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Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. - Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon "Science and Technology in Medicine" 36.7.

Leningrad, 1937. Small folio-oblong. Orig. printed clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. 100 pp., including 55 full-page maps, 5 folded computational Schemes in pocket at end. Text in Russian and English.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1873. 8vo. Offprint, seperately paginated, with author presentation inscription to top of front wrapper ("Joseph Sidelbotham / with the Author's best regards"). Fine and clean. 8 pp. + 1 folded plate. Scarce offprint issue, with a most interesting presentation inscription to one of the fathers of photography, of Wilde's paper on improvements of his electromagnetic induction machine introduced in 1866. Wilde discovered, independently of Werner von Siemens who is usually credited for the invention, the dynamo-electric machine. Despite Siemens being the one credited for the invention, Wilde was the first to publish a paper describing it; this was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866.Joseph Sidebotham (1824-1882) was the first to practice photography in Manchester and of the most important local photographers in general. His interest was, however, not confined to photography; he was an amateur botanist, entomologist and astronomer. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and lectured to the Mechanics Institute on astronomy and electro-magnetism.

Copenhagen, Det Typographiske Selskabs Bekostning, 1772. 4to. In contemporary boards. Light wear to spine and two small stamps to title-page, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (10), 90 pp. + 2 plates.

Kbhvn., 1878-1907. Folio. 12 hefter med orig. bogtrykte omslag. 306,360,34,131,30,105 pp. samt 72 kobberstukne tavler (alle), heraf de 5 første håndkolorerede. Tavlerne en smule plettede. Værket blev aldrig afsluttet, men måtte opgives undervejs. Det lykkedes at afslutte afsnittene om Pattedyr, Fisk og Mosdyr, mens Snylteorme, Pighuder og Spindeldyr er uafsluttede.

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1891-92. Royal 8vo. 6 original full pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering. Top of spine on volume 1 with light wear. Slight bumps to capitals and corners. 2 frontispieces (Livingstone - Stanley). 572,XII;580,XII pp., profusely illustrated with plates, textillustrations and maps. Clean and fine.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1941. Large 8vo. Bound in blue half cloth with silver lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 5. Small paper label to lower part of spine and upper inner margin of front board. Stamp to title-page and last leaf, otherwise internally fine. Pp. 73-89. (Entire copy: (4), 188 pp.). First appearance of Tarski's groundbreaking work in mathematical logic. Published in 1941, it revolutionized the study of relations by introducing a formal calculus that provided a rigorous foundation for understanding and reasoning about relations.By introducing a formal calculus, Tarski provided mathematicians with a rigorous framework for reasoning about relations, leading to advancements in diverse fields of mathematics and beyond. His contributions laid the groundwork for the exploration of abstract algebra, order theory, and model theory, and found practical applications in computer science.

4to. Uncut in all orig. wrappers. No 181 of 200 "sur papier velin d'Arches", total of 250. Throughout illustrated with 134 fine etchings, partly in colour.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1692. Folio. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. Ms title on spine. Without the engraved frontispiece and portrait. (44),84,319,220;700 pp. and Indexes. Internally fine. Seckendorff's voluminous History of the Reformation.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Friedrich Rüdigern, 1733. Small 8vo. Later modest hcloth with ms-title on back. Stamp on title. Double-page engraved frontispiece, double-page printed title in red/black. (8),768 pp., 1 folded table and 29 engraved plates (some large and folded). Lacking the pages "Summarischer=Inhalt" unpaginated (supplied in photocopy). Marginal dampstaining to the last 10 leaves, otherwise clean. Scarce first edition. Dealing with all sorts of Gunnery in 9 parts. (1. Guss=Wesen. 2. Artillerie=Maass=Stabe. 3. Eintheilung des Gebräuchlichen Geschützes. 4. Von allerhand Kaveten. 5. Von dem Schiess=Pulwer. 6. Von den Batterien und Kesseln. 7. Vom Visitiren des Geschlüsses. 8. Vom Fehl=und Seiten=Schiessen. 9. Von allerhand ERrnst=Feuer=wercks Kugeln). - The Author is Augustin Brand although he hides under the name of Saint Julien and calls himself the translator.

Torino, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1878. Large8vo. In recent cardboard wrappers. Occassional light brownspotting, especially to the first and last few leaves. Otherwise fine. 127 pp. First Italian translation of Darwin's "On the movement and habits of climbing plants". The paper was first published in 1865 in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Freeman 833), later same year it was corrected and published in book form (from which the present translation is made) (Freeman 1834) Darwin described the origins and writing of this book in his autobiography: "In the autumn of 1864 I finished a long paper on Climbing Plants, and sent it to the Linnean Society. The writing of this paper cost me four months: but I was so unwell when I received the proof-sheets that I was forced to leave them very badly and often obscurely expressed. The paper was little noticed, but when in 1875 it was corrected and published as aseparate book it sold well. I was led to take up this subject by reading a short paper by Asa Gray, published in 1858, on the movements of the tendrils of a Cucurbitacean plant. He sent me seeds, and on raising some plants I was so much fascinated and perplexed by the revolving movements of the tendrils and stems, which movements are really very simple, though appearing at first very complex, that I procured various other kinds of Climbing Plants, and studied the whole subject. I was all the more attracted to it, from not being at all satisfied with the explanation which Henslow gave us in his Lectures, about Twining plants, namely, that they had a natural tendency to grow up in a spire. This explanation proved quite erroneous. Some of the adaptations displayed by climbing plants are as beautiful as those by Orchids for ensuring cross-fertilisation."The first edition did not appear in America, nor was it translated in Darwin's lifetime, but has a recent facsimile. The second appeared in French, German and Italian and in America from English stereos.Freeman 863.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1806. Bound in 6 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spines, on 2 vols.with loss of a bit of leather. A tear to one hinge at lowercompartment. Stamp on titlepages. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. Ca. 3000 pp. and 24 folded facsimiles. Internally clean, printed on good paper. First edition.

