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København & Kristiania, Nordisk Forlag, 1913. 8vo. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et nyere halvmaroquinbind med rygforgyldning (Rigmor Birkedal Kragh). Titelblad forstærket i falsen. En smule brunet, ellers ren indvendig. Med lang dedikation fra Wied på smudstitelbladet: "Min Ven / H. P. Palmer / fra hans / hengivne / G. W. / Maj 1913. / Tak for Brev m.m. / Svar følger snart. Jeg har / været temmelig herunter og / er endnu ikke ganske rask / Hilsen!" 329,(3) pp. Originaludgaven med dedikation til vennen H. P. Palmer.

Coloniæ, Busæum, 1661-64. Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum. In the middle of back a loss of vellum (2x7 cm). (10),406,482,(11),(8),575,(7) pp. 2 corners of last Index lost with loss of a few letters.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1748. 4to. Recent blue boards. Issued in "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, Année 1744, Paris", pp. 417-426. Bound with the engraved frontispiece and titlepage to the volume. First edition. In this importent paper "Agreement of several Laws that had hitherto seemed to be incompatible" he showed that the behavior of light during refraction - when it bends on entering a new medium - was such that the total path it followed, from a point in the first medium to a point in the second, minimised a quantity which he again assimilated to action. These results were instances of his later (1748) formulated "The principle of least action".

(København, 1861). 4to. No wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Nice and clean. (3) pp. + pp. 156-175. First printing of Thomsen's influential paper in which he "fund that the electromotive force can be used to calculate the mechanical work necessary for separating a compound into its elementary particles. In many instances, by measuring the electromotive force Thomsen obtained the same value for the affinity as in previous calorimetric experiments, but in other instances a difference was found. It is now known that the electrochemical measurements are theoretically correct, not the calorimetric ones." (DSB, XIII, 359 p.)

Kbhvn., 1893-1908. Folio. 6 orig.hshirtbd. Kapitæler slidte med rifter og bd. II løs i ryg og revnet fals. Rigt illustr.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1807. Unbound, but stitched. (4),VI,204 pp. and one folded engraved map "Die Nordküste von Bass's Strasse, aufgenommen in December 1800 von Iac. Grant, Weimar 1807". First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 33. Bd.: 1. Theil). Also having the series titlepage, this with a stamp.

Hagæ Comitum (Den Haag), Adriani Vlacq, 1654. Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum with a faint handwritten title on spine. A nick to vellum at the handwritten title. Some soiling to spine and lower part of upper cover. Engraved titlepage (loosening). (14),314,(4) pp., textiillustrations in woodcut (some full-page) and 9 engraved plates (some folding). Scattered brownspots, mostly at end. First reprint, the Vlacq-print, from the same year as the original from Copenhagen, and having the same plates as this. The Copenhagen edition was followed by Centuria III-IV and V-VI. This collection of papers in various departments of medicine and anatomi, deals mainly with human and animal monsters.Gosch III,p.43. ("Denne Udgave er maaske at betragte som en Originaludgave samtidig med den kjøbenhavnske")

London, The Economist Office, 1939. Small folio. Bound with the original wrappers in comtemporary half cloth with. Entire volume 136, 1939, of The Economist. Binding with minor wear, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. VIII, 628, 17-24. Original printing of The Economist - the most important and influential economic journal worldwide - from the year 1939 where Hitler invaded Poland and thereby initiated The Second World War.On September 2, 1939, the editor of the Economist wrote: "Since it is in Poland the the line has been drawn, it is in Poland that we must take our immovable stand. German aggression and robbery, whether by force or by the threat of force must stop here and now and stop forever. For the British people, with a quite and unflurried resolution as strong as anything in their history, have determined that it is better to fight a war than to yield an inch on a principe that has become one of national honour and national safety". In the following issue, published September 9, it has come to open war between Poland and Germany and the editor states: "For the first time in his career, we may feel grateful to Hitler. Since a war was quite inevitable (and knowing what we now do of his state of mind, we can clearly see that it was), we could hardly have hoped for a straighter moral issue on which to fight it.". Here is offered a most interesting contemporary account from a British perspective on the beginning of The Second World.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1907. Royal8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to lower left part of frontwrapper. Stamps to titlepage. (10),597 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen, with his name on top of frontwrapper. First German edition of this importent work which is recognized as a classic, being the first textbook on Radio-Activity. To this German edition, translated from the second English of 1905, Rutherford himself has added further descriptions of the results obtained in the years in between.Rutherford made "Proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom. Rutherford discovered and named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays."( Horblitt, "One Hundred Books famous in Science" No 91 (Engl. ed.)."After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom..... "(Dibner "Heralds of Science", No 51 (Engl. ed.).

