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Lausanne, Bousquet, 1755. 8vo. In a nice full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and previous owner's bookplate pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Upper outer corner of front free end-paper cut out. A fine copy. 304 pp. + 3 folded plates. First edition in which Haller described histories and autopsy findings for a variety of diseases and conditions including pulmonary tuberculosis, suffocation, pleurisy, and various diseases of the pevis, uterus, ovaries and kidneys. Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently “new” discoveries of later times had already been discovered by Haller.

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Contemp. full cloth. Light wear to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 18. 448 pp. and 6 folded engraved plates (4 of these belonging to the described papers). Ampère: pp. 88-106 + pp. 313-333 and 4 plates. Faraday: pp. 337-379. Savary: pp. 370-379. The plates depicts experimental arrangements and Ampère's initial Rotation Apparatus. The whole volume present. Fisrt edition and first printings of the demonstrations of Ampere's new Equilibrium technique. When Faraday had completed his importent paper on Electro-magnetic motions (the paper offered here in the first French edition) he send it to Ampere.. Ampere invented the Rotation Apparatus in order to repeat Faraday's experiment on the electro-magnetic rotation. He produced an uninterrupted rotation, either of magnetic pole around a wire or of a wire around a magnetic pole. From these experiments originated a new theory of electricity and magnetism. - The third memoir is the First French edition of Faraday's famous paper "On some New Electro-Magnetical Motions, and on the Theory of Magnetism" (Quaterly Journal of Science, October 1821), in which is recorded for the first time the conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contains the first notion of the "Line of Force". He employed a magnet and a wire with a flowing current, which causd each separately to rotate round the other. He concluded that a current-carrying wire is sorraunded by a circular "line of force". Oersted had spoken of the "electrical conflict" surrounding the wire and had noted that "this conflict performs circles".

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1849-51. Indbundet ubeskåret i 3 originale hshirtbd. med de originale bogtrykte titeletiketter bevarede. Enkelte false med lid slid. XII,495,(1);465,(3);513,LXXVII,(1) pp., 19 tonede litograferede plancher (alle med beskyttelsesblad), 1 faksimile og 5 litograferede foldekort. Svage spredte brunpletter. Originaltrykket - og i original tilstand - af beretningen om den første Galathea-ekspedition.

Edinburgh & Oxford, 1952, 1956 + 1963. All three articles are present in the entire orig. volumes, all in the orig. wrappers. The two volumes of "Mind" are in the orig. printed grey wrappers and the "Philosophical Essays" is in the orig. green full cloth w. the orig. d-j. in very good condition w. only a few smaller tears to upper capital and upper front wrapper, not price-clipped. Internally mint. Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285 w. a tear to back, else very fine. Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259 w. some signs of wear, especially to extremities, but a fine and internally very clean copy. This set comprises the entire "Logische Untersuchungen" in the first English language translations. In the foreword to "Compound Thoughts", the translator notes: "This article, entitled "Logische Untersuchungen. Dritter Teil: Gedankenfüge", was published in the "Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, III (1923), 36-51. The first two parts of these "logical investigations" were "Der Gedanke" (Beiträge I (1819), trans. "The Thought" in MIND LXV (1956) ) and "Die Verneinung" (Beiträge I (1919), trans. "Negation" in Geach and Black (ed.) "Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege."). The three articles that constitute the Logical Investigations are some of the most important, influential and widely discussed of Frege's philosophical papers. In 1875 the entire "Logical Investigations" appeared together in English translation for the first time. It was Frege's wish that these three articles were viewed as a whole and published together under the title of "Logische Untersuchungen", now considered a work of the utmost importance. These three volumes also comprise many other articles by Frege in the first English translations (in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege) as well as original contributions by P.T. Geach: "On Frege's Way Out" (in Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259. and "Mr. Strawson on Symbolic and Traditional Logic" (in Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285).Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) was a German mathematician, but his main contributions lie in his becoming a logician and a philosopher, who influenced the fields of logic and analytic philosophy immensely. Together with Wittgenstein, Russel and Moore, Frege is considered the founder of analytic philosophy, and a main founder of modern mathematical logic. His influence on 20th century philosophy has been profound, especially in the English speaking countries from the middle of the 20th century and onwards; in this period most of his works were translated into English for the first time.The philosophical papers of Frege were published in Germany in scholarly journals, which were barely read outside of German speaking countries. The first collections of his writings did not appear untill after the the Second World War, and Frege was little known as a philosopher during his lifetime. He greatly influenced the likes of Russel, Wittgenstein and Carnap, though, and bears a great responsibility for the turn modern philosophical thought has taken. Due to his contributions to the philosophy of language, analytic philosophy could be founded as it were.

