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Bound in 10 cont. hcalf with gilt backs, vol. 10 not uniform. With ab. 40 steel-engraved plates, portraits and wood-engravings in the text. Stamp on titles.

4 cont. hcalf. Stamps on titles. Gilt backs, a little wear to backs, esp. to titlelabels. Top of one spine strenghtened with tape. A little brownspotted. With 28 folded engraved plates, positions handcoloured.

London & Bombay, Trübner & Co. etc., 1888-90. 2 orig. full pictorial cloth, richly gilt. Spine ends worn and covers somewhat soiled. (6),XXIV,VIII,325;VII,XVII,838,42 pp., many woodcut illustrations in the text and 39 lithographed plates of which 19 are handcoloured. Some browning, brownspots and some plates with small tears. First edition of this importent work on the avifauna of India, originally issued in 7 parts. - Wood p. 476. - Zimmer p. 450.

Flensburg, David Korte, 1736. 4to. Indbundet ubeskåret i nyere helldrbd.med forgyldt rygtitel. 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, Berling, 1746. (Optrykt Thaning & Appel 1966). Folio. Orig. grønt hmaroquin. Indeholder 120 plancher, som er håndkoloreret. Her foreligger alene bind 1 af optrykket af Vitruvius (3 bd.), men alle 120 plancher er koloreret med lette vandfarver af T.F. Lenbaron Bille Brahe i 2003-04 (signeret på titelbladet).

Hafnia (Copenhagen), Gøde, 1662. 4to. In blindstamped vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Binding with wear and soiling. Front free end-paper with 14-line note in neat contemporary hand. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand. Leaf a2-4 with tear. With occassional browning and annotations throughout. (8), 352, (6) pp. The uncommon first edition of Bircherod’s important and highly influential systematic theological compendium. In the preface, Bircherod describes the book as a new overview (Synopsis) of orthodox Christian theology, new in form, not in content. His method was meant to address two main problems: attacks on theology and disorganized theological teaching. To solve this, he paired correct definitions with opposing heretical views and added all relevant Scripture references for clarity. Jens Bircherod (1658 – 1708) was a Danish bishop, professor in theology and hebrew. Biblioteca Danica I, 185Not in Thesaurus

Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden), Danielem à Gaesbeek, 1691. Small8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Spine gone and frontcover detached. Some soiling to covers. Wood-cut printers device on titlepage. (24),468 pp. and many diagrams in the text. A few scattered brownspots and a few quires with light browning. First edition of Heinrich Coetsius' translation of the six first books of Euclid.Riccardi 1691, 7 - Max Steck p. 109, 1691.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1873. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Light wear to spine ends. Hinges on volume 2 weakening, but still holding. (4),578,(2);(4),603 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1776. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Occassional brownspotting throughout. (28), 308, (2); (2), 326, (6]) pp. + folded map. Swedish translation of Fréville's 'Hhistorie des Nouvelles Découvertes...', first published in Paris in 1774, being an abdriged version of Alexander Dalrymple's 'Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean". Regarding the map Kroepelien notes: "it was issued sometime after the publication of both volumes and is thus frequently missing."Kroepelien 471Beddie 721Hill 411Sabin 25913 (1774-edition)

(Paris, Crochard, 1828). 8vo. Without wrappers. Extract from 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 37. Pp. 330-334. First appearance in French of this milestone paper, marking the beginnings of organic chemistry, in which Wöhler describes how he managed to synthezise urea from cyanate of ammonia. The French version here is translated from the German paper "Ueber künstliche Bildung des Harnstoffs.", which was issued the same year (1828). This broke down the old distinction between organic and inorganic substances. "This was the first synthesis of an organic compound, and this accomplishment is generally regarded as the beginning of organic chemistry."(Sparrow "Milestones of Science", p.37). The discovery destroyed the vitalistic theory which held that organic compounds could be produced only by living organisms, and led eventually to the brilliant results that have been achieved in attempts to synthesize other organic compounds.Dibner: Heralds of Science, no. 45. - Sparrow: Milestones of Science, no. 197. - Garrison & Morton, no. 671. See also DSB XIV p.475.

