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Hauniæ, 1938. 4to. 7 orig.shirtmapper. Med 692 plancher.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 156 - Part II, pp. 399-439. 2 Textillustrations. Firat appearance of a groundbreaking paper in physical chemistry in which Graham describes the fundamental mechanism for gas transport across a polymer membrane. The mechanism is known as solution-diffusion model, and postulates a three-step process for gas transport through a polymer.

(Stockholm, ca. 1890). Folio-oblong. Orig. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Ryg med lidt skrammer. Med et oversigtskort og et blad med Teckenförklaring samt alle 66 farvelitograferede kort, som opmålt indtil udgivelse (ca. 1890).

London, J. Millan, 1770. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. IV,(4),222,32 pp., 28 folded engraved plates (25 + 3). Internally clean and fine. Klaus Jordan,2667.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1912. Bound in two contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine and one later full cloth. A library stamp on the first volume. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 37 (und) 38. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck." VIII,1048;VIII,1064 pp., 5+8 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 832-38 (vol.37), pp. 881-84 (Nachtrag vol. 38); pp. 443-458 (vol. 38); p. 888 (vol. 38); pp. 1059-1064 (vol. 38); Planck: pp. 642-656. Internally fine and clean. Both volumes offered. All papers first edition. In the first paper "Thermodynamical derivation of the photochemical equivalence", Einstein calls "the law of photochemical equivalence" the statement that the decomposition of one gram equivalent of any substance by a photochemical proces demands the radiation energy of 'Nhv' (where N=the Avogadro number). In this paper he demonstrates how this law is deducible by purely thermodynamical arguments, if certain olausible assumotions are made. (Lanzos). - The second paper "Concerning the theory of a static gravitational field" states that the 'equivalence hypothesis' permits us to come to very definite conclusions about the behaviour of a static gravitational field.. - The next Einstein paper gives an answer to J. Stark, as Stark claimed priority to the photochemical equivalence law. - In the last paper "Relativity and Gravitation. Reply to a remark of M. Abraham" Einstein elaborates his answer to the critique of M. Abraham. - Weil Nos 46 (1-2) a. 48. - Planck, Akademie No 95.

Christiania, J.W. Cappelens Forlag, 1852. Lex8vo. Nær samtidigt helshirtbd. IV,892 pp. Indvendigt rent, frisk eksemplar. Originaltrykket.

Berlin, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1787. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one modest contemporary cardboard-binding. Paper title-label to spine. Wear to extremities, some of the marbled paper worn of. Spine partly split. Internally fine and clean. XXX, 360, 416 pp. + frontispiece. Rare first edition of Professor Burja's early textbook on geometry.

Edinburgh, Nelson and Sons, 1952-53. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. In: "The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science", Vol. III (May 1952 to February 1953). XIV,394 pp. Entire volume offered. Stamps to foot of titlepage and a few other pages. Schrödinger's papers: pp. 109-123 a. 233-242. Clean and fine. First printing of these importent papers on the philosophy of Quantum physics. "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved." (E.Schrodinger)."In it he contrasts the smooth evolution of the Schrodinger wavefunction with the erratic behaviour of the picture by which the wavefunction is usually supplemented, or 'interpreted', in the minds of most physicists. He objects in particular to the notion of 'stationary states', and above all to 'quantum jumping' between those states. He regards these concepts as hangovers from the old Bohr quantum theory, of 1913, and entirely unmotivated by anything in the mathematics of the new theory of 1926. (J.S. Bell).

Aalborg, J.P. Holtzberg, 1757. Lille8vo. Samtidigt helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning (forgyldningen svag), forgyldt skindtitel. Hjørner stødte. Bindet med lettere brugsspor. (10),310 pp. Siderne lettere brunede. Enkelte tilskrifter i gl. hånd (Rist ?). Har tilhørt P.F. Rist (1870) og tidligere F.F. Speer (1830). Originaltrykket af den første egentlige Helsingør-beskrivelse.

Paris, Crochard, 1832. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Light wear along edges. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2e Series, vol. 51. (Entire volume offered). 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Faraday's letter: pp. 404-434. Internally clean and fine. First printing of Faraday's famous letter to Gay-Lussac in which he claim to be the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, analysed the results of the Italian philosophers, pointing out their errors, and defending himself from what he regarded as imputations on his character. The style of this letter is unexceptionable, for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard. The letter was later translated into English and published in "Philosophical Magazine" in 1840 under the title "On Magneto-electric Induction"."In 1831, seemingly out of nowhere, came the discovery of electromagnetic induction and the beginning of the experimental researches in electricity which were to lead Faraday to the discovery of the laws of electrochemistry, specific inductive capacity, the Faraday effect, and the foundations of classical field theory." (DSB). The volume contains further importent papers by AMPÈRE "Note sur une Experience de Hippolyte Pixii, relative au Courant produit par la Rotation d'un aimant, à l'aide dün appareil imagine par M. Hippolyte Pixii", WÖHLER et LIEBIG "recherches sur le Radical de l'Acide benzoique" and "Lettre de M. Berzelius sur le Benzoyle et l'Acide benzoique", papers by Strohmeyer, Gay-Lussac, Dutrochet, Boussingault, BERZELIUS "Sur le Bleu de Prusse et le Cyanoferrure de plomb" etc. etc.

Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1902. Folio. Orig. hcloth. Printed boards. Upper board with faint scratches. Stamps on title-page. VI,10 pp., 39 maps, partly in colour.

Amsterdam, Wettstein, 1676. 12mo. In recent full vellum binding with brown leather titlelabel with gilt lettering to spine. Lightly miscoloured to margins. (28), 179, (4) pp. (including 9 engraved plates (4 folded)). Later edition of Bartholin's work on reproduction in antiquity. (first published in Copenhagen in 1646).Wellcome II, 108 Graesse I, 302.

Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1836. 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Minor wear to lower back hinge. Tear to marbled paper of lower front board. Library stamps to pasted down front endpaper, verso of title-page, and last leaf. A few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. X,253 pp. + errata. The first edition of Bopp's Vocalismus in which he sums up his critical thoughts and previously published articles on J. Grimm and Graff."It seems to me only an expression of the natural common feeling which binds us together as a Philological Society, to take some notice of the death of one of the greatest philologists of our time, without whose life and labours, indeed, the Science of Language might not have been, or at least might not have elevated itself so high as to deserve that title, so soon or so indisputably... Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but Language itself..." (Russel Martineau, in: Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics 1746-1963).During the time before Bopp, the languages of the antiquity, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, had provided the key for unlocking many of the mysteries of the modern languages of Europe and Western Asia. But the languages of the East that had been preserved in a larger sense were only beginning to be known; Bopp saw, as one of the first that these languages might be of even greater importance. Sanskrit, Bopp realized, was the language that might provide the general light that should be thrown on formative process of language, and together with the other known languages that had been investigated, Greek, Latin, Persian, and the Germanic languages, Sanskrit would be able to provide us with the final unity in the variety that are present in the Western languages. And thus, Bopp decided to go to Paris to study Sanskrit (Paris was the only place it could be done) in 1812. Bopp studied Sanskrit here for five years, and in fact, he was among the first pupils to study under Chézy, the holder of the very first chair of Sanskrit (1815), together with Wilhelm von Humboldt and A.W. Schlegel. It is thus during his studies here that he writes his first work, which turned out to be a work of breakthrough. "Following up the discovery of Sir William Jones (235) of the kinship of the Indo-European languages, and building upon the recognition by Rask (266) of the phonetic agreements of the Germanic language group, Bopp in this, his first publication, proved the exact correspondence of the construction of the verb in five main branches of Indo-European languages. He thereby established the science of comparative linguistics..." (PMM 275).His first publication was regarded as being a very important contribution to the science of linguistics, and it secured him the chair of Oriental Languages at the university of Berlin (1821-64).Bopp wrote and published very little, but that which he did publish has remained of the utmost importance to the development of the science of comparative linguistics.With his idea of tracing the common origin of the grammatical form of the five languages, a task that no one had attempted before him, and by analysing those forms, Bopp became the provider of the first dependable materials for a history of the languages compared."Bopp's importance lies in the fact that he was no mere grammarian but considered comparative philology to be an essential part of the history of civilization: out of their vocabulary he drew an accurate picture of the material and intellectual life of the earliest Indo-European people." (PMM 275).

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1875. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Wear to top of spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Both works in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 5me Series - Tome IV. 572 pp. (The entire volume offered). Berthelot's works: pp. 5-131 a. 141-214 + pp. 445-537. Internally clean and fine. First appearance of this collection of Berthelot's famous memoirs on thermochemistry to which he turned his attention in 1865. In these lectures he introduced the concepts of 'exothermix' and 'endothermic'. He also intorduce his famous 3 principles - equivalence between internal and heat changes in chemical reactions, heat evolved or absorbed in a chemical change depends onlyon the initial and final states of the reactans and products, provided no external work is done, and "law of maximum work" which says that "every chemical change accomplished without the intervention of energy from outside tends towards the production of a body or system of bodies which produce the most heat". The principles of Thermochemistry given here Berthelot considered himself fundamental."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).

London, Chapman and Hall, 1860. Contemp. full calf. Light wear at upper compartment. Spine blindtooled. Gilt line borders on covers. Marbled edges. Wear to the gilt lettering on spine. XII,428 pp. textillustrations. Internally fine and clean. Bookmark of C. de Lacy Lacy pasted on inside frontcover. First English edition of "One of the most exhaustive and valuable treatises on Indian Life ever written" (Sabin, 38215).

Paris, Dufour et d'Ocacne, 1824-31. Bound in 11 fine uniform contemporary hcalf. Richly gilt backs. With paperlabels taped and glued to backs. Stamps on titles.

Carlsruhe, Johann Velten, 1835. Imperial folio. (56 x 39 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. repairs to spine ends. Spine worn. Orig. printed titlelabel on frontboard. Title-page, (2) pp. "Vorwort, (4) pp. of content (bound at end). With all 42 double-page folio-leaves with text and inserted maps (28), all maps in nearly full handcolouring, part of the text handcoloured. The maps are placed in the top/middle of the historical text of the sheets. Phillips I, No. 128.

