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A Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Cie, An XII (1804). 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. With the monogram of King Christian VII on red background on upper cover. VIII,434,(2) pp. and 20 large folded engraved plates. last 3 leaves and first plate with an inkspot in upper corner. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 2639.

London, John Stockdale, 1811. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full green calf. raised bands. Gilt compartments. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtooled and gilt lineborders on covers. Edges of covers gilt. Upper joint on volume two starting. VII,368;(2),275,(12) pp., 53 aquatint plates, including 1 map. Some scattered brownspots. Occassionally some offsetting from the plates.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1888. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage and small stamps to verso of plates. "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 34,. VIII,1048 pp. a. 8 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Hertz' papers: pp. 155-170, pp. 273-285, pp. 551-569, pp. 609-623. First appearance of 4 famous and importent papers (2 of them in their final form) in which Hertz established by experiments the similarities between electric waves and light waves."Hertz followed up his determination of the finite velocity of electric waves by performing a series of more qualitative experiments in 1888 on the analogy between electric and light waves. Passing electric waves through huge prisms of hard pitch, he showed that they refract exactly as light waves do. He polarized electric waves by directing them through a grating of parallel wires, and he diffracted them by interrupting them with a screen with a hole in it. He reflected them from the walls of the room, obtaining interference between the original and the reflected waves. He focused them with huge concave mirrors, casting electric shadows with conducting obstacles. The experiments with mirrors especially attracted attention, as they were the most direct disproof of action at a distance in electrodynamics. They and the experiments on the finite velocity of propagation brought about a rapid conversion of European physicists from the viewpoint of instantaneous action at a distance in electrodynamics to Maxwell’s view that electromagnetic processes take place in dielectrics and that an electromagnetic ether subsumes the functions of the older luminiferous ether." (DSB)-.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1784-85. 4 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spines. 4 engraved titlevignettes. Some offsetting from corners to corners of titles and last leaves. First edition.

A la Haye, Pierre de Hondt (et Jacques van den Kieboom), 1735-40. Small 8vo. Uncut in 6 cont. marbled wrappers, backs worn, some strenghtened with tape on backs. (In all more than 3.600 pp.). Occasional some faint dampstainings. The 12 titlepages in red/black. First French edition.

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1865. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 4e Series - Tome VI. 512 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Berthelot's papers: pp. 292-328, 329-441 a. pp. 442-464. Clean and fine. First appearance of the three importent papers in which Berthelot founded the science of thermochemistry."Bertholet enunciated the principle that the heat evolved or absorbed in a chemical change depends only on the initial and final states of the reactants and products, provided no external work is done. This is Bertholet's second principle analogous to Hess's law of constant heat summation. He based this principle on the assumption of an equivalence between internal work (le travail moleculaire) and heat changes in a chemical reaction (Bertholet's first principle)."(DSB II, p.69.)."In the 1860s Berthelot was done with synthesis and turned to thermochemistry, the study of the heat of chemical reactions. In some of his work he had unknowingly been anticipated by Hess, but he went much further. He devised a calorimeter within which he could measure the heat of chemical reactions and ran hundreds of determinations. This work along with that being conducted by Thomson threw the science of thermochemistry into high gear."(Asimov).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1931. Royal 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Uppe and lower part of backstrip gone. VI,214 pp. + Publisher's cat. (7) pp. First edition of this pioneering book on mathematical treatment of the dynamics of animal populations. "The book mustbe considered as the most important contribution to the mathematization of biology made during the first half of the century, together with Lotka (1925). The origin of Volterra's direct intervention in the field of biomathematical research emerge clearly from his correspondance, manuscripts and direct testimony. In late 1925 D'Ancona showed him the results of a statistical survey of fish populations in the Upper Adriatic sea that pointed to a curious phenomenon. As a general rule, the percentage of predatory fish in the total fish catch in several ports in the Upper Adriatic remained constant, while it displayed an appreciable increase duringh the period 1915-18, that is, the years during which Italy was at war and the naval conflict in the Adriatic had led to an interruption of fishing activities. D'Ancona suggested that the lull in fishing activities was the cause of the increase in the number of predators, and he asked Volterra to provide a mathematical proof of this. Volterra threw himself into the question and came up with a description of the interaction between prey and predators beased on a simple mathematical model, which has since become famous and is known as the 'Lotka-Volterra equations'. (G. Israel in Landmarks Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940). - Vito Volterra (1860-1940) may be considered one of the greatest Italian mathematicians living between the 19th and the 20th centuries who also enjoied great international prestige. (G. Israel).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half cloth. Small Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Library stamt to title-page. A nice and clean copy. [Heisenberg:] pp. 499-518. [Stern:] Pp. 751-763. [Entire volume: VIII, 948 pp.]. First printing of Stern's first publication of his famous and groundbreaking series of papers named UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR MOLEKULARSTRAHLMETHODE (U.z.M.), which established the field of molecular beams. In the first of the U.z.M.-papers (the present), Stern explains the advantages and disadvantages of the method, discusses technical details, and then gives the program for future work. In this section he mentions 1, the measurement of magnetic moments of molecules, including those due to the electrons, to the nucleus, and those induced by diamagnetic action; 2, electric dipole moments, including the so-called permanent dipole moment as well as moments of higher order (quadrupoles); 3, the measurement of the field of force of molecules (molecular forces); 4, fundamental problems such as the recoil on emission of a quantum, the de Broglie waves of matter, and others. The execution of this immense program kept him busy and gave work to many assistants, students, postdoctoral fellows, and guests of his institute.This series reached 30 papers before it ended prematurely due to interruption by Nazi Germany.ÜBER DIE SPEKTRA VON ATOMSYSTEMEN MIT ZWEI ELEKTRONEN. First edition of this important paper in which Heisenberg - after inventing Quantum Mechanics the year before (1925) - investigates some of the fundamental aspects of the new theory. Heisenberg recognizes the invariance of the wave equation with respect to various transformations. "It is clear that such invariance exists with respect to an interchange of the coordinates of identical particles, e.g. of two electrons in an atom of two nuclei of the same kind in a molecule. As a consequence, the wave function of a non-degenerate stationary state must either remain unchanged or may only change sign when the transformation is applied to it....Indeed, in this way Pauli's exclusion principle for electrons found a formulation in terms of wave mechanics."(K. Kronik in Memorial Volume to Wolfgang Pauli).