Düsseldorf, in der Dänzerschen Buchhandlung, 1798 4to. Uncut in recent marbled boards with red leather title-label with gilt lettering so spine. Fine and clean. 71 pp. + engraved title-page. Rare first edition.

Paris, Bussod, Valadon et Cie, 1885-89. Folio. (46 x 36 cm.). Original full red cloth. Richly gilt spine and covers. Finely rebacked, preserving original spine. Corners a bit bumped. Stamp on foot of title-page. (8),128;(14,116 pp. Profusely textillustrated and with 60 fine colour-plates.

Leipzig und Liegnitz, David Siegert, 1767. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small nick to one raised band. Stamp on title-page. XCVI,394,(6) pp., 25 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. Struensee's translation of "Les Reveries; ou Mémoires sur L'Art de la Guerre". - Klaus jordan, 2625.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1886) Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 27, Drittes Heft Heft (No 6 1886). Entire issue offered. Pp. 321-480 a. 2 folded plates. Eótvós's paper: pp. 448-459. Clean and fine. First appearance of this important paper in which Eötvös set forth his "Law of Capillarity" and thereby eliminating the errors that had twarted his predecessors such as Young, Laplace, Poisson and Gauss. The principle thus established, also called "The weak equivalence Principle", served as a BASIS FOR EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY(Capillarity: the property or exertion of capillary attraction of repulsion, a force that is the resultant of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension in liquids which are in contact with solids, causing the liquid surface to rise or be depressed...)"The beginnings of Eötvös’ scientific career are connected with liquids. He worked out a new way to determine surface tension, which subsequently became known as the reflection method. This method made it possible to determine precisely the surface tension of various liquids. During his experiments, Eötvós found a linear relationship between the molar surface energy of liquidsand their temperature. The proportionality factor is constant for all compound liquids independently of their composition. The molar surface energy is equal to the work needed to move one molecule from the inside of the liquid to its surface. Based on this finding, Eötvös was able to state the following relationship: with increasing temperature, the surface tension of a liquid decreases until, at the critical temperature, it becomes zero. Later this rule was named the Eótvös law and the proportionality constant the Eötvós constant. In case of liquids this constant is as fundamental as the universal gas constant in case of gases."

Berlin und Libau, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1786. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one modest contemporary cardboard-binding reinfoced with cloth to corner and top and bottom of spine. Wear to extremities, some of the marbled paper worn of. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. XVIII, 320, 332, (4) pp. + frontispiece. Rare first edition of Professor Burja's early textbook on algebra. Poggendorff I, 335 Cantor IV, 77

Paris, Crochard, 1820. Uncut with orig. printed wrappers (Juin-issue). In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago" Tome XIV, Juin issue, pp. 113-222. (Entire issue in orig. wrappers). Savart's paper: pp. 113-172 and 3 folded engraved plates. First printing of a pioneer paper on the acoustics of the violin and on the construction of the Trapezoidal Fiddle."In his earliest work Savart gave the first explanation of the function of certain parts of the violin. To learn how vibrations are transmitted from the strings to the rest of the instrument, he induced vibrations in a free wood plate by passing a vibrating string over a bridge at its center; he also used Chladni’s sand-pattern technique to observe the resulting nodal lines. Savart showed that the bridge transmits the string’s vibrations; that the plate can be made to vibrate at any frequency; and that the corresponding mode is a modification of an unforced mode. He demonstrated that the sound post also serves to transmit vibrations, and he explained that it therefore should not be placed under a nodal line. Thinking that symmetry and regularity would produce the best tone, Savart built a trapezoidal violin with rectangular sound holes. When the instrument was played before a committee that included Biot, the Composer Cherubini, and other members of the Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, its tone was judged as extremely clear and even, but somewhat subdued."(DSB).The issue also contains Eilhard Mitscherlich' famous paper in the first French version "Sur la Relation qui existe entre la forme cristalline et les proportions chimiques", pp. 172-190.

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.

