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New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887 8vo. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Top and bottom of spine with wear and light overall soiling. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Dewey's landmark work - one of the earliest American original contributions to psychology - in which he reformulated psychology focusing more strongly on the social environment and on the activity of mind and behavior than the psychophysics-inspired physiological psychology. This work "attempt to unite into a single system the neo-Hegelianism of Morris and the experimental psychology of Hall, or, as Dewey put it, to identify psychology with "philosophic method." During these years he moved toward a more liberal religious stance as well as toward what he would later term "instrumentalism," the view that ideas are tools for resolving and reconstructing problematic situations." (American national biography

London, Newbery, (1759). 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling to extremities. Front board with scratch to lower outer corner. Internally with a few ink-stains but otherwise nice and clean. (2), IV, 291, (1) pp. + frontispiece and 7 engraved plates.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x37 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 birds seen, female and male in natural habitat, foliage. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, 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.

Leipsick, Léopold Michelsen, 1842. 8vo. Bound in a very nice contemporary full morrocco binding with richly gilt spine with five compartments. Elaborate gilt borders to boards and inner gilt dentelles. Sunning to spine and top of back boards. A few brown spots to half title and title, otherwise a beautiful and clean copy with broad margins. XII, 372 pp. First edition.Sabin 42505.

Yverdon, 1779. Bound in one very nice contemp. hcalf. raised bands, profusely gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. X,348;212 pp., 8 folded engraved plates. On good paper, clean and fine.

Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1721. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light miscolouring and a few small wormholes to extremities. previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. A few small worm-tracts in lower margin in vol. 2, not affecting text. (12), 624 pp. + 2 frontispieces; (14), 706 pp. + frontispiece. A nice set of the fifth edition of this intriguing collection of beautifully written French letters on topics such as love, gallantry, congratulations, and many other subjects. Pierre Richelet (1626 – 1698) was a French grammarian and lexicographer and the editor of the first dictionary of the French language.

London, Macmillian and Co, 1927. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with whilte title paper-label to spine. In "Nature", vol. 119, 1927, entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-pages of each issue.Light wear to extremieies, otherwise fine. Pp. 558-560. [Entire volume: LIX, (1), 948, 100]. First edition of this seminal and highly influential paper on electron diffraction. Today the paper is regarded as one of the most important in the entire journal of Nature, and it led directly to Davisson receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937. It advanced understanding of physics at the quantum level and led to inventions such as the electron microscope. Davisson and Germer's confirmation of the de Broglie hypothesis if today known as the Davisson-Germer experiment."Davisson's investigations on the scattering of electrons entered a new phase when, in April 1925, his taget was heavily oxidized by an accidental explosion of a liquid-air bottle. He cleaned the target by prolonged heating and then found the distribution-inangle of the secondary electrons completely changed, new showing a strong dependence on crystal direction. Prior to the accident the target had consisted of many tiny crystals, but heating converted it to several large crystals. Davisson and L. H. Germer, who had replaced Kunsman before the accident, at once began bombarding targets of single crystals. [...] When Davisson returned from England, he and Germer began a systematic research for some sort of interference phenomenon, and in January 1927 they observed electron beams resulting from diffraction by a single crystal of nickle. The results were in good agreement with de Broglie's prediction. For his confirmation of electron waves Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 with G. P. Thomson." (DSB, III, 597b-598a).

[Presumably Copenhagen, late 18th century, but nothing is stated] Folio. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards with with paper label pasted with title pasted on to front board. Written on good paper in fine legile band. Stamp to pasted down front end-paper and title-page, other wise fine and clean. (2), 105 pp. Danish 18th-century manuscript on transportation of military equipment on ground, water and during siege.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1932. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half cloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik". Library stamp to free front end-paper and title-page. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 318-339. [Entire volume: VII, 857 pp.]. First printing of Ruska and Knoll's seminal paper in which the first description of an electron microscope appears. This allowed researchers for the first time to view objects as small as the diameter of an atom. Not only did the discovery have profound influence on physics, it also revolutionized biological research, as it now became possible to distinguish individual molecules. Ruska received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1986 for his discovery regarding the electron microscope.In 1933 the theoretical description presented in the present paper led Ruska to build a two-stage electron microscope with a resolution exceeding that of the optical microscope. The technique behind is largely built upon de Broglie's revolutionary theory regarding the wavelength of electrons. The volume contains many important contributions to 20th century physics, among others: Heisenberg, W. Über den Bau der Atomkerne. II. Pp. 156-64: This is the second paper in a series of three which presents Heisenberg's neutron-proton model. Shortly after Chadwick discoverd the neutron in 1932, Heisenberg developed a theory suggesting that atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, this introduced the concept of the nuclear exchange force and isotopic spin. (DSB 17: p.398).

