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Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1888. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage and small stamps to verso of plates. "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 34,. VIII,1048 pp. a. 8 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Hertz' papers: pp. 155-170, pp. 273-285, pp. 551-569, pp. 609-623. First appearance of 4 famous and importent papers (2 of them in their final form) in which Hertz established by experiments the similarities between electric waves and light waves."Hertz followed up his determination of the finite velocity of electric waves by performing a series of more qualitative experiments in 1888 on the analogy between electric and light waves. Passing electric waves through huge prisms of hard pitch, he showed that they refract exactly as light waves do. He polarized electric waves by directing them through a grating of parallel wires, and he diffracted them by interrupting them with a screen with a hole in it. He reflected them from the walls of the room, obtaining interference between the original and the reflected waves. He focused them with huge concave mirrors, casting electric shadows with conducting obstacles. The experiments with mirrors especially attracted attention, as they were the most direct disproof of action at a distance in electrodynamics. They and the experiments on the finite velocity of propagation brought about a rapid conversion of European physicists from the viewpoint of instantaneous action at a distance in electrodynamics to Maxwell’s view that electromagnetic processes take place in dielectrics and that an electromagnetic ether subsumes the functions of the older luminiferous ether." (DSB)-.

Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1829-31. Bound uncut in 27 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. 2 vols. with a small tear. Richly illustrated with engraved maps, plates and portraits. Brunet V:1177.

1 blad 4to. Foldet på midten. På skrivepapir. Med adskillige egenhændige rettelser og tilføjelser. Særdeles nydeligt manuskript i Wilsters egen hånd til det lange humoristiske digt 'Til Flyvepostens Redacteur', der udkom i 'Digtninger: Tredie Samling' i 1840. Manuskriptet indeholder adskillige egenhændige rettelser, der alle er optaget i den trykte tekst. Man kan imidlertid stadig ane Wilsters originale tekst bag rettelserne: 10.3: 'Bjæffed som en Hund' rettes til 'Qvækked som en Frøe' 20.2: 'en slig elendig Færd' rettes til 'saa jammerlig en Færd' 26.3 'Slagtertrøie' rettes til 'Skjødetrøie' Manuskriptet udelader tilmed to strofer (15 og 16 i den trykte tekst) og indeholder en alternativ, dog overstreget, strofe 15: "dine Argumenter halte, Det Motiv, du fandt, var galt; Mine Vers du selv fandt salte, Galde giver ikke Salt." Foruden at være en af romantikkens store digtere var Wilster en formidabel oversætter af græsk poesi, og han huskes i dag primært for sine eminente oversættelser af Iliaden og Odysseen.

Rotterdam, Abraham Acher, 1706. Small 8vo. Nice later hvelleum with titlelabel in leather on spine with gilt lettering. (4),619,(2) pp. Clean and fine. With one engraved map (19x14 cm) of Hven "Carte de l'Isle de Huen, faite par Guillaume Blaeu" The scarce first edition.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1832. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 9. Bd., Heft 4, pp. 313-403. Jacobi's paper pp. 394-403. With titlepage to vol. 9. First printing of this important paper, bringing the problem with the Abelian integral to a solution. "The further step was made by Jacobi in the short but very importent memoir "Considerationes generales..." (the paper offered): viz. he here shows for the hyper-elliptical integrals of any class (but the conclusion may be stated generally) that the direct functions to which Abel's theorem has reference are not functions of a single variable, such as the elliptic sn, cn, or dn, but functions of "p" variables...(Arthur Cayley in his "Presidential Address to the British Association 1883)."Carl Jacobi in reviewing Adrien Legendre's third supplement to his "Traite des fonctions elliptiques et des integrales Euleurienne", suggests renaming Legendre's "hyperelliptical transcendental functions" as "Abelian transcendental functions" after Niels Henrik Abel. acobi, whiose work on hyperelliptic integrals helps lead to the extensive nineteenth-century development of the theory of abelian functions of n variables, suggests, in partial analogy to doubly periodic functions, that hyperelliptic integrals can be inverted to hyperelliptic functions through a generalization of elliptic theta functions." (Parkinson in "Breakthroughs (1832").

Gotha, Justus Perthes, n.d. (1877-78) Folio. Orig. full blindstamped cloth. Frontcover with gilt title. Lower part of spine (ca. 8 cm.) lacks, and top of spine with some wear, otherwise fine. With 31 double-page (37x43,5) steel-engraved maps with outline colouring. All maps clean and fine. Maps dated 1877 a. the last 1878.

København, Poppske Bogtrykkeri, 1834-38. Lille 8vo. 3 samtidige hldrbd. Rygge lidt slidte, rygforgyldningen svag. Lidt brunpletter forrrest og bagerst i bd. 1, ellers ren. (4),384;(8),504;466 pp. Eksemplaret har tilhørt den berømte sprogforsker Otto Jespersen og har hans navnetræk på alle tre friblade. Originaltrykket af forfatterens samlede udgave af de mindre afhandlinger, som i mange tilfælde er trykt her for første gang.

