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Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1716. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1713". With engraved frontispiece and titlepage to "Année" 1713. Pp. 324-348 and 2 large folded engraved plates. First appearance of Sauveur's last importent work on the theory of sound."Later, in work presented in 1713 (the paper offered), Sauveur derived the frequency of a string theoretically. He treated the string, stretched horizontally and hanging in a curve because of the gravitational field, as a compound pendulum and he found the frequency of the swinging motion, assumed to have small amplitude. His results agrees with the modern one except for a factor of the quadratic root of 10/phi....... It was through Sauveur and the Paris Academy that ideas about harmonics became well known in the early eighteenth century. Sauveur's terminology, including "harmonics" and "node", was adopted and still is current." (DSB XII, p. 128).

Berlin, Frölich'schen, 1807. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Titlelabels with gilt lettering (partly gone). Gilt spines. Spines rubbed. Top of spines taped. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved portrait. (4),XIIII,462,II;(4),X,450,82) pp., textillustrations in woodcut, 13 folded engraved maps, plans, plates. scattered brownspots.

Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 9, Cahier 1. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth."In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted, Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light (the paper offered).....if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope, which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star, and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed."(Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I, pp. 108-9).

Paris, Firmin Didot Fréres, 1853. Royal8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines and with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VI,644;VI,613,(3) pp., 3 folded maps. Clean and fine.

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1712. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and with embossed title and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, head of spine chipped. Internally with a few dampstains. 436, (2), 180 pp. + 2 frontispiece. Uncommon later edition of Scarron’s highly popular masterpiece which recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial travelling actors, weaving comic anecdotes of their romantic exploits and the central love story between Leandre and his beloved Angelique into a rich and realistic narrative depicting rural France. It was first published in 1651. "Scarron's work is very abundant and very unequal. ... the Roman comique (1651–1657) is a work the merit of which is denied by no competent judge. Unfinished, and a little desultory, this history of a troop of strolling actors is almost the first French novel, in point of date, which shows real power of painting manners and character, and is singularly vivid. It is in the style of the Spanish picaresque romance, and furnished Théophile Gautier with the idea and with some of the details of his Capitaine Fracasse. Scarron also wrote some shorter novels: La Précaution inutile, which inspired Sedaine's Gageure imprévue; Les Hypocrites, to which Tartuffe owes something, and others. Of his plays Jodelet (1645) and Don Japhet d'Arménie (1653) are the best.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) Paul Scarron (1610 – 1660) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France.

Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1808. Contemp pink boards. Gilt titlelabels on spine. Lacks a bit of coverpaper on top of spine. Wear to spine ends and along edges. XVI,324 pp. Faint scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition of Schlegel's work on the grammatical connections between Sanskrit and the Indo-European languages. It represents an important moment in the development of the study of comparative grammar, a term which Schlegel himself coined in the text.

Paris, Dumaine, 1869. Folio. (46 x 31 cm.) Original printed boards. Covers brownspotted. Stamp on title-page. 28 large folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots.

Kiöbenhavn, Thiele, 1848-50. 4to og stor 4to. 2 ensartede hldrbd. i flammet kalv med rig rygforgyldning. Bindene med lette brugsspor. (1),157;226 pp. samt 205 kobberstukne plancher. Teksten med skjolder i hjørner og kanter, især i 2. del. Plancherne i god stand med kun svage brunpletter her og der i marginer.

Paris, Didot Freres, 1829-33. 8vo. Bound in 7 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Light rubbing to backs. Occasionnaly light browning. With 14 folded engraved plates. First French edition.

Kjøbenhavn, Andr. Schou, 1880. 8vo. I et pænt lidt senere halvmaroquinbind med enkel rygforgyldning. Fire ophøjede bind. Ryg falmet. En smule ubetydeligt slid ved kanter af permer. Exlibris på indersiden af forperm. Med egenhændig dedikation på titelbladet: "Tante Jette / fra / Herman. 21.4.80" Tidligere navnetræk forsøgt udvisket fra titelbladet. Et lille hul i titelblad ved dedikation. Ren og pæn indvendig. Nydeligt eksemplar af originaludgaven, her med dedikation til 'Tante Jette'. Tante Jette, Henriette Mynster (1823-1894), var gift med Frederik Joachim Mynster, søn af biskop J. P. Mynster.

Kiøbenhavn, J. F. Schultz, 1791. 8vo. Bound in a somewhat worn contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine and five raised bands. Spine and boards rubbed. Wear to extremeties. Corners bumped. B. S. Ingemann's ownership signature to title page. Internally clean. (16),248;(16),232 pp. First edition of Jens Baggesen's 'Juvenilia'. The present copy belonged to B. S. Ingemann, and later his nephew Christian Spur.

