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London, Brabazon Aylmer, 1685. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and ruled fillets to boards. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear and a few stains to extremities. Small scratch to spine with a bit of loss of leather. Lower third of front free end-paper cut out. Internally nice and clean. (46), 306, 304 pp. Part 1 being the sixth edition, part 2 being the fourth corrected edition (stated of each title-page) of Archbishop of Canterbury Tillotson's sermons.

London, Printed for Walker & Edwards, Rivington, Cadell & Davies, Longman, Hurst etc., 1817. 12mo. In contemporary embossed full calf with three raised bands. Wear to hindges, otherwise a fine and clean copy. IX, [1], 1-485, [1], [6] pp. Cordier, Biblioteca Sinica, 1857Lust, Western Books on China published up to 1850, 1277

London, R.H. Laurie, 1827. 8vo. Orig. blue boards with orig. printed titlelabel on frontboard. Rebacked with cloth. Stamp on title-page. IV,55 pp. Clean.

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1755-58. 8vo. Bound in 24 contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Spines somewat worn and some volumes with lack of leather at spines. All spine-ends worn. Titlevignettes. With some folded maps, plans and plates. A few volumes with some browning and scattered brownspots.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1888. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 32., 1888. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 342-350. [Entire volume: Pp. IV-600.] First publication of Hilbert's fundamental and exceedingly important paper on real algebraic geometry. "In 1888, David Hilbert published an influential paper [the present] which became fundamental for real algebraic geometry, and which remains an inspiring source for research even today." (Pfister & Scheiderer). David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, is probably best known for the "Hilbert Problems" - a list of twenty-three problems in mathematics all unsolved at the time, and several of them were very exceedingly influential for 20th century mathematics.He is regarded as one of the founders of proof theory and mathematical logic, as well as for being among the first to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics."Hermann Weyl described his teacher Hilbert's style: "It is as if you were on a swift walk through a sunny open landscape; you look freely around, demarcation lines and connecting roads are pointed out to you, before you must brace yourself to climb the hill; then the path goes straight up." (Princeton Companion to Mathematics). The volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians such as Felix Klein, Hurwitz, Lie, Lilienthal and Peano.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1757. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. (8),320,628, pp., 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain. With original papers by: Lietaud, le Gentil, Malouin, Cassini de thury, Guettard, le Francois de la Lande, de Lasône, le Monnier le Fils, Guettard, Boguer, Bourdelin, de l'isle, Baron, Hérissant, Geoffroy le Fils, de Thury, Bertin, Reaumur, Pingré, l'Abbé Nollet, le Roy, Maraldi, Morand, du Hamel, Buache, de Fouchy, Montet.

Kjøbenhavn, Numismatisk Forening, 1926. 4to. Ubeskåret i originalet omslag. Ryg med lidt brugsspor. Ellers særdeles velholdt eksemplar i helt original stand. (8),381,(4) pp. samt + tavlebind med 51 plancher udført i lystryk (med talrige afbildninger).

München, Karl Thienemann, 1820-21. 3 contemp. hcalf. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped to lower part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. In all ca. 1300 pp. (9 titlepages, each part with own pagination). 5 folded tables, 5 engraved plates, folding. A few scattered brownspots.

Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1843. 2 contemp. full cloth. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. IV,381;(4),382,(2) pp., 30 lithographed plates and 1 facsimile. Scattered brownspots to plates and text. A small tear to one plate, not reaching image.

Bergen, trykt i Forfatterens eget priviligerede Bogtrykkerie, 1766. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning, ophøjede bind på ryggen. Forgyldt titelfelt. Et par rifter ved øvre kapitæl. Ryg en smule slidt. (178),934,(24) pp., 1 kobberstukket kort. Stort eksemplar med brede marginer, trykt på skrivepapir. Indvendig ren. Originaltrykket. Anden og tredie del udkom i årene herefter (1768 og 1769). - Bibl. Norvegica I, p.258.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1852. 8vo. Without wrappers. In: "Scientific Memoirs, selected from Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science... Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. V, Part XVIII. With titlepage to Vol. V. Pp. (151-) 352 (entire part offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 238-333. Clean and fine. Titlepage with a small faint stamp. First appearance in English of Fresnel's famous memoir - the memoir of 1827, his so-called second memoir - in which some of his groundbreaking discoveries concerning light is stated. He applies the concept of transverse waves to double refraction and representing the final construction, in the form of an equation of the fourth degree.In the paper Fresnel also explained the fact,that in some cases of quartz the rotation of polarization is from left to right and in other cases from right to left.. He proposed the term 'helical' to denote the property of rotating the plane of polarization, exhibited by such bodies as quartz. The term 'natural rotatory polarisation' is however, generally used.This memoir contains the first printing of three unpublished memoirs from 1821 and 1822 (Mémoire sur la double refraction.Extrait Read 26. Nov., 1821 - Supplement, presented 22 January 1822 - Second Supplement, presented April 1, 1822. - Explication de la réfraction dans le système des Ondes from "Bulletin Soc. Philom.", 1821. See Jed. Z. Buchwald "The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light", pp. 461-63.

