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Halle, 1743 & 1745 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Front board on vol. 2 with wormtracts. First half of bookblock in vol. 2 with wormtract, otherwise a nice and clean set. (16), 374 pp.; (28), 338 pp. Uncommon first edition of this set containing various works by German theologian Baumgarten. Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757) was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and historian. He was a significant figure in the early development of modern historical theology and had a substantial impact on later theologians, including his more famous student, Johann Salomo Semler. Baumgarten studied theology at the University of Halle where he later became a professor. His work primarily focused on the integration of Enlightenment rationalism with Lutheran orthodoxy, aiming to reconcile faith and reason. Baumgarten's theological approach emphasized historical-critical methods, laying the groundwork for a more scientific and historical analysis of the Bible and Christian history.

Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1651. 12mo. In contemporary full polished vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. MIscolouring and a few scratches to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Stain to last leaf and occassional brownspotting and underlinings throughout. (34), 279, (5) pp. + frontispiece. Later Blaeu-edition, the first to include Thomas Farnabi's commentaries, of Terence’s Commedies which had a profound influence on European theatre from antiquity to modern times. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.

London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1848. Clothbacked wrappers with the original printed, large titlelabel on frontwrapper. Stamps on title-page. 6,XVIII,224 pp. Richly textillustrated with coastal profiles, ligthouses etc.

Lpz., Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787 - 90. 8vo. Contemporary hcalf with gilt spine, green volume-label and worn title-label. Some overall wear. Internally a bit brownspotted. Engraved title-vignette. This volume six of Goethe's collected works contains the first printing of Goethe's famous play "Torquato Tasso". With the printing "Leipzig, gedruckt bey Christian Friedrich Solbrig" on the bottom of the final page, as stated in Hagen 11,6.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1725. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXXV". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. Two small stamps to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. [Johann Bernoulli's paper:] Pp. 318-25; [Daniel Bernoulli's paper:] Pp. 470-474. [Entire volume: (2), 54, (37) pp. + five engraved plates.]. First printing of two paper's by father and son: Johann and Daniel Bernoulli. Daniel Bernoulli paper is a solution to the Riccati-equation: "Using the first of the two transformations in [The Riccati-equation], Bernoulli succeded in constructing solutions of "an inifinite number" of Riccati equations for those values of n for which a solution can be expressed in finite terms. Bernoulli published these solutions in Acta Eruditorum for 1725 [the present paper]. (Greenberg. The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut. P. 573).The offered volume contains many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Frankfurt u. Leipzig, Brönner, 1782. Contemp. hcalf., titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Very slightly rubbed. Stamp on titlepage.(8),136,80 pp., 3 folded engraved plates and 1 folded plate in woodcut. Some browning to leaves.

Kjøbenhavn. 1753. 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind med fem ophøjede bind. Bind, og især ryg, med en del slitage. Samtidige navnetræt på forsatsblade og titelblad. Indvendig pæn. Kobberstukket frontispiece. (8),486,(54) pp. + 5 foldede kort. OriginaludgavenBibliotheca Danica II:393. - Ikke i Fiske.

Berlin, Hermann Peters, 1858. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Small stamp on title. XI,280 pp. Textillustr. First edition. "Alfred Graefe, cousin of Albrecht, made a careful clinical analysis of disordere movements of the eye. He also invented a special "localization ophtalmoscope", and, with Saemisch, edited the great "Handbuch des gesamten Augenheilkunde." (Garrison & Morton 5883).

Kjøbenhavn, Mumme, 1751. 4to. In contemporary full calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Boards with scratches and head of spine chipped. Previous owner's name to lower margin of title-page. (8), 184 pp. + 1 portrait. First edition of these sermons by Danish-Norwegian bishop Peder Hersleb. Peder Hersleb (1689–1757) was a prominent Danish-Norwegian bishop and reformer. Born in Stod, Norway, to a family with deep roots in the Lutheran Church he was educated in Trondheim and Copenhagen earning recognition for his theological and rhetorical skills. He became a military chaplain in Holstein and later served as court preacher to King Frederick IV. In 1730 he was appointed bishop of Akershus in Norway, where he introduced significant reforms including better catechism instruction, confirmation practices and church governance. Biblioteca Danica I, 501.

