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Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1836. 12mo. Original pictorial printed boards depicting air-balloons. The blank spine is missing, so boards are loose. First edition of the poem entitled "The Airship" by the world-famous Danish scientist, Ørsted (Oersted, Örsted), who is renowned for the discovery of electro-magnetism.

Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1712. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Binding with considerable wear, scratches, wormholes and stains to boards, upper and lower compartment on spine with loss of leather, corner bumped and with loss of leather, especially upper corner on frontboard. Hinges weak. Small worm-tract to outer margin of first 250 ff., otherwise internally nice and clean. (2), CXXII, (4), 613, (1), (4), 506, (32), 28 pp. + frontispiece. Second edition of the first French translation of Pufendorf's magnum opus, one of the fundamental works of natural law. In this milestone work of political and legal thought, Pufendorf presents his system of universal law, which profoundly revised the natural law theories of Hobbes and Grotius. In his teaching, that the will of the state is but the sum of the individual wills that constitute it, he shows himself a precursor of Rousseau and of the "Social Contract"."It is a complete system of public, private and international law. Against Hobbes's view he contended that the state of nature was one of peace, not war, and heurged the view that international law... existed between all nations... [a work] of great importance" (David Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law)."In the 'De jure naturae et gentium' Pufendorf took up in great measure the theories of Grotius and sought to complete them by means of the doctrines of Hobbes and of his own ideas. His first important point was that natural law does not extend beyond the limits of this life and that it confines itself to regulating external acts. He disputed Hobbes's conception of the state of nature and concluded that the state of nature is not one of war but of peace. But this peace is feeble and insecure, and if something else does not come to its aid it can do very little for the preservation of mankind.As regards public law Pufendorf, while recognizing in the state (civitas) a moral person (persona moralis), teaches that the will of the state is but the sum of the individual wills that constitute it, and that this association explains the state. In this a priori conception, in which he scarcely gives proof of historical insight, he shows himself as one of the precursors of Rousseau and of the Contrat social. Pufendorf powerfully defends the idea that international law is not restricted to Christendom, but constitutes a common bond between all nations because all nations form part of humanity." (Encyclopedia Brit.).Graesse V, 504Brunet only mention the later 1720- and 1734-edition.

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1770. 8vo. 3 contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. Tome-and titlelabels in leather. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Backs slightly rubbed. Stamp on titles. Engraved portrait., 3 engr. titlevignettes, 3-halfpage engravings. XXIV,398,(2);(4),432,(2);(1),493,(3) pp. and 41 large folded engraved plans and maps (4 are in xerox-copy= Nos 30-33). Internally clean, printed on good paper. Klaus Jordan: 2579.

London, L. Davis, 1756. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 49, part 1. Including title-page and advertisement of volume. A fine copy. Pp. 299-310 + title-page. First appearance of this paper in which he outlines three experiments in electric conductivity: 1. Electrical atmospheres, that flow around non-electric bodies, do not readily mix and unite into one atmosphere. 2. An electrical atmosphere, not only repels another electric atmosphere, but will also repel the electric matter contained in the substance of a body approaching it. 3. Bodies electrified negatively or deprived of their natural quantity of electricity, repel each other.

Gera-Untermhaus, 1905. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. XLVI,(6),164,253 pp. Textillustr. and 32 (each 38x28 cm.) fine chromolithographed plates, 2 of which depicts the eggs. Anker no.356. The old text from the edition in 1822-60 has been preserved unaltered, corrections in footnotes. The figures for all the plates have been re-drawn and show the birds in their natural surroundings. Among the many artists are O.Kleinschmidt, J.G. Keulemans, O. van Riesenthal and others. The eggs are figured in a series of special plates, based on Eugene Rey's Collection.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 4. Bd., Heft 2. - Jacobi's paper PP. 185-193. Abel's papers pp. 194-199 a. 200-214. First printing. The first two papers relates to the discovery of "Elliptic Functions" by its two discoverers, Abel and Jacobi (a paper issued before his classic treatise "Fundamenta Nova...") on elliptic functions.

Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1931. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrapper. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten..pp. (1)-19. Fine fresh copy. First edition in the rare Offprint with separate printed title and separate pagination. Se Weil No. 182 where this is not mentioned. Weil No. 182 with an asterix, denoting a major work.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.

