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(London, W. Nicol, 1825). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1825 - Part II. Pp. 440-466. Clean and fine. First appearance of this remarkable paper in which Faraday announces his discovery of Benzene. Berzelius described this research as "without doubt one of the most importent which has enriched chemistry during 1825.""The first public announcement of the discovery of benzene, the greatest chemical discovery made by Faraday. Originally named by him "bicaburet of hydrogen", benzene is the parent substance of all aromatic compounds. It constitutes the basis of thousands of organic compounds, dyes, perfumes, and medicinal products, as well as many polymers and structural materials. The discovery of benzene led to the creation of numerous chemical companies and the manufacture of materials previously unknown. This paper is a thourough study of the physical and chemical properties of benzene."(Neville I, p. 443). - Parkinson "Breakthrough" 1825 C.

Paris, Lacombe, 1766. 8vo. In two nice contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines and royal coat of arms ["Honi soit qui mal y pense"] to front and back board of both volumes. Wear to extremities and front board of volume 1 party detached. Part of tome-label on both volumes missing. Internally fine. XXIII, (1), 588 pp.; (4), 715, (1) pp. First edition of Marcquer's Dictionnaire in applied chemistry. "In the avertissement Philippe states that his brother's dictionaire de chymie had recently appeared, and he suggests that the present work will form a logical sequelto the Dictionnaire raisonné d'histoire naturelle. Rare. Not in Blake, Collison, Watt, or the usual chemical bibliographies". (Neville, vol. 2, p 110.)

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. XIV,448 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, Bd. 29). Also having the general titlepage, this with a stamp.

Frankfurt am Main, Johannis Beyeri, 1663. Folio (350 x 235 mm). In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally nice and clean. (10), 535, (11), 448, (12), 377, (7) pp. + engraved half-title. First edition of Prückner’s commentary on both the Old and New Testament.

Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 1872. 8vo. 2 volumes in one (as issued) contemporary half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy. (Frontiespiece), (1), 314, (2) pp.; (4), XV, (1), 294, (6), 39 pp. The rare first Swedish translation of "The Descent of Man" translated by Rudolf Sunderström. Freeman's collation is incorrect (as he also dated the first Swedish translation of "Origin of Species" wrongly).Withbound is Lawrence Heap Åberg's "Ett försök att uppvisa darwinismens öfverensstämmelse med en rationelt idealistisk verldsåskådning" (1874). Freeman 1136

København, C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind med spejldekoration og rester af rig rygforgyldning. Titelblad trykt i rødt og sort. Bind slidt og forperm løsnet fra bogblok. Tidligere ejers navne på titelbladet. Nummerstempel bag på titelbladet. (32), 585,(21) pp Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede. Til denne udgivelse har Glasing selv skåret illustrationerne efter de originale. Fuchs/Reynard the Fox har rødder i tysk middelalderlig folklore og dukkede første gang op i en trykt dansk version i Herman Weigeres oversættelse, Lübeck 1555. I Weigeres oversættelse, som i Høyers og Glasings version er kommenteret og suppleret efter alle kunstens regler, residerer kong Løve i Lemvig.Bibl. Dan. IV,267.

London, Akerman, 1822. Bound in 2 fine longgrained hmorocco, richly gilt backs. Top edge gilt.(Bayntun). LXXIV,444,494 pp. and 12 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Tooley No. 142.

Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1750 (Vol. 2: 1749). 8vo. Uniformly bound in four nice contemporary full spinkled calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Edges of boards gilt. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extemities, primarily affecting spine-ends. A nice and clean set. (16), 460, (20) pp. + 32 plates.; (4), 462, (14) pp. + 49 plates; (2), 482, (12) pp. + 31 plates.; (8), 446, (6) pp. + 17 plates. (A total of 129 plates out of 136) Beautiful later edition the first work of its kind; "Recreational Mathematics".Qzanam's "contributions consisted of popular treatises and reference works on "useful and practical mathematics," and an extremely popular work on mathematical recreations; the latter had by far the more lasting impact. Ozanam’s Récréations may be regarded as the forerunner of modern books on mathematical recreations. He drew heavily on the works of Bachet de Méziriac, Mydorge, Leurechon, and Daniel Schwenter; his own contributions were somewhat less significant, for he was not a particularly creative mathematician. The work was later augmented and revised by Montucla and, still later, was translated into English by Hutton (1803)."(DSB).

Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Friedrich Fleischer, 1733. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Raised bands.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment of spine. Stamp on title-page. (12),163 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. First edition. - Rumpf, 5042. - Klaus Jordan, 1001.

A Lyon, Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1790. Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum. With some old inscriptions on covers. Engraved frontispiece. XII,286 pp. and 24 folded handcoloured engraved maps.

Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1778. 4to. 2 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. Tome-and titlelabels in leather. Somewhat rubbed along edges and light rubbing to backs. Upper compartment of back on vol. I taped. (4),XII,329;(4),VII,226 pp. and 33 folded engraved plates. Some yellowing to text, plates printed on good thick paper, clean and fine. A rubberstamp on halftitles and titles. Volume II having 2 parts: 1. "Essai sur les Mines" and 2. dealing with "Epreuves du Globe de Compression" (levelling).

Berlin=Lichterfelde, (1935-36). In 2 orig. boxes in foliosize, containing 2 books as well as 6 records, recorded on both sides with birdvoices. A part from a few scratches on the boxes in fine condition. Scarce early recordings of birdsongs.

Glückstadt, No printer, (1774-75). 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine-ends repaired. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (18),842 col.,(6);(8),1032 col.,(4) pp. Scattered browning.

London & Beccles, 1952-65. 4to. In 24 half cloth bindings signed Psilander & Berg.

London, J. Grover for R. Royston, 1676. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. A small crack to leather at upper compartment. Light wear to edges. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (It is a portrait of Oliver Cromwell as Agathocles, the tyrant of Sicily, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing fur cap).Title-page with a large engraved vignette (a man of war in fire). (16),278 pp., 1 folded engraved plate. Very light browning to upper margins. Printed on good paper.

Berlin, Springer, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in later gray half cloth with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. In "Naturwissenschaften", Vol. 27, 1939. A very fine and clean copy. First printing of these seminal papers which constitutes the first announcement of nuclear fission. The formulations in these papers are rather cautious and obviously the authors were not in possession of an explanation for the phenomena which they had observed.At this point Lise Meitner was no longer at the University of Berlin. Due to here jewish background she was forced to give up here position and she fled to Denmark. However; Hahn continued to communicate with here and reported his and Strassmann's results. Together with here nephew Otto Frisch she was able to give a physical explanation for the phenomena using the 'liquid drop model' of the atomic nuclear which had recently been developed by Niels Bohr. Meitner and Frisch submitted their paper to 'Nature' on the 16th January [3rd paper offered, the issue was published the 11th February 1939]. Hahn and Strassmann most probably came into possession of Meitner and Frisch's theory before its publication since they submitted another paper the 28th January [the 2nd paper offered, the issue was published the 10th February 1939] in which they restated there results in more detail and stated the phenomena of fission with clear certainty.

(Paris), Sanson et Compagnie, 1791. 8vo. and 4to. Bound in 8 uniform contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Atlas with 31 engraved plates, mostly maps and plans, some large and folded. Internally clean.

Paris, Costard, 1771-78. Bound in 10 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on halftitles. Light wear to a few top of spines.

1919-88. Mangler 2 hefter: 1823: nr.3 og 1985: nr.2). Ellers komplet. Med Index 1918-57 og 1958-67.

Basel, B. Schwabe, 1875-78. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Gilt lettering. Spines rubbed. 2 spine-ends repaired. Small cracks to two joints. Stamps on title-pages. (4),157;(2),68,(4) pp. and 76 lithographed plates in colours. Internally clean. First edition.

Kbhvn., Schultz, 1788-89. 4to. 2 samt., men lidt uens helldrbd. med skindtitler på rygge og rygforgyldning. Kapitæler på bind 1 lidt slidte. XXII,XXX,(2),786 pp. + Anhang og Bilag. Originaludgaven af den såkaldte "Store Landbokommission" nedsat 1786. Reformerne her gengav den danske bondestand økonomisk og borgerlig frihed, og på baggrund heraf løstes Stavnsbåndet. Hovedmændene var Chr. D.F. rewentlow, Colbjørnsen og Bernstorff.

Leipsick, No publisher, 1799. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. XXXVI,562 pp., 5 engraved plates and 1 large folded engraved world map: "Mappemonde ou Carte réduite des Parties connues du Globe pour servir au Voyage de la Pérouse..." (52 x 42,5 cm.). A few margins of text at beginning and at end stained. The portrait lacks. Sabin, 38959.

Paris, L'Imprimerie de Monsieur (et) Firmin Didot, 1786-1816. Bound in 3 contemp. uniform full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines, title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XLII,453;(4),402,(4);VIII,310 pp., 11 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table. Poggendorff I, 607.

London, Steel and Co, 1815. 8vo. In later half cloth with gilt lettering and stamp to spine. Bound with contemporary (original?) blank front wrapper. Stamps to front wrapper and title-page. Front wrapper with several repairs and annotations to title-page. Three small holes in inner margin, presumably from a previous binding. (4), 116 pp.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1809. Unbound, but stitched. VIII,228 pp. and 1 folded engraved plan "Plan d'une Partie de L'Ille de Cérigo autrefois Cythere. Par Barbie du Bocage." First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 40. Bd.: 3.Theil).