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Chicago, 1906-14. 4to. Bound in 3 hcloth and 9 hcalf. Very richly illustrated.

Aarhus, Autoris Tryckerij, 1636. 4to. Samt.helbind i svineskind med rammedekoartioner på permer. Ryggen med ægte bind. Ryg forstærket øverst og nederst. 2 messingbeslag og rester af lukkestroppe. (28),9l8 pp. De l5 første blade brunede og mørnede, særligt de første 4 er sprøde med tab i bladkanter og de 2 sidste blade med kanter flossede, det sidste opklæbet. Hver side med træskåren røskenramme. Bibl.Dan.I,96o - Thesaurus 64l. Eksemplaret her er uden det træskårne våben på side 3, hvilket muligvis indikerer, at det er værkets førstetryk

Frankfurt am Main, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (u. andere), 1966- 97. Bound in 22 orig. full cloth., textillustrations and maps.

La Haye, Freres L'Honoré, 1701. Contemp. full blindtooled calf (Cambridge-binding-style). Raised bands. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. (4),423 pp. Text in Dutch and French. Clean and fine.

Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Kruse paa Henrich Waldkirchs Arffvingers Bekostning, 1634. 4to. In a contemporary full vellum binding. With wear to extremities, binding soiled and miscoloured, with loss of vellum to upper part of boards and spine showing the wooden boards underneath. First three leaves chipped in margins, with loss of the engraved frame, text intact. Last 10 ff. with loss of paper in upper outer corner, with loss of text. Title-page printed in red and black within a typographical border, four sub-titles with woodcut borders.(14), 320, (72) ff. With 120 half-page woodcut illustrations included in the text. A worn but complete copy of Heldvad's most extensive work comprising 4 parts, richly illustrated with scenes from biblical history. This collection of sacred stories includes the Life of Jesus according to the Gospels, the history of the apostles, the church history of Denmark, and accounts of martyrs. Biblioteca Danica I,28. Thesaurus II,479. Birkelund 42.

Paris, Léon Vanier, 1891. Uncut in orig. wrappers. Mint condition. First edition.

Hafniæ, P. Morsing, 1660 og uden år og sted (1659). 4to. Et samt. helpergamentsbd. (18),326,Errata,(6),(8),174,(8),120,(2) pp. Rent eksemplar, skrivepapir, brede marginer. Tidligere i Jonas Skougaards bibliotek. Alle 3 tryk i originaludgaver. Selv om forfatteren i disse værker leverer et mægtigt forsvar for danske rettigheder under svenskekrigene, som han iøvrigt selv deltog i, både i Odense og ved Københavns belejring, endte hans løbebane tragisk, idet han efter afskedigelse og fallit, søgte tilflugt som svensk undersåt, og siden bad om at måtte komme tilbage til Danmark.- Bibl. Danica III,148 og 166.

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1910-11. Lex8vo. 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs a little rubbed and a few scratches. Internally fine and clean. VI,552,(1),VIII,1037 pp. and with 423 + 658 fine textillustrations. First German edition. This outstanding work was simoustaneously published in English and German. With the English title: "Manual of human embryology", with contributions by many experts. Both Mall and Keibel contributed with many chapters. Garrison & Morton 526 (English edition).

Berlin, Dümmler, 1823-24. Bound in 4 ontemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pated on lower part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XII,191,(1);XII,494,(1),XII,418,(1);VI,419-1045,(1) pp., 27 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 4073.

Te Breda, 1843. Folio. Cont.hcalf. Back worn. Plates fine. Containing 63 fine lithogr. plates. Descriptions of the illustr.in small folio, 9 pp.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1752". Pp. 266-307 a. pp. 461-495. Both papers clean and fine. First printing of these importent papers in the physiology of digestion as reaumur here for the first time isolated the gastric juice and demonstrated its solvent effects upon foods. To the experiments he used a pet kite by putting a sponge into the stomach attached to a string that he could withdraw. These results were ably confirmed and extended by the work of Lazaro Spallanzani.Garrison & Morton No 979.

Witebergae (Wittenberg), Martin Henckel, 1608-09. 4to. No wrappers. Bound together. All 16 with own titlepage with broad woodcut borders. All unpaginated. Each from 8-20 pp. Some notes and underlining in contemporary hands, old names on the first titlepage. Some yellowing to leaves, but clean.

Folio. (33 x 20,5 cm.). Folded in the middle. The 2 first leafs browned in the folding, otherwise fine. First edition of the English Version of the worlds most famous indictment, in the form of which it was used during the whole trial.

