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(Paris), no publ., 1785. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on halftitle. (2),384,XVIII,(1) pp., 6 large folded engraved maps, plans, profiles etc. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

U.S.A., The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1952. 8vo. No wrappers (as issued). Offprint from "The Annals of Mathematical Statistics", Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1952. Light miscolouring to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 255-262. Scarce offprint of Elfving's seminal paper which marks the beginning of optimality theory of regression theory. The paper also introduced concepts from convex geometry, including "Elfving sets."Pioneering work was done by Elfving in several papers on the methods of computing optimum regression design. The "Optimum allocation in linear regression theory" is without doubt Elfving's single most influential paper, inaugurating that line of research." (Johnson, Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century)While accompanying a surveying expedition to western Greenland, extended and intense rains left Elving with three days in his tent, during which time he consider the best locations of observations to estimate parameters on linear models. Elfving's ideas appeared in his paper on the optimal design of experiments for estimating linear models. This paper also introduced concepts from convex geometry, including "Elfving sets" and Elfving's theorem

Paris, B.jeune, 1827-29. 5 cont.hcalf. With 16 engr.plts.

Kiøbenhavn, Christoph Georg Glasing, 1751. 4to. Nyere papbind med marmoreret papir. Mindre vandskjold på øverste indre margin, berører de første 50 pp. Ellers pænd eksemplar. Kobberstukket titelvignet. (16),144 pp. Originaludgaven.

Paris, Gallimard, (1956). 8vo. Bound uncut with the original wrappers, also the back-strip, in a beautiful elegant red morocco binding with red and black patterned paper to boards. Top-edge gilt. Title, author and year in gilt lettering to spine, the title vertically in large capitals. Inside of front board with a gilt super ex-libris. Binding signed at bottom of inside of front board: "C. et J-P. Miguet". Housed in a Black and red paper slip-case with red morocco edges. An excellent, near mint copy. First edition in book form of the political play that Sartre himself called " "The Respectful Prostitute" on the level of politics" (Sartre, "France-Observateur", June 9, 1955), by other contemporaries called a "crypto-communist" work, or even worse "a farce in eight tableaus".Hors commerce-copy (marked "H.C.") of the regular issue. The printing in book form was preceded by the appearance of it in "les Temps modernes, no. 114-15, 116, & 117, June-September of 1955. "Nekrassov" is Sartre's response to the anti-communist sentiments found in the post-second world war era, personified in the American senator Joseph McCarthy. The play is a political comedy written in the form of a playwright that demonstrates the difficulty of maintaining personal freedom in a society obsessed with the threat of communism. The well esteemed critic wrote in his review of Nekrassov: "[It] reveals him as the best comic talent of our times." Almost none of the contemporary reviews from the critics of the center and rightist press were favourable, though. "[A] certain grim rejoicing was apparent in the columns of these mourners as they celebrated the still-birth of "Nekrassov"." (Neal Oxenhandler, "Nekrassov and the Critics, in: Yale French Studies, No. 16, 1955, p.8). Although "Nekrassov" has not been performed on the stage in Paris since 1955, in the literature to come, the play has achieved the role as one of the best pieces Sartre ever wrote. Contat & Rybalka: 55/265 - b)

