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London, Jonathan Cape, (1965). Original black full cloth, original illustrated dust-jacket. Very minor wear to capitals and to extremities of d-j, but all in all an excellent, nice, clean, and fresh copy, not price-clipped. First edition, second state (without the golden gun to the cloth binding, of which merely 150 copies appeared).

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.

(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".

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.

Paris, Magimel, 1795. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel on spine. Stamp on title-page. (4),520,XXV pp., 14 folded engraved plates, 5 folded tables.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1942, 1943 &1948. Lev8vo. Bound in two uniform red half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 7, 8 [Bound together] & 13.. Barcode label pasted on to back board. Small library stamp to lower part of 6 pages. Minor scratches to extremities of volume 13. A fine set. Pp. 28-33; Pp. 80-94. [Entire volumes: IV, 164 pp.; IV, 236 pp.). First printing of the two important - but often overlooked - papers by Turing which provide "information about Turing's thoughts on the logical foundations of mathematics which is not to be found elsewhere in his writings". (Copeland, The Essential Turing, P. 206).

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1849. Indbundet i tre smukke, ensartede lidt senere røde halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning og forgyldte titel- og tome-felter af sort skind på rygge. Uden smudstitelblad i første del, men med alle tre indholdsfortegnelser. Lille stempel på verso af titelbladet til første del "CAR". Antageligt udgiveren C. A. Reitzels arkiveksemplar. Særdeles nydeligt sæt. Originaludgaven. BFN 539.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1723. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (6),108,324, pp., 17 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: Maraldi, de Mairan, Cassini, Lemery, Varignon, Delisle l'Aine, de Jussieu, Saulmon, Cassini & Maraldi, Geoffroy le Cadet, Chevalier de Louiville, Vaillant, Reaumur, Danty d'Isnard, Helvetius, Winslow.

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.

Berlin und Leipzig, Günther, 1760. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (18),497,(3) pp., 16 folded engraved maps/plans. Occassionally with light browning to text, scattered brownspots to some maps. First German edition. - Rumpf, 755.

Samling af i alt 55 forskellige teaterprogrammer samt mange dubletter (primært fra Det Kongelige Teater), i alt ca. 180 teaterprogrammer. Indlagt i 15 nydelige ensartede bogæsker med læderryg. Omfattende samling af teaterprogrammer fra 1950erne og 1960erne fra følgende teatre: Det Kongelige Teater, Herman Gellin’s Teaterseksab, Det Ny Teater, Folketeatret, Tivoli, Allegadeteatret Riddersalen, Dansk Skoleteater, Folketeatret, Frederiksberg Teater, Dansk Skolescene, Odense Teater, Ungdommens Teater, Apollo Theatre, The Old Vic Company.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Entire volume 47 of "Zeitschrift für Physik" bound in contemporary brown-red half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page. Minor wear to extrimities. Inner front hinge a bit weak. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 407-16 + one folded table. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 914 pp.]. First printing of Beck's important paper in which he anticipates the discovery of the neutron by four years, a seminal contribution to the discovery of the nuclear shell model. In 1914, Moseley introduced the periodic table and in 1925, Pauli explained the periodicity by enumerating the electrons fitting in shells surrounding the atomic nucleus."It became apparent that there are, in general, several different isotopes per element. [...] This was a problem of nuclear physics since isotopes of the same element differ only by their isotopes. A first attempt was made in late 1927 by Beck [the present paper] in Vienna, who compiled a comprehensive table of known isotopes [...] The paper written more than four years before the discovery of the neutron, is remarkable not so much for its results but for two nearly prophetic statements:" (Brandt. The Harvest of a Century, p. 317). The prophetic statements in the present paper are: 1. "Die einfachste Annahme, die man diesbezüglich machen kann, ist, dass man sich die Kerne, analog wie die Elektronenhülle der Atome, schalenförmig aufgebaut denkt." (i.e. The simplest assumption one can make in this respect it to imagine nuclei, in analogy to the electron hull of atoms, to be built up of shell).2. "Die Gesetzmässligkeiten der Tabellen lassen aber hoffer, dass das Pauliprinzipund der Spin sich auch auf dem Gebiet der Kerne als Wegweiser bewähren werden." (i.e. The regularities [observed in the table of isotopes] allow to hope that the Pauli principle and the spin will prove of value as guideposts also in the field of nuclei.).

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1919. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 59. Entire volume offered. Hinges weak a library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page, othrewise a fine copy. Pp. 101-133; Pp. 743-752. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 760 pp.]. First printing of WEYL ambitious paper in which he used the Stoney units, named after the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, to unify quantum processes and gravity thereby seeking to create a "Unified Field Theory". The paper appears to have inspired Dirac's fascination with the large number hypothesis.Also contain in this volume is the first appearance of EÖTVÖS' important paper in which he explains the eastward deflection of falling objects. In the paper, he also describes a device with which the effect can be demonstrated experimentally.The Eötvös effect is the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to the earth's rotation), and thus the centrifugal force also increases, causing a perceived reduction in gravitational force. This phenomenon had been observed in the early 20th century on research ships on which gravity was measured; they noticed that measurements of g yielded smaller values when the ship went eastward, and larger ones when they went westward. These observations are mentioned by Eötvös in a paper in which he provides the explanation of the effect.

