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(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, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Année 1773. Pp. 503-540 a. 1 folded engraved plate. A few leaves with a faint dampstain in right margin. Otherwise fine and clean. First printing of an importent memoir in which Laplace applied his work on probability to the study of the distribution of the orbital planes of comets in space, a remarkable work in mathematical- and physical astronomy. The memoir also deals with the figure of the earth.

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.

Flensburg, David Korte, 1736. 4to. Nyere papbd. med overtræk af marmoreret papir. Kobberstukket frontispiece med byplan og prospekt. (22),746 pp. + Index + Appendix. Talrige kobberstukne tekstillustrationer. Papirkvaliteten i dette værk gør siderne noget brunede og med lidt spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven af Terpagers anden Ribe-beskrivelse.- Bibl. Danica II:706.

Kbhvn., C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg med brugsspor. Titelblad i rød/sort med reparationer i øvre og nedre hjørner, lidt nusset og opklæbet. (30),585,(21) pp. Indvendig med lidt brugsspor og lettere brunplettet. det træskårne frontispiece mangler. Bogen har talrige halvsides træstik. Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede.

Kiöbenhavn, Ernst.A. H. Müller, 1810. 4to. Senere hshirtbd. Forgyldt titel på forpermen. Stempel på titelbladet. 32 pp., 1 foldet kobberstukket planche med landtoninger. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Originaltrykket. - Bibl. Danica II,359.

Bound uncut in a little later boards. Titlelabel on back. CIII,225 pp. + Publishers Catalogue (6) pp. and folded engraved map (lower left corner with a little loss of plate, repaired). A few brownspots. 3 leaves with tear, no loss and repaired. Lauridsen VIII:196. Anden engelske oversættelse af Egedes "Det gamle Grønlands Nye Perlustration...1729".

[No place, but Copenhagen], 1797. Folio (33 x 22 cm). In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Stamp and two labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Written in fine legible hand on good paper. Fine and clean. 172 ff. Volume 1 (out of presumably 3) of a manuscript on artillery in German.

(Paris, Crochard, 1824). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 26, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-448 (entire issue offered). With htitle to volume 26. Amperes' paper: pp. 390-411 and 2 folded engraved plates. First appearence of the paper in which Ampere describes his invention of the SOLENOID, the electro-magnetic device he used in his early electrodynamical experiments."A solenoid is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix. In physics, the term solenoid refers to a long, thin loop of wire, often wrapped around a metallic core, which produces a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it. Solenoids are important because they can create controlled magnetic fields and can be used as electromagnets. The term solenoid refers specifically to a magnet designed to produce a uniform magnetic field in a volume of space (where some experiment might be carried out)."Poggendorff I, p. 29. - Ronalds, p. 10.

Leipzig, Baumgärtnerischen Buchhandlung, 1819. 8vo. a. 4to-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VIII,291,(1);VI,300,(2) pp. + Atlas in contemp. hcalf. titlelabel with gilt lettering containing 31 engraved and handcoloured plans/maps. Text with scattered brownspots. The atlas is perhaps issued separately ?.

Braunschweig, Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 24. (Entire volume offered). A stamp on titlepage otherwise fine and clean. Pp.69-87. [Entire volume: IV,412 pp]. 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)."In an effort to reconcile the particulate and wavelike properties of radiation, Bohr, Kramers, and Slater in 1924 formulated a new quantum theory of radiation. According to their hypothesis, momentum and energy-are conserved only statistically in interactions between radiation and matter." (DSB).The present paper became a great influence to Bothe and his Compton collisions and the Coincidence method which eventually resulted in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

France (Paris ?), Undated, around 1765. Folio. (42,5 x 28 cm.). Loose inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 21 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. On good thick paper, clean and fine. Title-page, 4, (2), 19 pp.

Gera-Untermhaus, (1901). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Some wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. VI,432 pp.and 49 (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, 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.

(Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1901). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from"Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler", vol. 24, pp. 1-88. First edition. "After Poinceré, the most significant work on solutions of equations of the form dy/dx= P(x,y)/Q (x,y) is due to Ivar Bendixon (1861-1935). One of his major results (the offered paper) provides a criterion by means of which, in certain regions, one can show that no closed trajectory exists....The theorem now named after Poincaré and Bendixon, which is the latter's 1901 paper, provides a positive criterion for the existence of a periodic solution of (the above equation)." (Morris Kline).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1770). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXIV, pp. 251-326. Clean and fine. First edition of an importent paper in algebraic analysis. The method used by Lagrange was probably suggested to him by Lambert, and both Euler, Lexell, d'Alembert and Condorcet all became highly intereste in this discovery as soon as they heard about it. "Laplace later presented a better proof. Lagrange's formula occupied numerous other mathematicians, including Arbogast, Parceval, Servois, Hindenburg and Bürgman....; and virtually every analyst of the nineteenth century considered the problem." (Jean Itard in DSB). - Poggendorff I:1344.

Dresden und Leipzig, Friedrich Hekel, 1737. 4to. Later boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear at lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (30),166 pp., 21 engraved plates. Clean and fine, light yellow-toning to plates. First German edition. - Jordan, 2020.

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.