London, Richard Bentley, 1853. Small8vo. Orig. full blindstamped cloth. Small repairs along fronthinge. Gilt lettering on spine. VIII (incl. halftitle),220 pp. and Publisher's cat. (4) pp. A faint dampstain in upper margin of the first leaves. Some scattered brownspots. First English edition of Mrs. Bushby's translation - directly from Danish - of 20 of Andersen's fairy tales, taken from his third fairy tale collection.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1872). 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. XX [20], No. 132. Entire issue offered. Wrappers with light soiling and minor chipping with some loss to extremities, not affecting text. Fine and clean. Pp. 160-17. [Entire volume: 135-197]. First printing of Maxwell's paper in which he seeks to: "determine the currents which are induced in an infinite plate of uniform conductivity and infinitethickness, and in a sphere or spherical shell of any thickness when in the presence of a varying magnetic system: and in any of these bodies When rotating near a constant magnetic system, round an axis which is normal to the faces of the plate or passes through the centre" (From the introduction to the present paper".

Berlin, Springer, 1935. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 96, 1935. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 431-458. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp]. First printing of Weizsäcker's exceedingly important paper containing the first appearance of Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, or Semi-Empirical Mass Formula (SEMF), a theoretical formula relating the curve of nuclear binding energy, nuclear masses, and certain other nuclear properties.In nuclear physics, the semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF) (sometimes also called Weizsäcker's formula, the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, or the Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula to distinguish it from the Bethe-Weizsäcker process) is used to approximate the mass and various other properties of an atomic nucleus. As the name suggests, it is based partly on theory and partly on empirical measurements. The theory is based on the liquid drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough estimates for the values of the coefficients. Although refinements have been made to the coefficients over the years, the structure of the formula remains the same today.The present volume also contain conttributions by Wener Heisenberg: Die Struktur der leichten Atomkerne.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1740. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to top of spine. Engraved frontispiece. (8),116,410 pp., 7 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de Mairan, Winslow, Nicole, Geoffroy, Cassini de Thury, Camus, Clairaut, Buffon, de Fouchy, le Monnier le Fils, de la Condamine, Lémery, Cassini, Hellot, Pitot, Godin, Reaumur.

Jenae, Lindner, 1706 (+) Jenae, Bielcki, 1708 (+) Jenae, Schulz, 1751 (+) Jenae, Bielcki, 1754. 4to. In contemporary half vellum with blindstamped title to spine. Wear to extremities, missing most of the marbled paper on boards. Previous owner's name (Petrus Adolphus Carstén) to verso of front board in contemporary hand. Annotations to front free end-paper. Occassional browning throughout. Last leaves with dampstain to margin. "Aditus Syriae Reclusus" in 8vo bound in the back. (14), 178, (4), 32, 237, (44), 129, (10), 112, (24), (12), 92 pp. Interesting sammelband by various works related to the study of Semitic languages, particularly Hebrew, Chaldean and Syriac all by Johann Danz.

Basel, Johann Rudolf Imhof, 1752 (+) Zürich, Füesslin und Co., 1766. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches. Previous owner's name to lower margin of title-page. Internally nice and clean. 244, (16), XXX, 218 pp. First German translation of Milton's Paradise Lost. Withbound is the German translation of Richard Glover's Leonidas which led him to take an interest in politics

