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Worcester MA, The Heffernan Press, 1976. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "The Bell Journal of Economics": Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1976. Entire volume offered. Very light wear to extremities otherwise a very fine and crisp copy (not ex-library). Pp. 426-448 [Entire volume: Pp. 359-736]. First printing of Goldberg important paper in which he was the first first to emphasise the incompleteness of long-term contracts and the key role of long-term contracts in establishing a process for adjusting the terms of the agreement to changing market conditions over time.The paper initiated together with Williamson's paper published the same year the new field of "transactions-cost economics".Here he "foresaw the essential similarity between the issues that arise in public utility regulation and the issues in administering a long-term contract: "In searching for a rationale for regulation we should look not at the shape of the long-run average cost curve, but instead at the complexities involved in devising and administering such a contract. Indeed, natural monopoly industries will be characterized in this paper not by their alleged decreasing average costs, but by the features which make long-term relationships between consumers and producers desirable and which further make it extremely difficult to determine at the outset the specific terms of that relationship."" (Biggar, the fifty most important papers in the economics of regulation)

København, 1882. Originalt komponeret brunt helshirtbd. Helt guldsnit. Kapitæler og hjørner lidt slidte, ellers pæn og frisk. Indvendig lidt brunplettet. Gammelt ejernavn på forsats og haltitel. Originaludgaven.

Kiöbenhavn, Möller, (1779). 8vo. Bound in a nice full sprinkled calf binding with five raised bands and gilt ruled fillets to boards, all edges gilt. A few holes in the leather and lower compartment on spine with loss of leather. Internally very nice and clean, printed on good paper. Previous owner's name (Peter Boll Wivet, Supreme Court attorney) in contemporary hand to last leaf. 35 pp. Rare first edition, presumably a gift copy with a most interesting provenance, official regulation or statute concerning The Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society outlining the rules, criteria, and significance of awarding this badge to members - referred to as "brothers" - and was formally approved by royal authority on January 27, 1779. The present copy have belonged to Frederik Wilhelm Wivet (1728 – 1790), jurist and author. In 1754, he became a prosecutor for all higher and lower courts; the following year he became a Supreme Court attorney and, from 1763 to 1773, also served as generalfiscal (public prosecutor). In the latter role he led the prosecution in 1772 against J. F. Struensee and Enevold Brandt. Wivet was a member The Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society. Provenance: Valdemar's Castle.

Cologne, Marteau, 1668. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Light wear to extremities. Spine-ends with a bit of loss of leather, headbands showing. Leather on spine cracked. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to spine. Internally nice and clean. (2), 163, (3), 316 pp.; (2), 388, 269 pp.

2 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Tome-and titlelabels in red a. green. Tear in top of spines and 2. vol. with tape on upper compartment. Stamp on titles. XL,772,(12) pp. and 17 large folded engraved plates. Slightly brownspotted.

London, R. H. Laurie, 1839 8vo. In contemporary boards with part of the original front wrapper pasted on to front board. Three stamps to front board and two stamps to title-page. Extremities with wear, internally fine and clean. (I)-IV, 36 pp. Rare Fourth edition of Purdy's pilot to the Eastern coasts of England.

A Narrative of Life and work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897. 2 vols. Ldn., 1898. 2 pict.cloth. Back loose on vol. l. Top a.bottom of spine worn. LXXX,521,XIV,625 pp. First English edition.

Hafnia (Copenhagen), 1751. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of both spines. Light wear to extremities. Front board of vol. 1 with light misolouring to upper margin and with a bit of loss of leather to the center frame, otherwise a nice and clean set. (10), XLVIII, 590 pp. + frontispiece; (2), 591-1134, (60) pp. Second edition of Worm's learned corresponds with his, primarily, international colleagues.

Cologne (i.e. Rouen), Pierre du Marteau, 1677 (+) Ville-France, Pierre Petit, 1677. 8vo. In a contemporary vellum binding with yapp edges. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. Light wear to extremities, otherwise nice and clean. (6), 627, (3), 190 pp.

Paris, L. Colas, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A large label taped to spine. Engraved frontispiece. LX,205,(1) pp., 12 large folded engraved plates (equipments and excercises). Faint scattered brownspots. First edition.

Wien, Julius Springer, 1929. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary full cloth with black leather titel label with gilt lettering to front board. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end paper. A fine and clean copy. VI, 114 pp. First edition of Carnap's Abriss der Logistik which constitutes one of very first textbooks in modern logic, the influence of which was immense. The basic purpose of Carnap's publication is to make the logical system, from Russell and Whitehead's seminal work within mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica, available to a broader audience. "While published a year after Hilbert and Ackermann's more prominent Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik [1928], Carnap's Abriss - essentially finished in 1927, largely independant of Grundzüge, and circulated widely - also had significant influence, especially in Vienna, where Carnap taught at the time." (Creath, The Cambridge companion to Carnap. P. 181).Carnap himself wrote about Abriss: "In 1924 I wrote the first version of the later book, Abriss der Logistik . It was based on Principia. Its main purpose was to give not only a system of symbolic logic, but also to show its application for the analysis of concepts and the construction of deductive systems".Rudolf Carnap was an influential German philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a famous advocate of logical positivism.

Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1824. 4to. Original printed clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. (4),60 pp., 3 large folded lithographed maps and plans.

