Search Results

Amsterdam, Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. 8vo. Two parts bound in a contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A nice and clean copy. XXX, (34), 288, (2), 267 pp. First French translation of Rowe's "Friendship in Death", originally published in 1728, a Jansenist miscellany of imaginary letters from the dead to the living. It became her most popular work, with over 79 editions by 1825 and ten more by 1840. It significantly outsold contemporary works like Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe” .The book consists of fictional letters from deceased loved ones and virtuous friends who have reached heaven and offer spiritual guidance to ensure their living friends’ and relatives' salvation. The letters discuss moral issues and contemporary dilemmas, resembling both moral essays and novelistic situations. Rowe's intent, as stated in the preface, is to promote the belief in the soul's immortality and the virtuous life it necessitates.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1911. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 34. Hrsg. von W.Wien und Max Planck." VIII,1032 pp., 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 165-169; pp. 170-174; pp.; 175-176; p. 590; pp. 591-592. Fine and clean. The whole volume offered. First edition of all 5 papers. In "Relation between elastic behaviour and specific heat of solid bodies with monatomic molecules" Einstein comments Sutherlands importent paper in Philosophical Magazine from 1910. Sutherland made the importent remark that the infrared eigenfrequencies of solid bodies have their origin possibly in the elastic vibrations of these bodies. Einstein, impressed by this remark, adds that electrically charged ions are the sources of optical vibrations, whreas elastic vibrations are caused by the mutual motion of the entire molecule. Hence he prefers to test the hypothesis of Sutherland by solid bodies which are composed of monatomic molecules..."(Lanczos). - Weil Nos 38, 39 (this with an asterix, denoting major work),40 (1-2) and 41.

(Kjøbenhavn, Waeysenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1758). 4to. Uden omslag. Udsnit af "Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste i Aaret 1745. Anden Deel." Pp. 129-156. First printing of the first comparative study of Greenlandic, - 15 years before Paul Egede's Greenlandic Grammar. The Latin edition reads "Meletema, de lingvæ Groenlandicæ origine, ejusqve a cæteris lingvis differentia".Lauridsen XII,6. - Groenlandica, p.93.

(No place, nor printer), 1707. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Title-label is either missing or have never been added. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Stains and scratches to boards. Corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. VIII, 268 pp. + 3 folded tables. One of the at least seven different issues of the 12mo edition, published same year as the first edition (in 4to), in which Vauban proposed a comprehensive tax reform plan for France. The central idea was to replace the existing tax system, which heavily burdened the lower classes while exempting the nobility and clergy, with a single tax on income and property that would be fairly distributed among all citizens, regardless of social status. Schumpeter called the work 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument. Purposeful marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the work, and a forerunner of modern tendencies' (Schumpeter, History of Economic analysis, p. 204). 'an erudite economic work much in advance of its time, and distinguished both by accuracy of method and breadth of view' (Palgrave), 'creditable alike to the heart and the head of its illustrious author' (McCulloch). 'Though the book was published anonymously, and only a few copies issued (for circulation among friends), Vauban had to submit to the mortification of seeing it 'pilloried' by the parliament, while he himself incurred the displeasure of the king (Louis XIV).' (Palgrave).

Stuttgart, Societatis Wuertembergicae, 1820-28. 8vo. Bound in 17 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to spine on volume one, especially at upper compartment. Second, enlarged edition of Drakenborch's noted edition of Livius. "The labours of Drakenborch have entitled his edition to a superiority over every preceding one. Ernesti, Harles, and the Bipont editors, are unanimous in their approbation of this truly critical production..."(Dibdin II, p. 169 (the 7 vols. edition of 1738).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Showing 2 bird in flight, 3 others beneath. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter Imp. Fine and clean.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.

London, printed for R.H. Laurie, 1833. Clothbacked boards with the orig. printed titlelabel on upper board. Stamp on title-page. VIII,61 pp., a few coastal profiles in the text.

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).

Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1723. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Light wear to lower spine end. Corners worn with a small loss of leather. (14),922,(47) pp. and 27 engraved plates, each with 16 illustrations. The last plate with only 12 (of 16) illustrations. This couild be a plate not belonging to the edition, as other copies has only 23 or 25 plates (the offered has 27 plates). A few plates shaved in top. Internally clean. Third edition of Lemery's main pharmaceutical work. "Lemery’s chief contributions to pharmacy were his two complementary works, the Pharmacopee universelle and the Traité des drogues simples. These are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively, giving the source, virtues, does, and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals."(DSB).Wellcome III: p. 488 only calls for 23 plates.

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

Frankfurt am Main, Johannis Beyeri, 1663. Folio (350 x 235 mm). In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally nice and clean. (10), 535, (11), 448, (12), 377, (7) pp. + engraved half-title. First edition of Prückner’s commentary on both the Old and New Testament.

Erfurt, Martin Wittelius, 1616. Small 8vo. Later boards, back somewhat worn. (16),430,(2) pp. Titlepage brpwnspotted, occasionally brownspotted and some browning to leaves. Former owner Wilhelm Maar. Peder Sørensen (Petrus Severinus) var livlæge hos de danske konger Fr. II og Chr. IV, et virke over 30 år. Han var en af de ivrigste fortalere for Paracelsismen, og hans bearbejdelse og fremstilling af læren i dette værk vakte beundring overalt i Europa. "Idea.." udkom først i Basel 1571.

Franckfurt, Thomam Fritsch, 1708 and Leipzig, Thomam Fritsch, 1708. Folio. Contemp. full calf. 6 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A tear to hinge at the lower compartments (not loose). Slightly rubbed. Engraved portrait (De Marca). (16) pp., 1286 columns + Index; (2) pp., 430 columns + Index; (2) pp., 168 columns + Index. Browning to portrait and titlepage. Scattered brownspots and some quires with browning. This edition is augmeted with Marca's dissertations which were also published separately.Marca was a French prelate and historian and attracted the notice of Richelieu by his support of the Catholic cause in the south during the wars of religion. Richelieu brought him to paris as counsellor of State in 1640. He defended the "Gallian Liberties" in the famous treatise "De Concordia", the item offered, first printed in 1641 (comprising only 4 books). He was nominated archbischop of Paris after De retz in 1662.Graesse IV:380 - Brunet III:1392.

London, John Murray, 1853. Orig. full pictorial cloth, blindtooling on spine and covers. Gilt illustration on frontcover. Inner hinge weakening. Spine a bit slanting. Light wear along edges. Lithographed frontispiece in colour. XVI,417 pp., 3 lithographed colourplates, 2 plates in balck, 5 textillustrations and 1 folded lithographed map in colour. Internally clean and fine. First edition. "He includes in his narrative, detailed descriptions of the life, customs, dwellings, clothing and beliefs of the Chukchis, and (in less detail) of the North Alaska Eskimos; notes on the Mackenzie Eskimos and Indians, and on the sea and river ice, hunting, trapping and character of the territory covered in his journeys." (Arctic Bibliography, 7395).Lada-Mocarski 140.

Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith, 1728-44. Small 8vo. Bound in 11 cont. full calf. Gilt backs. Occasionally rubbed. Each volume comprising ab. 500 pp. All volumes in 2 parts, and mostly with engraved frontispiece and engraved titlevignet.

Berlin, Schneider & Co., 1874-78. 8vo. a. folio. Atlas in hcloth with marbled boards. Textvols. in 3 contemp. hcalf (part 3 not uniform). Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepages. X,834 pp. + Beilagen 204 pp., 3 tinted lithographed views. With in all 21 large folded lithographed maps/plans. (The Atlas with double-page title-page, dated 1877 having 15 maps/plans).

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.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche og Wentzel (Tomus 5), 1748 - 1765 - 1754. Indbundet i 3 meget smukke og velbevarede samtidige helldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning, tome-og titelfelter i brun og grønt skind, forgyldt. Epistlerne foreligger her i komplet stand, men Tomus III-IV er i 2. udgaven fra 1765, også trykt hos Godiche. Disse 2 bind er et fuldstændigt optryk af originaludgaven. - Ehr.-M. X, 403 ff og 425.

[Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1882]. Large4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica", In "Acta Mathematica", volume 1. Clean and fine. Pp. 193-294. First printing of Poincaré's famous paper which conjectured the uniformization theorem for (the Riemann surfaces of) algebraic curves. It also constitute the second paper in Poincaré's exceedingly important series of six paper's which together represent the discovery of Automorphic Functions. "Before he was thirty years of age, Poincaré became world famous with his epoch-making discovery of the "automorphic functions" of one complex variable (or, as he called them, the "fuchsian" and "kleinean" functions)." (DSB).These manuscripts, written between 28 June and 20 December 1880, show in detail how Poincaré exploited a series of insights to arrive at his first major contribution to mathematics: the discovery of the automorphic functions. In particular, the manuscripts corroborate Poincaré's introspective account of this discovery (1908), in which the real key to his discovery is given to be the recognition that the transformations he had used to define Fuchsian functions are identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry.The idea was to come in an indirect way from the work of his doctoral thesis on differential equations. His results applied only to restricted classes of functions and Poincaré wanted to generalize these results but, as a route towards this, he looked for a class functions where solutions did not exist. This led him to functions he named Fuchsian functions after Lazarus Fuchs but were later named automorphic functions. First editions and first publications of these epochmaking papers representing the discovery of "automorphic functions", or as Poincaré himself called them, the "Fuchsian" and "Kleinian" functions."By 1884 Poincaré published five major papers on automorphic functions in the first five volumes of the new Acta Mathematica. When the first of these was published in the first volume of the new Acta Mathematica, Kronecker warned the editor, Mittag-Leffler, that this immature and obscure article would kill the journal. Guided by the theory of elliptic functions, Poincarë invented a new class of automorphic functions. This class was obtained by considering the inverse function of the ratio of two linear independent solutions of an equation. Thus this entire class of linear diffrential equations is solved by the use of these new transcendental functions of Poincaré." (Morris Kline).Poincaré explains how he discovered the Automorphic Functions: "For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions, I was then very ignorant; every day I seated myself at my work table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results. One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. By the next morning I had established the existence of a Class of Fuchsian functions, those which come from hypergeometric series; i had only to write out the results, which took but a few hours...the transformations that I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of Non-Euclidean geometry..."

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 22, 6. Heft (= No 6). Titlepage to vol. 22. Pp. 145-304 (entire issue offered "Heft" 6). Boltzmann's paper: pp. 291-294. Small stamp to titlepage and verso of. First appearance of this importent paper in which Boltzmann uses the second law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's electromagnetic theory to derive theoretically, based on Stefan's experimental observations, the proportionality of the radiation emitted from a body and the fourth power of the temperature of the body in Kelvin units. "The law show a possible connection between thermodynamics and electromagnetism that was exploited in the later quantum theory. In the 1920s it was applied by Edington and others in explaining the equilibrium of stellar atmospheres."(DSB II, p. 266)."The law states that the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body per unit time (known variously as the black-body irradiance, energy flux density, radiant flux, or the emissive power), is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature T (also called absolute temperature).The Stefan Boltzmann law was experimentally discovered in the year 1879 by Josef Stefan and deduced 1884 by Ludwig Boltzmann theoretically by thermodynamic considerations from the classical electromagnetic theory of the radiation. In the year 1900, thus 21 years after the Stefan Boltzmann law, discovered Max Planck the Planck radiation law designated after it, from which the Stefan Boltzmann law follows simply by integration over all directions and wavelengths. The Planck radiation law could attribute the Stefan Boltzmann constant also for the first time with the introduction of the quantum of action h to fundamental natural constants."Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1883 P.

Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1699. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. A bit of discolouring to spine and covers. Free endpaper lacks. Title-page in red/black. (2),742,(24) pp. and 14 engraved plates (numb. I-XIII a. I bis). 2 of the plates depicts the brain. Occasionally light browning. A few old annotations. Scarce first edition. - Not in Wellcome. - Waller 5223 (the third ed. 1702).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Showing birds flying, foreground with large flowers, natural settings.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean.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.

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.

London, The Author, 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf, rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XVI. - VIII,392,(8) pp. a. 8 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean. Second printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR (here p. 118). The letter was first printed in Philosophical Transactions, late in 1806 (read to the Royal Society March 27). Nicholson reprinted it here in the February issue of the offered volume 16. (1807).The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders, who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis, he was persuaded by his patron, Sir Joseph Banks, to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so, but allowed himself the footnote:"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term, it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806."Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."(Wikepedia)