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Paris, Magimel, Anselin et Pochard, 1819. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf., gilt spines, title - and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. (4),CLIV,540;54-1288 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Stamp on titlepages

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770. 4to. Without wrappers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCLXVII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiques & de Physique, pour la même Année." Pp. 423-470 and 10 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition. The author here describes his invention of this microscope with full instructions for manufacture and with fine drawings of every part of the instrument on 10 fine plates.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1823. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 40 (Bd. 74), Viertes Stück. Pp. 337-440 a. 1 engraved plate. (The entire issue offered (Heft 4). Fraunhofer's paper: Titlepage to vol. 40 and pp. 337-378. Clean and fine First edition of this importent paper where Fraunhofer analyzed diffration phenomena and interpretet them in terms of a wave theory of light, leading him to formulate the GRATING EQUATION. - "In the paper in 1823, Fraunhofer revealed his continued invstigation of diffraction gratings. Using a diamont point, he could rule up to 3,200 lines per Parish inch. He continued his study of the effect of oblique reays, developed formulations based on the wave conception, and calculated a revised set of wavelenghts for the major spectral lines. Thus, his earlier observations of the dark lines in the solar spectrum enabled him to make the highly precise measurements of dispersions; then his ude of the wave theory of light allowed him to derive, with suitable simplifications, the general formulation of the grating equation still in use today." (Reese V. Jenkins in DSB).

Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1809. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 88),244;(2),200 pp., 4 folded tables, 8 "Beilagen" folded, 18 (of 20 ??) engraved plates (5+13) and 1 folded engraved map. Internally clean and fine. First edition.

Amsterdam, Ryckhoff le Fils, 1742-48. Bound in 3 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartments. A small nick to top of spine on last volume. 1 folded table. Printed on good paper. Clean and fine.

France (Paris ?), Undated, around 1765. Folio. (42,5 x 28 cm.). Loose inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 21 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. On good thick paper, clean and fine. Title-page, 4, (2), 19 pp.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1846. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Wear to top of spine. Some repairs to hinges. Stamp on title-page. VII,216;(4),VIII,98,VII,46 pp., 2 engraved maps and 42 engraved plates (mostly costal profiles). Internally clean and fine.

Braunschweig, Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 24. (Entire volume offered). A stamp on titlepage otherwise fine and clean. Pp.69-87. [Entire volume: IV,412 pp]. First apperance (simultaneously printed in Philosophical Magazine) of a fundamental paper in the development of the Quantum Theory, as it here was set forth three fundamental ideas: 1. Slater's idea of 'a Virtual radiation field', 2. statistical conservation of energy and momentum, and 3. statistical independence of the processes of emission and absorption in distant atoms. (See Van der Waerden "Sources of Quantum Mechanics" No. 5)."In an effort to reconcile the particulate and wavelike properties of radiation, Bohr, Kramers, and Slater in 1924 formulated a new quantum theory of radiation. According to their hypothesis, momentum and energy-are conserved only statistically in interactions between radiation and matter." (DSB).The present paper became a great influence to Bothe and his Compton collisions and the Coincidence method which eventually resulted in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1855. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlapage and verso. XV,194 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate with 12 figs. of guns. First and last leaves with a few brownspots, otherwise ine and clean. Very scarce first German edition of "Notice sur les Pistolets Tournants et Roulants...Paris 1854", which is one of the earliest treatises on the revolver, published only four years after Col. Colt's invention, and discussing the comparative merits of his, the Adams-Deane, Comblain, Mangeot-Comblain, Haaken-Plondeur, and a few other types, then in vogue. - Sotheran Bibliotheca Chemico.Mathematica No 21437.

Gera-Untermhaus, (1901). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. VI,432 pp.and 49 (each 38x28 cm.) fine chromolithographed plates, 5 of which depicts the eggs. , Anker no.356. The old text from the edition in 1822-60 has been preserved unaltered, corrections in footnotes. The figures for all the plates have been re-drawn and show the birds in their natural surroundings. Among the many artists are O.Kleinschmidt, J.G. Keulemans, O. van Riesenthal and others. The eggs are figured in a series of special plates, based on Eugene Rey's Collection.

(Paris, Crochard, 1818). Without wrappers as extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Par Guay-Lussac et Arago", Tome 9, pp. 160-80, pp. 225--267 and pp. 337-365. First printing of these 3 papers which represents Berzelius's discovery of Selenium. Berzelius "became a partner together with his friends Gahn and Palmstedt in the ownership of a factory near Gripsholm castle, manufacturing sulforic acid, vinegar, soap and white lead.During the summer of 1817 Berzelius spent an entire month supervising the manufacture. This lead to the discovery of a new elemen, Selenium, which he found in the form of a golden-brown sediment in the mud from the bottom of the lead chamber. This was an era when new elements could still be "scrabed of the walls....what had previously been known as "Swedish tellurium ore" was now found to be selenide of copper and silver with a 26 per cent selenium content." (Jorpes in "Jac. Berzelius. His Life and Works.p. 61-62)..

