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(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699". Pp. 112-126 and 1 engraved plate. (showing the "Moulin a Feu" Textillustrations. First apperance of this classic paper in which Amontons decribes his invention of a thermic motor."As early as 1699 Amontons proposed a thermic motor: a machine using hot air and external combustion with direct rotation. The experiments carried on in connection with this machine led him to note that ordinary air going from the temperature of ice to that of boiling water increases in volume by about one third."(DSB I, p. 139).Together with L'HOPITAL "Methode Facil pour trouver un Solide Rond qui étant mû dans un Fluide en repos paralellement..." 1699/1702. Pp. 107-112

Small 8vo. 3 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. Top and bottom of spines slightly worn. Stamp on titles. VIII,659,628,656 pp.

Brussel, Guyot Fréres, 1885. Folio. (52 x 41 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Spine rubbed. Stamp on title-page. With 28 double-folio plates depicting gun turrents and fortifications.

Brest, Malassis, 1773. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. (4),XVI,440,(4) pp., 8 folded engraved plates. Last plate a bit dampstained at foot. Clean and fine, on good paper. The first, and only, publication of memoirs from the Royal Naval Academy of France. Contributions by De Marguerie, d'Apres de Mannevillette, de Roquefeuil, de Secqval, Du Val le Roy, Thevenard, Fortin, Verdun de la Crenne, Blondeau.

Lyon, L'Imprimerie de Brunet, 1825. 4to. Bound in 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (4),XXV,430;(4),464 pp. and Atlas-volume with 57 large folded engraved plates. Minor scattered brownspotting.

.London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, female and male in natural surroundings on a trunk with fungi.. 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.

Coph., 1953-84. 8to. Bound in 34 half cloth.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1770. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Blindtoolings on spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small paperlabel taped on lower compartment. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. 346,(2) pp. and 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1800. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. XIX,488 pp. and 1 large folded engraved map. Map with a tear, but no loss. Light browning to leaves and a few brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 2. Bd.). Also with the series titlepage, this with a stamp.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 31, Drittes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 31. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Malus's papers: pp. 225-234 a. pp. 286-294. Wollaston's papers: pp. 235-251 a. pp. 252-262 a. Erläuterungen von Gilbert pp. 263-273. Laplace's paper: pp. 274-285. First apperance in German of these importent papers on the refraction and double refraction of light. The papers by Malus is his first two papers on the refraction of light and Laplace's paper is the memoir in which he commented Malus' paper and Huygen's refraction law. "In 1788 Haüy found experimentally that Huygen's law was true only in certain special cases, but in 1802 Wollaston found experimental evidence for the Huygenian construction (the second Wollaston paper offered). In ´"Mémoire sur la mesure du pouvoir réfringent" (the first paper offered) Malus showed that Wollaston's experiments were incomplete, and so the French corpuscularian physicists did not trust Wollaston's results. They thought, moreover, that Wollaston was associated with Tmomas Young and therfore with the new wave hypothesis. In this situation the Institute on January 1808 proposed a prize which required an experimental and theoretical explanation of double refraction. The French "Newtonian" scientists hoped that Malus would find a precise and general law for double refraction within the framework of an emission theory of light. Malus was a skilled mathematician and during 1807 he had carried out experiments on double refraction. By december 1808 Malus had finished his experimental investigations, which verified the Huygenian law. What remained was a theoretical deduction of the law. In January 1809, Laplace published a memoir in which he deduced Huygen's law law within the framework of Newtonian mechanics, using the principle of least action, and Malus considered this an insolence which deprived him of the priority. In 1810 Malus von the prize for his "Théorie sur la double réfraction", published in 1811."(DSB IX, p. 73).

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1874-1913. 4to. Bound in 11 uniform original hcloth. Stamp on title-pages. Profusely illustrated with maps and charts. Clean and fine.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),136,512, pp., 24 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: Bouguer, Maupertuis, Geoffroy, Godin, du Hamel, Maraldi, Couplet, du Fay, D'Onzembray, Cassini, Petit, Bernoulli, Maloet, Nicole, Clairaut, de la Condamine, du Hamel & Grosse, Pitot, Buache, Grandjean, Morand, Camus, Godin.

