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Kiøbenhavn, Lillie, 1756. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Ryggen dog noget slidt. Kobbersyukket titelvignet.(24),134,(1) pp., 1 foldetabel og 2 kobberstukne tavler. Tabellen med en rift, uden tab. Lettere brugsspor. Originaludgaven af den første egentlige undersøgelse af drikkeforsyningen i København, men også første danske beskrivelse af vandets småkrebs, daphnier og cyclops, som afbildes i bogen. Lange trøster sine læsere med, at disse kan frasies med en pose hvidt hattefilt, hvis de da ikke foretrækker at synke dem eller at nyde suppen af dem når vandet er kogt.

Dresden und Leipzig, Johann Samuel Gerlach, 1795. Cont.hcalf. Gilt spine Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on foot of titlepage. Engraved frontisp. (38),408 pp., 5 folded tables and 32 folded engraved plates. A few brownspots but internally fine. The fifth edition of "Das eigentliche Standardwerk der Epoche" (Jähns 2734). - Jordan: 3778.

Bln., 1833. 4 text-vols. in 8vo and Platevol. in folio-oblong. 5 cont.hcalf with gilt backs. With 57 engr.plates,most of the plts.with handcoloured routes and positions.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 46, No 24. Pp. (1121-) 1173 (entire issue offered). Couper's paper: pp. 1157-1160. A faint dampstain to right margins. First appearance of this milestone announcement in organic chemistry - a longer memoir was published in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" later in the same year, 1858 - in which, independently of Kekulé, Couper introduces the CONCEPT OF BONDS (represented as a dash or a dotted line) in chemistry and also observes the very importent fact, that carbon atoms forms the backbone of organic compounds."It was not till 1858 that a satisfactory theory of molecular constitution was advanced, simultaneously and endependently, by thwo young chemists, Friedrich August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper. The theory of molecular constitution put foreward....by Couper and Kekulé rested on two main postulates, the quadriivalency of carbon,....and the capacity of the carbon atom for mutual linking or combining together to form a carbon "chain". By this hypothesis of the mutual linking together of carbon atoms - which waslater confirmed by experiment - it was possible to explain the formation of organic compounds containing a large number of carbon atoms. On the foundation of their postulates two postulates, moreover, (they) showed how the molecular constitution or mutual linking together of the atoms of a compound could be represented diagrammatically and the relstions between different compounds made readily intelligible. In his classic paper "On a New Chemical Theory" (the paper offered here in its first appearance) advanced beyond Kekulé by representing the constitutions of the compounds by means of GRAPHIC FORMULA in which, as at the present day, the valencies pf the atoms are represented by lines....his formulae are similar to those at present in use..."(Findlay pp. 34 ff)"The theory of Kekulé and Couper gave the chemists the maeans of solving the problems of chemical constitution; and by means of the graphic or constitutional formulae it became possible to represent the molecular constitution of known compounds and to foresee the possible existence of isomeric compounds."(Findlay).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1858 C.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1877. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 85, No 26 (entire issue offered). With htitle and titlepage to vol. 85. Titlepage with a stamp on verso, seen on front. Pp. 1185-1248. Cailletet's paper: pp. 1213-1214. Pictet's paper: pp. 1214-1217. With an illustration of the apparatus in the text. First printing of these two milestone papers in Low-temperature Chemistry. This process of liquefaction of oxygene was achieved independently, in the same year, by Cailletet and Pictet, using different methods. Cailletet used the Joule-Thomson effect; oxygen was cooled while highly compressed, then allowed to rapidly expand, cooling it further, resulting in the production of small droplets of liquid oxygen. Pictet's method was more elaborate, using compounds pumps. (This compound is shown on the illustration in the text).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1877 C. - Magee "Source Books in Physics" p. 192-93 (Cailletet) and pp. 194-96 (Pictet).

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.

Altona, Burmester, 1749-53. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spines. Engraved title-page (and printed). (18),1724;(8),1396;(6),1480 pp. Clean and fine.

Frankfurt am Main, Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1804-09. Bound in 14 contemporary marbled boards, gilt backs. Some minor scratches at backs and edges. Stamp on title. Some maps, plans and tables.

