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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.

New York, The Science Press, 1922. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Science", New Series, Volume LVI [56], July - December, 1922 Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper, Soiling to extremities and back board loose, internally fine and clean. Pp. 650-51. [Entire volume: VIII, 760 pp.]. First appearance of Evans and Bishop seminal paper in which they discovered Vitamin E. In 1922 along with Katharine Scott Bishop, during feeding experiments on rats, Evans discovered that rats did not reproduce when fed a semi-synthetic purified diet in which lard was the sole source of fat. They observed that a 'substance X' in lipid extracts of various grains would correct the fertility defect. It was first isolated in a pure form by Gladys Anderson Emerson in 1935 at the University of California, Berkeley.Garrison & Morton 1055

Amsterdam, Someren, 1670. 4to In contemporary full vellum. Stains and miscolouring to boards. Annotation to front free end-paper and previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. Stains and miscolouring to extremities. Internally with occassional underlignings. First 50 ff. with marginal dampstain. (8), 979, (22) pp. Dutch translation of Puritan Jeremiah Dyke’s theological writings. Translated and improved by Joannes Ubelman.

London, John Creswick and Co., 1796. (Drawback). Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine, broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Inner hinges weak. Engreved portrait (Sterne). XV,200 pp. and 2 engraved plates. A marginal brownspot to one plate. Internally clean. One of the scarce issues with the printed "Drawback" on the title-page beneath the year, INDICATING THAT THE EDITION WAS INTENDED FOR EXPORT. The 1794 Act for Repealing the Duties on paper... allowed the refond of duty paid on paper used for books intended for export. To qualify, the paper used had to be watermarked with a year, 1794 or later (this copy marked "94", and the refund or drawback could only be claimed by a printer, publisher or bookseller exporting it as merchandice.

Paris, Jombert, 1756. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Coner a bit bumped. Stamp on title-page. LVI,619 pp., 1 folded table, 4 engraved vignettes. Stamps on p.III, otherwise clean. First edition. - Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing, 6034.

London, Macmillian and Co, 1938. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with white paper title-label pasted on to spine. In: "Nature", January - June, 1939, Vol. 141, entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page, otherwise fine and clean copy. P. 74; P. 75. [Entire volume: LXIV, 1156 pp.]. First publication of these two seminal papers which constitutes one of the most significant discoveries in 20th century physics. It ushered a golden period of low-temperature physics and created a new research field within physics which was later to be called quantum liquids. Both paper described a hitherto unknown state of matter: superfluidity of matter. The two discoveries were made independently, Kapitza's paper superseding Allen and Misener's by two weeks. Both studies reported that liquid helium flowed with almost no measurable viscosity below the transition temperature of 2.18 K."Although the discovery of superfluidity stands as one of the most significant in physics in the 20th century, it was to be 40 years before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured this seminal discovery with a Nobel prize - an exceptionally long interval. In 1978 Kapitza, by then 84, was given half of that year's Nobel Prize for Physics with a somewhat vague citation reading "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics". The other half did not go to Allen and Misener. Today, science popularizers generally give sole credit for the discovery of superfluidity to Kapitza." (Physics world, University of Toronto.). "Kapitza observed that He II flowed between two closely spaced parallel plates extremely rapidly compared to He I, for the same pressure difference. This result, published in Nature on 8 January 1938, showed unambiguously that here was a new and mysterious kind of liquid - one with almost no viscosity. On the page facing Kapitza's one-page paper was another by the young Canadian physicists Jack Allen and Donald Misener, with essentially equivalent results on helium flow on long capillary tubes. It was submitted two weeks after Kapitza's, but both papers are the standard reference for the discovery of superfluidity". (Griffin, A Century of Nature, 2003, p. 52).While investigating the thermal conductivity of liquid helium, Kapitsa measured the flow as the fluid flows through a gap between two discs into a surrounding bath. Above the lambda point, there was little flow, but below the lambda temperature, the liquid flowed with such great ease that Kapitsa drew an analogy with superconductors. It was a liquid of zero viscosity. He discovered the phenomenon in 1937 and published a paper about it in Nature in January 1938. He wrote: "The helium below the lambda point enters a special state that might be called a ‘superfluid.’" (DSB).Today the theory behind superfluidity is widely used within a broad variety of different subject such as spectroscopic and in high-precision devices as gyroscopes which allow the measurement of some theoretically predicted gravitational effects. In 1999, a type of superfluid was used to trap light and greatly reduce its speed. Light was passed through a Bose-Einstein condensed gas of sodium (superfluid) and found to be slowed to 17 m/s from its normal speed of 299,792,458 metres per second.Brandt, The Harvest of a Century, Pp. 254-7.

