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Yverdon, Soc. Litt. & Typog., 1777. 8vo. Contemp. full marbled calf. Gilt back. Part of titlelabel gone. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of back. XXIV,347 pp. and 9 engraved plates. A small faint dampstain in loweer margin of the first few leaves. Clean and printed on good paper.

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Jordanum Luchtmans, 1693. 12mo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary half calf binding with gilt lettering to spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to spines, head and foot of spines with loss of leather. Frontispiece with small hole and reinforced in outer margin. First and last leaves in vol. 1 with wormtract, but internally generally nice and clean. (80), 577, (3) pp. + frontispiece; (4), 618 pp. Uncommon first edition of this first anthology with contemporary Danish poetry in Latin. Frederik Rostgaard was born at the Krogerup estate in North Zealand. Upon his father's death in 1684, he was orphaned, but the financial situation was good, allowing him to receive a thorough education and higher education. After staying with the rector of the Copenhagen School, Peder Foss, he was privately tutored by him in 1687. He had Willum Worm, later a justice of the Supreme Court, as his guardian. Being wealthy, he pursued various independent studies, enjoyed visiting libraries, and began, as a very young student, to collect the works of Bording and other Danish poets, especially those in Latin. After a few short trips to Scania and Northern Germany, he traveled abroad in 1690, where he stayed for the next nine years. He first stayed in Germany, especially in Giessen, where his main study was jurisprudence, but he also studied Arabic at the same time. In the spring of 1692, he traveled to the Netherlands, making Leiden his main residence, and although he did not abandon law, it was linguistics that occupied him for the remainder of his stay abroad. It was during this trip he saw the opportunity to publish his collections of Latin poems by Danish authors. (See Larsen, ”Knud, Frederik Rostgaard og bøgerne”, Danmarks Biblioteksskoles Skrifter 3, 1970). Biblioteca Danica IV, 184.Thesaurus 634

Weser, Jacobus von Wesel, 1708. Small 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine blank. Spine a bit soiled. Stamp on title-page. Title-page in red/black. (32),203,(1) pp., 15 folded engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots. Some quires with light browning. Scarce first German edition, translated from the Dutch "Nieuwe Vestings-Bouw. 1685", a work which is the foundation for a large number of Dutch fortresses. - Poggendorff I:460. - Klaus Jordan, 744. (listing 19 plates, but library copies listing from 13-15).

Hildesburghausen, 1858-59. Lex8vo. Bound in 3 fine and well-preserved orig. full pictorial cloth, richly gilt. 3 engraved titles and 124 (43+40+41) steel-engraved plates. Plates as well as text fine and clean.

Kiøbenhavn, ved Mauritz Frydensberg (Trykt hos Berlingske Arvinger), (1760-64). 4to. 2 samtidige hldrbd. Ophøjede bind på rygge. Rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Rygge ikke helt konforme. (18),480;160 pp. samt 17 kobberstukne konge- og dronningeportrætter. På foden af kobberstikkene er indgraveret "Stukket efter Originalen paa det Kongl. Kunstkammer i Kiöbenhavn Anno 1760 (og til 1763)". De 2 sidste er dog signeret, stukket af Lÿman. Med to store kobberstukne vignetter (det ene på titelbladet). En smule slid ved øverste kapitæler, ellers velbevaret eksemplar. Fra Frederik Heymans bibliotek og med hans stukne exlibris på indersiden af forpermen i begge bind. Originaludgaven, men værket blev ikke fuldendt da der kun udkom et hefte af bind 2. Ganske sjælden i komplet stand som her. De usignerede kobberstik er 1. Chr. I - 2. Dronning Dorotheæ. - 3. Kong Johannis. - 4. Dronning Christina. - 5. Chr. II. - 6. Dronning Elisabeth. - 7. Friderich I. - 8. Hertugninde Anna. - 9. Dronning Sophia. - 10. Chr. III. - 11. Dronning Dorothea. - 12. Friderich II. - 13. Dronning Sophia. - 14. Chr. IV. - 15. Dronning Anna Catharina. - 16. Friderich den Tredie. - 17. Dronning Sophiæ Amaliæ.

Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1901-03. Lex8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spines and with gilt lettering. A few minor scratches. A name cut from front free endpaper. XII,648;XIV,752 pp., textillustrations and 12 colourplates. Internally fine and clean. First edition og this classic work in genetics, where de Vries further develops the theory of mutations.- "De Vries experimental work in the 1890' led to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws and the discovery of the phenomenon of mutation. The rediscovery of Mendel's laws was announced almost simultabeously by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak-Seysenegg - in that order....The results of his more than ten years of experimentation and study were laid down in de Vries's "Die Mutationstheorie....(1901-1903), in which he described in detail his work on the segregation laws, on phenomena of variation, and on plant mutations. The book made him famous, and he was recognized as one of the foremost botanists of his time."(DSB)."De Vries discovered, revealed, and proved the importence of Mendel's work. Advanced the theory of "mutations" or discontinous change in the character of species."( Horblit. One Hundred Books famous in Science, No. 73 b). - Dibner. Heralds of Science No 36. - Garrison & Morton No 240. - Sparrow. Milestones of Science No 194.

(Augsburg, Probst, 1708). Folio. Contemp. full calf. Spine worn. Cracks along hinges, but still holding. 2 engraved frontispieces (1 inserted after F X2). Title-page lacks. (116) pp. and 100 fine engraved plates. Tear in 1 plate and tear in 1 leaf (no loss). A large dampstain (faint) on bottom of leaves (plates mainly uneffected). Some scattered brownspots.Text in Latin and German in double columns. Vide Brunet IV,984.

Hamburg, Hoffmann, 1798-1802. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. With 46 (of 49) folded engraved plates.

Paris, J.A. Jombert, 1749. 4to. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Gilt titlelabel in vellum on back. Top of spine defective, repaired with a tapestrip. Stamp on title. XXIV,247;(1) pp. and 36 large folded engraved plates (plans and maps). A large engraved vignette by Cochin. A few brownspots, but copy with broad margins. First edition. Klaus Jordan No. 712.

Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1795. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel on back. A small tear to upper part of back, taped. Small stamp on title and verso of. XII,204 pp., texttables and 16 folded engraved plates (numb. 1-14 and A-B) showing signalling-houses, constructions, geometrical and optical features of signalling, symbols etc. etc. Plates with scattered brownspots, but a good copy. Scarce first edition. In this work, Bergsträsser develops a synthematographic, or "whole communication" system, employing a telegraphic apparatus which uses both visual and auditory signals. The author is particularly anxious to demonstrate the difference between his own scheme for signaling, and that of the Frenchman Claude Chappe. Bergsträsser argues that Chappe merely modified an earlier optical system propsed by the English experimental philosopher Robert Hooke (1635-1703), while his own scheme is not subject to the limitations of sight. Bergsträsser sees his synthematograph as primarily suited to military uses.

Kiøbenhavn, Höeckes Enke, 1802. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Rygtitlen fornyet i gl. stil. Kort over Læsø som kobberstukket vignet på titelbladet. (14),282 pp., 2 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Enkelte brunpletter. Trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af den første beskrivelse af Læsø, her uden det tillæg på 18 sider, som først udkom 1806. - Bibl. Danica II:712.

Kjøbenhavn, Høppfner, 1753-54. 4to. Indbundet i tre smukke og velbevarede hldrbd. fra omkring 1850 i gl. stil. Ophøjede bind på rygge, rygforgyldning og forgyldte skindtitler på rygge. Marmorerede snit. Med Roselius' kobberstukne portræt af Holberg, stukket af O.H.de Lode som frontispiece. (4),856;(1),922;(24),702,(116 - Register) pp. Udmærket velbevaret eksemplar.