A Paris, A Londres, 1820-23. 11 cont. full calf, richly gilt backs. Vol.11 a little damaged on back. Otherwise good.

Lancaster and New York, American Institute of Physics, 1964. Lex8vo. Volume 136, 9 November, No. 3B, 1964 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of fading to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper (C. Møller). A very fresh and clean copy. Pp. 1492-1505. [Entire issue: Pp. B577-B912]. First edition of Kohn and Hohnberg's seminal and groundbreaking paper, in which they developed the Density Functional Theory (DFT); a theory used in physics and chemistry based on quantum mechanics to investigate the electronic structure many-body systems, in particular atoms and molecules. The theory is also known as The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem. For his work on the DFT, Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998. "Since its birth in the 1960's (Hohenberg and Kohn, 1964) and especially with the developments in recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has been enormously successful for calculating the electronic structure and properties of ground-state systems. Modern DFT is in principles an exact theory, built on the firm foundation of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem (1964)." (Gonis, Electron correlations and materials properties 2, 2003, p. 285).A study in 2004 of all citations to the Physical Review journals from 1893 until 2003, found Kohn to be the author of five of the 100 papers with the "highest citation impact", including the present.

Berlin, Springer, 1934 & 1936. 8vo. In two contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 90, 1934 & Bd. 98, 1936. Entire volumes offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine. Pp. 209-23; Pp. 714-32. [Entire volume: VIII, 835 pp.; VIII, 794 pp.]. First appearance of Heisenberg and Euler's important papers in which they were the first to be able to show that Paul Dirac's introduction of the positron opens the possibility that photons in electron-positron pair production scatter with each other. Here they also presented the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian which describes the non-linear dynamics of electromagnetic fields in vacuum. It takes into account vacuum polarization to one loop, and it is valid for electromagnetic fields that change slowly compared to the inverse electron mass. "Heisenberg preferred to continue the search for a consistent quantum physics, much of which was pursued by his assistant Hans Euler discovered that nonlinear interactions in positron theory, which yielded photonphoton scattering, could be represented by treating the electron as possessing a minimum size, below which the interferences predominated." (DSB).Cassidy 1934a, 1936a.

Kbh., 1847. Noget brunplettet ekspl. i helbd. af nyere immiteret læder m. rygtitelfelter af rød og grøn immiteret læder. 224, 203 pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 105.

Paris, Guillaume/Fuchs, An VI, ou 1797, AN VII (1799). Without wrappers..In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 23, 4. Cahier. Titlepage to vol. 23. + Tome 29, Cahier 1, Titlepage to tome 29. Stamp to verso of titlepages. Pp. (225-) 336 + pp. (1-) 112. (2 entire issues offered). Volta's letters: pp. 276-315, 1 folded engraved plate with 22 figs. + pp. 91-93. First French edition of these 3 letters to Gren in which Volta described his last steps towards his groundbreaking construction of his famous "Pile". In the letters he established the first law governing an electrical fluid and he anticipated both Davy and Faraday."In 1796 Volta wrote three letters to Gren (published in German in Gren's N.J. der Physik). In THE FIRST he describes 'a very remarkable experiment'. A tin cup filled with soapy water, milk of lime, or better fairly strong alkaline ley, was held with one or both hands moistened witn ater, and the tip of the tongue dipped into the liquid. A sour taste was at once perceived by the tongue in contact with the alkaline liquid, which soon, changed into a salty and finally into a sharp alkaline taste. The acid taste was 'produced by the current of the electric fluid passing from the tin to thee alkaline liquer, from there to the tongue, then through the body to the layer of water and from there to the tin in a continous current..... In his SECOND LETTER Volta repeats this 'law' of the combination of three conductors. The mutual contact of silver and tin, for example, produces 'an action, a force, by means of which the first gives the electric fluid and the second receives it. If the circuit is completed by a humid concustor, a current or continous circulation of this fluid is set up in the direction indicated in the table (depicted on the attached plate)... In his THIRD LETTER Volta describes experiments in which plates of silver and zinc so smooth that they adhered on contact, polished, dry, and insulated, were brought in close contact, and separated by pulling them perpendicularly apart. They gave small deflections when applied directly to the electrometer...." (Partington "A History of Chemistry", Vol. IV, pp. 10-12).

