Search Results

Lübeck, Schultze, 1680. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Light soiling to extremities and old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally very nice and clean. (32), 1157, 108, (17) pp. Rare second edition of "Palaestra Vere Christiana", but here for the first time published under this title, of Hornstedt devotional work on the perseverance in faith and the ultimate triumph of believers through God's support. Thomas Honstedt (1642 - 1704), was a German Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman, head pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and Senior of the Clerical Ministry. Son of a Lübeck merchant, he studied at several universities before becoming a preacher at Lübeck's Burgkirche in 1670 and later head pastor at the Cathedral in 1684. Known for his Lutheran orthodoxy, he led theological reforms, oversaw the installation of a new organ, and co-authored the official Lübeck hymnbook and catechism. OCLC only list one copy.

New York & London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1944). Royal 8vo. Orig. full green cloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Some soiling and wear to binding. Internally fine. LIX, (1), 1483 pp. First edition of this epoch-making study of race-relations in America. The first edition appeared in both one volume and in two volumes. This is the one-volume edition. In the early 1940'ies the Swedish Nobel Prize winner for Economics (1974), Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was funded by the Carnegie Foundation to map out the problems that African-Americans had to face in order to fully participate in the American society at the time. This resulted in an enormous and very detailed work, for which Myrdal is famous today. It immediately became very popular, and it sold more than 100.000 copies (25 printings of the first edition appeared) before the second edition appeared in 1965. Several other editions and extracts in other publications appeared before 1965. Nine issues of the work appeard within the first year.The work had an enormous direct effect on the general view on racial issues in America, and it must be said to have paved the way for what we now consider natural policies of racial integration and affirmative action. The view that underlies this landmark work is that democracy will triumph over racism. The effects of this work are difficult to underestimate, and it not only changed the view on racial issues in America, it also directly influenced the US Supreme Court in 1954 to outlaw racial segregation in public schools (Brown versus Board of Education). In 1950 Myrdal was a signatory of the UNESCO statement "The Race Question".Assarsson-Rizzi and Bohrn: Gunnar Myrdal. A Bibliography, 1919-1981: No. 127a.

Leipzig, Jo. Ambr. Barth, 1829. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VI,312 pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition, being the first book by the noted Austrian mineralogist. - Poggendorff I, 996.

(København, ca 1800). Folio. Slidt samtidigt hldrbd.. På forpermen i guld: E. Recke. Ialt ca 200 pp. Nogle blade med rifter og slid. Med ialt 31 helsides tegninger og 12 halvsides, alle i akvarelfarver, håndkolorerede. Der mangler nogle blade forrest og bagerst. Gennemgående med kraftige brugsspor, men et standardeksempel på tidens søkadetmanuskripter. Akvarellerne viser skibe og konstruktioner, kanoner og lavetter, måleinstrumenter, minering, bomber etc. etc.

Würzburg, Hiob Hertzen,1704. 4to. Nice later hcalf with raised bands and blindtoolings. (12), 538, (8) pp. and 50 fine half-page engravings in the text by C. Luyken. A frontisp. seems to be missing. First edition.

Kiøbenhaffn, Salomon Sartor og Jørgen Holst, 1639. Lille 8vo. Noget senere hldrbd. Ryg med stregforgyldninger. Forgyldt rygtitel. Noget slid langs kanter.Titelbladet trykt i rød/sort. (16),208,86),214,(10),192,(8) pp. Sidste blad i faksimile (=sidste side af register til 3. afdeling). Indvendig med brugsspor og spredte pletter. Første danske oversættelse. Originalen udkom første gang i Rostock 1633 med 200 historier. Peter Lauremberg var broder til den kendte professor i matematik i Sorø Hans Lauremberg. Han blev i 1624 professor i poesi og medicin ved Rostock universitetet og her blev han rektor i 1635. Han forblev i Rostock til sin død i 1639.Bibl. Danica II,464.