Kjøbenhavn, Groth et al., 1747, 1743, 1769, 1752. Alle 5 værker indbundet i et samtidigt hellæderbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Kapitæler lidt slidte. Ryg lidt slidt. (8),204 pp. + 24,26,(2) pp. + 36 pp. + (12),342,(44) pp. Enkelte understregninger. Indvendig ren. Alle i originaltrykkene.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1902). No wrappers, as extracted from "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.", Vol. LXX. Pp. 341-344 a. pp. 344-347. First printing of these two importent papers on wireless telegraphy, describing the inventions which made it possible to make the first wireless transmissions across the Atlantic in 1901. Maconi's apparatus was built on a magnetic detector invented by Rutherford, and was called Marconi's "Maggie". A powerfull transmitter was built at Poldu, Cornwall, England, and a large receiving antenna placed at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Marconi succeeded to receive (on Dec. 12) three code dots, signifying the letter "S". "Already well known, Marconi, et twenty-seven, became world famous overnight."(DSB).Marconi and K.F. Brown were jointly awarded the Nobel Price in 1909 "in recognition of their services in the development of wireless telegraphy."

London, J. Dodsley, 1789. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Double-line borders on covers. Neathly rebacked to style. Spine richly gilt and with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Light wear along edges. Inner gilt borders. Engraved portrait of Gray (by Müller). Engraved title-vignette. (4),(1-)35,(2) leaves a. pp. 39-55., 6 large engraved initials, 6 engraved plates (Müller) and 13 large engraved head-and tailpieces. Very light offsetting from plates. A few insignificant marginal brownspots. Printed on heavy paper.

Rome, Pauli Monetæ, 1677. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Light wear to extremities and hindges a bit weak.Small stamp to title-page and previous owner's names to upper part of title-page. Vague waterstain to lower outer corner of last leaves. A good copy. (14), 235, (5), 63, (3) pp. + three plates and frontiespiece. First edition of Bartholin's rare work on ancient flutes and horns.

Ravenna, Antonio Rovere, 1783. 8vo. Cont. hcalf, gilt and titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Marbled papers on covers. Corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Engraved titlevignette (view of Ravenna), 1 engraved plate with coat of arms. XX,252 pp., 1 folded engraved plate and 1 large folded engraved plan of Ravenna (Pianta della Citta di Ravenna, Sulinus Contarini sculp. 1781). A large copy with broad margins. Faint dampstaing to a few margins, a few brownspots. Scarce first edition.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1740). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1737". Pp. 389-469, 1 engraved map (from Torneå to Kittis) and 5 folded engraved plates. First printing of the official report from the French Academy of the geodetic expedition to Lapland in order to settle the conflict between Earth-elangators and Earth-flatteners, between the French and the British. "Newton had calculated from the Earth's rotational force at the Equator that its equatoeial diameter should exceed its polar diameter by 0.44 per cent, or 27 km (17 miles); similar in Jupiter, rotating more than twice as fast, the disparity of the diameters was shown to be even greater... In France, however, tha Cassinis from geodetic measurements stretching along the meridian at Paris from the Channel to the Pyrennees came to exactly the opposite conclusion - that the polar diameter of the Earth was the greater. After Maupertuis had examined this imcompatibility in 1733, the Academy of Sciences decided that it should be settled by measure of a degree of latitude taken in two widely separated parts of the globe. Maupertuis, with Clairaut, took a party to the Golf ofBothnia. La Condamine, with Bouguer, took another to Peru. maupertuis departed in May 1736 and was absent for a year, only in December (1737) was he able to announce the result that, in accordance with Newton's dynamical theory, the degreee in the far north was loner than that in Paris. More years elepsed before the degreee in Peru was found to be shorter. As Voltaire put in a wrily witty (but un-Baconian) couplet addresseed to Maupertuis:"In tedious deserts you were forced to roam. To find the truth that Newton knew at home." (Rupert Hall "Revolution in Science 1500-1750, pp.351-52).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1736-37 E.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1908. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 65., 1908. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 107-128; Pp. 261-181. [Entire volume: Pp. IV, 575, (1).] First publication of these landmark paper's which "has proved of tremendous importance for the development of mathematics", (DSB) as they constitute the first formulation of the axiomatization of "Set-theory".In the first paper offered here (1907/1908) he gave a new proof of the well-ordering theorem (the first in his paper from 1904) as a reply to the attacks on his 1904-paper and he shows then that a limited number of specific principles, including a version of choice, is sufficient to deduce the well-ordering theorem. The two papers here offered, are closely connected, and in the second paper he formulated the FIRST AXIOMATIZATION OF SET-THEORY, avoiding the known antinomies, and thus was to become the basis of moder set.theory.The axioms here set up for Cantor's theory of sets, in all 7 axioms, was to "save the theory from paradoxes. regarding this theory (Russel's theory of types), still as the most fundamental part of mathematics, he suggests that it should be rebuild by the laying down of principles which are sufficient to support the generally accepted doctrine but so chosen that they do not give rise to contradictions. He admits that he cannot prove the consistency of his axioms, but he claims that he has at least excluded antinomies discovered in recent years. The essential feature of his method is that he no longer talks of sets with the freedom of Cantor, but admits in his theory only those sets whose existence is guranteed by his axioms." (W. a. M. Kneale in "The Development of Logic)."The historian Gregory Moore has argued that it was not the discovery of the paradoxes, nor Russell's proposals (in his 1906) of three ways to avoid them, that impelled Zermelo to axiomatize set theory, but rather his determination to secure the acceptance of his well-ordering theorem. In support of that contention he points out that Zermelo had independently discovered "Russell's" paradox himself but had not found it troubling enough to publish, and he remarks that in his paper (i.e. the first paper offered) Zermelo employed the paradoxes "merely as a club with which to bludgeon (his) critics" (Moore 1982, pp. 158-159).

