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(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 3. Pp. 225-236 (Entire issue offered with halftitle to vol. 19). Navier's paper: pp. 244-260. A few scattered brownspots. Some browning to halftitlepage. First appearance of Navier's famous paper in which he describes the relations between fluid flow and friction, giving the FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS OF THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ELASTICITY. The full paper was not published until 1828. Stokes's analysis of the internal friction of fluids was published in 1845, and as he was not familiar with the French litterature of mathematical physics, he derived independently his own equations, which accounts for the double-name of the equations. "The Navier-Stokes equation is now regarded as the universal basis of fluid mechanics, no matter how complex and unpredictable the behavior of its solutions may be. It is also known to be the only hydrodynamic equation that is compatible with the isotropy and linearity of the stress-strain relation." (Olivier Darrigol)."Navier studied the motion of solid and liquid bodies, deriving the partial differential equations to which he applied Fourier's methods to find particular solutions. This theoretical research led him to formulate the well-known equation identified with his name and that of Stokes. Navier viewed bodies as made up of particles which are close to each other and which act on each other by means of two opposing forces - one of attraction and one of repulsion - which, when in a state of equilibrium, cancel each otherout. The repelling force resulted from the caloric that a body possessed. When equilibrium is disturbed in a solid, a restoring force acts which is proportional to the change in distance between the particles."(DSB, X, p. 4)."The equations are useful because they describe the physics of many things of academic and economic interest. They may be used to model the weather, ocean currents, water flow in a pipe and air flow around a wing. The Navier-Stokes equations in their full and simplified forms help with the design of aircraft and cars, the study of blood flow, the design of power stations, the analysis of pollution, and many other things. Coupled with Maxwell's equations they can be used to model and study magnetohydrodynamics. "(Wikipedia).

Philadelphia, William Hamilton, 1863-65. Large 4to. 2 orig. full blindstamped cloth. Light wear to spine ends. XXXI,355;CXII,502 pp., folded tables and 47 engraved plates. Internally clean.

(No place nor printer), 1789 - 1791. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Light wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. XII, (2), 556 pp.; XXXIV, (4), 526 pp.; (4), 608 pp. First edition, complete with all three volumes, of Gaspari’s political history of the Scandinavian countries.

Paris, Nyon l'aîné, 1784. Small 8vo. Contemp. Gilt spine. Title stamped in blind. XXIV,343,(5) pp. Clean and fine. A classic work on deaf-mutes. First edition with this title, but It is really a new edition of the authors "Institution des Sourds et Muets, par la voie des Signes méthodiques." 1776 (Heirs of Hippocrates,920). In 1791 L'Épée's school became the Institution Nationale des Sourds Muets. "The Abbé de L'Épée met two deaf girls, decided to educate them, and soon had a class of 60 devoted pupils, whom he supported and amongst whom he lived. He based his methods on those of Bonnet and Amman, and was the first to attach great importence to signs." (Garrison & Morton,3359).

Flensburg und Leipzig, Korte, 1757-59. 4to. Bound in 3 uniform contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Double gilt lineborders on covers. Top of spine on volume 3 with a neath repair. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved portrait (after Roselius, engraved by Bernigeroth). (14),844;(4),904;(8),928 pp. light browning to title-pages and the first leaves in all 3 volumes, but a well-preserved copy. Second German edition of "Dannemarks Riges Historie".

No place, no date, ca. 1880. Imperial folio. (69 x 52,5 cm.). Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel on upper cover with gilt lettering. With 16 architectural plates, each measuring 68 x 99,5 cm.

Gera-Untermhaus, (1900). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. VI,393 pp. and 48 (each 38x28 cm.) fine chromolithographed plates, 5 of which depicts the eggs. , Anker no.356. The old text from the edition in 1822-60 has been preserved unaltered, corrections in footnotes. The figures for all the plates have been re-drawn and show the birds in their natural surroundings. Among the many artists are O.Kleinschmidt, J.G. Keulemans, O. van Riesenthal and others. The eggs are figured in a series of special plates, based on Eugene Rey's Collection.

