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Halle, J.J.Gebauer, 1770. 4to. 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear along edges. Stamp on title-pages.Engraved frontisp. (6),28,2450 pp. 5 folded engraved maps and some textengravings. One map with a small closed tear. A few scattered brownspots. The copy has belonged to Christian Julius de Meza, bearing his name on both title-pages. First edition.

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.

Lugd.Batavorum (Leiden), Ioan. Maire, 1644. 4to. Later hcloth. (8), 254, (16) pp.

Kiøbenhavn, 1807. Small 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Leather title-lable with gilt title to spine. Spine somewhat worn. Corners slightly bumped. Some brownspotting, especially to the first few leaves. The very rare first printing of the first volume of Peter Foersom's (and P.F. Wulf's) translation of Shakespeare's tragic works (usually it is found in the second, revised edition from 1811). This volume contains the first Danish translation of Julius Cæsar and the second Danish translation of Hamlet. Hamlet has previously been translated into Danish and printed in 1777, as the only one of Shakespeare's works to appear in Danish before the present work.The present translation of Shakespeare's works is considered the most important in Danish literature and became the standard version of the works.The copy previously belonged to the renowned Danish literary historians Paul V. Rubow and Mogens Brøndsted.

Westerås, Joh. L. Horrn, 1778-83. Indbundet i et samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Tome-og titelfelter i skind. 2 kobberst.titelblade med sigiller/byvåben. (12),108;(8),136 pp.

(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.

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1749-55. 8vo. Bound in 12 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Cover with gilt borders, stamped in blind and panelled in mirror-style (Cambridge-binding). Light wear to a few top of spines. A label pasted on lower compartments. Stamp on htitle and title-pages. With 5 large folded engraved maps. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

4to. Uncut in all orig. wrappers. No 181 of 200 "sur papier velin d'Arches", total of 250. Throughout illustrated with 134 fine etchings, partly in colour.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Friedrich Rüdigern, 1733. Small 8vo. Later modest hcloth with ms-title on back. Stamp on title. Double-page engraved frontispiece, double-page printed title in red/black. (8),768 pp., 1 folded table and 29 engraved plates (some large and folded). Lacking the pages "Summarischer=Inhalt" unpaginated (supplied in photocopy). Marginal dampstaining to the last 10 leaves, otherwise clean. Scarce first edition. Dealing with all sorts of Gunnery in 9 parts. (1. Guss=Wesen. 2. Artillerie=Maass=Stabe. 3. Eintheilung des Gebräuchlichen Geschützes. 4. Von allerhand Kaveten. 5. Von dem Schiess=Pulwer. 6. Von den Batterien und Kesseln. 7. Vom Visitiren des Geschlüsses. 8. Vom Fehl=und Seiten=Schiessen. 9. Von allerhand ERrnst=Feuer=wercks Kugeln). - The Author is Augustin Brand although he hides under the name of Saint Julien and calls himself the translator.

Frankfurt, ex officina Hafniensi, Petri Haubold, 1673. Small8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Hindges weak. A few marginal annotations to title-page. First few leaves lightly miscoloured, otherwise fine. (8), 104 pp The rare first edition of Bartholin's work on bloodtransfusion.

Copenhagen, Joachim Schmedtgen, 1699. Contep. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (24),164,112,142,110,84,(4) pp. Internally fine. First German edition and the first translation at all of "Christian den Femtes Danske Lov" 1683.

Jena, Pohlium, 1712. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. All edges marbled. A few scratches to extremities, but overall a very nice and clean copy. (14), 1159, (49) pp. + frontispiece. Rare second edition of Sebastian Schmid's (1617-1696) various theological expositions.

Kjøbenhavn og Kristiania, Gyldendal,1919. 4to. Orig. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Lette brugsspor på ryg. Litograferet portræt af Knud Rasmussen udført af Albert Engstrøm som frontispiece, egenhændigt signeret af Knud Rasmussen. 596,(12) pp., kort, tekstillustrationer, s/h plancher samt opklæbede farveplancher. Originaludgaven, men denne særudgave er på særligt stort papir, næsten dobbelt så stor som normaludgaven i oktav og med særligt udstyr, idet plancherne er opsatte på svært papir. Den litograferede og signerede frontispiece findes heller ikke i normaludgaven.

