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(London, 1728). 49x29,5 cm. Kobberstukket søkort visende den Finske Bugt og indsat et stort kort over Sundet (Chart of the Sound) med vestkysten af Sverige og Sjællands Østkyst med Sundets øer. Sjældent søkort. Blev udgivet i Knapton's "Atlas Maritimus". The maps are "probably the work of John Harris, John Senex and Henry Wilson" (Phillips No 3298).

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. A small offsetting to upper left corner of frontwrapper. A small tear to endwrapper repaired. In "Mathematische Annalen. Gegenwärtig hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walter Dyck, Adolph Mayer, 36. Band, 2. Heft." Pp. (153-)320. The whole issue (Heft 2) with orig.wrappers. Peano's paper: pp. 182-288. First edition and the first appearance of this fundamental paper in which Peano gives the proof of the so-called "Peano-Existence-Theorem" and at the same time contains the first explicit statement of "The axiom of choice".The Peano-Existence-Theorem, or "Cauchy-Peano-Theorem" guarantees the existence of solutions to certain initial value problems. He first published the theorem in 1886 in "Sull'integrabilita della equazioni differenziali del primo ordine" in Atti Accad. Sci. Torino, 21, with an incorrect proof. The new correct proof appeared in this paper, as offered."Peano's work in analysis began in 1883 with an article on the integrability of functions. The article of 1890 (the paper offered) contains notions of integrals and areas. Peano wasthe first to show that the first-order differential equation y' = f(x,y) is solvable on the sole assumption that f is continuous. His first proof dates from 1886, but its rigor leaves something to be desired. In 1890 this result was generalized to systems of differential equations using a different method of proof. This work is also notable for containing the first explicit statement of the axiom of choice. Peano rejected the axiom of choice as being outside the ordinary logic used in mathematical proofs." (Hubert T Kennedy in DSB).

Norimbergae, Sumptibus Johannis Ziegeri, 1694. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Extremities with wear, hindges cracked. Upper part of spine lacking some of the leather. Lower outer corner of title-page missing, affecting a few letters. Small worm-tract affecting first 35 pp, not affecting text. Otherwise internally fine. 464 pp. Scarce first edition. Not in Wellcome.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates (1 heliogravure (instrument), 4 folded recordings). First edition of Gaskell's classic in neuroscience on the musculature and innervation of the heart."In the Croonian lecture for 1881, dealing with the frog heart, Gaskell presented an important new method for studying heart action (later named the "suspension method") and insisted that cardiac inhibition depended less on nerve or ganglionic mechanisms than on the inherent properties of the cardiac musculature. The role of the vagus nerve in inhibition was reduced to that of being the “trophic” (anabolic) nerve of the cardiac muscle. Yet in the same lecture Gaskell produced impressive evidence against Foster’s myogenic theory of rhythmicity and advocated instead the neurogenic view that discontinuous ganglionic discharges are responsible for the rhythmicity of the normal heartbeat. The background to this defection was exceedingly complex, but it derived from an initial assumption (which Foster himself accepted) that ganglionic impulses - whatever their role in rhythmicity - are somehow involved in coordinating the normal sequence of the vertebrate heartbeat."(DSB).Garrison & Morton, 829.

Regensburg, Joseph Manz, 1856-81. Bound later in 4 solid hcloth with marbled covers. Gilt lettering to spines. 2 title-pages with some brownspotting. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. John of Ávila 1499 - 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. He is called the "Apostle of Andalusia", for his extensive ministry in that region.

Uden sted, u. år og trykker, (1685). 4to. Nydeligt papbd. i imiteret pergament med guldtrykt titel og dekoration på forpermen. (8) pp. Enkelte, sirlige, gamle tilskrifter. Lette brugsspor, men i fin stand. Originaltrykket. Af største sjældenhed.Bibl. Danica II: 680.

Copenhagen & Leipzig, Wittwe, 1738 - 1745. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three very nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges coloured in red. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines, otherwise a very nice set. (10), 452, (4), 562 pp. + 2 frontispieces and 2 engraved plates; (4), 300, (12), 692 pp.; (8), 528, (8), 744 pp. + frontispiece. Biblioteca Danica III, 5

Berlin und Libau, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1789-92. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. 4 engraved frontispieces. XL,384,(2);XXVIII,(2),286,(2);(4),416,(2);(2),VIII,(2),308,IV,(2) pp. Many textillustrations, diagrams and woodcuts. Faint scattered brownspots. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 335 but here listed as separate volumes and not listing the last, published 1792.

