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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine. First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.

Kiøbenhaffn, Salomon Sartor, 1618. 4to. I et senere halvlæderbind med 5 ophøjede bind på ryg. Ryg med sort skintitelfelt. 3 Ex-libris opsat på påklistret forsatsblad. Opklæbet titleblad med røskenramme i sort og rød, med flere reperationer og margin flosset, med tab af ornamentik. Stempel på verso af titelblad. Skjolder i yderste margin i sidste treidjedel af bogen. (20), (29), (5), 190 ff. Anden udgaven af denne symbolske bog for kongeriget Danmark-Norge. Med tanke på bogens symbolske værdi for for Kongeriget er det ejendommeligt, at denne anden udgave først kommer i 1618. Første udgave udkom i 1530.Thesaurus 421Bibl. Dan. I, 219.

Wien, Seidel und Sohn, 1895-96. 4 uniform modest hcloth with the original printed frontwrappers pasted on upper boards. Stamp on title-pages. (10),231;(4),216;(10),247;(10),205 pp., 33 large folded plates, laid in at ends, folded tables. Internally clean.

London, 1750. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full sprinkled calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corners bumped and head and foot of spine slightly chipped. Internally very fine and clean, a nice copy. (4), VII, (1), 255 pp. First French translation of Bolingbroke’s “Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism”, originally published the year before in 1749. The letters reflect his ideas on patriotism, the role of the monarch, and the state of political parties during his time. Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a prominent English statesman and philosopher. He was known for his involvement in British politics during the early 18th century, serving as Secretary of State and later as a key figure in the Tory party. Bolingbroke was a skilled orator and writer, contributing significantly to political discourse through his speeches and writings. He is particularly remembered for his role in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. Despite his political successes, Bolingbroke's career was marked by controversy and exile due to his shifting allegiances and opposition to the Hanoverian succession. He spent several years in exile in France before being pardoned and allowed to return to England, where he continued to be involved in political and philosophical debates until his death.

Leipzig, Crusius, 1788. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (6),274 pp. Faint scattered brownspots to the first and last leaves. First edition.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Feeding baby birds in natural surroundings. J. Gould & H. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn 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.

Paris, E.Dentu, 1875-78. 4 cont. modest hcalf. Stamp on titles. Handwritten paperlabels on backs. 507,455,428,624 pp. and more than 100 maps, partly folded. Occasional lightly brownspotted, but in general good.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1751). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome V, pp. 139-179. First edition of this importent paper on the logarithms of complex numbers, where Euler clarified such functions. He disagreed with Leibniz that a special function was only applicable for positive numbers, and showed that i was applicable for both negative and positive numbers, only with a difference of a constant. When Euler here (the offered item) came out with the correct form for the logarithm, it was not generally accepted. - Enestrom, Euler Bibliography E 168.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1944, 1945 & 1948. 8vo. 3 issues of "The Bell System Technical Journal" offered. 1944, July, Vol. XXIII, No. 3; 1945, January, Vol. XXIV, No. 1; 1948, January, Vol. XXVII, No. 1. All in the original printed blue wrappers. Some wear and sunning to spine, otherwise fine and clean copies. Pp. 282-332; 46-156; 109-157. First printings of all three papers that together describe the Rice Distribution, or Rician distribution. The present series of papers is considered a classic within the field of statistics and probability theory. The Rice distribution is an extension of the Rayleigh distribution that adds a coherent signal to the backscattered signal that underlies the Rayleigh distribution.The model is named after Stephen O. Rice who worked at Bell Labs for nearly forty years. His most famous and influential publication is the present article; in 1983 he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. "In 1944 and 1945, S. O. Rice published a monumental study of noise, generally regarded to be the single most useful source of information about Gaussian noise." (Millman, A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System, 1984, p. 41).

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1869 - Vol. 159 - Part II. Pp. 575-590 and 1 plate. Clean and fine. First apperance of the paper in which Thomas Andrews announces his discovery of the "CRITICAL POINT", which states that for every gas there was a temperature above which pressure alone could not liquefy it."This was a crucial discovery for it pointed the way toward the liquefaction of the permanent gases by demonstrating the necessity of dropping the temperature below the critical point before exerting pressure. This new view led within half a century to the work of Dewar and Kammerlingh-Onnes and the liquefaction of all known gases."(Asimov).Magie: A Source Book in Physics, pp. 187-192. - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1869 C.

London, Oxford University Press, 1925-29. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Containing 33 + 25 original offprints published in various periodicals in various sizes, published between 1921-29, some with plates and textillustrations, in the fields of geology, zoology, geography, hydrography, glaciology etc.

London, Walton and Maberly, 1859. Bound in 6 cont. hcalf with tome-and titlelabels in leather on backs. Top of spines lightly worn, backs lightly rubbed. Very richly illustrated with woodcuts. Internally fine and clean. The work, splendid illustrated, deals with the whole spectrum of science, technology, arts and crafts, having e.g. detailled descriptions of railways and telegraphs.

Wien, B.Ph. Bauer, 1804. 2 contemp. boards. Tome-and titlelabels gilt. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. Portrait shaved in outer margin. XXXVI,438;(1),XVI,534,(24) pp. The translator and editor of this work, Johann Daniel Titius, whose commentary and additions to Bonnet's work, takes up nearly as much space Bonnet's text, is known for his formulation of the socalled "Titius-Bode-Law" and for using this rule to predict the existence of a celestial object at 2.8 AU from the sun. This Law and observation of his, was published in the above work.

Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1821-23. Ubeskåret i 4 originale blå papbd. med originale bogtrykte titeletiketter på rygge. Smårifter i kanter. Rent frisk eksemplar. Fiske I, 110. - Klose, 4308.

