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Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder'schen, 1838-39. 8vo. a. 4to. Textvols. in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted to spines. Stamp on title-pages. Some spotting, especially to volume two. Atlasvols. in 2 contemp hcalf. A paperlabel pasted to spines. XXI,552,XIX,807,(1) pp., 3 folded tables. Atlases: 8 large folded lithographed maps, 26 folded lithographed plans. Some scattered brownspots.

Haarlem, Tjeenk Willink, 1881-85. Bound in one later hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on first title-page. (4),80;146;131;95;66 pp. Richly illustrated with plates, folded lithographed maps and plates in chromolithography. All 5 volumes clean and fine.

Mailand, kaiserl: königl: Buchdruckerey, 1827. Lex8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine-ends with wear and with a crack (2 cm.). A label taped to lower part of spine. Engraved frontispiece (aquatint). XVI,327 pp., 22 folded lithographed plates. Internally fine, but with faint scattered marginal brownspots.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837). No wrappers. Extracted fron "Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. I. Pp. 540-547. Henry's milestone paper announcing his discovery of electrical self-induction. "Henry independently discovered electro-magnetic induction and in this paper announced his discovery of electric self-induction, one of the prime properies of an electro-magnetic circuit. Henry was an eminent experimenter but was casual in publishing his findings with resulting lack of recognition of his contributions."(Bern Dibner).Dibner "Heralds of Sciece", No.63.It was also printed the same year in "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 5". The paper was later printed in "Philosophical Magazine", 1840."The direction of Henry’s thought became somewhat apparent in his 1835 paper (refers to the papers reading before the American Phil. Soc., febr. 6th, 1835) on the action of a spiral conductor in increasing the intensity of galvanic currents. The paper started out as an affirmation of Henry’s priority in the discovery of self-induction. He then combined induction proper (using Faraday’s findings and his own) with selfinduction to show how these produce a pattern of repulsions yielding an increased effect in spirals. He specifically linked these “magneto-electrical” results to the principles of static induction developed by Cavendish and Poisson. This explanation was then applied to Savary’s report of changes of polarity when magnetic needles were placed at varying distances from a wire in which a current was being transmitted ("Mémoire sur l’aimantation," in Annales de chimie et de physique, 34 [1827],. That is, currents appeared periodically in the air surrounding a current-bearing straight wire as a result of the actions of induction and self-induction." (DSB).Wheeler Gift: 2724-2725a.

Dublin, T. Ewing, 1771. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (4),295 pp. Clean and fine. Scarce second edition of "the first scientific study of chemical processes employing bleaching. Written at the request of the board of trustees for the Improvement of fisheries and mnufactures in North Britain, the text was read to and the 135 experiments described herin were performed before "the bleachers of this country"." ((Neville. Historical Chemical Library, I, p.653).

Flensburg, David Korte, 1736. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryg, kapitæl restaureret. False svage, men ikke itu. Bindet med brugsspor. Kobberstukket frontisp. med byplan og prospekt samt tekstkobbere. (22),746 pp. + Index + Appendix. En del sider noget brunede p.g.a. papirkvaliteten, særligt forrest. Originaludgaven. Bibl. Danica II:706.

(No place, but presumably Paris), 1765. Folio. (42,5 x 26 cm.). Sheets loosely inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 15 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. On good thick paper, clean and fine. Fine manuscript for square hides for calibers 16, 12 and 8.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1885. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. IX,506,XL pp., 1 plate, textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Preece's paper: pp. 219-230 with 6 large textillustrations. Internally clean and fine. First printing of this importent paper in which Preece was the first to use the term "Edison effect.""In 1884 William Henry Preece, an official of the British General Post Office, was shown an experiment by Thomas Edison. Of this experiment Preece gave what appears to be the first printed account in a paper entitled 'On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-Lamps raised to High Incandescence' (the paper offered)... What Edison had demonstrated was that if a metal plate is sealed into an electric light bulb and joined to the positive end of the filament a considerable curent will pass. If the plate is joined to the negative terminal, however, no current will pass. This was known as the 'Edison effect' and in 1890 Fleming, an electrical engineer who had workes with the Edison Company in London and now was professor at University College, began a carefull study of this phenomenon in carbon filament lamps. In 1904 he was able to demonstrate that this occurred not only with electric waves but also with wireless waves. He thus introduced the basic principle of the modern wireless valve, which permits only unilateral conductivity."(PMM No 396).Shiers & Shiers "Early television", No 186.