Frankfurth am Main, Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1795. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (10),652,72 pp. and 15 fine large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. First German edition. A second volume was published 1801.

Berlin, Joachim Pauli, 1786-87. Vol. 1-2 in cont. boards - vol. 3-4 in cont. hcalf. Bindings worn. Engraved portrait, 4 engraved titlevignettes. XXII,820;826;718;860 pp. and 32 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, only a few scattered brownspots and occasional light browning.

La Haye, Paris, Ganeau, 1753-55. Bound in 5 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. With the gilt monogram of King Frederik V stamped on red background on covers. Stamp on title-page. Ca. 3000 pp. 7 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.

Hamburg & Breslau, 1735. 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. A few scratches to boards and internally with occassional brownpostting. A nice copy. (66), 1088, (22) pp. + frontispiece and 2 engraved portraits. The uncommon first edition of this contemporary biography of Frederick William I of Prussia

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to top of spine. A stamp to verso of titlepage. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19. 448 pp. a. 1 large folded plate. (Entire volume offered). Mitscherlich's paper: pp. 350-419. 1 large folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. First French edition - in the authors own form and translation - of Mitcherlich's announcment of his discovery of Isomorphism, stating that similar crystalline form reflect analogous chemical formulae, which Berzelius used in fixing the formulas of compounds. Mitcherlich was at this time an assistent to Berzelius, and the first printing of this classical paper appeared the same year in Akad. Handl., Stockholm. The paper was soon afterward printed in French (the paper offered) and English, and Berzelius discussed it in his "Jahresbericht", so that the work quickly became known. - Leicester & Klickstein pp. 306-08."The statement of the law of isomorphism...marks Mitscherlich's most importent contribution to chemistry - indeed, Berzelius considered Mitscherlich's discovery to be the most significant since that of chemical proportions. Berzelius himself found Mitscherlich's work to be of great use; he was at that time concerned with the determination of the atomic weights of the elements amd the law of isomorphism provided him with a valuable tool....Berzeluius' task was simplified by the application of Mitscherlich's law..."(DSB IX, p. 424).

St.- Petersbourg, 1900. Orig. full green cloth. Spine and covers with gilt lettering. A portrait of the author on froncover. (6),VI,472 pp. Textillustrations and plates after photographs., 1 folded table and 1 folded map. Internally clean. In Russian. First edition of Krasnov's famous travelling book on Etiopia.

Copenhagen & Leipzig, H. Christiani, Paulli Wittwe, 1738-46. Indbundet i 4 samtidige hel-og hpergamentsbd. (1-3 i helbind med spejl, bd. 4 i hpergament). Rygforgyldning. Rygge slidte. Ialt ca. 4750 pp. uden kobbere. Dette vigtige historiske værk blev foranstaltet af bl.a Langebek og indholder kilder til dansk historie. - Bibl. Danica III:5

