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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.

København, Gyldendal, 1909. Lex8vo. Orig. komponeret helshirtbd. med rygforgyldning og guldtryk på perm. VI,670 pp. Rigt illustreret, portræt, opklæbede farveplancher, 1 kort. Yderst velbevaret, aldeles lydefrit eksemplar, indvendigt som udvendigt. Originaludgaven.

(Kiöbenhavn, Andreas Hartvig Godiche, Ca. 1756). 4to. Samtidigt rødt hellæderbind i maroquin. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel. Bred forgyldt bordure på begge permer. Repareret ved øverste og nederste rygfelt. Letter reparationer ved forreste fals. Helt guldsnit. Forsatspapirer trykt i farver og guld med florale motiver a la gyldenlæder. Stempel på titelbladet. Kobberstukket titelblad i kunstfærdig kalligrafi. 328 pp. + Formularer + Registre. Med fire store kobberstukne vignetter. Indvendig rent frisk eksemplar trykt på SVÆRT skrivepapir. Den sjældne originaludgave af Krigsartikelsbrevet. Udgivelsen blev overgivet til Admiralitetssekretær Chr. Fleicher og kongen bestemmer i privilegiet, "at disse Vores Krigs Artikels Breve skulle trykkes in Qvarto med god læselig Latinsk Stil, Cicero Antiqva kaldet, paa Post-Papir, eller det bædste Skriv-Papir, af saa stor Format, og med saa breed Margine, som det skrevne riginal-Exemplar var forfatted, samt at Alphabetet ej maae komme dem af Publico, som sig det ville tilforhandle, højere Pris at staae, end i de højeste 1 Rdl.)."Birkelund: 113.

Flensburg, 1840-42. Bound in 2 later solid hcalf. XVI,1708 pp.

London, Porter, 1899. Small 4to. Orig. pictorial cloth gilt. Slight wear to top a. bottom of spine. Top edge gilt. Chromolithogr. frontisp. XIV,335 pp, 88 plates a. 2 fold. maps. Wood p. 514. The text is principally ornithological, Appendix containing a list of the species of birds observed by the party.

London, For the Author by Simkin and Marshall, 1829. Contemp. hcalf. Spine profusely gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. XII,616 pp., 1 engraved plate (a faint dampstain in lower right corner of plate), textillustrations. A few scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition by the "father of colloid chemistry". Althougt stated to be "Second Edition", no earlier edition is known, and the wording of the Preface (which is dated Febr. 1829) certainly suggest that this is the first edition."In the present work he claims to have greatly improved on the "Chemical Catechism" of Samuel Parkes by arranging the subject in a more logical order abd introducing sections on plant and animal chemistry, which were omitted by Parkes. There is an interesting chapter on atomic theory, with reference to Higgins and Dalton. At the end is a useful vocabulary of chemical terms." (Neville. Historical Chemical Library, I, p.544).

Paris, Cosse et Marchal, 1861-72. Bound in 7 uniform cont. hcalf. Backs a little rubbed. Internally fine. Ca. 5000 pp.

(Stockholm, Bröderna Lagerströms Förlag, 1913). Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Ubeskåret. Omslaget med et par meget svage brunpletter. 61,(1) pp. Indvendig frisk. Originaludgaven af Lagerkvists berømte "manifest", som i radikalt omfang ændrede tidens litterære ideer og hermed blev den svenske modernismes kampskrift og inspirationskilde.

(København, Bianco Luno, 1953). 4to. (31,5 x 26,5 cm.). Originalbindet med svær metalryg og hænslede false. Permer i shirt. Ca. 500 pp. med fanemarkeringer til kapitlerne. I lommen til slut er indlagt Formular, Regneskive, Dækark. I fin stand.

Coloniæ, Busæum, 1661-64. Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum. In the middle of back a loss of vellum (2x7 cm). (10),406,482,(11),(8),575,(7) pp. 2 corners of last Index lost with loss of a few letters.