København (Copenhagen), Westermann, 1948. Orig. unstiched loose sheets in the orig. blue cardboard-folder w. paper-title, as issued. In the orig. blue cardboard-slipcase, also with printed paper-title. Spine and edges of slip-case a bit faded, otherwise an excellent, mint copy. No CXLVI of 235. First Danish edition of Eliot's monumental work, signed by Eliot and the two Danish translators. This modernist poem is one of the most celebrated and discussed poems of the 2oth century, and its modernist themes such as the decline of civilization and the lack of meaning of life greatly influenced modern literature and thought. There is no doubt that Eliot also greatly influenced modern Danish literature, and the Danish translator of "The Waste Land", Tom Kristensen, is one of the most acknowledged Danish writers of the 20th century. The work was originally published in 1922, and the Danish translation appeared in 1948, the same year that Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This first Danish translation was printed in a number of 650 regular copies, and 235 (Roman) numbered copies signed by the author and the two translators, of which this is number 146.

Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1865. 4to. Contemporary hcalf. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. Part of upper wrapper from the general title cut and mounted but having the htitle: "Vögel". Internally fine. IV,176 pp. and 6 fine chromolithographed plates of birds. (T.F. Zimmermann pinx - Lith. A. Hartinger). The original printing of the bird-section from "Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Erster Band Vögel." - Several new species are here fully decribed. - Anker: 391 - Casey A. Wood p. 515 - BMC (NH) I:p.75.

London, Watts, 1752. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. light wear at spine-ends. Covers with gilt lineborders. Titlelabel gone. Title-page in red and black. A repair to upper part of title-page with some reconstruction of the letters in "Voyages". (10),336 pp., 2 woodengraved vignettes. "Boyle's narrative is probably fictitious, but that of Castelman bears marks of authenticity. The latter's visit to Philadelphia took place in 1710. Boyle's voyages have often been reprinted; but Castelman's relation is only to be found in the early editions. The work has been attributed to Benj. Victor; also to Daniel Defoe." (Sabin).Sabin, 12553 (but not this edition which comprises Castelman's account with its own title-page).

Darmstadt, Johann Wilhelm Heyer, 1821. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (16),XV,358,(12);XV,(1),356,(8) pp. and 30 folded engraved plates in folio. Some scattered brownspots. First edition.

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1865. 8vo. 2 orig. full green cloth. Richly gilt backs. 2 corners bumped. 2 cm. of upper part of first title cut away, no loss of text. Uncut. First title browned, otherwise clean and fine. XV,300,VIII,279 pp. and 50 handcoloured engraved plates. One plate torn, but repaired. BMC NH III: 1120.

London, John Murray, 1856. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtoolings to covers. rebacked preserving all of original spine. Endpapers renewed. Fronstispiece. XVI,456 pp., 1 folded plan and 1 folded map. Clean and fine. First edition. In 1854 he joined an expedition up the Niger River and, on the death of the ship’s captain, took command of the expedition. With a crew made up chiefly of Africans, he explored the Benue River, the main tributary of the Niger, penetrating 250 miles (400 km) farther than any European had before.

Kiøbenhavn, C.G. Prost/ B.K. Horrebow, 1802. Lille 8vo. Smukt samtidigt helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning, forgyldte borter på permer (gevebindsudstyr). 125,(1) pp. samt 3 store foldetabeller. ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir. Scarce first edition of Teten's work on the "Widow Pension Fund" (Wittwen-Casse), a pension- and insurance institution for which he was director. His work "Einleitung zur Berechnung der Leibrenten und Anwartschaften, published in Leipzig in 1785 a.1786 was a landmark of actuarial science. It is recognized by actuaries for featuring the first risk measure ever (the Risico der Casse). In the offered book he applies his skills in actuarial mathematics.After his years as professor in Philosophy at the Kiel University,Tetens begun another career as a high ranking Danish civil servant: member of the Finanzcollegium in Copenhagen, then (1791) counselor of state, and (1803) co-director of the state bank and director of the widow pension funds. By this time, he was interested in pure mathematics as well as in applications. Tetens was professor of Philosophy at the University of Kiel from 1776-89. He was one of the first to discuss David Hume at lenght on the continent (he was called the German Hume). His "Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung", 1777 exerted a tremendous influence on Kant while he was writing the Critique of Pure Reason, and the many similarities between their doctrines are evident. Tetens's doctrines may be compared to Kant's even in their speculative power and importance.Bibl. Danica II:773. The book was first published in Danish (the offered item) and a year later , 1803 in German with the title "Nachricht von dem Zustande der allgemeinen Wittwen-Casse zu Copenhagen am Schluss des Jahres 1797, mit einigen Bemerkungen über Versicherungs-Anstalten auf Lebens- und Sterbens-Fälle, und die Art sie zu prüffen."

