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Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1832. 8vo. Indbundet i det originale papbind. Ryg pænt restaureret med resterne af den originale ryg påklæbet. En smule kantslid. Hjørner stødte. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Hansen til B.S. Ingemann på verso af fribladet. Noget brunplettet. Den særdeles sjældne originaludgave af F.J. Hansens (1810-1852) 'Digte', her med dedikation til B.S. Ingemann.

(Metz, Lithog. de l'Ecole d'Application de l'Artillerie et du Génie), 1844. 4to. Original lithographed wrappers. Uncut. 291 pp., 35 + 38 lithographed textillustrations. Clean and fine. Throughout in lithographed handwriting. "Beginning in 1824 Poncelet had essentially shifted his attention from geometry to applied mechanics. Although he had previously studied certain machines and ways of improving them, it was during the summer of 1824 that he achieved his first important innovation: the design and realization of an undershot waterwheel with curved paddles, which possessed a much increased efficiency. The paper he wrote on this subject gained him a prize in mechanics from the Académie des Sciences in 1825. After new trials conducted on full-scale models, he presented a revised version of his study in 1827. Yet, most of his activity at this period was devoted to elaborating and continually updating the course in mechanics applied to machines that he gave from 1825 to 1834." (DSB).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x37 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 3 birds seen in natural habitat with flowering reed-mace, water-lillies. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, 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.

(Paris, Crochard, 1824). Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 27, Cahier 3. Pp. 225-336. (Entire issue offered). Fourier's paper: pp. 236-281. First printing of this importent paper dealing with the "Green-House-Effect". It is the second paper from 1824 in which Fourier investigates the connection between the temperature of the earth and radiation. Fourier's analysis in these two papers is widely recognized as the first proposal of what is now known as the greenhouse effect theory.In the 1820s Fourier calculated that an object the size of the Earth and at its distance from the Sun should be considerably colder than the planet actually is if warmed only by the effects of incoming solar radiation. He examined various possible sources of the additional observed heat in articles published in 1824 (the paper offered is the second of the papers published 1824) and 1827. While he ultimately suggested that interstellar radiation might be responsible for a large portion of the additional warmth, Fourier's consideration of the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere might act as an insulator of some kind is widely recognized as the first proposal of what is now known as the greenhouse effect theory.

London, Lockyer Davis, 1767. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 61, part 1. Including title-page and advertisement of volume. A fine copy. Pp. (4), 451-60 + 1 folded engraved plate. First appearance of Timothy Lane's description of his discharging electrometer. He used it to determine the charge given to a Leyden jar by counting the number of sparks it received from the electrometer set at a constant gap. The instrument became popular in electrotherapy and was used to limit the power of the electrical discharge. (Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th & 18th Centuries).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1925. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", 32. Band. VI,951 pp., textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Heisenberg's paper: pp. 841-860. A small erased stamp on titlepage leaving two small holes, no loss of text. Internally clean. First appearance of Heisenberg's importent paper on the complex spectra of many-electron atoms, - the third paper Heisenberg submitted from Copenhagen on the Quantum Theory."The paper on multiplet structure and anomalous Zeeman effects..., contained a complete discussion of the problem at that time. This paper had the blessing of Niels Bohr; also Pauli, who wasin Copenhagen when the paper was completed, agreed with its overall content. The central goal of the paper was to formulate what Bohr called 'the stress (constraint), which is not analogous to the action of external forces' and to derive quantitative conclusions from it." (Mehra and rechenberg "The Historical development of Quantum Theory", vol. 2, p. 201).The volume contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Physics: W. BOTHE und H. GEIGER "Über das Wesen des Comptoneffekts, ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Theorie der Strahlung", pp. 639-663.

Liegnitz, David Siegert, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XX,586,(2) pp., 29 folded engraved plates. A few neath underlinings and annotations. Internally clean and fine.

København, Gyldendal, 1909. Lex8vo. Orig. komponeret helshirtbd. med rygforgyldning og guldtryk på perm. VI,670 pp. Rigt illustreret, portræt, opklæbede farveplancher, 1 kort. Yderst velbevaret, aldeles lydefrit eksemplar, indvendigt som udvendigt. Originaludgaven.

