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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.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1805 - Part I. Pp. 31-64 and 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper, founding the metric of interstellar space.It was the contemporous discoveries of the first minor planets, ceres in 1801, Pallas in 1802 and Juno in 1803, that prompted Herschel to investigate the origin of the spurious diameters of stars. "Were their apparent diameters as real as those of planets or spurious as for stars? To address this question Herschel conducted an extensive series of experiments in his garden in Slough, examining through his telescope small globules of differing sizes and materials placed in a tree some 800 ft (ca. 244 m) away (Herschel 1805). His observations showed that for the smallest globules the diameters were all spurious and all of the same size. Furthermore, he found that, if just the inner part of the aperture of the telescope were used, the spurious diameters, whether of globules or of stars, were larger. If the whole aperture was employed, the diameters were smaller, and if only an outer annular aperture was used the diameters were smaller still. This experimental discovery that unfilled apertures can be used to obtain high angular resolution remains today the essential basis for interferometric imaging in astronomy (in particular Aperture Masking Interferometry). The theoretical justifi­cation of this result came with Airy's analysis of the diffraction pattern of a circular aperture 30 years later (Airy 1835), and it took a further 30 years before the idea of using multiple apertures was developed. In an early study the Reverend W. R. Dawes noted that he had `frequently found great advantage from the use of a perforated whole aperture' and that when observing Venus this produced `a central image of the planet perfectly colourless, and very sharply de­ned' (Dawes 1866). But it was left to Fizeau, in his submission to the Commission for the Prix Bordin the following year, to remark on `une relation remarquable et n´ecessaire entre la dimension des franges et celle de la source lumineuse' and suggest that by using an interferometric combination of light from two separated slits `il deviendra possible d'obtenir quelques donn´ees nouvelles sur les diametres angulaires de ces astres' (Fizeau 1868)."

Madras, The Theosophist Office, Benares and London, 1909. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece. XV,719 pp., many textillustr. and plates. 1 folded map. First English edition of this classic travel account of Tibet.

(København, Høpffner), Trykt på Forleggerens egen Bekostning, (1742). Indbundet i et senere hldrbd. med rygforgyldning (ca 1840). Sidste 10 blade i 5. tome med en svag skjold, ellers velbevaret. Det yderst sjældne 1. optryk af "Skuepladsen", her alene bind 4 og 5. Dette optryk var bestemt til at indbindes i 2 bind, indeholdende henholdsvis 1-3. og 4-5. tome. heri således 1. optryk af 10 komedier, bl. a. Erasmus Montanus.Ehr.-M. XI, 194 ff.

Small 4to. Orig. wrappers engraved in colour. No 155 of 300 "sur Vélin de Rives", total of 355. With 17 engraved colourplates and many vignettes and initials.

Paris, G. Masson, 1887. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 6e Series - Tome 12. 576 pp. (Entire volume offered). Moissan's paper: pp. 472-537. Many textillustrations of apparatus in woodcut. First appearance of the paper in which Moissan describes his isolation and observation of the properties of fluorine gas and his succes in producing diamond with his pectacular arc method. Fo these achievements he was the first French to be awarded the Nobel Price in chemistry (1906).The existence of the element fluorine had been well known for many years, but all attempts to isolate it had failed and some experimenters had died in the attempt."Moissan eventually succeeded in preparing fluorine in 1886 by the electrolysis of a solution of potassium hydrogen difluoride (KHF2) in liquid hydrogen fluoride (HF). The mixture was needed because hydrogen fluoride is a non-conductor. The device was built with platinum/iridium electrodes in a platinum holder and the apparatus was cooled to -50 °C. The result was to completely isolate the hydrogen produced from the negative electrode from the fluorine produced at the positive one.This is essentially still the way fluorine is produced today." (Wikipedia).Partington IV, p. 912. - Weeks "Discovery of teh Elements", p. 272 ff. - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1885 C.

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, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1897. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge", Bd. 61, No 7. Titlepager to vol. 61. Pp. 417-640 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Kaufmann's paper: pp. 544-552, textillustrations. A stamp to upper corner of titlepage. Clean and fine. First printing of this landmark paper in particle physics, in which Kaufmann found that the cathode are negatively charged particles, that certain properties of the cathode rays are independent of the nature of the gas that they traverse, and determining the ratio e/m. (charge/mass)"To define the 'birth of an era' is perhaps best left for parlor games. Let me write of the BIRTH OF PARTICLE PHYSICS nevertheless, define it to take place in April 1897, and appoint Kaufmann and Thomson as keepers of the gate. Their respective experimental arrangements...are of comparable quality, their experimental results equally good."(Pais "Inward Bound", p. 84.)."In 1897 three physicists, Weichert, Kaufmann, and Thomson, in independent experiments, found that cathode rays are indeed negatively charged particles having the peculiar property that the ratio of the mass and the charge of these particles is in the order of 1000 times smaller than for the lightest ion, the ion of the hydrogen. The term 'electron', which had previously been used to denote the 'elementary charge' , was soon adopted as the name of the new particle. The electron was the first of the later so-called 'elementary particles' to be discovered." (Siegmund Brandt "The Harvest of a Century" No. 4 (p.16 ff.).