Paris, Crochard, 1818. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities and paperlabel pasted on to top to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 8 (Cahier 3). Entire volume offered. Stamps to verso of title-page and verso of plates. (Pelletier & Caventou's paper): pp. 323-324. (Entire issue:) 448 pp. + 1 plate. First printing of this classic paper in chemistry in which the authors announced their discovery of Strychnine. This was the first alkali of vegetable origin to be discovered after morphine. This discovery (and their discovery of chlorophyll) brought them international fame. "Strychnine was only the second alkaloid to be extracted, the first was morphine. Pelletier and Caventou wanted to name their new alkaloid vauqueline after Nicolas Vauquelin, one of their associates who had refined the technique of ether extraction for use in isolating alkaloids. However, the officers of the Académe des Sciences in Paris rejected the idea on the grounds that a respected scientist’s name should not be paired with a deadly poison. In addition to strychnine the pair isolated other important compounds from plants including caffeine, chlorophyll and the anti-malaria drug quinine. (Paul L. Burnham). Parkinson:"Breakthroughs", 1818 C. - Garrison & Morton: 1846. The first issue also contains their importent memoir "Examen chimique de la Cochenillee et de sa matière colorante", pp. 250-287 which describes how they obtained crotonic acid from croton oil and analyzed carmine in the cochineal.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),188,504, pp., 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de la Caille, Bertin, le Cardinal de Luynes, le Monnier, Maraldi, l'Abbé de la Caille, de la Lande, Pingré, de Fouchy, Tenon, Malouin, Guettard, Adanson, l'Abbé Nollet, du Hamel & Tillet, l'Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche, Cassini de Thury, de Ratte.

München, Piper & Co., (1950). 8vo. Original orange full cloth with gilt lettering. Original dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with some tears to extremities and lacking ab. 2 cm. at lower capital. Internally very nice and clean. With the bookplate of the famous American educator Paul Arthur Schilpp. 349, (1), (1, -advertisement) pp. Inscribed by the author to front free end-paper: "Für Paul Schilpp/ Herzlich/ Karl Jaspers". First edition, later issue (8th.-11th. thousand), presentation-copy for Paul Schilpp, of one of Jaspers' most important works within political philosophy. The German philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Theodor Jaspers (1883-1969) was one of the main exponents of existentialism in Germany and he had an enormous impact on theology, psychiatry and philosophy of his time. Later on, his works in political philosophy came to exersize an even greater influence upon 20th century thought. "Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) began his academic career working as a psychiatrist and, after a period of transition, he converted to philosophy in the early 1920s. Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century he exercised considerable influence on a number of areas of philosophical inquiry: especially on epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and political theory. His philosophy has its foundation in a subjective-experiential transformation of Kantian philosophy, which reconstructs Kantian transcendentalism as a doctrine of particular experience and spontaneous freedom, and emphasizes the constitutive importance of lived existence for authentic knowledge. Jaspers obtained his widest influence, not through his philosophy, but through his writings on governmental conditions in Germany, and after the collapse of National Socialist regime he emerged as a powerful spokesperson for moral-democratic education and reorientation in the Federal Republic of Germany." (SEP).

3 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. XXVI,796,(18)-530,552 pp. A bibliography of latin authors with good bibliographical descriptions of their printed works.

Quedlinburg, Reussner, 1767. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Miscolouring to upper margin of front board. A few scratches to boards, with a bit of loss of leather. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Internally very nice and clean. (14), 1140, (32) pp.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. Ubeskåret i original marmoreret papbind med original bogtrykt titeletiket på ryg. Forpermen løs. Permerne med spor efter tape. Stempel på titelbladet. (2),LXVI,(6),553,(1) pp. samt 10 store foldede kobberstukne plancher. Nogle få blade i forordet lidt brunplettede, ellers ren. Første danske udgave, her med Ørsteds kommentarer og anmærkninger.- Bibl. Danica II,148.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),136,519, pp., 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: le Chevalier d'Arcy, Lauraguais, de la Lande, le Gentil, Bezout, Maraldi, Guettard, Maquer, De l'Isle, du Hamel, l'Abbé de la Caille, Vaucanson, Hérissant, Pingré, Tenon, Romieu.