London, John Marray, 1922. 8vo. Uncut in the original green full cloth in the original dust jacket. Letter from Haldane to "Principal Rattray" pasted on the front free end paper: "12 Nov 1922 / Dear Principal Rattray, / MERE ". Author's presentation inscription to top of half title: "Principal Rattray / from the Author / In memory of her verses to the University / College of Leicester 11 feb 1922.". Corners and capitals a bit bumped. Dust jacket with wear and some loss at extremities, especially capitals and lower part of back jacket, no loss of text anywhere. Internally very nice and clean. XIV, 302, (4, -advertisements) pp. First edition of Haldane's important work with presentation inscription to Principal Rattray, published the year after his main and most famous work "The Reign of Relativity". In that work Haldane had propounded a theory that Einstein's theory supported the thesis that the distinction between knowledge and that which is known is a distinction within knowledge itself. "He therefore mistakenly treated Einstein's "observer" as if it were akin to Kant's "transcendental unity of apperception". "The Reign of Relativity", in consequence became a compendium of F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet, a defense of vitalism in biology continued in "The Philosophy of Humanism and other Subjects" (1922), and even a vindication of the general will. " (D.S.B. VI:26). Robert Fleming Rattray (1886-1967) became Pastor of the Great Meeting in Leicester in 1917. "He was a strong supporter of both the adult education movement and the Lit. and Phil. and of the scheme, promoted by the Society among other organisations, to establish a University in Leicester. In early 1921 he was approached to be the planned College's first Principal and in May 1921 he was appointed as the first Principal of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College (later University College, Leicester). Rattray joined the Lit. and Phil. on his arrival in Leicester in 1917. In 1920, already well-established as a teacher and writer on philosophy, his first major contribution to the Lit. and Phil. was to assist in the setting up of a new Philosophy Section in 1920, with Rattray as its first Chairman. In its first year, 1920-21 Rattray gave a course of six lectures on "Some Fundamental Problems of Philosophy and the following year he gave a second course of eight lectures on "modern" (i.e. not classical or medieval) philosophers, covering Descartes, Spinosa, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. He remained at Leicester as Principal of the University College until 1931 when he moved to Cambridge to become Pastor of the Unitarian Memorial Chapel, and remained in Cambridge after his retirement through to his death at the age of 81." (Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.)

Königsberg, 1793. - Iena und leipzig, Gabler, 1796. - Riga, Hartknoch, 1797. Bound together in contemp. boards. Titlelabel with wear. Spine rubbed and somewhat worn. Engraved titlevignette. (2),IX,249 pp., a wormtract in upper right corners on the last 35 leaves, not affecting text. - (22),229,(1) pp. Some scattered brownspots. - (18),128 pp. A faint dampstain to lower margins of the last 15 leaves. Last leaf with a nick in inner margin. With the first edition of Ficte's "Naturrecht", 1796 (1. Part) - An. Kant: Warda:96.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1904. Small 4to. Orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece in heliogravure. XIV,(2),668 pp. Richly textillustrated and with plates, a large folded map in pocket at end. First edition.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1932. 8vo. Orig. full brown cloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Orig. brown dust-jacket w. wear and a bit of loss to corners and capitals. Otherwise and excellent and clean copy w. only some occasinal minor brownspotting. XIV, 247 pp. First edition of this standard work on wages, Hick's first major work, in which he proposed the macroeconomic hypothesis about INDUCED INNOVATION and foreshadowed important later developments in neoclassical distribution theory. Sir John Richard Hicks (1904 - 1989) was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. He has contributed seminally to moth micro- and macro-economics and in 1972 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences together with Kenneth Arrow for "pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."As a labor economist, Hicks already in 1932, aged 28, wrote his first major work, his very important "Theory of Wages", which serves as a fundamental basis for recent theories of distribution, now widely developed in e.g. Cambridge. Hick's early work is still considered standard in the field, and a vast amount of literature has been published on his hypothesis of induced innovation, which is presented in this work for the first time. The theory is formulated as thus: "a change in the relative prices of the factors of production is itself a spur to invention, and to invention of a particular kind-directed to economizing the use of a factor which has become relatively expensive." And this theory has also frequently been applied to increases in energy costs, which would thus come to motivate a quicker improvement in energy efficiency.But not only did Hicks here propound the still influential theory of induced innovation, this work is also considered as foreshadowing many of his later theories, which have become significant contributions to neoclassical distribution theory; e.g. a reformulation of marginal productivity theory, further development of the product exhaustion theorem, a macroeconomic theory of relative factor shares etc., etc. "The object of this book is "a restatement of the Theory of Wages in a form which shall be reasonably abreast of modern economic knowledge." The treatment is based on the Marginal Productivity theory, although that theory is stated in a rather new way, designed to facilitate its use in realistic study of the labour market. This is followed by a more general study of the working of the labour market under competitive conditions, and by a theory of the secular forces governing the general level of wages. The second part of the book deals with the regulation of wages. There is a chapter on the Theory of Industrial Disputes, and one on the economic forces which have facilitated the Growth of Trade Union Power in England. The last chapters contain a detailed analysis of the effects of wage-regulation on unemployment, including the distribution of unemployment between industries, and the prospects of a reduction in unemployment through an increase in productivity." (Front of dust-jacket).A second edition appeared in 1963.The work is scarce in the original dust-jacket.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729. 8vo. In contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and some of gilting to spine worn off. Title-page in red and black. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. (6), 613, (5) pp. + 3 folded plates and 1 frontispiece. Second edition of this biography of Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.Provenance: From a large Danish estate. Barbier & Billard II, 219

