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London, R. H. Laurie, 1842. 8vo. In contemporary (Original?) coardboard binding with cloth backstrip. A stamp to spine and two stamps to front board. Three small stamps to title-page. Wear to extremities, internally fine. XXIV, (1)-265, (1) pp. Ninth edition of Purdy's pilot to the English Channel.

Frankfurt, Schleich & Klein, 1643. 12mo. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Vague marginal dampstain affecting first leaves, but overall a nice and clean copy. (22), 650 pp. + 1 engraved plate. German translation, first published in 1638, of Daniel Dyke’s “Mystery of Self-Deceiving”. “All of Dyke’s treatises were published posthumously by his brother, Jeremiah Dyke, vicar of Epping, mostly from 1614 to 1618. Daniel Dyke’s most frequently reprinted book, The Mystery of Self-Deceiving, based on Jeremiah 17:9, is a detailed anatomy of the “gospel-hypocrite,” i.e., one who claims to know Christ but whose life reveals little self-knowledge and no fruit. Thomas Fuller, a noted historian and a younger contemporary of Dyke, said the book “will be owned for a truth, whilst men have any badness [in them], and will be honored for a treasure, whilst men have any goodness in them.” (Beeke, Meet the Puritans). The work was translated into German by Theodore Haak (1605 – 1690), a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. In 1625, Haak travelled to England where he visited Oxford and Cambridge Universities. A year later he returned to Germany and he brought back from England a copy of Daniel Dyke's ‘Mystery of Self-Deceiving’, which he shared with his Protestant circle. Haak translated it into German in 1638.

Baltimore & London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1976. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. A very fine and clean copy. First printing of Saunders and Warford's landmark report on village water supply and its consequences on health and economy, which "became a benchmark for World Bank policy on rural water supply over the subsequent decade". (Cairncross , Domestic Water Supply in Rural Africa).It initiated a never before seen focus on the character and extent of the problems connected with water supply, sanitation and the relevant economics. Not only did it set the standard for the World Bank, to a large extent it also formed the UN-policy on the subject.

(Paris, Victor Masson, 1849). Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Troisieme Series - Tome 26. Cahier 3-4. Pp. 299-528 a. 2 folded engraved plates, showing apparatus used.(Entire issues offered). The joint paper takes up both issues. With half-title to tome 26. First appearance of this classic paper, which contains extensive comparative studies of respiration and calorimetry. They refined Lavoisier's experiments on measuring the oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production of animals and calculated the first good ratios of what came to be called the "RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT". It was the use of the apparatus and methods developed here, that enabled scientists the world over to gain some understanding of utilization of energy by many different animals.The inspiration for the space age scientific novel by JULES VERNE "De la Terre a la Lune" (1865) was based on the methods described by Regnault and Reiset in this paper to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide produced by men, dogs and chickens in the "projectile". The paper is cited several times in this famous novel.The species study in the Regnault and Reiset collaboration included warm-blooded animals, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits as well as hibernating and non-hibernating marmots. Cold-blooded animals , such as frogs, salamanders, reptiles and lizards were also described...In over 100 experiments their assays included the effects of temperature, season, diet, level of nutrition, compositionof air, sex, hibernation, age, body weights and other variables onrespiratory exchange and nitrogen exhalation or absorption (Based on W. Flatt & W. Payne).Garrison & Morton: 932.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 41, No 15. Pp. (537-) 563. (Entire issue offered). Babbage's paper: pp. 557-560. Some faint, mostly marginal brownspots. First printing of this importent paper being babbage's report on the Scheutz differnce calculator, explaining its functions by way of his own notations."Babbage's report on the differnce engine built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheuts (1785-1873) and his son Edvard (1821-81), based on Babbage's own designs.... In 1854 the Scheutzes took their engine no. 2 to England in the hopes of marketing it. There they were introduced to Babbage, who received them with great friendliness and showed a lively interest in their work. Babbage devoted two whole days to investigating Scheutz' engine for which he had much praise, especially for the way they had succeeded in building it with the funds at their disposals.... As part of his effort to promote the Scheutz Engine, Babbage gave a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences, illustrated with drawings by his son henry, in which Babbage's system of mechanical notation was used to describe the machines construction and functions. This talk was published (the paper offered) without illustrations in the Academie 'Comptes rendus'. ((Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyberspace", No. 73).