Paris, Presses Univesitaires de France, 1963. Royal8vo. Uncut in the original yellow printed wrappers. Small white paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very fine and clean copy. XXXI, 597 pp. First edition of Molé’s monumental doctoral thesis on Zoroastrianism and ancient Iranian history. In this pioneering work, Molé argues that Zoroaster’s accomplishment was not an anti-ritualistic ethical reform, it was rather the result of a gradual evolution of elements essential to Indo-Iranian religiosity in which the ritual of sacrifice plays a major role. Molé’s introduction to the structure of Iranian religion presents original perspectives on the relationship between the Achaemenid and Gathic religions. “Book I deals with ritual, the doctrine of sacrifice and the Gathic service. Not denying the prophet’s historicity, Book II focuses on the character of Zoroaster which is based on myth (hence one cannot situate him in time). The prophetic legend – (Zoroaster is not a prophet of the Semitic type) –, his dialogues with Ahura Mazda, and the conversion of Vištaspa (see Kayanian ix.) are examined in this section; Molé continues to maintain that a “life of Zoroaster” is purely mythical. Book III deals with Mazdean cosmology as depicted in the Yašts and Videvdad. Here Molé emphasizes the pre-eminence of Man in the Cosmos and provides a definition of “The Perfect Man”, best exemplified by Zoroaster. Finally, Molé demonstrates that Mazdaism is not strictly dualistic since Ahura Mazda’s creations are more lasting than those of Ahriman who will be perished at the end of time. “ (Encyclopædia Iranica)

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x37 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 birds seen, female and male in natural habitat with flowering plant, fruits and an insect. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, 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.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1893. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip and a small nick to front wrapper. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1868 durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. 43. Band. 2. und 3. (Doppel-)Heft."Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Hilbert:] Pp. 216-19. [Entire issue: Pp. 145-456]. First publication of Hilbert's important contribution to transcendental number theory which anticipates Hilbert's seventh problem, the seventh of twenty-three problems proposed by Hilbert in 1900 which became of seminal importance to 20th century mathematics. A transcendental number is a number which is not algebraic-that is, it is not a root of a non-constant polynomial equation with rational coefficients. The most prominent examples of transcendental numbers are pi and e. Euler was the first person to define transcendental numbers - The name "transcendentals" comes from Leibniz in his 1682 paper where he proved sin x is not an algebraic function of x.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, Inc., 1957. Lev8vo. Bound in red half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 22. Barcode label pasted on to back boards. Small library stamp to lower part of 5 pages and a tear to p. 61. A very fine copy. Pp. 55-67. [Entire volume: VI, 442 pp.] First printing of Smullyan's exceedingly influential paper in which he showed that Gödelian incompleteness held for formal systems considerably more elementary than that of Gödel's 1931 landmark paper. The contemporary understanding of Gödel's theorem dates from this paper which Smullyan wrote while being a Ph.D. student. Raymond Smullyan (1919 -), New York, earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied under Alonzo Church.The present volume also contains Jaakko Hintikka's famous "Vicious Circle Principles and the Paradoxes" which (together with "Identity, Variables, and Impredicative Definitions" published in 1956) constitute Hintikka's attempt to cope with Wittgenstein's elimination of identity as proposed in the "Tractatus". With the translation rules that Hintikka here put forward, he is the first to try to carry out Wittgenstein's suggestions systematically.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno & Schneider, 1832. Originalt bogtrykt kartonnage. Ryg forstærket. Noget brunplettet. Indlagt i en smuk nyere bogæske. (Sign. Rigmor Birkedal Kragh). Originaludgaven. BFN 196.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1781. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Gilt titlelabel in leather. A fine copy. Small stamp and old name on title. (12),260 pp. and 13 large folded engrave plates. The scarce first edition.

Leipzig, Wigand's Verlag, o.Jahr (l837-38). Lex8vo. Cont.hcalf. Extremities somewhat worn. VIII,258 pp. and 23 (of 30) steel-engr.plates by Maier (gez.v.L.Maier). Text, and occassionally plates brownspotted.

