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Kiøbenhavn, Ludolph Henrich Lillie, (1756). 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Smal blindtrykt bordure på permer. Forkanterne på permerne med forgyldt bordure. (10),160 pp. Ren og velbevaret. Originaltrykket. - Bibl. Dan. II,358.

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1854). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1854, Vol. 144 - Part I. Pp. 245-258. First printing of the first paper in Cayley's famous memoirs on 'quantics', a term he coined for algebraic forms. In this paper Cayley throughout remodelled the whole basis for Invariant Theory."In addition to his part in founding the theory of abstract groups, Cayley has a number of important theorems to his credit: perhaps the best known is that every finite group whatsoever is isomorphic with a suitable group of permutations (see the first paper of 1854). This is often reckoned to be one of the three most important theorems of the subject, the others being the theorems of Lagrange and Sylow. But perhaps still more significant was his early appreciation of the way in which the theory of groups was capable of drawing together many different domains of mathematics: his own illustrations, for instance, were drawn from the theories of elliptic functions, matrices, quantics, quaternions, homographic transformations, and the theory of equations. If Cayley failed to pursue his abstract approach, this fact is perhaps best explained in terms of the enormous progress he was making in these subjects taken individually."(DSB)

Kiøbenhavn, Udgiverens Forlag, 1802. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Lille sprække i fals øverst på ryg. Papirsetiket påsat ryg øverst. Stempler på titelbladet. (10),54,26;86;144,(2) pp., 7 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven. Rawer var stadskonduktør i København efter branden og virkede tillige som arkitekt, så vel teoretisk som praktisk, og satte sit præg på Guldalderens København efter branden og bombardementet. Som løjtnant besøgte han nogen tid Kunstakademiets Bygningsskole, hvor han 1778 vandt begge sølvmedaljer. Bibl. Danica II,377.

Chicago, Western Society of Engineers, 1921. Orig. full cloth, frontcover and back stamped in blind. (2),196 pp., 45 illustrations, mostly full-page, incl. photographic reproductions of calculating machines designed by Pascal, Leibniz, Burroughs, Felt, and others. Fine and clean. With a typed letter in 4to, signed by the author, to Mons. Paul Jeannin in Paris, Turck thanks Jeannin for his letter congratulating him on the success of this book, and recalls with pleasure going with Jeannin to see Pascal's calculating machine in Paris. 21 lines dated Wilmette, Ill., l1 11 décembre, 1925. (in French). Also with Felt & Tarrant shipping lebel addressed to Jeannin, incorporatiing a picture of their invention, the Comptometer, the first practical desktop calculator. This was presumably used on the package that held this book. First edition of the first popular history of modern calculating machines.Turck was the inventor of several calculating machines, the earlliest being the Mechanical Accountant, which appeared around 1900. He joined the firm Felt & Tarrant in 1911, and his name appears jointly with that of Felt. After Felt's death, Turck took over design resoponsabilities for the business. The dual-register SuperTotalizer that appeared in 1934 was undoubtly his work. - Hook & Normann, origins of Cyberspace: 393.

Riga und Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1791. Nice contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small stamp on top of title-page. (16),200;272,(4) pp. and 1 folded engraved map. A few marginal brownspots. Printed on good paper. First German edition.

Budapest, Stephaneum, 1902-16. 4to. Bound in 12 uniform solid buckram. Some plates, textillustrations, plans and maps. Internally fine and clean.

München, Fleischmann, 1819. Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. Stamps on title-page. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (2),VI,92,(2) pp. and 1 fine lithographed plate as frontispiece. Text with faint scattered brownspots. Plate clean and fine. First edition. The fine plate, here as frontispiece, is among the very first lithographs used in bookillustration.

Wisconsin, The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1938-39. Lev8vo. Entire volume one of "Journal of Symbolic Logic" (i.e. number 1-4), March 1938, June 1938, October 1938, January 1939. Bound in blue half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Crossed-out library paper-label to lower part of spine and top left corner of front board. Two library stamps (in Chinese) to verso of title page. Internally a very fine and clean copy of the entire volume. [Kleene:] Pp. 150-55. [Entire volume: IV, 212 pp.]. First printing Kleene's milestone paper in which Kleene's O (Ordial numbers), a recursive function, is introduced. In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations."In the seventeenth century, Leibniz envisaged a universal language that would allow one to reduce mathematical proofs to simple computations. Then, during the nineteenth century, llgicians such as Charles Babbage, Boole, Frege and Peano tried to formalize mathematical reasoning by an "algebraization" of logic. Finally, [...] Gödel, Church and Stephen Kleene introduced the notion of recursive functions. (The Princeston Companion to Mathematics. P. 111).The volume also contains the following papers of interest:1. Quine, W. V. Completeness of the propositional calculus. Pp. 37-402. Quine, W. V. On the theory of types. Pp. 125-39.3. Church, Alonzo. Additions and corrections to A bibliography of symbolic logic. Pp. 178-92.