Kiøbenhaffn, Jørgen Holst, Peder Hake, 1643. 4to. Samtidigt helpergamentsbd. Jydske Lov med tillæg: ca. 500 pp. - Recessen: Kobberstukket titelblad (indbundet forrest).(8),363 pp. + register. - Hereffter Følger...: 103 pp. + register. Titelbladet til Jydske Lov plettet og lidt jordslået, ellers velbevaret. Thesaurus II, 422, 427.

Liege, Jacques Balbin, 1759. (Vol.5: A Zwol, Clement, n.d.) Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 4 engraved frontispieces. Each volume with separate partsand separately paginated. 2 engraved plates, 1 folded table and 16 large folded maps and Internally clean.

London, Taylor & Francis, 1908. Contemp. hcalf. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spine, gilt lettering, spine gilt. Wear to spine ends. A crack along hinges (covers not detached). Spine worn. A stamp to verso of titlepage. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", Vol. XVI, Sixth Series. VIII,984 pp., textillustr. and 28 plates. (Entire volume offered). Lewis's paper: pp. 705-717. Internally clean and fine. First apperance of Lewis' first paper on relativity in which he derived the mass-energy relationship in a different way from Albert Einstein's derivation.Lewis’ other theoretical interests also flourished at M.I.T. The publication of Einstein’s theory of relativity (1905) and his mass-energy equation renewed Lewis’ interest in his early speculations on radiation. He derived the mass-energy equation from his early idea of the pressure of light without using the principle of relativity (1908). This striking concurrence of his view with Einstein’s convinced Lewis of the value of his youthful ideas and made him one of the very few early supporters of Einstein and relativity in America. Lewis is best known for his discovery of the covalent bond in chemistry. and his naming of the "photon" in 1926.The volume contains further importent papers by Rutherford & Royds, Lord Kelvin, Barkla, Soddy, J.J. Thomson, W.H. Bragg.

Paris, Strasbourg, Magimel - Levrault, 1805. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spione gilt, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine.Stamp on titlepage. (1),XVI,321,(2) pp. and 16 large folded engraved plates. A few marginal brownspots, otherwise fine and clean.From the library of the Danish king Frederik VI, his stamped bookmark inside frontcover. First edition. - Klaus Jordan: 1452.

Kiøbenhafn, Daniel Paulli/ Sl. Corfitz Luft, 1682. - Daniel Paulli, 1677. - Paulli, 1681. Lille 8vo. Alle 3 indbundet i et lidt beskedent marmoreret papbd. fra omkr. 1850. Titelblad i sort/hvid. (4),224,(8) pp. - Facultate Medica er upagineret (16) pp., men hører trykmæssigt til Beynons værk selvom trykåret, 1677, ikke stemmer med dette.. Carnaro: (1-5-)6-64 pp. Titelvignetter i træsnit. Begge værker er yderst sjældne. Bibliotheca Danica (I:800) nævner et kobberstik, som ikke er tilstede her. Værket er oversat fra den tyske udgave "Der Barmherzige Samariter...1666.". Ifølge Bibliotheca Danica (og Waller) er Carnaros værk oversat af Thomas Bartholin. (B.D. I:785). Beynon ikke i Waller. - Carnaro:(Waller: 2136).

(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine. First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map."Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm....He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc....Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a "strawman", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America; these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on "Tides and wave", (Cartwright in "Tides. A Scientific History", pp.110-112.)

Np Place (Geneve ?), 1653. Folio. Hvellum. A bit rubbed. Some wear to covers. (20),1088 pp. + Index. Large woodcut coat of arms on titlepage. Old names on titlepage. Some browning and brownspots throughout. A faint dampstain to upper margin on the first 100 leaves.

Wien, Anton Strauss, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A label taped on lower half of spine. Inscription and stamp on title-page. (6),XX,(2),188,(2) pp., 2 folded tables and 20 folded lithographed plates. in different sizes. Faint brownspots to title-page and the first few leaves.

(No place), 1785. 8vo. Very nice cont. marbled paper binding w. gilt tilte-label and gilt (library) marking (B.UH) to spine. A bit of wear w. minor loss to capitals. An excellent, very nice and clean copy. 183 pp. The very rare first French edition of this important work on Danish demography and economy. The work is an augmented translation of the second half of "Über das königliche Dänische Indigenatrecht und einige andere Gegenstände der Staatswissenschaft und Geschichte" from 1779, by the same author.The work contains tables that show the current demographical situation in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Schleswig, Holstein, Oldenburg, and Delmenhorst, as well as the economic situation and development of the Kingdom of Denmark, e.g. an aspect of the trade-relation between the Kingdom of Denmark and that of England from 1698 till 1754. The work is thus highly interesting in several regards. It is one of the earliest works to deal with the question of the right of citizenship in Denmark and an early account and analysis of the economic situation of the country. The work must also be one of the first to seriously treat the demographical aspect of Denmark, as the first census in Denmark took place in 1769, and the second in 1787, being the only conts of the entire population of the Kingdom of Denmark conducted before the 19th century.Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach (1743 - 1804) was the son of the theologist Christian Gottlob Schirach. G.B. Schirach was a German historian and Danish counsellor of legation. He published a number of books within the fields of history and economics, due to which he came to be regarded as one of the most important writers of his time. He founded the journal "Politisches Journal..." in 1781, which became one of the one of the first really important journals of Northern and Middle Germany. Biblotheca Danica I: 739

Paris, Le Rouge, Duchesne, 1761. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),128,(4) pp. and 36 double-page engraved plates. Clean and fine. Scarce first edition. - Rumpf, 5913. - Klaus Jordan, 2169.