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Halle, Wäysenhause, 1728. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Scratches to boards, with a bit of loss of leather to back board. Title-page closely trimmed in lower margin, imprint-line with loss of letters, otherwise internally nice and clean. (8), 56, 1378, (28) pp. First edition of Löseke’s concise commentary and explanation of the Acts of the Apostles, written by St. Luke.

Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guérin & Louis-Franncois Delatour, 1753. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Old paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Light wear to extremities, internally very nice and clean. (2), 384 pp. + 6 folded plates; (4), 454, (2) pp. + 9 folded plates. Second revised and enlarged edition of one of the most famous treatises published by the great French agronomist Henry Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), in order to introduce Jethro Tull's innovative methods to France. Tull is considered to be one of the early proponents of a scientific – and especially empirical – approach to agriculture. He helped transform agricultural practices by inventing or improving numerous implements. "The first half of the eighteenth century had witnessed the beginning of a technological renaissance in agriculture, chiefly in England, where it was notably celebrated in the writings of Jethro Tull. Although the ideas of Tull and Duhamel enjoyed substantial popularity among a progressive group of French landowners, the opposition - either in the form of active criticism or in the passive inertia of an almost medieval agrarian society - was too strong for France to enjoy the rapid agricultural changes which occurred in England and, shortly after, in Scotland. However, enough progress was made for Duhamel to receive recognition for his pioneering work (the present) during his lifetime." (DSB)

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, (1885 ?) Royal8vo. Orig. full pictorial red cloth. Gilt spine, gilt covers. Light wear to spine ends. Corners a bit bumped. All edges gilt. Frontcover with balloon, elephant and paddle-steamer. Frontcover signed "A. Souze". Half-title with illustration on verso. On verso of title-page portrait of Jules Verne. 616 pp. + Publisher's Cat. (8) pp. (Catalogue C R). The catalogue mentions books prepared for 1886, so this must be printed before. A few brownspots. Last leaf with a bit offsettings. Halftitle with brownspots. (Les Voyages Extraordinaires).

Royal8vo. Bound with orig. wrappers in a fine hmorocco, gilt back (Håkan Wahlström, Stockholm). No 131 of 200 "sur papier de Montval", a total of 250 copies. Fine original woodcuts of which 2 are repeated and mounted at end (proofs ?).

Paris, Imprimerie Royal, 1844. 8vo. In later cardboard boards with cloth spine-strip. Title and year in ink to front board. Stamp to front board and title-page. Offprint from "Annales Maritimes et Coloniales". Internally fine and clean. (1)-14 pp. Rare offprint from "Annales Maritimes et Coloniales".

A la Haye, Pierre Paupie, 1742. Small 8vo. Bound in 6 cont. full vellum 6 engraved titlevignettes and 2 engraved plates.

London, Hodgson & Son, 1950. Royal 8vo. Volume 51 of "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series" Bound with all the six original front-wrappers for all six parts of the volume (bound in at rear) in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Binding tight, and in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Discrete library-markings and book-plate stating that the book was presented to the Library of Bedford College by "Professor H. Simpson./ 1949-50" to pasted-down front free end-paper. Library-label tipped in at front free end-paper. Pp. 161-175. [Entire volume: (4), 483 pp.]. First edition of one of the last articles by a key figure in Map-colour theory. Percy John Heawood, proved in 1890 that Alfred Kempe's Four-colour theorem was flawed and established his own five-colour theory. "Heawood was, however, able to salvage an important idea, that of Kempe chains, from Kempe's proof. Using Kempe's work, Heawood was able to prove that every map is 5-colorable." (Hilton, Mathematical vistas: from a room with many windows, 2002, p. 148 ). "It is not known how Heawood became aware of the Four-Color problem. However, his life's work in mathematics was centered on it. After his first paper, 1890, he published seven more papers on the same subject, the last in 1949 at the age of 88.", his biographer Gabor Dirac wrote. (Fritsch, Rudolf. The four color theorem: history, topological foundations, and idea of proof, 1998, 24 p).

