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Paris, Chez Mme Ve Lepetit, 1817. 12mo. Bound in 18 later nice uniform hcloth. Gilt spines. All volumes has the orig. printed green wrappers withbound. No maps and no plates.

Paris, J. Barbou, 1783. Large 8vo. (18,5x13,5 cm.). Contemp. blue boards. Covers with wear and some scratches. Backstrip gone. Old owners names on title.V,(49) pp. and 20 double-page engraved maps, of which 19 are handcoloured in outline (paper measuring 18x22 cm.). Textlvs. with traces of use. 2 maps with some smaller inkspots. Maps fine apart from some browning to margins. Maps unsigned, but after the listing of the maps (verso of titlepage) is printed "Ces Cartes ont été gravées par M. André sur les dessins de M. Brion." This military school atlas contains Mappemonde, L'Europe, L'Asie, L'Afrique, L'Amerique Sepetentrionale, L'Amerique Méridionale etc. etc. - Not in Phillips (Geogr. Atlases in the Libr. of Congress) - Not in Shirley (Maps and Atlasses of the British Library).

Amsterd., 1676. 8vo. Cont.hvellum. (14),664 pp. and 53 engr.plates. Most of the plts.printed in the text, 7 Tables. First German edition. Although the title mentions 55 engravings, this copy is complete. The French ed.from 1641 has also 53 plts.,engraved by the author. Klaus Jordan No 3960.

Venezia, Giacomo Storti, 1752. Small folio. Uncut in orig. blue covers, old repair to back. (10),59,(1) pp. One large engraved portrait of Sansovino after Titian (Thomas Arighetti delin.- Petrus Monachus sculp.). First edition and the first work by the celebrated Temanza in his series of monographs of artists, followed by the vita of Palladio (1763) and of Scamozzi (1770).

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1822. 4to. Bound in 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome-labes gone on volume 2. Wear to top of spine on volume. Spines a bit rubbed. XXXVI,(4),244;VI,LIV,206 pp., 35 (12+23) folded Tables and 18 (12+6) folded engraved plates. Faint scattered brownspots on the first few leaves in both volumes. Scarce first, and only edition. Borkenstein was born in Hannover but wrote the work for the Danish-Norwegian army. He had his career in Norway as a teacher in the mulitary academy in Oslo.

Manchester, 1909. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Orig. printed paper label on spine (a bit chipped). In: "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Phlosophical Society. (Manchester Memoirs.). Volume LIII. (1908-09). Entire volume offered. The volume contains 24 papers, all with seperate pagination. Rutherford's paper: pp. 1-3. First printing of the paper which Rutherford and Royds gave the final proof that the alpha particle are atoms of helium. The present paper was read on November 3rd 1908 and published on the 19th. It was reprinted in Philosophical Magazine and that paper is dated November 13, 1908 and published February 1909."After nearly a decade of labor, Rutherford was finally prepared to state... what the alpha particle really was "We may conclude that an alpha-particle is a helium atom, or, to be more precise, the alpha-particle, after it has lost its positive charge, is a helium atom". In a paper together with Royds, completed in November 1908, he was even more emphatic: "We can conclude with certainty... that the alpha-particle is a helium atom... They had shown that a discharge sent through a volume in which alpha-particles from radium had been collected produced the characteristic helium spectrum !"(Pais "Inward Bound", p. 61)."Rutherford’s early conviction that the alpha particle was a doubly charged helium atom, but he had not succeeded in proving that belief. In 1908 he and Geiger were able to fire alpha particles into an evacuated tube containing a central, charged wire and to record single events. Ionization by collision, a process studied by Rutherford’s former colleague at Cambridge, J. S. E. Townsend, caused a magnification of the single particle’s charge sufficient to give the electrometer a measurable "kick." By this means they were able to count, for the first time accurately and directly, the number of alpha particles emitted per second from a gram of radium.This experiment enabled Rutherford and Geiger to confirm that every alpha particle causes a faint but discrete flash when it strikes a luminescent zinc sulfide screen, and thus led directly to the widespread method of scintillation counting. It was also the origin of the electrical and electronic methods of particle counting in which Geiger later pioneered. But at this time the scintillation technique, now proved reliable, was more convenient. This counting work also led Rutherford and Geiger to the most accurate value of the fundamental electric charge e before Millikan performed his oil-drop experiment. They measured the total charge from a radium source and divided it by the number of alphas counted to obtain the charge per particle. Since this figure was about twice the previous values of e. they concluded that the alpha was indeed helium with a double charge. But Rutherford still desired decisive, direct proof; and here his skilled glassblower came to his aid. Otto Baumbach in 1908 was able to construct glass tubes thin enough to be transparent to the rapidly moving alpha particles yet capable of containing a gas. Such a tube was filled with emanation and was placed within a larger tube made of thicker glass. In time, alpha particles from the decaying emanation penetrated into and were trapped in the space between inner and outer tubes: and when ROYDS SPARKED THE MATERIAL IN THIS SPACE, THEY SAW THE SPECTRUM OF HELIUM." (DSB).The volume contains 2 other importent papers by Rutherford 1. "Some Properties of the Radium Emanations" (issued Nov. 19th, 1908) and 2. together withY. Tuomikoski "Differences in the Decay of the Radium Emanations" (issued April 7th, 1909).

