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Paris, E.Dentu, 1875-78. 4 cont. modest hcalf. Stamp on titles. Handwritten paperlabels on backs. 507,455,428,624 pp. and more than 100 maps, partly folded. Occasional lightly brownspotted, but in general good.

Paris, henri Plon et J. Dumaine, 1858-63. 8vo. Bound in 13 contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spines. One volume lacks a bit of leather on spine. Slightly rubbed. With the bookplate of the Danish king Frederik VII in gilt on all covers. Some scattered brownspots.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944, 1945 & 1948. 8vo. 3 issues of "The Bell System Technical Journal" offered. 1944, July, Vol. XXIII, No. 3; 1945, January, Vol. XXIV, No. 1; 1948, January, Vol. XXVII, No. 1. All in the original printed blue wrappers. Some wear and sunning to spine, otherwise fine and clean copies. Pp. 282-332; 46-156; 109-157. First printings of all three papers that together describe the Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. The present series of papers is considered a classic within the field of statistics and probability theory. The Rice distribution is an extension of the Rayleigh distribution that adds a coherent signal to the backscattered signal that underlies the Rayleigh distribution.The model is named after Stephen O. Rice who worked at Bell Labs for nearly forty years. His most famous and influential publication is the present article; in 1983 he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. "In 1944 and 1945, S. O. Rice published a monumental study of noise, generally regarded to be the single most useful source of information about Gaussian noise." (Millman, A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 41).

London, John Weale, 1839. Royal8vo. 2 Contemp. modest hcalf. With the orig. printed frontwrappers pasted on frontboards. Stamp on title-pages. 2 engraved title-pages. VIII,80,88,72;140 pp., 1 engraved plate. Platevolume with 59 engraved plates as belonging to vol. I (numbered between 1-103), mostly large and multiple-folded. Plates with scattered brownspots.

Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1690. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine. Leather on spine slightly cracked and boards with a few scratches. Crowned ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. First leaves with dampstain and slightly brownspotted throughout. (4), 138, (10), 395 pp. Uncommon first edition of Rosemond’s work on the tumultuous period in English history, centered on the reign of King Edward II (1307–1327). Edward II faced numerous challenges, including his reliance on unpopular persons like Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser which led to dissatisfaction among the English nobility.

København, 1839-42. Samtidigt halvlæderbind med forgyldt titel på ryg. Første blade en smule brunplettede, ellers pænt eksemplar. 35,62,89,78,36 pp. Originaludgaverne. Allerede det første nummer vakte røre, han blev straks sat under tiltale og idømtes censur og bøder - yderst sjælden.

Kiøbenhaffn, Peter Hake, 1648. 4to. Samtidigt helllæderbd. Rig rygforgyldning på ryg. Titlen, som er trykt i rødt/sort er tæt beskåret, med en smule tab. Forsatsblade med navntræk. Lidt spredte småpletter, men ellers velbevaret eksemplar. (60),407,(17) pp. Bibl. Danica I:281 - Thesaurus: 437. Ciegler var pastor i Riga, og bogens oversætter Lauritz Christensøn (Rhod) var i længere tid rådmand og borgmester i Helsingør.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1759). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres", Année 1757, tome XIII, pp. a. 1 engraved plate. First printing of an importent paper in which Euler shows how to manufacture catoptrical telescopes and microscopes in accordance with general rules and founded on his own experiments. - The calculation concerning light ray aberrations, brought about due to the sphericty of the glass, is a masterpiece of analysis of the highest order and he also incorporates the mathematical theory of achromatic combination of lenses, which was first realized by Dollond in the same year, 1757.

Paris, Barrois l'aine, (An) 8 (1800-) AN 14 (1806). 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Paperlabels pasted on top of spines. Slightly rubbed. Some edgewear. Stamps on title-pages. XII,499,(1);280 pp., 76 large folded engraved plates (40 + 36). Scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan : 2717 (Ed- 1792-99).

Flensburg, 1840-42. Bound in 2 later solid hcalf. XVI,1708 pp.

London, Porter, 1899. Small 4to. Orig. pictorial cloth gilt. Slight wear to top a. bottom of spine. Top edge gilt. Chromolithogr. frontisp. XIV,335 pp, 88 plates a. 2 fold. maps. Wood p. 514. The text is principally ornithological, Appendix containing a list of the species of birds observed by the party.

Milan, Chez L'Auteur, 1881. 8vo. In ccontemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to top of front board. Paper-label pasted on to lower part of spine. Two small paper-labels pasted on to lower part of front free end-paper. Two stamps to title-page. With author's presentation-inscription to the Danish Minister of War: "A' Son Excellence / Le Ministre de la Guerre / de C M Roi / Hommage de l'Auteur". Very light miscoloured to lower margin, otherwise a fine copy. 17 pp. + 1 folded plate. Rare first edition of Salmoiraghi's work on Rangefinders (Télémétre). Angelo Salmoiraghi was a student of Ignaz Peter Paul Porro (1801-75) who in the 1860s in Turin opened the "Officina Filotecnica" (workshop and school of optics, instrument building and fine mechanics). Salmoiraghi bought his teacher's Milan-based "Società Filotechnica" and renamed it to "Filotecnica Salmoiraghi". The company still exists today under the name of "Salmoiraghi & Viganò".

