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Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1802-(1803). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 10, Viertes Stück. (The entire issue offered (= Stück 4). Titlepage to vol. 10. Pp. 389-512 a. 1 engraved plate. + Extract from Ergänzungsheft zum Jahre 1802. (=Zweite Abhandlung). Volta's papers: pp. 421-449 a. pp. 497-520. Very light browning to 2. Abhandlung. First appearance in German of Volta's importent paper in which he describes the electrical forces that acts between the metal-plates in the Voltaic Pile. The German publication was printed in the same year as the Italian original "Sull' identita del Fluido Elettrico col Fluide Galvanico", 1802."A long memoir by Volta in two parts...reports that by measuring the electrometer deflections with different pairs of metals he found that the forces which drive the electric fluid...from the first metal to the second are: silver/copper 1, copper/iron 2, iron/thin 3, lead/tin 1, lead/zinc 5. Then the force for silver/zinc in immidiate contact is 12 (1+2+3+1+5), copper/tin 5 (= 3+2), iron/zinc 9 (5+1+3), etc. Thus 'the force or impulsion with which two metals act on the electric fluid is equal to the sum of the forces of the series of metals which stands between them, and...the electric force is the same as that which arises when the two extreme metals have no effect on the force of the latter'. This is the first statement of what Maxwell called 'Volta'slaw of contact electricity'..."(Partington IV, p.15.).

Paris, Bailly, 1770. Bound in 2 nice contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. On upper boards the monogram in gold of the Danish King Christian VII on a red background. Stamp on foot of title-pages. (8),XVI,506,(6);(4),480,(2) pp., 4 folded engraved maps and plans, 2 engraved plates (sometimes bound as frontispieces), Eisen Inv., engraved by Longueil. Printed on good paper, clean and fine.

Leipzig, Barth, 1826. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. light wear along edges. Stamp on foot of title-page. XXII,302;(4),370,(2) pp., 14 folded engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots. The work was also published as Dritter Theil von "Lehrbuch der Artilleriewissenschaft. Aus dem Spanischen des D. Thomas de Morla. Zweite umgearbeitete und vermehrte Ausgabe." The offered copy has also these title-pages withbound.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1865. Contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. Light wear along edges and small scratches to pine. XVI,550 pp., 20 woodcut illustr. in the text and 1 plate with 16 samples in colour. Internally fine and clean. First edition of this pioneer-work in occupational- and industrial hygiene.

Halle, Anton und Gelbcke, 1830. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Slightly rubbed. In: "Neues Jahrbuch er Chemie und Physik. Herausgegeben von W. Schweigger-Seidel", Bd. II und III. XVI,496 pp. a. 5 folded engr.plates. + XVIII,502 pp. a. 5 folded engr. plates. Ohm's paper: pp. 385-435 (Bd. II) + pp. 32-59 (Bd. III). First appearance of this importent paper in which Ohm for the first time shows that unipolarity is a kind of polarization which he calls "Gegenspannung"

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1802. Unbound, but stitched. (1),VII,XXX,240 pp. and 1 (of 2) large folded engraved map "Friedrich Hornemann's Reise von Aegypten nach Fezzan mit den anliegende Küsten undGegenden. Verfasst von J. Rennell, 1802." (30x62 cm.), handcoloured in outline. First edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 7. Bd.: 1..Theil). Also having the Series-title, this with a stamp.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1873. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Light wear to spine ends. Hinges on volume 2 weakening, but still holding. (4),578,(2);(4),603 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1776. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Occassional brownspotting throughout. (28), 308, (2); (2), 326, (6]) pp. + folded map. Swedish translation of Fréville's 'Hhistorie des Nouvelles Découvertes...', first published in Paris in 1774, being an abdriged version of Alexander Dalrymple's 'Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean". Regarding the map Kroepelien notes: "it was issued sometime after the publication of both volumes and is thus frequently missing."Kroepelien 471Beddie 721Hill 411Sabin 25913 (1774-edition)

La Haye, Jean van Duren, 1740 e. 1742. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on first title-page. Engraved frontispiece. 152,(8) pp., 12 folded engraved plates. + Engraved frontispiece. VIII,104 pp., 11 folded engraved plates. Engraved title-vignettes. Title-pages in red and black. Internally clean and fine. Both first edition.

Copenhagen, N. Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Binding somewhat rubbed. (12),183 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. A faint dampstain in top and bottom of plates. Text clean with broad margins, printed on good paper. First German edition. - Klaus Jordan No 1253.

