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Bruxelles, Guyot, 1858. 8vo a. folio. Contemp. hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on upper cover. Stamp on title-page. Atlas in contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. (4),XV,125 pp. - Atlas with 4 large folded (85 x 110 cm.), lithographed and coloured plans, and 4 lithographed plates in double folio.

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.

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.

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.

London, Crokatt, 1728. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Gilt boarders to boards. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. (8), 461, (18) pp. + 4 folded map (by Moll) and 3 engraved plates. Second edition of vol. 6 of Salmon's extensive 'Modern History' containing information and maps on Russian, Greenland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Salmon’s "Modern History” is an ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the world’s countries, their histories, and their contemporary states during Salmon’s time and stands as a monumental achievement in the history of 18th-century historiography. His work is a fine example of the Enlightenment's goal for cataloging and comprehending the world, offering a unique snapshot of global perspectives as understood by Europeans in the early modern period. It represents one of the earliest comprehensive attempts to document and analyze the state of nations worldwide.

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.

London, J.W. Norie & Co., 1829. 8vo. In later half cloth with contemporary blue wrappers pasted on to boards. Stamps to front board and title-page. (4), 39, (1) pp. Second edition.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Hafniæ (Copenhagen), 1762. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine and small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to boards, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (8), 312 pp. Rare first edition of Jonge's religious and theological treatise on marriage, specifically designed as a guide for wedding sermons.

Berlin, Daniel Reichel, 1668 (+) Lipsiae, J. Fuhrmanni et J. Breueri impendiis, 1674. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, spine miscoloured. Internally nice and clean. (24), 336, 304, (8), 479, (37) pp. Uncommon later Berlin-edition of the complete works of the early medieval writer Sulpicius Severus (363–420), with numerous notes and commentaries edited by the philologist and theologian Johannes Vorst (1623–1676).

Amsterdam, Schreuder & Mortier, 1755 (+) London, 1750. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with scratches and a few small worm tracts, affecting entire book block, otherwise internally nice and clean. (12), 210, (2), 59, (1), 48 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.

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.

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)

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).

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.

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.

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

København, 1896. Originalt komponeret blåt helshirtbd. Helt guldsnit. En smule slitage ved øvre kapitæl, men ellers særdeles ren, frisk og fast. Også indvendig helt ren og frisk. Originaludgaven.