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Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1809. Unbound, but stitched. VIII,228 pp. and 1 folded engraved plan "Plan d'une Partie de L'Ille de Cérigo autrefois Cythere. Par Barbie du Bocage." First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 40. Bd.: 3.Theil).

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

Fr. am Main, 1828. 8vo. Cont.hcloth. No title on back. Uncut. St.o.t. A little brownspotted. VIII,480 pp. and 1 large fold. engr.map, handcoloured, showing North-and Southamerica. Very scarce first edition. Sabin 41405.

Small 4to. Bound in fine longgrained hmorocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, broad back and large corners. Fillets gilt on covers. Top edge gilt. Uncut with orig. wrappers withbound. (Flammarion). No 76 of 120 "sur vélin D'Arches" with a suite (hors texte) of all the 27 engravings by Brouet, a total of 210 copies.

Paris, Chez Estienne Michallet, 1691. Large 12vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Extremities with wear. Most of gilt ornamentation to spine worn off and corners with repairs. Lower inner margin of last 50 pp with dampstain. Last 25 pp. with minor loss of paper to upper outer corner, far from affecting text. A good sound copy. (16), 385, (2) pp First edition of Tauvry’s work on medicine, its application and many recipes for how to make it.

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.

(Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1836). Folio. (40 x 28 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. With 18 double-page lithographed plates. The last plate (Die Belagerung der Citadelle von Antwerpen) with handcolouring. Faint scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume to Sonntag's "Der Festungskrieg im Geiste der neuesten Kriegsführung, für Offiziere jeder Waffe." - Klaus Jordan,3535.

London & Beccles, 1952-65. 4to. In 24 half cloth bindings signed Psilander & Berg.

London, J. Grover for R. Royston, 1676. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. A small crack to leather at upper compartment. Light wear to edges. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (It is a portrait of Oliver Cromwell as Agathocles, the tyrant of Sicily, half length in an oval frame on a pedestal, wearing fur cap).Title-page with a large engraved vignette (a man of war in fire). (16),278 pp., 1 folded engraved plate. Very light browning to upper margins. Printed on good paper.

Berlin, Springer, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in later gray half cloth with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. In "Naturwissenschaften", Vol. 27, 1939. A very fine and clean copy. First printing of these seminal papers which constitutes the first announcement of nuclear fission. The formulations in these papers are rather cautious and obviously the authors were not in possession of an explanation for the phenomena which they had observed.At this point Lise Meitner was no longer at the University of Berlin. Due to here jewish background she was forced to give up here position and she fled to Denmark. However; Hahn continued to communicate with here and reported his and Strassmann's results. Together with here nephew Otto Frisch she was able to give a physical explanation for the phenomena using the 'liquid drop model' of the atomic nuclear which had recently been developed by Niels Bohr. Meitner and Frisch submitted their paper to 'Nature' on the 16th January [3rd paper offered, the issue was published the 11th February 1939]. Hahn and Strassmann most probably came into possession of Meitner and Frisch's theory before its publication since they submitted another paper the 28th January [the 2nd paper offered, the issue was published the 10th February 1939] in which they restated there results in more detail and stated the phenomena of fission with clear certainty.

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.

Paris, Costard, 1771-78. Bound in 10 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on halftitles. Light wear to a few top of spines.

Tübingen, Johannis Georgii Cottae, 1732. Folio. Bound in one contemp. full blindtooled pigskin. 5 raised bands. Remains of clasps. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved portrait. (14),692;(6),241,(21) pp. and 19 engraved heraldic plates, depicting many coat of arms. Last plate with a little wormtract, 6 folded genealogical tables. Some scattered brownspots.

München, Galerie van de Loo, (1976). 4to. Orig. lithographed wrappers. XXXII,267,(1) pp. Richly illustrated, partly in colour. With 2 double-page original lithographs in colour (Wrapper and one folded facing p. 126)