(Köln, omkr. 1595). 35,5 x 47,8 cm. Kobberstukket prospekt af Kolding by i fugleperspektiv. I baggrunden Slottet med byens bebyggelse og indsejlingen i forgrunden. En kartouche angiver med bogstaver og tal bygningernes navne. Tæt beskåret i højre og venster marginer, dog uden tab. Et ubetydeligt tab på 2 mm af rammestregn foroven ved lille indhug. Allerførste trykte prospekt af Kolding, udkom i Braun & Hogenbergs "Civitatis orbis terrarum" Köln 1588 ff. På bagsiden fransk tekst.

Konstanz, Verlage des Verfassers, 1812. Small 8vo. Contemporary hcalf. Gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. XII,348,(2 = Druckfehler) pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates. Some faint small brownspots to titlepage,otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper. First, and only edition. - Waller 8501.

Berlin, Voss und Sohn und Decker und Sohn, 1788-89. 15 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to 2 spine-ends. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved title-vignette.

A la Haye, Henry Scheuleer, 1741. 8vo. Contemp. full speckled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. Title-page in red/black. (42),290 pp. and 14 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. Fourth French edition of "Nieuwe Vestings-Bouw. 1685", a work which is the foundation for a large number of Dutch fortresses. - Poggendorff I:460. - Klaus Jordan, 748.

Leipzig, Junius, 1766. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettring. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),LXXVIII,520 pp., 3 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First German edition of Bonnet's "Contemplation de la nature" (1764). "Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." (DSB).

Gyldendalske Boghandel, København & Kristiania, 1906. 8vo. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et pænt halvmaroquinbind med stregforgyldning og fem ophøjede bind på ryg. Ryg en smule falmet. En smule ubetydeligt slid ved ydre false. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang på fribladet: "Til dig, min Ven, / hvem jeg aldrig / kan faa takket. / 1.12.1906. / Herman." Ren og pæn indvendig. Et særdeles nydeligt eksemplar af originaludgaven af et af Bangs absolutte hovedværker - og i det hele taget et hovedværk i dansk litteratur - med egenhændig, uadresseret dedikation.

Paris, Paulin etc., 1859. Folio-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Light wear to spine. Stamp on titlepage. 66 maps, 1 folded and coloured. Plates clean and fine.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1841). 8vo. No wrappers. In: "Scientific Memoirs, selected from Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science... Edited by Richard Taylor.", Vol. II, Part I. Pp. 1-140 and 10, mostly large folded lithographed plates. Gauss a. Weber's memoir: pp. 20-97 with 9 plates (The Magnetic Observatory, Göttingen, Plan of the arrangement of instruments, Drawings of the instruments used and Tables of Observation results). "Much care has been taken to make the plates... faithful copies of the originals. It has been thought necessary to republish the plates" (note at end of the memoir). First English edition of the first published papers from the famous "Des Magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836" for the study of the magnetism of the earth."Gauss, one of the keenest and most original mathematical thinkers of all time, was joined by Weber for an intensive study of the nature and intensity of the earth's magnetism.. To enlist the observational help of others, they formed a society of international scope and published their observations annually for a dozen years. As part of their work, a telegraph line was erected in 1834 between the iron-free magnetic observatory and astronomical observatory at Göttingen."(Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 66)."Gauss and Weber organized the Magnetische Verein (The Magnetic Association, mentioned in the title), which united a worldwide network of observatories. Its Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des magnetischen Vereins appeared in six volumes (1836-1841) and included fifteen papers by Gauss, twenty-three by Weber, and the joint Atlas des Erdmagnetismus (1840). These and other publications elsewhere dealt with problems of instrumentation (including one of several inventions of the bifilar magnetometer), reported observations of the horizontal and vertical components of magnetic force, and attempted to explain the observations in mathematical terms."(DSB).The offered part contains another importent paper by M.H. JACOBI "Electro-Magnetic Experiments", pp. 1-19 and 1 plate which is the first English translation of his importent paper "Expéeriences électromagnétiques," in Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 2 (1837), describingone of the first practical electrical motors.

Kjøbenhavn, Høpffner, 1739. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Rygforgyldning (svag). Titelfeltet med slidt guldtryk. Slid i nederste rygfelt. Træskåren frontispiece. (30),732,(8) pp. Lidt svage spredte brunpletter, men ganske velbevaret. Dette er det første tryk af Peder Syv i 1700-tallet. Eksemplaret i KB mangler den træskårne frontispiece. Bibl.Danica IV:192.