Hagæ Comitum (Den Haag), Adriani Vlacq, 1654. Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum with a faint handwritten title on spine. A nick to vellum at the handwritten title. Some soiling to spine and lower part of upper cover. Engraved titlepage (loosening). (14),314,(4) pp., textiillustrations in woodcut (some full-page) and 9 engraved plates (some folding). Scattered brownspots, mostly at end. First reprint, the Vlacq-print, from the same year as the original from Copenhagen, and having the same plates as this. The Copenhagen edition was followed by Centuria III-IV and V-VI. This collection of papers in various departments of medicine and anatomi, deals mainly with human and animal monsters.Gosch III,p.43. ("Denne Udgave er maaske at betragte som en Originaludgave samtidig med den kjøbenhavnske")

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 4. Titlepage to vol. 19. Pp. 337-442 a. 2 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Mitscherlich's paper: pp. 350-419. 2 large folded engraved plates (crystalforms). A few minor brownspots. First French edition - in the authors own form and translation - of Mitcherlich's announcment of his discovery of Isomorphism, stating that similar crystalline form reflect analogous chemical formulae, which Berzelius used in fixing the formulas of compounds. Mitcherlich was at this time an assistent to Berzelius, and the first printing of this classical paper appeared the same year in Akad. Handl., Stockholm. The paper was soon afterward printed in French (the paper offered) and English, and Berzelius discussed it in his "Jahresbericht", so that the work quickly became known. - Leicester & Klickstein pp. 306-08."The statement of the law of isomorphism...marks Mitscherlich's most importent contribution to chemistry - indeed, Berzelius considered Mitscherlich's discovery to be the most significant since that of chemical proportions. Berzelius himself found Mitscherlich's work to be of great use; he was at that time concerned with the determination of the atomic weights of the elements amd the law of isomorphism provided him with a valuable tool....Berzeluius' task was simplified by the application of Mitscherlich's law..."(DSB IX, p. 424).

Utrecht, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1765. Fine contemp. full mottled calf. Spine richly gilt. (8),275 pp. Internally clean and fine. Last leaf with a small loss of paper in outher margin. One leaf with a small hole in text. The work was first published in Russia in 1763, and in 1765 published in three different places in Europe. This fundamental work was written at the height of Voltaire's famous fight to "écraser l'Infame", which denoted fanatism, superstition and intolerance; it also symbolized Christianity, which he considered the most barbaric and cruel of all religions.

Paris, Crochard, 1825. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 28, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 28. Pp. 225-336. Fresnel's paper: pp. 263-279 First appearance of this importent paper - the paper was only published in full in the Mémoires two years later - in which he applies the concept of transverse waves to double refraction and representing the final construction, in the form of an equation of the fourth degree.In the paper Fresnel also explained the fact, that in some cases of quartz the rotation of polarization is from left to right and in other cases from right to left.. He proposed the term 'helical' to denote the property of rotating the plane of polarization, exhibited by such bodies as quartz. The term 'natural rotatory polarisation' is however, generally used.The issue contains further J. Berzelius: "Examen chimique des eaux de Carlsbad, de Teplitz et de Konigswart", pp. 225-263 (first part) and J.F.W. Herschel "Sur certain Mouvemens produits dans les liquides conducteurs, lorsqu'ils transmettant le courant électrique", pp. 280-318.

Paris, Barrois l'âine & Fils, AN XI (1803). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. 12,186 pp. and 20 large folded engraved plates (one plate with military signatures handcoloured). A few brownspots, but fine. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 856.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1867. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 99. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25. First appearance of this importent paper, the results of which Maxwell later used as a crucial support for his electromagnetical theory of light."...The velocity of light c were measured by W. Weber and R. Kohlrausch in 1855 (the paper offered). They used an electrometer to determine the charge of a condnsor in electrostatic units, and a ballistic galvanometer to measure the same charge in electrodynamic units. The resulting value for c was in good agreement with that obtained by Fizeau in 1849, and Maxwell accordingly felt entitled to identify light and electromagnetic vibrations. This conclusion recalls Newton's identification of gravity with universal attraction: it was not only because they obeyed the same formal law, but also because both led to the same mathematical results, that Newton saw fit to combine them."(Taton, Réne in "History of Sciencein The Nineteenth Century", p. 163).

Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1832. 8vo. Indbundet i det originale papbind. Ryg pænt restaureret med resterne af den originale ryg påklæbet. En smule kantslid. Hjørner stødte. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Hansen til B.S. Ingemann på verso af fribladet. Noget brunplettet. Den særdeles sjældne originaludgave af F.J. Hansens (1810-1852) 'Digte', her med dedikation til B.S. Ingemann.