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.

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.

Torino, Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, (1872). Large8vo. In publisher's original full green cloth. Embossed title with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Corners of binding bumped and lower part of back hindge with a small tear. An overall very fine and clean copy. (2), 464 pp. First Italian translation of Darwin's Journal of researches, now known as Voyage of the Beagle, being his first published book. As Darwin later recalled in his autobiography 'The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career'. "On its first appearance in its own right, also in 1839, it was called Journal of researches into the geology and natural history etc. The second edition, of 1845, transposes 'geology' and 'natural history' to read Journal of researches into the natural history and geology etc., and the spine title is Naturalist's voyage. The final definitive text of 1860 has the same wording on the title page, but the spine readsNaturalist's voyage round the world, and the fourteenth thousand of 1879 places A naturalist's voyage on the title page. The voyage of the Beagle first appears as a title in the Harmsworth Library edition of 1905. It is a bad title: she was only a floating home for Darwin, on which, in spite of good companionship, he was cramped and miserably sea-sick; whilst the book is almost entirely about his expeditions on land." (Freeman)The first edition appeared in German in 1844, at the instigation of Baron von Humboldt, and the second in Danish, French, German, Italian, Russian and Swedish, in Darwin's lifetimeFreeman 211

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.

Leipzig & Flensburg, Balthasar Ottonem Bosseckium, 1719. 8vo. Indbundet i et yderst velbevaret samtidigt helldrbd. med spejl, ophøjede bind på ryg og rig rygforgyldning. Titelblad trykt i rød/sort. (14),183,(13) pp. Rent, frisk eksemplar. Originaludgaven af Falsters filologiske hovedværk. "Cogitationes varias philologicæ, 1719 indeholder ikke blot stof, men ideer. F. påviser sprogvidenskabens betydning for teologien; han stiller nye krav til latinsk leksikografi og til klassikerudgivernes tekstkritik. Det er F.s mest selvstændige lærdomsarbejde." (DBL).

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.

(New York, For the American Physical Society by the American Inst. of Physics), 1933. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Physical Review, vol. 43, March 13, 1933" pp. 491-494. and with 4 textillustr. First edition. The paper announces the discovery of the first antiparticle ever found. The existance of the positron was predicted by Dirac 3 years before. Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936 "For his Discovery of the Positron".

(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, Henry G. Bohn, 1865. 8vo. 2 orig. full green cloth. Richly gilt backs. 2 corners bumped. 2 cm. of upper part of first title cut away, no loss of text. Uncut. First title browned, otherwise clean and fine. XV,300,VIII,279 pp. and 50 handcoloured engraved plates. One plate torn, but repaired. BMC NH III: 1120.

Dateret 1742. 8vo. (17x11 cm.). Rygfelterne med rig tidstypisk forgyldning, permer med overdådig forgyldning mest i form af stiliserede blomsterværker og med sammensatte rektangulære rammer. På forperm i guld årstallet 1742 og S.C.S., på bagperm i guldtryk 1889. Forrest i bogen 20 håndskrevne sider med gl. ejertilføjelser startende med første ejers lange versificerede notat dateret Kiøbenhavn 1742. Et pragtfuldt, velbevaret eksempel på ypperlig dansk bogbinderkunst fra rokokkotiden. Indhold: Thomas Kingo. Den Forordnede ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog + Collecter, Epistler og Evangelier. 2 dele. Sidste titelblad 1736, det første titelblad mangler.

London, John Murray, 1856. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtoolings to covers. rebacked preserving all of original spine. Endpapers renewed. Fronstispiece. XVI,456 pp., 1 folded plan and 1 folded map. Clean and fine. First edition. In 1854 he joined an expedition up the Niger River and, on the death of the ship’s captain, took command of the expedition. With a crew made up chiefly of Africans, he explored the Benue River, the main tributary of the Niger, penetrating 250 miles (400 km) farther than any European had before.

Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1769-(79). Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Large tears to spine. Coverpaper partly gone. Binding rubbed and worn. Large engraved titlevignette. 2 half-page engraved vignettes. (14),154;(2),88 pp. and 39 (of 40) handcolured and engraved plates. Some dampstaing to upper right corners of textleaves. Some dampstaining and foxing to upper right corners of plates, especially towards end. The last two plates with some loss of paper at upper right corners. Engraved booplate on inside frontcover "John Diderich Cordes" Scarce first edition of Schreber's classic work on grasses, which became of importance due to its very elaborate explanations of all aspects of the numerous grasses mentioned and depicted in the 40 plates (here only 39), which are considered very well executed, both in regard to drawing, engraving, and colouring. Schreber (1739-1810) was a German physician and natural scientist. He became famous for his diverse knowledge and for his scientific works within botany and zoology. He studied medicine and natural science in Uppsala, Sweden, where he became doctor of medicine and made the acquaintance of Carl von Linné, whom he learned a lot from. In 1787 he became a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. In Germany he became professor of medicine, botany, natural history, and pharmacology at Erlangen, director of Erlangen botanical garden, and president of the Leopoldina. His work on grasses was considered fairly important, especially due to its very elaborate explanations of all parts of the particular grasses, its use, conditions, etc. etc.(See Stafleu & Covan, V : p. 328 and No 11.127) - Nissen: 1807. - Pritzel: 8395. - Not in Hunt.

Paris, Claudii Sonnii, 1631. Folio. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Old rebacking to spine. Raised bands. Gilt spines, gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Some scratches to covers. 2 engraved frontispieces. 2 large engraved titlevignettes. Title-pages in red/black. (36),769;(8),860 pp. A few scattered brownspots. A tear IN one leaf, no loss. Light foxing to the two last leaves in volume one and to halftitles. Greek-Latin paralelltext. First edition with both the Latin and the Greek text. - Brunet IV, 161.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903. Contemp. hcloth. Some small nicks to spine. (=) "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 11. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude.". VIII,1144pp. and 6 plates. The Einstein paper: pp. 170-187. Internally fine and clean. First edition of Einsteins fourth paper. In his paper from 1902, Einstein "says in his introduction that nobody has yet succeeded in deriving the conditions of thermal equilibrium and of the second law of thermodynamics from probability considerations, although Maxwell and Boltzmann came near to it. Willard Gibbs is not mentioned. In fact, Einstein's paper was written in ignorance of Gibbs paper published 1901. In the present paper, Einstein builds the theory on another basis not used by Gibbs, namely on the consideration of a single system in course of time (later called "Zeit-Gesamtheit", time assembly), and proves that this is equivalent to a certain virtual assembly of many systems, Gibb's micro-canonical assembly...Einstein at once proceeded to apply his theorems to a case of utmost importance, namely to systems of a size suited for demonstrating the reality of molecules and the correctness of the kinetic theory of matter."(Walter Alicke). - Weil No. 4.

Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1756-58. 4to. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. A tear to joint at lower compartment on volumeStamp on title-pages. CLXXV,372,VIII,614 pp. Faint scattered brownspots. Frontispiece lacks. First edition.

Berlin, Unger, 1785. 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf (Text + Plans). Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartments. Stamps on foot of title-page. Textvolume: 103 pp. - Volume of Plans: 27 engraved plans/maps in different sizes, all with handcoloured positions, all mounted on large blue paper. Also mounted the engraved dedication-cartouche (dédie a Frédéric et Louis de Prusse). In all 28 engraved pieces, probably cut from a large engraved plate. Wide-margined, clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1808. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A small nich in middle of upper compartment. Spine slightly rubbed. (1),XLXI,504 pp. few scattered brownspots. First German edition of the authors: "A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793; containing a general View of the valuable productions and the political importence of this flourishing Kingdom; and also of such european settlements as were visited on the voyage: with sketches of the Manners, character and condition of their several inhabitants..London, 1806". (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, Bd. 38). Also having the general titlepage, this with a stamp.

Lund, Jørgen Schrøder, 1675. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Binding with light wear and a few holes in the leather. Margins closely trimmed, first leaves slightly touching text in upper margin, otherwise internally nice and clean. (2), 494, (6) pp. Exceedingly rare second Danish translation of Gerhard’s “Meditationes”, first translated into Danish in 1614. Until recently it was believed only the first translation and a second in 1737 was published (also stated in Ehrencron-Müller and Bibliotheca Danica). This present 1675-edition, printed in Lund by Jørgen Schrøder, is one of the few Danish books produced in Scania after the cession to Sweden in 1658. Schrøder operating from Bishop Peder Vinstrup’s press at Värpinge outside Lund, became the sole printer in the city when the Scanian War broke out that year and his rival Vitus Haberegger fled to Malmö. At Vinstrup’s likely instigation, Schrøder issued this Danish translation of Johann Gerhard’s Meditationes, the first since the now-unobtainable 1614 edition. (Tunold, S. Nyfundne eldre Danica i Oslo, 1963, p. 38). OCLC only list two copies. Not in Biblioteca Danica nor Ehrencron-Müller.