Berlin, Springer, 1923. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering. In "Zeitschrift für Physik" Bd. 13 & 14, 1923. Entire volumes offered, bound in one. Stamp to front free end paper, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 237-255. [Entire volume: V, (1) 426 pp.]. First edition. As Bohr in his 1918 paper (The quantum theory of line spectra) had discussed the expectation that there was a necessary connection between the classical and the future theory in the limit of large quantum numbers, and in a later paper (1920) named it "Korrespondenzprincip" (Principle of Correspondance), Bohr now in the paper offered discussed again the fundamental principles of Quantum Theory in connection with the Principle of Correspondence.Rosenfeld No 29.Also in the volume is Born & Heisenberg's paper, "Über Phasenbeziehungen bei den Bohrschen Modellen von Atomen und Molekeln", on Bohr's atomic model, being a part of Heisenberg's Habilitation, which he completed under Born in 1924 in Göttingen.Cassidy 1923a.

Copenhagen, Schultz, 1830. 8vo. Uncut in the original blank boards. Handwritten title label to spine. Spine slightly rubbed. Scattered brownspots. XII,184 pp. First edition of Rask's Danish Grammar, which was later translated into Danish by Rask's half-brother. The present copy belonged to the Danish linguist Ludvig F. A. Wimmer (1839-1920) and carries his signature to the front endpaper. Hjelmslev I, 176.

Leipzig, Chr. Breitkopf, 1748. 8vo. 4 parts uniformly bound in 2 contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Spine-ends with wear and boards with a few scratches. The double-page title-page to part 1 closely trimmed in lower margin, with some a bit of loss of text, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (48), 704 pp.; (3), 1472 pp. Second edition of Clausberg’s textbook on arithmetics and calculating which was widely used well into the 19th century. “The concept [of the present work] is traditional, while it also contains outstanding didactical examples on mental arithmetic. It emphasizes that calculation procedures are traditions that may be bended, not mathematical laws, for example, multiplying a number by units, tens, hundreds, may be done in any order” (Karp, Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education).

Magdeburg, Walter Ochs & Co., 1887 & 1890. 8vo. 2 volumes in the original full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to front boards. White paper-label pasted on to lower part of spines. Stamps to front free end-papers, title-pages and verso of all plates. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. 24 pp. + 7 coloured plates; 33 pp. + 8 folded plates. Rare publication on tank guns from the Grusonwerk.

Hannover, Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1794. Cont. full mottled calf. Gilt back. Stamp on title. (8),480 pp. + Anhang 37,(2) pp. and 8 folded engraved plates.

Zürich, Crell, Gessner, Füesslin und Comp., 1778. Contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spine, raised bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. 123 pp. and 13 folded tables. Free endpapers cut out. Light browning to title-page, otherwise clean. First edition.

(No Place), Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1741. Large 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece. Title in red/black. (14) pp., 2352 columns (= 1176 pp.). A few brownspots. Internally clean.

Paris, Crochard, 1836. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A few scratches to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, Tome 66. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Laurent's papers: pp. 136-213 a. pp. 314-335. Internally fine and clean. First printing of Laurent's long paper in which he tried to develope the rules of substitution into a chemical system oforganic compounds, the "Nucleus theory". Laurent is considered one of the most importent chemists in the 18th centuryHis first theoretical efforts were largely taxonomic in character. He then began to develop a pictorial model based on atomistic representations as considered by earlier French crystallographers. Laurent’s "nucleus theory" or "theory of derived radicals"located every substance at the intersection of two kinds of transformations: substitutions, which operate on the matter inside the fundamental radical and do not affect its general chemical behavior, and external modifications, which influence various chemical functions. (DSB)."In his studies of the derivatives of naphtalene, Laurent was impressed by the fact the the fundamental properties of these compounds remained, in spite of the various substitutions which took place in them. A certain nucleus seemed to impose its properties on all its derivatives. This nucleus theory was the basis for the unitary which was specifically formulated by Gerhardt."(Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry", p. 345).The volume contains other notable papers by Regnault, D'Arcet, Chevreuil, Rose, Gay-Lussac and Carlo Matteucci's importent memoir "Sur la Propagation du Courant Electriques dans les Liquides", pp. 225-313.