(Metz, Lithog. de l'Ecole d'Application de l'Artillerie et du Génie), 1844. 4to. Original lithographed wrappers. Uncut. 291 pp., 35 + 38 lithographed textillustrations. Clean and fine. Throughout in lithographed handwriting. "Beginning in 1824 Poncelet had essentially shifted his attention from geometry to applied mechanics. Although he had previously studied certain machines and ways of improving them, it was during the summer of 1824 that he achieved his first important innovation: the design and realization of an undershot waterwheel with curved paddles, which possessed a much increased efficiency. The paper he wrote on this subject gained him a prize in mechanics from the Académie des Sciences in 1825. After new trials conducted on full-scale models, he presented a revised version of his study in 1827. Yet, most of his activity at this period was devoted to elaborating and continually updating the course in mechanics applied to machines that he gave from 1825 to 1834." (DSB).

Hannover, Foerster, 1729. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. (16), 104 pp. First edition of this account of Danish King Christian III (1503-1559) regarded as being one of the most significant kings of Denmark in the early modern period. He converted to Lutheranism early on and defended it until his death. The internal affairs of the church were reorganized under royal supervision by the Wittenberg reformer Johannes Bugenhagen. Johannes Isacius Pontanus (1571-1639), also known as Johan Pontanus, was a Danish historian and geographer. He served as the official historiographer for Denmark starting in 1618.

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 60, 1930. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page and light wear to extremities, one leaf detached, otherwise fine and clean. VIII, 871 pp. First appearance of Fermi's important paper on a quantitative theory of the hyperfine structures of spectrum lines which later was to be named 'Fermi Contact Interaction'. The present paper was considered one of his most important by the Nobel Prize commitee."Fermi contact interaction" is the magnetic interaction between an electron and an atomic nucleus when the electron is inside that nucleus.

Berlin, Nicolai'schen Buchhandlung, 1852. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Hilt spine. Gilt lettering. Spine on volume 1 slightly rubbed and a small tear to upper part of one joint. Front free endpaper on vol. 1 gone. 560,(2);528;(2),316 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Second expanded German edition.

Small 4to. All orig. wrappers in publisher's box, uncut. No 148 of 230 "sur Velin de Rives" with and extra suite of the 8 fine etchings by Charles Martin.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1852. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Dritte Reihe Bd. 26, Achtes Stück.(= Heft No. 8 of 1852). (The entire issue (No. 8) offered). Titlepage to vol. 26. Pp. 501-600. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 501-523. Clean and fine. First appearance of this founding paper in the modern theory of colour, in which Helmholtz proved the surprising fact that there are only two among the colours of the spectrum, yellow and indigo-blue, which together yields pure white, that is, are complementary to each other, whereas their combination had always been supposed to produce green."Helmholtz turned to the intricate problems of color vision in 1852 with an attack on Sir David Brewster's new theory of light. Brewster had maintained the objective reality of three primary colors by supposing, in opposition to Newton, that there exist three distinct kinds of light, each of which excites in the eye one of the sensations red, yellow, or blue. Helmholtz regarded the theory as still another confusion of physical stimulus and subjective responce....He also revived Young's theory of color visoin...only to refute it. He had discovered that spectral colors, when mixed, always yield a duller color of less-than-spectral saturation. Therefore the whole idea that all colors may be obtained from mixtures of three primary colors must be incorrect, he concluded, for the spectral colorss, at least, can never be obtained in their full saturation by mixing any three of their number....Although Helmholtz dismissed Young's theory in 1852, by 1858 he had changed his mind and become its formost advocate. In order to save Ypoung's theory....Helmholtz asumed that Young's physiological primaries are not spectral colors att all, but colors of far greater-than-spectral saturation..."(DSB VI, pp. 246-247). Garrison & Morton 1508.

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).

(Paris, Bachelier), 1844 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 18, No 20 a. 21. Pp. (883-) 898 a. pp. (899-) 960. (Entire issues offered). Liouville's papers: pp. 883-885 a. 910-911. First printing of the papers in which Liouville proved the existence of transcendental numbers. "J. Liouville..... invented a method (1844) for constructing any one of an extensive class of transcendental numbers. His numbers were the first to be proved transcendental; Hermite's proof of the transcendence of e ... followed in 1873; F. Lindemnn's for pi in 1882."(Bell "Development of Mathematics", p. 275).Liouville showed that not only are these numbers irrational, they are always transcendental. Thus he was the first to prove the existence of transcendental numbers and also that there were an infinite number of them. Liouville suggested that e was transcendental, and provided the first example of a provably transcendental number, now known as Liouville’s constant.Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1844 M.