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Leipzig, Hartknoch, 1805-06. Small 8vo. Bound in 2, a bit later, hcalfs. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepages. XVI,391,(10);,XVI,352 pp. Some scattred brownspots. First edition.

Berlin, Frölich'schen Buchhandlung, 1807. 4to. Uncut with orig. blank paperwrappers. Wrappers with tears. Having general titles and separate titles. Small stamp on titles. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (4),XIIII,462,II;(4),X,450,(1) pp. With 48 woodengraved textillustrations and an Atlas separately in small folio-oblong with 12 engraved maps and plans. Text in general clean and fine, plates a little brownspotted. Klaus Jordan: 2653 ( vol. 1 only).

The Hague, Joh. Ykema, 1873. 8vo. In the original publisher's embossed full red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Previous owner's name to front end-paper and traces after a stamp to lower part of title-page. Spine with a bit of wear, otherwise a fine and clean copy. IX, (1), 435 pp. The rare first Dutch translation of Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man published the year after the original. The Expression of the Emotions "is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment." (Freeman p. 142). Darwin concluded that "the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited."Freeman 1182.

Basel, Joh. Rudolph. Im-Hoff, 1741-45. Folio. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf, raised bands, profusely gilt spines. A small nick to foot of spine on volume two. Light wear to part of the gilt lettering on vol. two. First titlepage printed in red/black. (6),XLVIII,(2),666;(6),358,(2),252,88,41,(35) pp. printed in two columns. Internally fine and clean. A stamp to front free endpaper. The main work of the noted English church historian, being the histroy of the most eminent Fathers of the Church. The work was first published in 1683. - "... a valuable work, displaying great reading, research and accuracy, superintended by Dr. Waterland." (Lowndes I:395).

Uppsala, Leipzig, Oslo, 1905-31. Lex8vo. 2 smukke ensartede hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og skindtitel. X pp., 1306 spalter;IV,(1) pp., 920 spalter, (2) pp. Rent, frisk eksemplar.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1757. 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. (8),320,628, pp., 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain. With original papers by: Lietaud, le Gentil, Malouin, Cassini de thury, Guettard, le Francois de la Lande, de Lasône, le Monnier le Fils, Guettard, Boguer, Bourdelin, de l'isle, Baron, Hérissant, Geoffroy le Fils, de Thury, Bertin, Reaumur, Pingré, l'Abbé Nollet, le Roy, Maraldi, Morand, du Hamel, Buache, de Fouchy, Montet.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1833. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 28, Siebentes Stück. Pp. 449-528. Entire issue offered with titlepage to vol. 28. Ehrenberg's paper: pp. 449-473 and 1 engraved plate with many figs. (nervecells and tubes, nerve fibres, ganglia). First appearance of a milestone paper on the physiology of the brain, depicting for the first time the nerve cells and ganglia in the gray area of the brain. This work was also published seperately with the title "Ueber den Mangel des Nervenmarks im Gehirne der Menschen und Thiere, den gegliederten röhrigen Bau des Gehrins und über normale Krystallbildung im lebenden Thierkörper; (Aus Poggendorff's Annalen d. Physik...)""In his groundbreaking work on microscopical structure of the brain and nerves, published in 1833 (the paper offered), the Berlin anatomist Christian Ehrenberg stated that according to his observations the nerves consisted of tubes, most of these cylindrical, some of them - the optical and auditory nerve and the nerves in the organ of smell - varicose. According to Ehrenberg, the cylindrical nerves contained 'substance that consisted of "small plump but not very regular particles", the nerve marrow. Ehrenberg also described smaller and bigger granulas in the substance of the brain, but as the dominant element of the brain he identified fibers. However he stressed that other than the nerve fibres,the brain were not simple cylindrical ones but "resemble strings of beads".2(Giora Hun et al.).

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1841. 4to. Without wrappers as Heft 4 in "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 22, heft 4. Titlepage to Heft 4. and pp. 285-380 +(2) pp. and 1 engraved plate. Jacobis papers: 1. pp. 285-318, 2. pp. 319,359, 3. pp. 360-371 and 4. pp. 372-374. First printing of 2 importent and influential papers by Jacobi. In 1841 "Carl Jacobi (1804-1851) develops the theory of determinants, including mention of the "functional determinant" or "Jacobian" in his paper "De formatione et proprietatibus Determinantium" (the first paper offered here). Later in the same year hepublishes a further development specifically of the theory of acobians in the memoir "De determinantibus functionalibus" (the second paper offered here). He shows for instance,that the Jacobian of a set of n functions in n variables is identically zero if and only if the functions are mutually dependent. Although functional determinants had been used earlier, they are later named after Jacobi due to his extensive development of their properties." (Claire L. Parkinson in Breakthroughs).

