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London, J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1702. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine (Mostly worn off). Traces from paper-label to upper part of spine. Corners bumped. Worm tracts to upper inner margin, not affecting text. (24), 179, (5) pp. Rare work containing a description of the 1671-dispute between the two Houses concerning the right of the Lords to amend money bills.

Christiania, 1858. Særdeles nydeligt nyere hldrbd. af brun maroquin med forgyldt ryg. Lidt brunet og indimellem noget plettet. Originaludgaven af Ibsens fjerde bog. S&R: Variant A, 2.

Paris, R. Chapelot et Cie, 1908-09. 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. hcalf. Spines slightly rubbed. Around 1925 pp. and 12 large folded maps in portfolio with matching spine in calf. Rubbed. Maps only to part 2 (Chatillon).

Kbhvn., 1927-84. 1.-17. årg. indbundet i 6 solide hldrbd., rest i hefter. Udgiverens eksemplar.

Hafniæ, 1739-41. Folio. Et samt.helldrbd.m.oph.bd.på ryg. Ryg og bindsider slidte. Indvendig frisk. (8), 276, 380 pp.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1863. Original blindstamped purple cloth,spine slightly sunned, inner hinges weak. 352 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's ads. With four full-page illustrations. First edition.

Dresden und Leipzig, Friedrich Hekel, 1737. Uncut in blank later modest boards. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (30),166 pp., 21 engraved plates. Some laves with faint dampstaining in margins. First German edition. - Jordan, 2020.

Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1875. Orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt spine and illustration on frontcover. Spine very lightly faded. XII,(1),472 pp., 6 engraved wood-cut plates ( 2 folded) and many wood-cut-illustrations in the text (some full page). A small stamp on foot of halftitle. Internally fine and clean. First English edition of "The first monumental work about eskimoe's fairy tales and legends", translated from the authors "Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn 1-2. Copenhagen, 1866-71". The fine wood-cuts by native artists are taken from the original blocks as used in the Danish edition. "Starting from the tales, he identified the inland dwellers that occur in a number of Greenland tales with the American Indians, implying that the two people at one time were neighbours, and usually not on friendly terms".

(Amsterdam, 1595-1623). 29x40 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Nørrejylland, egnene omkring Limfjorden, vendsyssel i nord og til Horsens i syd samt Samsø. Samtidig håndkolorering. Bagsiden med latinsk tekst. Barokkartouche. Den lidt løjerlige gengivelse af Djursland går igen på samtlige Danmarkskort i de næste 50 år.Bramsen p. 64, hvor kortet er gengivet.- Nørlund 39.

Kjøbenhavn, Boas Brünnich, 1820. 8vo. Bound uncut in two later half calf bindings with gilt spines. Gilt title labels to spines. (Anker Kyster). Spines slightly rubbed. With a long handwritten letter from Ingemann's wife Lucie Marie Mandix pasted to flyleaf. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ingemann and two folded plates. Unusually clean copy. (8),296,(2);(2),245,(1) pp. An excellent copy, with the rare engraved portrait, of the first edition. The present copy comes with a long original letter from Ingemann's wife to their close friend Johan Carl Luno (1784-1858).

[Various places and printers], 1962 - 1981. Collection of 36 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. A few of them with "Cox" written to top of front wrapper. Housed in two black kasetts. Large collection of offprints by British statistician David Cox who made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability, of which the best known is perhaps the proportional hazards model, which is widely used in the analysis of survival data. An example is survival times in medical research that can be related to information about the patients such as age, diet or exposure to certain chemical substances. The Cox process was named after him.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1863-80. Small8vo. Bound in 16 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Light wear to spine-ends on a few volumes. Some maps.

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1756-57. Bound in 2 later hcalf. and 1 contemp. hcalf with raised bands. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spines. Stamps on titles and at ends. 232;223 pp. and 11 large folded engraved plates - Supplement: (8),172 pp. Some faint scattered brownspots in the first 2 volumes.

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).

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1801. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. Light wear to top of spine. (2),X,424 pp., 1 folded engraved map. Map with a faint dampstain in lower right corner. Internally clean and fine. First German edition of parts of the authors works:"Voyage à Canton, Capitale de la Province de ce nom,à la China; par Gorée, le Cap de Bonne-Esperance...Paris, 1799." and "Voyage au Bengale, suivie des Notes critiques et politiques....Paris, 1799." (Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. 22. Band). Also having the series-titlepage, this with a stamp..

Halle und Leipzig, Johann Gottfried Ruff, 1802-05. 17 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some scattered brownspots.

4to. Samt. helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Kapitæl slidt og med lettere brugsspor. Kobberstukket titelblad. (14),450 pp. samt 27 kobberstukne plancher af Clemens efter tegninger af Wiedewelt. Nogle få hjørner med lille skjold. På skrivepapir. Værket blev ikke afsluttet, men der udkom yderligere 1 hefte af bind 2, dog uden kobbere. Heri findes mindestene over Absalon, Saxo, Tycho Brahe, Holberg m.fl., sammen med deres levnedsbeskrivelser.

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.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1803. Unbound, but stitched. (4),VI,240 pp. and 1 large folded handcoloured engraved map "Charte von den Senegal Ländern. Nach den Specialkarten von Popirson und Blauchot entworfen von Theol. Friedr. Ehrmann. Weimar 1803." (44x58 cm). Scattered brownspots, light browing to margins. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 9. Bd.: 1. Theil). With the general titlepage, this with a stamp.

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.

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.

København, 1926-39. Lex8vo. 13 solide, ensartede hshirtbd. med forgyldte tome-og titelfelter på rygge.

Halle, Saale, 1741. Folio (335 x 205 mm). In contemporary black cardboard binding with grey royal super ex-libris to front board (House of Stollberg and Promnitz). Wear and scratches to extremities, with some loss of the black paper. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Internally very nice and clean, printed on good paper. 464, 82, (2) pp. First edition of these funeral sermons to Marie Elisabeth vonPromnitz (1717-1741 Marie Elizabeth (24 October 1717 – 20 July 1741), married Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1716–78)