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Kiøbenhavn, 1787. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with richly gilt spines. Previous owner's names in contemporary hand to front free end-papers. A few scratches and stains to board and internally with a few sporadic brownspots, an overall nice complete set with the portrait of Wessel. First edition.

Kbhvn., C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg med brugsspor. Titelblad i rød/sort med reparationer i øvre og nedre hjørner, lidt nusset og opklæbet. (30),585,(21) pp. Indvendig med lidt brugsspor og lettere brunplettet. det træskårne frontispiece mangler. Bogen har talrige halvsides træstik. Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede.

Kiöbenhavn, Ernst.A. H. Müller, 1810. 4to. Senere hshirtbd. Forgyldt titel på forpermen. Stempel på titelbladet. 32 pp., 1 foldet kobberstukket planche med landtoninger. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Originaltrykket. - Bibl. Danica II,359.

Bound uncut in a little later boards. Titlelabel on back. CIII,225 pp. + Publishers Catalogue (6) pp. and folded engraved map (lower left corner with a little loss of plate, repaired). A few brownspots. 3 leaves with tear, no loss and repaired. Lauridsen VIII:196. Anden engelske oversættelse af Egedes "Det gamle Grønlands Nye Perlustration...1729".

[No place, but Copenhagen], 1797. Folio (33 x 22 cm). In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Stamp and two labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Written in fine legible hand on good paper. Fine and clean. 172 ff. Volume 1 (out of presumably 3) of a manuscript on artillery in German.

Lugd.Batavorum (Leiden), Ioan. Maire, 1644. 4to. Later hcloth. (8), 254, (16) pp.

Kiøbenhavn, 1807. Small 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Leather title-lable with gilt title to spine. Spine somewhat worn. Corners slightly bumped. Some brownspotting, especially to the first few leaves. The very rare first printing of the first volume of Peter Foersom's (and P.F. Wulf's) translation of Shakespeare's tragic works (usually it is found in the second, revised edition from 1811). This volume contains the first Danish translation of Julius Cæsar and the second Danish translation of Hamlet. Hamlet has previously been translated into Danish and printed in 1777, as the only one of Shakespeare's works to appear in Danish before the present work.The present translation of Shakespeare's works is considered the most important in Danish literature and became the standard version of the works.The copy previously belonged to the renowned Danish literary historians Paul V. Rubow and Mogens Brøndsted.

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1749-55. 8vo. Bound in 12 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Cover with gilt borders, stamped in blind and panelled in mirror-style (Cambridge-binding). Light wear to a few top of spines. A label pasted on lower compartments. Stamp on htitle and title-pages. With 5 large folded engraved maps. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

(Paris, Barrois L'Ainé, 1811-12). Folio-oblong. (21,5 x 40 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel on upper board "Planches de Noizet-Saint-Paul Elemens de Fortifications.". The atlas is complete with 71 engraved folio-plates, some folding. Plates clean and fine. Without the text-volumes. Atlas to "Élémens de Fortifications a L'usage des Officiers des Etats-Majors des Armées, et mis a la portée des jeunes Éleves des Ecoles militaires. Premier- (Seconde) Section."Klaus Jordan,2717.

(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Année 1773. Pp. 503-540 a. 1 folded engraved plate. A few leaves with a faint dampstain in right margin. Otherwise fine and clean. First printing of an importent memoir in which Laplace applied his work on probability to the study of the distribution of the orbital planes of comets in space, a remarkable work in mathematical- and physical astronomy. The memoir also deals with the figure of the earth.

Kbh., 1789. 4to. Samt. slidt hldrbd. m. rig rygforgyldn. False slidte og delvist revnede. Kapitæler professionelt restaurerede. Titelbl. lidt nusset, indimellem en smule brunplettet. P. 228 ubeskåret og foldet, bevarende samt. marginale noter, bestående af en engelsk oversættelse, p. 276 ligeledes m. marginale noter på engelsk i samme hånd, den ubeskårne side m. understregninger i teksten. På skrivepapir. M. alle 16 kobberst. plancher af Clemens, de 15 efter Abildgaard og Niels Klim som drabant efter Juel. "Pragtudgaven".

