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Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1802. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. XIV,472 pp. and 2 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. First German edition of "Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans l'Etat de New-York; par un membre adoptrif de la Nation Onéïda. Paris, 1801." (Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. 23. Band). Also having the series-titlepage, this with a stamp. - Sabin: 17502.

København, 1886. Originalt komponeret gråt helshirtbd. Helt guldsnit. En anelse slitage ved kapitæler og hjørner. Indre false lidt svage. Indvendig helt ren og frisk. Et megeteligt eksemplar. Originaludgaven.

København., Stein, 1785. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. Stregforgyldning på permer, ophøjede bind på ryg. Kobbertukket titelvignet. (16),656 pp. samt subskribentliste (6) pp. og stort udfoldeligt kobberstukket Nordenskort, 1 kobberstukket tekstvignet. Stort eksemplar på skrivepapir. Kortet med rift repareret.

Kjøbenhavn, 1842. 8vo. Bound in a lovely recent binding of mid 19th century marbled paper. Gilt leather title-label to spine. Spine sunned. A nice, clean, uncut copy. (2), XIII, (1), 466, (4) pp + 1 f. errata. First Danish edition of the only of Hegel's works to be translated into Danish until recent times. It is translated from the German second issue, as stated on the title-page. This work has had immence influence on 19th century philosophy, and this only Danish translation was of great importance to Danish philosophy at the time, the time of Kierkegaard. "I snævreste forstand er den hegelianske periode i dansk filosofi afgrænset til årene omkring 1840 (!), en kort men væsentlig periode i den danske tænknings historie, da det var i denne, at Søren Kierkegaard tog afsæt i sit senere så overvældende forfatterskab." ("In the most restricted sense the hegelian period in Danish philosophy is limited to the years around 1840 (!), a short, but significant period in the history of Danish thought, as it was in this period that the basis of the later so overwhelming writings of Søren Kierkegaard was founded. (Koch, Den danske idealisme, 2004, p. 219). "Også blandt de unge historikere fængede Hegel. Det er næppe en tilfældighed, at det eneste af hans værker, der blev oversat til dansk, var hans forelæsninger over historiens filosofi." ("Also amongst the young historians did Hegel catch on. It is hardly a coincidence that the only one of his works to be translated into Danish were his lectures on the history op philosophy.") ( Koch, Den danske idealisme, 2004, p. 221). The fist English translation did not appear until 1895.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Young bird in foreground.. J. Gould & W. Hart, del. et lith. - Walter Imp. Fine and clean. 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, (Chardon), 1782. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Stamp on title-page. On good paper. (4),VIII,218 pp., 3 large engraved vignettes with battle-scenes. Internally clean and fine.

(New York), American physical Society, 1960. Lex8vo. Volume 5, No. 4, August 15, 1960 of "Physical Review Letters", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 147-8. [Entire issue: 133-188]. First printing of Giaever's influential paper in which he demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity that had been developed in 1957 by Bardeen. Giaever was awarded the nobel prize in physics in 1973 for his "discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".The present paper is regarded a contemporary classic within engineering and applied sciences.

London, John Stockdale, 1811. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full green calf. raised bands. Gilt compartments. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtooled and gilt lineborders on covers. Edges of covers gilt. Upper joint on volume two starting. VII,368;(2),275,(12) pp., 53 aquatint plates, including 1 map. Some scattered brownspots. Occassionally some offsetting from the plates.

München, Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung, 1867. 4to. a. folio. Textvol. in contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Atlas-vol. in orig. printed, clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. XX,158,CLXXII pp. Atlas with 18 lithographed plates, diagrams, profiles and with the large (67 x 39 cm.) coloured map of the lower Mississippi basin. First German edition with additions by Grebenau. It was the most extensive river survey undertaken at that time and the survey was authorized by the Congress after two disastrous years of flooding. Here the authors introduced entirely new formulations to explain riverflow.

Franckfurt am Mayn, 1735. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Light wear to top of spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. (10),442;(2),469;(2),306;(2),240 pp. Internally clean.

Avignon, Libraires Associés, 1767. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Back lightly rubbed. VII,(9),247 pp. Title with small rubberstamp and a little browned, lower right corner neathly repaired, no loss. Internally fine with a few brownspots. Printed on good paper. First edition. A work, treating the history of the Mendicant Friars, although issued anonymously, is attributed to d'Alembert. - Barbier II:684.

