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Genevæ, Fratres Cramer, 1757. Cont. boards. Light staining to upper corner on frontcover. XII,82 pp. A few scattered brownspots. On good paper. First edition. "Tronchin, sometimes physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called "Poitou-colic" was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, and Switzerland; he was Boerhaave's favourite pupil and became a very wealthy practioner." (Garrison & Morton No. 2095). - Waller 9686.

London, Longman, Hurst, ect., 1822. 8vo. Two volumes uniformly bound in two nice contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris (Thomas Carnegie of Craigo) pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. A fine and well preserved copy. VIII, 352 pp.; (2), 364 pp + engraved plates of which 1 is coloured. Later edition of White’s highly popular work on different animals and plants organized systematically by species and groups - His work has been seen as an early contribution to ecology and in particular to phenology. It was first published in 1789 and has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to 2007.

Leeuwarden, Hero Nauta, 1687. 8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper and title-page. Vague stampstain and a few quires loose, otherwise internally nice and clean. (30), 785, (1) pp. + folded frontispiece. Rare second edition of this commentary on the sayings of Jesus on the cross - the last seven words spoken by Jesus on the cross.

Copenhagen, Vilhelm Tryde, 1910. 4to. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small tear to frontwrapper at top of spine on vol. 2. Titlepages in red/black, both with an engraved vignette (Domus Anatomica). (4),XXXII,264;365,(1) pp. With many illustrations in the texts as facsimiles from the original works. Only prited in 350 copies. (No. 263 of 350). Printed on fine paper. Clean and fine. Dedication from the editor "Hr. Dr. J.W. Johnsson/ venskabeligst fra Wilhelm Maar". This prestigious work contains all Steensen's famous works in Medicine, Anatomy, Geology etc. The Foreword, 32 pp., is in English and written by the editor Vilhelm Maar.

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

Leipzig, Supprian, 1800. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to spine. Inner margin of title-page with traces from blue wrappers. Internally nice and clean. Printed on good paper. XXIV, 226, (2) pp. + 1 folded plate. Rare first edition of this work on field- hunting- and travel-kitchens with instructions on how to quickly and conveniently prepare meals during marches, hunting and long journeys apparently even without any prior knowledge of the culinary arts. Deutsches Anonymen-Lexikon 3124Not in Vicaire

A Paris, 1781. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back. Top a.bottom of spine slightly worn. On good paper. XLVIII,474 pp., 2 large fold.maps,3 fold.engr.plts.aa.1 fold.table. First French edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1769-76. 4to. 2 samtidige hldrbd. med ophøjede bind på rygge. Forgyldte tome-og titelfelter. Øverste kapitæl på bind 1 slidt. 2 store kobberstukne vignetter. (66),621,(1);(58),568,(40) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Originaludgaven af Danmark-Norges første retshistoriske værk.

Kiøbenhavn, Baxman, 1681. Folio (300 x 195 mm). In a bit later full calf binding with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. A few wormholes and scratches to boards. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. Printed on good paper. (36), 300 pp. Rare funeral sermon of Sophie Jørgensdatter Rosenkrantz (1642 - 1679), daughter of Jørgen Holgersen Rosenkrantz (owner of Kjeldgaard) and Christence Jensdatter Juel. Wife of Otto Skeel.Provenance: Library of Valdemar's Castle.

Indb. m. den orig. hollanderede forperm i et blåt papbd. m. rygtiteletiket. hér og dér lidt plettet. "Slutningen" (fra s.190) lidt løsgået indvendig, dog uden fare for at ryge ud. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 105.

