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Leizpig, Weidemann, 1750. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. A few holes to spine and scratches to boards. Overall a very nice and clean copy. (8), 1138, (7) pp. First and only edition of this early bibliography on primarily 16th century books.Brunet II, 1394Graesse II, 634

London, L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1763. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 52, part II. Including title-page of volume (detached). A fine copy. Pp. 457-464 + title-page. First appearance of this paper in which the relationships between the temperatures of various materials") and their conductivity or non-conductivity is being discussed.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1837. Uncut in contemp. clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. 231 pp., 16 lithographed plates with many coastal profiles. A few scattered brownspots.

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.

Kiøbenhavn, Stein, 1778-79. Lille 8vo. 2 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitler på rygge. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. Hjørner lidt stødte. XXXXIV,493;(2),518 pp. Indvendig ren. Den sjældne originaludgave "Om Hierakiet og Pave=Magten...", som indgår som en selvstændig del af Rothe's store historisk-filosofiske værk "Christendommens Virkning paa Folkenes Tilstand i Europa". - Bibl. Danica II:468.

Chicago, Open Court, 1902. Small 8vo. Orig. full red cloth. Wear to topof spine. Old owners name on title-page. VII,143 pp., textfigs. Clean and fine. First English edition of Hilbert's "Grundlagen der Geometrie" from 1899, one of the most influential publications in 2oth Century mathematics. Throughout the 19th century geometry was developed far beyond our intuitive conception of space; hyperbolic geometry was discovered by Gauss, Bolyai, and Lobachevsky and elliptic geometry by Riemann. However, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry still involved an intuitive idea about the concepts 'point', 'line', 'lies on', 'between', etc. In his 'Grundlagen' Hilbert set out to give a strictly formal formulation of geometry were points, lines, planes are nothing more than abstract symbols and concepts as 'lies on' are simply algebraic relations between these symbols. Through his method Hilbert could analyse independence and completeness of the axioms for geometry and he presented a new smaller set of axioms for Euclidean geometry. It can not be said that the 'Grundlagen' contains new and surprising discoveries, its importance lies in the great influence which Hilbert's method had on all fields of mathematics, and even other sciences as physics, chemistry, and biology. The 'Grundlagen' initiated a whole new paradigm shift and eventually evolved mathematics, throughout the 20th century, into a network of axiomatic formal systems.

Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1640. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Back board with a bit of loss of leather, showing the wooden boards underneath. Head of spine with minor loss of leather. Dampstain to lower half of leaves. (22), 338 pp. First French translation of Brerewood’s influential work “Enquiries touching the diversity of languages and religions, through the chief parts of the world”, 1614, which was one of the earliest works dealing with ethnology, the origin of language and the science of religions."The author devotes a portion of the work to the first peopling of America, claiming the Tatars as their forefathers" (Sabin). Sabin 7733

K., 1847. Senere blåt blankt omsl. Svagt gennemgående skjold. Lettere brunplettet indimellem. (IV)+155+64+140pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 101.

Berlin, Springer, 1935. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 95, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with light soiling. Pp. 752-62. [Entire volume: VIII, 818 pp.]. First appearance of this important paper which constitute the first description of the fundamental principles behind modern high power linear beam microwave electron tubes."They described a transit-time tube in which the three characteristic features; velocity modulation, phase focusing, and energy transfer were designed to occur in three separate regions, an arrangement which is also characteristic of a klystron. Further they demonstrated, in my opinion for the first time, that it is necessary, in order to achieve high RF power output, to use a linear electron beam, and that the beam must be positioned in such a way as to prevent the electrons from landing on RF electrodes - they must only be allowed to penetrate the fringe field of the RF electrodes, finally landing on a separate electrode, now called the collector. This arrangement made it possible to separate high frequency from beam guiding electrodes, thus permitting the use of high power electron beams" (Sarkar, History of Wireless). "which outlined the fundamental working principles of the klystron tube, a high power microwave oscillator, used to provide the transmitter power in the newly developed radar equipment. Leaving Arsenjeva in Russia, he later moved to the UK to continue development work on the klystron with Standard Telephones and Cables (STC), the UK arm of ITT. The day before England went to war with Germany Heil slipped out of the country returning to Germany to continue his work at Standard Electric Lorentz (SEL), ITT's German arm in Berlin. Heil's klystrons, known as "Heil's Generators", became key components in Germany's World War II radars.""After the war Heil's name appeared on an FBI list of Germans accused of war crimes. He was brought to the US by the military and worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Subsequently he formed his own company and carried out intensive research the physiology of the human ear and sound generation by small animals which he applied to the design of sound transducers. His 1973 patent for the Heil Air Motion Transformer (AMT) made him well known to HiFi buffs."