(London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 47-74. Clean and fine. First appearance of Faraday's first breakthrough in chemistry as he here synthesized for the first time chloro-carbons."In 1820 he (Faraday) produced the first known compounds of chlorine and carbon, C2Cl6 and C2Cl4. These compounds had been produced by the substitution of chlorine for hydrogen in "olefiant gas", our modern ethylene. This was the first substitution reaction; such reactions, in the hands of Charles Gerhardt and August Laurent in the 1840's, were to be used as a serious challenge to the dualistic electrochemical theories of J.J. Berzelius." (DSB IV, p. 531).Parkinson "Breakthrough" 1820 C.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1858. 4to. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik Crelle/Borchardt", 55. Band, 1. Heft.: 3. Pp. 25-55 and with titlepage to volume 55. A bit of browning to outer corners of titlepage. Firsi printing of Helmholtz' seminal paper on the hydrodynamics of vortex motion, which is the first detailled analysis of fluid motion not constrained to being irrotational - being his most importent contribution to mathematical physics. The paper was the direct inspiration for J.J. Thomson's "vortex atom" (See Pais "Inward Bound", pp. 176 ff)."In 1857, in a work of genius that proved him to be a mathematician of first rank 'On the Integrals of the Hydrodynamic Equations which express Vortex-motion' (the paper offered), he gave the solution of some extremely difficult hydrodynamical problems. He rejected the earlier hypotheses, and followed up the analogies between the motion of fluids and the electromagnetic action of electrical currents, which were of such much importence for his subsequent work on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism."Leo Koenigsberger, p. 167 ff.)"In 1858 Helmholtz published his seminal memoir "Ueber Integrale der hydrodynamischen Gleichungen, welche den Wirbelbewegungen entsprechen," important for both its physical results and its mathematical methods. His motivations for taking up this new research interest remain unclear. One motive seems, however, to have been his interest in frictional phenomena, carried over from his interest in energetics; another was his growing awareness of the power of Green’s theorem."(DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1858 P.

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. 12mo. Bound in a later (mid 19th century) half calf binding with three raised bands and gilt spine. Edges worn and spine slightly rubbed. Cracks to capitals and hinges. Small holes to title-page and previous ownership signature cut out from blank lower margin of title-page. Underlinings and marginal notes in the form of indications of paragraphs in old hand, otherwise internally clean. Engraved title page. With 5 full-page woodcuts and 3 folded maps. The scarce true first printing of this esteemed and highly soought-after Elzevier-edition, which by many is considered the finest of all the Elzevier productions. - Dibdin I: 360.

London, T. Wood & S. Palmer, 1727. Folio (350 x 240 mm). Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. A few scratches to to spines and boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. All edges coloured in red. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Internally very fine and clean. (4), 14, XXVII, (3), 182, (2), 38, (5) pp. + folded map of France; (2), 581, (5) pp. A fine set of the first two volumes (out of three) of Boulainvillier's posthumously published work on various aspects of the French monarchy during the early 18th century."BOULAINVILLIERS, HENRI, Comte de (1658–1722), French political writer, was born at St Saire in Normandy in 1658. He was educated at the college of Juilly, and served in the army until 1697. He wrote a number of historical works (published after his death), of which the most important were the following: Histoire de l’ancien gouvernement de la France (La Haye, 1727); État de la France, avec des mémoires sur l’ancien gouvernement (London, 1727); Histoire de la pairie de France (London, 1753); Histoire des Arabes (1731). His writings are characterized by an extravagant admiration of the feudal system. He was an aristocrat of the most pronounced type, attacking absolute monarchy on the one hand and popular government on the other. He was at great pains to prove the pretensions of his own family to ancient nobility, and maintained that the government should be entrusted solely to men of his class. He died in Paris on the 23rd of January 1722." (Encyclopedia Britannica).

Basel, B. Schwabe, 1875-78. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Gilt lettering. Spines rubbed. 2 spine-ends repaired. Small cracks to two joints. Stamps on title-pages. (4),157;(2),68,(4) pp. and 76 lithographed plates in colours. Internally clean. First edition.

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.

London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1903-04. 12 fine full red cloth, gilt backs. Top edge gilt. Untrimmed. Limited edition, No 77 of 500 copies. 12 frontispieces and ca. 180 fine plates, partly in colour.

London, Ackermann, 1828, 1823, 1828 12mo. Bound in 3 nice contemp. full brown calf. raised bands, richly gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. gilt borders on covers. Gilt inside dentelles. All edges gilt. A small neath repair to top of spines. very light rubbing along hinges. 3 handcoloured frontispieces in aquatint, 3 handcoloured engravings on title-pages and with 75 fine engraved and handcoloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rawlinson, all with tissue-guards. Clean and fine. Beautiful miniature-edition of Dr. Syntax's three tours.

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.