Copenhagen, Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. Contemporary half calf. Gilt back.Paperlabel pasted on upper compartment of back. Titlelabel in red leather, gilt. (12),183 pp. and 11 large folded engraved plates. Stamps on title. Name cut from title, withou loss and repaired. Light browning to margins of titlepage, otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper. First German edition. Klaus Jordan No. 1253.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1882. Large4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica", no backstrip. With title-page and front free end-paper. In "Acta Mathematica", volume 1. Title pages with library stamp. A fine and clean copy. Pp. (6), 62. First publication of this groundbreaking paper which became Poincaré first paper in his much celebrated and famous six-paper series which together constitute the discovery of Automorphic Functions. "Before he was thirty years of age, Poincaré became world famous with his epoch-making discovery of the "automorphic functions" of one complex variable (or, as he called them, the "fuchsian" and "kleinean" functions)." (DSB).These manuscripts, written between 28 June and 20 December 1880, show in detail how Poincaré exploited a series of insights to arrive at his first major contribution to mathematics: the discovery of the automorphic functions. In particular, the manuscripts corroborate Poincaré's introspective account of this discovery (1908), in which the real key to his discovery is given to be the recognition that the transformations he had used to define Fuchsian functions are identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry.The idea was to come in an indirect way from the work of his doctoral thesis on differential equations. His results applied only to restricted classes of functions and Poincaré wanted to generalize these results but, as a route towards this, he looked for a class functions where solutions did not exist. This led him to functions he named Fuchsian functions after Lazarus Fuchs but were later named automorphic functions. First editions and first publications of these epochmaking papers representing the discovery of "automorphic functions", or as Poincaré himself called them, the "Fuchsian" and "Kleinian" functions."By 1884 Poincaré published five major papers on automorphic functions in the first five volumes of the new Acta Mathematica. When the first of these was published in the first volume of the new Acta Mathematica, Kronecker warned the editor, Mittag-Leffler, that this immature and obscure article would kill the journal. Guided by the theory of elliptic functions, Poincarë invented a new class of automorphic functions. This class was obtained by considering the inverse function of the ratio of two linear independent solutions of an equation. Thus this entire class of linear diffrential equations is solved by the use of these new transcendental functions of Poincaré." (Morris Kline).Poincaré explains how he discovered the Automorphic Functions: "For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions, I was then very ignorant; every day I seated myself at my work table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results. One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. By the next morning I had established the existence of a Class of Fuchsian functions, those which come from hypergeometric series; i had only to write out the results, which took but a few hours...the transformations that I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of Non-Euclidean geometry..."

Leiden, Petrum van der Aa, 1693. 4to. Contemp. full calf, richly gilt back. Slightly rubbed. A few small nicks to leather. Engraved portrait (Gronovius), engraved frontispiece. (66),724,(20) pp., 1 half-page engr., 14 engr. plates (8 portraits and 6 with coins) and 3 large folded engr. plates (battlescenes by Romeyn de Hooghe). A dampstain in lower part of the first ab. 250 leaves, decreasing. First edition by Gronovius, issued the same year in folio and in 4to (as here). - "An admirable edition, highly spoken of by Ernesti and Harwood, and well known in the republic of literature. To the notes of Lindenbrogius and other editors (placed below the text) Gronovius has added some excellent annotations of his own." (Dibdin I:257)

Kiøbenhaffn, (Andreas Gutterwitz), 1577. 4to. Smukt nyere hpergamentsbd. (4),(106),(2) pp. Lille hul i titelblad og blad 48 med tab af enkelte bogstaver. Nogle skjolder og brugsspor. Anden-udgaven af første danske værk om kvindesygdomme og obstetrik.

Smukt kobberstukket, helkoloreret Islandskort. 31 x 38,5 cm. Kortet er lavet efter Niels Horrebows kort som det udkom i hans islandsrejse som planche i Prevost: Histoire Generale des Voyages Paris 1746-70. Kompasrose og kartouche.

A la Haye, Benjamin Gibert, 1736. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Front board with crowned gilt super ex-libris (partly worn off). Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with a few scratches, with a bit of loss of leather. Title-page detached. Vague damp-stain to upper half of pages, primarily affecting last leaves. (14), 245, (3) pp. The uncommon first edition of this novel following the life of the fictional Marquis de Vaudreville, chronicling his romantic entanglements and the ups and downs of his fortunes. Not in Brunet.

