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(Paris), 9. Pluviôse, (ca 1798). Small 8vo, 1/2 page, 11 lines. The famous French astronomer, Joseph-Jérôme Lefrancais de Lalande (1732-1807) writes to the secretary of the Marine M. Lallemant ".....j'assorcierai l'institut, le bureau des longitudes, et tout les astronomes à moi reconaissance; je l'ai deja fait dans l'histoire del'astronomie qui est dans le magasin encyclopedique. Salut, fraternité, actions des graces Lalande."

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.

(Göttingen, 1958). 8vo. Original self-wrappers. Slight discolouration to spine, otherwise near mint. Inscribed by Adorno to title-page. 143, (3) pp. Second, expanded edition, presentation-copy, of Adorno's important essay about music paedagogy, which constitutes a comprehensive and utterly consistent exposition of the matter. With a three lines long presentation-inscription signed "Th. W. Adorno", dated "Mai 1959"The important and influential German philosopher and sociologist, Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903 - 1969), was a leading member of the Frankfurt School, together with e.g. Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Habermas. He taught philosophy at the university of Frankfurt, but as a Jew, his teaching position was taken from him in 1933. He went to Oxford to teach, and in 1938 he emigrated to America, where he was the leader of several sociological projects in both New York and Los Angeles. Together with Horkheimer he wrote the theoretical manifest of the Frankfurt School, the "Dialektik der Aufklärung". I 1949 he returned to Frankfurt, where he became professor of philosophy and sociology. "Theodor W. Adorno was one of the most important philosophers and social critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than his contemporary Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adorno had even greater influence on scholars and intellectuals in postwar Germany. In the 1960s he was the most prominent challenger to both Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and Martin Heidegger's philosophy of existence. Jürgen Habermas, Germany's foremost social philosopher after 1970, was Adorno's student and assistant. The scope of Adorno's influence stems from the interdisciplinary character of his research and of the Frankfurt School to which he belonged. It also stems from the thoroughness with which he examined Western philosophical traditions, especially from Kant onward, and the radicalness to his critique of contemporary Western society. He was a seminal social philosopher and a leading member of the first generation of Critical Theory." (SEP).

Zagreb, Izdala "Matica Hrvatska", 1926. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 208 pp. Rare early Croatian translation of Hamlet. Shakespeare's plays in the second half of the 18th century were performed in Croatia when some German theatre companies came to Zagreb and performed several German adaptations including Hamlet. Croatia was first introduced to Shakespeare via German and had, consequently, very little impact on Croatian literature. However, it meant many translations of Shakespeare’s works were published comparative late in Croatia. The translator and the author of a long introduction on Shakespeare was Vinko Kriškovic (1861 - 1952). Born in an affluent Dalmatian family Kriškovic spent many years abroad, studying languages and various cultures. He was known as an intellectual and a translator of Shakespeare’s work. He was a member of the Royal Shakespearean Society and translated 24 of Shakespeare’s works. During the Second world war Kriškovic served as an advisor to the leader of the Nazi sympathising Croatian leader Ante Pavelic. In 1944 he moved to Switzerland on the diplomatic passport, where he remained until the rest of his life.

Uppsala, J. Edman, 1773 &1769. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to extremities, corner bumped, spine soiled and upper capital chipped with a bit of loss of leather. "C.M." in gilt lettering to front board. Ex-libris (Hjalmar Hartmann) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally with occassional light marginal browning. p. 132/133 missing part of paper in margin, not affecting text, but generally internally nice and clean. (8), 128, 128-276, (27), 158, (50) pp. + 26 plates and three engraved vignettes in text (Wanting the portrait of Linne and Gustav III). Rare first edition of Busser’s early and influential work on Uppsala and its topography.