Breslau, Meyer, 1772-86. Part 1-8 bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. Part 9 -16 uncut in original stiff papercovers. In all ca. 2000 pp.

Kjøbenhavn, Owe Lynow, 1753. 8vo. Bound in an exquisite contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Gilt title- and tome labels. Old handwritten library label pasted to top of spine. Few scattered wormholes to spine and boards. Exlibris pasted to inside of front board. Title page with engraved vignette portrait of Vergil. Internally clean. A beautiful copy of Schönau's rare translation of Vergil's Eclogues (Bucolica), being the third translation of Vergil into Danish. The second and third volume, intended to contain the Georgics and the Aeneid, never appeared. Bibl. Dan. IV, 138.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adult in tree. J. Gould & W. Hart, 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.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938. Original hcloth. Orig. printed paper label title on spine. Uncut. Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. XI,(6),381 pp., 4 maps. Clean and fine. This is No. 176 of 200 copies of the special edition made for the Explorers Club. It is signed by Stefansson, Leacock (at end of the introcuction) and Rockwell Kent (at bottom of the frontispiece). A handwritten note says: "Above is the regular inscription.This copy is specially inscribed to Gaylord Beaman by Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the request of their friend Ralph Donaldson. New York March 11 1939." On inside frontcover the exlibris of A. Gaylord Beaman. First edition.

Leipzig, Liebeskind, 1802. Bound in a fine contemp. hcalf with richly gilt back, raised bands. XXIV,512 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate showing surgery instruments. Clean and fine. First edition. A fine copy.

Düsseldorf, in der Dänzerschen Buchhandlung, 1798 4to. Uncut in recent marbled boards with red leather title-label with gilt lettering so spine. Fine and clean. 71 pp. + engraved title-page. Rare first edition.

Paris, J.P. Costard, 1773. Bound in 6 cont. full mottled calf. Gilt backs. Backs lightly rubbed. 2 top of spine worn. One joint on vol 6 weak and stained on frontcover. With large engraved vignettes in the text. Barbier II:747.

Stockholm, Merckell, 1750 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, missing small part of leather to lower part of front board. Internally fine and clean. (18), 226 pp. (Including the double-page title-page in black and red with vignette). Rare first edition of this collection of tribute sermons and pangyrics of three Swedish princes, Prince Gustaf, Prince Carl and Prince Fredrik Adolph, born during King Frederick I's reign. OCLC only list two copies (in Stockholm, Sweden and Harvard, US).

Paris, Crochard, 1825. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 28, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 28. Pp. 225-336. Fresnel's paper: pp. 263-279 First appearance of this importent paper - the paper was only published in full in the Mémoires two years later - in which he applies the concept of transverse waves to double refraction and representing the final construction, in the form of an equation of the fourth degree.In the paper Fresnel also explained the fact, that in some cases of quartz the rotation of polarization is from left to right and in other cases from right to left.. He proposed the term 'helical' to denote the property of rotating the plane of polarization, exhibited by such bodies as quartz. The term 'natural rotatory polarisation' is however, generally used.The issue contains further J. Berzelius: "Examen chimique des eaux de Carlsbad, de Teplitz et de Konigswart", pp. 225-263 (first part) and J.F.W. Herschel "Sur certain Mouvemens produits dans les liquides conducteurs, lorsqu'ils transmettant le courant électrique", pp. 280-318.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Royal8vo. 3 contemp. hclaf. Richly gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. Spines very slightly rubbed. One frontcover detached from spine. Internally clean. Richly illustrated with plates and textillustrations. First edition in bookform.