Paris, Crochard, 1831. 8vo. In blank wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 46, Cahier 3. Occassional brownspotting, otherwise fine. Pp. 225-264. First printing of this important paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the "Sine-law" and the "Tangent-law".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. "Ce Mémoire, qu'on ecroyait égaré, vient d'étre retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Fourier. Comme il n'est connu que par des extraits tout-è-fait insuffisand (voyez Ann.. t. XXIX, p. 175), nous nous empressons d'en enrichir les Annales."(Editor's footnote).In the memoir "He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media; and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave."(Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I, p.123).

Berlin, Mittler und Sohn, 1911-12. 8vo. Bound in 11 uniform contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spines. Mapa and plans in each volume in pockets at ends. A few volumes with light wear to top of spines.

Hvedekorn, Bogserie, 1953. Orig. cased boards. 4°, [16 s.], illustr. with orig. lithographs. Limited to 600 copies.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1687. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper label pasted on to upper part of spine indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Worm-tract affecting upper margin of Pp. 65-154, slightly affecting text on Pp. 73-110, otherwise a fine copy. (22), 154 pp. + 1 plate. First edition of one of the earliest European work on the technique of using watercolours. Especially in regard to military maps Gautier's technique had a profound influence. His detailed colour-coding made it possible for the cartographer to make a relatively realistic and beautified perception of space and a geometric and strategic one on the same map, one of the reasons why it was soon adopted as a European wide convention. "Henri Gautier (1660-1733) is also known as Gauthier de Nîmes, or Hubert Gauthier, and was the author of fortification and surveyance drawing manuals and treaties. Gautier was the first inspector of the Ponts et Chaussées – the Roads, Canals and Bridges Public Office of the Ancien Regime that promoted France-wide standards and monumental infrastructure works, in its desire for authoritarian control of the French territory. In this technical manual, Gautier applied the code in detail to the many features encountered of washing plans and maps – cultivated agricultural fields or trenches, vineyards or roads, portcullis or parapets. What made this code so precise, however, was not fact that Gautier’s alphabetically ordered abridged guide at the end of his handbook ran for some twenty pages, but that, with a craftsman’s care, he had specified both the intensity of the hue, and the precise pigment used (Gautier 135-54)."

Hafniæ, M. Godiche, 1672. 4to. Uncut in cont. blank wrappers. (26),218,(24),71 pp. Title in red/black. Engraved portrait and 4 engraved plates, showing fibulas etc., many woodcut-illustr. in the text. Throughout lightly browned. The work deals with chirurgical instruments, fibulas, bandages in historical perpective.

Ldn., 1781-1794. 8vo. Bound in one later full calf w. 4 raised bands on back and green title-label. Back gilt. Bdg. a bit scraped, w. tears. Occationally brownspotted. "The Critic" w. engr. title-page, engr. title-vignette. First edition of "A Trip to Scarborough". More than one edition of "The Critic" was issued in 1781 and it is practically impossible to tell one apert from the other. The present one is w. the engr. title-page and is printed in 1781 for Becket, as we know the first edition is.

Uppsala, Lund, 1913-30. Lexvo. 5 solide private hldrbd. med rygtitler i skind.

Kbhvn., C. Steen, 1833. Lille 8vo. Samt. hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Mangler 1 cm. af læder øverst på ryggen. XXX,(148) pp. samt 74 kobberstukne og håndkolorerede plancher. Enkelte plancher tæt beskåret forneden. Teksten ubeskåret med lettere brugsspor. Ormene omfatter snegle, muslinger, koraller, søpindsvin, søliljer, svampe m.v.

Copenhagen, Petri Haubold, 1664. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with blind-stamped boarders and ornamentation to boards. Light wear and miscolouring to extremities. Internally with occassional miscolouring, otherwise a good copy. (8), 248, (8), 248, (8), 100, (4), (24), 151, (11), 103, (1) pp. First edition of Thomas Bartholin’s work (De insolitis Partus Humanis) on observations and experiences with birth defects containing anatomical dissection and case stories from medical practice.