London, Strahan, 1769. 4to. 3 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spines. Light wear along joints and edges. One upper joint weakening. Stamp on title-pages. XV,394,(14);(4),479;(4),456,(38) pp. Light toning, a few brownspots.

Odense, Christian Iversen, 1777-78. 4to. 2 samtidige hellæderbind. med ophøjede bind på rygge. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte tome- og titeletiketter på ryg. lette brugsspor. En lille etiket påsat nederst på rygge. Stempel på titelblade. Kobberstukket frontispiece (portræt af Juliana Mara, stukket af Fritzsch). (30),CXVI,184;LVI,122,(28) pp., 1 kobberstukket foldekort, 3 genealogiske tabeller, 4 kobberstukne vignetter. Rent eksemplar, trykt på skrivepapir. Bindene omhandlende Norges historie indgår som en selvstændig del af "Kongerigerne Danmarks og Norges samt Hertugtdømmene Slesvigs og Holsteens Historie indtil vore Tider" ved Gebhardi og Christiani. Eksemplaret her indeholder også begge titelblade til det overordnede værk.

Christiania, 1862. Særdeles nydeligt lidt senere rødt halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Et særdeles pænt, rent og friskt eksemplar. Originaludgaven af Ibsens femte bog. S&R: Variant A

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),136,512, pp., 24 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: Bouguer, Maupertuis, Geoffroy, Godin, du Hamel, Maraldi, Couplet, du Fay, D'Onzembray, Cassini, Petit, Bernoulli, Maloet, Nicole, Clairaut, de la Condamine, du Hamel & Grosse, Pitot, Buache, Grandjean, Morand, Camus, Godin.

(USA, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927). 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers. Punched for 3-ring binder. Spine worn, a bit of soiling to wrappers, inner hinges a bit weak. Internally fine and clean. (2), 9 + (3), 44 + 12 + 17, (3) + 20 pp. Illustrated. Separate reprint of 5 articles published a month before in "The Bell System Technical Journal. Four of the present articles on the early development of television were exceedingly influential, among these the paper by Frank Gray, who conducted groundbreaking research on the development of television, and Edward Nelson's important "Radio transmission for television". All four articles listed in "Early Television, A Bibliographic Guide to 1940". "The chief problems presented in the accomplishment of television are discussed. These are: the resolution of the scene into a series of electrical signals of adequate intensity for transmission; the provision of a transmission channel capable of transmitting a wide band of frequencies without distortion; means for utilizing the transmitted signals to re-create the image in a form suitable for viewing by one or more observers; arrangement for the accurate synchronization of the apparatus at the two ends of the transmission channel." (From the introduction to the present volume).The papers contained in the present volume are:1. Ives, Herbert E. Television, pp. 1-9.2. Gray, Frank, & J. W. Horton & R. C. Mathes. The production and utilization of television signals, pp. 1-44. (ET)3. Stoller, H. M. & E. R. Morton. Synchronization of television, pp. 1-12. 4. Gannett, D. K. & E. I. Green. Wire transmission system of television, pp. 1-17. 5. Nelson, Edward L. Radio transmission for television, pp.1-20. Early Television:1068.

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.

København (Copenhagen), Levin & Munksgaard, 1933. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip with 2 small nicks and frontcover a bit faded at margins. 65 pp. (Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Mathematisk-fysiske Meddelelser XII,8). First edition of this fundamental papers in the development of quantum field theory. The process of measuring electromagnetic fields involves the observation of charged test bodies in those fields. Therefore the theory of electrodynamics is an inseparable extension of mechanics. A quantum theory of fields thus inherits, in some form, the limitations of measurement which lie at the foundation of quantum mechanics. In 1931 Landau and Peierls published a critical analysis of the consequences of such limitations in a relativistic quantum theory of fields. Landau and Peierls came to the negative conclusion that in several cases, the concept of momentum was without physical meaning and quantities such as the strength of a field was un-measurable. In their famous paper from 1933 Bohr and Rosenfeld (the work offered) carefully reviewed the arguments of Landau and Peierls and showed, through the use of particular measuring arrangements, that a consistent quantum theory of fields is possible without further limitations than the ones which secure the consistency of quantum mechanics. The BR-paper is often credited with having laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics. Bohr continued his work in this field, and in 1937 he completed a manuscript entitled "Field and Charge Measurement in Quantum Theory", but this was never published. When, in the late 1940s the important work on QED by Tomonaga, Schwinger, Dyson, and Feynman appeared in The Physical Review, Bohr and Rosenfeld again joined and published the essentials of the 1937 manuscript in the same journal.See Abraham Pais: Bohr's Times, pp.358-364. Mehra & Rechenberg: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, vol. 6, pp.697-703. Collected Works of Niels Bohr, vol. 7, pp.3-33.

