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Paris, Florentin Delaulne, 1724. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bingins with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (20), 234, (4) pp. + 8 folded plates; (2), 318 pp. + 5 folded plates. Fifth edition of De La Force's highly popular work on the grandeur and splendor of the Versailles and Marly estates during the reign of Louis XIV. Piganiol de La Force was a French historian and author known for his works on French history and architecture.

København, Nordisk Forlag, 1899. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. With dedication from the author: "Stina Falk / vänligen frän / Selma Lagerlof". Front free end-paper trimmed in outer margin, with loss of the last two letters in "Lagerlöf". First Danish translation with dedication from the author. Stina Falk school teacher in Falun. Over a series of conversations, Stina Falk told the great author about her father's, Olov Falk, life story which eventually served as the model for the schoolteacher in Selma Lagerlöf’s book Jerusalem.

Amsterdam, Elzevier, 1653. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Extremities with soiling and wear. Verso of title-page with annotations on contemporary hand. The writing has gone through the paper and has miscoloured recto of title-page, otherwise internally nice and clean. (22), 322, (38), 96, 449, (31) pp. + engraved half-title. First Elzevier edition of this anthology of proverbs containing anecdotes, aphorisms, maxims, bon mots and wordplays. Willems 1168

Kbhvn. 1869-88. Indbundet i 40 samtidige lidt slidte halvlæderbind, enkelte dog i nyere bind. Alle med biblioteksstempler og nyere labels på ryggene.

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.

Hildburghausen, Johann Bielcke, 1691. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges with title in sontemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (12), 1652, (38) pp. + portrait and engraved half-title. Rare first edition of this encyclopedic compendium, arranged after the Ten Commandments, on promiscuity. Here with the often missing portrait.

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)."

London, J. Wallis, 1812 (?) Lex 8vo. Bound in 3 contemporary marbled full calf with richly gilt spines. Gilt title- and tome labels. Wear to hinges and capitals. 3 engraved frontispieces and 2 engraved title pages (An inlaid note indicates that the title page of volume 3 was probably never printed). IV,551;546;430,(1) pp. With 16 portaits and 8 plates. A few brownspots, otherwise clean.

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.

Lipsiae, Thomas Fritsch, 1696 Folio. Bound in two cont. full calfs with richly gilt backs and 6 raised bands on each and 3 brown titlelabels. Title in red/ black with engraved vignette, also an old owners name. A few pages with stains or brown spots, otherwise internally fine. (8),2606,(144) pp. Covers with minor scratches and a little rubbed.

Cologne, Crithius, 1615. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges with title in contemporary hand to spine. Light miscolouring to extremities. A nice and clean copy. (16), 979 [i.e. 679], (68) pp. Rare later edition of Pinto’s highly popular work on the Book of Ezekiel.Heitor Pinto (1528 – 1584) was a Portuguese philosopher, theologian, and writer. He joined the Hieronymite Order in 1543 studying and teaching philosophy and theology in Coimbra, Salamanca and Lisbon. Pinto was exiled to Toledo by Philip II for supporting António of Crato’s claim to the Portuguese throne.

London, printed for James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1815. 8vo. In contemporary blue boards (original ?). Stamp to spine. Stamp and annotations in contemporary hand to title-page. Soiling and wear to extremities and brownspottet throughout. VIII, 130 pp. + folded tabel on the tides in English channel. Rare fifth edition of Whittle and Laurie's pilot to the English Channel.

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain, 1735 8vo. In two uniform contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment of spines. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped and boards with scratches. 2 leaves detached in vol. 1, but internally generally nice and clean. (4), 568 pp. + frontispiece and 1 folded maps; (2), XII, (2), 504 pp. + frontispiece and 3 folded map. A nice set of the first edition of Matiniere’s history of Asia, Africa and the Americas. Martiniere is especially famous for his extensive work “Grand Dictionnaire Geographique Et Critique” in 10 volumes. Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), a French Jesuit priest, explorer, and historian and famous for his extensive travels and writings about North America noted his debt to Martiniere and the present work. Sabin 8793

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.

Stuttgart, Neske, 1961. 8vo. 2 orig. black full cloth w. orig. orange dust-jackets, white and black lettering to spines and front. A very good set w. only minor bumping to upper capital of vol. 1, otherwise near min, in- as well as externally. 661, (3); 492, (2) pp. The first edition of Heidegger's famous Nietzsche-book, in which he equals Nietzsche's notion of the super-human with the realization of modern technical humanity.Like his lectures on Nietzsche in the 1930'ies and '40'ies, the work also focuses on Nietzsche's posthumously published fragments "Die Wille zur Macht" ("The Will to Power"). According to Heidegger, these fragments form the culmination of Western Metaphysics, -though Metaphysics when turned upside-down, but far from abolished."Nietzsche denkt das, was die metaphysische Tradition das Sein des Seienden nennt, als den ewig wiederkehrenden Willen zur Macht. Durch den Gedanken-Gang zum Willen zur macht zieht Nietzshe eine "Spur" in die "Geschichte des Seins" und d.h. "in die noch unbegangenen Bezirke künftiger Entscheidungen" (I, 475)." (Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers).With the word "Sein" ("Being"), Heidegger seems to have coined the "essence" of European thought. Metaphysically "Sein" is put into words as the "Wahrheit des Seienden" ("The Truth of Being") in European thought. According to Heidegger, also Nietzsche's philosophy of thought is Metaphysics, but not Metaphysics as a particular philosophical discipline, rather Metaphysics as the "Wahrheit über das Seiende" (the truth about that, which is). Thus viewed, Nietzsche's philosophy becomes the Metaphysics of our times.