London, The Admiralty, 1897. Large folio (570 x 460 mm.) In the original blue cloth wrappers with gilt lettering to front wrapper. Extremities with wear and white paper-label pasted on to lower part of front wrapper. "11709" written to lower part of front wrapper. Small stamp to lower part of front free end paper. Light soiling to margins of the first chart, otherwise internally fine and clean. 6 folded charts (570 x 920 mm), numered from 2951 to 2956. Early chart covering currents in the Atlantic Ocean.

Indbundet sammen i et nyere hlldrbd. Rene friske eksemplarer. 112, 46, 158, 76, 87 pp. B.F.N. Nr. 393, 434, 522, 879, 888.

Querido, Verlag, Amsterdam, (1933-34). 12 issues with all orig.wrappers. Fine condition. 676 pp. Fist edition of this famous periodical with contributions by Brecht,Hemmingway,Gide,A.Einstein,Max Brad,Heinr.u.Klaus Mann,Huxley,Kafka a.many others.

Kjøbenhavn, Generalstaben, 1847-64. Omfattende samling af kobberstukne kortblade, hvert blad måler 43x52 cm. Foldet og opbevaret i en samtidig shirtkassette. Alle blade foldet og monteret med lærred på bagsiden og opdelt i felter. Kortbladene er kobberstukket og alle illuminerede (kobberfarvetryk). I fin stand. Kortbladene er nummererede i pladen, her omfattende Nr. 1-11 og 16-19 (Jylland, Lolland og Falster ikke med). 1. Gilleleje. 2. Frederiksborg. 3. Köbenhavn. 4. Store Heddinge. 5. Ulfshale. 6. Møen. 7. Hesselø. 8. Frederikssund. 9. Roskilde. 10. Ringsted. 11. Præstø. 16. Odden. 17. Kallundborg. 18. Slagelse. 19. Skælskør.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834). Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", 1. Bd., No. 31. Pp. 481-496 (entire. No 31 offered), Lenz's paper: pp. 483-494. Clean and fine. First appearance of the fundamental statement of Lenz's Law, which says that the direction of a current produces by electrodynamic induction is always such as to oppose by its electromagnetic action the flux change which gave rice to it. The memoir appeared at the same time in "Mémoires and Bulletin" of the St. Petersburg Academie of Sciences."Lenz's name survives in the history of physics as the result of his discovery of two fundamental physical laws - soon seen as special cases of the law of conservation of energy - and a great many empirical quantitative relationships of electromagnetic, electrothermal, and electrochem,ical phenomena...His application of Ohm's law and Gauss's method of least squares and his graphical representation of various laws have distinguished his work from the scientific papers of most of his contemporaries.In November 1833, Lenz read his paper Ueber die Bestimmung der Richtung der durch elektrodynamische Vertheilung erregten galvanischen Ströme" before the St. Petersburg Academy. It established Lenz's Law, relating the phenomena of induction to those of the ponderomotive interaction of currents and magnets discovered by Oersted and Ampère. Lenz's Law states that the induced current is in such a direction as to oppose, by its electromagnetic action, the motion of the magnet or coil that produces the induction. F. Neumann's derivation of the mathematical expression for the electromotive force of induction (1846) and Helmholtz's proof of the law of conservation of energy (1847) were based on Lenz's Law. This law also includes the principle of invertibility of motor and generator, which lenz demonstrated on Pixii's magnetoelectric machine in 1838."(DSB VIII, p. 187-188).Lenz was born on February 12, 1804 in Dorpat, and died in Rome on februray 10, 1865. He became professor of physics at the University of St. Petersburg. He investigated the conductivity of many materials for electricity and the effect of temperature on conductivity. he also studied the heat produced by the current and discovered the law which is known by the name of Joule.(Magie "A Source Book of Physics" pp.511-13).

Lausanne, Bousquet, 1755. 8vo. In a nice full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and previous owner's bookplate pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Upper outer corner of front free end-paper cut out. A fine copy. 304 pp. + 3 folded plates. First edition in which Haller described histories and autopsy findings for a variety of diseases and conditions including pulmonary tuberculosis, suffocation, pleurisy, and various diseases of the pevis, uterus, ovaries and kidneys. Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently “new” discoveries of later times had already been discovered by Haller.