Paris, Crochard, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some scratches tospine. In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 22. 448 pp. a. 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Oersted's papers: pp. 192-98, 199-201, 201-203, 358-365 a. 375-389 (with Fourier). Mostly first editions of these importent , and early papers by Oersted on electromagnetism, together with the famous joint paper with Fourier.The volume contains other notable papers: Ampére "Extrait d'une lettre de M. Ampère à M. Faraday. (Paris, 18 Avril 1823)", Becquerel "Sur le developpement de l'électricité par la pression, Lois de ce développement" (PIEZOELECTRICITY discovery), Amici "Sur la Chambre claire (camera lucida) (traduit de l'Italien)., Poisson "Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la propagation du mouvement dans les fluides ´elastiques.", Faraday "Sur la Liquéfaction du plusieur substances", Poisson "Sur le Phénomenes des anneaux colorés",

Liege, Everard Kints, 1740. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Light wear to extremities and internally with light occassional marginal browning. A nice copy. (8), 320 pp. + 4 folded plates. Later (possibly third) edition of Merveilleux’s famous political satire on the scandals of the life at the Palatinate Court in Mannheim under Charles III Philip – it is one of the earliest works on thermal tourism.It was first published in 1738. Barbier I, 158.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzels Bo og Arvinger, 1858. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Revne i skindet øverst ved forreste fals. Hjørner stødte. Exteriører lidt slidte. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Med egenhændig dedikation på fribladet "S.C. Johansen -/ fra H.E Schack" (Johansen var præst i Tårnby og gift med Schacks søster Augusta). Originaludgaven. Dedikationer fra Hans Egede Schack er meget sjældne.

Paris, Chez Mad. Ve. Bernard, 1808 Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. Some scratches to binding.. Verso of titlepage and plates with small stamps.In: "Annales de Chimie" Vol. 68. - 358 pp. a. 3 engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's a. Thenard's paper: pp. 169-174. First announcement of the results that they had obtaines by treating boric acid with potassium, showing that acid is composed of a combustible substance and oxygen. "Before regarding their proof (of the existance of a new element) as complete Gay-Lussac and Thenard wished not only to decomposed boric acid, but to recompose it. On November 30 of the same year they were able to state in the 'Annales de Chemie et de Physique" (the paper offered) that "the composition of boracid s no longer problematical. In fact, said they, "we decompose and we recompose this acid at will" (Weeks "Discovery of the Elements", p. 160). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1808 C. - Bunch, 1808.The volume contains other importent paper, Davy's famous paper on electrolysis in first French translations, Gayton-Morveau"Description d'un hygrometre pour le gaz...", d¨'Arcet "Observations sur la potasse et sur la soude préparées à l'alcool" etc.

Hamburg, R. Beneken Wittwe, 1766-68. 2 contemp. marbled boards. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. 2 large engraved titlevignettes. (12),204,206,206,216 pp. - 602,190 pp. Clean and fine. 8 titlepages (87 Stücken). Scarce complete run of this periodical in 2 volumes comprising 87 "Stücken". - Not in Wellcome, not in Waller.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1897, Vol. 189 - A. Pp. 1-24., texfigs. First appearance of this importent paper, the first paper by Rutherford published in England, in which he describes his invention of the "Magnetic detector" before Marconi made use of it in his wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic in 1901.On his arrival at Cambridge (in 1895) his talents were quickly recognized by Professor Thomson. During his first spell at the Cavendish Laboratory, he invented the detector for electromagnetic waves, an essential feature being an ingenious magnetizing coil containing tiny bundles of magnetized iron wire. The detector made it possible to send wireless signals.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1844. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 28 Band, 2. Heft, 1844". In the original printed wrappers, without backstrip. Fine and clean. [Slonimskyi:] Pp. 179-183; Pp. 184-190. [Entire issue: Pp. 97-192, (2) + 1 plate.]. First printing of Slonimsky's paper on the design of his calculator or multiplying device, probably the earliest Russian contribution to designing a calculator. "In the middle of the last century, the mathematician Zinovy (Zelig) J. Slonimsky (1810-1904) invented a simple multiplication device to implement one of the theorems, which he had proven. The device could multiply every number of permitted length (i.e. the length permitted by the device-design) by every simple number. In other words, the device was something like a mechanical multiplication table. Later, the Slonimsky theorem was used for another simple multiplication device, namely for the calculating bars designed by Jofe. Both devices are interesting as examples of technical implementations of complicated mathematical ideas rather than as mechanical innovations." (Trogemann, Computing in Russia, P. 29).