Wittenberg, Gormanni, Bergeri & Schureri, 1623. Folio. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, most of gilting on spine worn off. The marbled paper covering the board worn off, showing the wooden boards. Internally with a few occassional underlignings and marginal annotation but generally nice and clean. (12), 263, (13), (4), 321, (11), (4), 254, (10), (2), 219, (41) pp. Later edition of Chemniz’ collected works. Chemniz had lectured on Melanchthon's 'Loci Communes' from which lectures he compiled his own 'Loci Theologici', a system of theology (the first three parts of the present book). Martin Chemnitz (1522–1586) was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer who played a significant role in the development of Lutheran doctrine during the 16th century. He is often referred to as the "Second Martin" after Martin Luther, due to his prominence within the Lutheran tradition. Chemnitz is best known for his extensive work in systematizing Lutheran theology to which this present work is a fine example. He was a key figure in resolving theological controversies that arose after Luther's death and played a crucial role in shaping the direction of the Lutheran Reformation after Luther.

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.

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

Kiöbenhavn, Frederik Brummers Forlag, 1807-09. 2 velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og titeletiketter i skind. Kapitæler på bind 1 med et par rifter. Bindhjørner stødte. Kobberstukket portræt af Callisen, efter Hornemans tegning. 2 kobberstukne titelblade.XX,650,(2);XXXII,691 pp. Indvendig frisk eksemplar på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af vor vigtigste kilde til kendskabet om Københavns sundhedstilstand, dens indretninger, renovation medicinalvæsen etc. i Det 18. århundrede. - Bibl. Danica I:762

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..."

Kbhvn., 1804-06. Lille 8vo. 4 samt. hldrbd., bd. 4 afvigende. Rygge med brugsspor. Med Chr. 7.'s kronede monogram i guld på rygge af bd. 1-3. På inderside af forpermerne en trykt etiket "Gave fra det Kgl. Haandbibliothek til Viborg Stiftsbibliothek". XVI,560;572;528;571 pp. samt 23 kobberstukne og håndkolorerede plancher af antropologisk-etnografisk indhold. Bd. 1-3 på skrivepapir. Indeholder også subskribentfortegnelse i bind 1. Bibl. Danica I:1029. Komplet eksemplar af dette yderst sjældne tidsskrift, hvis historier og beretninger henvender sig til børn og unge, følgende årstiderne og månederne.

Milano, Palermo, Napoli, Rema Sandron, 1908. 4to. Bound in recent full cloth with red leather title label with gilt lettering to spine. Front wrapper pasted on to front board. Occassional light underlignings in pencil. A fine copy. XXIX, (1), 517, (3), 16. + 54 numbered plates and 3 unnumbered plates. First edition of Italian economist Gini's - particularly famous for the Gini coefficient - graduate thesis, and first published work, on gender from a statistical point of view, in which he for the first time introduced: "the hypothesis that the cause of differential birth rate could be reduced to the environmental influence on "germinal elements" (Cassata: Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth Century). This work is a thorough review of the natal sex ratio, looking at past theories and at how new hypothesis fit the statistical data. In particular, it presents evidence that the tendency to produce one or the other sex of child is, to some extent, heritable."Animals kept in captivity demonstrated, according to Gini, that "the maturation of the germinal elements is obstructed by captivity, as it impedes muscular activity, makes the environment uniform, and greatly reduces the reaction of the organism." In the same way, in the human species, the "development of sex" appeared favored by those conditions - muscular work, "active rural life", sport - that "command in the organism, and through it, in the germinal cells, a lively reaction, which is obstructed on the other, by the opposite conditions of health and tranquility". This physiological reason could explain, therefore Gini's view, the lesser prolificacy of the aristocracy compared to the lower social classes and the decreasing rate of the "white races". (Cassata: Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth Century)."Gini (1884-1965), perhaps best known to economists because of the Gini Coefficient, was born in Motta di Livenza, Italy. His doctoral thesis [The present], defended in 1905, was awarded the Vittorio Emanuele prize for social sciences. (The New Palgrave).

