculations to prevent smallpox.Garrison & Morton: 6275 (German version).

Leipzig, 1743. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, sctraches to boards. Front board on plate 1 split. Annotations to front free end paper. Internally nice and clean. (10), 984, 64 pp.; (2), 702 pp.

Kjøbenhavn, Berling, 1750 - 1757. 4to. Uniformly bound in three contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands. Wear to extremities, leather on spine cracked, spine-ends with loss of leather, boards with scratches and corners bumped. Brownspotted throughout and with occassional dampstaining. (16), 700 pp.; (8), 584 pp.; 24, 651, (76) pp. The rare first Danish translation - incomplete but all that was published - of historian Josephus's " Antiquities of the Jews" originally written in Greek in the 1st century.

Leipzig, Fritsch, 1701. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper label pasted on to spine indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Extremities heavily soiled. Small piece of paper cut of from title-page, slightly affecting the vignet. (4), 1136, (56) pp. 44 plate (out of 50?) First German translation of Misson's work which "is the first general account of Italy" (Cox). It is considered one of the most important 18th century travel guides to Italy. Misson's travels were made in 1687 and 1688 and his account contain a description of the present state of the whole of Italy and closer observations on Florence, Luca, Rome, Naples and Padua and at the end an instruction for travellers.Cox 1, 116

Christiania, C. Werner & Comp., 1856. Ubeskåret i originalt lyseblå kartonnage. Forpermen lidt løs. En smule tab af det blå overtrækspapir ved false og på ryg. XXIII,(1),262,(2) pp. Aldeles frisk og rent eksemplar. Originaludgaven.

London, (no place, nor year, but around 1842). 8vo. In later green half cloth with gilt lettering and stamp to front board. Two small stamps to first leaf. 17 pp.

Helsingfors, 1881-92. Indbundet i 10 samt. hldrbd. Nogle rygge lidt slidte. Med ca 60 plancher.

Paris, Pierre Delaulne, 1695. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine, boards with a few scratches. Wormtract to upper outer margin (not touching text) and light occassional browning. (2), 346, (6), 374 pp. + 24 engraved plates. Volume 2 of the third edition, published posthumously (as were the two earlier editions of 1665 and 1677), of Monconys' account of his extensive travels across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Monconys meticulously recorded his experiences and observations during his travels across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. His work is not merely a travelogue but a document of scientific inquiry, artistic appreciation, and cultural exchange offering valuable insights into the early modern period. Monconys's Voyages is of considerable interest for its observations on chemistry, physics, mathematics, astrology, antiquities and natural history. Brunet VI, p. 1056 - 19913.

Berlin, Reimer, 1838. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. (2),286 pp., 3 folded engraved plates (32 figs.) and 9 large folded engraved plans, partly handcoloured. Internally clean, on good paper.

'sGravenhage, A. Klots en Comp., 1823, 1823, 1822. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. First title-page with stamps. 36 pp. a. 2 engraved folded double-folio plates. - 36 pp. a. 3 large folded engraved plates. - 76 pp. and many folded tables. All three printed on thich heavy paper. Clean and fine. Krayenhoff listed by Klaus Jordan, 1906. - The two other not by Jordan.

London, John Murray, 1868. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Spine ends a little worn. Edges slightly rubbed. Corners bumped. 555 pp., Frontispiece, 2 folded maps and 35 plates. A few plates stained in upper margins, otherwise clean. First edition. An importent description of the Flora, Fauna and anthropology of the Indonesian Islands by one of the cofounders of the American Museum of Natural History.

Gotha, Ettinger, 1779-80. 2 contemp. hcalf. Some wear to spine ends. Slightly rubbed. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on titles. Engraved frontispiece. (34),568,(62);(22),512 pp. Internally clean.

Ca. 1920. 33 x 25 cm. Not signed. Crayon on heavy paper. A nude girl sitting on a large pillow caressing herself and looking in a mirror between her legs. 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.

Berlin, 1884. Folio. Orig.hcloth with printed boards. XII pp. and 31 fine lithogr. plates with text (gez.OSpeyer u. E.Ohlmann. Lith. von E.Ohlmann) and 1 lithogr.portr.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1768. Cont. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. (4),VIII,740,(4) pp. Clean and fine.

Paris, Magimel, An IX (1801). 4to. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of back. Stamp on title. 269 pp., 2 folded tables and 1 large folded map (Genes and environs). Clean with broad margins, printed on good paper.