Antverpen, Petri Belli, 1589. Folio. (31 x 20 cm.). Bound in fine later (around 1950) hmorocco. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. Printers woddcut-device on first title-page. (68),206,(6),207-373,(2),(374-)531,(1) pp. Faint browning in upper margins. A few leaves at end with a dampstain in corners. A few marginal annotations.

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1796. Volume 1 unbound, but stitched. Volume 2 bound in contemp. hcalf, gilt spine, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. (2),VI,466;(2),442,(2) pp., 20 engraved plates and 1 large folded engraved map. Some quires with light browning, a few scattered brownspots. First German edition of the authors "Second Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de bonne esperance, dans le années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris, 1795." (Magazin von merkwürdigern neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Bd. 12: 1.Theil u. Bd. 13).

Paris, G. de Bure, 1786 Small 8vo. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Inkstamp on halftitles. Stamp on title-pages. (4),VIII,491;(4),492 pp. Internally clean and fine. Second enlarged edition. - Brunet V,62.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1770). 4to. Clean and fine without wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", Tome XXIV, pp. 111-180. With titlepage to "Classe de Mathematique". First appearance of Lagrange's importent paper in which he developed continous fraction solutions of equations.

London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1856. 4to. Uncut unopened in the original printed wrappers. In "Philosophical Transactions" Vol. 146 - Part I. Entire issue offered. Light soiling to extremities. Upper outer corner of of front wrapper with small tear, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 159-180 [Entire issue: iv, (6), 418 pp. + 15 plates. First appearance of a historical paper in physiscs.This paper is the last of Faraday's papers in the series "Experimental researches in electricity". The paper is the only one of the 30 papers which was not reprinted in the 3 volume work, published 1856.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).

(Kjøbenhavn, Waeysenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1758). 4to. Uden omslag. Udsnit af "Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste i Aaret 1745. Anden Deel." Pp. 129-156. First printing of the first comparative study of Greenlandic, - 15 years before Paul Egede's Greenlandic Grammar. The Latin edition reads "Meletema, de lingvæ Groenlandicæ origine, ejusqve a cæteris lingvis differentia".Lauridsen XII,6. - Groenlandica, p.93.

Kbhvn., 1893-1908. Folio. 6 orig.hshirtbd. med orig. smudsomslag. Helt frisk velbevaret eksemplar.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1873. Original clothbacked printed boards. Offprint from "Oversigter over d. K.D. Vidensk. Selskabs Forhandlinger. 1873, Nr. 1). A stamp on title-page. 20 pp. with 1 textillustration (apparatus). Scattered brownspots. Inscribed from the author on top of frontcover "Vensk. fra Forf" (i.e. with friendship from the author). Extremely scarce first edition in the OFFPRINT issue with inscription from the author. Here Lorenz established the method for absolute ohm determination by means of the elctromotive force and the geometrical dimensions of his apparatus. The paper was immideately translated into German and published the same year in Annalen der Physik und Chemie.Lorenz is well known for his achievements in optics, the formula for dependence of refraction upon specific gravity (the Lorentz-Lorenz formula), and his electromagnetic theory of light, developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867, two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands, spine with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. (24), 366, (10) pp. First Swedish translation of the official account of Cook's second voyage and Georg Forster's unofficial Voyage round the World."Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century" (Printing and the Mind of Man p.135). "The success of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, […] Cook discovered and charted South Georgia, after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the Azores. This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy" (Hill p.123)

Leipzig & Halle, Zeidler, 1695. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to board with a bit of loss of leather. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Spine-ends chipped. Internally with light occassional browning. (22), 865 pp. + frontispiece and 1 folded table. Rare first edition of Ludwig’s commentary on Samuel von Pufendorf’s ‘Einleitung zur Historie der Vornehmsten Reiche und Staaten’, a standard textbook for politically aspiring young aristocrats across Europe. Johann Peter von Ludwig or Ludewig) (1668-1743), was a prominent German jurist and historian. He studied at the University of Wittenberg and became a professor at the University of Halle, where he also served as royal historian and archivist. In 1719, he was ennobled by Emperor Charles VI. He later became Chancellor of the University and founded Halle's first regular newspaper.

Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1723. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Light wear to lower spine end. Corners worn with a small loss of leather. (14),922,(47) pp. and 27 engraved plates, each with 16 illustrations. The last plate with only 12 (of 16) illustrations. This couild be a plate not belonging to the edition, as other copies has only 23 or 25 plates (the offered has 27 plates). A few plates shaved in top. Internally clean. Third edition of Lemery's main pharmaceutical work. "Lemery’s chief contributions to pharmacy were his two complementary works, the Pharmacopee universelle and the Traité des drogues simples. These are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively, giving the source, virtues, does, and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals."(DSB).Wellcome III: p. 488 only calls for 23 plates.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73 Folio. Papersize 52,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 adults on a branch with fruits.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Fine and clean. Ab. a half cm. of right margin with remains of textpaper, not affecting image in any way..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.

Turici (Zürich), Typis Orellii, Fuesslini et Sociorum, 1826-38. Lex8vo. Bound in 11 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Some scattered brownspots.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1850. 4to. Without wrappers. From "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 40. Bd., Heft 1, pp.IV,92,(2) pp. and 2 lithographed plates. Entire issue offered with titlepage. Kirchhoff's paper: pp. 51-88. First printing of Kirchhoff's milestone paper on "the theory of plates in which we find the first satisfactory theory of bending of plates...he established the correct mathematical expressions for the potential energy,...further he shows that are only two boundary conditions and not three, as was supposed by Poisson...The advent of this theory of plates was a very great step foreward in the theory of elasticity, and it has become especially importent lately owing to its wide application in the design of various kinds of thin-walled structures." (Timoshenko p. 253-54).

Erfurt, Martin Wittelius, 1616. Small 8vo. Later boards, back somewhat worn. (16),430,(2) pp. Titlepage brpwnspotted, occasionally brownspotted and some browning to leaves. Former owner Wilhelm Maar. Peder Sørensen (Petrus Severinus) var livlæge hos de danske konger Fr. II og Chr. IV, et virke over 30 år. Han var en af de ivrigste fortalere for Paracelsismen, og hans bearbejdelse og fremstilling af læren i dette værk vakte beundring overalt i Europa. "Idea.." udkom først i Basel 1571.

Franckfurt, Thomam Fritsch, 1708 and Leipzig, Thomam Fritsch, 1708. Folio. Contemp. full calf. 6 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A tear to hinge at the lower compartments (not loose). Slightly rubbed. Engraved portrait (De Marca). (16) pp., 1286 columns + Index; (2) pp., 430 columns + Index; (2) pp., 168 columns + Index. Browning to portrait and titlepage. Scattered brownspots and some quires with browning. This edition is augmeted with Marca's dissertations which were also published separately.Marca was a French prelate and historian and attracted the notice of Richelieu by his support of the Catholic cause in the south during the wars of religion. Richelieu brought him to paris as counsellor of State in 1640. He defended the "Gallian Liberties" in the famous treatise "De Concordia", the item offered, first printed in 1641 (comprising only 4 books). He was nominated archbischop of Paris after De retz in 1662.Graesse IV:380 - Brunet III:1392.

London, John Murray, 1853. Orig. full pictorial cloth, blindtooling on spine and covers. Gilt illustration on frontcover. Inner hinge weakening. Spine a bit slanting. Light wear along edges. Lithographed frontispiece in colour. XVI,417 pp., 3 lithographed colourplates, 2 plates in balck, 5 textillustrations and 1 folded lithographed map in colour. Internally clean and fine. First edition. "He includes in his narrative, detailed descriptions of the life, customs, dwellings, clothing and beliefs of the Chukchis, and (in less detail) of the North Alaska Eskimos; notes on the Mackenzie Eskimos and Indians, and on the sea and river ice, hunting, trapping and character of the territory covered in his journeys." (Arctic Bibliography, 7395).Lada-Mocarski 140.

Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith, 1728-44. Small 8vo. Bound in 11 cont. full calf. Gilt backs. Occasionally rubbed. Each volume comprising ab. 500 pp. All volumes in 2 parts, and mostly with engraved frontispiece and engraved titlevignet.

London, W. Faden, 1793. (75 x 62 cm.). Engraved map of Ireland for travelling use, sectioned and laid down on linen. With 2 large fine engraved cartouches and handcoloured in outline.