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(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1942. Large 8vo. Bound in blue half cloth with silver lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 7. Small paper label to lower part of spine and upper inner margin of front board. Stamp to title-page and last leaf, otherwise internally fine. Pp. 28-33; 146-156 (Entire copy: (4), 180 pp.). First appearance of these two paper's by Turing.Turing's paper "A Formal Theorem in Church's Theory of Types" is a significant contribution to the fields of computer science and mathematical logic. By providing a formal proof within Church's theory, Turing expanded our understanding of computation and its relationship to logic. His work on computability and the theory of types laid the foundation for the development of theoretical computer science, proof theory, and automated reasoning. Turing's paper continues to be a landmark in the study of computation, inspiring further research and practical applications in diverse areas of science and technology. In "The Use of Dots as Brackets in Church's System", introducing the dot parentheses notation, Turing simplified the representation and manipulation of lambda calculus expressions, making them more intuitive and manageable. His work highlighted the relationship between syntax and semantics, laying the foundation for further research in formal semantics and the development of programming languages. Turing's paper continues to be influential, shaping the way complex expressions are represented and reasoned about in the fields of computation, formal systems, and logic.

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.

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.

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.

Leipzig, Barth, 1887. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann", Neue Folge, Bd. XXXII". Entire volume offered. Title page and first leaf of content page detached and with marginal tears. Otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 462-503. [Entire volume: VIII, 704 pp. + 5 folded plates]. First appearance of Planck's seminal paper on entropy carrying the general title "On the principles of Increase of Entropy" in which he applied the second law of thermodynamics to chemical problems. The paper is part of the 4 paper series on the subject."His goal was, as he said in the first paper of the series, to carry further the "grand generalization" of Helmholtz, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and others: like the first principle of the mechanical heat theory, the second, the "Carnot-Clausius", principle applies not only to heat phenomena but to all kinds of physical and chemical phenomena; and because the second principle applies not only to reversible processes but also to irreversible, or "natural", processes, it applies to all processes whatsoever..."(Jungnickel and McCormach "Intellectual Mastery of Nature, vol. 2, pp. 52 ff.)What Einstein admired and called Planck's "first great scientific discovery" was the generality of its formulas which contain all that can be derived from pure thermodynamic principles. Einstein referred to the third paper in this series with the title "Gesetze des Eintritts beliebiger thermodynamischer und chemischer Reactionen"

Kjøbenhavn, November, 1862. Large manuscript plate of the fortification, paper-size 61 x 81 cm. and handcoloured. Drawn by Wüstenberg, Sergeant, Copenhagen, 1862. Also with a transverse section and scale.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1951. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal.", Volume XXX, October, 1951, No. 4, Part II. The entire volume offered. Pp. 1041-1077. [Entire volume: pp. 1041-1255]. Wear to spine, otherwise very fine. Previous owner's name [Regnar Svensson] to front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. First publication of the highly influential radio system TD-2. The TD-2 was the backbone of all transcontinental television broadcasting and long distance telephone traffic, before satellite transmission was made possible. This paper is one out of three selected papers from Bell System Technical Journal to be saved in the Westinghouse Time Capsule II. Time Capsule II was created for the 1964 New York World's Fair and is not to be opened until the year 6939, four thousand years after the first time capsule was created. "The first transcontinental microwave radio system was the AT&T TD-2 route from New York to San Francisco. This system employed 100 repeater stations operating in the 4-GHz band using a 20-MHz channel bandwidth to relay 480 voices channels on a frequency modulated radio carrier "(Ishii, Thomas Koryu, Handbook of Microwave Technology, 1995, p. 449).

Paris, Sommaville, 1664. 12mo (150 x 90 mm). In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine (indicating an inventory in an estate library). Light wear to extremities and light damp to first leaf, otherwise a fine copy. (4), 217, (2).

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.