Dresden, Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1816-19. 8vo. and small folio-oblong (22,5 x 32 cm.). Textvols: 2 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spines. Stamp on title-pages. XII,498;(6),XIV,722,(2) pp., 6 folded tables. + Atlases: 2 contemp. hcloth.with orig. printed titles to upper boards. With 15 engraved plates (7 + 8). Scattered brownspots.

Basel, B. Schwabe, 1875. 4to. In one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (4),157 pp., 56 chromolithographed plates.

København, 1886. Originalt komponeret gråt helshirtbd. Helt guldsnit. En anelse slitage ved kapitæler og hjørner. Indre false lidt svage. Indvendig helt ren og frisk. Et megeteligt eksemplar. Originaludgaven.

Halle, Renger 1724. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum, title in contemporary hand to spine. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Binding soiled and with some marks and spots. Internally fine and clean. (10), 725, (1) pp. + frontispiece and 38 plates (out of 44?) Second edition of Wolff's work on the mathematical disciplines of geometry and trigonometry, in part the work also deals with astronomy, optics and aerometry.

München, Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung, 1867. 4to. a. folio. Textvol. in contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Atlas-vol. in orig. printed, clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. XX,158,CLXXII pp. Atlas with 18 lithographed plates, diagrams, profiles and with the large (67 x 39 cm.) coloured map of the lower Mississippi basin. First German edition with additions by Grebenau. It was the most extensive river survey undertaken at that time and the survey was authorized by the Congress after two disastrous years of flooding. Here the authors introduced entirely new formulations to explain riverflow.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 2, Erstes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Titlepage to vol. 2. Pp. 1-118 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Cavendish's paper: pp. 1-62. (the torsion balance of Michell shown on the plates). First German edition of Cavendish's famous paper in which he calculated the weight of the earth and determined its mass. He also, as the first, observed gravitational motion of minute portions of matter. He estimates the earth's mass to 6,6 x 10 to the potential of 24 kg. The original paper "Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth" appeared in Philosophical Transaction, 1798."Cavendish published five papers between 1784 and 1809...With one exception they were comparatively minor productions....The exception was his determination of the density of the earth or weighing of the world in 1798, by means of John Michell's torsion balance. The apparatus consisted of two lead balls on either end of a suspended beam; these movable balls were attracted by a pair of stationary lead balls. Cavendish calculated the the force of attraction between the balls fro the observed period of oscillation of the balance and deduced the density of the earth from the force. He found it to be 5.48 times that of water. Cavendish was the first to observe gravitational motions induced by comparatively minute portions of ordinary matter...By weighing the world he rendered the law of gravitation complete. The law was no longer a proportionally statement but a quantitatively exact one; this was the most importent addition to the science of gravitation since Newton."(DSB III, p. 158.).