Berlin, A. Asher & Co., 1886. Large 4to. Bound in 3 fine orig. hcalf with raised bands, gilt and blindtooled, title- and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Spines have a shelfnumber taped to lower compartment. Corners slightly bumped. Top edges gilt. (6),LVII,368;1048 pp., plates and textillustrations. A fine and clean copy apart from the taped number to spines.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1869. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage and small stamps to verso of plates. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Fünfte Reihe Bd. 18 (138. Bd. der Reihe). X,652 pp. a. 6 folded plates (The entire volume offered). Mendeléev's paper: pp. 103-141 a. pp. 230-279. Clean and fine. First German edition of Mendeléev's doctoral dissertation "O soedineni spirta s vodoyu" from 1865. "In it he first developed the characteristic view that solutions are chemical compounds and that dissolving one substance into another is not to be distinguished from other forms of chemical combination. In this thesis, he also adhered to the principles of chemical atomism."(DSB). - This work contributed to the birth of a popular legend, which claims that Mendeleev invented the standard for Russian vodka, saying it should contain 40% of alcohol by volume. Mendeléev is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Using the table, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.The volume contains other notable papers by Kohlrausch, Fizeau, Zöllner etc. and Julius Thomsen's "Thermochemische Untersuchungen"

Leipzig, London, Weidmann, Payne, 1802. Bound in 8 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines.Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to spines. Internally fine. An Index-volume was published in 1822 by Graefenhahn. "This eleborate and truly erudite performance contains only the Iliad, the Greek text of which is exhibited in the first two volumes, and the Latin one in the third, presceded by a catalogue of MSS. and editions:the remaining five volumes comprehend Variae Lectiones, Annotationes, &c. &c. from the principal libraries in Europe. At the end of each book there is a commentary, or excursus."(Dibdin vol. II, pp. 66-67).

Etruria, Stoke-On-Trent, n. d., ca. 1920. 4to. Orig. boards. (2) pp. of text. and 85 fine printed plates in black a. white and in colour, depicting thousands of items. The text informs that this cataloque shows only a certain number of the best selling patterns made by Wedgewood & Sons, which means that there is leave outs in the numbering of the plates. Plates numbered I-XLVI, 60-82,90-111 a. 4 unnumbered.

Samt. hshirtbd. m. rygforgyldn. Øvre false lidt revnede. Øvre kapitæl lidt slidt. Bortset fra skjold i sidste halvdel, pæn. (IV)+155+64+140pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 101.

Stockholm, Wennberg et Nordström, 1771. 8vo. Uncut in a very nice recent full calf binding (by Henning Jensen) with four raised bands, gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine and blindstamped frames to boards. A very fine copy. (4), 540, (34) pp. The improved and expanded third edition of this seminal treatise on paediatrics. “Sir Frederic Still considered this work ‘the most progressive which had yet been written;’ it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of paediatrics. Rosen was particularly interested in infant feeding. The Underrattelser were originally published in the calendars of the Academy and were later collected and issued in book form in 1764” (Garrison-Morton). It is widely recognized as the inaugural textbook of pediatrics. The book addresses various subjects such as smallpox, smallpox inoculation, teething, measles, breastfeeding frequency, and the impact of breastfeeding on infant health. It displayed foresight as it recommended feeding young children diluted cow's milk through a sucking bottle, and advocated for covering children's food to prevent insect contact, emphasizing other hygienic precautions. Nils Rosén's insights extended to accurate descriptions and prescriptions for scarlet fever, whooping cough, diarrhea, and other illnesses. Nils Rosén lived and worked during a period when Sweden struggled with poverty, a low average life span, and a child mortality rate exceeding fifty percent. In 1753 Rosén initiated the publication of articles in small almanacs by the Royal Academy of Sciences. These articles covered children's diseases, breastfeeding, nursing, and preventive medical treatments, presenting novel findings from empirical research. Eventually compiled and edited, these articles formed the basis of the work. The book achieved widespread influence, translated into numerous European languages and becoming the most widely disseminated Swedish textbook globally. Over the 18th and 19th centuries, it underwent twenty-six editions in ten different languages. Anders Sparrman, one of Linné's 'apostles,' translated it into English during a circumnavigation with Captain James Cook on The Resolution (1772-75). (Garrison & Morton 6323 - the first edition).

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.

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).

Washington, 1888. 4to. 2 orig.full cloth. Backs somewhat worn and back loose on vol.I. VIII,545,VI,738 pp., 35 plts.,12 maps. First edition. Internally clean.

Kbhvn., 1812-19. Indbundet i 6 velbevarede samtidige helldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning, titel-og tomefelter i skind. Foldetabeller.

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.