Berlin, Springer, 1925. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with paper label with handwritten title to spine. In "Die Naturwissenschaften", Vol. 30, 1925. Library stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 953-954. [Entire volume: XXIII, (1), 1092, 44 pp.]. First printing of this landmark paper in which electron spin was first announced. "Ehrenfest had suggested that he work with a fellow student, Goudsmit, who already was an expert on atomic spectra. The two of them wrote a paper on the spectrum of hydrogen, giving an improved interpretation involving half-integer quantum numbers. Then came their great discovery: electron spin. The quantum numbers they had assigned implied that the electron must have another degree of freedom; it must be rotating. With this idea everything fell into place. They published first a short note and then, at the encouragement of Niels Bohr, who visited Leiden shortly after their discovery, a longer paper that appeared in Nature. The origin of the spin-orbit interaction was apparently suggested by Albert Einstein, who also visited Leiden at the time and pointed out that in its rest frame, the electron sees an orbiting nucleus and hence a magnetic field. There remained an awkward factor of two in the spin precession rate. This was soon explained as a relativistic effect in an elegant paper by Llewellen H. Thomas. In their third and final paper on electron spin, Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck summarized these results and gave what has become the accepted interpretation of electron spin and atomic spectra." (DSB)The discovery of electron spin was proposed as an explanation for the Stern-Gerlach experiment. In this experiment a beam of silver atoms was allowed to pass through an inhomogeneous magnetic field. When the magnetic field was on, the beam of silver atoms split into two parts, one deflected up and the other deflected down. In 1925, Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit, both graduate students at the time, proposed an explanation for the Stern-Gerlach experiment by postulating that the electron possesses an intrinsic angular momentum, referred to as "spin".This intrinsic angular momentum gives rise to a magnetic moment in the electron that interacts with magnetic fields. The electron spin and the related magnetic moment are quantized such that there are only two possible discrete values. This quantization of the magnetic moment is what leads to the deflection of the beam of silver atoms either up or down in the inhomogeneous magnetic field. Their insight furnished a missing link leading to the final triumph of the then-struggling birth of quantum mechanics.

Krakowie, Nakladem Akademii Umiejetnosci, 1908. 8vo. Unopened, uncut in the original printed wrappers. With authors inscription. Offprint with author's presentation inscription to front wrapper of the first Polish publication of Smoluchowski's important paper on the reasons behind the blue sky and how to reproduce it. "In 1910 Theodor Svedberg based his experiments on Smoluchowski's calculations, observing how many particles of a suspension can be seen in the field of vision of a microscope at a given time and experimentally confirming Smoluchowski's predictions to an astonishingly high degree Smoluchowski himself had previously proved the existence of fluctuations of density in a pure gas by demonstrating that they are responsible for the known but unexplained phenomenon of the opalescence of a gas at a critical state. His paper "Teoria kinetyczna opalescencji gazów w stanie krytycznym" ("kinetic Theory of Gas Opalescence at the Critical Stale" 1907) shows why the critical point plays such an important role and states that the opalescence of pure gas also should be observable under normal conditions: "Each of us has observed it innumerable times when admiring the blue of the sky or the glow of the rising sun." Smoluchowski combined the theory of fluctuations with the results of Lord Rayleigh's researches on the blue of the sky; his finding (Einstein also took part in the discussion) was that the blueness of the sky was caused by fluctuations in the density of the air. Smoiuchowski's laboratory production of sky blue closed the investigation to a certain extent." (DSB).

Leipzig, Heinsius, 1732 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear and scratches to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (30), 608 pp. + frontispiece. The uncommon first and only edition of Rohr’s guide to teach readers how to achieve mental tranquility and contentment. Julio Bernhard von Rohr (1688–1742) was German writer and scholar known for his works on philosophy, spirituality, and practical guidance for living a content and virtuous life. He held the title of "Land-Cammer-Rath" (Land Chamber Counselor) in the service of the High-Princely Saxon court in Merseburg. He studied law at Leipzig University and also attended scientific lectures. Apart from his academic writings in cameralism and natural sciences, Rohr was also known for his travel guides on the Harz region.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1890. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 36., 1890. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 157160. [Entire volume: IV, 602 pp.]. First printing of Peano's seminal paper in which he for the very first time discovered a space-filling curve in a 2-dimensional plane, it is often referred to as Peano curves. Peano's ground-breaking paper contained no illustrations of his construction, which is defined in terms of ternary expansions and a mirroring operator. But the graphical construction was perfectly clear to him-he made an ornamental tiling showing a picture of the curve in his home in Turin. Peano's paper also ends by observing that the technique can be obviously extended to other odd bases besides base 3. His choice to avoid any appeal to graphical visualization was no doubt motivated by a desire for a well-founded, completely rigorous proof owing nothing to pictures. At that time (the beginning of the foundation of general topology), graphical arguments were still included in proofs, yet were becoming a hindrance to understanding often counter-intuitive results.Peano' purpose was to construct a continuous mapping from the unit interval onto the unit square. Peano was inspired by Georg Cantor's earlier counterintuitive result that the infinite number of points in a unit interval is the same cardinality as the infinite number of points in any finite-dimensional manifold, such as the unit square. The problem Peano solved was whether such a mapping could be continuous; i.e., a curve that fills a space.

