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Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1803. Contemp. marbled boards. Light wear to edges. IV,326,(1) pp. First edition of Schelling's important treatise , in which he in 14 lectures put forward his thoughts about the academic education in the differenrt subjects at the universities. He also gives a synopsis of his own philosophy

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 133, No 24.. Pp. (969-) 1044. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 977-980. First appearance of this historical paper in which Becquerel relates THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION. "Nothing that Becquerel subsequently accomplished (after his discovery of radioactivity in 1896) was as important as this discovery, by which he opened the way to nuclear physics. Nevertheless, there were two other occasions on which he stood directly on the path of history: when he identified electrons in the radiations of radium (1899 - 1900) and when he published the first evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901). (The paper offered)."(DSB)."To prove his supposition that the uranium would recover its activity, Becquerel set aside some of the inactive uranium solution and its radioactive barium sulfate precipitate for a period of 18 months. Late in 1901, he found that the uranium had completely regained its activity, whereas the barium sulfate precipitate had become completely inactive. Becquerel wrote: "The loss of activity ... shows that the barium has not removed the essentially active and permanent part of the uranium. This fact constitutes, then, a strong presumption in favor of the existence of an activity peculiar to uranium, although it is not proved that the metal be not intimately united with another very active product."

(Paris, Crochard, 1818,1819). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 8 (Cahier 3) a. 10 ( Cahier 2), pp. 225-336 and pp. 129-240. (Entire issues offered). Pelletier & Caventou's papers: pp. 323-324 (tome 8) and pp. 142-176 (tome 10). A few scattered brownspots. First printing of these classic papers in chemistry in which the authors announced their discovery of Strychnine. This was the first alkali of vegetable origin to be discovered after morphine. This discovery (and their discovery of chlorophyll) brought them international fame. The first small paper contains the announcement of the discovery and the second long memoir contains the elaborate exposition of the discovery."Strychnine was only the second alkaloid to be extracted, the first was morphine. Pelletier and Caventou wanted to name their new alkaloid vauqueline after Nicolas Vauquelin, one of their associates who had refined the technique of ether extraction for use in isolating alkaloids. However, the officers of the Académe des Sciences in Paris rejected the idea on the grounds that a respected scientist’s name should not be paired with a deadly poison. In addition to strychnine the pair isolated other important compounds from plants including caffeine, chlorophyll and the anti-malaria drug quinine. (Paul L. Burnham).Parkinson:"Breakthroughs", 1818 C. - Garrison & Morton: 1846.The first issue also contains their importent memoir "Examen chimique de la Cochenillee et de sa matière colorante", pp. 250-287 which describes how they obtained crotonic acid from croton oil and analyzed carmine in the cochineal.

Charlton, Kent, Published by the Author, 1881. Orig. full cloth. Blindstamped decoration to covers, gilt spine and gilt lettering to frontcover. Very faint discolouring to outher parts of covers. (6),106 pp. a. publishers catalogue 16,(8) pp. Large folded lithographed map "Map of Iceland showing every Site of Volcanic Activity, Places of Interest..." A small tear to map, no loss. Internally clean and fine. The scarce first edition.

Leipzig, Schwickert, 1786. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (32),584 pp. and 6 large folded engraved plates. First German edition. - Poggendorff I, 711 (French ed.).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. VI,136 pp. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 24. Bd.: 2. Theil).

Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, raised bands. Very slightly rubbed. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 33. (Entire volume offered). (12),452 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Laplace's papers: pp. 1-114, pp. 141-182, pp. 273-293, pp. 293-338 a. pp. 373-394. First German edition of Laplace's groundbreeking papers on the "Short-range Forces" i.e. capillary action, cohesion of solids, chemical reactions etc., where Laplace makes a major contribution to the mathematization of the subject. The papers are his first contributions to mathematical physics, and appeared as supplements to Book X of the fourth volume of his "Traité de mécanique céleste"."The importence, for Laplace's theory, of the shortrange character of the molecular forces cannot be overstressed. Small terms involving the square of the distance were repeatedly ignored, and it is no coincidence that in his concluding remarks to the second supplement Laplace reiterated his belief in the idntity of the forces at work in optical refraction, capillary action, and chemical reactions. In accordance with his belief that capillarity is a consequence of intermolecular action at a distance (albeit a very small distance), he tried to determine the relativemagnitude of the attractive force between the particles composing the liquid (F1) and the force between the particles of liquid and those of the tube (F2).... experiments, performed at Laplace's request, by Gay-Lussac, Haüy, and Jean-Lois Trémary...gave the theory added plausibility, as Laplace himself was always ready to observe; and they certainly helped it to survive the criticism of Laplace's only contemporary rival in the treatment of capillarity, Thomas Young."(DSB XV, Suppl. I, pp. 358 ff.).