Kbh., 1789. 4to. Samt. slidt hldrbd. m. rig rygforgyldn. False slidte og delvist revnede. Kapitæler professionelt restaurerede. Titelbl. lidt nusset, indimellem en smule brunplettet. P. 228 ubeskåret og foldet, bevarende samt. marginale noter, bestående af en engelsk oversættelse, p. 276 ligeledes m. marginale noter på engelsk i samme hånd, den ubeskårne side m. understregninger i teksten. På skrivepapir. M. alle 16 kobberst. plancher af Clemens, de 15 efter Abildgaard og Niels Klim som drabant efter Juel. "Pragtudgaven".

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896). Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 59, Zehntes (No 10 1896). Entire issue offered. Pp. 193-416 a. 1 folded plate. Eötvös's paper: pp. 354-400 a. 15 large textillustrations, depicting his experimental apparatus. Clean and fine. First appearance of Eötvös's main paper on gravitational phenomena, which became the subject of his lifework, and in which he showed experimentally, that the inertial mass and the gravitational mass are proportional, a discovery that became ONE OF THE BUILDING STONES OF THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY."The second extremely important application of the Eötvös balance involved a predetermination of the rate of gravitational acceleration for different bodies. It had been known from earlier work that all bodies fall with the same acceleration (in a vacuum), but the best previous determinations yielded only a limited accuracy. In response to a prize announcement by the University of Gottingen, Eötvös and his collaborators followed up his early measurements on this subject. The new measurements provided not merely a more accurate proof of a principle believed right until then, but much more: his results, proving that gravitational mass and inertial mass are equivalent, the possible deviation being about five parts in 109, became one of the building stones of the theory of general relativity. The experiment proves the “weak” form of the principle of equivalence, which states that the trajectory of a test particle, under the influence of gravitational fields only, depends only on its initial position and velocity, not on its mass and nature. Later confirmation of his results (during the last fifty years) reduced the possible deviation from perfect equivalence by a factor of 1,000." (DSB, IV, 379 ff.).

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 46, No 11. Pp. (503-) 546 (entire issue offered). Hermite's paper: pp. 508-515. First apperance of Hermite's famous paper in which he, by the application of elliptic functions, provided the first solution to the general equation of the fifth degree, the quintic equation.Hermite was a major figure in the development of the theory of algebraic forms, the arithmetical theory of quadratic forms, and the theories of elliptic and Abelian functions. He first studied the representation of integers in what are now called Hermitian forms. His famous solution of the general quintic equation appeared in Sur la résolution de l’équation du cinquième degré (1858; "On the Solution of the Equation of the Fifth Degree"). (Encyclopedia Britannica).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1858 M.

Paris, Edition du Centre National..., 1969. 4to. 2 orig. full fabrikoid. XVII,426;(8),457 pp., 2 frontispieces and 121 + 113 plates.

London, Printed for J. Walthoe (et al), (1742). Folio. Cont. full calf. Raised bands. Worn and covers detached. Block good. Main title in red a. black. In all 4 titles (3 Parts). (6),L,622 pp. 2 engreved allegorical Frontispieces and 78 engraved plates (incl. frontisp. and double-numbering of some plates). Printed on good paper. Internally fine, with a few dampstains, some browning to the first and last leaves. In this 1742-edition all the illustrations are on plates and not in the text.

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1840. 8vo a. large 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Spine with a large label taped on spine. Atlas in later clothbacked boards. XXVIII,396 pp., Atlas with lithographed, folded plan "Grundriss von Dresden im Jahr 1840" and 9 engraved plates in folio. Text with very faint scattered brownspots. Plates with browning and brownspots.

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1848. Without wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome 34, January-issue. With titlepage to vol. 34. 128 pp. (entire January-issue). Pasteur's paper pp. 30-64, 1 litographed plate. Some scattered brownspots and browning. First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. This paper is among Pasteurs most importent among the handfull of his early papers on the subject.

Kjøbenhavn, Soldin, 1801. Indbundet med de originale blå blanke kardusomslag i et nydeligt senere marmoreret papbd. Forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. 62 pp. Skygge af en fugtskjold, ellers ren og frisk. Originaltrykket.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87. 8vo. Bound uncut and partly unopened in 8 uniform original full cloths with gilt spines. Boards embossed. Hinges and capitals of vol. I-III restored. With 62 partly coloured plates. Internally clean. Various editions (1st - 4th).