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

London, Macmillian and Co, 1927. Royal8vo. Bound in a nice black full cloth with title, year and exlibris (Grosvenor Library) in gilt on spine. The entire volume 119, 1927, of "Nature" offered. Pasted library stamp to pasted down free front end-paper. Binding tight, clean and externally as well as internally. Pp. 558-560. [Entire volume: LIX, (1), 948, 100]. First edition of this seminal and highly influential paper on electron diffraction. Today the paper is regarded as one of the most important in the entire journal of Nature, and it led directly to Davisson receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937. It advanced understanding of physics at the quantum level and led to inventions such as the electron microscope. Davisson and Germer's confirmation of the de Broglie hypothesis if today known as the Davisson-Germer experiment."Davisson's investigations on the scattering of electrons entered a new phase when, in April 1925, his taget was heavily oxidized by an accidental explosion of a liquid-air bottle. He cleaned the target by prolonged heating and then found the distribution-inangle of the secondary electrons completely changed, new showing a strong dependence on crystal direction. Prior to the accident the target had consisted of many tiny crystals, but heating converted it to several large crystals. Davisson and L. H. Germer, who had replaced Kunsman before the accident, at once began bombarding targets of single crystals. [...] When Davisson returned from England, he and Germer began a systematic research for some sort of interference phenomenon, and in January 1927 they observed electron beams resulting from diffraction by a single crystal of nickle. The results were in good agreement with de Broglie's prediction. For his confirmation of electron waves Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 with G. P. Thomson." (DSB, III, 597b-598a).

Geneve, Samuelis Chouët, 1660. 4to. Near contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved and printed title-pages. (8) pp., 436,958,636,714 columns.,(104) pp. Light foxing to the last 4 leaves of Index, otherwise clean. A re-issue of the 1646 Geneva-edition, one of the most celebrated and important Cicero-editions, Gothofredus' 4 volume-edition with the notes of former commentators, especially the famous ones by Lambinus. The first edition appeared in 1588 and was reprinted several times during the 17th century.

Amsterdam, (ca. 1688). 49,5x57 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Slesvig og Sønderjylland i original håndkolorereing. Med 2 dekorative kartoucher med putti og våbenskjold. Et meget lille hul i kystlinie øverst, repareret. Lille revnedannelse i foldningen øverst. Det smukke dekorative Slesvig-kort blev udgivet i de Wits "Atlas Maior" 1688. - Ermen-Mingroot nr. 53.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 31, Drittes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 31. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Malus's papers: pp. 225-234 a. pp. 286-294. Wollaston's papers: pp. 235-251 a. pp. 252-262 a. Erläuterungen von Gilbert pp. 263-273. Laplace's paper: pp. 274-285. First apperance in German of these importent papers on the refraction and double refraction of light. The papers by Malus is his first two papers on the refraction of light and Laplace's paper is the memoir in which he commented Malus' paper and Huygen's refraction law. "In 1788 Haüy found experimentally that Huygen's law was true only in certain special cases, but in 1802 Wollaston found experimental evidence for the Huygenian construction (the second Wollaston paper offered). In ´"Mémoire sur la mesure du pouvoir réfringent" (the first paper offered) Malus showed that Wollaston's experiments were incomplete, and so the French corpuscularian physicists did not trust Wollaston's results. They thought, moreover, that Wollaston was associated with Tmomas Young and therfore with the new wave hypothesis. In this situation the Institute on January 1808 proposed a prize which required an experimental and theoretical explanation of double refraction. The French "Newtonian" scientists hoped that Malus would find a precise and general law for double refraction within the framework of an emission theory of light. Malus was a skilled mathematician and during 1807 he had carried out experiments on double refraction. By december 1808 Malus had finished his experimental investigations, which verified the Huygenian law. What remained was a theoretical deduction of the law. In January 1809, Laplace published a memoir in which he deduced Huygen's law law within the framework of Newtonian mechanics, using the principle of least action, and Malus considered this an insolence which deprived him of the priority. In 1810 Malus von the prize for his "Théorie sur la double réfraction", published in 1811."(DSB IX, p. 73).

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),136,512, pp., 24 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: Bouguer, Maupertuis, Geoffroy, Godin, du Hamel, Maraldi, Couplet, du Fay, D'Onzembray, Cassini, Petit, Bernoulli, Maloet, Nicole, Clairaut, de la Condamine, du Hamel & Grosse, Pitot, Buache, Grandjean, Morand, Camus, Godin.