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Kiøbenhavn, Med Autors retsmæssige Afstaaelse... Ernst Henrich Berling, 1744. Samtidigt helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Ryg med blindtrykte dekorationer. Mindre reven ved øverste kapitæl.(4),608 pp. Velbevaret, frisk eksemplar. Dette er Berlings udgave fra samme år som originaludgaven, iøvrigt den tredie i samme år. - Ehr.-M. X:321.

Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1932. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"]. Offprint from "Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften", Vol. XXIX, 1932. Light miscolouring a few nicks to extremities. top right corner with traces after having been bended. Internally fine. 15 pp. Scarce offprint with the author's printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles." (DSB)

Tübingen, Io. Henr. Schrammii, 1742. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (34),1208,(16) pp. First edition.

Kiöbenhavn, Schultz, 1791. Samtidigt hldrbd. Forgyldt skindtitel. papirsetiket påsat øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. (4),180 pp. Nogle få spredte brunpletter. Den sjældne originaludgave af den første danske oversættelse af Kratzensteins "Systema physicae experimentalis...". Han blev på foranledning af Leonhard Euler ansat som "Mechanicus" ved Akademiet i St. Petersburg i 1748 og blev 5 år senere udnævnt til professor i København. Kratzenstein er mest kendt for sine experimenter over elektricitetens virkninger på forskellige områder, bl. indenfor medicinen (således var han den første, som ved hjælp af gnisten fra en Leydner-flaske, kurerede en paralyseret finger, og således grundlæggeren af elektro-terapien), og han var den første fysiker overhovedet, som søgte at udfinde forholdet mellem den elektriske kraft of dens virkningsafstand, på samme måde som gravitet er en simpel funktion af afstand. - Bibl. Danica II:108. - Poggendorff I:1314 (the German edition from 1758).

Ribe og Kbhvn., 1869-1946. De 5 dele er her indbundet i 4 hldrbd. Rygge med brugsspor. Ialt ca 2.600 pp. Med plancher og tekstillustr. Her foreligger samtlige bind af byhistorien, som de øvrige forfattere fortsatte efter Kinchs død, delvis på grundlag af hans efterladte manuskripter.

(Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1793.) Unbound, but stitched. XVI,168 pp. First German edition of "A topographical description of the Western Territory of North America. London, 1792.". (Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Band 9: 2. Theil). - Sabin: 34359.

Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1852. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends. A tear in joint at upper compartment on Atlas. Spines rubbed. VIII,367 pp., 140 lithographed maps and plans, some folding, some coloured. Light toning, faint scattered brownspots.

Aalborg, Holtzberg, 1753 & Kiøbenhavn, 1762. 4to. In contemporary full calf over wooden boards with four raised bands and gilt lettttering to spine, with two clasps. Boards with a few scratches, backboard showing the wooden boards underneath. Internally very nice and clean. (8), 592, (16), (16), 388, (12), 383 pp. Sammelband containing three rare works by Danish priest Bytzow.

Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1966. 8vo. Publishers full cloth with dust jacket. Both in fine condition. Previous owners signature to front free end paper.Otherwise completely clean throughout. A fine copy. First edition of this foundational work in mathematics. In this book Robinson gave the first rigorous formulation of Analysis using infinitesimals. Both Leibniz and Newton had used the notion of infinitesimals when they developed the Differentail and Integral Calculus in the 17th century. As Leibniz argued the theory of infinitesimals implies the introduction of ideal numbers which might be infinitely small or large compared to the real numbers. However, neither he nor his disciples and succesors were able to give a rational development leading up to a system of this sort. As a result, the theory of infinitesimals gradually fell into disrepute and was replaced by eventually by the classical theory of limits. Robinson was the first to show that Leibniz's ideas in fact can be fully vindicated and that they lead to a fruitful approach to classical Analysis. He coined his model "Non-Standard Anlysis".

Frankfurt am Main, Johann Daniel Simon, 1804. Contemp. boards, but with later modest clothbacking. Endpapers renewed. Stamp on titlepage. 414 pp. The scarce first edition.

Jena, Herman Constenoble, 1887. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Frontispiece. XXVIII,539,(1) pp., 10 maps, profusely illustrated with plates and textillustrations. Internally clean and fine. First German edition of "Three Years of arctic Service.. 1886".

(København), Brøndum, 1994. 4to. Originalt litograferet omslag med beskyttelsespapir over. Med ialt 10 dobbeltsidede originallitografier. Nr. 137 af 200 eksemplarer signeret af kunstneren "PK/94".

Kjøbenhavn, J. H. Schubothes Boghandel, 1887. 8vo. I det originale komponerede, rigt forgyldte helshirtingsbind. En smule ubetydeligt kantslid. Ren og pæn indvendig. (8),396 pp. Et særdeles velholdt eksemplar af originaludgaven af Bangs hovedværk i det sjældne, originale komponerede bind. Herring, 79.

Berlin, Friedrich Maurer, 1799 & 1800, 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt ruled fillets to boards. Wear to spines, especially on vol. 2 with most the marbled paper worn off. Otherwise a nice and clean set. XX, 283, (2) pp.; XX, 300, (4) pp. The uncommon first edition of Schmidt’s work on Archytas and his natural philosophy.

(Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1900). No wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge. Band 3, No 12. Pp. 545-766. (Entire issue offered, No. 12). Poulsen's paper: pp. 754-760, textillustrations. Clean and fine, but punched in inner margins after cords, no loss of text. First printing of this paper in which Poulsen describes his invention of the "TELEGRAPHON", THE FIRST magnetic sound recorder. The Telegraphone was shown, but not operated at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and obtained a Grand Prix."The magnetic recording was demonstrated in principle as early as 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen in his telegraphone. Magnetic wire recording, and its successor, magnetic tape recording, involve the use of a magnetizable medium which moves past a recording head. An electrical signal, which is analogous to the sound that is to be recorded, is fed to the recording head, inducing a pattern of magnetization similar to the signal. A playback head (which may be the same as the recording head) can then pick up the changes in the magnetic field from the tape and convert them into an electrical signal."(Wikepedia).The issue contains further Max Planck's paper "Kritik zweier Sätze des Hrn. W. Wien", pp. 764-766, and Ångstrøm "Ueber die Bedeutung des Wasserdampfes und der Kohlensäure bei Absorption der Erdatmosphäre.", pp. 720-732.Shiers "Early Television" no 289.

Leipzig, Beygang, 1790. 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A small paperlabel taped to lower compartment. Stamp on title-pages. XXXX,364 pp., 34 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition. - Rumpf, 2553.

Mühlhausen, Johann Daniel Müller, 1786-87. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (28),86;243,(1);(10),106 pp., 2 folde engraved plates, 2 folded tables. Probably an abridgement of Tielke's "Unterricht für die Officiers, die sich zu Feld=Ingenieurs bilden..." which ran through many editions. - Not in Rumpf. - Klaus Jordan, 3775 with wrong collation. (2 Theile, 32 plates ??).

London, T. Bowles, 1727. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands, blindtooled covers (Cambridge-binding). Wear to spine ends and spine. Hinges weakening, but still holding. Titlepage in red/black. (2),195,(6) pp. and 80 full page engraved illustrations. Some soiling and browning, mainly marginal, last 10 engravings with a faint dapmstain. The charming plates are engraved by Leclerc. Scarce English edition (the third) of Leclerc's charming and very popular treatise on elementary, practical geometry and perspective.Sebastien Leclerc (1637-1714) was originally an engraver who studied physics and geometry in relation to perspective theory, a field of which he became famous. In 1672 he was appointed to "l'Academie de Peinture" as professor in perspective. He was also engraver to Louis XIV and was appointed professor at "l'Ecole des Gobelins".

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1898. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. In: "Mathematische Annalen begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann.", 51. Bd., 1. Heft. The whole issue offered (=Heft 1). IV,160 pp. Hilbert's paper pp. 1-127. First edition of Hilbert's famous report on algebraic numbers."The work on algebraic number theory was climaxed in the nineteenth century by Hilbert's famous report on algebraic numbers. This report is primarely an account of what had been done during the century. However Hilbert reworked all of this earlier theory and gave a new, elegant and powerfull methods of securing these results. He had begun to create new ideas in algebraic number theory from about 1892 on and one of the new creations on Galoisian number fields was also incorporated in the report." (Morris Kline in "Mathematical Thoughts..." pp. 825).

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1810. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 36, Neuntes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 9). Titlepage to vol. 36. Pp. 1-112. a. 2 engraved plates. Gay-Lussac's papers: pp. 6-36 a. pp. 37-51. First German edition of this classic paper in chemistry in which he states the law, that when two gases combine chemically, they do so that the volumes are in the ratio of whole small numbers."In 1805, with Alexander von Humboldt he observed the already known fact that hydrogen and oxygen combines in the ratio of 2 to 1 by volume. Stimulated by this work he studied the reactions of other gases to see whether there were other simple relationshipas, and in 1808 he announced the la of combining volumes, which is now known as GAY-LUSSAC'S LAW, This generalization, obviously connected with some fundamental property of matter, was in part responsible for Avogadro's hypothesis."(Leicester & Klickstein).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1809 C. - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry" pp. 292 ff.

Au Havre (et) Paris, Matenas (et) Dezauche, 1830. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt titlelabel. Stamp on foot of title-page. (8),214 pp., 1 folded lithographed map. Second edition - the first 1829.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1874-75. 8vo. Bound in one contemporary half calf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light edgewear and light wear to spineends. (6),V,426;(2),401 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean and fine. First Danish edition of "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex". Freeman: No 1050.

Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, 1886. 4to-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Spineends repaired. Crack in leather along fronthinge. (8) pp. and 170 lithographed plates, partly with colour.

4to. Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in a very fine blue longgrained hmorocco, richly gilt back. Top edge gilt. (signed at foot of back: Rel.Altermat). No 494 of 650 "sur papier vélin d'Arches", a total of 761 copies. With 31 full-and halfpage original etchings by Chas Laborde.

Leipzig, Fromanni, 1683. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Nicks in leather to lower part of upper joint and to foot of spine. Corners a bit bumped. All edges gilt. Engraved title-page and printed. (18),744,(28) pp., 6 folded tables. Internally clean. On upper cover in gold: C M - 1689.