Flensburg, Johann Christoph Korte, 1770. Uncut in cont. blank boards. Name cut from title, no loss of text. (16),798,(48) pp.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, Inc., 1956 + 1957. 8vo. Both entire issues present, both in original printed wrappers. Volume 21, 3 w. a small loss to lower corner of front wrapper, minor loss to lower capital and a tear to lower front hinge, no loss. Upper corner of least few leaves and back wrappers creased (w. tear to wrapper). Volume 22, 3. w. minor loss to capitals. Both issues internally near mint. Vol. 21, 3: pp. 225-248 (entire issue: pp. 225-336); Vol. 22, 3: pp. 245-249 (entire issue: pp. 225-336). First printing of these two important, but for long overlooked, articles, which together constitute Hintikka's attempt to cope with Wittgenstein's elimination of identity as proposed in the "Tractatus". With the translation rules that Hintikka here put forward, he is the first to try to carry out Wittgenstein's suggestions systematically. The Finnish born philosopher and logician, Jaakko Hintikka (born 1929), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Boston, is generally accepted as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He has contributed seminally to the fields of philosophical and mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics and science, language theory and epistemology. Independently of Evert Willem Beth he discovered the semantic tableau, and he is famous for his work on game semantics and logical quantifiers. In 2005 Hintakka was awarded the Schock Prize in logic and philosophy, the philosophical equivalent to the Nobel prize, "for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis of modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief ". In the 1950'ies Hintikka took it upon himself to follow Wittgentein's suggestion of elimination of identity suggested in the "tractatus", and in the two offered articles, he succeeds in constructing a logic without identity. The main point of the two connected articles is to show that variables can be used in two ways. One way does not exclude coincidences of the values of different variables (inclusive interpretation of variables), the other does (exclusive interpretation of variables) and can be either weakly or strongly exclusive. He now claims that in the "Tractatus" Wittgenstein adopts the weakly exclusive interpretation of variable and then proves that the weakly exclusive quantifiers are able to express everything that the inclusive quantifiers plus identity can express, and without a sign for identity, - for the first time systematically supporting Wittgenstein's claim that identity is not an essential constituent of logical notation. "There are a number of references to the exclusive interpretations of variables in current logical literature. An exclusive reading of variables was, in effect, suggested by Ludwig Wittgenstein in "Tractatus logico-philosophicus. As far as I know, however, no one has previously tried to carry out his suggestions systematically. Several misconceptions seem to be current concerning the outcome of an attempts of this kind. Carnap expects radical changes in the rules of substitution. If I am not mistaken, however, at least one form of the exclusive interpretation may be formalized by making but slight alterations in the axioms and/or in the transformation rules of the predicate calculus. Also I hope to say that it is not correct to say (as Russell has done) that Wittgenstein tried to dispense with the notion of identity. What a systematic use of an exclusive reading of variables amounts to is a new way of coping with the notion of identity in a formalized system of logic. Under the most natural formalization of the new interpretations, the resulting system is equivalent to the old predicate calculus (with identity): every formula of the latter admits of a translation into the former, and vice versa." (Vol. 21, Nr. 3, p. 228)."A deviation from standard English. Recent discussion serves to bring out, amply and convincingly, the utility of observing the ordinary correct use of words and phrases for the purpose of clearing up philosophical problems. In this paper, I shall endeavour to show, by means of an example, that the reverse method may have its interest, too. " (Vol. 21, Nr. 3, p. 225). "This note is a sequel to the previous paper of mine which was entitled "Identity, variables, and impredicative definitions" and published in this JOURNAL, vol. 21 (1956, pp. 225-245. That early paper served to call attention to the dependency of the set-theoretic paradoxes on the interpretation of the variables that may occur in the critical "abstraction principle". (Vol. 22, Nr. 3, p. 245).Besides these two articles, the two issues also include other important articles within logic, e.g. Quine, "Unification of Universes in Set Theory" and Symonds and Chisholm "Inference by Complementary Elimination".

Halle, Maison des Orphelins, 1750-52. 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. full sprinckled calf, richly gilt spines, tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine on vol. one. A small stamp on titlepages. 444,(2);32,(8),784 pp. Internally clean and fine. First French edition of "Projet des Corpus Juris Fridericiani", published 1749.

Lausanne, Hignou, 1796. 8vo. Bound in 8 nice uniform contemp. hcalf. profusely gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to 3 spineends. Stamp on halftitles. Ca. 2000 pp. Some scattered brownspots. Comprising: Vol. I. Byron. - II. Carteret. - III. Wallis & Cook. - IV-VIII: Cook.

Paris, H. Founier Ainé, 1837-38. Contemporary half calf, spines with gilt titles. Stamp on titlepages.. With 1 engraved map. V, 495;504,520,446,544,814 pp. By publishing his posthumous memoirs in 1837, Lafayette’s family intended to insure his reputation and promote the liberal cause. First edition.