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Berlin, Adolf Gumprecht, 1845. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),LIV,192,118 pp. and 1 large folded lithographed map, outline coloured (Uebersichtskarte zu v. Reden's Eisenbahn- und Dampfschiffbuch). Scattered brownspots.

Wien, Braumüller, 1855. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Stamp on foot of titlepage. (4),140 pp. First German edition. Nuwas, born 756 is called the greatest Arab poet of all times and the first and foremost Islamic gay poet, a libertine homosexual who lived in Baghdad during the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and Muhammed al-Amin.

Prag, Kaspar Widtmann, 1796. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A piece of leather in middle of spineon the first volume lacks. XVI,160;XII,302;XIV,477,(1);XIV,600 pp. + Register 190 pp. pp. Some browning and scattered brownspots..

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1930. 8vo. Entire volume 63 of "Zeitschrift für Physik" bound in a contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page. Capitals a bit. An overall fine and clean copy. Pp. 54-73. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 868 pp.]. First printing of Weisskopf and Wigner's landmark paper in which the introduced their seminal theory of spontaneous emission under QED. "In a consecutive paper, Dirac applied second-order perturbation theory to the atom-field interaction and re-derived the kramers-Heisenberg formula for the scattering of light by atomic systems. Fner aspects of radiative processes, like line widths due to damping, required a more elaborate mathematical treatment [presented in the present paper]." Fierz, Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.).

Paris, Testu, (1793). 8vo. Bound in fine contemporary full red-brown calf. Covers with broad gilt borders and gilt cornerpieces. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments. Inner gilt borders. Gilt lettering to spine. Gilt edges. Edges on covers gilt. Inside a cartouche on both covers, an owners signature "G". (?). (1-32),33-567 pp. The department-map lacks. faint scattered brownspots. First edition of the first "Almanach National".

Liege, F.J. Desoer, 1760. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. 142 pp. and 13 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 872. - Goldsmiths-Kress, 9615.0-2.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1838-43. 8vo. Bound in 5 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Spines rubbed and some wear to top of spines. Volume 5 with defective spine and frontcover detached. Stamps on title-pages. In all ca. 3000 pp. Internally fine.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. XII,149 pp., 16 tables and 4 folded engraved plates. Some scattered, mainly marginal brownspots. Wide-margined. First edition. - Poggendorff II, 1202.

Londres (London), 1792. 12mo. Bound in 17 contemp. uniform full calf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spines. Small parts of titlelabels gone. 3 vols. with small nicks to spines. Somewhat rubbed. With 17 engraved frontispieces. In all ca. 4000 pp. Some scattered brownspots.

Small8vo. Bound in 4 nice cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs with 5 raised bands. Paperlabels pasted on lower compartment. Stamp on titles. Top of spine on vol. 2 slightly frayed. With 13 folded engraved maps.

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1873. Folio. In contemporary half cloth. The blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamp to upper part of pasted down front free end-paper. A closed tear to title-page, otherwise fine. VIII, 140 pp. + 7 folded and coloured plates. First edition of the official British report on ship wrecks, casualties and collisions in United Kingdom's waters for the year 1872.

Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1860. 4to. Contemp, hcalf. Gilt spine. A small stamp to titlepage. X,490 pp. and 19, partly folded, lithographed maps and plans. Internally clean. + Ergänzungshäfte. With importent expediton reports and original maps from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, Polar regions etc.

Stuttgart, Weise & Stoppani, 1841. Lex8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Slightly rubbed. Lithographed pictorial title. IV,5-865 pp. and 40 handcoloured lithographed plates. Some marginal brownspotting. 2 plates with brownspots in upper right corner. Some brownspots to texleaves at begining and at end. Not in Wood and BMC (NH).

Stockholm., Haegström. 1818. Lille 4to. Nydeligt senere hldrbd.m. rygforgyldn. (4),133,(2) pp. samt l kobberst. håndkoloreret kort (Karta öfwer Norrbotten och dess Lappmarker).

Hamburg, d'A. Vanderhoeck, 1731. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A small crack at fronthinge at upper compartment on the first volume. Spines slightl rubbed. Title-pages printed in red/black. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper.

London, The Times, 1914-21. 4to. Bound in 22 contemporary half calf bindings, spines with raised bands, gilt titles and paper library labels. Index volume in orig. cloth. All volumes rubbed and slightly worn. About 475 pages each with numerous photos and maps in the text, also a number of folding maps in colour. Library stamps. Vols. 1-21 were issued in weekly parts from August 25, 1914, to July 27, 1920. There was a further volume published in 1921 which forms the general index.

Amsterdam, Depens de la Compagnie, 1733. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with a few scratches, front board with some loss of leather. Internally very nice and clean. (2), XI, (5), 280, (8) pp.

Dresden & Leipzig, Zimmermann, 1711. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped and a few holes to boards. Internally nice and clean. 1406 pp. + frontispiece; (2), 1411-5020, (28) pp. The ucommon first (only?) edition of Heemann's Bible commentary.

Parism, J. Corréard, 1867. 8vo and 4to. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted on backs. Stamp on titles. XVI,440 pp. and Atlas-vol. with 18 double-page lithographed plates. The first and last few leaves of textvol. a little brownspotted. Otherwise fine and clean.

Dresden, Walther, 1757. Uncut in contemp. boards. Some wear to covers. Stamp on foot of title-page. (4),491,(4) pp., 13 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean, on good paper.

London, The Economist Office, 1879. Small folio. Bound in comtemporary half cloth. Entire volume 37, July - December, 1879, of The Economist. Minor wear to extremities and a few repairs to a few leaves, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 761-1504. Original printing of The Economist - the most important and influential economic journal worldwide - from the year 1879. The initial planning of the Panama Canal began in 1879. The enormous endeavor of digging the Canal was reflected in The Economist: "The canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater, the climate is a much more serious obstacle to labour, and especially to that of Europeans, and, finally, the possibility of a rival plan being carried out is much greater."

Copenhagen, Königl. Maj. Priv. Buchdruckerey, (1703). Blødt samtidigt helldrbd. Uden rygtitel. Forsatse fornyede. Stempel på titelblad. 132 pp. Yderst sjælden. - Bibl. Dan. I,676.

(Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1767). 46,5 x 55,5 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Sjælland med stor fin rokokkokartouche. Lidt tæt beskåret, et par små revner ved venstre margin repareret. Generalkoret over Sjælland fra Pontoppidans Danske Atlas bind III.

K., 1836. Slidt samt. hldrbd. False revnede for oven. Her og der lidt brunplettet. BFN 292. Originaludgave. Sjælden.

Stockholm, A. Wiborgs Forlag, 1818. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Insignificant water stains to top margin of the first few leaves and plate. Few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. XXVIII,298,(2) pp + 1 engraved plate. First Swedish edition, published the same year as the original Danish edition, of Rask's main work 'Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse'. This treatise constitutes a founding work, not only in Nordic Philology, but also in comparative linguistics altogether. For the first time, Rask emphasised the importance of examining similarities in grammatical structure as opposed to etymology in comparative linguistics. Independently of Rask, the German linguist Jacob Grimm took a similar approach in his 'Deutsche Grammatik' published in 1819. Hjelmslev I, 27.