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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).

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.

København, Beekens Forlag, 1824. 8vo. Cont. hcalf, somewhat worn. Spine with wear and a tear to front hinge. Internally brownspotted. Inner hinges a bit weak. 22,226 pp. First edition of Rask's important "Spanish Grammar", Otto Jespersen's copy, with his name in own hand on front free end-paper. Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) was one of the greatest linguists of the 20th century. He was professor of English language at the university of Copenhagen, and his works on English language and grammar are some of the best within their field and they were used at most English universities. He is the inventor of the famous artificial language "Novial", and his work "Fonetik" is considered a mile-stone of European linguistics."Through a long life Otto Jespersen has offered valuable contributions to general phonetics and grammar and to our knowledge of English and Danish and other languages, thus being a worthy successor of the great Danish linguists of the last century (Rask, Thomsen, Verner, and others). His revolutionary work for the improvement of the teaching of modern languages has had great effects far beyond the boundary of his own country." (Niels Haislund, in: Sebeok, Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963, 1967). Rasmus Rask is one of the absolutely most prominent and famous Danish philologers and is very well esteemed worldwide. He was the first to systematically study the ancient Nordic languages and is the discoverer of the relations between the consonants in the Indo-European languages. This discovery served as the foundation of the rules Jacob Grimm later formulated, underlying the Germanic and High-German soundshifts. In PMM Rask is yielded as "one of the founders of the modern science of language." (PMM 266).

(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, Compagnie des Libraires, 1742. Small 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. full sprinckled calf. Raised bands, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Richly gilt spines. Wear to top of spines. Slightly rubbed. Engraved frontispiece. (42),360;(10),479 pp., 1 folded engraved map and 13 engraved plates (2 folded). A few scattered marginal brownspots. Brunet V: 1528.

London, Millar, Nourse, and Vaillant, 1763. Folio. Contemp. full sprinkled calf. 6 raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. IV a. (10) pp. + Ca. 600 unnumbered pages. First edition.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1875. Contemp. hcalf., gilt lettering to spine. Some scratches to covers. XVII,639 pp., textillustrations. A few scattered brownspots. First edition of this classic work on amphibians and reptiles.

Paris, Cailleau, 1728-27. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends. A small crack in leather at lower compartment. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait. (8),416 pp., 30 folde engraved plates (26 + 4). "Dissertation" having an engraved frontispiece and a separate title-page. A faint dampstain in upper right corners, increasing towards end.

Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. Contemp. full calf. 4 raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Wear to spine ends. Light wear along edges. (14),346 pp., 1 large folded engraved map. Internally clean. First German edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Nicolaus Møller, 1777. Samt. helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning, skindtitel og ophøjede bind på ryg. Papirsetiket pålimet ryg. Med Christian VII's monogram i guldtryk på rød baggrund på forpermen. Stempel på titelbladet. XXIV,(4),656,(2) pp. samt 38 kobberstukne foldeplancher og 4 tabeller. Indvendig ren og frisk. Bibl. Danica II,338. Det første arbejde af sin art i Danmark.

Leipzig, Ernst Schäfer, 1855. Lex8vo. Recent boards with printed titlelabel on spine. VI,514 pp. and 73 lithographe plates of which 66 are chromolithographed. Text with some scattered brownspots. the last two plates with small nicks to margins Scarce first edition.