Darmstadt, J.W. Heyer, 1845-46. 8vo. a. folio-oblong. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Plates in clothbacked marbled boards. XX,332;XVI,320 pp. and 1 folded table. Atlas in folio-oblong with 30 lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots to textvolumes and browning to title-pages. Plates with some foxing and brownspots.

Kjøbenhavn, Gad, 1872-87. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 9 smukke private hshirtbd. med titel- og tomefelter i skind. Rygforgyldning. De to registre indbundet i et bind.

Basil, Tourneisen, 1788. 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Head of spine on vol. I neathly restored. A bit of edgewear. Stamp on title-pages. XII,302;(4),326 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Nürnberg, herausgegeben von J. D. Preissler, 1777, 1775, 1773 & 1778. Folio (358 x 230 mm). Four parts bound in one contemporary half calf with seven raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Binding with repairs. Notes in ink to pasted down front end-paper and front free end-paper. Occassional marginal soling throughout. A few plates with tears, otherwise a fine copy. (8) pp. + 14 plates (numbered: 1-3, 8-18) and 1 frontispiece; (8) pp. + 18 plates; (8) pp. + 18 plates; (8) pp. + 18 plates. Later edition (first being published in 1728-31) of this finely engraved instruction book for drawing human figures of all ages.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73 Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adults in a flowering bush. 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.

Halle, J.J.Gebauer, 1770. 4to. 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear along edges. Stamp on title-pages.Engraved frontisp. (6),28,2450 pp. 5 folded engraved maps and some textengravings. One map with a small closed tear. A few scattered brownspots. The copy has belonged to Christian Julius de Meza, bearing his name on both title-pages. First edition.

Westerås, Joh. L. Horrn, 1778-83. Indbundet i et samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Tome-og titelfelter i skind. 2 kobberst.titelblade med sigiller/byvåben. (12),108;(8),136 pp.

(Paris, Crochard, 1824). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 26, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-448 (entire issue offered). With htitle to volume 26. Amperes' paper: pp. 390-411 and 2 folded engraved plates. First appearence of the paper in which Ampere describes his invention of the SOLENOID, the electro-magnetic device he used in his early electrodynamical experiments."A solenoid is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix. In physics, the term solenoid refers to a long, thin loop of wire, often wrapped around a metallic core, which produces a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it. Solenoids are important because they can create controlled magnetic fields and can be used as electromagnets. The term solenoid refers specifically to a magnet designed to produce a uniform magnetic field in a volume of space (where some experiment might be carried out)."Poggendorff I, p. 29. - Ronalds, p. 10.

Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1836. 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Minor wear to lower back hinge. Tear to marbled paper of lower front board. Library stamps to pasted down front endpaper, verso of title-page, and last leaf. A few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. X,253 pp. + errata. The first edition of Bopp's Vocalismus in which he sums up his critical thoughts and previously published articles on J. Grimm and Graff."It seems to me only an expression of the natural common feeling which binds us together as a Philological Society, to take some notice of the death of one of the greatest philologists of our time, without whose life and labours, indeed, the Science of Language might not have been, or at least might not have elevated itself so high as to deserve that title, so soon or so indisputably... Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but Language itself..." (Russel Martineau, in: Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics 1746-1963).During the time before Bopp, the languages of the antiquity, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, had provided the key for unlocking many of the mysteries of the modern languages of Europe and Western Asia. But the languages of the East that had been preserved in a larger sense were only beginning to be known; Bopp saw, as one of the first that these languages might be of even greater importance. Sanskrit, Bopp realized, was the language that might provide the general light that should be thrown on formative process of language, and together with the other known languages that had been investigated, Greek, Latin, Persian, and the Germanic languages, Sanskrit would be able to provide us with the final unity in the variety that are present in the Western languages. And thus, Bopp decided to go to Paris to study Sanskrit (Paris was the only place it could be done) in 1812. Bopp studied Sanskrit here for five years, and in fact, he was among the first pupils to study under Chézy, the holder of the very first chair of Sanskrit (1815), together with Wilhelm von Humboldt and A.W. Schlegel. It is thus during his studies here that he writes his first work, which turned out to be a work of breakthrough. "Following up the discovery of Sir William Jones (235) of the kinship of the Indo-European languages, and building upon the recognition by Rask (266) of the phonetic agreements of the Germanic language group, Bopp in this, his first publication, proved the exact correspondence of the construction of the verb in five main branches of Indo-European languages. He thereby established the science of comparative linguistics..." (PMM 275).His first publication was regarded as being a very important contribution to the science of linguistics, and it secured him the chair of Oriental Languages at the university of Berlin (1821-64).Bopp wrote and published very little, but that which he did publish has remained of the utmost importance to the development of the science of comparative linguistics.With his idea of tracing the common origin of the grammatical form of the five languages, a task that no one had attempted before him, and by analysing those forms, Bopp became the provider of the first dependable materials for a history of the languages compared."Bopp's importance lies in the fact that he was no mere grammarian but considered comparative philology to be an essential part of the history of civilization: out of their vocabulary he drew an accurate picture of the material and intellectual life of the earliest Indo-European people." (PMM 275).