Coburg, Pfotenhauer, 1721. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. (14), 459, (5) pp. Second improved edition, first sensored, of this taxonomy of swindlers and other criminal types, arranged alphabetically. The book went through seven editions in all, the last in 1761.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 7, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Pp. 387-528. Ritter's announcement p. 525. With titlepage to volume 7. Clean and fine. Titlepage a bit shavedin inner margin. First printing of Ritter's announcement of his discovery of ultraviolet light in a halfpage letter addressed to Gilbert's Annalen. With that discovery, it became clear that visible light represents no more than a fraction of a continous spectrum.A year earlier, in 1800, William Herschel discovered infrared light. This was the first time that a form of light beyond visible light had been detected. After hearing about Herschel's discovery of an invisible form of light beyond the red portion of the spectrum, Ritter decided to conduct experiments to determine if invisible light existed beyond the violet end of the spectrum as well. He had heard that blue light caused a greater reaction in silver chloride than red light did. Ritter decided to measure the rate at which silver chloride reacted to the different colors of light. He directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum. He then placed silver chloride in each color of the spectrum and found that it showed little change in the red part of the spectrum, but darkened toward the violet end of the spectrum. Johann Ritter then decided to place silver chloride in the area just beyond the violet end of the spectrum, in a region where no sunlight was visible. To his amazement, this region showed the most intense reaction of all. This showed for the first time that an invisible form of light existed beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum. This new type of light, which Ritter called Chemical Rays, later became known as ultraviolet light or ultraviolet radiation (the word ultra means beyond). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1801 P.

Ldn.,R.Ackermann, 1820. Roya18vo. Orig.pict.cloth. Gilt backs. Top a.bottom of spine with small tears. Binding a little loose. (6),277 pp. and 29 fine handcoloured litogr.plates.

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.

Wien, Degenschen Buchhandlung, 1808-16. Uncut in original blue printed wrappers. both spines gone and taped. Stamp on title-pages. 279;360 pp. Lacking pp. 1-2 in volume 1. With 43 large folded, engraved and handcoloured plans. A few scattered brownspots. Plans clean and fine.

(Geneva), Stephanus Gamonetus, 1605. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Binding a bit soiled. printers woodcut device on title-page. (40),191,315,(13),32,(20) pp. Old name cut from lower corner of title-page (no loss of letters). Some old names on title-page, among these the Danes A.B. Drachmann, Hartvig Frisch. Front free endpaper lacks. Internally clean. A fine printed and early edition with Casaubon's commentaries."Isaac Casaubon was the first who wrote a valuable commentary on Suetonius, and his edition is greatly to be preferred to every preceding"(Dibdin II:440).

Hauniae, (København), H.C. Paulli, 1710. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Blindtooled lettering to spine. Raised bands. Spine a little rubbed.Engraved frontispiece. (16),548 pp. + Index. A few scattered brownspots. The copy has belonged to the former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Holger Christian Reedtz (1800-1857). First latin edition of King Christian V's famous "Danish Law" of 1683.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, male and female on branches with fruits. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906). No wrappers. Extracted from "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge. Bd. 20. Pp. 199-206. Clean and fine. First printing of one of the papers for which Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. It was for the papers "Ueber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" of 1905 and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung...( Theory of light emission and absorption), the offered item, that Einstein received the prize: "for his services to theoretical physics and especially for his discoveryof the law of the photoelectrical effect" - his reward was not based on relativity."The quantum theory has affected virtually every branch of physics. Its earliest and one of its most significant developments was Einstein's application of the theory to what is known as the 'photo-electrical effect'....Einstein explained this effext by suggesting that the classical view that light is emitted in the form of continous waves must be abandoned. The photo-electrical effect could be explained only as an example of quantum action where the waves of light or X-rays are emitted in minute particles or bullets. It is he size of the bullet (the wave-lenght of the radiation) which determines the number of electrons ejected. It was for this, and not for the theory of relativity, that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Einstein's two fundamental papers on this subject are "Ueber einem Erzeugung...." 1905 and Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung (the paper offered here)" (PMM the note to 391).Weil: 12 (with an asterix, denoting a major paper) - Boni:12.

(Amsterdam, 1598 ?). 4to. No wrappers as issued. Large engraved illustration on the titlepage. (30) pp. Faint dampstain to the lower right corners. A scarce Dutch pamphlet, anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish, giving pro-war propaganda in 24 + 44 poems.

(København), 1823. Tvær-4to. (23 x 31 cm.). Samtidigt hshirt med nyere ryg. Forgyldt rhombeformet titeletiket på forpermen. Litograferet titelblad. (6) pp. Forord/tekst er i litograferet håndskrift og med underskrift af Bülow, Genraladjudant. Med 8 håndkolorerede plancher med talrige figurer.