Folio. Orig. hcloth. 120 pp., 16 fine colourplates in photo-litho offset, 22 plates b/w in collotype. One of 2000 copies on "Gelderland mill paper". First edition.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1909. Orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. In. "Mathematische Annalen. Hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walther v. Dyck, David Hilbert, Otto Rosenthal", 67. Bd., 3. Heft. Pp. 281-432 (=3. Heft). Hilbert's paper: pp. 281-300. First printing of a groundbreaking work in Number Theory. Edward Waring (1734-98) stated, in his "Meditationes Algebraicae" (1770), the theorem known now as "Waring's Theorem", that every integer is either a cube or the sum of at most nine cubes; also every integer is either a fourth power of the sum of at most 19 fourth powers. He conjectured also that every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of at most r kth powers, the r depending on k. These theoremes were not proven by him, but by David Hilbert in the paper offered.Hilbert proves that for every integer n, there exists an integer m such that every integer is the sum of m nth powers. This expands upon the hypotheis of Edward Waring that each positive integer is a sum of 9 cubes (n=3, m=9) and of 19 fourth powers (n= 4, m=19).This issue also contains F. Hausdorff's "Zur Hilbertschen Lösung des Waringschen Problems", pp. 301-305.(Se Kline p. 609).

London, L. Davis, 1759. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 50, part 2. Including title-page and advertisement of volume. A fine copy. Pp. 481-84 + title-page. First appearance of Franklin's paper on temporary benefits of electrical shocks administered to people suffering from paralysis

London, Chapman and Hall, 1860. Contemp. full calf. Light wear at upper compartment. Spine blindtooled. Gilt line borders on covers. Marbled edges. Wear to the gilt lettering on spine. XII,428 pp. textillustrations. Internally fine and clean. Bookmark of C. de Lacy Lacy pasted on inside frontcover. First English edition of "One of the most exhaustive and valuable treatises on Indian Life ever written" (Sabin, 38215).

Paris, Dufour et d'Ocacne, 1824-31. Bound in 11 fine uniform contemporary hcalf. Richly gilt backs. With paperlabels taped and glued to backs. Stamps on titles.

London, Oxford University Press, 1925-29. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Containing 33 + 25 original offprints published in various periodicals in various sizes, published between 1921-29, some with plates and textillustrations, in the fields of geology, zoology, geography, hydrography, glaciology etc.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1805 - Part I. Pp. 31-64 and 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper, founding the metric of interstellar space.It was the contemporous discoveries of the first minor planets, ceres in 1801, Pallas in 1802 and Juno in 1803, that prompted Herschel to investigate the origin of the spurious diameters of stars. "Were their apparent diameters as real as those of planets or spurious as for stars? To address this question Herschel conducted an extensive series of experiments in his garden in Slough, examining through his telescope small globules of differing sizes and materials placed in a tree some 800 ft (ca. 244 m) away (Herschel 1805). His observations showed that for the smallest globules the diameters were all spurious and all of the same size. Furthermore, he found that, if just the inner part of the aperture of the telescope were used, the spurious diameters, whether of globules or of stars, were larger. If the whole aperture was employed, the diameters were smaller, and if only an outer annular aperture was used the diameters were smaller still. This experimental discovery that unfilled apertures can be used to obtain high angular resolution remains today the essential basis for interferometric imaging in astronomy (in particular Aperture Masking Interferometry). The theoretical justifi­cation of this result came with Airy's analysis of the diffraction pattern of a circular aperture 30 years later (Airy 1835), and it took a further 30 years before the idea of using multiple apertures was developed. In an early study the Reverend W. R. Dawes noted that he had `frequently found great advantage from the use of a perforated whole aperture' and that when observing Venus this produced `a central image of the planet perfectly colourless, and very sharply de­ned' (Dawes 1866). But it was left to Fizeau, in his submission to the Commission for the Prix Bordin the following year, to remark on `une relation remarquable et n´ecessaire entre la dimension des franges et celle de la source lumineuse' and suggest that by using an interferometric combination of light from two separated slits `il deviendra possible d'obtenir quelques donn´ees nouvelles sur les diametres angulaires de ces astres' (Fizeau 1868)."

Kopenhagen, Brummer, 1797. 8vo. In a modest contemporary half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. 135, (1) pp. Rare first edition of Johann Tode's early work on hypochondria. Not in Garrison & Morton.