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.

Berlin, F.T. Lagarde, 1801. Nice contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. XXIV,498,(1) pp., 60 textillustrations in woodcut and 5 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition of this importent manual of hydraulics. "His Handbuch...(1801) was the most importent book of this era, for it was the first to combine practice and theory. He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1803...Eytelwein, like his French contemporary M.R. de Prony, was one of the first to write on the application of mechanics and mathematics to the design of structures and machines in order to bring rational methods to both the practicing engineer and the student"(DSB). - Eutelwein was the first director of the Berlin Bauakademie, the first German engineering school, later to become part of Technische Hochschule-Berlin. - Poggendorff I:708.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1939. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 208, No 10, 12, 18, 20 a. 21. Pp. (5 Entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 742-744, 744-746, 898-900,1394-96,1573-1575 a. 1643-1645. Disbound. First printing of 5 importent papers containing substantial contributions to the development and understanding of the fission process in the crucial year 1939, the results leading to the creation the atomic bomb and nuclear energy production. Among the papers here are Francis Perrin's landmark paper: "Calcul relatif aux conditions éventuelles de transmutation en chaine de l'uranium." (in 2 parts).Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on December 17, 1938 by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, and explained theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch. The Group at College de France, headed by Joliot and Perrin, worked in the month after January intensively with the uranium processes and succeeded in establishing the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production."The remaining piece of the fission/atomic bomb concept was provided in 1939 by Francis Perrin who introduced the concept of the critical mass of uranium required to produce a self-sustaining release of energy. His theories were extended by Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham University and the resulting calculations were of considerable importance in the development of the atomic bomb. Perrin's group in Paris continued their studies and demonstrated that a chain reaction could be sustained in a uranium-water mixture (the water being used to slow down the neutrons) provided external neutrons were injected into the system. They also demonstrated the idea of introducing neutron-absorbing material to limit the multiplication of neutrons and thus control the nuclear reaction (which is the basis for the operation of a nuclear power station)."

Paris, Corréard (Imprimerie de De Lacombe), 1834-54. Bound in 28 contemporary hcalf, gilt backs, title-and tomelabels in leather. Bindings with light wear to backs, some tears to spine ends. All volumes with a taped paperlabel on lower part of back. Many folded maps and plates.

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.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 35. X,630,(8) pp. a. 5 folded lithographed plates. (Entire volume offered). Faraday's papers: pp. 1-45 a. 222-226, 1 plate (8. Reihe) - pp. 413-444 (9. Reihe). Stamp to verso of titlepage and verso of plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen - of two groundbreakings papers in chemistry and physiscs.In the FIRST PAPER (8. Reihe) Faraday brings forth the idea "that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." He showed how natural it is to suppose that the electricity which passes through the electrolyte is exact equivaklent of that which is possessed by the atoms separated at the electrode: which implies that there is A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE QUANTITY OF THE ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATED WITH EACH ATOM OF MATTER.- Faraday further verifies, that the electricity of the violtaic pile is proportionate in its intensity to the intensity of the affinities concerned in its production. - Dealing with the the decompositions in electrolysis, he shows that THE FORCES TERMED CHEMICAL AFFINITY AND ELECTRICITY ARE THE SAME.In the SECOND PAPER (9. Reihe), Faraday (independent of Henry's discovery of the same phenomena in 1832) discovers SELF-INDUCTION or the "extra current" and points out the importent influence it must have in the construction of electro-magnetic machines (electro-motors)."Faraday showed that the powerful momentary current, which was observed when the circuit was interrupted, was really an induced current governed by the same laws as all other induced currents, but with this peculiarity, that the induced and inducing current now flowed in the same circuit. In fact, the current in its steady state establishes in the surrounding region a magnetic field, whose lines of force are linked with the circuit; and teh removal of these lines of forcewhen the circuit is broken originates an induced current, which reatly reinforces the primary current just before its final extinction."(Whittaker in "A History of the Aether and Electricity")"In the series of experiments which are detailed in this paper, the author inquires into the causes of some remarkable phenomena relating to the action of an electrical current upon itself, under certain circumstances, wherby its intensity is highly exalted, and occasionally increased to ten, twenty, or even fifty times that which it originally possessed."(Abstract).