London, For the Author by Simkin and Marshall, 1829. Contemp. hcalf. Spine profusely gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. XII,616 pp., 1 engraved plate (a faint dampstain in lower right corner of plate), textillustrations. A few scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition by the "father of colloid chemistry". Althougt stated to be "Second Edition", no earlier edition is known, and the wording of the Preface (which is dated Febr. 1829) certainly suggest that this is the first edition."In the present work he claims to have greatly improved on the "Chemical Catechism" of Samuel Parkes by arranging the subject in a more logical order abd introducing sections on plant and animal chemistry, which were omitted by Parkes. There is an interesting chapter on atomic theory, with reference to Higgins and Dalton. At the end is a useful vocabulary of chemical terms." (Neville. Historical Chemical Library, I, p.544).

Paris, Cosse et Marchal, 1861-72. Bound in 7 uniform cont. hcalf. Backs a little rubbed. Internally fine. Ca. 5000 pp.

(Stockholm, Bröderna Lagerströms Förlag, 1913). Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Ubeskåret. Omslaget med et par meget svage brunpletter. 61,(1) pp. Indvendig frisk. Originaludgaven af Lagerkvists berømte "manifest", som i radikalt omfang ændrede tidens litterære ideer og hermed blev den svenske modernismes kampskrift og inspirationskilde.

(København, Bianco Luno, 1953). 4to. (31,5 x 26,5 cm.). Originalbindet med svær metalryg og hænslede false. Permer i shirt. Ca. 500 pp. med fanemarkeringer til kapitlerne. I lommen til slut er indlagt Formular, Regneskive, Dækark. I fin stand.

(København, 1861). 4to. No wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Nice and clean. (3) pp. + pp. 156-175. First printing of Thomsen's influential paper in which he "fund that the electromotive force can be used to calculate the mechanical work necessary for separating a compound into its elementary particles. In many instances, by measuring the electromotive force Thomsen obtained the same value for the affinity as in previous calorimetric experiments, but in other instances a difference was found. It is now known that the electrochemical measurements are theoretically correct, not the calorimetric ones." (DSB, XIII, 359 p.)

Kbhvn., 1893-1908. Folio. 6 orig.hshirtbd. Kapitæler slidte med rifter og bd. II løs i ryg og revnet fals. Rigt illustr.

Hagæ Comitum (Den Haag), Adriani Vlacq, 1654. Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum with a faint handwritten title on spine. A nick to vellum at the handwritten title. Some soiling to spine and lower part of upper cover. Engraved titlepage (loosening). (14),314,(4) pp., textiillustrations in woodcut (some full-page) and 9 engraved plates (some folding). Scattered brownspots, mostly at end. First reprint, the Vlacq-print, from the same year as the original from Copenhagen, and having the same plates as this. The Copenhagen edition was followed by Centuria III-IV and V-VI. This collection of papers in various departments of medicine and anatomi, deals mainly with human and animal monsters.Gosch III,p.43. ("Denne Udgave er maaske at betragte som en Originaludgave samtidig med den kjøbenhavnske")

Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1925. Small folio. Orig. full red calf. Profusely gilt spine and with gilt lettering to spine and boards. Boards with double line gilt borders. (8),343,(4) pp.With 172 illustr. on fine collotype plates. Internally fine and clean.

Utrecht, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1765. Fine contemp. full mottled calf. Spine richly gilt. (8),275 pp. Internally clean and fine. Last leaf with a small loss of paper in outher margin. One leaf with a small hole in text. The work was first published in Russia in 1763, and in 1765 published in three different places in Europe. This fundamental work was written at the height of Voltaire's famous fight to "écraser l'Infame", which denoted fanatism, superstition and intolerance; it also symbolized Christianity, which he considered the most barbaric and cruel of all religions.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1834). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part II. Pp. 425-470 a. 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First appearance of a historical paper in chemistry and physiscs in which Faraday brings forth the idea "that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." He showed how natural it is to suppose that the electricity which passes through the electrolyte is exact equivaklent of that which is possessed by the atoms separated at the electrode: which implies that there is A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE QUANTITY OF THE ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATED WITH EACH ATOM OF MATTER.- Faraday further verifies, that the electricity of the violtaic pile is proportionate in its intensity to the intensity of the affinities concerned in its production. - Dealing with the the decompositions in electrolysis, he shows that THE FORCES TERMED CHEMICAL AFFINITY AND ELECTRICITY ARE THE SAME.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).

Leipzig und Liegnitz, David Siegert, 1767. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small nick to one raised band. Stamp on title-page. XCVI,394,(6) pp., 25 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. Struensee's translation of "Les Reveries; ou Mémoires sur L'Art de la Guerre". - Klaus jordan, 2625.

Leipzig, J.C. Hinrischen Buchhandlung, 1837. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. 32 pp. and 42 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots to textleaves. First edition. The plates depict a great amount of construction details in building with wood.

Paris, Barrois l'âine & Fils, AN XI (1803). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. 12,186 pp. and 20 large folded engraved plates (one plate with military signatures handcoloured). A few brownspots, but fine. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 856.