Antverpen, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1608. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. Ms title on spine. 230;817,(5) pp. Plantin's woodcut device on both titlepages and on last leaf verso. Printed on good paper. Internally fine and clean. First edition. Beautifull Plantin-imprints - Graesse I;458. - Not in Brunet.

Pennsylvania, The American Institute of Physics for the Acoustical Society of America, 1959. 4to. In the original yellow printed wrappers. In "The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America", Vol. 31, No. 9, September, 1959. Pp. 1253-56. [Entire volume: xii, 1161-1296 pp]. A fine and clean copy. First edition of the important paper in which Ehmer described a complete set of auditory curves, which are regarded as the earliest contribution to the later development of digital audio files, MP3, today used in all iPods and digital music players. The MP3 algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called auditory masking, as introduced in the present paper.Moving Picture Experts Group (hence the names: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 (or III), more commenly referred to as MP3), began development of the digital audio system "1 Audio Layer 3" in 1959, when Richard Ehmer first came up with the idea of auditory masking. It was, however, not until 1989, when Oscar Borello at the University of Buenos Aires, developed the first fully working device to play digital audio files, that it became a reality. The first personal MP3 player was released in September 1995 and when Nullsoft's audio player Winamp came in 1997 its popularity increased tenfold. The MP3-file is probably the most disputed and infamous - in the eyes of large record labels - computer related development ever released. The MP3 made it easy to exchange music, legal as well as illegal; major record companies started arguing that free sharing of music caused fewer sales, and they initiated lawsuits, the most famous being Napster.To this day the MP3-file is probably the most used and exchanged file in the entire history of the electronic computer.

Mailand, kaiserl: königl: Buchdruckerey, 1827. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine-ends with wear and with a crack (2 cm.). A label taped to lower part of spine. Engraved frontispiece (aquatint). XVI,327 pp., 22 folded lithographed plates. Internally fine, but with faint scattered marginal brownspots.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837). No wrappers. Extracted fron "Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. I. Pp. 540-547. Henry's milestone paper announcing his discovery of electrical self-induction. "Henry independently discovered electro-magnetic induction and in this paper announced his discovery of electric self-induction, one of the prime properies of an electro-magnetic circuit. Henry was an eminent experimenter but was casual in publishing his findings with resulting lack of recognition of his contributions."(Bern Dibner).Dibner "Heralds of Sciece", No.63.It was also printed the same year in "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 5". The paper was later printed in "Philosophical Magazine", 1840."The direction of Henry’s thought became somewhat apparent in his 1835 paper (refers to the papers reading before the American Phil. Soc., febr. 6th, 1835) on the action of a spiral conductor in increasing the intensity of galvanic currents. The paper started out as an affirmation of Henry’s priority in the discovery of self-induction. He then combined induction proper (using Faraday’s findings and his own) with selfinduction to show how these produce a pattern of repulsions yielding an increased effect in spirals. He specifically linked these “magneto-electrical” results to the principles of static induction developed by Cavendish and Poisson. This explanation was then applied to Savary’s report of changes of polarity when magnetic needles were placed at varying distances from a wire in which a current was being transmitted ("Mémoire sur l’aimantation," in Annales de chimie et de physique, 34 [1827],. That is, currents appeared periodically in the air surrounding a current-bearing straight wire as a result of the actions of induction and self-induction." (DSB).Wheeler Gift: 2724-2725a.

Dublin, T. Ewing, 1771. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (4),295 pp. Clean and fine. Scarce second edition of "the first scientific study of chemical processes employing bleaching. Written at the request of the board of trustees for the Improvement of fisheries and mnufactures in North Britain, the text was read to and the 135 experiments described herin were performed before "the bleachers of this country"." ((Neville. Historical Chemical Library, I, p.653).

Flensburg, David Korte, 1736. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryg, kapitæl restaureret. False svage, men ikke itu. Bindet med brugsspor. Kobberstukket frontisp. med byplan og prospekt samt tekstkobbere. (22),746 pp. + Index + Appendix. En del sider noget brunede p.g.a. papirkvaliteten, særligt forrest. Originaludgaven. Bibl. Danica II:706.