Hafniæ & Lipsiæ, Christian Gottlob Mengel, 1745. Samtidigt helpergament med forgyldt rygtitel. Titelblad og frontisp med gammelt navn of enkelte pletter. Frontisp. (18),382,(2) pp. Med 3 (det ene foldet) kobbere, det sidste med gammel skrift på bagsiden. Editio secunda af Holbergs berømte utopiværk, Niels Klim i Undervendenen. Ehr.-M. XII:226 ff.Second edition of this influential utopian mastepiece.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Fhysik", vol. 46. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page. Pp. 1-46. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 902 pp.]. First printing of Weyl's exceedingly important paper which initially did not attract much attention but "its repercussion turned out to be remarkably strong in the long range". (Scholz, Weyl Entering the ’New’ Quantum Mechanics Discourse , p. 14). In it Weyl put forth an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics."Weyl's (1927) paper, referred to by Yang above, is entitled Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie (Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory). In it, Weyl provides an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics and he emphasizes the fundamental role Lie groups play in that theory. Weyl begins the paper by raising two questions: (1) how do I arrive at the self-adjoint operators, which represent a given quantity of a physical system whose constitution is known, and (2), what is the physical interpretation of these operators and which physical consequences can be derived from them? Weyl suggests that while the second question has been answered by von Neumann, the first question has not yet received a satisfactory answer, and Weyl proposes to provide one with the help of group theory." (SEP)Weyl’s approach to quantization was so general that for decades to come it did not attract much attention of physicists. At the beginning it even attracted very few successor investigations inside mathematics and was not noticed in the foundation of QM discourse, which was exclusively shaped by the Hilbert and von Neumann view until the 1950s. Although the immediate reception of Weyl’s early contributions to QM until about 1927, in particular his (Weyl 1927), was very sparse, its repercussion turned out to be remarkably strong in the long range:"1. A first and immediate next step was made by Marshall Stone and John von Neumann. They both took up Weyl’s statement of a uniquely determined structure of irreducible unitary ray representations. The result of this work is (for finite n) the now famous Stone/von Neumann representation theorem.2. A second line of repercussions may be seen in that part of the work of E. Wigner and V. Bargmann, which dealt with unitary and semi-unitary ray representations. In particular Wigner’s now famous work (at the time among physicists completely neglected) on the irreducible unitary ray representations of the Poincar´e group (Wigner 1939) looks like a next step beyond Weyl’s non-relativistic quantum kinematics from 1927. 3. A third impact is clearly to be seen in George Mackeys’s work. Mackey expressedly took up Weyl’s perspective (Mackey 1949) and developed it into a broader program for the study of irreducible unitary representations of group extensions.4.Finally, Weyl quantization was taken up by mathematical physicists from the later 1960s onwards with the rise of deformation quantization (Pool 1966). Here the starting point was the idea to translate the operator product introduced by Weyl’s own quantization.The last two points lead straight into very recent developments of mathematical physics." (Scholz, Weyl Entering the ’New’ Quantum Mechanics Discourse).

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", 67 band. 1909. Bookplates to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to verso of title page. Top half of spine is detached. Bookblock, however, still firmly attached. Fine and clean. Pp. 281-300. [Entire volume: IV, 575 pp.]. 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).

Paris, Magimel, Anselin et Pochard, 1819. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf., gilt spines, title - and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. (4),CLIV,540;54-1288 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Stamp on titlepages

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1823. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 40 (Bd. 74), Viertes Stück. Pp. 337-440 a. 1 engraved plate. (The entire issue offered (Heft 4). Fraunhofer's paper: Titlepage to vol. 40 and pp. 337-378. Clean and fine First edition of this importent paper where Fraunhofer analyzed diffration phenomena and interpretet them in terms of a wave theory of light, leading him to formulate the GRATING EQUATION. - "In the paper in 1823, Fraunhofer revealed his continued invstigation of diffraction gratings. Using a diamont point, he could rule up to 3,200 lines per Parish inch. He continued his study of the effect of oblique reays, developed formulations based on the wave conception, and calculated a revised set of wavelenghts for the major spectral lines. Thus, his earlier observations of the dark lines in the solar spectrum enabled him to make the highly precise measurements of dispersions; then his ude of the wave theory of light allowed him to derive, with suitable simplifications, the general formulation of the grating equation still in use today." (Reese V. Jenkins in DSB).