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.

Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum. 2 engraved frontisp., 2 titlepages. (56),432 - (8),384,(24) pp. having the large folded engraved map: "Besonders Post und Reise Carte der Wege durch Teutschland (32 x 40 cm.), but lacking the 3 other maps. Holzmann-Bohatta III:11756. This work, first issued 1703, became the prototype for travelling books like the Baedekers.

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1730. Uncut in contemp. marbled boards. autographed title on spine. Stamp on title-page. Title in red/black. (4),128,(8),(4),74,(2),88 pp., 7 folded engraved plates. Wide-margined and clean. Klaus Jordan, 1487.

Ulm, Stettin'sche Buchhandlung, 1840. Nice contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. On lower part of back a paperlabel pasted on. Stamp on title and verso. XII,230 pp. Light scattered brownspots. Otherwise a good copy. The scarce first edition.

Halæ Magdeburgicæ (Halle), Orphanotropheum, 1725. 8vo. In contemporary gold floral paper covered boards. Wear to extremities, corners bumped. With numerous underlignings and marginal annotations in contemporary hand throughout. (14), 48, 784, (92), 214, (4) pp. + frontispiece. The fourth edition of the Ludovici’s Pandect Lecture at the University of Halle which marked an important moment in German legal education. Embracing Stryk's perspective while refuting the anti-Romanist notions of Thomasius, it underlined Ludovici's influence. Ludovici revolutionized legal pedagogy by giving lectures and making textbooks in German, a novelty at the time.

Dessau, Kosten der Verlags-Kasse, 1782 - 1783. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Wear to extremities, with slight loss of leather to spineends, showing headbands. Previous owner's stamp to both title-pages. Previous owner's name stamped to both title-pages. XVI, 374, (16) pp.; (6), 454, (10) pp. First edition of Herder’s work on the aesthetic, spiritual and cultural dimensions of Hebrew poetry. Herder believed that understanding ancient Hebrew poetry was essential to grasp the development of human expression and the human spirit. He emphasizes the poetic quality of the Bible not merely as a religious text but as an expression of the human experience and emotional life.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1950. 8vo. In the original red cloth, spine with gilt lettering. Dust jacket with miscolouring to spine and upper and lower capitals with a with tears. Ex-libris (Knud Lundbæk) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Inner front hindge split. Otherwise a good copy. XVII, (1), 607, (1) pp. First edition of Carnap’s important work on inductive logic which “led to a renaissance in the use of probability theory to model the inductive process” (Cambridge Companion to Carnap). He here turned his attention away from the more traditional deductive inferential frameworks on which he had so far primarily focused and towards the newer probabilistic and statistical frameworks now being constructed and applied with increasing frequency in the physical, biological, and social sciences. Rudolf Carnap (born 1891 in Ronsdorf, Germany, died 1970 in Santa Monica, California) was an immensely influential analytic philosopher, who has contributed decisively to the fields of logic, epistemology, semantics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle, and a prominent logical positivist. He studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, and worked at the universities of Jena, Vienna and Prague until 1935, when he, due to the war, emigrated to the U.S., where he became an American citizen in 1941. In America he became professor of the University of Chicago.