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1875. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Wear to top of spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Both works in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 5me Series - Tome IV. 572 pp. (The entire volume offered). Berthelot's works: pp. 5-131 a. 141-214 + pp. 445-537. Internally clean and fine. First appearance of this collection of Berthelot's famous memoirs on thermochemistry to which he turned his attention in 1865. In these lectures he introduced the concepts of 'exothermix' and 'endothermic'. He also intorduce his famous 3 principles - equivalence between internal and heat changes in chemical reactions, heat evolved or absorbed in a chemical change depends onlyon the initial and final states of the reactans and products, provided no external work is done, and "law of maximum work" which says that "every chemical change accomplished without the intervention of energy from outside tends towards the production of a body or system of bodies which produce the most heat". The principles of Thermochemistry given here Berthelot considered himself fundamental."In the 1860s Berthelot was done with synthesis and turned to thermochemistry, the study of the heat of chemical reactions. In some of his work he had unknowingly been anticipated by Hess, but he went much further. He devised a calorimeter within which he could measure the heat of chemical reactions and ran hundreds of determinations. This work along with that being conducted by Thomson threw the science of thermochemistry into high gear."(Asimov).

Dresden, G.C. Walter, 1768. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of back. Stamp on title. XVIII,252 pp., 3 folded tables and 20 engraved folded plates. The first 10 leaves with a dampstain on lower right corner. Some scattered brownspots and browning. The large plates fine and clean. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1130.

Skagen 14de Februar 1895". 1 side 8vo. "Desværre ser jeg mig ikke istand/ til at modtage nogen Be-/ stilling paa Portrætter, som/ De har været saa venlig at/ tiltænke mig. jeg har nemlig/ en lille Pige og vil ikke blive/ længere borte fra hende end/ de Dage jeg rejser for at se/ Billeder; jeg rejser da for at/ friske mit Syn lidt og maa/ saa have uindskrænket Frihed./ Takkende for Deres gode Me-/ ning om mig er jeg Deres/ ærbødige/ Anna Ancher. Et vidunderligt originalt håndskrevet og signeret brev fra en af de mest elskede og hædrede Skagensmalere, der både afslører, hvordan Anna Ancher arbejdede og fik inspiration samt hvordan hun så på rollen som mor. "Blandt de danske Skagensmalere står Anna Ancher (1859-1935) som den mest populære. I en periode, hvor kun meget få kvinder fik mulighed for at gøre sig gældende som kunstnere, havde hun modet til at træde ud af skabet, det skab, som 1800-tallets mandsdominerende offentlighed havde anbragt så mange talentfulde kvinder i. Men Anna Ancher var for original en kunstner til, at hun kunne gemmes af vejen og gøres til en hemmelighed. Med sine lysfyldte og koloristisk følsomme billeder beherskede hun kvinders verden som kun få - om overhovedet nogen."

Wien, Briffaut, 1755. Small 8vo. 5 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on titlepages. Engraved frontispiece (portrait) and 12 folded engraved maps and plans. In all ca. 1700 pp.

Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1752-1753. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary (original?) cardboard binding with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Extremities with light wear, boards with scratches. Internally nice and clean. (4), XLIV, 624 pp. + frontispiece; (4), 492, CXL pp.; (4), 450, CCII pp.; (4), 504, LXXXVIII pp.; (4), 555 pp.; (4), 448, CXXVII pp.; (4), 494, CLXXXVIII pp.; (2), 516, CXLIII pp. Later edition of this important source for the European diplomatic history during the reign of Louis XV. In addition to personal facts and annecdotes, these memoirs contain vast information on the courts of Europe, with a focus on the rupture between France and Spain.