Paris, Dunod, 1867. Folio-oblong. (38,5 x 56 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. Spine rubbed. Original printed wrappers. Containing 6 engraved or lithographed plates. No 1 shows a large collection of mining-tools for stone carving and polishing. No 2 shows different pits, quarries from where the stones are extracted. No 3 depits 12 specimens, handcoloured or in chromolithography, of different kinds of stones (Pierres dures), granites, porphyrs etc. No 4. 12 specimens, handcoloured or in chromolithography, of different kinds of marble (Marbres simples). No 5. 12 specimens, handcoloured or in chromolithography of marble with intrusions (Marbres brèches et brocatelles). No 6. 12 specimens, handcoloured or in chromolithography of composed marble (Mabres composés et lumachelles). This volume is the first two parts (Livraison 1 et 2) of Sganzin - Reibel's "Programme ou Résumé des Lecons d'un Cours de Construction, avec des Applications tirées spécialement de l'Art de l'Ingenieur des Ponts et Chaussées. Cinquieme Édition, entirement refondue par Leon Lalanne." The fifth edition seems to be the first containing these plates with materials added by Léon Lalanne.

Gotha, Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1777. Uncut in orig. blue boards. handwritten titlelabel on spine. (8),350,(2);VIII,224 pp. Clean and fine. First edition of perhaps Lossius' main work. In the work he tries to found logic and deductive reasoning on neurophysiological principles. He was professor of philosophy at Erfurt from 1770.

Bruxelles, A. Lesigne, 1894. Folio. Contemp. hcloth. Orig. printed frontwrapper pasted on upper board. Stamp on title-page. 120 pp. and 176 plates, many folding. Internally clean and fine.

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. boards, orig. printed titlelabels on backs. Some tears to the rather fragile backs. XVI,375;(4),396 pp., 1 folded engraved map and 7 hand coloured aquatint-plates. Offsetting from a few plates, otherwise clean. Abbey No 301. Lowndes p. 2718 as well as Tooley (No 493) attributes the work to Richard Tully. The first edition issued in 4to in 1816 in 1 volume having only 5 plates. 2 more plates were done for the second edition in 8vo from 1817. The third edition comprising these additional plates.

Dresden, Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1816-19. 8vo. and small folio-oblong (23,5 x 32 cm.). Textvols: 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spine a little rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. XII,498;(6),XIV,722,(2) pp., 6 folded tables. + Atlases: 2 contemp. hcalf. handwritten title on upper boards. With 15 engraved plates (7 + 8). Scattred brownspots. Klaus Jordan,112.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1869. 4to. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 68, No 7. Pp. (349-) 408. (Entire issue offered). Janssen's paper pp. 367-376. First printing of the paper in which Janssen announced the discovery of a new element. On August 18, 1868, Janssen managed to do just that. He became the first person to observe helium, an element never before seen on Earth, in the solar spectrum. At the time, though, Janssen didn’t know what he’d seen"just that it was something new""Helium, the second most abundant element in the universe, was discovered on the sun before it was found on the earth. Pierre-Jules-César Janssen, a French astronomer, noticed a yellow line in the sun's spectrum while studying a total solar eclipse in 1868. Sir Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer, realized that this line, with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers, could not be produced by any element known at the time. It was hypothesized that a new element on the sun was responsible for this mysterious yellow emission. This unknown element was named helium by Lockyer."

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1761. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. (10),175,602 pp., 20 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de Mairan, Buache, Pingré, Maquer, le Gentil, l'Abbé de la Caille, Le Roy, Bouguer, Maraldi, Cassini, de Thury, de la Sône, le Duc de Chaulnes, de l'Isle, Guettard, de Lalande, Pingré, Marquis de Courtivron, l'Abbé Nollet, Bourdelin, le Gentil, Marquis de Montalembert, de Fouchy, le Monnier, du Hamel.

London, T. Sowle, 1738. Large8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Mirrordecorations to boards. With a few repairs to hindges and spine. With new title-label to spine. Annotated titlepage. Enclosed handwitten note concerning the book by the Danish historian Bjørn Kornerup. Internally with light occassional dampstaining. XVIII, 556, (5). The rare first Danish of Barclay's classic work of Quaker theology. It was first published in Amsterdam in 1676 as "Theologiae verae Christianae apologia" and in 1678 translated and published as "An Apology for the true Christian Divinity".