Braunschweig, Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 23 & 24. (Entire volume offered). No stamps, not an ex library copy. Fine and clean. Pp.69-87. [Entire volume: IV,412 pp]. First apperance (simultaneously printed in Philosophical Magazine) of a fundamental paper in the development of the Quantum Theory. Three fundamental ideas were set forth here: 1. Slater's idea of 'a Virtual radiation field', 2. statistical conservation of energy and momentum, and 3. statistical independence of the processes of emission and absorption in distant atoms. (See Van der Waerden "Sources of Quantum Mechanics" No. 5)."In an effort to reconcile the particulate and wavelike properties of radiation, Bohr, Kramers, and Slater in 1924 formulated a new quantum theory of radiation. According to their hypothesis, momentum and energy-are conserved only statistically in interactions between radiation and matter.".The present paper became a great influence to Bothe and his Compton collisions and the Coincidence method which eventually resulted in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Kiøbenhavn, J. F. Schultz, 1791-94. 8vo. Indbundet i 6 samtidige halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning samt titel- og tomeetiketter i skind. Fire ophøjede bind på rygge. Forgyldt superexlibris ("Det Kongli Milt. Selsk. paa Giethuuset") på forpermer. Bind med brugsspor. Tilskrift på forsatsblade, stempler på titelblade. Pæne indvendigt, trykt på skrivepapir. (4), XXXVIII, 362; (4), 236; (4), 308; (4), 308; (4), 290; (4), 386 pp. Originaltrykket af Rothes naturfilosofiske hovedværk. "Når Tyge Rothe skrev om Naturen "efter Bonnets Maade" betød det, at han i lighed med Bonnet anskuede naturen som den transcendente Guds åbenbaring af sig selv. Han ville med Bonnet vække driften til at søge Guddommen i naturen og ad erfaringens og tankens vej opsøge den evigt eksisterende årsag til naturens orden. Når det drejede sig om politiske og statsvidenskabelge anliggender, havde Rothe adspurgt Montesquieu, men "Bonnet adspurgte jeg, naar det gjaldt om at søge Gud i Naturen, og der at finde ham. Jeg fandt ham der, som værende nær os alle." "... blandt naturforskere var Rothes helte Newton og Linnaeus (Linné) ..." (Carl Henrik Koch i Dansk Olysningsfilosofi).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1753). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome VII, pp. 305-330 + two engraved plates. First printing of Euler's paper on how to raise water, which was a study written on the background of his - unsuccessful - garden-project in Frederick the Great's large complex of summer palaces, Sanssouci where Euler was asked to design the pumps to the many fountains. "I wanted to make a fountain in my Garden", Frederic the Great wrote to Voltaire on 25 January 1778. But the water-art project ended in a fiasco. The fountain design was supposed to be executed according to the latest knowledge in hydraulics and should even surpass Versailles with its splendor. "Euler calculated the effort of the wheels for raising the water to a basin, from where it should fall down through canals, in order to form a fountain jet at Sans-Souci. My mill was constructed mathematically, and it could not raise one drop of water to a distance of fifty feet from the basin."Since then the fiasco at Sanssouci stands out as an example for the gulf between theory and practice. And Leonhard Euler, the mathematical genius from Basel, became a target of mockery and malicious joy". (Michael Eckert: Euler and the Fountains of Sanssouci).See Enetröm E202.

Copenhagen, 10th February, 1823. 4to. In later half cloth with gilt stamp to front board and title-paperlabel pasted on to top of front board. Stamp to first leaf of text. Manuscript in fine legible hand with 20-25 lines per page, most likely translated and transcribed by Friedrich de Løwenørn. 11 ff. Danish manuscript-translation of part of Thomas Arnold’s “American Practical Lunarian, and Seamen's Guide”. The manuscript was presumably made by De Løwenørn (Kommandør-Kaptajn Friderich de Løwenørn). Captain lieutenant Poul de Løwenørn assisted the Danish crown in establishing the Royal Danish Nautical Chart Archive. He was appointed the institution’s first Director. At this time, only France had a similar institute. "In the first instance, the Danish Admirality requested Løwenørn to collect all existing nautical charts and navigational details in the country, for both Danish and international waters. He was to develop accurate and reliable charts for both the Navy and Merchant Marine. In addition to these formidable tasks, Løwenørn also took the initiative to establish a Lighthouse Authority, a Buoy Authority and a Pilot Authority as well as improve the country’s harbours." (Danish Geodata Agency).

[N.Y., AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1984]. 8vo. In the original yellow wrappers. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 1049-1059 (Entire volume: 1 leaf + pp. 1007-1212). First description of the UNIX-based Build tool."The Build tool is used as a sophisticated method of generation and modifying software system. Build is being used successfully by a number of UNIX software-based projects at AT&T Bell Laboratories. [...] The Build tool is being used by a number of large software development projects as the primary software generation tool. Build plays a central role in the development strategies and standards used in these projects". (From the introduction to the present article)."Unix is unquestionably the most influential operating system ever developed; is has influenced virtually every subsequent operating system, including MS-DOS, Mac OS, Sun' Solaris, and many more". (Pfaffenberger, Bryan. Linux clearly explained, 1999, p. 3).

Tiguri (Zürich), Gessner, 1713. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small hole to both front and back board. Stain to back board. Internally nice and clean. (16), 677, (11) pp. Uncommon fourth edition of Swiss reformed theologian Johann Heinrich Heidegger’s influential handbook on both the Canonical and Apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments. Heidegger’s textbooks of theology were among the most prominent in Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century and were published in numerous edition, all being rare.