Dresden und Leipzig, Friedrich Hekel, 1735. Cont. full calf. Gilt back, raised bands. Back worn with loss of some leather at hinges at at lower compartment. Stamps on title. Engraved frontispiece, 3 large engraved vignettes. (18),1195 pp. and 21 folded double-page engraved plates )of which 10 are showing flags). Internally clean.

Paris, Cellier, 1708. 8vo. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Wormholes and scratches to boards. Internally with wormtract in outer margin, occassionally touching text, otherwise a nice copy. (24), 472, (8) pp. Later edition, first published in 1703, of Vallement’s popular work on agriculture and gardening containing descriptions on the cultivation and propagation methods of wheat, flowers, and fruit plants, on garden care and pruning for ornamental purposes. Vallemont (1649-1721) was a historian, numismatist, theologian, and physician with a passion for gardening as well.

Stettin, Th. von der Nahmer, 1871. Contemp. full cloth. Title in gilt on frontcover. VIII,268 pp. and 4 folded lithographed plates. Some faint pencil notes in margins. First edition in which Schiaparelli’s expounds his hypothesis on the origin of meteors, elaborated in depth and with elegance, a theory which has been fully confirmed later.

Cambridge, Bentham, 1744. Large 8vo. 2 contemp. full calf. Gilt spines in compartments. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt lineborders on covers. Wear to spine-ends. Spines rubbed. Some wear along edges. Engraved portrait as frontispiece (Butler). (2),XIV,XXXVI,(42),424,(16);(2),446,(24) pp., 16 engraved plates by Hogarth, some folding. Internally fine and clean, printed on thick paper.

Amsterdam, Jean Wolters, 1689. 8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. A nice and clean copy. (14), 301 pp. + 1 map, 1 table and 55 plates. First French translation (vol. 1 of 2 only) of Wheler’s famous work on the Levant: ““one of the most important accounts of travels in the Levant, and the first description of Athens which was systematic, detailed and trustworthy" (Blackmer). "Wheler was especially interested in botany and topography. The map is very interesting. Wheler's work remained the standard English book on Greece for many years. It represents, together with Spon's book in French, the first attempt at a systematic topographical description based upon explorations" (Ibid.).

Amsterdam & Utrecht, Halma & Van de Water, 1701. 4to. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with three raised bands. Boards with a few scratches. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A nice and clean copy, printed on good paper. (10), 1040, (144) pp.

Kiøbenhavn, Brummers Forlag - Schultz, 1811. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldningen svag. Titeletiketten borte. Et stempel på titelbladet. (6), 236; (4), 224 pp. Indvendig ren og velbevaret. Den sjældne originaludgave Treschows filosofiske hovedværk.The scarce first edition Treschow's main philosophical work.Niels Treschow (1751 - 1833) is generally accepted as the most important Norwegian philosopher before the 20th century. He played a prominent role in the development of philosophy in Scandinavia in the late 18th and far into the 19th century. He was the first professor of Philosophy at the University of Christiania (today Oslo) (from 1813), and before that he had been professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen (from 1803 till 1813), where he played a very important role, changing the tradition of philosophy in Scandinavia by being one of the first teachers of philosophy, who was also a philosopher himself. His lectures and works were of seminal character, and his way of thinking cleared a path for later important philosophers. He became "Ridder af Dannebrog" (an honorary title, -"Knight of Dannebrog" (Dannbrog being the Danish flag), and he was a member of both the Norwegian and the Danish Academies of Science.Treschow was especially fond of the German rationalists and romantics as well as of English Empiricism, which played a great role in his own philosophy. He was never very influenced by Kant's critical philosophy, and his own philosophy was to a large extemt governed by emotions and intuition, -he was never afraid to think according to his feelings.Apart from being a philosopher, Treschow was also a politician of some influence under the first Norwegian government.All of Treschow's works are scarce and sought after, and they rarely appear on the market.

Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1728.. 4to. In a nice contemporary full mottled calf binding with five rasied bands and rchly gilt spines. Gilt borders on covers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M. DCCXXVI", entire volume offered. Small tear to upper part of spine and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A fine copy. Pp. 84-94. [entire volume: (8), 84, 341, (2) pp + 16 folded plates. First appearance of Maupertuis's first mathematical paper, a solution to the problem maxima and minima."His early paper represent the the possibilities opened up by the calculus. [The present paper] is as much an exploration of the power of the method to discover unexpected results as it is the solution to a specific problem. The problem is a simple one from plane geometry: to fine trapezoids of greatest and least area, given certain conditions for the length of the sides." (Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis).