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896). Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 59, Zehntes (No 10 1896). Entire issue offered. Pp. 193-416 a. 1 folded plate. Eötvös's paper: pp. 354-400 a. 15 large textillustrations, depicting his experimental apparatus. Clean and fine. First appearance of Eötvös's main paper on gravitational phenomena, which became the subject of his lifework, and in which he showed experimentally, that the inertial mass and the gravitational mass are proportional, a discovery that became ONE OF THE BUILDING STONES OF THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY."The second extremely important application of the Eötvös balance involved a predetermination of the rate of gravitational acceleration for different bodies. It had been known from earlier work that all bodies fall with the same acceleration (in a vacuum), but the best previous determinations yielded only a limited accuracy. In response to a prize announcement by the University of Gottingen, Eötvös and his collaborators followed up his early measurements on this subject. The new measurements provided not merely a more accurate proof of a principle believed right until then, but much more: his results, proving that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent, the possible deviation being about five parts in 109, became one of the building stones of the theory of general relativity. The experiment proves the “weak” form of the principle of equivalence, which states that the trajectory of a test particle, under the influence of gravitational fields only, depends only on its initial position and velocity, not on its mass and nature. Later confirmation of his results (during the last fifty years) reduced the possible deviation from perfect equivalence by a factor of 1,000." (DSB, IV, 379 ff.).

Paris, Edition du Centre National..., 1969. 4to. 2 orig. full fabrikoid. XVII,426;(8),457 pp., 2 frontispieces and 121 + 113 plates.

London, Printed for J. Walthoe (et al), (1742). Folio. Cont. full calf. Raised bands. Worn and covers detached. Block good. Main title in red a. black. In all 4 titles (3 Parts). (6),L,622 pp. 2 engreved allegorical Frontispieces and 78 engraved plates (incl. frontisp. and double-numbering of some plates). Printed on good paper. Internally fine, with a few dampstains, some browning to the first and last leaves. In this 1742-edition all the illustrations are on plates and not in the text.

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1840. 8vo a. large 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Spine with a large label taped on spine. Atlas in later clothbacked boards. XXVIII,396 pp., Atlas with lithographed, folded plan "Grundriss von Dresden im Jahr 1840" and 9 engraved plates in folio. Text with very faint scattered brownspots. Plates with browning and brownspots.

Nürnberg, Johann Eberhard Zeh, 1786. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. A few small nicks to leather. 224 pp. A few scattered brownspots. A good copy. The scarce first edition of this popular cookery -and popular medical book, which ran through many editions.

Frankfurt, Schönwetter, 1653 - Wolfenbüttel, , J. Naumann, 1654. 8vo. Bound in one cont. full vellum over wood with calligraphed titles on back. (22),566,(25) pp. - (10),118,286,118,(18) pp. A stamp on first titlepage. Clean and fine. Scarce second enlarged edition of this celebrated work by the Jesuit theologian. The work passed over 200 editions before 1776. In the later added sections on murder in general and on the murder of kings, in connection with Damien's attempt on the life on Louis XV, the book was condemned by the parliament in Paris and the "Medulla" was ordered burned.

Leipzig & Wolfenbüttel, Meisner, 1729. 8vo. In a very nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corners bumped. A very nice and clean copy. (10), 341, (50) pp. The rare first German translation of De la Mothe’s edifying treatise on humility and humbleness. Claude Grostete de la Mothe (1647–1713), ”theologian, was born at Orleans in 1647, and was the son of Jacques Grostête de la Buffière, a member of the Paris bar, and an elder of the protestant church at Charenton. He assumed, according to custom, the name of one of his father's estates. He graduated in law at Orleans University 1664, and in the following year joined the Paris bar; but in 1676, having abandoned law for theology, he became protestant pastor at Lizy, near Melun. In 1682 he accepted a call to Rouen, but returned to Lizy on finding that no successor could be obtained, and was secretary of the provincial synod held there. On the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, he sought refuge in London with his wife. Marie Berthe, daughter of a Paris banker, was naturalised in 1668, and was minister first of the Swallow Street, and then, from 1694 till his death, of the Savoy Church. In 1712 he was elected a member of the Berlin Royal Society; in 1713 he collected subscriptions in England for the Huguenots released from the French galleys; and he died in London 30 Sept. 1713. La Mothe's father abjured protestantism, and his brother, Marin des Mahis, an ex-pastor become a canon of Orleans. La Mothe published 'Two Discourses relating to the Divinity of our Saviour,' London, 1693, 'The Inspiration of the New Testament asserted and explained,' London, 1694, and several treatises in French, one of them in defence of the Camisard prophets.” (DNB).