Dresden, G.C. Walter, 1768. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of back. Stamp on title. XVIII,252 pp., 3 folded tables and 20 engraved folded plates. The first 10 leaves with a dampstain on lower right corner. Some scattered brownspots and browning. The large plates fine and clean. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1130.

Skagen 14de Februar 1895". 1 side 8vo. "Desværre ser jeg mig ikke istand/ til at modtage nogen Be-/ stilling paa Portrætter, som/ De har været saa venlig at/ tiltænke mig. jeg har nemlig/ en lille Pige og vil ikke blive/ længere borte fra hende end/ de Dage jeg rejser for at se/ Billeder; jeg rejser da for at/ friske mit Syn lidt og maa/ saa have uindskrænket Frihed./ Takkende for Deres gode Me-/ ning om mig er jeg Deres/ ærbødige/ Anna Ancher. Et vidunderligt originalt håndskrevet og signeret brev fra en af de mest elskede og hædrede Skagensmalere, der både afslører, hvordan Anna Ancher arbejdede og fik inspiration samt hvordan hun så på rollen som mor. "Blandt de danske Skagensmalere står Anna Ancher (1859-1935) som den mest populære. I en periode, hvor kun meget få kvinder fik mulighed for at gøre sig gældende som kunstnere, havde hun modet til at træde ud af skabet, det skab, som 1800-tallets mandsdominerende offentlighed havde anbragt så mange talentfulde kvinder i. Men Anna Ancher var for original en kunstner til, at hun kunne gemmes af vejen og gøres til en hemmelighed. Med sine lysfyldte og koloristisk følsomme billeder beherskede hun kvinders verden som kun få - om overhovedet nogen."

Wien, Briffaut, 1755. Small 8vo. 5 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on titlepages. Engraved frontispiece (portrait) and 12 folded engraved maps and plans. In all ca. 1700 pp.

Kiøbenhavn, L.H. Lillie, 1756. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Let ophøjede bind på ryggen. Uden rygtitel. Ryg lidt slidt. Kobberstukket titelvignet visende et kildespring. (24),134,(1) pp., 1 udfoldelig tabel og 2 udfoldelige kobberstukne plancher, visende vanddyr. Spredte brunpletter. Frederik Heymanns eksemplar med hans kobberstukne exlibris på indersiden af forpermen. Originaludgaven. Første egentlige undersøgelse af drikkevandsforsyningen til København, men også første danske beskrivelse af vandets småkrebs, daphnier og cyclops, som afbildes i bogen. - Lange trøster sine læsere med, at disse kan frasies med en pose af hvidt hattefilt, hvis De da ikke foretrækker at synke dem eller nyde suppen af dem når vandet er kogt.

Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1752-1753. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary (original?) cardboard binding with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Extremities with light wear, boards with scratches. Internally nice and clean. (4), XLIV, 624 pp. + frontispiece; (4), 492, CXL pp.; (4), 450, CCII pp.; (4), 504, LXXXVIII pp.; (4), 555 pp.; (4), 448, CXXVII pp.; (4), 494, CLXXXVIII pp.; (2), 516, CXLIII pp. Later edition of this important source for the European diplomatic history during the reign of Louis XV. In addition to personal facts and annecdotes, these memoirs contain vast information on the courts of Europe, with a focus on the rupture between France and Spain.

Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1877. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XV, 316 pp. + 30 chromolithographed plates and 536 text illustrations. First edition of this highly important and richly illustrated field-manual. Esmarch was one of the greatest authorities on hospital management and military surgery and he introduced many improvements in military surgery; the first-aid bandage on the battlefield, and the "Esmarch bandage" for standardising surgical hemostasis. "He did much to improve the status of military surgery through his contributions on resection after gunshot wounds, the proper locale for field hospitals and bandaging stations, surgical techniques, first aid to the wounded, and on first aid in accidents" (Garrison & Morton). This book is profusely illustrated by admirable diagrams, showing the different methods of bandaging and dressing, as well as the surgical operations as they occur on the battlefield.

Kbhvn., 1812-19. . 6 meget smukke samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning og titelfelter i skind. Foldetabeller.

Leipzig, 1897 - 1914. Royal8vo. Bound in 12 contemporary half calfs with gilt lettering to spine. White library label pasted on to top of spines and stamp to title-pages. Dritte bande, zweite auflage without title-page. With many text illustration and folded plates. The set comprise of the following volumes:Erste Band (1897).Erster Band, Zweite, vermehrte Auflage (1908).Zweiter Band, Zweite, vermehrte Auflage (1906).Dritte Band (1898).Dritte Bande, Zweite Auflage (no title-page).Vierter Band, Erste Abteilung (1907).Vierter Band, Zweite Abteilung (1914).Sechster Band (1913).Sechster Band (1913).Siebenter Band (1902).Siebenter Band, Zweite, vermehrte Auflage (1910).Achter Band, Zweite, vermehrte Auflage (1906).