London, William CLowes and Sons, 1863. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers with Siemens's inscription to front wrapper: "to Mr. A. L. Ternant / from Author". With previous owner's stamp to lower part of front wrapper: "A. L. Ternant". Lacking upper part of spine, a few marginal annotations in pencil throughout. 50, (5) pp. + 3 large folded plates. First printing of this important publication in the history of telegraphs cables with a most interesting presentation inscription: It was given by Siemens to A. L. Ternant, author to several early paper on submarine cables. The Malta-Alexandria cable was ordered by the British government, manufactured by John Pender, and constitute one of the very first submarine telegraph cables. "The making and laying of the Malta to Alexandria cable gave rise to researches on the resistance and electrification of insulating materials under pressure, which formed the subject of a paper read before the British association in 1863. The effect of pressure up to 300 atmospheres was observed, and the fact elicited that the inductive capacity of gutta-percha is not affected by increased pressure, whereas that of india-rubber is diminished. The electrical tests employed during the construction of the Malta and Alexandria cable, and the insulation and protection of submarine cables, also formed the subject of a paper [the present]." (Munro, Heros of the Telegraph, P. 72). The Malta-Alexandria cable was the first Siemens was involved in and the experience made him in 1874: "design the cable ship Faraday and assisted in the laying of the first of several transatlantic cables that it completed. During the last fifteen years of his life he actively supported the development of the engineering profession and its societies and stimulated public interest in the conservation of fuel, the reduction of air pollution and the potential value of electric power in a wide variety of engineering applications.(DSB).In 1859 Glass, Elliot and Company received an order from the British Government to manufacture and lay a cable from Falmouth, England to Gibraltar. The government then changed the route to Rangoon - Singapore and finally to Malta - Alexandria, Egypt.

Leipzig, J.G.I. Breitkopf, 1778-79. 4to. Cont. hcalf, gilt back. Wear to top of spine. Stamp on first title-page. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped on lower part of spine. 6 title-pages. (2),22,(2);24;20;32;48;36 pp. With 30 engraved and handcoloured plates (numb. I-XXX) of which 25 are large folded maps, 5 are troup-positions. 1 folded table (unnumb.). A faint marginal dampstain to the first 10 leaves.

Jena & Helmstad, Arnstad, Birckner, 1662. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Some brownspots to covers. Front free endpaper lacks, old annotations on inside frontcover. Old owners names on titlepage. (6),62,(2);(2),109,(3) pp. - (32) pp. - (4),41,(1) pp. - (2),21,(1) pp. - 27,(1) pp. Some soiling to right corners in the last work. Present is all parts of Johann Stier's (1599-1648) textbook in philosophy. It was widely used in the 17th century.

London, Printed by Elizabeth Purslow for Nicholas Bourne, 1633. Folio. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities. Boards with stains and scratches, with a some loss of leather. Missing small part of leather to upper capital. Inner hinges split. Light marginal brownspotting throughout. Occassional underlignings and marginal annotations in contemporary hand. (26), 58, 61-400, 403-424, 405-472, 475-525, (19) pp. Wanting the folded table. Rare first edition of the 40 sermons Oates’ preached at North Walsham containing warnings against Brownists and other seperatists. Being born in 1610 Oates was only 23 years old when he published the present work.