Kiøbenhavn, Høpffner, (1777). 4to. Without wrappers. With paper back-strip. King Christian III's wax seal to last leaf. Fine and clean. 14, (2) pp. Originaltrykket. I 1772 kunne Asiatisk Kompagni bygge på mere end hundrede års ubrudt kontinuitet, både hvad angik koloniadministration og handel. Dets administration af Tranquebar, Serampore og mindre loger i Bengalen og på Malabarkysten blev i 1777 overtaget af kronen. Det betød en mærkbar besparelse på kompagniets budget, men ikke ændrede vilkår for dets indiske handel.

(No place, but presumably Paris), 1765. Folio. (42,5 x 26 cm.). Sheets loosely inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 15 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. On good thick paper, clean and fine. Fine manuscript for square hides for calibers 16, 12 and 8.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1904. With orig. printed wrappers (no backstrip) to 4. Heft, 59. Bd. of "Mathematische Annalen". The issue: pp. 449-572. Zermelo's paper: pp. 514-516. First appearence of this fundamental paper in metamathematics and mathematical logic. By this paper Zermelo contributed decisively to the development of set-theory. Zermelo took up the problem, left over by Cantor, of what to do about the comparison of sets that are not well-ordered. "In 1904 (the paper offered) he proved....that every set can be well-ordered. To make the proof he had to use what is now known as the axiom of choice (Zermelo's axiom), which states that given any collection of nonempty, disjoined sets, it is possible to choose one member from each set and so make up a new set. The axiom of choce, the well-ordering theorem, and the fact that any two sets may be compared as to size, are equivalent principles."(Morris Kline). A controversy arose around "The axiom of Choice", from Bertrand Russell, Tarski, Frege, Hilbert, Brouwer and others, mainly, and of course importent, over how to interpret the words "choose" and "exists".

Berlin, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1787. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one modest contemporary cardboard-binding. Paper title-label to spine. Wear to extremities, some of the marbled paper worn of. Spine partly split. Internally fine and clean. XXX, 360, 416 pp. + frontispiece. Rare first edition of Professor Burja's early textbook on geometry.

Aalborg, J.P. Holtzberg, 1757. Lille8vo. Samtidigt helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning (forgyldningen svag), forgyldt skindtitel. Hjørner stødte. Bindet med lettere brugsspor. (10),310 pp. Siderne lettere brunede. Enkelte tilskrifter i gl. hånd (Rist ?). Har tilhørt P.F. Rist (1870) og tidligere F.F. Speer (1830). Originaltrykket af den første egentlige Helsingør-beskrivelse.

Paris, Crochard, 1832. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Light wear along edges. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2e Series, vol. 51. (Entire volume offered). 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Faraday's letter: pp. 404-434. Internally clean and fine. First printing of Faraday's famous letter to Gay-Lussac in which he claim to be the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, analysed the results of the Italian philosophers, pointing out their errors, and defending himself from what he regarded as imputations on his character. The style of this letter is unexceptionable, for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard. The letter was later translated into English and published in "Philosophical Magazine" in 1840 under the title "On Magneto-electric Induction"."In 1831, seemingly out of nowhere, came the discovery of electromagnetic induction and the beginning of the experimental researches in electricity which were to lead Faraday to the discovery of the laws of electrochemistry, specific inductive capacity, the Faraday effect, and the foundations of classical field theory." (DSB). The volume contains further importent papers by AMPÈRE "Note sur une Experience de Hippolyte Pixii, relative au Courant produit par la Rotation d'un aimant, à l'aide dün appareil imagine par M. Hippolyte Pixii", WÖHLER et LIEBIG "recherches sur le Radical de l'Acide benzoique" and "Lettre de M. Berzelius sur le Benzoyle et l'Acide benzoique", papers by Strohmeyer, Gay-Lussac, Dutrochet, Boussingault, BERZELIUS "Sur le Bleu de Prusse et le Cyanoferrure de plomb" etc. etc.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1808. Unbound, but stitched. XL,140 pp. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...Hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann. 33. Bd.:2 Theil).

A la Haye, Pierre de Hondt (et Jacques van den Kieboom), 1735-40. Small 8vo. Uncut in 6 cont. marbled wrappers, backs worn, some strenghtened with tape on backs. (In all more than 3.600 pp.). Occasional some faint dampstainings. The 12 titlepages in red/black. First French edition.

