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Paris, Chez De Baurain, 1782. Folio. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. With the gilt royal monogram of Christian VII on red background on upper cover. Free endpapers renewed. (4),VIII,218 pp., 7 large, fine engravings in the text. A fine clean copy.

Paris, Correard, 1846. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear at upper compartments. Stamp on title-pages. (6),312 pp. and Atlas: VIII pp. and 68 double-page lithographed plates, each with many figs. Scattered brownspots.

Berlin, Georg Decker, 1800. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Somewhat worn. especially spine-ends. Stamp on title. With all 57 double-page engraved plans. Some brownspots, mostly marginal. Atlas complete but without the 3 textvolumes. First German edition.

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.

Stockholm, B.Wankijfwii, Ol...Sumptibus Joh. Siwertz, 1691. Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Minor spots to covers. (8),191,(1) pp., 4 folded engraved plates, textillustrations. A few annotations in old hand. A few brownspots, but well-preserved. Second, much expanded, edition of Bilberg's textbook for the Swedish youth, in which he creates his own method of how to learn plane and spherical geometry based both on old mathematicians (Euclid etc.) and also on modern mathematicians. The first edition, published 1687 comprised only 32 pages.Bilberg was professor in mathematics at Uppsala University and later bishop in Strängnäs.Colljin "1600-Talet", 79-80.

Berlin, No pr., 1789. 4to. Contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine. Gilt borders on covers. Some scratches to covers. Stamps on title-page. (4),349 pp., 1 folded engraved map. A large wide-margined copy. Clean and fine.

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.

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.

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.

Rouen, De La Compagnie, 1740. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full vellum bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. All edges coloured in red. Light miscolouring to extremities, otherwise nice and clean. (4), 270, (2), 271-536 pp. + 12 engraved plates.; (4), 303, (3), 303-595, (1) pp. + 8 plates (complete). Later edition of Catrou and Rouillé's popular history of early Rome and its political and military development. It was translated into several languages and published in numerous editions.

Paris, Coignard, 1694. 12mo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spines. Corners bumped with some loss of leather and a few scratches to boards, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (10), 490, (98) pp. + engraved half-title; (4), 671, (72) pp

London, Joseph Hindmarsh, 1680. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Internally nice and clean. (6), 206, (2) pp. The uncommon first edition, posthumously published, of William Outram’s sermons. However, DNB states: “After his death Joseph Hindmarsh published under his name six 'Sermons upon Faith and Providence, and other subjects,' London, 1680, 8vo. It was stated that these discourses had been taken down in shorthand, but they are not genuine. In order to do justice to his memory, his relatives caused 'Twenty Sermons preached upon several occasions' to be published from 'the author's own copies,' by James Gardiner, D.D., afterwards bishop of Lincoln (2nd ed., corrected, London, 1697, 8vo).”. William Outram (1626 – 1679) was an English nonconformist minister, puritan and writer. His works often addressed issues such as predestination, the nature of God, and the role of faith in salvation.

Hafniæ, Georg Holst, 1642. 4to. I et lidt senere papbind. Ryggen falmet. Christian d. 6. forgyldte monogram øverst på ryggen. De første 50 pp med vandskjold i øvre, ydre hjørne. Flere samtidige navnetræk på titelbladet. (8),155,(17) pp. Fiske I:610. Orignaludgaven. Bogen må vel nok betegnes som det første i Danmark udgivne værk om den gammel nordiske geografi på grundlag af klassiske og nordiske kilder, idet den ikke blot behandler den danske topografi, men også hele Skandinavien, Grønland, Island, Færøerne - om sejlads, navigation, afstande m.v. Bibl. Danica II:572. Theasurus: 546. Ikke hos Klose.

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.

Amberg, M. Forster, 1598. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt ruled fillets to boards. Wear to extremities, edges of boards with loss of leather. Inner front hinge split. Annotations in contemporary hand to front free end paper: "Abrahamg Golnitius possidet me Anno 1612" — likely referring to the Danzig travel writer Abraham Gollnitz. Pp. 556–589 feature underlining and numerous neat marginal annotations in ink, likely all made by Gollnitz. First leaves loose and damp-stain to lower outer corner of first half of book block. (24), 730 pp. Third Latin edition, the second Amberg-edition of this work constituting one of the most important sources on etiquette between the Renaissance and Baroque periods, first published in Italian in 1574. Gollnitz published several geographical and pedagogical works between 1631 and 1643 and served as secretary to the Danish King Christian IV in 1642. Provenance: From the library of Valdemar's Castle.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, Lammers, 1723. 4to. Bound in contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small old paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Boards with wear and scratches. Internally fine and clean. (22), 463 pp. The rare first edition of Majus work on how God’s providence and holiness operate throughout biblical history, particularly in the governance of the Church. Johann Heinrich Majus (1653–1719) was a Lutheran theologian born in Pforzheim, Baden. He studied in Wittenberg, Leipzig and Strasbourg, specializing in Oriental languages. After serving as a preacher for the Count Palatine of Veldenz and in Baden-Durlach he became a professor of theology at the University of Giessen in 1688.