Berlin, Nicolaische verlagsbuchhandlung, 1869. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (2),124 pp. and 31 fine chromolithographed plates. Many textillustrations in woodcut.

Folio. Bladet, som omfatter både kort og tekst er trykt på svært skrivepapir og måler 49x64 cm., som udgivet. Den ene halvdel er kobberstukket og håndkoloreret (45x30 cm.) visende Christiansøe, Græs Holmen og Fridrichs Holm samt de omgivende skær med kompasrose og angivelse af vindretninger. Nederst på kortet Prospect af Christiansøe fra den sydlige side, alt indrammet af bred kobbertukket og håndkoloreret bort. Den anden halvdel af bladet har 1 sides foliotekst "Beretning til Kaartet over Christiansøe og om Fyhret sammesteds, samt om Ankerpladserne under Bornholm" Aldeles frisk eksemplar af et af de smukke søkort, som Søkortarkivet udgav under Løwenørns ledelse. Bibl. Danica II:363.

Paris, Anselin, 1831. Large folio-oblong. (54 x 68 cm.). Clothbacked contemp. blank boards, rubbed. (4) pp.( = Title-page + Notice sur les Cartes et Plans) and 17 large engraved maps, some folding. Faint scattered brownspots.

Amsterdam et Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht), Sumptibus Societatis, 1718. Folio. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Gilt and bluindtooled borders on covers, inside gilt borders.Corners bumped. Rebacked, gilt lettering to spines. Titlepages printed in red/black. (18),1008;(4),716,134,70,XXXVI pp. Stamp to first textleaves in both volumes. Internally clean, printed on good paper in double-columns. First edition. - Brunet V:967. - Graesse 7. 207.

Berlin, W. Junk, 1928-29. 4to. Bound with 2 orig. printed frontwrappers in one later private hcloth. X,498;VI,486 pp. , 255 textillustr. and 28 plates. A fine clean copy..

Tokyo, 1900. (25 x 16,5 cm.). Original wrappers. Sewn. Part of sewing gone. Having 45 pages with 5 leaves of japanese text (incl. inside covers) depicting birds and flowers on 40 leaves of which 14 are adjoined plates, 2 single. of folded leaves in woodblock print in colour.

Frankfurt 2. Martz 1829. 64 x 121 cm. Large plan of the fortress at Hartenberg surveyed by the Danish military officer C. Krag. Pen and ink with watercolour. Also with scale and profiles at bottom and a small map showing the environsment. On 2 sheets joined.

Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), 31/3 1912. (35 x 23 cm.). Indsat i protokolbind. 139 maskinskrevne sider i hvilke der er indklæbet 87 manuskript-illustrationer, som tegninger i sort blæk af kanoner, granater, lavetter, måleapparater m.v., heraf er 9 gengivet i fotografi. Manuskriptet er udført af V. Erdmann, Premierløjtnant af Artilleriet, sandsynligvis efter en rejse i Tyskland.