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Contemp. full cloth. Light wear to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 18. 448 pp. and 6 folded engraved plates (4 of these belonging to the described papers). Ampère: pp. 88-106 + pp. 313-333 and 4 plates. Faraday: pp. 337-379. Savary: pp. 370-379. The plates depicts experimental arrangements and Ampère's initial Rotation Apparatus. The whole volume present. Fisrt edition and first printings of the demonstrations of Ampere's new Equilibrium technique. When Faraday had completed his importent paper on Electro-magnetic motions (the paper offered here in the first French edition) he send it to Ampere.. Ampere invented the Rotation Apparatus in order to repeat Faraday's experiment on the electro-magnetic rotation. He produced an uninterrupted rotation, either of magnetic pole around a wire or of a wire around a magnetic pole. From these experiments originated a new theory of electricity and magnetism. - The third memoir is the First French edition of Faraday's famous paper "On some New Electro-Magnetical Motions, and on the Theory of Magnetism" (Quaterly Journal of Science, October 1821), in which is recorded for the first time the conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contains the first notion of the "Line of Force". He employed a magnet and a wire with a flowing current, which causd each separately to rotate round the other. He concluded that a current-carrying wire is sorraunded by a circular "line of force". Oersted had spoken of the "electrical conflict" surrounding the wire and had noted that "this conflict performs circles".

Paris, København & Leipzig, Hachette, Reitzel & Brockhaus, 1900. Large 4to (360 x 295 mm). Bound with the original printed wrappers in contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris (Preben Rønne) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A few scratches and light discolouration to spine, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 196 pp. + 11 plates. First appearance of Hansen’s et al’s famous work on kitchen middens (Køkkenmøddinger) which concluded the work of ‘The Second køkkenmøddingkommission’ 1893-1895. It was the large shell pile at Ertebølle In the Limfjord, which was the main site of the commission's work. These kitchen middens provided completely new insights into prehistory, on a national as well as international level. Through the finds, it was possible to study the earliest organization of prehistoric societies. The commission's interdisciplinary work as well as the results of the First Kitchen Mødding Commission in the 1840s and 1850s have had an enormous influence on archaeologists' work with chronology in Danish prehistory and our knowledge of the Stone Age in general. In the study it is concluded that they are not a unique type of coastal settlement but represent coastal, homebase settlements characterized by a dominance of shellfish in the cultural deposits. This is the only aspect by which they differ from the rest of the coastal habitation system. Shell midden sites seem to flourish in periods characterized by a rich marine biotope and coastal habitation can be seen as a direct reflection of variations/changes in the marine biotope. The kitchen middens were a hot issue in the international debate in the later 19th century, palynology was developed there, and the registration of human impact in the primeval forests in the pollen record discovered and explained. Denmark is regarded as being one of the core regions of Stone Age discoveries and hence also being a center for the development of ideas about Mesolithic and Neolithic societies. Later Scandinavian models for Mesolithic societies and their transition to farming were seen as representative for a far wider region, if not for the whole of Europe. Due to the extensive and important Danish research on kitchen middens, the Danish word ‘Køkkenmødding’ (also spelled ‘Kokkenmodding’) is often used in international archaeological literature.

Kiøbenhavn, Höeckes Enke, 1802-06. 8vo. I et lidt senere halvlæderbind med forgyldt titel på ryg. Første og sidste blade en smule brunplettet, ellers pænt eksemplar. Kort over Læsø som kobberstukket vignet på titelbladet. (14), 282; 18 pp. + 2 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven af den første beskrivelse af Læsø og som her omfatter det sjældne tillæg, som først udkom 1806. Bibl. Danica II:712.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 26, No 21. Pp. (529-) 548. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538. Clean and fine. First appearance of the announcement of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of "molecular assymetry" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority (the paper offered). A more full exposition was published the same year in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome XXIV."In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the xcrystasls were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resemmbled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on."(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry", p. 374-379).

(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. The plates dampstained. Text fine and clean. 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.

Witebergae (Wittenberg), Iohan. Gorman, 1607. 4to. No binding, but bound together. All 12 dissertations with own title-page (except one) and all (except one) with broad woodcut border. Unnumbered. (6) pp. of Index, but seems to lack a general title to the collection. The dissertations from 10-20 pp. each. The dissertations all seems to comments on and explaining Aristotelian physics in the way of the Schoolmen.