Uppsala, Regiae Academiae Typographi, 1839. Small 4to. Sewn as issued, uncut. (4),1-10,11-20 pp. Fine and clean. Printed on thick blue paper. First edition of Ångströms scarce doctoral dissertation, dealing with the optics of conical refraction.Ångström was one of the early formulators of the science of modern spectroscopy; he wrote extensively on terrestrial magnetism, the conduction of heat, and especially spectroscopy. He published a monumental map of the normal solar spectrum that expressed the length of light waves in units of one ten-millionth of a millimeter, a unit of length now known as the angstrom. He discovered that hydrogen is present in the sun's atmosphere, and he was the first to examine the spectrum of the aurora borealis.

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1850. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Very light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plate. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome XXVIII. 504 pp. a. 5 plates. (The entire volume offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 56-99. Some scattered brownspots. First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. This paper is among Pasteurs most importent among the handfull of his early papers on the subject.

Landshut, Vogel'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1845-46. Lex8vo. Bound in 10 uniform contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Top of spine on a few volumes with light wear. Scattered brownspots. Latin- German paralelltext.

Haarlem, Tjeenk Willink, 1881-85. Bound in one later hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on first title-page. (4),80;146;131;95;66 pp. Richly illustrated with plates, folded lithographed maps and plates in chromolithography. All 5 volumes clean and fine.

(Lübeck), 1681. Lille 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Marmoreret snit. (40),120 pp. Trykt på svært skrivepapir og yderst velbevaret. Med kobberstukket ejermærke med våbenskjold på indersiden af forpermen "E:A: v. B. (Bertusch) samt på fribladet "Chr. Bille Brahe". Originaludgaven af Rosenkratz' forsvar for den danske adels rettigheder, som blev indskrænket til fordel for den tyske hofadel under Enevælden. Apologien var foranlediget af det angreb på den danske adel fra den tyske jurist P. Oldenburger, som han fremsatte i en fremstilling af den tyske Statsret. Bogen vakte uhyre opsigt i datiden, en domstol blev nedsat, bogen konsfiskeret og Rosenkratz idømt en stor bøde på 6.000 Rdl.Thesaurus II,631. - Bibl. Danica II,734.

London, Vernor, Hood et al., 1808. Small 8vo. Fine red full morocco. Uncut. Top edge gilt. (Signed by Hallhards. 87 Picadelly). Triple gilt borders on covers. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. (2),XVI,28;XVI,69,(1) pp. (2) pp. advertisements. With 29 fine engraved and handcoloured plates by Rawlanson and others. First Rowlandson-edition.

London, R. H. Laurie, 1842. 8vo. In contemporary (Original?) coardboard binding with cloth backstrip. A stamp to spine and two stamps to front board. Three small stamps to title-page. Wear to extremities, internally fine. XXIV, (1)-265, (1) pp. Ninth edition of Purdy's pilot to the English Channel.

Frankfurt, Schleich & Klein, 1643. 12mo. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Vague marginal dampstain affecting first leaves, but overall a nice and clean copy. (22), 650 pp. + 1 engraved plate. German translation, first published in 1638, of Daniel Dyke’s “Mystery of Self-Deceiving”. “All of Dyke’s treatises were published posthumously by his brother, Jeremiah Dyke, vicar of Epping, mostly from 1614 to 1618. Daniel Dyke’s most frequently reprinted book, The Mystery of Self-Deceiving, based on Jeremiah 17:9, is a detailed anatomy of the “gospel-hypocrite,” i.e., one who claims to know Christ but whose life reveals little self-knowledge and no fruit. Thomas Fuller, a noted historian and a younger contemporary of Dyke, said the book “will be owned for a truth, whilst men have any badness [in them], and will be honored for a treasure, whilst men have any goodness in them.” (Beeke, Meet the Puritans). The work was translated into German by Theodore Haak (1605 – 1690), a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. In 1625, Haak travelled to England where he visited Oxford and Cambridge Universities. A year later he returned to Germany and he brought back from England a copy of Daniel Dyke's ‘Mystery of Self-Deceiving’, which he shared with his Protestant circle. Haak translated it into German in 1638.

(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.