Tübingen, Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1809. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 88),244;(2),200 pp., 4 folded tables, 8 "Beilagen" folded, 18 (of 20 ??) engraved plates (5+13) and 1 folded engraved map. Internally clean and fine. First edition.

Amsterdam, Ryckhoff le Fils, 1742-48. Bound in 3 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartments. A small nick to top of spine on last volume. 1 folded table. Printed on good paper. Clean and fine.

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.

Kiøbenhavn, 1787. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf bindings with richly gilt spines. Previous owner's names in contemporary hand to front free end-papers. A few scratches and stains to board and internally with a few sporadic brownspots, an overall nice complete set with the portrait of Wessel. First edition.

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.

Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1855. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlapage and verso. XV,194 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate with 12 figs. of guns. First and last leaves with a few brownspots, otherwise ine and clean. Very scarce first German edition of "Notice sur les Pistolets Tournants et Roulants...Paris 1854", which is one of the earliest treatises on the revolver, published only four years after Col. Colt's invention, and discussing the comparative merits of his, the Adams-Deane, Comblain, Mangeot-Comblain, Haaken-Plondeur, and a few other types, then in vogue. - Sotheran Bibliotheca Chemico.Mathematica No 21437.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1846. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Wear to top of spine. Some repairs to hinges. Stamp on title-page. VII,216;(4),VIII,98,VII,46 pp., 2 engraved maps and 42 engraved plates (mostly costal profiles). Internally clean and fine.

Baltimore & London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1976. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. A very fine and clean copy. First printing of Saunders and Warford's landmark report on village water supply and its consequences on health and economy, which "became a benchmark for World Bank policy on rural water supply over the subsequent decade". (Cairncross , Domestic Water Supply in Rural Africa).It initiated a never before seen focus on the character and extent of the problems connected with water supply, sanitation and the relevant economics. Not only did it set the standard for the World Bank, to a large extent it also formed the UN-policy on the subject.

(Paris, Victor Masson, 1849). Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Troisieme Series - Tome 26. Cahier 3-4. Pp. 299-528 a. 2 folded engraved plates, showing apparatus used.(Entire issues offered). The joint paper takes up both issues. With half-title to tome 26. First appearance of this classic paper, which contains extensive comparative studies of respiration and calorimetry. They refined Lavoisier's experiments on measuring the oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production of animals and calculated the first good ratios of what came to be called the "RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT". It was the use of the apparatus and methods developed here, that enabled scientists the world over to gain some understanding of utilization of energy by many different animals.The inspiration for the space age scientific novel by JULES VERNE "De la Terre a la Lune" (1865) was based on the methods described by Regnault and Reiset in this paper to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide produced by men, dogs and chickens in the "projectile". The paper is cited several times in this famous novel.The species study in the Regnault and Reiset collaboration included warm-blooded animals, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits as well as hibernating and non-hibernating marmots. Cold-blooded animals , such as frogs, salamanders, reptiles and lizards were also described...In over 100 experiments their assays included the effects of temperature, season, diet, level of nutrition, compositionof air, sex, hibernation, age, body weights and other variables onrespiratory exchange and nitrogen exhalation or absorption (Based on W. Flatt & W. Payne).Garrison & Morton: 932.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 41, No 15. Pp. (537-) 563. (Entire issue offered). Babbage's paper: pp. 557-560. Some faint, mostly marginal brownspots. First printing of this importent paper being babbage's report on the Scheutz differnce calculator, explaining its functions by way of his own notations."Babbage's report on the differnce engine built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheuts (1785-1873) and his son Edvard (1821-81), based on Babbage's own designs.... In 1854 the Scheutzes took their engine no. 2 to England in the hopes of marketing it. There they were introduced to Babbage, who received them with great friendliness and showed a lively interest in their work. Babbage devoted two whole days to investigating Scheutz' engine for which he had much praise, especially for the way they had succeeded in building it with the funds at their disposals.... As part of his effort to promote the Scheutz Engine, Babbage gave a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences, illustrated with drawings by his son henry, in which Babbage's system of mechanical notation was used to describe the machines construction and functions. This talk was published (the paper offered) without illustrations in the Academie 'Comptes rendus'. ((Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyberspace", No. 73).

Antverpen, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1608. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. Ms title on spine. 230;817,(5) pp. Plantin's woodcut device on both titlepages and on last leaf verso. Printed on good paper. Internally fine and clean. First edition. Beautifull Plantin-imprints - Graesse I;458. - Not in Brunet.