Halle, Niemeyer, 1929. 4to. Uncut in original printed wrappers. Front wrapper loose, spine wit minor lacks. Otherwise nice and clean. (2) pp., pp. 72 [2] - 110 [40]. With card stating "Überreicht vom Verfasser" (presented by the author). First edition, off-print, of Heidegger's influential work, in which he radically reinterpretates the fundamental philosophical significance of the Leibnitzian principle of reason, and the origin and essence of reason in general. In this early work, Heidegger sets out to derive the principle of reason from the transcendent and temporal structure of Dasein and thereby totally redefines and redetermines the notion.

Kristiania, Huseby & Co., limit, 1885. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Nedre hjørner stødte. Indvendig ren og frisk. Den sjældne originaludgave.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper and half-title. Wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. (24), 366, (10) pp. First Swedish translation of the official account of Cook's second voyage and Georg Forster's unofficial Voyage round the World."Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century" (Printing and the Mind of Man p.135). "The success of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, […] Cook discovered and charted South Georgia, after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the Azores. This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy" (Hill p.123)

Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlund, 1923. Lex 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Front wrapper and spine intact and in fine condition, back wrapper partly missing, -only ab. the middle third part is present. Uncut and internally nice and clean. A tear to front hinge and a few repairs to spine. (8), 438 pp. The not common first edition of Jaeger's seminal work, which fundamentally changed Aristotle scholarship in the 20th century.With the publication of his first major work, "Aristoteles", Jaeger became an academic sensation, and no student of Aristotle can be unaware of the huge impact this highly untraditional work on the history of the development of Aristotle had within academic circles. The work is epochal and revolutionary, and though it has been heavily criticized an scholded by especially later scholars, there can be no doubt that the book raises several now inevitable questions that previously had been almost completely neglected.Being very thorough in his investigations and using everything he could find from the hand of Aristotle, Jaeger constructs a picture of Aristotle's development through time that was to revolutionize the study of Aristotle. By seeking parallels in works that are not internally consistent, Jaeger turns the hitherto established chronology of the writings of Aristotle upside down and demonstrates his increasing independence from Plato. After the publication of this work the genetic and developmental question came to dominate Aristotle scholarship, and nothing could be written about Aristotle without taking these questions into consideration. Probably no other work can be said to have influenced the study of the greatest philosopher of all times to such a degree as this one.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal (Printed in Sorø), 1773-76. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Wear to spines, parts of gilting worn off. Internally very fine and clean, a nice set. LXIV, (4), 443, (2), (14), 463, (1) pp.; (12), 624, (2), (16), 664 pp.; (16), 583, (1) pp. First edition of Schytte’s perhaps most famous work, the first extensive coherent exposition of constitutional law, political and economic matters relating to Denmark. Schytte was much influenced by Montesquieu. Biblioteca Danica I:1052

London, R.H. Laurie, 1827. 8vo. Contemporary (original?) blue wrappers with the original printed titlelabel on frontboard. Rebacked with cloth. Stamps on front wrapper and title-page. IV,55, (1), 16 pp.

Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1915. 8vo. Unopened, uncut in the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"]. Offprint from "Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften", Bd. CXXIII, Abt. IIa, Dezember, 1914. A very fine and clean copy. 25 pp. First printing of Smolukowski's important paper on molecule statistics, emulsion and their connection to Brownian Motion. Einstein and Smolukowski work simultaneously and independently in the beginning of the 1900ies Brownian Motion. Smolukowski continued his work in this field and he work is distinct from Einstein's since Einstein said nothing of the collisions between a Brownian particle and the surrounding molecules."From about 1900 Smoluchowski worked on Brownian movement. He wished to use experimental data to verify the theory he had obtained desire complicated by the confused situation of experimental research. In the meantime Einstein, in papers of 1905 and 1906, had presented a solution to the problem. Smoluchowski then decided to publish his results in 1906, which presented his different method. Einstein started from general relations of statistical physics, an approach that was universal but did not lend itself to visualization. For example, Einstein said nothing of the collisions between a Brownian particle and the surrounding molecules. Smoluchowski started by examining the effects of successive collisions and obtained a final formula that differed little from Einstein's. Smoluchowski's further works in this field extend through an examination of the Brownian movement of a particle undergoing the influence of a quasi-elastic force to the Brownian movements of macroscopic bodies. At the Conference of Natural Scientists at Münster in 1912, Smoluchowski proposed the observation of the Brownian rotative movement of a small mirror suspended on a thin quartz fiber and the observation free end of a similar fiber. The first experiment was performed by W. Gerlach and E. Lehrer in 1927, and later by Eugen Kappler; the second, by A Houdijk and P. Zeeman, and by E. Einthoven. In 1925, Both experiments confirmed Smoluchowski's calculations."

London, Obadiah Blagrave, 1682. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A few worm holes to boards. Top 2 cm of upper outer hindge split. (2), 238, (2) pp. + frontispiece. Later edition of Bishop Hall’s collection of meditations and reflections designed to inspire and guide the spiritual life of the reader. Joseph Hall (1574–1656) was a prominent English bishop and satirist. He was especially known for his devotional writings, of which this present work is a fine example.

London & Westminister, D. Edwards, 1702. Small 4to. (150 x 95 mm). In Contemporary full vellum with red leather title-label to spine. Closely trimmed, not affecting text. Signed "The Bishop of Brechin / 1858) to front free end paper. Dampstain to lower part of last 8 ff. Pp. 3-6 partly detached, otherwise fine. (8), 83 pp.