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 60, 1930. Entire issue offered. Stamp to title page and light wear to extremities, one leaf detached, otherwise fine and clean. VIII, 871 pp. First appearance of Fermi's important paper on a quantitative theory of the hyperfine structures of spectrum lines which later was to be named 'Fermi Contact Interaction'. The present paper was considered one of his most important by the Nobel Prize commitee."Fermi contact interaction" is the magnetic interaction between an electron and an atomic nucleus when the electron is inside that nucleus.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1867. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 99. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25. First appearance of this importent paper, the results of which Maxwell later used as a crucial support for his electromagnetical theory of light."...The velocity of light c were measured by W. Weber and R. Kohlrausch in 1855 (the paper offered). They used an electrometer to determine the charge of a condnsor in electrostatic units, and a ballistic galvanometer to measure the same charge in electrodynamic units. The resulting value for c was in good agreement with that obtained by Fizeau in 1849, and Maxwell accordingly felt entitled to identify light and electromagnetic vibrations. This conclusion recalls Newton's identification of gravity with universal attraction: it was not only because they obeyed the same formal law, but also because both led to the same mathematical results, that Newton saw fit to combine them."(Taton, Réne in "History of Sciencein The Nineteenth Century", p. 163).

Paris, Bussod, Valadon et Cie, 1885-89. Folio. (46 x 36 cm.). Original full red cloth. Richly gilt spine and covers. Finely rebacked, preserving original spine. Corners a bit bumped. Stamp on foot of title-page. (8),128;(14,116 pp. Profusely textillustrated and with 60 fine colour-plates.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1869 - Vol. 159 - Part II. Pp. 575-590 and 1 plate. Clean and fine. First apperance of the paper in which Thomas Andrews announces his discovery of the "CRITICAL POINT", which states that for every gas there was a temperature above which pressure alone could not liquefy it."This was a crucial discovery for it pointed the way toward the liquefaction of the permanent gases by demonstrating the necessity of dropping the temperature below the critical point before exerting pressure. This new view led within half a century to the work of Dewar and Kammerlingh-Onnes and the liquefaction of all known gases."(Asimov).Magie: A Source Book in Physics, pp. 187-192. - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1869 C.

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 4. Titlepage to vol. 19. Pp. 337-442 a. 2 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Mitscherlich's paper: pp. 350-419. 2 large folded engraved plates (crystalforms). A few minor brownspots. First French edition - in the authors own form and translation - of Mitcherlich's announcment of his discovery of Isomorphism, stating that similar crystalline form reflect analogous chemical formulae, which Berzelius used in fixing the formulas of compounds. Mitcherlich was at this time an assistent to Berzelius, and the first printing of this classical paper appeared the same year in Akad. Handl., Stockholm. The paper was soon afterward printed in French (the paper offered) and English, and Berzelius discussed it in his "Jahresbericht", so that the work quickly became known. - Leicester & Klickstein pp. 306-08."The statement of the law of isomorphism...marks Mitscherlich's most importent contribution to chemistry - indeed, Berzelius considered Mitscherlich's discovery to be the most significant since that of chemical proportions. Berzelius himself found Mitscherlich's work to be of great use; he was at that time concerned with the determination of the atomic weights of the elements amd the law of isomorphism provided him with a valuable tool....Berzeluius' task was simplified by the application of Mitscherlich's law..."(DSB IX, p. 424).

[Various places and printer] ,1945 - 1974. Collection of 24 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Contained in a black kassett. A large collection of offprint by American physicist John Tukey known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Tukey's range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, Tukey's test of additivity and Tukey's lemma all bear his name."John Tukey's whole life was one of public service, and as the preceding quotes make clear, he had profound influence. He was a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee for each of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He was special in many ways. He merged the scientific, governmental, technological, and industrial worlds more seamlessly than, perhaps, anyone else in the 1900s. His scientific knowledge, creativity, experience, calculating skills, and energy were prodigious. He was renowned for creating statistical concepts and words. JWT's graduate work was in mathematics, but driven by World War II, he left that field to go on to revolutionize the world of the analysis of data. At the end of the war he began a joint industrial-academic career at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at Princeton University. Science and the analysis of data were ubiquitous. This split career continued until he retired in 1985. Even after retirement his technical and scientific work continued at a very high level.He is said to have introduced the terms: "bit", "linear programming", "ANOVA", "Colonel Blotto", and was first into print with "software". Of these efforts L. Hogben and M. Cartwright wrote, "The introduction by Tukey of bits for binary digits has nothing but irresponsible vulgarity to commend it." Tukey's word "polykay" was described as "linguistic miscegenation" by Kendall and Stuart because of its combining a Greek prefix with a Latin suffix. JWT did it again later with "polyspectrum". (Brillinger, John Wilder Tukey).