(Oslo), Aksel Sandemose, (1955). 8vo. Ubeskåret i de originale omslag. En smule kantslitage, men generelt særdeles ren og frisk Med egenhændig dedikation fra Sandemose på halvtitelbladet: "Til Sonja / i gamal venskap / frå / Ola." Den første udgave af Sandemoses egen omarbejdede version af "En flyktning krysser sitt spor", med egenhændig dedikation fra Sandemose, signeret "Ola". "En flyktning krysser sit spor" udkom oprindeligt i 1933, og i denne omarbejdede version, som vi kender været i i dag, har Sandemose ladet den flette sammen med "Der stod en benk i hagen". Denne omarbejdning indeholder desuden for første gang Sandemoses forord, der redegør for samtidens reaktioner på værket, i hvilket han fremstiller den senere så berømte og benyttede Jantelov, der er inspireret af fødebyen Nykøbing på Mors, som i romanen kaldes Jante, samt for sine tanker om værket og dets betydning. Denne omarbejdning udkom som særnummer af Årstidene.En note nederst på titelbladet indikerer, at "Ola", som Sandemose har underskrevet med, er et kaldenavn, og at Sonja Iversen var Sandemoses nære veninde, som bl.a. har gennemlæst og rettet "Varulven".

Genevae, Samuelem De Tournes, 1677. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with three raised bands and blindstamped ornamentation to spine and center of boards. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. (16), 458 pp. Rare first edition of Oldenburger’s work on legal and political theory addressing methods, principles and strategies for stabilizing and governing states or societies that are in turmoil or experiencing political unrest.

(New York), American physical Society, 1962. Lex8vo. Volume 9, No. 1, July 1, 1962 of "Physical Review Letters", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 36-44. [Entire issue: (2), 46 pp]. First edition of this seminal paper in which the discovery of the muon neutrino was first announced. The muon neutrino is the second of the three neutrinos and it forms the second generation of leptons. Jack Steinberger, Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1988, "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino". In 1934 Enrico Fermi had solved the major problem of beta decay: How do electrons come out of the nucleus if there are non to begin with? Pauli had named his proposed light particle a neutron. James Chadwick had named his much more massive nuclear particle a neutron as well which left the two particles with the same name. Fermi therefore, to solve the confusion, coined the term neutrino (Italian diminutive of neutron). Speculations in the early 1940ies were centered on whether it would be possible to find even smaller parts of an atom. "The experiment used a beam of the AGS's energetic protons to produce a shower of pi mesons, which traveled 70 feet toward a 5,000-ton steel wall made of old battleship plates. On the way, they decayed into muons and neutrinos, but only the latter particles could pass through the wall into a neon-filled detector called a spark chamber. There, the impact of neutrinos on aluminum plates produced muon spark trails that could be detected and photographed -- proving the existence of muon-neutrinos. The experiment's use of the first-ever neutrino beam paved the way for scientists to use these particles in research at the AGS and around the world."(Nobel Prize, Brookhaven National Laboratory) "Following the discovery of a second neutrino associated with the muon - the Muon neutrino - at Brookhaven in 1962 by L. Lederman, M. Schwartz, J. Steinberger, and collaborators, a new neutrino program was started in CERN in 1963. Using a spark chamber set-up and a heavy liquid bubble chamber exposed to the new high quality neutrino beam the discovery was confirmed with high statistics". (Krige, John. History of CERN, 1996, p. 433).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. An adult on a branch with fruits.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Fine and clean. Half a cm. added to right margin, not affecting print or image.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.

Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1722 & 1718. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and some of gilting worm off. Internally nice and clean. (6), 198 pp. + 19 folded engraved plates (presumably lacking 1) and the 4 engraved plates with flags, which are often missing; 123, (2) pp. Uncommon description of Amsterdam, richly illustrateds, here together with a work, called for on the title of the first work, containing tariff rates for import and export of all kinds of goods imposed by the Seven Dutch United Provinces.

Hamburg, Samuel Fauche, 1781. 8vo. Uncut in the original blue boards with white paper title-label to spine. Wear to extremities. Boards and edges of boards with scratches. Internally very fine and clean. XIV, 400 pp.; (4), 354, (2) pp. First edition of the two first volumes of Mercier’s vivid and colorful description of daily life in Paris: "There is no better writer to consult if one wants to get some idea of how Paris looked, sounded, smelled, and felt on the eve of the Revolution." (Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), p. 118). A third and fourth volume was published in 1781 and fifth to eights in 1783 – the first two volumes being the rarest. Barbier IV, 636.

London, R. H. Laurie, 1832. 8vo. In contemporary (Original?) coardboard binding with cloth backstrip. A stamp to spine and two stamps to front board. Three small stamps to title-page. Wear to extremities, internally fine. XVi, IV 172 pp. Rare seventh edition of Purdy's pilot to the English Channel.