(Iena), Ehrt, 1699. 12mo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Binding defective at start, another small work taken out ? (16),139,(13) pp. and 20 textengravings, some full page. Some leaves with a dampstain. First edition of this curious and interesting tract on the history of haloes and nimbuses, secular as well as religious.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 7, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin. First printing of Ritter's announcement of his discovery of ultraviolet light in a halfpage letter addressed to Gilbert's Annalen. With that discovery, it became clear that visible light represents no more than a fraction of a continous spectrum.A year earlier, in 1800, William Herschel discovered infrared light. This was the first time that a form of light beyond visible light had been detected. After hearing about Herschel's discovery of an invisible form of light beyond the red portion of the spectrum, Ritter decided to conduct experiments to determine if invisible light existed beyond the violet end of the spectrum as well. He had heard that blue light caused a greater reaction in silver chloride than red light did. Ritter decided to measure the rate at which silver chloride reacted to the different colors of light. He directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum. He then placed silver chloride in each color of the spectrum and found that it showed little change in the red part of the spectrum, but darkened toward the violet end of the spectrum. Johann Ritter then decided to place silver chloride in the area just beyond the violet end of the spectrum, in a region where no sunlight was visible. To his amazement, this region showed the most intense reaction of all. This showed for the first time that an invisible form of light existed beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum. This new type of light, which Ritter called Chemical Rays, later became known as ultraviolet light or ultraviolet radiation (the word ultra means beyond). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1801 P.

Trykt i Christiania hos Chr. Grøndahl, 1845. 4 to. (Udskrevet af Kong Oscar, Konge til Norge og Sverige). Samt.hldrbd. Ryg m. lettere brugsspor. Om fiskeri, told, beskatning, Finmarken, byggeri, byernes forhold, Fattigvæsenet, mål og vægt, bankforhold, brændevin, jagt og vildt etc etc.

Ldn.,R.Ackermann, 1820. Roya18vo. Orig.pict.cloth. Gilt backs. Top a.bottom of spine with small tears. Binding a little loose. (6),277 pp. and 29 fine handcoloured litogr.plates.

Leipzig, Baumgärtnerischen Buchhandlung, 1819. 8vo. a. 4to-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VIII,291,(1);VI,300,(2) pp. + Atlas in contemp. hcalf. titlelabel with gilt lettering containing 31 engraved and handcoloured plans/maps. Text with scattered brownspots. The atlas is perhaps issued separately ?.

Wien, Degenschen Buchhandlung, 1808-16. Uncut in original blue printed wrappers. both spines gone and taped. Stamp on title-pages. 279;360 pp. Lacking pp. 1-2 in volume 1. With 43 large folded, engraved and handcoloured plans. A few scattered brownspots. Plans clean and fine.

Paris, Copenhagen, 1927-38. 4to. Classification: 23 pp. and 418 plates with descriptions and illustrations. The plates are kept in 2 boxes. (Conseil Permanent Internationale pour L'Exploration de la Mer).

Kbhvn., J.J. Høpffner, 1745. Et samt. helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Ryg noget slidt ved kapitæler og nederste fals. Permer med nogle huller i læderet efter insektsangreb. Indvendig meget frisk og velbevaret. (34),367,384 pp. Ehr.-M. I:355. Originaludgaven af Heltindehistorierne.

Paris, Corréard Jeune, 1840. Folio. (45 x 30,5 cm.). Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. (4) pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates (double-folio).

Leipzig, Herdig, 1824 und Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1806. Bound in one contemp. full cloth. Back gilt. Tears along second hinge and back somewhat rubbed. IV,380 pp. Quire Z (=pp. 353-68) wrongly bound after p. 16. Scattered brownspots. Small hole in titlepage, no loss. - IV,563 pp. Clean and fine. Reden...is second enlarged edition. - Die Grundzüge... is first edition.

Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1877. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XV, 316 pp. + 30 chromolithographed plates and 536 text illustrations. First edition of this highly important and richly illustrated field-manual. Esmarch was one of the greatest authorities on hospital management and military surgery and he introduced many improvements in military surgery; the first-aid bandage on the battlefield, and the "Esmarch bandage" for standardising surgical hemostasis. "He did much to improve the status of military surgery through his contributions on resection after gunshot wounds, the proper locale for field hospitals and bandaging stations, surgical techniques, first aid to the wounded, and on first aid in accidents" (Garrison & Morton). This book is profusely illustrated by admirable diagrams, showing the different methods of bandaging and dressing, as well as the surgical operations as they occur on the battlefield.

Bruxelles, Guyot, 1872. Folio. (46 x 30,5 cm.). Original printed clothbacked boards. Spine defective. Some wear to covers. Stamps on title-page. With 31 double-page plates. Klaus Jordan,453.

Leipzig, Schwickert, 1786. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (32),584 pp. and 6 large folded engraved plates. First German edition. - Poggendorff I, 711 (French ed.).