Milano, Palermo, Napoli, Rema Sandron, 1908. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Title page with signs after a removed stamp. Otherwise a fine and clean 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, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 16-74 and 2 engraved plates showing Davy's electrochemical apparatus for decomposing substances, Davy's versions of the Voltaic-pile.. Plates a bit brownspotted, otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined. First appearence of this historical chemical paper, Davy' fifth Bakerian Lecture, in which he announced his discovery of hydrogen telluride."Mr. Davy having from the commencement of his electro-chemical researches, communicated the several steps of his progress to the Society (The Royal Society), takes the present opportunity of reporting the results of his further inquiries under four principal heads. First, on the nature of the metals of the fixed alkalis. Second, on the nature of Hydrogen and composition of ammonia. Thirdly, on the metals of the earth; and Fourthly he makes a comparison between the antiphlogistic doctrine, and a modified phlogistic hypothesis."(Abstract). He further gives arguments for considering potassium and sodium, which he discovered in 1808, as a element."Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lectures." - Wheeler Gift: 2518.Also with William Hyde Wollaston "The Croonian Lecture. Read November 16, 1809.(On Muscular Action - On Sea-Sickness - On the salutary Effects of Riding, and other Modes of Gestation). Pp. 1-15.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1901. Fine later red hmorocco with 5 raised bands and the elephant gilt in 4 compartments. Title in gilt lettering. Bound by Baytun-Riviere, Bath, England. 10 plates. Fine and clean. First edition.

(Stockholm, Beijer), 1885. 4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica, 21. Band]. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 259-380. First printing of Poincaré's famous paper in which he proved that a rotating fluid such as a star changed its shape from a sphere to an ellipsoid to a pear-shape before breaking into two unequal portions. "This work, which contained the discovery of new, pear-shaped figures of equilibrium, aroused considerable attention because of its important implications for cosmogony in relation to the evolution of binary stars and other celestial bodies." (The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, P. 786)Another famous paper of Poincaré in celestial mechanics is the one he wrote in 1885 on the shape of a rotating fluid mass submitted only to the forces of gravitation. Maclaurin had found as possible shapes some ellipsoids of revolution to which Jacobi had added other types of ellipsoids with unequal axes, and P. G. Tait and W. Thomson some annular shapes. By a penetrating analysis of the problem, Poincaré showed that still other "pyriform" shapes existed. One of the features of his interesting argument is that, apparently for the first time, he was confronted with the problem of minimizing a quadratic form in "infinitely" many variables." (DSB)

Stockholm, Delén, 1815 & 1816. 8vo (240 x 145 mm). Bound partly uncut with the origianal wrappers in a nice recent half calf binding. First part with dampstain in inner margin, otherwise a nice copy with the often missing wrappers preserved. (30) pp. + 12 engraved, handcoloured plates. First edition of this exquisite collection of plates with accompanying text, intended to be a supplement to Palmstruch's Swedish Botany. Originally intended as a grand-scale production spanning 5 to 6 volumes with 12 issues in each volume, the two present issues were, however, all that appeared. The plates are engraved by Ruckman, after Palmstruch.

London, Longman, Brown etc., (ab. 1850). Orig. full blue cloth, gilt. A gilt Yacht on frontcover. Very slight wear to top a. bottom of spine. Internally fine and clean. XXVII,106,(4) pp. Coloured lithogr. frontisp. and 25 (of 26) plates (1 cold. map, 7 woodcuts, 16 cold. lothogr. plates, 1 steelengraved). Abbey I:256. Schiötz 887. According to Schiötz the first issue has uncoloured plates. This should be second issue with the lithographs coloured and 3 of these mounted on cardboard.

Stuttgart, Metzlerschen Bucchandlung, ( ca. 1818). Folio-oblong. (42,5 x 54,5 cm.). 2 contemp. hcalf. With the original engraved wrappers pasted on covers. Spines rubbed. Some soiling to covers. Textbd.: 7,12,10 pp., Kupferbd.: 12 (I-XII) large engraved maps/plans with handcolouring.

Paris, Piget - Durand, 1744. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlabel with gilt lettering. Some repairs to spineends and fronthinge at upper compartment. Light edgewear. Stamp on haltitle and title-page. Engraved titlevignette. engraved vignette with Lapp and reindeer on sledge. (8),238,(2) pp., 1 folded, partly handcoloured, map and 11 (of ) folded engraved plates. Textillustrations. Light toning and some scattered light brownspots. First edition of Outhier's account of the scientific voyage to Lapland lead by Maupertouis."In 1736-1737 the Academy sponsored an expedition to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of latitude near the North Pole, in order to determine the actual figure of the earth; and Outhier, "dont la capacité dans l’Ouvrage que nous allions faire, etoit connuë" (Maupertuis, La Figure de la terre, P. xv), was invited to participate. He assisted in the astronomical observations, drew eighteen maps of the lands through which they passed, and studied the religious and social customs of the Lapps. His detailed journal of the voyage was published in 1744."(DSB).Poggendorff II, 340.