Paris, Barba, An XIII (1808). 7 cont. hcalf. Back rubbed. Spine ends with a small taped volumenumber. Occasionally brpownspotted. With 27 engraved portraits.

Berlin, C. F. Himburg, 1790. 8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards. A few annotations to pasted down front end-paper and stamp (Grevskabet Christiansholm) to pasted down front end-paper and front free end-paper. Wear to extremities and dampstain affecting upper margin on first few leaves, otherwise internally very nice and clean. (8), 364 pp. + frontispiece and 11 plates. Third edition of this first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin. It also contains Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature. ‘Philosophia Botanica marks a developmental stage in Linnaeus's botanical philosophy, expanding upon concepts initially presented in his ‘Fundamenta Botanica’ (1736) and ‘Critica Botanica’ (1737). The book also establishes a basic botanical terminology. “Continuing his study on the classification of plants, Linnaeus published [the present work]. In this he attempted to organize a natural system based on structure, but this work was never completed” (Sparrow 135)“Linnaeus’ main mission was to complete his reform of botany. In the work produced during his stay in Holland he had established the principles, maintained more or less unchanged for the rest of his life, but they still had to be developed and put into practice. In 1751 he published Philosophies botanica, his most influential work but actually only an expanded version of Fundamenta botanica. In it Linnaeus dealt with the theory of botany, the laws and rules that the botanist must follow in order to describe and name the plants correctly and to combine them into higher systematic categories. At the same time he struggled with the enormous undertaking of cataloging all of the world’s plant and animal species and giving each its correct place in the system.” (DSB)

(Leipzig), Thomas Fritsch, 1697 8vo. In contemporary full calf with with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards and leather on spine cracked. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. 1 quire partly detached otherwise internally nice and clean. (2), 1007, (170 ) pp. + 12 engraved plates. This publication was a periodical considered one of the earliest literary journals. It was intended to share and discuss books, interesting stories and curiosities of the time. Each issue contained essays, reviews and summaries of recent books.

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.

Hamburg & Leipzig, Liebezeit, 1716. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Wear and scratches to extremities, parts of gilting worn off. Internally very nice and clean. (14), 664, (64) pp. + frontispeice. Second edition of this bibliographical work, reprinted multiple times, listing hundreds of works related to Jewish, Greek and Roman antiquities, covering a wide range of topics such as music, pilgrimages, magic, religion, mythology, customs, wine, food, sciences, geography, games, marriage, cosmetics, animals, plants, usury, funerals, etc. Graesse II, 543 Brunet II, 1154

Augsburg und Leipzig, 1826-27. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Wear to the gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XVI,464;XVI,464 pp. and 20 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean. First edition.

Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1712. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper label to upper part of spine indicating the books placement in an estate library. A few leaves with repairs, otherwise a good copy. 165 pp. + frontispiece, folded map and 2 folded plates. First illustrated edition, second overall, of this classic on the history of Portugal.

Berlin, Springer 1931. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 69, 1931. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. pp.56-69. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 861 pp.]. First printing of Landau and Peierls's important paper in the development of quantum field theory. The present paper became seminal for Bohr and Rosenfeld's 1933 paper which is often credited with having laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics. Landau and Peierls published a critical analysis of the consequences of such limitations in a relativistic quantum theory of fields (second paper offered). Landau and Peierls came to the negative conclusion that in several cases, the concept of momentum was without physical meaning and quantities such as the strength of a field was un-measurable.

Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1928. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabruck aus Sitzungsberichten...pp. (1)-7. Fine fresh copy. First edition of the rare Offprint, still called "Abdruck", but now having separate pagination and separate printed title, see Weil No. 161 where this is not mentioned.The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten..." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 (including this). From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe...". - Before 161 (up to 160) the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination (the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical). From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - ( So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck", but with separate title and pagination). These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1715. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXV". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp 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. Pp. 242-57 + one engraved plate. [Entire volume: (2), 549, (41) pp. + seven engraved plates.]. First publication of Bernoulli's important contribution the properties of a pendulum. The offered volume contains many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Venetia, Appresso Michiel'Angelo Barboni, 1669. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, back-board with parts of leather detached. Dampstain to lower half of leaves throughout, paper creased. Last leaves moulded. (16), 311, (45), (32), 270, (24), 92 pp. Later edition of this political and social satire by Traiano Boccalini, opposing Spanish rule in Italy and criticizing Italian princes who sought foreign solutions for domestic issues. Anti-Jesuit and anti-Spanish, Boccalini denounced court life and depicted the known world including the Indies and the Americas. Originally circulated as a manuscript around 1605, Boccalini left the Papal States for the free state of Venice, where his work first published in 1612.

Leipzig, Wittigau, 1674 & 1669. 4to. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges and title in contemporary hand to spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. A few leaves deatched but internally generally nice and clean. (6), 555, (66) pp. + frontispiece; (8), 598, (54) pp.

Halle in Magdeburg, Renger, 1724. 8vo. In contemporary red gilt floral paper covered board. Light wear and miscoluring to extremities. Annotations to verso of boards in contemporary hand. Previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to title-page. Internally nice and clean. (90), 399, (48) pp. Later edition of Gundling’s popular work on legal history. Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling (1671–1729) was a German jurist and philosopher, born in Kirchensittenbach and died in Magdeburg. Nicolaus studied at several universities and became a professor of philosophy in Halle in 1705. He notably debated Gotthard Heidegger in 1702 over the cultural influence of French novels.