Tübingen, Cotta, 1808. Uncut in original blue, blank wrappers. Stamp on title-page. 69 pp. A few margins with faint brownspots. First edition. A few copies printed 1775 were for private use ("mais le Roi ne l'a communiqué qu'à peu de personnes").

Washington, 1888. 4to. 2 orig.full cloth. Backs somewhat worn and back loose on vol.I. VIII,545,VI,738 pp., 35 plts.,12 maps. First edition. Internally clean.

Avignon, Libraires Associés, 1767. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Back lightly rubbed. VII,(9),247 pp. Title with small rubberstamp and a little browned, lower right corner neathly repaired, no loss. Internally fine with a few brownspots. Printed on good paper. First edition. A work, treating the history of the Mendicant Friars, although issued anonymously, is attributed to d'Alembert. - Barbier II:684.

London, Edward Stanford, 1905. (95 x 95,5 cm.). A large lithographed map of Brazil, lithographed in colours, original linen-backed and folded in 35 sections. Folded in the original cloth-case with the original printed title-label preserved. A fine copy.

(Madrid, Impr. Reale, 1818). Small folio-oblong. (21,5 x 33,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Handwritten titlelabel on upper board: "Laminas para los Elementos de Fortificacion...". With 71 (numb. I-LXXI) engraved plates in 4to and folio, many folded. 2 plates at end repaired in outer margin with a small loss of image. A few scattred brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 2721.

Berlin, Springer, 1931 & 1932 8vo. In two contemporary uniform halv cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 70, 72 & 76, 1931 & 1932. Entire volumes offered. Stamp to front free end-papers and titlepages, otherwise a fine and clean set. pp.204-286; Pp. 310-337. [Entire volumes: VII, (1), 832 pp; VII, (1), 831 pp. First printing of Hückel's seminal papers which together constitute the The Hückel method or Hückel molecular orbital method (HMO)."In the 1931-1932 period, Hückel published three long papers on aromatic and unsaturated molecules, the first providing a quantum theoretical description of benzene (1931, 1932). This was his habilitation thesis leading to the venia legendi (right to teach) in theoretical physics at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. In this paper Hückel gave two descriptions of benzene: his first method, which eventually came to be known as the valence bond method, and a second, which involved the application of molecular orbital methods. Hückel believed that the experimental data gave him good reasons for preferring the second approach, which was utilized by John Lennard-Jones, Hund, and Robert Mulliken. This second approach is widely known as the HMO method (Hückel’s molecular orbital method)." (DSB).

Venetia (Venice), (Comin), 1548. Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum w. title and author written in ink in contemporary hand on back. Inner hinges cracked, and book block almost loose from binding. Sewing cords on back fully intact, thus keeping book block tight. First ab. 10 leaves w. some soiling, not heavy. Faint waterstaining throughout, but overall a nice copy. Three woodcut allegorical initials (ab. 3x3 cm.). Old owner's name in cont. hand on t-p.: "D. Gio: Guido Sirano.". (2), 63, (2) pp., pp. (64) - 103, (1) p. (colophon). First Italian translation, translated by the author, being the the first translation into any other language, of this popular work originally written and published in Sapnish in 1547 and 1548. The work, though very partial, became exceedingly popular, and within a period of a few years, the work was reprinted several times and translated into several languages. It was published in Latin twice in 1550 and in French the same year. The second Italian edition already appeard in 1549."Quoique écrit avec partialité, cet ouvrage obtient un grand succès dans sa nouveauté. Imprimé d'abord en Espagne en 1548, il fut, en peu d'années, réimprimé plusieurs fois." (Brunet I:588).Brunet I:588, Greasse I:264, Adams A 2340.

Kjöbh., 1831. Begge i de orig. stålstukne omsl. Tekstheftet plettet. M. de 25 håndkolorerede kobbere, der tilhører den første del. Originaludgaven af de to første hefter.Der skulle udkomme fire gange to hefter med ialt 100 versfabler og samme antal illustrationer; der udkom dog kun tre gange to hefter og således kun 75 versfabler og 75 illustrationer. "teksten er direkte oversat efter Gellert, Lichtwer, Gleim o.s.v., hvis navne dog ikke nævnes... De haandkolorerede illustrationer blev stukket efter tegning af kendte kunstnere." (Inger Simonsen, s. 38).