Kiøbenhavn, Nicolaus Møller, 1777. Samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning, skindtitel og ophøjede bind på ryg. Papirsetiket på ryg. Ryg lidt slidt, øverste kapitæl med rifter. Et navn bortklipper af titelbladet, uden tab af bogstaver, gl. ejernavn på titelbladet. XXIV,(4),656,(1) pp. samt 38 kobberstukne foldeplancher og 4 tabeller. Indvendig ren. Bibl. Danica II,338. Det første arbejde af sin art i Danmark.

Karlsruhe und Freiburg, Herderschen Kunst Institute, (1831). Folio-oblong. (30 x 49 cm.). 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. 2 engraved title-page. With 34 + 24 lithographed folio-plates. Klaus Jordan, 2541. Plates only.

Amsterdam, Kleman en Zoon, 1817. 4to. Later hcloth. Stamp on title-page. VIII,150,(2) pp. Last leaf torn at bottom right corner with minimal loss (only a few letters). Internally fine, printed on good paper.

Kbhvn., 1924-35. Lex8vo.

Kopenhagen, Nic. Møller, 1786. Cont. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt lineborder on covers. All edges gilt.A paperlabel taped to lower compartment. Stamps on title-page. (16),298,(10) pp. and 10 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. - Bibl. Dan. II,333.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1870. 4to. Without wrappers. In: "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 71. Bd., Heft 3, pp. (2),201-304. Entire issue offered with titlepage. Kirchhoff's papers: pp. 237-262 and pp. 263-273. Light browning to titlepage. A few scattered brownspots to margins. First printing of these two importent papers, forming the substance of Kirchhoff's hydrodynamics.Kirchhoff was the first to show how the differential equations as used on rigid bodies, could elegantly be used on ideal fluid bodies, to. (The Kirchhoff-Clebsch equations).The issue contains further R. Lipschitz: Entwicklung einiger Eigenschaften der quadratischen Formen von n Differentialen. 1.-2. Mittheilung. Pp. 274-287 and 288-304.

4to. All wrappers, uncut, loose as issued in publisher's board-box. No 55 of 200, imprimé pour Henri dufour. Many fine original colour-engravings and many wood-cuts in the text.

Leipzig, Laurentius Sigism. Cornerus, 1665. Contemp. full vellum, but back to wide as another work has been taken out. Engraved frontisp. (30),391,(30) pp. Some light browning to leaves. On verso of frontispiece a note in contemporary hand. Scarce second edition of Wower's Polymathia presented as a fragment of a greater work he was writing "De Studia Veterum", i.e. on the intellectual pursuits of the ancients, or on the studies to which the ancients devoted themselves, by which he meant the "artes liberales" as appears from the plan of the work printed at the beginning of the "fragment". The "studia veterum" in Wower's eyes, the model and the point of departure from any studia of the moderns. The work concerns one of the great "artes liberales", namely "Grannatice". He tries to extract a theory of "grammatice" out of the staggering testimonies of ancient testimonies (from the third BC to the end of Antiquity), as though they were all campatible with each other, which they are not. (Benetto Bravo, Critice and Historical Criticism). - Not in Brunet . Not in Graesse.

Frankfurt, Apud Claud. Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrij, 1608. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum over wooden boards with title in contemporary hand to spine. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Previous owner's name to title-page and front free end-paper with annotations. Internally fine and clean. (16), 1688, (182) pp.

Lund, Berlingska/Gleerup, 1842-58. Indbundet i 3 smukke samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgydning. (14),XVIII,656;(6),XXXIV,580,(2),580:(4),II,120;XXXIV,768 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Komplet række af dette svenske klassiske zoologiske værk. - Däggdjuren: sidste (= 2. Uppl.) og bedste udgave. - Foglarna: 4. (=Tredje Uppl) og sidste udgave. - Amfibierna: 1. og eneste udgave. - Fiskarna: 1. og eneste udgave.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1797 og 1806. Et samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. papirsetiket påsat øverst på ryg. Ryg lidt slidt. Stempler på første titelblad. (8),298,(2) pp. + 47 pp. Indvendig ren. Uden de to foldetabeller, men udkommet til Andet Oplag ??