Strasbourg, Durand Neveu, 1777. Bound in 2 contemp. full sprinkled calf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Light wear to top of spine on vol. I. Stamps on title-pages. XII,(2),344;(4),314,(2) pp. and 21 folded engraved plates. Some brownspots to title-pages, otherwise clean. First French edition. - Poggendorff I, 51.

Stor folio. Orig. litograferet omslag, på forsiden smukt litograferet og tonet prospekt af broen med Christanshavn i baggrunden, på bagsiden en farvelitograferet byplan. Med 1 tekstside samt 9 store farvelitograferede konstruktionstegninger og afbildninger af broen med mange tekniske detaljer afbildet. Bogen er rullet sammen og opbevaret i et originalt cylinderrør af malet zink med låg, hvorpå en trykt etiket.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. 8vo. Volume XXVIII, 1949, No. 1 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Wear and tears to spine. Inner front hinge loosening. Previous owner's name to front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 59-98 [Entire issue: 163 pp]. First publication of Shannon's paper on how a Boolean function can be represented by the sum of two sub-functions of the original. The function was later named Shannon's Expansion or the Shannon Decomposition. "The area of switching circuits design and optimization was a focus of considerable attention. Boolean algebra provided the basic mathematical foundation for switching circuit design. Shannon provided a basis for the The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits in 1949". (Ashar, Sequential logic synthesis, 1992, p. 1).Claude Shannon is widely regarded as being the father of information theory and cryptography. Other papers contained in the present issue:1. Albersheim, W.J.Propagation of TE01 Waves in Curved Wave Guides. Pp. 1-32.2. Pierce, J.R.; Hebenstreit, W.B. A New Type of High-Frequency Amplifier. Pp. 33-51.3. Hollenberg, A.V.Experimental Observation of Amplification by Interaction Between Two Electron Streams. Pp. 52-58.4. Robertson, Sloan D. A Method of Measuring Phase at Microwave Frequencies. Pp. 99-103.5. Rice, S.O.Reflection from Corners in Rectangular Wave Guides - Conformal Transformation. Pp. 104-135.6. Rice, S.O.A Set of Second-Order Differential Equations Accociated with Reflections in Rectangular Wave Guides - Application to Guide Connected to Horn. Pp. 136-156.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, 1892 a. 1897. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 16 and 20, pp. 297-339 and pp. 313-355. First edition of these importent papers on the polarization of light. The geometrical representation of different states of polarization by points on a sphere are due to Poincare. The method shown to visualize the different states of polarization is given in these two papers and the method is called Poincare's Sphere.