Darmstadt, Litho. Anst. Fromann, 1836-38 (40). Folio-oblong. (39,5 x 51 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Spine worn. Corners weared down. With 37 outlinecoloured lithographed maps. Numbered II-XXXVI (Titlepage numb. I lacks, and 2 extra maps numbered XXVIII b and XXXI b present (XXXI b, dated 1840), most of the other maps dated 1836, 1837 a. 1840). The maps having, sometimes rather heavely, dampstaining throughout. 2 maps with closed tears. A map added, not belonging to the atlas "Charte und Meilenzeiger Daenemark mit Schleswig. Holstein. Lauenburg. Entworfen von Euard v. Grubl. Flensburg 1837". Some brownspots and a bit of lower right corner gone. First edition of Glaser's world-atlas, where the lacking title-page should be dated 1839. "The map sheets were to a large extent modeled on Stieler's handatlas. The maps were not simple copies, however. They were newly drawn, as can be seen, for example, in fact that some sheets were rotated 90 degrees. Glaser also chose to use a map sheet measuring 40,6 x 49,5 cm., a larger format than that of the Stieler, whose sheets at that time were 36,3 x 44,2 cm. This enabled him to use a somewhat larger scale than that found in the STIELER."(Jürgen Espenhorst, Petermann's Planet, p. 1013).

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1865. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 4e Series - Tome VI. 512 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Berthelot's papers: pp. 292-328, 329-441 a. pp. 442-464. Clean and fine. First appearance of the three importent papers in which Berthelot founded the science of thermochemistry."Bertholet enunciated the principle that the heat evolved or absorbed in a chemical change depends only on the initial and final states of the reactants and products, provided no external work is done. This is Bertholet's second principle analogous to Hess's law of constant heat summation. He based this principle on the assumption of an equivalence between internal work (le travail moleculaire) and heat changes in a chemical reaction (Bertholet's first principle)."(DSB II, p.69.)."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).

Paris, Bachelier, 1840 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome X , No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. (143-) 207. Dumas' paper: pp. 149-178. First appearance of this paper, which was published the same year in 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', is the most importent on the theory of structural types and the nomenclature of organic compounds, refuting the electrochemical theory of Berzelius. "The development of this idea (type organique) into what is sometimes called the "Older Type Theory", as distinguished from Gerhardt's Type heory, is contained in Dumas' importent memoir on the substitution and the theory of types, presented on 3 febriary 1840."(Partington IV, p. 365). "Jean Baptiste Dumas advances a theory that the chemical properties of an organic compound are determined by its structure and not, as seems to be the case with inorganic compounds, by its electrical properties. he illustrates the concept with the example that the basic qualitative properties of acetic acid are retained even after replacing three fourths of the hydrogen by chlorine. As a consequence, he calls for a revision of chemical nomenclature for organic compounds, basing terms on common features, not on elemental composition."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1840 C).

Lyon, J. Frellon, 1550. Folio (350 x 235 mm). In contemporary limp vellum. Title in contemporary hand to spine and front edge. Binding soiled and with stains. Inner hinges split. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to spine. With a few dampstains thoroughout. 4 ff., 1526 collumns, 16 ff. Wanting the blanks. Later edition of Bude’s influential Greek-Latin dictionary.

Lund, leipzig, Gleerup, Harrassowitz, 1906-29. Indbundet i 5 smukke private hldrbd. Ca. 2250 pp. helt frisk eksemplar.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, Waltherischen Buchh., 1764. 8vo. Cont. blank boards with old rebacking. Large uncut copy. A faint waterstain in outher margins on the first ab. 10 leaves. 48,718 pp. A few scattered brownspots, but fine. First German edition of Astruc's famous work on venereal diseases originally written i latin as "De morbis venereis..." 1736. The German edition having the importent "Anhang", first published in the third French edition, on chinese Medicine and terminology "Von der Beschaffenheit der Venusseuche in China,; derselben Benennung, Zufälle und Kurirart.""Considering the period in which is was written, this is an admirable and comprehensive book on the subject. It includes a useful review of the existing literature. Of Syphilis, Astruc says that it made its appearance in 1493." (Garrison & Morton No 5195). - Not in Waller and not in Wellcome.