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.

Basel, Joh. Rudolph. Im-Hoff, 1741-45. Folio. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf, raised bands, profusely gilt spines. A small nick to foot of spine on volume two. Light wear to part of the gilt lettering on vol. two. First titlepage printed in red/black. (6),XLVIII,(2),666;(6),358,(2),252,88,41,(35) pp. printed in two columns. Internally fine and clean. A stamp to front free endpaper. The main work of the noted English church historian, being the histroy of the most eminent Fathers of the Church. The work was first published in 1683. - "... a valuable work, displaying great reading, research and accuracy, superintended by Dr. Waterland." (Lowndes I:395).

Madrid, Viuda de Calero, 1851. 2 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines and with gilt lettering. XXV,(3),671;(4),784 pp. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. The original printing.

Dresden, Arnoldischen Buichhandlung, 1818. Uncut in orig. blue wrappers, part of printed titlelabel preserved. VI,410 pp. and 2 large folded astronomical plates. One plate with a small tear (no loss) and a faint dampstain to plates Textleaves clean. Scarce enlarged edittion of Schubert's anti-materialistic treatise. He was influenced by the Nature philosophy of Schelling and reacted strongly against a purely materialistic approach to the sciences. He expressed this in his early work, Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaften (1808). Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich von (Hohenstein, Saxony, 1780-1860, Laufzorn, Bavaria), abandoned the study of theology at Leipzig University and turned to medicine and the natural sciences, moving later to Jena. In 1819 was appointed to the chair of natural sciences at Erlangen University. In 1827 he moved to Munich University, becoming a member of the Munich Academy. He was ennobled in 1853.

Halle, Friedrich Ruff, 1827. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with titlelabel. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlepage. XIV,(1),207,(1) pp. and 2 folded engraved plates with many figs. Some browning to leaves and first and last leaves brownspotted. From the libary of the Danish king Frederik VI, having his stamped weapon on inside frontcover.

København., Gyldendal, 1872-76. Indbundet i 2 samtidige hldrbd., rygforgyldning samt titel-og tomefelter i skind. X,616,XIII,855 pp. Farvelitograferet titelblad samt 34 smukke farvelitograferede plancher (F.C. Lund), litograferede kort og tekstillustr. Her og der er teksten som vanligt lettere brunplettet. Plancherne ganske rene, lidt tæt beskårede.

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.

Kbhvn., Schultz, 1832. Pastichebind i pap udført i samtidige materialer af blåt karduspapir. (4),XXXII,272 pp. Register (12 pp.) mangler. Med Mansa's litograferede udfoldelige kort over Færøerne (løst indlagt) og 1 farvelitograferet faksimile. Med brede marginer, indvendig ren. Originaludgaven. Oldnordisk og dansk tekst. - Fiske I:149 - Klose No. 5776.

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1876. Orig. full brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends slightly frayed. Some discolouring to endcover. Light wear to extremities. X,(1),384pp. + Publisher's catalogue 16 pp. Internally clean and fine. From the library of the Englsih mathematician F.S. Carey, having his name on upper part of titlepage. "F.S. Carey/Trin. Coll. Cam." First edition of the only published book by the famous British mathematician. Cayley's aimed at treeting elleiptic functions by "pure algebra" and to fill in the gaps left by Jacobi. "For most of his life Cayley worked incessantly at mathematics, theoretical dynamics, and mathematical astronomy. He published only one full-lenght book, "Treatise on Elliptic Functions" (the item offered); but his output of papers and memoirs was prodigious, numbering nearly a thousand, the bulk of them since published in thitteen large quarto volumes. His work was greatly appreciated from the time of its publication, and he did not have to wait for mathematical fame." (DSB).

Wien, Anton Strauss, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A label taped on lower half of spine. Inscription and stamp on title-page. (6),XX,(2),188,(2) pp., 2 folded tables and 20 folded lithographed plates. in different sizes. Faint brownspots to title-page and the first few leaves.

Smukt kobberstukket, helkoloreret Islandskort. 31 x 38,5 cm. Lidt tæt beskåret og fint reparert i marginer. Beskæringen berører på få steder øverst og nederst pladeranden med mindre en 1 mmm. Kortet er lavet efter det kort som Niels Horrobow udgav i sin islandsrejse som planche i Prevost: Histoire Generale des Voyages Paris 1746-70. Kompasrose og kartouche.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine. First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.

Karlsruhe, Chr. Fr. Müller, 1825-31. 12mo. 6 orig. engraved boards. Spine ends taped with a paperlabel. Stamp on titlepages. ca. 3000 pp. and 26 lithographed plates, 2 large folded lithographed maps. Scattered browning and brownspots. Most of the papers collected in this series are written by Bismark, but it contains also translations of memoirs and works f.i. in Theil 5 a translation of Chatelains's work on fencing: "Abhandlung über die Fechtkunst" with 8 plates. Pp. 349-463.

Liege, Jacques Balbin, 1759. (Vol.5: A Zwol, Clement, n.d.) Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 4 engraved frontispieces. Each volume with separate partsand separately paginated. 2 engraved plates, 1 folded table and 16 large folded maps and Internally clean.

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.