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 waterplants, 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.

Nashville, American Economic Association, 1977. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "The American Economic Review, June 1977". Entire issue offered. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 297-308. [Entire volume: Pp. (4), 261-535, (25)]. First printing of this groundbraking paper in which the Dixit-Stiglitz model was presented for the first time. The famous and exceedingly influential model of monopolistic competition: "transformed international trade theory, as it did other fields of economics, and provided one of the key building blocks for the new economic geography literature that developed in the 1990s." (Venables, Inequalities in Developing Countries). Joseph Eugene Stiglitz an American economist and a professor at Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001), former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management ofglobalization, free-market economists, whom he calls "free market fundamentalists", and some international institutions like theInternational Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Stiglitz is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world. Stiglitz has to a large extent been influenced Keynes and has himself influenced famous and influential economist such as Paul Krugman, Jason Furman and Stephany Griffith-Jones.

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.

A Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Cie, An XII (1804). 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. With the monogram of King Christian VII on red background on upper cover. VIII,434,(2) pp. and 20 large folded engraved plates. last 3 leaves and first plate with an inkspot in upper corner. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 2639.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 2, Erstes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Titlepage to vol. 2. Pp. 1-118 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Cavendish's paper: pp. 1-62. (the torsion balance of Michell shown on the plates). First German edition of Cavendish's famous paper in which he calculated the weight of the earth and determined its mass. He also, as the first, observed gravitational motion of minute portions of matter. He estimates the earth's mass to 6,6 x 10 to the potential of 24 kg. The original paper "Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth" appeared in Philosophical Transaction, 1798."Cavendish published five papers between 1784 and 1809...With one exception they were comparatively minor productions....The exception was his determination of the density of the earth or weighing of the world in 1798, by means of John Michell's torsion balance. The apparatus consisted of two lead balls on either end of a suspended beam; these movable balls were attracted by a pair of stationary lead balls. Cavendish calculated the the force of attraction between the balls fro the observed period of oscillation of the balance and deduced the density of the earth from the force. He found it to be 5.48 times that of water. Cavendish was the first to observe gravitational motions induced by comparatively minute portions of ordinary matter...By weighing the world he rendered the law of gravitation complete. The law was no longer a proportionally statement but a quantitatively exact one; this was the most importent addition to the science of gravitation since Newton."(DSB III, p. 158.).

Stadtamhof, Joh. Mich. Daisenberger, 1799. Small 8vo. Bound in a beautiful contemporary red full vellum binding with richly gilt spine and boards. Four raised bands to spine. Wide floral borders and the dated initials "M C D" and year "1802" to front board. All edges gilt. Wear to extremeties. Previous ownership entry to front free end paper ("Martin de Crignis/ von Aichach 1828/ geb: den 14/3 17." Text printed to immitate handwriting, within ornamental borders throughout, and headlines printed in red throughout. Printed on good paper. 304 (including frontispiece), (4) pp. A spendidly printed book in a magnificent vellum binging that been dyed bright red and with rich gilding.Aichach (or Aicha) is a small city in Bavaria, Germany, located north of Augsburg. The De Crignis family were merchants in this small city, dealing with spices, iron, and fabrics. From "Königlich Bayersches Intelligenz-Blatt für den Ober-Donau-Kreis 1833" it is evident that Martin De Crignis was appointed Major and Commander of the Batallion of Neuburg.

Wien & Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1893-94. Bound in 7 contemporary half calf bindings, all with slight shelfwear and library labels on spines. Volume 7 (maps) lacks front cover. With numerous frontisp., maps, plans, and illlustrations. Library stamps. Archduke Carl Ludwig Johann Joseph Lawrence of Austria, Duke of Teschen (September 5, 1771 in Florence, - 30 April 1847 in Vienna) was a general and a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He is remembered for the fact that he was the first to inflict defeat on Napoleon at the Battle of Aspern, 21/22. May 1809.