London, Mount and Page, Sayer and Bennett, Jefferies and Faden, 1776. Small folio. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering to upper board. Stamp on title-page. (2),III,82 pp. Printed on thick paper, a few brownspots. The work describes in further details the maps published in Mackenzies "A Maritim Survey of Ireland...", 1776, and was published separately. See Shirley, Vol. 2, M.Mac-2a, p. 1228.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1788 - 1789. Lille 8vo. To samtidige halvlæderbind. Ryg på bing 1 beskadiet. Ex-libris (Carl Henrik Kloch) på indersiden af forperm. Indvendig pæn og ren. (16), 365 pp. (4), 532 pp. Den sjældne originaludgave af Rothe's filosofisk-antropologiske hovedværk. - "Men sin væsentligste inspirationskilde i fransk oplysningsfilosofi fandt Rothe hos Montesquieu, der i "De l'Esprit de lois" (Om lovenes ånd) fra 1848 havde vist, at menneskenes karakter og sæder og derfor også de samfund, som de lever i er bstemt af de naturlige omgivelser, dvs. af jordbund, klima, adgangsveje til havet etc. Kombinationen af Montesquieus teori om tilfældige faktorers betydning for den samfundsmæssige og historiske udvikling og Rothes overbevisning om, at det ligger i guddommens plan med verden, at den ikke blot som helhed skal rumme større lyksalighed end enhver anden mulig verden, men at også hver enkelt individ skal opnå lyksalighed, rejste for ham problemet om forholdet mellem den almene, formålsrettede verdensorden og det tilsyneladnde tilfældige. Rothes historiefilosofiske, naturfilosofiske og filosofisk=-antropologiske forfatterskab udgør et samlet forsøg på at løse dette problem, og kan i denne forstand beskrives som en empirisk teodicé, dvs. en redegørelse for, hvordan fænomener, som tilsyneladende strider imod den samlede verdensplan, dog ikke griber ind i den."(Carl Henrik Koch. Dansk oplysningsfilosofi 1700-1800). - Bibl. Danica I:919.

Kbhvn., Seidelin, 1804. Smukt samt. helldrbd. i flammet kalv, rygforgyldning, rygtitel i farvet skind og guldbordure på permer. XXXXIV,435 pp. Rent frisk eksemplar på skrivepapir. De sidste 2 blade med afsmitning fra bindets bagperm. Komplet med den foldede kobberst. grundtegning samt det kobberstukne prospekt. "Værket hører til de bedre blandt vore ældre topografiske Skrifter" (Villads Christensen).

Pest, Gustav Heckenast, 1867. A little later hcalf, gilt titlelabel on back. (12) pp. incl. htitle, 364 pp. and 8 plates of which 2 handcoloured. Printed on good paper. Clean. Stamp on title. First German edition.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1888. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch. XXXII. [32] Band. 3. Heft." Entire issue offered. [Hilbert:] Pp. 342-50. [Entire issue: Pp. 309-456]. 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).

Flensburg, Bosseck, 1719. (+) Hamburg, Liebezeit, 1717. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine and upper compartment of spine with tape. Stamp on title-page. Title-page in red and black. (32),596,(4) pp., 6 folded tables. + (Raupach:) 118 pp. Originaludgaven af Hojers kontroversielle Danmarkshistorie. "1718 udgav han under påvirkning af S. Pufendorf sin Kurtzgefaszte Dännemärckische Geschichte der i mere end 50 år var den eneste brugbare håndbog over hele Danmarkshistorien. Bogens arrogante omtale af andre historiske forfattere og i det hele noget utraditionelle stil gav anledning til et betydeligt røre ved dens fremkomst. Bl.a. gav en bemærkning om Holbergs historie anledning til at denne udsendte en fingeret disputats imod H.s værk der for at latterliggøre H. fremtrådte som forfattet af den da kendte evighedsstudent Poul Rytter. Der nedsattes tilsyneladende en kommission til at granske bogen, men hvilket resultat kommissionen nåede til lader sig i dag ikke sige med sikkerhed."(DBL). - Bibl. Dan.III,15. Raupach: Bibl. Dan.IV,550