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London, Thomas Parkhurst and Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinsn, 1692. 4to. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with scratches. Inner hinges split. First few leaves slightly browned, but otherwise internally nice and clean. (6), 344, 143 pp. + frontispiece. First edition of Hopkin’s posthumously published exposition on the ten commandments and other sermons. Ezekiel Hopkins was “an English prelate and author, was born at Sandford, Devonshire, in 1633. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and, after holding a short time the chaplaincy to the college; he became minister of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, and later of St. Mary's, Exeter. He finally removed to Ireland with his father-in-law, lord Robartes (afterwards earl of Truro), and was made dean of Raphoe in 1669, and bishop of the same place in 1671. He was transferred to Londonderry in 1681, but in consequence of the Roman Catholic troubles in Ireland he returned to England in 1688, and was appointed minister of Aldermanbury, London, in 1689. He died June 22, 1690. In his doctrines he was a Calvinist. His works are remarkable for clearness, strength of thought, originality, and pureness of style” (McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia)

.London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, female and male in natural surroundings flowers etc. 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.

Hafniæ, Bockenhoffer, 1683. Folio (260 x 185 mm). In a recent full vellum binding. leaves remargined throughout. A few leaves with closed tears. Washed, last leaves with ink slightly smudged. (2), 134 pp. Rare first and only edition of Ole Borch’s funeral oration commemorating the life and virtues of the Danish statesman Holger Vind (1600–1683), Chancellor of Denmark and Knight of the Order of the Elephant. Composed and delivered by the noted polymath and physician Ole Borch (Olaus Borrichius). Borch's tribute blends the classical rhetorical style with contemporary references praising Vind's service to the Danish crown, his integrity and his stature within the aristocracy. “Printed funeral sermons grew in popularity in the seventeenth century; between 100 and 200 had been printed by 1647, with only 20 known to have been printed in the Elizabethan era. Their output increased from then until the turn of the eighteenth century. Funeral sermons were usually printed singly, although in 1647 a collection of 47 funeral sermons by eminent preachers was printed, entitled Threnoikos: The House of Mourning, demonstrating the popular place of the funeral sermon in the seventeenth century as a guide to leading an exemplary life, preparing for death, meditating on the next life, and responding to the death of loved ones.” (Molekamp, Femke. “Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons and Exemplary Female Devotion: Gendered Spaces and Histories.”) Biblioteca Danica III, 1566Bibliographes Borrichiana (Christensen), No. 36Not in Thesaurus

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1698. 8vo. In a nice later full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges coloured in red. Scratches to boards and previous owner's name to front free end-paper and a few leaves miscoloured, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (56), 543, (19) pp. First edition of Tournefort’s work on plants in the vicinity of Paris and their use in Medicine. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) studied with the Jesuits and quickly became interested in botany, which he began to learn from an apothecary in Aix-en-Provence. In 1679, he went to Montpellier to study medicine taking the opportunity to inventory the region's flora. After a stay in Barcelona, he returned to Montpellier and assembled a renowned herbarium that caught the attention of the royal physician Guy-Crescent Fagon. On the king's orders, he embarked in March 1700 on a journey to the Levant. His observations, published posthumously, concerned not only botany but also archaeology, geography and ethnology. Upon his return from the journey he was appointed in 1706 as a professor at the Royal College and holder of the Chair of Medicine and Botany.

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1694. Uncut in later blank marbled boards. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece,Title-page in red/black. (22),256 pp., 44 engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition. - Rumpf, 5211. - Slooos, Warfare and the Age of printing, 8066. - Poggendorff II,341.

København, Bianco Luno, 1835-1840. Tvær 8vo. Indbundet i 3 samtidige lidt slidte halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Rygge slidte og falmede. Nederste hjørne af bind 2 slidt af. En del spredte brunpletter. Plancherne gennemgående i god stand. Første danske udgave med Oehlenschlägers tekstoversættelse.