(Amsterdam, 1645 or later). 39,2x50 cm. Fine engraved map over Huntingdon, broad margins, fine orig. handcolouring. Clean. Large cartouche with dogs and huntingscenes. Map decorated with many large coats of arms. Latin text on verso (pp. 271-72).

Washington, Alexander, 1850. 4to. Original clothbacked blue boards. Handwritten title on upper board. Stamp on title-page. 51 pp. Scarce second edition (the expanded second edition published the same year as the first) of one of Maury's sailing directions, based on his theories of oceanic currents, and published before his famous work "The Physical Geography of the Sea". In the offered work he gives instructions for sailors from N.Y. to Europe and Rio.Not in Sabin.

Kiøbenhavn, Seidelin, 1826. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale blå blanke omslag medindbundet i 3 smukke hldrbd. i oaseged med rygforgyldning, titeletiketter i skind forgyldte på rygge. Guldsnit foroven. De originale bogtrykte rygtitler bevaret på indersiden af de sidste friblade. (Jul. Lassen). Fra Troensegaards bogsamling med hans exlibris. Originaludgaven i usædvanlig velbevaret stand.

Paris, Chez Garnéry, (1790). 8vo. Bound uncut with broard margins in a nice later half calf with richly gilt spine. Engraved frontispiece depicting a man holder a speech (Discourse de la lantern aux Parisiens, le Procureur Général portant la parole.). First three leaves with a faint damp stain. A fine and clean copy. (5),71,(3),67,(5),45,(3),12 pp. Rare first edition of Desmoulins' collected works. As a journalist and politician Desmoulins played a central role in the French Revolution.LA FRANCE LIBRE had at first been rejected by the French publisher due to its radical content: "popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men". The storming of the Bastille and Desmoulins' personal and public involvement changed the situation and the pamphlet was quickly published."Camille Desmoulins's pamphlet La France libre, which appeared in July 1789, can be seen as 'the first truly republican manifesto of the revolutionary era'. (Hammersley, French revolutionaries and English republicans, 2005, p. 36). DISCOURS DE LA LANTERNE AUX PARISIENS celebrated political violence and praised the loyalty and patriotism of the citizens who made up the Parisian mob. Since this pamphlet was written from the perspective of the Place de Grève lamppost Desmoulins became known as the "Procureur-général de la lanterne" ("the Lanterne Prosecutor" or "Lanterne Attorney").Desmoulins was a close friend of Georges Danton, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. Together they were executed by the guillotine on the April 5, 1794 for their central role in the Revolution.

Giessæ-Hassorum (Giessen), Impensis Henningi Mülleri, 1701. 12mo. Særdeles smukt samt. helldrbd. m. spejl. Fire oph. bd. på ryg, rig rygforgyldn. Permer m. forgyldte bordurer samt rig blindtrykt dekoration uden om det lyse spejl. Alle kanter af permer blindtrykte. Helt blåmarmoreret snit. Særdeles velholdt m. kun få brugsspor. Indvendig pæn og ren. Enkelte træskårne initialer. (24), 144 pp. Beautiful Cambridge style binding with raised bands on back, blindtooled and gilt boards with light brown "mirror", marbled endpapers and blue marbled edges. The so-called Cambridge style binding was very popular in England in the 18th century, and was considered the speciality of the bookbinders of Cambridge, -thus the name; however, this bookbinding-style was practised even earlier in Denmark, where it is called a "mirror-binding", due to the effect caused by the lighter coloured oblong, square centre-piece which is polished and sourrounded by blindtooling and darker coloured mottled calf, creating a mirror-like look. The English were probably inspired by this new Danish method of binding, which is the only important Danish contribution to the art of bookbinding, and annexed the style, giving it the international term for it. This binding is an early example by the first and most important bookbinder in the history of the Cambridge style binding, the Danish J. Boppenhausen the elder. It is in exceptionally good condition.The contents are by the German professor of antiquities in Tübingen, Johannes Nicolai (1665-1708), who wrote this curious and interesting work on different uses and abuses of the glove, considered legally, ritually etc. Among many other examples on the use af the glove, we are told how the heated iron-glove was used for punishing criminals. First and only edition. Brunet IV:61.

Leipzig, Siegfr. Lebr. Crusium, 1775. 4to. LII pp. A small stamp on titlpage. A few leaves slightly soiled, but a good copy. First edition. In this latin dissertation Basedow gives the philosophical foundation for his educational system together with the rules relating to the establishment of his institution, which he called "Philanthropin" and was established in 1774. He was one of the most influential German educational reformers, and his system of primary education intended to develop the intelligence of the pupils and to bring them, so far as possible, into contact with realities, not with mere words.From 1753-61 Basedow worked in Denmark as professor to the Academy in Sorø.