Venezia, Pietro Milesi, 1837-39. 12mo. Bound in 5 fine later full cloth. First titlepage neathly repaired, no loss.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1713. 4to. Bound in contemporary full vellum. In: "Actorum Eruditorum Anno MDCCXIII". The entire volume offered. Hand-written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper and a library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Pp. 77-95 + 1 engraved plate; pp. 115-132. [Entire volume: (4),559,(22). + 6 engraved plates.]. First publication of Johann Bernoulli's long analysis of trajectory design in which he corrected Newton's wrong description of the same subject in his "Principia" published in 1687. The problem of orthogonal trajectory was a major mathematical topic in the late 17th and early 18th century and Johann Bernoulli was the first to raise the problem about the brachystochrone in 1697. Many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians are to be found in the present volume.

Glückstadt, Babst, 1755. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Blindtooling to covers. Edges with tooled patterns and gilt. With large clasps and catches (4 large anchor-plates) all in silver, fully intact. Floral coloured endpapers. (22),1240,(38) pp. - Schmolckens: Engraved frontispiece. (14),256 pp. (Franckfurt und Leipzig, no date but Vorrede dated 1731) - Collecten: 64 pp. (Altona, Burmester, no date). Collecten with some dampstaining.

(Copenhagen), Gyldendal, 1958. 8vo. Bound uncut, partly unopened with the original printed front-wrapper in a full cloth binding. With author's presentation to half-title: "Philip Ingerslev / fra / Karen Blixen. / "Je respondrai."". Very light wear to extremities, otherwise a nice and clean copy. 298, (3) pp. Presentation-copy to Blixen's lawyer of the fourtheenth's edition of the great author's immensely popular work, her second publication, which was first published in English in 1937 and is now a world classic. Ingerslev, as the lawyer for Karen Blixen and the executor of her estate, he assisted – with support from the Dinesen family – in establishing the Rungstedlund Foundation, thereby ensuring the preservation of the Rungstedlund estate for posterity, which now serves as the seat of the Danish Academy.In Africa Karen Blixen adopted Denys Finch Hatton’s family motto “Je responderay” (“I will answer”), underlying its ethical meanings with her own interpretation, “I will answer for my words and actions, I will be true to myself, I will be responsible”. The first Danish edition of "Out of Africa" is translated by Blixen herself into her native language. It appeared after the English edition, but before the American one, and the Danish edition is rarer and more difficult to find in fair condition than both. It appeared in numerous editions within the author's lifetime and was translated into several languages. The legendary Danish writer, Karen Blixen-Finecke (pseudonym: Isak Dinesen) (1885-1962), was a Danish baroness, who married her cousin, the Swedish Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. They soon moved to Africa, where they ran a coffee-farm near Nairobi, and the happiest years of Blixen's life were spent here (she used to say that "Africa made me"). The farm in the Ngong Hills is the centre of this world famous novel. She divorced her husband, who was cheating on her and gave her syphilis, in 1922, and in 1932 she moved back to Denmark after the farm had gone bankrupt and her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton, had died in a plane-crash. She spent the remaining 30 years of her life in Denmark, and died a legendary writer. She greatly influenced writers and cultural personas of the generations to come, and many authors recognize the direct impact she has had on their writings. Several of her novels have been filmatized, most famously "out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice, she was elected honorary member of "The American Academy of Arts and Letters" (1957), and her portrait is printed on the Danish 50 kr. notes. She is the absolutely most famous of all modern Danish writers, and the only one of international fame.

l.-7. Bd. (alt som udk.). K., 1852-83. 4to. 7 samt.hldrbd. m. rygforg.

Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 9, Cahier 1 a. 3. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate + pp. 225-336. (The entire issues offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66 a. pp. 286-287. First printing of Fresnel's importent memoir on the aberration effect from a moving earth."In the same year in which the memoir on diffraction was submitted, Fresnel published an investigation of the influence of the earth's motion on light (the paper offered).....if we suppose the aether surrounding the earth to be at rest and unaffected by the earth's motion of the telescope, which we may suppose directed to the true place of the star, and the image of the star will therefore be displaced from the central spider-line at the focus by a distance equal to that which the earth describes while the light is travelling through the telescope. This agrees with what is actually observed."(Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I, pp. 108-9).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1851 Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", 82. Bd., 3. issue ("Heft" No 3, 1851). Entire issue offered. Pp. 337-464. Foucault's paper: pp. 458-462. With titlepage to volume 82. First German edition of the famous paper in which Foucault presented his discovery of the proof of the rotation of the earth by the large pendulum, called FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. It was presented by Arago at the meeting of the Acadey of Scieces on February 3, 1851.Since Léon Foucault’s public demonstration of his pendulum experiment, it has played a prominent role in physics, physics education, and the history of science. The Foucault pendulum is a long pendulum suspended high above the ground and carefully set into planar motion. The phenomenon described by Foucault1 concerns the orientation of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum. "The experiment (with the pendulum) caused great exitement at the time. Heracleides had first suggested twenty-two centuries before that the earth was rotating and Copernicus had renewed the suggestion three centuries before. Since the time of Galileo two and a half centuries before, the world of scholarship had not doubted the matter. Nevertheless, all evidence as to that rotation had been indirect, and not until Foucault's experiment could the earth's rotation actually be said to have been demonstrated rather that deduced." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1851 E.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1854. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendu hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences", Vol. 39, No. 7. Pp. (301-) 344. (Entire issue offered). Deville's paper: pp. 321-326. First printing of a milestone paper in chemical technology, describing the methods by which it became possible to produce aluminium in larger industrial scale. In the paper Deville describes how to create the first crystalline silicon and he perfects the electrolytic process for obtaining metallic aluminium from sodium aluminium chloride."Deville’s methods made both metals readily available and drastically reduced their cost, but he himself did not take much part in their later industrial development. He used the sodium obtained by his method for the preparation of such elements as silicon, boron, and titanium. His investigations of the metallurgy of platinum led to honors from the Russian government" (DSB)..In Sparrow's "Milestones of Science" is listed Deville's larger work from 1859 "De l'aluminium. Ses propriétés, sa fabrication et sed application...", No. 173. - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1854 C.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1946. 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Nature. No. 4015, Saturday, October 12, 1946, Vol. 158". A fine and clean copy. [Hartree:] Pp. 500-6. [Entire offered issue: Pp. 495-528]. First printing of this "first paper on an electronic digital computer published in a large-circulation international scientific journal." (OOC).The ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete [computationally universal] digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems."Hartree, a British mathematician, first learned of ENIAC [Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer] in 1945, when he saw the as-yet uncompleted machine during a visit to the Moore School. In 1946 he returned to the Moore School as a participant in the Moore School lectures, advising on nonmilitary uses of ENIAC; during this time he became the first Englishman to work with the machine. He was the first to bring news of ENIAC to Great Britain, publishing the above article in Nature shourtly after his return from the United States. Although he himself invented no new calculating devices, Hartree's promotion of electronic digital calculating methods in scientific computation helped to stimulate the development of more powerful computers like Cambridge University's EDSAC." (OOC).The ENIAC was compared to today's standard rather large: It was 100 feet long, 10 feet high, and 3 deep and contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, about 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 6,000 switches. It consumed 140 kilowatts of power, so much power that, when operated, the lights in a nearby town dimmed.See: Hook & Norman. Origins of Cyberspace 648.

Braunschweig, Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. In: Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 24. IV,412 pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: pp. 69-87. A stamp on titlepage. Clean and fine. 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).

Kiøbenhavn, Godiches Efterleverske, 1770. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. En papirsetiket påsat ryg. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. Stempel på titelbladet. Foldet kobberstukket portræt af Fr. IV, (stukket af Haas) som frontispiece. (10),395,(1) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Originaltrykket.

.London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, female and male sitting on flowering waterplants. 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.

Leipzig, Klimbt, 1793. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. (2),II,313 pp. Scattered light browning, some scattered brownspots. A corner torn on one leaf (pp. 31/32) with a loss of a few letters. A faint dampstain on the last leaves. Scarce first edition.

Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1682. 12mo. Four parts bound in one contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Internally fine and clean. (32), 228, 263, 268, 364 pp. + frontispiece and 11 portraits. French translation of Nani's much praised work on the history of Venice. Giovan Battista Nani, also known as Jean Baptiste Felix Gaspard Nani, was an Italian historian born in Venice on August 30, 1616. He belonged to a patrician family and played a significant role in both diplomatic and historical circles during his lifetime. At the age of 25, Nani served as the ambassador of Venice to France from 1643 to 1668.

London, Brabazon Aylmer, 1685. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and ruled fillets to boards. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear and a few stains to extremities. Small scratch to spine with a bit of loss of leather. Lower third of front free end-paper cut out. Internally nice and clean. (46), 306, 304 pp. Part 1 being the sixth edition, part 2 being the fourth corrected edition (stated of each title-page) of Archbishop of Canterbury Tillotson's sermons.

London, Printed for Walker & Edwards, Rivington, Cadell & Davies, Longman, Hurst etc., 1817. 12mo. In contemporary embossed full calf with three raised bands. Wear to hindges, otherwise a fine and clean copy. IX, [1], 1-485, [1], [6] pp. Cordier, Biblioteca Sinica, 1857Lust, Western Books on China published up to 1850, 1277

London, R.H. Laurie, 1827. 8vo. Orig. blue boards with orig. printed titlelabel on frontboard. Rebacked with cloth. Stamp on title-page. IV,55 pp. Clean.