Stockholm, Elménsku Prentsmidju, 1818. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel.16,16,384 pp. Enkelte understregninger og anmærkninger i blyant. Delvist på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af Rasmus Rasks Edda-udgave, som han færdiggjorte under et etårigt ophold i Stockholm. Fiske I: 115.

Marid, La Imprenta Real, 1808. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. (4), 220, 303, (3) pp. Third Spanish edition of Campe’s highly popular popular work which is a free adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and in part based on Rousseau's Émile. This adaptation was intended for children and aimed to provide moral and educational lessons through the adventures of Robinson on the deserted island. Campe's version toned down some of the more violent and morally ambiguous aspects of Defoe's original work making it more suitable for young readers. It was published numerous times in the 19th century. Despite its popularity all Spanish editions are scarce and are rarely found in the trade.

Hamburg, Christoph Kissners, 1724. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Most of gilting on spine worn off. Internally nice and clean. (52), 548, (6) pp.

La Haye, de la Compagnie, 1738 & Paris, Prault, 1737. 8vo. Two parts bound in one nice contemporary half calf binding with with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally with occassional brownspotting. (2), 214, (4), 204, 110 pp. Second edition of what appears to be a French translation of Thomas Carte’s “Life of James Duke of Ormond”. This statement is not entirely correct since the work in fact is erotic stories very loosely build on the life of Duke of Ormond. Brunet I, 1602.Barbier III, 203.

Kbh., 1847. Indb. i et nydeligt samt. hldrbd. m. rig rygforgyldn. Ryggen nydeligt restaureret, bevarende størstedelen af den samtidige ryg. Enkelte forgyldte stregbordurer på permer. Indvendig ren. 224, 203 pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 105.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1839. 8vo. In recent half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light marginal brownspotting throughout and offsetting to plates as usual. XI, (1), 258 pp. + 15 plates and maps. First edition of this early description of the Nicobar Islands by D. Rosen, a former missionary in the East-Indies who became a surveyor for several years in this former Danish colony.

Lex8vo. Indbundet i 28 orig. hshirtbd. Forkortelsesbindet i helshirtbd. Originaltrykket med det store satsformat og blysats.

Fürth, Bureau für Literatur, 1803. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Spine miscoloured otherwise a nice and clean copy. XVI, 335, (1) pp. The uncommon first edition of Schreger’s work on veterinary medicine. Christian Heinrich Theodor Schreger (1768-1833) was a physician and chemist. Despite starting his education in law at Leipzig University in 1785, he didn't complete it due to health reasons and instead turned to agriculture. After working as a private tutor and overseeing a farm he became an estate manager near Wittenberg. In 1800 he received a degree in medicin and practiced as a physician. In 1810, he became a full professor of chemistry and pharmacology at Wittenberg University.

Kbhvn., H.H. Godiche, 1760. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Øverste kapitæl slidt. Lettere brugsspor. Skindtitel på ryg. (32),512 pp. samt 14 kobbersyukne plancher. Grundtegningen repareret på bagside med tape, pp. 236-237 med tab af et hjørne. Gl. ejernavne på titebladet, bl.a. M. Nyrop. Her og der med lidt brunpletter. Stort eksemplar på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af Pontoppidans lærde Københavns-beskrivelse, som blev optakten til udarbejdelsen af hans "Danske Atlas".

Strassbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1750. 4to. Cont. boards, large and uncut copy. Boards with some scratches on back and covers. Having a double-page engraved title (Paris chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1751). Double-page engraved table listing each of the besieged towns. It is divided in 24 parts each having a large double-page engraved plate of the battleplan of the town, superbly engraved with cartouches etc. (Plan 22: Siege de Lillo and Plan O of Flandern lacks - both supplied in xerox-copy). The maps having some hand-colouring. The plans showing the sieges of the towns from Menin to Mastrick. - Rumpf: 4307.