Leide, d'Elie Luzac, 1750. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, gilt compartments, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Engraved titlevignette. XXVIII,413,(7) pp.., 1 large folded engraved maps and 9 folded engraved plates. Occasionnally some ligh browning and a few scattered brownspots. Second French edition. The first published 1749 in 12mo. - Sabin, 22313.

Bremen, Saurman, 1705. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities. Tear to the leather on lower half of front board making the wooden boards underneath visible. Spineends chipped with minor loss of leather, showing headbands. Heavly annotated with scholarly commentaries in contemporary hand throughout. A few small marginal wormtracts. (68), 1046, (2), 960, (52) pp. The rare first German translation of Taylor’s guide to cases of conscience, intended to serve as the definitive work for English Protestant clergy building on the foundations laid by Sanderson, Hall, and Perkins. With this manual clergy would no longer need to rely on Roman Catholic casuists. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a prominent cleric in the Church of England who gained renown as an author during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. Often referred to as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic eloquence, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.

(Stockholm, F.& G. Beier), 1885. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica", Vol. 7. Pp. 259-288. Clean and fine. First appearance of one of Poincaré's main papers."Another famous paper of Poincar´we in celestial mechanics is the one he wrote in 1885 on the shape of a rotationg fluid mass submitted only to the forces of gravitation. Maclaurin had found as possible shapes some ellipsoids of revolution to which Jacobi had added other types of ellipsoids with unequal axes, and P.G. Tait and W.Thomson some annular shapes. By a penetrating analysis of the problem, Poincaré showed that still other "pyriform" shaoes exosted. One of the features of his interesting argument is that, apparently for the first time, he was confronted with the problem of minimizing a quadratic form in "infinitely" many variables."(DSB).

1842. 31 sider egenhændigt manuskript udført af forfatteren selv i form af en lille bog som gave til en veninde. På titelbladets inderside "Med/ Taknemmelighed og Höiagtelse/ tilegnes/ Mdm Amalie Görtzen/ dette/ "Haandarbeide"/ fra/ en/ Wen/ der hverken kan strikke, sÿe/ eller brodere./ 11te Decbr./ Forfatteren." Gavebindet (14,5 x 9,5 cm.) er i blåt helshirt med forgyldte permer og forgyldt ornamentik. Ryg- og kantforgyldning. Indlagt i en nydelig bogæske med overtræk af marmoreret papir. Den kalligraferede titel og de 2 kalligraferede deltitler er rigt ornamenterede, den ene med en håndkoloreret tegning, alt udført af forfatteren selv. Ungdomsarbejde af Erik Bøgh. Erik Nicolai Bøgh (1822-1899), forfatter, dramatisk forfatter, teaterdirektør (Dagens Nyheder) , feuilletonist, redaktør, visedigter etc.Som forfatter og visedigter havde Bøgh en udviklet evne for "Udspekulerede finter og ordleg, der ganske vist blev tilstrækkeligt beundrede og erindrede i et par menneskealdre, gjorde det ofte ud for den dybere sympati med emnerne. Størst talent havde han ubetinget for visedigtning hvor han byggede videre på den tradition han som lille havde mødt i bedstefaderens hus (P.A. Heiberg, Rahbek, Abrahamson etc). Erik Bøgh var i besiddelse af en folkelig slagfærdighed og et barokt lune der har gjort at adskillige af hans viser har holdt sig til vore dage: En lille bitte Mand, Den Skønne gaar ind i sit attende Aar, Det var en Aften paa Tivoli og Du skønne fortryllendes Kjesten."(DBL).

(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. 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).

Leipzig, Ernst Julius Günther, (1872). Small 4to. Orig. pictorial gilt cloth. Rebacked with orig. spine laid down. (2),148;(4),149;(4),204 pp. and 92 (30,30,32) steel-engraved plates, all in orig. colouring. Internally fine, a few scattered brownspots, a few quires with even browning and a few leaves with a bit of fraying.

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.

Copenhagen, Reitzel,1914. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened. Sewing loose on middle quire. A small part of upper corner on frontwrapper gone. Lower left corner on endwrapper gone.(4),XIX,755 pp. Numerous illustrations on plates and in the text, 1 folded map. Internally fine and clean. First edition of a main work in arctic ethnology with combined ethnographic results from the importent Danish expeditions to East Greenland: The Expedition by Gustav Holm and The G. Amdrup Expedition (The Carlsberg Fund Expedition). - Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 39.