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1842-54. 8vo. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines and with gilt lettering. A small paperlabel pasted on lower parts of spines. Stamp on verso of title-pages. Around 6.500 pp., 6 folded engraved plates and 9 folded tables. Richly textillustrated with woodcuts. Scattered brownspots, most in volume 1. First edition. The work appeared in parts, beginning 1837 and it comprises 9 volumes plus Supplements.

New York, The Science Press, 1922. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Science", New Series, Volume LVI [56], July - December, 1922 Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper, Soiling to extremities and back board loose, internally fine and clean. Pp. 650-51. [Entire volume: VIII, 760 pp.]. First appearance of Evans and Bishop seminal paper in which they discovered Vitamin E. In 1922 along with Katharine Scott Bishop, during feeding experiments on rats, Evans discovered that rats did not reproduce when fed a semi-synthetic purified diet in which lard was the sole source of fat. They observed that a 'substance X' in lipid extracts of various grains would correct the fertility defect. It was first isolated in a pure form by Gladys Anderson Emerson in 1935 at the University of California, Berkeley.Garrison & Morton 1055

Amsterdam, Someren, 1670. 4to In contemporary full vellum. Stains and miscolouring to boards. Annotation to front free end-paper and previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. Stains and miscolouring to extremities. Internally with occassional underlignings. First 50 ff. with marginal dampstain. (8), 979, (22) pp. Dutch translation of Puritan Jeremiah Dyke’s theological writings. Translated and improved by Joannes Ubelman.

Paris, Jombert, 1741. 4to. Contemnp. full mottled calf. raised bands. gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XVI,385,(19) pp., 39 folded engraved plates, 4 folded tables. Clean and fine.

4to. Orig. wrappers, uncut. No 22 of 30 (numb. 21 à 50) "sur Hollande teinte van Gelder", a total of 670 copies.

(Heidelbergæ), Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1593. 4to. Samtidigt hepergamentsbd. Rester af grønne bindebånd. På forpermen Thore Virgins superexlibris i guld. Rygtitlen i kalligrafi. (16),269 pp. + 35 pp. + 23 pp. Trykkermærke i træsnit på alle tre titler. På forsatsen "Thore Virgin 7.6.1951" og et kobberstukket våbenskjold tilhørende den svenske rigsråd Melker Falkenberg (1722-95). På fribladet stempel "Bibliotheca Qvanforsiana". På indersiden af bagpermen trykt etiket: "Ex Bibliotheca Rolf Wistrand No. 2069". Indvendig ren og frisk. Alle 3 i originaludgave. Antageligt er disse 2 tilføjede skrifter udkommet sammen med hovedværket om Lacædæmonernes forfatning. De bærer alle 3 trykåret 1593. "In 1592 he became proifessor of Greek at the University of Copenhagen. In order to demonstrate his qualifications for the chair, he published this book dealing with the constitution of Sparta" (Thesaurus I, 166). - Ehr-M. IV:481-82. - Lauritz Nielsen, 1024 og 933.

Frankfurt am Main. Johann Gottlieb Garbe, 1770-75. 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. full vellum. handwritten titles on spines. Clean and fine. First edition of this hugely influential exposition and commentary to the laws of the "Pentateuch" and Moses.

Lund, Berlingska, 1822. Nydeligt senere hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. XV,266;(2),231 pp. samt 3 foldede kobberstukne og håndkolorerede fugleplancher. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Enkelte bladkanter forstærkede. Nogle blade blandt romertalspagineringen ombyttede. Originaludgaven.

Frankfurt a. Main, August 9 and August 20, 1829. 1. Plan: 63 x 81 cm. - 2. Details with 8 large illustrations, profiles, elevations etc.: 63,5 x 96,5 cm. With 2 smaller closed tears (no loss). Surveyed and signed by C. Krag, a Danish military officer. Pen and ink with watercolour.