London, The Lancet Limited, 1940. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "The Lancet", Vol. 2, 1940. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 226-228. [Entire volume: XX, 830 pp.]. First printing of this seminal paper within microbiology and medicine. Alexander Flemming had in the 20ies discovered penicillin but it was not until Chain and Florey's groundbreaking research, published in the present paper, that the true remarkable features of penicillin - that it was probably the most effective chemotherapeutic drug known - became know and usable on a practical level. Flemming, Chain and Florey received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"."He [Flemming] was unsuccessful, however, due to his limited knowledge of chemistry, and the "mold juice" remained of limited use until 1940-41, when Ernst Boris Chain and Howard W. Florey, using Flemming's original culture, successfully prepared a pure and stable penicillin extract and demonstrated its usefulness in treating human bacterial infection. Within three years the United States government, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, was producing penicillin on a large scale, with the result that many thousand lives were saved during World War II." (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine)."In the late 1930's, Florey and Chain began their investigation of this mold broth filtrate from Penicillium notatum as part of their general interest in systemic antibacterial agents. Fleming had isolated penicillin in 1928. He found it was a promising external antiseptic against some pathogenic bacteria, but its chemical instability (among other reasons) soon led him to abandon penicillin as a therapeutic agent.By May 1940 Chain had produced enough penicillin for Florey to conduct tests on mice infected with deadly hemolytic streptococci. These early tests yielded very promising results, Chain, in collaboration with Edward Abraham, spent the rest of the year improving the extraction and purification of penicillin for clinical tests, which began early in 1941.Serious problems with the fermentation production of penicillin led the British and American governments, by early 1944. to coordinate hundreds of scientists for the development of a commercially feasible synthesis of penicillin. Chain and his collaborators at Oxford, however, had shed much light on the chemistry of the drug by this time. By October 1943, they proposed what turned out to be the correct structure of penicillin. They established a fundamental understanding of the chemistry of penicillin. This aided fermentation work on the drug in the 1940's and served as the foundation for the development of semisynthetic penicillins from the mid 1950's on."

Frankfurt & Leipzig, Gottfred Leschium, 1712. 4to. Cont. full vellum with calligraphed title on back. Engraved portrait as frontispice. Title in red/black. (34),1836 pp. Light scattered browning to leaves, but fine. The present copy of this edition contains only 2 parts, but forming the whole work of Franzius's well-known account of the biblical animals. Cyprinus' work, which should be part III-IV having its own title is not present here. - Wood p. 348 having an edition from 1665 in 12mo. - BMC (NH) II:614

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1897. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge", Bd. 61, No 7. Titlepager to vol. 61. Pp. 417-640 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Kaufmann's paper: pp. 544-552, textillustrations. A stamp to upper corner of titlepage. Clean and fine. First printing of this landmark paper in particle physics, in which Kaufmann found that the cathode are negatively charged particles, that certain properties of the cathode rays are independent of the nature of the gas that they traverse, and determining the ratio e/m. (charge/mass)"To define the 'birth of an era' is perhaps best left for parlor games. Let me write of the BIRTH OF PARTICLE PHYSICS nevertheless, define it to take place in April 1897, and appoint Kaufmann and Thomson as keepers of the gate. Their respective experimental arrangements...are of comparable quality, their experimental results equally good."(Pais "Inward Bound", p. 84.)."In 1897 three physicists, Weichert, Kaufmann, and Thomson, in independent experiments, found that cathode rays are indeed negatively charged particles having the peculiar property that the ratio of the mass and the charge of these particles is in the order of 1000 times smaller than for the lightest ion, the ion of the hydrogen. The term 'electron', which had previously been used to denote the 'elementary charge' , was soon adopted as the name of the new particle. The electron was the first of the later so-called 'elementary particles' to be discovered." (Siegmund Brandt "The Harvest of a Century" No. 4 (p.16 ff.).

Antwerpen, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1648. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. Backcover with some brownspots and a small nick to vellum. 2 small tears to top of spine. Title-page in red/black with engraved vignette. (16),547,(33) pp. Last leaf with printers large woodcut device.The second part LIPSIUS: Dispunctio... Notarum Mirandulani Codicis ad Corn. Tacitum. Editio Ultima. Plantiniana, 1648. 84,(14) pp. Last leaf with printers large woodcut device. Many smaller and larger woodcut initials. Large woodcut vignettes at chapter-ends. Some old marginal annotations. Dibdin II, p. 450.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1761. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. (10),175,602 pp., 20 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de Mairan, Buache, Pingré, Maquer, le Gentil, l'Abbé de la Caille, Le Roy, Bouguer, Maraldi, Cassini, de Thury, de la Sône, le Duc de Chaulnes, de l'Isle, Guettard, de Lalande, Pingré, Marquis de Courtivron, l'Abbé Nollet, Bourdelin, le Gentil, Marquis de Montalembert, de Fouchy, le Monnier, du Hamel.

Halle, Salfelds seel. Wittwe, 1705. 8vo. In contemporary gold paper decorated boards. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Light wear to extremies, corner bumped and spine miscoloured. Internally nice and clean. (14), 70, 203, (24), 295 pp. Third edition of Thomasius introduction to the doctrine of reasons, one of his main works from his later period. "Written by and large in German with a minimum of technical terminology, these books were intended not for an audience of experts, but instead, as the subtitle to the 'Introduction to the Doctrine of Reason' specifies, for a general audience of “all rational persons of whatever social standing and sex” (SEP) Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German philosopher and jurist often regarded as one of the most important figures of the early German Enlightenment. Thomasius played a significant role in advocating for a separation between theology and law arguing that legal matters should be based on reason rather than religious doctrine. He taught at the University of Leipzig and later at the University of Halle, where he became the first professor of natural law and the rector of the university.