Copenhagen, N. Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Binding somewhat rubbed. (12),183 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. A faint dampstain in top and bottom of plates. Text clean with broad margins, printed on good paper. First German edition. - Klaus Jordan No 1253.

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1807). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 27, Zwölftes Stück. (The entire issue offered (= Stück 12). Pp. 369-488 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Dalton's papers: pp. 369-387 and pp. 388-399. First appearance in German of two importent papers on the multiple proportions of gases, announcing the first example of the Law of multiple proportions. The first paper was read to the Manchester Society in 1802, but first published in 1805. It is Dalton's first chemical memoir, and it "disclosed the insight obtained through study of the combinations of oxygen with nitrous gas, into the LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS."(D.N.B)."One thing Dalton did in order to provide support for his heavely attacked theory of mixed gases was to begin an experimental inquiry into the proportions of the various gases in the atmosphere. This inquiry accidentally raised the whole question of the solubility of gases in water. By 12. Novwember 1802 he had discovered enough to read to the Manchester Society his paper "On the Proportion of Several Gases or Elastic Fluids..." (the paper offered). When read, although not when published, it contained the staement that carbon dioxide "is held in water, not by chemical affinity, but merely by the pressure of the gas...on the surface, forcing it into the pores of water.". The researches on solubility thus led to an extension of his mechanical ideas."(DSB III, p. 541).Smyth No. 36 a. 37. (German version).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 81, No 21. Pp. (909-) 992. With titlepage to vol. 81. A stamp to verso of titlepage, showing on recto. Mendelejeff's paper: pp. 969-972. First apperance of this importent paper which established that Gallium is identical with Eka-aluminum (the missing element between Aluminum and Indium) in Mendelejeff's periodic table. The properties of the new element corresponded well with those predicted. A bitter contorversy was raised between the discoverer of Gallium, Lecog de Boisbaudran and Mendelejeff. "The discovery of the three elements predicted by Mendeleev was, however, of decisive importance in the acceptance of his law. In 1875 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, knowing nothing of Mendeleev’s work, discovered by spectroscopic methods a new metal, which he named gallium. Both in the nature of its discovery and in a number of its properties gallium coincided with Mendeleev’s prediction for eka-aluminum, but its specific weight at first seemed to be less than predicted. Hearing of the discovery, Mendeleev sent to France "Zametka po povodu otkrytia gallia" (the paper offered) ("Note on the Occasion of the Discovery of Gallium"), in which he insisted that gallium was in fact his eka-aluminum. Although Lecoq de Boisbaudran objected to this interpretation, he made a second determination of the specific weight of gallium and confirmed that such was indeed the case. From that moment the periodic law was no longer a mere hypothesis, and the scientific world was astounded to note that Mendeleev, the theorist, had seen the properties of a new element more clearly than the chemist who had empirically discovered it. From this time, too, Mendeleev’s work came to be more widely known;"(DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1875 C.

Jassy (Moldavia), 1844. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Marbled boards. some wear to extremities. X,(2),180 pp. Scattered brownspots.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1802-(1803). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 10, Viertes Stück. (The entire issue offered (= Stück 4). Titlepage to vol. 10. Pp. 389-512 a. 1 engraved plate. + Extract from Ergänzungsheft zum Jahre 1802. (=Zweite Abhandlung). Volta's papers: pp. 421-449 a. pp. 497-520. Very light browning to 2. Abhandlung. First appearance in German of Volta's importent paper in which he describes the electrical forces that acts between the metal-plates in the Voltaic Pile. The German publication was printed in the same year as the Italian original "Sull' identita del Fluido Elettrico col Fluide Galvanico", 1802."A long memoir by Volta in two parts...reports that by measuring the electrometer deflections with different pairs of metals he found that the forces which drive the electric fluid...from the first metal to the second are: silver/copper 1, copper/iron 2, iron/thin 3, lead/tin 1, lead/zinc 5. Then the force for silver/zinc in immidiate contact is 12 (1+2+3+1+5), copper/tin 5 (= 3+2), iron/zinc 9 (5+1+3), etc. Thus 'the force or impulsion with which two metals act on the electric fluid is equal to the sum of the forces of the series of metals which stands between them, and...the electric force is the same as that which arises when the two extreme metals have no effect on the force of the latter'. This is the first statement of what Maxwell called 'Volta'slaw of contact electricity'..."(Partington IV, p.15.).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1802. Unbound, but stitched. (1),VII,XXX,240 pp. and 1 (of 2) large folded engraved map "Friedrich Hornemann's Reise von Aegypten nach Fezzan mit den anliegende Küsten undGegenden. Verfasst von J. Rennell, 1802." (30x62 cm.), handcoloured in outline. First edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 7. Bd.: 1..Theil). Also having the Series-title, this with a stamp.