London, Edward Brewster, 1674 & 1673. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards a bit bended. Internally good. (8), 260, (2), 94, (2) pp. Rare second edition of Anthony Palmer’s theological work on the soul. Anthony Palmer, a distinguished English clergyman, rose to prominence in the mid-17th century. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Balliol College and later served as the rector of Bourton in Gloucestershire. In 1662, he was expelled from his post for nonconformity. Following his ejection, Palmer led a congregation in London until his death in 1678.

Nürnberg, 1734. Cont.hvellum. Engr.frontisp., double-page title, (12),348,504,(32) pp., 11 engr.plates with coat of arms, 59 fine engr.portraits.

Wien, Selbstverlage des Verfasser, 1887. Folio (37 x 52 cm). 10 loose sheets in the original accompanying printed portfolio. Stamp to top of portfolio and numbers written in contemporary hand. Small stamp to verso of all plates. The ten plates vary in size and one plate is coloured. Complete. Rare first appearance, privately printed, of Klotzmann atlas-volume of his work on revolving shields for guns in land fortifications.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1884. 4to. In contemporary half cloth. Stamps to title-page and last leaf. In "Acta Mathematica", no 5, 1884/1885. Entire issue offered. Pp. 209-278. [Entire issue: (4) 408 pp.]. First publication of this groundbreaking paper which together with his three other papers on the pubject (not offered here) 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. (See Walter, Poincaré, Jules Henri French mathematician and scientist).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..."

Kjöbenhavn, Gad, 1863. 4to. Samt.hldrbd. Rygtitel og rygforgyldning. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. (8),84 pp., tekstillustr.samt 18 kobberstukne plancher med mange figurer. Indvendig ren og frisk. Originaludgaven af beskrivelsen af dette berømte mosefund. (Sønderjydske Mosefund I).

London, The Royal Society, 1900. Large 4to. Original printed wrappers. Some fraying to extremeties. Back wrapper loose. Vertical folding mark. First edition, offprint issue of this important paper. "Yule's studies of the correlation of continuous variables led him, in 1900 [offered paper], to study measures of association for discrete variables, in particular the cross-ration c ('odds ration') in 2 x 2 contingency table and its transform Q=(1-c)/(1+c), now known as 'Yule's coefficient'. This led to an altercation with Pearson in which Pearson's capacity for acrimonious and illdirected criticism was displayed, in marked contrast to Yule's gentler mode of expression. Even Fisher, who as a young man had felt the sharpness of Pearson's pen, was later moved to remark 'Pearson' attacked Yule's work at one time much more violently than ever he did mine'." - Heyde: Statisticians of the Centuries, p.293.

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1855. Royal8vo. Original cloth, gilt spine lettering and vignette on front cover. Rubbing and chipping to extremeties. Corners a little bumped. Some foxing throughout. XXIV,[25]-274 pp. and 8 folding engraved plates. 4 plates in the text. First edition of "the first major textbook of modern oceanography" - Horblit/Grolier 71. "Mathew Fontaine Maury, an American naval officer and hydrographer, laid the foundations of oceanography in 'The physical geography of the sea' (1855) which includes a general discussion about coastlines, tides currents, and other phases of the ocean and its life. In addition, Maury, with the help of three lines measured for the laying of the transatlantic cables, sketched the first section and the first map of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean." - Sparrow: Milestones of Science 143. Honeyman 2184.

Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1706. (+) A Chambery, J. Gorin, 1707. Small 8vo.. Bound together in one contemp. full calf. Title-and tomelabels with faint gilt lettering. Spine richly gilt in compartments. Slightly rubbed at edges. Engraved frontispiece. (16),176 pp. + Hacquet: (10),8,85 pp. Internally clean and fine.

Amsterdam, Westein, 1744. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A few scratches to boards. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. XXXII, 299, (21) pp. + 1 folded map. The rare first edition of this guide to England with a detailed description of the city of London, Tunbridge and Epsom.