Odense, 1782. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. In "Danmarks litterariske progresser", vol. 2, entire volume offered. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 172-175 (Entire volume: (4), 364, (2) pp.) The uncommon first mentioning of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” in Denmark. It was translated early into Danish (1779-1780) but curiously it did not spark any debate at first. “After the success which the book met very soon after its publication in England—the issue, as known, in nine parts in the years 1776–1779—one might have expected that the book should also in Denmark have attracted attention and have been the subject of enthusiastic discussion. That was, however, not the case; the only place where one finds the book mentioned soon after publication is—excepting Gyldendal’s own announcement in Adresse-Contoirs Efterretninger—in Det almindelige danske Bibliotek, 10th number for 1779 and 6th number for 1760, where the book is briefly mentioned in the notices of forthcoming publications with statement of its size and price. Not until much later - in the year 1782 - is there mention of the book. Announcements are found only in two monthly publications, namely, in Danmarks litterariske Progresser (1782, second volume, pages 172–175. Published in Odense) [The present and then later:] in Kjøbenhavnske nye Efterretninger for lærde Sager (October 25, 1782, No. 43, pages 683–687. Published in Copenhagen).” (Lai, Adam Smith Across Nations, p. 50).

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1842. 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. (2),XXII,(2),595;XVI,581 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1838. Indbundet ubeskåret i et nyere marmoreret papbind med forgyldt titelfelt på forpermen. Enkelte brunpletter.Bound uncut in a later marbled paper binding with gilt title to front board. A bit of brownspotting. Scarce first edition of Andersen's "Three Poetical Works", which contains the first printing on one of his most important fairy tales, "The Galoches of Fortune", which is in fact his very first fairy tale for adults, here in the original version (it was later re-written for publication in Andersen's collected fairy tales 1849-50). It appeared while Andersen was still publishing his first fairy tale-collection, namely as early as 1838, and constitutes the 18th fairy tale that he publishes, predating e.g. "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". "The Galoches of Fortune" is of the utmost importance to the development of Andersen's fairy tale writing and his style of writing. It is not only his first grown-up fairy-tale, it is also the first, in which he works with dividing a fairy tale into chapters, here bound together by the galoche-motive as the red line. This highly important fairy tale was so important that even though it differs in style from the other fairy tales for children that appeared during the same period, it needed to be included in the great collection of Andersen's fairy tales that appeared in 1849-50. But for this publication, the fairy tale needed re-writing, both linguistically and stylistically, and thus it is only in the present publication that we have it in its original version."The Galoches of Fortune" was very important to Andersen himself, who mentioned it in several letters while he was working on it. In a letter to Ms. Hanck, dated March 16 1938, he talks about his "Three new poetical works"; "The first (i.e. The Galoches of Fortune") is a fairy tale and I think the most satirical one I have written as well as some of the most phantastic that our literature holds." - Clearly showing the importance that Andersen himself bestowed upon the work. In a letter to Henriette Hanck, dated February 10 1838, he emphasized that "The Galoshes of Fortune" were "not for children". As the fairy-tale is more in line with the "Hoffmann-like imagination" that we also see in "A Walking Tour" than with the spirit and style of the Fairy Tales for Children, Andersen himself also had some anxieties about it, however, and wrote to Frederik Læssøe on February 23 1938 "I'm working on a fairy-tale, but now regret these juggling acts with the golden apples of imagination".His anxieties world prove not to be completely unfounded. The work was widely read, but it also caused quite a bit of controversy. Kierkegaard, for instance, hated the work and harshly criticized its satirical features. As "The Galoches of Fortune" appear in May 1838, Kierkegaard's first work, "From the Papers of one Still Living", appears in September the same year. That work constitutes his long, sharp critique of Hans Christian Andersen, in which he ridicules Andersen and the genre of fairy tales in general. Kierkegaard furthermore denies that Andersen has any aptitude as a novelist and accuses him of not having "philosophy of life". Andersen had already heard rumours of the book on 30th August and felt martyred at the thought of what lay ahead.The dramatic poem "A Real Soldier" was submitted to the Royal Theatre in April 1836, but returned in May of the same year. BFN 320.

Groningen, Batavia, 1935. 8vo. Original printed green wrappers. Light sunning to spine and upper part of front wrapper, otherwise a very fine, fresh and clean copy, also internally. Old owner's name to title-page, dated 1947. (8), 115 pp. First edition of Jasper's seminal work "Reason and Existence", which constitutes one of the most important contributions to the interpretation of the two great existentialists, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, as well as a primary witness to the anti-Nazi philosophy of pre-World War II philosophy and the themes that divided the great philosophers of the era. It is in this work that Jaspers introduces the concept of "das Umgreifende".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. The present work constitutes the five lectures on reason and existence that he gave at the University of Groningen in Holland during the spring of 1935, a series of lectures that introduce us to the main themes of the philosophy of the influential thinker.

Utrecht, Neaulme, 1738. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. A few scratches to boards. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. 324 pp.; 332 pp.; (2), 274, 45 pp. Beautiful copy Jean-Martin de La Colonie's memoire, a detailed account of his experiences during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Altona, Hammerich, 1832. Original clothbacked printed boards. A paperlabel on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. XIV,(2),352 pp. Light browning and light scattered brownspots.