Kiöbenhavn, Johan Frederik Schultz, 1789. 4to. Samtidigt marmoreret helldrbd. m. ophøjede bd. på ryg og rig rygforgyldn. På skrivepapir men med en del sprete brunpletter, mest marginale. 16 kobberstukne plancher af Clemens, de 15 efter Abildgaard og Niels Klim som drabant efter Juel. Godt eksemplar af den såkaldte "Pragtudgave", "et af det 18. Aarhundredes bedste bogværker" (Birkelund nr. 182).

Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1883. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. X,245,(1) pp. Internally fine and clean. Scarce first edition of this importent work which is a large extension of Meyer's classic paper of 1870, in which he independently of Mendeleev, discovered that the properties of the elements are a periodic function of (or vary in a periodic manner with) the atomic weight - the Periodic Table."The significance of atomic weights in the demonstration of chemical periodicity, and the suspicion that some atomic weights were not accurate, led Meyer and Seubert to examine critically and to recalculate all atomic weights then considered importent. Their study was published in 1883 (the work offered). All atomic weights were referred to the standard of unity for the atomic weight of hydrogen, a standard that Meyer championed.....In 1903 the newly created International Commission of Atomic Weeights decided to publish parallel tables based on H=1 and O=16, a practice followed for many years."(DSB IX, pp. 351-352).

Paris, D'Antoine Boudet, 1755-56. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. stamps on title-page. XXX,446,(2);(2),VIII,92 pp., 17 large folded engraved plates. Wide-margined, clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. - Rumpf, 2424.

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

Kjøbenhavn, J.D. Qvist, 1852. Indbundet ubeskåret med orig. for-og bagomslag i et smukt nyere hldrbd. af sort maroquin med rygtitel i guld. (Ove Christiansen). XVI,77,(3) pp. Foromslaget med et par ganske små hak. Et ualmindeligt velholdt og rent eksemplar. Den meget sjældne originaludgave af Dreiers filosofiske hovedværk, hvori han giver en fremstilling sin materialistiske filosofi, idet formålet var en angreb på "Aandetroen", den almindelige Kristendom.

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-page. No halftitle. (3-7) VIII-XI,320 pp., 2 engraved maps (1 folding) and textillustrations. A few brownspots to maps. First edition, but one of 4 printed the same year. - Arctic Bibliography, 5022. - Sabin, 24453.

Leipzig, Barth, 1826. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. light wear along edges. Stamp on foot of title-page. XXII,302;(4),370,(2) pp., 14 folded engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots. The work was also published as Dritter Theil von "Lehrbuch der Artilleriewissenschaft. Aus dem Spanischen des D. Thomas de Morla. Zweite umgearbeitete und vermehrte Ausgabe." The offered copy has also these title-pages withbound.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1865. Contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. Light wear along edges and small scratches to pine. XVI,550 pp., 20 woodcut illustr. in the text and 1 plate with 16 samples in colour. Internally fine and clean. First edition of this pioneer-work in occupational- and industrial hygiene.

London, Printed by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1683. 8vo. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine, corners bumped. A nice and clean copy. (20), 449, (3) pp. + two engraved plates. Uncommon later edtion of Allestree’s devotional work originally published in 1667. Richard Allestree (1619 – 1681) was an English Royalist churchman and devotional writer. He was educated at Oxford and became a noted preacher and scholar eventually serving as Provost of Eton College and later as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Allestree is perhaps best known for his work "The Whole Duty of Man" which was a popular devotional manual in the 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing moral and religious duties.