Kristiania, Mittet & Co. Kunstforlag, 1913-22. Lille folio-oblong. Alle 10 med orig. bogtrykte omslag og snorheftet i rygge. 4 hefter med nogle rifter i omslagene, of nogle omslag løse. Indvendig helt frisk. ialt 100 farveplancher med tekst.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1938 a. 1939. 4to. No wrappers. 7 original issues from "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 206 (Nos 10, 12, 17 a. 22) + tome 208 (Nos 5, 9 a. 13). With titlepages to both volumes. The papers tome 206: pp. 750-752, 906-908, 1256-1259 a. 1643-1644 + tome 208: pp. 341-343, 343-346, 647-649 a. 995-997. All 7 issues with a stamp to first leaf. Titlepages stamped in blind at foot "The Chemists Club Library". First appearance of these importent papers, the investigations recorded here gave an essentuial contribution to the development of the first atomic bomb and to the advancement of nuclear physics. In collaboration with his wife Irene, he discovered artificially induced radioactivity early in 1934 for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1935. The Joliot-Curies provided chemical evidence for transmutation ( the change of one element to another) with the change of aluminum into a previously unknown isotope (variety) of silicon. This led to the development of a new discipline - the production and study of radioisotopes (radioactive forms of elements), and their later investigations together with their collaborators unrolled the fission process as in the offered papers.

London, Harrison and Son, 1850. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Wear to extremities and front hindge a bit weak. One small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xv, (1), 452 pp. The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa, Brazil, Egypt, France, Nederlands, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Sardinia, Spain, Tripoli, Turkey, United States and Venezuela.

Easton, PA., Mack printing Compagny, 1931. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. In: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America", Vol. 17. VII,710 pp. (Entire volume offered). The papers: pp. 315-318, 650-655 and 656-660. First editions of these importent papers in statistical mechanics. The so-called Koopman-von Neumann mechanics is a description of classical mechanics in terms of Hilbert space, introduced by Bernard Koopman (the paper offered) and John von Neumann in 1931 and 1932. Ergodicity was introduced by Boltzmann, but the modern theory started from the paper by Koopman, and has been a cornerstone of statistical mechanics since. The ergodic method has found impressive applications in the fields of statistical mechanics, number theory, probability theory, harmonic analysis, and combinatorics.As Koopman and von Neumann demonstrated, a Hilbert space of complex, square integrable wavefunctions can be defined in which classical mechanics can be formulated as an operatorial theory similar to quantum mechanics.Birkhoff's proof (in the third paper offered) of "the ergodic theorem was deemed as importent as his proof of Poincare's geometric theorem" (Landmarks Writing in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, p. 877).

1.-22.Bind. K., 1854-55. Indbundet i 11 samt.hldrbd. m.rig rygforgyldn. Udmærket ekspl. Førsteudgaven of Andersens Samlede Skrifter, som blev annonceret til at udkomme 1 22 bind(som her), senere blev værket dog suppleret med yderligere bind op til hans død.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1860. 4to. Hcalf, but spine gone and covers loose. In: "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik Crelle/Borchardt", 57. Band. IV,375,(1) pp. (Entire volume offered). Helmholtz' paper: pp. (1-) 72. A small brownspot to page one. First printing of Helmholtz' groundbreaking work on the aerial vibrations in tubes. Together with his work on Vortex Motion (Ueber Integrale der hydrodynamischen Gleichungen, welche den Wirbelbewegungen entsprechen) from 1858 it "must be reckoned among the most brilliant of Helmholtz's mathematical achievements, only rivalled, and perhaps surpassed, by the work of the last ten years of his life."(Leo Koenigsberger, p. 180 ff).The paper was reprinted in Ostwald's Klassiker Nr. 80.The volume contains further importent papers by Clebsch, C. neumann, Borchardt, Cayley, Hesse, Hermite, Kronecker, Kummer etc.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1821-26. Bound in 6 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Stamp on title-pages. In all ca.1600 pp. Each issue separately paginated. With folded tables and 69 large folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.