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.

Kjøbenhavn, 1846. Samt. hldrbd. m. rig tidstypisk rygforgyldn. False slidte og indre false lidt svage. Hjørner slidte. Brunet og med understregninger, primært i blyant. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 90.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1914. 8vo. 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 of Smoluchowski's chapter in "Handbuch der Elektrizität und des Magnetismus". Very fine and clean. Pp. 366-428. Scarce offprint with the author's printed presentation statement of Smoluchowski's important contribution to the "Handbuch der Elektrizität und des Magnetismus" in which he developed his theory of electroosmotic flow."From 1899 Smoluchowski worked at the University of Lvov. Appointed professor in 1900, he held the chair of mathematical physics there until 1913. His first works at Lvov concerned atmospheric physics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, electrophoresis, and the theory of mountain folding. Recognition for these specialized works was show by his being asked to write the chapter on endosmosis phenomena in Handbuch der Elektrizitätund des Magnetismus, edited by J. A. Barth (Leipzig, 1914)." (DSB).

Dresden, Georg Conrad Walther, 1768. 4to. Uncut in cont. boards. Back, edges and covers rubbed. Engraved titlevignette and engraved vignette on dedication-leaf (to Prince Xavier de Pologne et de Saxe). XVIII,252 pp. and 20 folded double-page engraved plates, 1 table. Large uncut copy. Light browning and some brownspots at end. Small rubberstamp on titlepage and on verso of title. First edition.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1756). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome X, pp. 173-199; pp. 200-226. First printing of two Euler-papers in which he occupies himself with an unsolvable geometric problem and the physics of the different refrangibilities of light rays, a field Euler made important and original contributions to. Euler's wave theory of light, published in 1746, was based on an analogy between sound and light to a more and more mathematical elaboration on that notion. His wave theory degenerated, and it was not until Fresnel introduced transverse waves and an elaborate notion of interference that the wave theory again progressed. He was the second after Christian Huygens to proposed a wave theory of light, and thereby one of the earliest to argue against Newton's particle theory of light. His 1740s papers on optics helped ensure that the wave theory of light proposed by Christian Huygens would become the dominant mode of thought until the development of the quantum theory of light.See Eneström E220, E221.

Lancaster and New York, American Institute of Physics, 1958. Lex8vo. Volume 109, March 1, No. 5, 1958 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. In the original printed blue wrappers. Slight traces of wear to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper (C. Møller). Internally fine and clean. Pp. 1492-1505. [Entire issue: Pp. 1407-1862]. First edition of Anderson's seminal paper, in which he laid the foundation for a quantum-mechanical theory of transport in systems with a certain generic type of disorder involving onsite energy randomness. This is also known as the Anderson localization. On the basis of the discovery presented in the present article which led to investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. The discovery has allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers."Disorder-induced electron localization, i.e. Anderson localization, was first predicted by Andersonin 1958 [in the present paper]. In his pioneering paper, the continuity or discontinuity of the energy spectrum of electrons on a diagonally disordered system is related to their localization property." (Nakayama, Fractal concepts in condensed matter physics, 2003, p. 117)"Anderson's model ushered in a new quantum mechanical view of metal-insulator transitions. And in the early 1960s, Nevill Mott introduced the notion of a mobility edge that separates extended and localized states. The idea of a mobility edge would develop into one of the most studied concepts of condensed-matter physics. For their work on disordered systems, Anderson, his thesis adviser John van Vleck, and Mott shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics.Ironically, Anderson's 1958 paper hardly got noticed at first; it was cited just 30 times in the first 10 years. Today, it's been cited over 4000 times, though too often as an "unrecognizable monster" as described by its creator in 1983. Indeed, theoreticians have found a variety of ways to look at localization - from scale-dependent diffusion and fractal wavefunctions to quantum chaos, dense-point spectra, and kicked rotors." (Fifty years of Anderson localization Physics Today, August 2009).

Paris, J. J. Fuchs, an V. (1797). 8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards with small paper label pasted on to top of spine. Scratch to back board otherwise a nice and clean copy. (2), 164 pp. First edition of this rather unusual treatise on spiders in which Quatremère-Disjonval explores the relationship between spiders and weather conditions; he used spiders as an indicator for atmospheric variations. Quatremère-Disjonval (1754-1830) was banished by Napoleon after the bankruptcy of his cotton spinning mill. Exiled to the Netherlands, he was imprisoned in Utrecht for his peculiar ideas and research. During his imprisonment, he studied the behavior of spiders. It was through atmospheric predictions derived from the behavior of spiders that Quatremère-Disjonval warned Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general, in the winter of 1795 of an impending severe frost, which trapped the Dutch fleet in the ice of the Zuiderzee and thus allowed the French armies to invade the Netherlands without resistance. This prediction earned him his release.

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).

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.