Flensburg & Leipzig, Kortschen Buchh., 1775-79. 8vo. Bound in 4 uniform contemporary full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Foot of spine on 2 volumes a bit worn. One spine a bit rubbed. 4 engraved titlevignettes ( 3 in woodengr.) (16),XXXVI,(4),484;(24),552;(24),492;(20),426 pp. and 3 folded genealogical tables. A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

(No place, nor printer, 1723. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with gilt ruled fillets to boards. Considerable wear to extremities, boards with numerous scratches. Hinges a bit weak. Ex-libris (Carl Henrik Koch) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. With light marginal browning throughout. IV, (4), 364 pp. + frontispiece; 443 pp.; (4), 391, (54) pp. Third edition of Shaftesbury’s collection of essays exploring moral philosophy emphasizing natural human affection as the basis for ethical principles as opposed to moral philosophy in a Christian framework. Notable for its new moral approach, the book influenced David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and later philosophers. It was one of the most reprinted books of the 18th century second only to Locke’s Second Treatise. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury (1621 - 1683) was an English politician, a member of the Council of State during the Commonwealth, and a member of Charles II’s “Cabinet Council” and lord chancellor (1672–73).

Augsburg, Göbel, 1685. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Edges of boards with gilt ornamentation. All edges gilt. With traces of clasps. Leather on spine cracked. Annotation (dated 1710) to front free end-paper. Internally very nice and clean. (24), 471, (9) pp. Exceedingly rare first edition of Pfanner’s reflections for Sundays and feast days based on the early Greek and Latin church farthers.

Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1909. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Verhandlungen der Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft", 11 Jahrgang, 1909. (Reprinted same year in "Physikalische Zeitschrift 10"). Bound with "Berichte der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft", 7 Jahrgang, 1909. Capitals and hindges with wear. Internally very fine and clean. Pp. 482-500. [Entire volume: (2), 749, (3), VII, 450 pp.]. First printing of Einstein's famous lecture in which he anticipated the discovery of black-body radiation and famously stated that: "the next phase in the development of theoretical physics will bring us a theory of light, which may be regarded as a sort of fusion of the undulatory and emission theories of light" (The present paper, Pp. 482-3). He furthermore stated that the electromagnetic fields that constitute light will no longer appear to be states of a hypothetical medium, but rather independent entities emitted by the sources of light, exactly as in the Newtonian emission theory of light. The paper was delivered as a lecture before the 81st assembly of the 'Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher' in Salzburg on 21st September 1909.The occasion was important for Einstein since he for years had been working in scientific exile. Among those who attended Einstein's lecture were some of the world's foremost physicists such as; Max von Laue, Max Born, Arnold Sommerfeld. All published papers of their own in the present volume. Weil No. 30.

Wien, Springer, 1931. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from : "Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie", band 1, heft 3. Embossed stamp to upper part of front wrapper. Two library paper labels pasted on to spine. Wrappers loose, internally fine and clean. (V), 1, 54 pp. Offprint of Hayek influential paper on durable and non-durable goods presented as a Critique of the Crises-Theory of W.T. Foster and W. Catchings with some Remarks on the Theory of the Relationship between Money and Capital.Widely publicized in the United States at the timewere proposals by Foster and Catchings which Hayek has described asvariations on 'underconsumption' theories of economic cycles. Hayekargued against such theories in his initial lectures as a Privatdozent in Vienna: "His published essay "Gibt es einen Widersinn desSparens?" (1929) (later translated into English as "The Paradox of Saving") came to the attention of Lionel (later Lord) Robbins, whoinvited Hayek to give a series of lectures at the London School of Economics. So successful were the lectures, and the ensuingpartnership with Robbins, that Hayek remained in England to becomethe Tooke professor at the LSE." (Kresge, Hayek on Hayek, P. 8)"This state of affairs, however, may yet be endangered by a new theory of under-consumption now current in the United States and in England. Its authors are people who spare neither money nor time in the propagation of their ideas. Their doctrine is no less fallacious than all the previous theories of under- consumption, but it is not impossible that with able exposition and extensive financial backing it may exert a certain influence on policy in Anglo-Saxon countries. For this 'reason it seems worthwhile subjecting this theory to detailed and exhaustive criticism." (The present paper).