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.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1857, 1858, 1861, 1867. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 45, No. 20, Tome 46, No 9, Tome 53, No 1, Tome 65, No. 12. Pp. (785-832), (431-478), (1-) 40, (481-) 536. (4 entire issues offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's papers: pp. 811-815, 448-452, 33-35, 505-507. First apperance of these 4 papers relating his discovery of INVISIBLE "CHEMICAL" RAYS, and which, 30 years later, by Henry Becquerel was "re-discovered" as radioactivity (1896).The results of these investigations lead to these statement: Some compounds exposed to light exhibit in the dark the same effect as that produced by the direct action of light. - Cardboards impregnated with both uranium nitrate and tartaric acid are "active" - The "activity" remaining on the exposed cardboard is revealed by its action on a photographic plate - The effect is not due to phosphorescence - The activity is attributed to invisible "chemical" rays.It is amazing how closely these experiments resembled those performed by Henri Becquerel 30 years later."When the work of Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor was brought to light, many persons thought that henri had been aware of these publications prior to his research on uranium. Severel facts seems to support this belief. Henri's father, Alexandre Edmond, had reported several details from Abel Niepce in a book entitled "Light: its causes and effects", published 1869. When Henri Carrington Bolton (1843-1903) reviewed in 1869 the work of Abel Niepce, he mentioned a "remarkable property of uranium nitrate to absorb the actinic rays of light, retaining them in an active condition for a long time". In 1866 and 1869, J. Jamin, henri's first stepfather, lectured at the Ecole Polytechnique on the Niepce effects."(Michel Genet "The Discovery of Uranic Rays: A short Step for Henri Becquerel but a Giant Step for Science" in Radiochimica Acta /0/71 1995).

London, 1873. Small folio. Extracted, with traces from the sewn cords, in the original printed wrappers. In "Nature", No. 172, Vol. 7, February 13. Entire issue offered. Issue split in two, otherwise fine and clean. Housed in a portfolio with white paper title-label to front board. Darwin's notice: P. 281 [Entire issue: Pp. (1), lx, 277-296]. First appearance of Darwin's comment on Dr. Huggins' letter containing an account of three generations of dogs which exhibited fright when in the vicinity of a butcher or butcher's shop, an observation which Darwin considered of the utmost importance: "The following letter seems to me so valuable, and the accuracy of the statements vouched for by so high an authority, that I have obtained permission from Dr. Huggins to send it for publication" (From the present publication). Freeman 1757

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. VIII,582 pp., 5 folded maps, views and plans. The large map, 50x47 cm.: "Carte de la Baltique & des Regions de cette Mer. Par H. Rhue...1815." A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von F.J. Bertuch, Dritter Band). Having also the general titlepage with a stamp.

Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait (heliogravure). XII,592 pp. maps, textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle, but the name of receiver cut out. First edition.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-87. 4to. Bound in 10 contemp. half calf bindings, paper labels pasted on spines. Stamp on titles. With numerous woodcuts and lithographic plates, many coloured and folding. This manual of engineering sciences covers the routing of railway lines, bridge building, tunnelling, railway stations and other associated buildings, and railway operations engineering among its many chapters.

Leipzig, Edward Kummer, 1836. Small folio-oblong. (23x37 cm.). Contemp. modest hcloth. Boards rubbed. (4),27 pp. in double-columns with description of the plates. Before the plates an engraved titlepage with the text: "Biblia Sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti representata Centum Imaginibus Aeri incisis in Forma dimidii Plagulae transverssae, una cum Expositione dilucidativa. Augustae Vindelicorum. Prostat apud Antonium Klauber. MDCCCXXXV". With 100 large engraved plates. (Plates sign. C.P.S.C.M. - Klauber Cath. Sc. et exc. A.V.). A bit of browning to edges of text and plates. Otherwise internally fine.

Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith, 1739-49. Bound in 16 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Covers with gilt borders, stamped in blind and panelled in mirror-style (Cambridge-binding). A label pasted to lower compartments. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved vignette on title-pages. 22 large folded engraved maps. Internally clean.

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