(Copenhagen), ca. 1820. Paper-size: 58,5 x 95,5 cm. Plan etc: 52 x 88,5 cm. Large plan over the fortifications surrounding Köln, plan profiles and many details. Pen and ink with watercolour. It is sketched after memory, but the author has been on the spot. A small closed tear to folding at top. With scales.

Kjøbenhavn, J.D. Qvist, 1852. Indbundet ubeskåret med orig. for-og bagomslag i et smukt nyere hldrbd. af sort maroquin med rygtitel i guld. (Ove Christiansen). XVI,77,(3) pp. Foromslaget med et par ganske små hak. Et ualmindeligt velholdt og rent eksemplar. Den meget sjældne originaludgave af Dreiers filosofiske hovedværk, hvori han giver en fremstilling sin materialistiske filosofi, idet formålet var en angreb på "Aandetroen", den almindelige Kristendom.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XII, 1756. Pp. (2), 165-234 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. Having the Section-titlepage "Mémoires.... Classe de mathématique" First printing of Euler's importent large memoir in which he develops the mathematical theory of windmills, and generates analytically the equations of the effects of winds on duoble-bended surfaces in relation to mechanical work, a founding work in the mathematical theory of wind wheel theory. Enestroem E 233.

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1821. Contemp. Hcalf. Minor scratches to spine. In: "Annals of Philosophy; or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics, Natural History... By Thomas Thomson.", New series Vol. I. VIII,479 pp. a. 7 engraved plates. (Entire volumes offered). Herapath's papers: pp. 273-293, 340-351 a. 401-416. First printing of these contoversial papers where Herapath revived the kinetic theory of gases. His theory was more or less neglected by the scientific community at his time. The kinetic theory remained dormant and forgotten after Euler's and Bernouilli's work "until 1816, when Herapath proposed a theory which is essential Bernoulli's. Unfortunately he chose to define temperature as being proportional to the momentum rather than the kinetic energy of molecules. Herapath was the first to show, more or less, that kinetic theory can provide simple explanations for the changes of state, diffusion, and the propagation of sound."(Trousdell "Essayas in the History of Mechanics", pp. 283 ff.).

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1742. 4to. Uncut in contemp. blue blank covers. Issued in "Historie de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Paris." Année 1740, pp. 170-176 and 1 engraved plate. With titlepage to the whole volume. First edition of this important paper - Laws of Bodies at Rest - in which Maupertuis showed that a system of bodies at rest tend to reach a position in which any change would create the smallest possible change in a quantity that he argued could be assimilated to action. This is the forerunner of his "Principle of least Action".

Göteborg, Johann George Lange, 1743. 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning og skindtitel. Ryg med ophøjede bind. Gl. ejenavne på forsats og titelblad. (18),220 pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Det ganske sjældne originaltryk. - Warmholtz: 572.

Leipzig, F. U. Brockhaus, 1865. 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped full cloth with gilt spine. XV,(3),352 pp. plus 1 lithographic folding map of Turkistan; hand colored in outline, and 12 wood engraved plates. First German edition (an English edition was published in 1864). "This was the first journey of its kind undertaken by a Western European; and since it was necessary to avoid suspicion, Vámbéry could not take even fragmentary notes, except by stealth. He returned to Europe in 1864. That following June, he paid a visit to London, where he was treated as a celebrity because of his daring adventures and knowledge of languages. That same year, he published his 'Travels in Central Asia', based on the few, furtive notes he was able to make while traveling with the dervishes. Returning to Hungary, Vámbéry was appointed professor of Oriental languages at the University of Budapest in 1865, retiring in 1905." - Wikipedia.

Leipzig, Förstnerschen Buchh., 1860. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Paperlabels pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on titlepage. VIII,372;(2),368 pp. and 9 large folded lithographed plans. A few insignificant brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan: 3240.

(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.

Paris, Goujon, 1818. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. (6),XII,97,(3) pp., 25 tables and 3 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1844-53. Tvær-folio. 3 samt. hldrbd. Rygge slidte. Indeholder 72 smukke tonede litografier af danske herregårde fra alle egne af landet (litogr. af Em.Bærentzen) med beskrivende tekst. Tekstsiderne letter brunplettede, planchernei fin stand med få brunpletter. - Her forligger de 6 første bind af de 20 som udkom.