USA, [No printer], 1941. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. "Reprinted for private circulation from The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 94, No. 3, November 1941". Previous owner's name, the famous English physicist, astronomer and mathematician, [J. H. Jeans] to top right corner of front wrapper. Very light miscolouring to lower left corner of front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 511-524. Scarce offprint issue, from the library of the influential English physicist and astronomer James Hopwood Jeans, of Chandrasekhar's important paper in which he developed his statistical theory of stellar encounters. In the 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physic for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.Chandresekhar is famous for showing that the final fate of a star depends on its mass, furthermore he calculated that massive stars would be unable to evolve into white dwarfs, the limiting size called the Chandresekhar Limit."An important question from the point of view of what can be observed is how the cumulative effect of chance encounters affects the orbit of a star measured by what is called "time of relaxation" of the stellar system. Conventional wisdom assumed it could be theoretically calculated by considering the cumulative effect of a large number of two-body encounters. A closer analysis convinced Chandrasekhar that such an idealization did not provide a good approximation to the physical situation in the stellar system. The gravitational field fluctuated in space and time. New methods of treating the problem based on statistics were required. He laid the foundations of such new methods in one of his most celebrated and widely quoted papers, "Stochastic and Statistical Problems in Astronomy," published in 1943. The probability methods reviewed in this paper have found application beyond astronomy in a wide variety of problems and fields as different as colloidal chemistry and stellar dynamics." (DSB) James Hopwood Jeans (1877 -1946) made several important contributions in many areas of physics, including quantum theory, the theory of radiation and stellar evolution. His analysis of rotating bodies led him to conclude that Laplace's theory that the solar system formed from a single cloud of gas was incorrect, proposing instead that the planets condensed from material drawn out of the sun by a hypothetical catastrophic near-collision with a passing star. This theory is not accepted today. Furthermore he is the founder of British cosmology.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1904, 1906. 8vo. In "Mathematische Annalen, 58. Band, 1904; 59. Band, 1904; 62. Band, 2. Heft, 1906". 58. Band and 62. Band in the original printed wrappers, without backstrips. Date written with pencil to both front wrappers. 59. Band bound in half cloth with the original wrappers, with wear to spines. All three issue internally very fine and clean. Pp: 195-234; Pp. 129-160; Pp.286-328. First printing of this influential series of papers by Schoenflies, his "fundamental researches into the topological aspects of point set theory" (Anderson. Who gave you the epsilon? P. 144)."The greater part of Schoenflies' original contributions to topology is contained in three papers [The offered] and is devoted to plane topology. He proved the topological invariance of the dimension of the square, and he invented the notions and theorems that are connected with the characterization of the simple closed curve in the plane by its dividing the plane into two domains of which it is the everywhere attainable boundary. There are numerous gaps and wrong statements in this part of Schoenflies' work, and these errors led L. Brouwer to some of his startling discoveries." (DSB).

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1902. Contemp. hcloth. First hinge broken. (=) "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 9.", VIII,1344 pp. and 5 plates. The Einstein Paper: pp. 417-435. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. First edition of Einstein's third paper. - Weil, No 3. - The volume contains 2 papers by Max Planck, originally published in "Jubelband für H.A. Lorentz" und Jubelband für J. Bosscha: "Ueber die von einem elliptisch schwingenden Ion emitterte und absorbierte Energie;" und "Ueber die Verteilung der Energie zwischen Aether und Materie;", pp. 619-628 und pp. 629-641.

No place, no printer, 1760. 8vo. I contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light miscolouring to extremities and head of spine chipped. Some scattered brownspots and occassional mild toning. (12), 268 pp. + 18 plates. Uncommon first German (only?) translation, beautifully illustrated, of this work on military strategy in which Folard’s detailed commentaries on Polybius was presented into an accessible summary intended for military officers. Jean-Charles de Folard was a French military officer and theorist known for his work on the use of infantry in battle, particularly his advocacy for the column formation over the line formation, which was the dominant military strategy at the time.

Paris, Corréard, 1845. Folio. (49 x 32 cm.). Original printed boards. Later clothbacked. 14,(2) pp., 4 large folded lithographed plans (5 on 4). Scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan,1732.