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

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.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1879. 4to. In plain white paper-wrappers with title-page of journal volume pasted on to front wrapper. In "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 12. Fine and clean. Pp. 547-570. First appearance of Maxwell's paper on Boltzmann's theorem on the average distribution of motion, in which he showed that when a material system has arrived at that steady distribution of motion among its parts which corresponds in real bodies to thermal equilibrium, the energy of the internal motion for any portion of the system is proportional to the number of degrees of freedom of that portion.

Copenhagen, A/S Regnecentralen, 1967. 8vo. In the original yellow printed wrappers. Former owner's stamp (K. Egelund Larsen) to front- and back-wrapper as well as title-page. 89 pp. A bit of wear to extremities, a bit of soiling to wrappers and a few spots to front wrapper. Internally nice and clean. First edition of the Gier Algol 4 manual, a users' manual of the Algol 60 compiler system for the Gier computer (known as Gier Algol 4). The Algol 60 programming language was exceedingly influential and innovative and gave rise to many other programming languages, such as BCPL, B, Pascal, Simula and C. It is stated on the title-page that this is the "Third edition of A Manual of Gier Algol", which means, not that this is a later printing/edition of the paper, but that it is the third version of Gier Algol, being the 4th paper in the Algol series. "Where Algol 58 was considered quite properly to be a draft, Algol 60 was appriciated, almost immediately, as a rounded work of art. It was to become a universal tool with which to view, study, and proffer solutions to almost every kind of problem in computation." (Origins of Cyberspace 813)."The language was designed by a committee of American and European computer scientists to address some of the problems with Fortran programming language. It had significant influence on later programming language design. John Backus developed a method for describing the syntax of the Algol 58 programming language. This was revised and expanded by Peter Nauer for Algol 60 and the resulting approach is known as Backus Naur form." (O'Regan, Gerard. A brief history of computing, 2008, 80 p.).The Gier Algol 4 was developed by the leading Danish computer scientists at that time: Tove Asmussen, Jørn Jensen, Søren Lauesen, Paul Lindgreen, Per Mondrup, Jørgen Zachariassen and Peter Nauer, the later being a pioneer in computer science; in 2005 he won the ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on defining the ALGOL 60 programming language. The N in the BNF notation stands for Nauer. (Backus-Naur form).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 birds seen, female and male in natural habitat, foliage and fruits. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. Textleaf frayed ininner margin. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1693. 12mo. In contemopirary floral painted wrappers. With a bit of loss of paper to front wrappers. Title-page with underlignings in red, otherwise internally nice and clean. 216 pp. Uncommon first edition of this work on François-Henri de Montmorency, Duke of Luxembourg (a key French military commander during the reign of Louis XIV) and Louis XIV himself.Provenance: Valdemar's Castle, Denmark. Brunet II, 1065.

Nürnberg, Raspe, 1766. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A nick to titlelabel. Stamp on title-page. 152,(8) pp.

Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1824. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Stamp on title-page. (4),60 pp., 3 large folded lithographed maps and plans. Faint brownspots to maps.

London, C. Wilson, 1847. 8vo. In contemporary cardboard binding with cloth backstrip. A section from the original front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamps to front board and title-page. Wear to extremities, internally fine. VIII, 195, (1) pp.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1890. 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 14, 1890. No backstrip. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 305-15. First translation of Chebyshev's landmark paper (first published in Journal of the The St. Petersburg Academy in 1887) in which he laid the foundation for the application of probability theory to statistics, generalizing the theorems of Moivre and Laplace. It also generalized the theory of integral beta function. This led him to find an algorithm for finding an optimal solution in a system of linear equations with an approximate solution is known."In the 1860's Chebyshev returned to the theory of probability. One of the reasons for this new interest was, perhaps, his course of lectures on the subject started in 1860. He devoted only two articles to the theory of probability, but they are of great value and designate the beginning of a new period in the development of this field. In the article of 1866 Chebyshev suggested a very wide generalization of the law of large numbers. In 1887 he published (without extensive démonstration) a corresponding generalization of the central limit theorem of Moivre and Laplace." (DSB)."Chebyshev and many of his students were often cold and skepticall towrads various important achievements in Western European mathematics. In the two-hundred-year development period in probability theory its main achievements were the limiting theorems: the law of large number and the de Moivre-Laplace theorem. But the confines of applicability of these theorems and their further refinements and generalizations were not satisfactory. The second basic problem that occupied Chebyshev's attention was the central limit theorem. However, only in 1887 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences was Chebyshev's paper devoted to this subject published." (Maistrov, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, P. 202).

Bound in one cont. hcalf, gilt back, banc worn. VIII,236-(6),218 pp. Browned and brownspotted throughout. 15 wood-engravings in the text.

La Haye, Jean van Duren, 1742. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved titlevignette. Title printed in red/black. (2),240 pp., 24 large folded engraved plans. Clean and fine.