Paris, Barrois L'Ainé, 1811-12. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Tilelabels with gilt lettering. Stamps on titlepages. VII,806 pp., 71 engraved folio-plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition. - Klaus Jordan No 2718. - Sloos, Warfare and the Age of Printing, 8196.

Amsterdam, de Coup, 1722 - 1723 (+) Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1714. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with scratches and leather on spine cracked. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front-end paper. Internally very fine and clean. LXI, (3), 597, XLVII, 407 pp. + 2 frontispieces. Later French translation of Pufendorf's second main work, his seminal "On the Duty of Man and Citizen ", which became extremely influential during the Enlightenment of the 18th century and had a great impact on legal, moral, constitutional, and political thinking, not only in Europe, but also in America. It was perhaps more influential than the work which is usually considered Pufendorf's main work, namely his "De jure naturae et gentium" from 1672, which is longer and more elaborate, though, or perhaps exactly therefore, the present work must be said to be the one that came to exercise the greatest impact and came to spread Pufendorf's thought, not least his concept of "natural law" and his analysis of just war theory (which he gives in the present work), throughout Europe and America. It is the present work "that guaranteed him a place in university curricula for a century." (SEP).

Kjøbenhavn, 1856. Tvær-folio. Samt.hldrbd. Ryg slidt. Med 45 litograferede plancher, delvis i farvelitografi. Enkelte med lidt brunpletter. - De 45 plancher omfatter værkets afdelinger med København og Sjælland og Fyn (øerne) samt Jylland, som dog magler planche 43 (Vejle).

Altenburg, Richterschen Buchhandlung, 1794-96. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines.Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved portrait (Langsdorf in Fortsetzung). CX,(2),655;XX,656-816 pp. A large dampstain mainly to last half of the first volume and its plates causing some foxing in upper right corners of plates. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 1372.

Lugduni-Batavorum, Joannis Le Carpentier, 1692. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Wear to extremities, leather on spine cracked. Old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. With a seven-line dedication to front free end-paper in contemporary hand (Given to a Johannis Castrup). Internally with light occassional marginal browning, but otherwise internally nice and clean. (46), 979, (125) pp. Wanting the engraved half-title. Later edition of Sylvius’ most important works in which he explained that digestion is a result of the chemical reactions of acids and bases coming from pancreatic, stomach, and saliva secretions Franciscus Sylvius (1614 – 1672) was a Dutch physician, chemist, physiologist and anatomist) who was an early champion of Descartes', Van Helmont's and William Harvey's work and theories. He was one of the earliest defenders of the theory of circulation of the blood in the Netherlands “In 1658, after extended negotiations, Sylvius was persuaded to accept appointment as professor of medicine at Leiden at the high salary of 1,800 guilders–almost twice the usual amount. On 17 September 1658 he delivered his inaugural oration, on the knowledge of man, De hominis cognitione. Although as a rule bedside teaching was limited to two days a week, Sylvius received permission to take his students daily to the hospital, where he performed the autopsies himself. His own ideas on several medical subjects were defended by his students in public disputations, and in 1669–1670 he was vicechancellor of the university. The first volume of his main work, Praxeos medicae ida nova, was published the following year, but he did not live to see the second volume in print.” (DSB) Garrison & Morton 2197

Berlin, Carl Friedrich Amelang, 1823. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. With general title-page and 3 part-titles. XII,1143,(5) pp. and 2 large folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. First edition. Hermbstädt, professor in the Collegium Medico-Chirurgico and at the University in Berlin, was the first in Germany to adopt the views of Lavoisier, whose Traite he translated in 1792. He was also a translator of the works of Scheele, and he furthered the interest of chemical industry by his researches and textbooks.Poggendorff I, 1082.

København, Gyldendal, 1933-51. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 9 solide hldrbd. i ufarvet niger. Ophøjede bind på rygge. Rygtitler i blindtryk.

Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen, Reitzel, 1836. 8vo. Both volumes together in the original blue paper-wrappers, clearly interim-wrappers that were meant to be replaced/bound and thus extremely scarce. The wrappers are very thin and the spine has thus split down the middle, as there are creases and tears to extremities and spine in general. Internally, the copy is splendid, completely uncut and unopened and with only light occasional brownspitting. A magnificent copy in completely original condition. First edition of the the first full translation into Danish of “The Odyssey”, being Wilster’s magnificent translation, which is an epic classic on Danish hexameters that is still read today, in spite of the appearance of later translations. The translation was extremely popular when it appeared and has maintained its role as the standard translation of Homer's Odyssey to this day. The first edition is uncommon and very rare in completely original condition as here.