Paris, David le jeune, 1749. 8vo. Four part uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A nice and clean set. (8), 400, (2), VI, 392 pp.; (2), VIII, 391, (3), VI, 408, (4) pp. Uncommon first edition of Lambert’s work, an encyclopedic compilation of knowledge intended to inform and educate readers about the diverse cultural, religious and scientific practices of different civilizations.Vol. I. contains chapters on the Guarani Indians of South America and on California. Vol. II. on the Hurons, Abenakis, Algonquins, Illinois, Ottawas, Natchez and other Indian tribes. Vol. III. on Terra del Fuego, St. Domingo, Paraguay, Peru and the Chiquitos. Vol. IV. on the Moxos Indians, the West India Islands and Mexico. Sabin 68424

Servestae, Goeckingiana, 1738. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Boards with a few scratches and part of the gilt ornamentation to spine worn off. Internally with occassional light brownspotting. Last few leaves with wormtract in lower outer margin. (8), 414, (74), (8), 430, (58), (8), 592, (64) pp. The exceedingly rare first (only?) edition of Breithaupt’s examination of faith and ethics and morals. We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade, nor does OCLC list any copies. Joachim Justus Breithaupt (1658 – 1732) was a German Lutheran theologian, preacher and hymn writer.

(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.

Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back and red titlelabel. Fine except for some wear to top and bottom of spine. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. XLVIII,474 pp., 2 engraved folded maps, 3 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table (complete). Fiske p. 609. First French edition. All of the notes and additions made by the German translator are to be found in this edition, which also is provided with an index.

Berlin, Realschul-Buchhandlung, 1815-17. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. XII,320;316;266,(2) pp., 26 large folded engraved plates. Title-pages a bit brownspotted. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 4325.

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.

Kiøbenhavn, Ludolph Henrich Lillie, (1756). 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Smal blindtrykt bordure på permer. Forkanterne på permerne med forgyldt bordure. (10),160 pp. Ren og velbevaret. Originaltrykket. - Bibl. Dan. II,358.

Oxford, University Press, for the Author, 1801. 4to. Recent hcloth. Stamps to titlepage. (4),XIII,127 pp., 7 engraved plates, among these the folded plate "Plan de D'Alexandrie". 4 of the plates with a bit of foxing, mainly at margins. Text clean and fine, printed on thich heavy paper, broad-margined. Pp. (225-) 227 misnumbered, read (125-) 127. Scarce first edition.

(New York, Tiffany Studies, 1913). Small 4to. Orig. full russian. Uncut. Blindtooled letters to cover and spine. On spine: "Memorials". On frontcover: "Tiffany Studies. Memorials in Glass and Stone". On first leaf: "This brochure is published as an advertising medium of our Ecclestical Department, ro convey in Text and Illustrations some Idea of the Scope and outdoor Memorials of both Glass and Stone. Inside frontcover the exlibris of "Tiffany Studios New York" .æ (44) pp. of text. and 28 plates in heliogravure with protective tissue-guards. Clean and fine, on heavy thick paper. First edition of the catalogue. Printed by Munder-Thomsoen Compagny New York: Baltimore.

Kiøbenhavn, Udgiverens Forlag, 1802. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Lille sprække i fals øverst på ryg. Papirsetiket påsat ryg øverst. Stempler på titelbladet. (10),54,26;86;144,(2) pp., 7 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven. Rawer var stadskonduktør i København efter branden og virkede tillige som arkitekt, så vel teoretisk som praktisk, og satte sit præg på Guldalderens København efter branden og bombardementet. Som løjtnant besøgte han nogen tid Kunstakademiets Bygningsskole, hvor han 1778 vandt begge sølvmedaljer. Bibl. Danica II,377.

A La Haye, De La Comoagnie, 1721 & 1722 [Vol. 1,2 & 3 dated 1721. Vol. 2 dated 1721]. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, parts of gilting on spine worn off. Boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers (F. v. Iuel). Internally fine and clean. (28), 451 pp.; (4), 652 pp.; (4), 456 pp.; (4), 352, (4) pp. + 46 plates of which 1 is folded. Second French edition of this extensive work on nobility and various Royal Houses around the work: Vol. 1 deal with German nobility, vol. 3 with European nobility and vol. 4 with non European royal houses including Japan, China, Turkey and Africa. Barbier, IV-556