Leipzig, J.H. Ellinger, 1674. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Author and title in contemporary hand to spine. Title-page with previous owner's name in contemporary hand. Occassional marginal dampstaining throughout. A few leaves with marginal repair, with loss of a few letters. 383 ff. + frontispiece. Later edition, first published in Leiden in 1589, of Lipsius’ early tract in political theory in which he, amonst other things, argued a government should recognize only one religion, and should punish dissent by fire and sword.

Königsberg, Heinrich Degen, 1804. Small8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on top of frontcover. Stamp. on title-page. (8),103,(1) pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Trykt paa Autoris Bekostning (Tome II:) Ernst Henrich Berling, 1742. 4to. Samtidigt hellæderbind med spejl på begge permer. Rig rygforgyldning. Let slid ved øverste kapitæl. Mangler titeletiketten. (8),722,(8),736 pp. Velbevaret, rent eksemplar. Originaludgaven. - Ehr.-M. X:301.

Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1906. Contemp. hcloth. Light wear to edges. A small tear at upper part of fronthinge. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 21. Hrsg. von W.Wien und M. Planck". VIII,1056 pp.and 9 plates. Einstein paper: pp. 583-86. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. First edition. Einsten describes in this paper "Method for the determination of the ratio of the transversal to the longitudinal mass of the electron", an apparatus which would make it possible to determine with great accuracy the law according to which the mass of the electron changes with the velocity. - Weil No 14.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1857). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Bd. 102, No 12. Pp. 481-644 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Kirchhoff's paper: pp. 529-545. Clean and fine. Firs appearance of Kirchhoff's first paper on conductivity in which he presents his Circuit-Law. The significance of this paper is that Kirchhoff proved with action at a distance that electric disturbances travel along wires of neglible resistance with the velocity of light. He accomplished this with the laws of Newtonian electrodynamics before Maxwell formulated his equations."The theory of variable currents raised more difficult problems. The law of dynamical interactions between currents had been formulated by Ampere (1826) in the spirit of the concept of action at a distance....The field was still open when Kirchhoff entered it in 1857 with his own general theory of the motion of electricity in conductors (in the paper offered). His first paper, in which he treated linear conductors from the same premises as Weber, turned out to coincide in all essentials with an investigation carried out by Weber shortly before but delayed in publication. Both physicists noticed a remarkable implication of their theory: in a perfectly conducting circuit, oscillating currents could be propagated with a constant velocity, independent of the nature of the conductors, and numerically equal to the velocity of light. Both Weber and Kirchhoff however, pointing to the extreme character of the condition of infinite conductivity, dismissed this result as a mere accidental coincidence."(DSB VII, p. 380-81).

Leipzig, Fritsch, 1716. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities, boards with a few holes in the leather and a tear to upper part of spine making the headband visible. Vague dampstain affecting approximately column 1458-2267, otherwise internally nice and clean. 8 pp. 2672 columns.

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.

Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1830. Beautiful cont. hcalf w. richly gilt back and gilt ornamental border on both boards. Printed on fine paper. Minor brownspotting, otherwise internally nice and clean. An excellent copy. Rare first edition. An early work by the renowned author, Paul Lacroix (1807-1884), who was famous for his several important historical works and his numerous works of bibliographical contents, regarding which he can be said to have continued the tradition of Nodier. He wrote a number of historical novels, which were very popular at the time, and of which Les Deux Fous is considered one of the best. They were reprinted numerous times, and were translated into several languages; -most of them deal with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a period not commonly investigated at that time. Most of his works are published under pseudonym, because of which he is now best known under the name of "Bibliophile Jacob". Aged 28 he was awarded the cross of the "Légion d'Honneur" for his work on the history of the 16th century, and 1842 he founded "L'Alliance des Arts" together with M. Thoré. Carteret 2;14. Not in Barbier.