(Norge), 1875-76. Portfolio. (58 x 34 cm.). Samtidigt hldrbd. med bindebånd. Med forgyldt titeletiket på forsiden med tekst som ovenstående. Indeholder 6 store planer/kort i håndkolorerede manuskriptkopier, kopieret på svært cellofan-papir (glassine paper). Alle foldede, de fleste i dobbelt folio eller 3-dobbelt folio. Indeholder: 1. Horten. Oversigtskort. - 2. Oversigtsplan over de nye Batterier. - 3. + 4. Batterie paa Møningen med 2 Moncrieffske Brønde. - 5. Batteri paa Hortentangen med 2 Moncrieffske Brønde. - 6. Nyt søndre Batteri paa Oscarsborg.

Leipzig, Gleditschen, 1734-42. 8vo. 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs rubbed, especially volume 2, which have been exposed to some damp, loosening the plates and some quires, but not dampstained. 2 engraved frontispieces. (6),(69o),(4);(6),543,140,(10) pp. and 46 engraved plates (36+10). Some light browning to inner margins in volume 2. Stamps on title-pages. Largest edition of Wolff's well-known encyclopedia in which are treated all aspects of the mathematical sciences, pure as well as technical, the calculus, stereometrie, astronomy, hydrostatics, architecture etc. etc.

Amsterdam, Kunst- und Industrie - Comptoir, 1808. 8vo. and folio. Textvol. bound in modest hcalf., spine worn. Atlas-volume in contemp. boards with printed title from orig frontwrapper pasted on frontboard, and later clothbacking. Corners bumped. Stamps on titlepage and old owners name. First and last leaves a little brownspotted, scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume with titlepage on which content of maps. 17 large folded engraved maps, mostly folded and in double-folio, with outline and position colouring. Maps uncut and clean.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Band 38, No. 6 (= Zweyte Stück). Titlepage to Vol. 38. Pp. 241-450 a. 3 engraved plates.(Entire issue offered, Heft No. 6, Bd. 38). Schwann's paper: pp. 358-364. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in the history of biology, in which Schwann describes his discovery and isolation of pepsin, the substance in the stomach that aids digestion of eggwhite. It is the FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME. The paper appeared at the same time in "Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin"Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) was a great German physiologist, pathologist, and experimenter. One of the founders of the cell doctrine and of the idea of the living nature of yeast. Born at Neuss, near Düsseldorff. A catholic, educated in the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne. Intended for the church but took to medicine. He was a pupil of Johannes Müller and a collegueand lifelong friend of J. Henle, the anatomist. In Berlin Schwann was Johannes Müller's assistent for five years, and it was then that he discovered pepsin in 1836 (the paper offered).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1836 B.The issue contains other importent papers by Seebeck, Matteucci, Marchand, G. Magnus "Ueber die Wirkung des Ankers auf Elektromagnete und Stahlmagnete", Schönbein, J. Müller "Ueber die Structur und die chemischen Eigenschaften der thierischen Bestandtheile der Knorpel und Knochen" + Nachtrag., Forchhammer "Der kopaische See und seine unterirdischen Abzugskanäle.." with a map.

Copenhagen, Aschehoug & Munksgaard, 1927-72. 4to. All volumes with orig. printed wrappers. With ca. 1400 plates, partly in colour. The largest work ever published on Lichens.