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1893. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1893 durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann. 42. Band. 3. Heft." Entire issue offered. [Hilbert:] Pp. 314-73. [Entire issue: Pp. 314-604]. First printing of Hilbert's fundamental landmark paper in which he "INTRODUCED STUNNING NEW IDEAS WHICH HAVE DEEPLY INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ALGEBRA AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY." (Buchberger. Gröbner bases and applications. P. 63). The ideas presented in the present paper was introduced in his 1890-paper, but here he "called attention to the fact that his earlier results failed to give any idea of how a finite basis for a system of invariants could actually be construted. [...] To show how these drawbacks could be overcome, Hilbert thus adopted an even more general standpoint [...]. He described the guiding idea of this culminating paper of 1893 as invariants could actually be constructed". (Hendricks. Proof theory: history and philosophical significance. P. 59) Hilbert's first work on invariant functions led him to the demonstration in 1888 of his famous finiteness theorem. Twenty years earlier, Paul Gordan had demonstrated the theorem of the finiteness of generators for binary forms using a complex computational approach. Attempts to generalize his method to functions with more than two variables failed because of the exceedingly complicated calculations involved. Hilbert realized that it was necessary to take a completely different path. Hilbert sent his results to the Mathematische Annalen. Gordan, the expert on the theory of invariants for the Mathematische Annalen, did not appreciate the revolutionary nature of Hilbert's theorem and rejected the article. His - now famous - comment was: Das ist nicht Mathematik. Das ist Theologie. (i.e. This is not Mathematics. This is Theology).Klein, on the other hand, recognized the importance of the work immediately, and guaranteed that it would be published without the slightest alterations. Encouraged by Klein and by the comments of Gordan, Hilbert extended his method in a second article, providing estimations on the maximum degree of the minimum set of generators, and he sent it once more to the Annalen. After having read the manuscript, Klein wrote to him, saying: "WITHOUT DOUBT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON GENERAL ALGEBRA that the Annalen has ever published."Later, after the usefulness of Hilbert's method was universally recognized, Gordan himself said: "I have convinced myself that even theology has its merits".(Klein. Development of mathematics in the 19th century. P. 311).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1925. Small8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Portrait. (4),56,(2) pp. + Publisher's Cat. (6 pp.). 2 leaves with an insignificant small loss of upper right corner. A fine copy. First French edition of the initials papers on Special Relativity. It is a translation of the 2 Einstein-papers which appeared in 1905, "Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" and "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig ?". Published in the series "Les Maitres de la Pensee scientifique". - Weil: 9 c - Schielpp-Schields: 189. - Boni-Laurence: 9 B and 10 B.

København, Schultz, 1962-78. Lille 4to. 8 orig. helfableabd.

Berlin, Schneider & Co., 1874-78. 8vo. a. folio. Atlas in hcloth with marbled boards. Textvols. in 3 contemp. hcalf (part 3 not uniform). Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepages. X,834 pp. + Beilagen 204 pp., 3 tinted lithographed views. With in all 21 large folded lithographed maps/plans. (The Atlas with double-page title-page, dated 1877 having 15 maps/plans).

Copenhagen: Peter Habold, 1654. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name to engraved title-page, otherwise a fine copy. Printed on good paper. (16), 360,(8) pp. + 9 engraved plates of which 2 are folded. First edition of Bartholin's important work containing 200 case studies on "lusus naturae", the anomalies of nature, people with birth defects.The present volume 1 was published seperately - volume 2 and 3 being published years later - and is by far the most important of the 3 volumes published.