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1955-1958. Lex8vo. Volume 99, July 15, No. 2, 1955; Volume 103, August 15, No. 4, 1956; Volume 105, March 1, No. 5, 1957; Volume 105, March 15, No. 6, 1957 and Volume 109, January 15, No. 2, 1958 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire five volumes offered in the original printed blue wrappers. Stamp with previous owner's name to top of front wrappers on all issues except for volume 105, No. 5 with two stamps. A bit of wear to extremities, and a few scratches and tears to spines. Overall fine, and internally clean. Pp. 527-31; pp. 1125-26; pp. 1487-89; pp. 1924-25; pp. 381-85. [Entire volumes: Pp. 343-681; pp. 839-1135; pp. 1421-1682; pp. 1683-1955; pp. 227-631]. First publication of this series of papers in which Dehmelt developed the ion trap technique which awarded him the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1989. The ion trap is essential for the physical realization of quantum computation and quantum information processing. The ion trap (or Penning trap) is used in physics laboratires worldwide for example in CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, where it is used to store antiprotons and high precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the electron (g-factor).Dehmelt himself wrote about the discovery:""Paramagnetic Resonance Reorientation of Atoms and Ions Aligned by Electron Impact." In this paper I first pointed out the usefulness of ion trapping for high resolution spectroscopy and mentioned the 1923 Kingdon trap as a suitable device. This work also brought me into close contact with spin exchange between electron and target atom, which gave me the idea for my 1958 experiment "Spin Resonance of Free Electrons Polarized by Exchange Collisions." However, first I had to learn how to produce polarized atoms, which could then transfer their orientation to trapped electrons. Falling back on buffer gas techniques developed in my 1955 Duke paper "Atomic Phosphorus Paramagnetic Resonance Experiment," I quickly demonstrated in my 1956 Seattle paper "Slow Spin Relaxation of Optically Polarized Sodium Atoms" how to efficiently produce and monitor a polarized atom cloud. Trapping the electrons in a neutralizing ion cloud slowly diffusing in the buffer gas, I was able to carry out the spin resonance experiment. My optical transmission monitoring scheme proved also very useful in the development of rubidium vapor magnetometers and frequency standards by Earl Bell and Arnold Bloom at Varian Associates, in which I acted as a consultant. The rubidium frequency standard is still the least expensive, smallest and most widely used commercial atomic frequency standard." (His Nobel Prize lecture).

Rotterdam, (Wächtler), 1671. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. "EvW" in gilt lettering to front board. A few stains and light soiling to extremities. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. (38), 423 pp. + engraved half-title. Uncommon first German translation of La Court's classic work on Dutch politics and economics describing the damage that had been done to the country by monarchical leaders since the Middle Ages. La Court stressed the importance of free competition and was an advocate of the republican form of government.

København, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1925. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. With two dedications to front wrapper. "Fru professorinde A. Ellemann / venligst fra / Harald Høffding" and "Hr Professor A. Pais / venligst fra Jørgen Kalckar". (i.e. English: "Professor A. Ellemann / from / Harald Høffding" and Professor A Pais / from Jørgen Kalckar"). I "Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Filosofiske Meddelser II, 1". Front wrapper partly detached and missing upper part of spine. Internally fine and clean. 123 pp. First edition of Høffding’s work on epistemology and perception of life. The present copy was given to Professor A. Ellemann from the author. Later it was given to Abraham Pais, author of several books on Physics and physicists, to Jørgen Kalckar, author and physicists. Harald Høffding (1843-1931) was one of the leading Danish philosophers of the turn of the century. His philosophy is greatly inspired by positivism, which around 1900, mainly due to Avenarius and Mach, came to be synonymous with empiriocriticism. Høffding had met Avenarius for the first time in Zürich and met him again in 1895 in Skodsborg (the time for which Avenarius thanks him in the presentation-inscription), a small city along the coast North of Copenhagen. Høffding describes this encounter in his "Contemporary Philosophers" from 1904. He describes how Avenarius sought ease in cities of water and writes how their meeting in Skodsborg constituted the first time that Avenarius made him acquainted with "pure experience", when walking around together in the garden of acclimatization. Avenarius died two years later. Høffding clearly admired the great thinker and describes Avenarius' character as "a rare energy of thought united with an artistic taste and an open and calm character". Avenarius' philosophy is further described by Høffding in his great work "The History of Newer Philosophy" (1894-95).

Kiöbh., 1745. Et samt. spejlbd. m. rig rygforgyldn. Ryg slidt, nedre kapitæl mgl. læder, rift ca. 5 cm. lang for neden på ryg. Øvre kapitæl slidt. Forgyldte bordurer på permer, 8 bl. m. indhak i øverste højre hjørne, intet teksttab. To bl. mgl. stor bid af højre margin, ligeledes uden teksttab. Tre bl. m. nederste højre hjørne revet af, går ud over tekst, men de afrevne stykker m. tekst er fuldt bevaret. Originaludgaven. Ehr.-M. X:355 ff.