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London, John Bartlet, 1632. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine (indicating the inventory number in a estate library). Upper capital lacking part of leather. Internally with occassional underlignings and marginal annotations in contemporary hand. A bit of marginal miscolouring throughout. Hole in inner margin of pp. 299-322, far from affecting text. A good copy. (6), 322, 186, (10), 68, 196 pp. The uncommon second edition of Harris' sermons on happiness and Ezechiel.

Birmingham, Baskerville, 1772. 4to. Bound in a somewhat worn contemporary full calf binding with richly gilt spine. Five raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Edges of boards gilt. Cracks to upper and lower outer hinges. Slight loss to capitals. Tears to edges and corners. Internally clean. (2),280 pp. Baskerville's magnificent quarto edition of Lucretius' (ca. 99-55) 'De rerum natura'.

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.

Havre et Paris, Faure, Béchet, 1822. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on title-page. XII,478,(2) pp., 23 folded lithographed maps and 7 folded lithographed plates with 82 coastal profiles. Internally clean and fine.

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

Kiøbenhaffn, Georg Hantsch, 1629. 12mo. Velbevaret samtidigt helpergamentsbd. Blindtrykte stregrammer på permer. Titeblad trykt i rød/sort med røskenramme. (8),230,(2) blade. Indvendig ren. Dette værk, sammen med en mindre udgivelse af Aalborg året før, er de første kirkehistoriske værker på dansk.Thesaurus II,743. - Bibl. Dan. I,127.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1903. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Very slightly rubbed, a few tiny stains on covers. Small stamp on titlepage.V,175 pp. + Publishers announcements (2) pp. Scarce second edition of a work which went through 15 editions in 100 years as one of the most influential mathematical publications of the 20th century. "The development of Hilberts Grundlagen der Geometrie was not finished with the first edition. The complete content was continously revised, especially during his lifetime. He considered new results, gave hints in articles and improved his own formulations." (Michael Toepell in Landmarks Writings in Western Mathematics). This second edition is nearly 2 times larger than the first edition, expanded with 5 supplements (Anhänge).

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

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.

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, 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).

(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.

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

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.

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

London, Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. Bound in 3 uniform contemporary half calfs with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Hinges with minor wear and a few nicks to the leather on the boards, otherwise a fine and clean copy. First edition of the three-volume edition (Printed same year as the original 20 monthly parts) of Master Humphrey's Clock, a weekly periodical edited and written by Charles Dickens and published from April 4, 1840-December 4, 1841. "The publication of these stories in the form presented was one of the first of several experiments which the Author applied to several succeeding books. Dickens feared that his readers had become weary of stories in monthly issues on account of the lapse of time between the numbers. At the request of Chapman & Hall he outlined his planspartially in a letter when he wrote among other things: "To introduce a little club or knot of characters and to carry their personal histories and proceedings through the work; to introduce fresh characters constantly; to re-introduce Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller; x x x to write amusing essays on the various foibles of the as they form of the papers by throwing them into sketches, letters from imaginary correspondents, and so forth, so as to diversify the contents as much as possible." (Eckel, p. 67).Hatton and Cleaver, Pp. 163-182.

London, Lockyer Davis, and Peter Elmsly, 1791.. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 91, read February 10, 1791. Including title-page of volume. Leaves reinforced in margin. (2), 91-88 pp. First appearance of Herschel's seminal paper in which he stated: "The nature of planetary nebulae, which has hitherto been involved in much darkness, may now be explained with some degree of satisfaction, since the uniform and very considerable brightness of their apparent disk accords remarkably well with a much condensed, luminous fluid; whereas to suppose them to consist of clustering stars will not so completely account for the milkiness or soft tint of thir light, to produce which it would be required for that condensation of the stars should carried to an almost inconceivable degree of accumulation." (From the present paper).

Wittebergae (Wittenberg), Iohan Gorman, (1607) - 1608. 4to. 4to. No binding, but bound together. All 12 dissertations with own title-page and all with broad woodcut border. Unnumbered. (8) pp. The dissertations from 10-20 pp. each. Clean and fine.

(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers in "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 51, No.17 a. 18. The entire issues offered. Pp. 1-124 a. pp. 125-236. Sommerfeld's papers: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. Punched in inner margins after cords. Clean and fine. First appearance of Sommerfeld's main contribution to Quantum Theory, incorporating the "Sommerfeld Model" of the atom and his creation of a general theory of spectral lines based on quantum concepts."In the winter Semester 1914/15 his topic was the Bohr model. He extended it considerably and was able to find a number of new results which were published early in 1916 (in the paper offered).The gist of Bohr's theory was the fact that it allowed only certain electron orbits. Sommerfeld tried to find the "quantum conditions" by which these orbits could be singled out from the classically allowed ones."(Siegmund Brandt "The harvest of a Century", Episode 27, p. 110 ff.)."This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr's theory by Sommerfeld contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr's first publicatuion Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of thsi quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. His "Atombau und Spektrallinien", of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920's, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of quantum mechanics."(DSB XII, p. 529).The offered papers contains also 2 importent contribution in the same field by Sommerfeld's pupils: Paul S. Epstein "Zur Quantentheorie" pp. 168-188 and J. Stark: "Der Träger der Haupt- un Nebenserien der Alkalien, alkalischen Erden und des Heliums", pp. 220-236.

Kbhvn. 1894-1938. Indbundet i 13 private halvpluviusinbind med forgyldte rygtiteler og bibliotekslabels. Repertorium diplomaticum regni Danici mediævalis. Totalt udkom der 13 dele fra 1884-1939.

Jena, Mauke, 1789-1800. 3 contemp. clothbacked blue boards. Handwritten titlelabels on spines. Light wear to spines. XX,436;XX,362;(16),359 pp., 1 folded engraved and handcoloured map, 2 folded engraved plans, 1 engraved plate with music and 8 folded engraved plates. Scattered brownspots. First German edition.