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, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1785. Original blue boards with handwritten title to spine. A small tear to lower part of spine, no loss. Spine a bit discoloured. (16),344,(10) pp., 1 folded table and 4 large folded engraved plates showing many types of experimental electrical apparatus. Internally clean and fine. This is Cavallo's main work (transl. from "Complete treatise of Electricity in theory and practice with original experiments. London, 1777), and its descriptions of a huge number of electrical phenomena and experiments, are for most parts, original works on electricity."...Tiberius Cavallo was a neopolitan settled in London where Volta met him in the spring of 1782. Cavallo had come to the metropolis in 1771 to study commerce, and remained to become the leading English electrician of the 1780s and a profilic writer of authoritative textbooks on natural philosophy, particularly electricity." (Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th & 18th Venturies)."Cavallo's first studies (1775-1776) concerned atmospheric electricity, which he explored with Franklin kites and with improved detectors of his qwn invention, fashioned after Canton's pith-ball electroscope. Althoug little came of his investigations...they required a course of self-instruction that culminated in Cavallo's most importent work, A complete treatise...(1777). (Heilbron in DSB). - Not in Wheeler Gift cat.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 130, No 15 a. No 18. Pp. (962-) 1044 a. pp. (1145-) 1220. Entire issues offered. Villard's papers: pp. 1010-1012 a. 1178-1182, textillustrations. Clean and fine. First apperance of Villard's two papers in which he announced and described the discovery of a new type of radiation more powerfull and penetrating than alpha-and beta rays. The new type of rays was named by Rutherford as gammarays.

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1766. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. IV,207,(23) pp. Without the map. Clean, faint marginal brownspots. The contemt of this volume (which is volume II of Gerhard F. Müller's. "Voyages et Découvertes faites par les Russes le long des Côtes de la Mer glaciale & sur l'Océan oriental...) is wholly devoted to the description of the Amur River and its borderlines as extracted and translated from Nicolaus Witsen's work "Sur la Tartarie Septentrionale & Orientale" (Noord en Oost Tartarye, Ofte Bondig Ontwerp Van eenig dier Landen en Volken..., Amsterdam 1692)."In the nineteenth century, Russian historians and ethnographers discovered that Witsen had used many Russian sources that had since been lost, and they praised Noord en Oost Tartarye ‘as the most remarkable book about Asiatic Russia ever written by a foreigner.’ During the Soviet period, Witsen was seen as scholar who had ‘opened up a new era in the study of Siberia.’ Nowadays, he is respectfully mentioned on many local Russian websites as the first to have reported on their town, province, nationality or language."(huygens.knaw.n.).

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1910. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, a fs scratches to spine. VIII,1584 pp. and 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 1096: pp. 1105-1115; pp. 1275-1298. Fine and clean. The whole volume offered. All three papers first edition. The purpose of "A theorem in probability and its application in the Theory of radiation" is to demonstrate that the failure of statistical mechanics with respect to the radiation law (Rayleigh - Jeans law, contradicted by experience) cannot be removed by the conjecture that perhaps the individual statistical events should not follow the usual law of independence (product of probabilities) instead of assuming a certain interdependence between them. (Lanczos). The second paper "Statistical investigation on of the motion of an oscillator in a radiation field", makes use of the results of the previous investigation. Einstein's aim is to demonstrate that the Rayleigh-jeans law of radiation (contracdicted by the physical facts) is an unavoidable consequence of statistics, even if we avoid any kind of assumption which may be suspected of needing correction. (Lanczos). The third paper "Theory of the opalescence of homogenous fluids and fluid mixtures near the critical state" is an importent investigation and one of the most difficult of all his papers to understand. The aim of the paper is to complement the work of Smoluchovski (Ann. d. Physik,25, 1908) who gave a general explanation of the strong density fluctuations - and the opalescence thus generated - of two fluids near the critical state of mixture (or a single fluid near the critical state of condensation) on the basis of the kinetic theory of heat. he did notgive, however,the quantitative details concerning the scattered light associated with this phenomenon. (Lanczos). - Weil Nos 34, 35 and 36 (with an asterix denoting major work).

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.

(No place nor printer), 1712. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, corners bumped and small tear to head of spine. Internally very nice and clean. (32), 716, 32 pp. + folded double-page title-page. Rare first edition of Leiningen’s main work being an interpretation of the Apocalypse of John. The last book of the Bible had been removed from the preaching canon by Luther due to its interpretive difficulties, however, in pietistic circles, it became a central text precisely because of its speculative nature. Amalia von Leiningen (1684-1756) was convinced that she was living in the end times and awaited the Second Coming of the Lord, as prophesied in the Gospels and the Apocalypse.OCLC list no copies in the US.

(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).