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New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1929. Lex8vo. Volume VIII, January, No. 1, 1929 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Tear to upper part of spine. A bit of minor browning to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 1-2. [Entire issue: 216 pp.]. First publication of the paper in which the word "Decibel" (dB) was coined and officially announced for the first time. The concept of decibel originates from methods used to measure reductions in audio levels in telephone circuits. Today decibel is being used to measure sound volume in general. The original unit name decided upon was Bel, in honour of Alexander Graham Bell. Because the Bel unit was larger than needed in practice, one tenth of a bel, the DeciBel, was to become world standard of measuring sound volume. Up until 1929, The Bell System had used the "transmission unit" (TU) as their measuring standard which was devised to replace the "Miles of Standard Cable ".In the mid 1920'ies The European International Advisory Committee recommended to the various European telephone administrations that they adopt either the decimal or naperian unit (after John Napier) as a standard for measuring volume. 1 TU was defined as ten times the base-10 logarithm of the ratio of measured power to a reference power level. The definitions were conveniently chosen such that 1 TU approximately equaled 1 MSC. Eventually, international standards bodies adopted the base-10 logarithm as a standard unit, named the bel in honor of the Bell System's founder and telecommunications pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.Other paper of interest contained in the present issue:1. Osborne, H.S. The Principles of Electric Circuits Applied to Communication. Pp. 3-202. Elmen, G.W. Magnetic Properties of Perminvar. Pp. 21-40.3. Siegmund, H.O. The Aluminum Electrolytic Condenser. Pp. 41-63.4. Darrow, Karl K. Contemporary Advances in Physics, XVII, The Scattering of Light with Change of Frequency. Pp. 64-93.5. Carson, John R. Ground Return Impedance: Underground Wire with Earth Return. Pp. 94-98.6. Molina, E.C. Application to the Binomial Summation of a Laplacian Method for the Evaluation of Definite Integrals. Pp. 99-108.7. Mason, W.P. A New Method for Obtaining Transient Solutions of Electrical Networks. Pp. 109-134.8. Bostwick, L.G.Acoustic Considerations Involved in Steady State Loud Speaker Measurements. Pp. 135-158.9. Frederick, Halsey A. Recent Advances in Wax Recording. Pp. 159-172.10. MacKenzie, Donald. Sound Recording with the Light Valve. Pp. 173-183.11. Stoller, H.M. Synchronization and Speed Control of Synchronized Sound Pictures. Pp. 184-195.12. Scriven, E.O. A Sound Projector System for Use in Motion Picture Theaters. Pp. 196-208.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1853-54. Cont. hcalf. Raised bands. Back slightly rubbed. XX,(2),486,460 pp. and 2 large folded tables. Textillustr. Occasionally a little brownspotted.

(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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Kjøbenhavn, Arnold Busck, 1933. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. A few nicks to extremities and previous owner's name to half title. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 162 pp. First printing of the influential Danish biochemist and physiologist Henrik Dam's thesis on the biological significance of the sterines. Dam was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1943 for his work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology, the present work being a seminal step towards this. "During the years 1932 and 1933 Dam worked at the laboratory of Rudolf Schoenheimer in Freiburg, Germany, thanks to a Rockefeller fellowship he obtained to further his studies of the metabolism of sterols. In 1933 he received the D.Sc. in biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen with a thesis entitled Nogle undersøgelser over sterinernes biologiske betydning (Some Investigations on the Biological Significance of the Sterols). The next year Dam worked with Paul Karrer in Zurich. He continued to hold his post as associate professor until his appointment as professor of biochemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Copenhagen. This appointment, however, was in absentia, because since 1940 Dam was on a lecture tour to the United States and Canada under the auspices of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. The tour was planned before the occupation of Denmark by German troops in April 1940." (DSB).

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

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.

Leidae, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1727. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Vellum a bit soiled, but fully intact. Spinetitle gone. Engraved Frontispiece, printers woodcut device on title. (52),263 pp. + Index and Errata-leaf,93 pp. A faint narrow marginal dampstain to the first leaves.Otherwise internally clean. First printing of Burman's best edition. "This is the celebrated edition of Burman, which was preceded by some smaller ones in 1698, 1718, and 1719. It contains the notes of Burman and Bentley, a new Commentary, and a admirable critical preface, in which the modesty of Burman is contrasted with the boldness of Bentley..." (Dibdin II:281).

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

Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1766. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris (F. v. Iuel) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. (16), 766, (24) pp. Third edition of Reimarus’ collection of essays on various aspects of natural religion, seeking to establish a rational basis for belief in God and moral principles. He argues against revealed religion, arguing that it relies on supernatural claims that cannot be verified through reason. Instead Reimarus advocates for a religion based on natural theology, grounded in the observation of the natural world and human reason. Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) was a German philosopher, theologian and Orientalist. He studied at the universities of Jena and Wittenberg, specializing in Oriental languages, particularly Hebrew. After completing his education, Reimarus served as a school rector in Wismar before returning to his hometown as a professor of Oriental languages.

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.

Kiøbenhaffn, 1625. 4to. (12) pp. Originaludgaven af Christian 4. omfattende pestforordning, hvori der beskriver forhold, der skal sikre mod et pestudbrud, og opstiller retningslinjer for, hvordan man skal forholde sig under et pestudbrud, sådan at smittefaren mindskes. "Christian 4. (født 1577, regent 1588-1648) udstedte den 15. januar 1625 på Københavns Slot en forordning til sikring af landets borgere på baggrund af flere pestepidemier, som havde ramt Danmark i perioden 1599 til 1620. Pesten ramte igen København i foråret 1625 i forbindelse med den danske deltagelse i Trediveårskrigen (1618-1648). De velhavende og lærde flygtede ud af byen, hoffet flyttede til Kolding og almuen blev tilbage i byen. Forordningen var banebrydende på to punkter: epidemier fastlagdes her som et offentligt ansvarsområde forordningen var alment gyldig for hele befolkningen. Loven udstak retningslinjer for, hvordan offentlige personer som bl.a. præster, ligbærere og gravere skulle forholde sig ved håndtering af et offer for pest, blodsot eller anden smitsom sygdom. Ved udbrud skulle sygdomsramte adskilles fra de raske, sikres mad og medicin, begravelserne skulle være hurtige og små i omfang, og den sociale orden skulle opretholdes. Men der var ikke meget, der kunne gøres, og forordningen foreskriver da også, at der flittigt skulle bedes til Guds nåde." (Danmarkshistorien.dk)