Stadtamhof, Joh. Mich. Daisenberger, 1799. Small 8vo. Bound in a beautiful contemporary red full vellum binding with richly gilt spine and boards. Four raised bands to spine. Wide floral borders and the dated initials "M C D" and year "1802" to front board. All edges gilt. Wear to extremeties. Previous ownership entry to front free end paper ("Martin de Crignis/ von Aichach 1828/ geb: den 14/3 17." Text printed to immitate handwriting, within ornamental borders throughout, and headlines printed in red throughout. Printed on good paper. 304 (including frontispiece), (4) pp. A spendidly printed book in a magnificent vellum binging that been dyed bright red and with rich gilding.Aichach (or Aicha) is a small city in Bavaria, Germany, located north of Augsburg. The De Crignis family were merchants in this small city, dealing with spices, iron, and fabrics. From "Königlich Bayersches Intelligenz-Blatt für den Ober-Donau-Kreis 1833" it is evident that Martin De Crignis was appointed Major and Commander of the Batallion of Neuburg.

Wien & Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1893-94. Bound in 7 contemporary half calf bindings, all with slight shelfwear and library labels on spines. Volume 7 (maps) lacks front cover. With numerous frontisp., maps, plans, and illlustrations. Library stamps. Archduke Carl Ludwig Johann Joseph Lawrence of Austria, Duke of Teschen (September 5, 1771 in Florence, - 30 April 1847 in Vienna) was a general and a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He is remembered for the fact that he was the first to inflict defeat on Napoleon at the Battle of Aspern, 21/22. May 1809.

Kbhvn., 1812-19. Indbundet i 6 velbevarede samtidige helldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning, titel-og tomefelter i skind. Foldetabeller.

Franckfurt am Mayn, 1735. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Light wear to top of spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. (10),442;(2),469;(2),306;(2),240 pp. Internally clean.

Kiøbenhavn, A.H. Godiche, 1760. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. med skindtitel på ryg. Ryg med lettere brugsspor og tab af lidt læder nederst på rygggen. (32),512 pp. samt 14 kobberstukne plancher, delvis udfoldelige. Her og der lidt brunplettet. Originaludgaven af Pontoppidans lærde Københavns-beskrivelse som blev optakten til hans udarbejdelse af "Danske Atlas".

Paris, Copenhagen, 1927-38. 4to. Classification: 23 pp. and 418 plates with descriptions and illustrations. The plates are kept in 2 boxes. (Conseil Permanent Internationale pour L'Exploration de la Mer).

Kopenhagen, Matthias Jürgenssen, 1663. 4to. Senere hshirtbd. Titelbladet er i beskåret form påklistret forpermen. (88) pp. Med talrige geometriske figurer og træsnit, en del helsides. Der mangler dedikationsbladet til Hans Schack auuff Meyeltöndern og "Vorrede"(anført i Thesaurus II:711)= fol 2-5.The dedicationleaf and Vorrede (= fol 2-5) lacks. Titlepage mounted on frontcover. Bibl. Danica II:35. Meget tidlig dansk lærebog i anvendt geometri. Hverken Bricka eller Ehrencron-Müller anfører biografiske data, men forfatteren kalder sig "Liebhaber des Ingenieurs-Kunst und Architect". Yderst sjælden. - Extremely scarce Danish textbook in geometry, lacking the introductory leafs. Richly illustrated with textfigures. - Thesaurus II:707

Paris, Corréard Jeune, 1840. Folio. (45 x 30,5 cm.). Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. (4) pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates (double-folio).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Top of spine with small tear. Slightly rubbed. (4),456 pp. and (Semple:) IV,112 pp. Light browning to leaves and a few brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann. 18. Bd.). Also with the series titlepage, this with a stamp.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Without wrappers. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII", No. V (May issue). Pp.177-224 (entire issue offered). Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 204-207. Some browning as usual. With titlepage to the volume 1683. Titlepage with a stamp and a faint dampstain. First edition of Tschirnhaus' "Tschirnhaus Tranformation".Tschirnhaus work intensively on finding a general method for solving equations of higher of higher degree. "His transformations constituted the most promising contribution to the solution of equations during the seventeenth century; but his elimination of the second and third coefficients by means of such transformation was far from adequate for the solution of the quintic.(Boyer. A History of Mathematics, 1968, 472 p.).Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) , a Saxon nobleman, had as wide interest as acquaintances: He studied in Leyden, served in the Dutch army, visited England and Paris several times. He set up a glassworks in Italy and is said to have introduced Porcelain to Europe. He wrote about philosophy and mathematics and was a close friend of Leibniz."In mathematics, a Tschirnhaus transformation, also known as Tschirnhausen transformation, is a type of mapping on polynomials developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683. It may be defined conveniently by means of field theory, as the transformation on minimal polynomials implied by a different choice of primitive element. This is the most general transformation of an irreducible polynomial that takes a root to some rational function applied to that root."(Wikipedia).Parkinson "Breakthroughs 1683 M.

(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.