Berlin, Springer, 1943. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 120, 1943. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 513-538; Pp. 673-702. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 790 pp.]. First printing of Heisenberg's two seminal paper on the scattering matrix, or S-matrix. ""S-matrix" theory of particle scattering, especially in its later analytic forms, enjoyed considerable attention after the war, then again during the 1960's" (DSB). These papers are ranked by David Cassidy as being amoung his most important."The outbreak of world war in September 1939 profoundly affected Heisenberg and his career. Still of military age, he was ordered to report to the Army We apons Bureau (Heereswaffenamt) in Berlin. There the authorities asked him and other leading German nuclear physicists to investigate whether nuclear fission, discovered in Berlin a year earlier, could be used for large-scale energy production. Within two months Heisenberg completed a comprehensive report on the theory of chain reactions and their uses, including their use in an atomic bomb. Thereport made Heisenberg the leading specialist on nuclear energy in Germany.In order to continue the promising research, the Army Weapons Bureau designated the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin the center of German fission research. After the departure of the institute's Dutchdirector, peter Debye, who chose emigration over German citizenship, Heisenberg was named adviser, and later acting director, of the institute and its nuclear research. At the same time, Heisenberg supervised preliminary reactor experiments in Leipzig. He also continued with high-energy interactions. In papers written between 1942 and 1944, Heisenberg developed a theory of particle collisions based, as in 1925, only upon the observable properties of the colliding particles. Theresulting "S-matrix" theory of particle scattering, especially in its later analytic forms, enjoyed considerable attention after the war, then again during the 1960's but renormalized field theories eventually found more followers." (DSB)Cassidy 1943a, 1943b

Berlin, Gottfried Hayn, 1794. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (10),XXX,(8),240,(2) pp. and 23 folded engraved plates. Scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 2792.

Hafniæ, Christian Wering, 1688. Samtidigt helldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Ryg slidt. Der har oprindeligt i bindet været indsat et andet værk, som er udtaget. (18),254 pp. Lidt spredte svage brunpletter/skjolder. Skrivepapir. Originaludgaven hvis oversatte titel er "Antikvarisk Fægteskole" og indeholder 10 disputatser om de gamle juleskikke afholdt blandt beboerne på Regensen. (Thesaurus II,385).Bibl. Dan.II,579.

Paris, Augustin Courbe, 1662. Folio (359 x 220 mm). In contemporary full calf over wooden boards with six raised bands and gilt ornamentation and lettering to spine. Extremities with wear. Boards with stains and scratches. Lower part of back hinge and upper part of front hinge split. Dampstain to lower outer corner affecting from p. 497 till end. Otherwise internally fine and clean. (26), 599, (1), 29, (30) pp. First edition of d'Ablancourt famous translation of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. The present translation went through four editions and constitute third overall French translation of Thucydides’ work.

Paris, Musier, 1768. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering, titlelabel a little worn. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XXVI,417,(3) pp. and 34 large folded engraved plates. Light browning to title-page, otherwise clean. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 3824.

.London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, female and male outside the nest on a cliff, natural sorroundings. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. 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.

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, Schwickertschen verlage, 1797 and 1803. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spinegilding weak, spine rubbed, a small tear at upper hinge. Corners renewed. XX,927;IV,183 pp. Internally clean.

New York, Charles B. Norton, 1852. Large 4to. (33x27 cm.). Orig. full calf. Profusely gilt on spine and covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Some wear to spine and lacks 2 cm. of leather at top of spine. Both covers detached. (4),113,83 pp. + 14 pp. of announcements. With all 24 engraved plates under tissue-guards. Some brownspots throughout and a leaf with some foxing. The plates in general fine with some brownspots, mainly marginal. The first part deals with Granite Dry Docks, the second with Floating Dry Docks. "The smaller number of pages in the second edition is caused by the printing of the descriptions of the plates on both sides of the leaves, whereas they appear only on the recto in the first edition." (Sabin, 93148).

Bremen, Hermann Brauer, 1701. 4to. Cont. full vellum. Binding lightly soiled. (16),599,(16);(18),1162,(26) pp. and 5 engraved plates mounted in the text. Light browning, 3 last leaves with small marginal tears, no loss. First German edition.