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(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1768). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXII, pp. 265-333 and 2 foled engraved plates. First edition. "During his period in Berlin he produced an extraordinary series of papers on astronomy, on general dynamics, and on a variety of subjects in pure mathematics. Several of the most importent of the astronomical papers were sent to Paris and obtained prizes offred by the Academy."(Arthur Berry). "Lagrange's work in Berlin far surpassed the classical aspects of classical mechanics. Soon after his arrival he presented "Memoire sur la Passage de Venus du 3 Juin 1769", an occasional work that disconcerted the professional astronomers and contained the first somewhat extended example of an elementary astronomical problem solved by the method of three rectangular coordinates." (DSB). The analyses of this Venus transit was meant to provided data for estimating the sun-earth distance as the Venus went across the disk of the sun.

Aarhus, Autoris Tryckerij, 1636. 4to. Samt.helbind i svineskind med rammedekoartioner på permer. Ryggen med ægte bind. Ryg forstærket øverst og nederst. 2 messingbeslag og rester af lukkestroppe. (28),9l8 pp. De l5 første blade brunede og mørnede, særligt de første 4 er sprøde med tab i bladkanter og de 2 sidste blade med kanter flossede, det sidste opklæbet. Hver side med træskåren røskenramme. Bibl.Dan.I,96o - Thesaurus 64l. Eksemplaret her er uden det træskårne våben på side 3, hvilket muligvis indikerer, at det er værkets førstetryk

Frankfurt am Main, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (u. andere), 1966- 97. Bound in 22 orig. full cloth., textillustrations and maps.

La Haye, Freres L'Honoré, 1701. Contemp. full blindtooled calf (Cambridge-binding-style). Raised bands. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. (4),423 pp. Text in Dutch and French. Clean and fine.

Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde, 1774. 4to. Cont. full mottled calf. Back worn and with loss of some leather. Corners bumped. XLIV,256,38 pp. The last 38 pp. are "Extrait de la description de L'Arabie par Carsten Niebuhr". Few marginal brownspots, otherwise a large, clean copy. Second French edition giving the suggestions for the observations to be undertaken by the Arabien expedition. Michaelis was appointed by the Danish King to select members for a scientific expediton to Arabia, and asked Carsten Niebuhr to participate. The suggestions for the expedition contains an extensive series of quite varied questions which covers history, natural science and philology, and also provides us with a splendid catalogue of what was known at the time about Arabia and Yemen.

Paris, Herissant & Barrois, 1789. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Spine with wear and parts of gilting worn off. Hinges a bit weak. First and last leaves brownspotted but internally generally nice and clean. 24, LXXII, 498, (1) pp. First edition of this seminal work on plant classification which surpassed all previous taxonomies. “Jussieu’ thorough study of the genera and families of flowering plants (1774-1789) resulted in the publication of his epoch-making Genera plantarum (1789). For this work Jussieu had at his disposal not only the rich collections of living plants at the royal garden, but also his uncle’s and his own rich herbarium, as well as the collections made by Philibert Commerson on his world voyage with Bougainville; the Commerson collections proved to be of critical importance for the inclusion of many tropical angiosperm families. Through an exchange of specimens, Jussieu also had access to part of Sir Joseph Banks’s collections from Cook’s first voyage, and another valuable London contact was with James Edward Smith, Owner of Linnaeus’s herbarium. The Genera plantarum soon found its way to centers of botanical research. With excellent generic description, the book presented a through summary of current knowledge of plant taxonomy. The genera were arranged in a natural system based upon the correlation of a great number of characteristics, a system which proved to be so well designed that within a few decades it was accepted by all leading European botanists, the most active proponents being Robert Brown and A. P. de Candolle. Jussieu’s arrangement of families is among those elements of the Genera plantarum that remain a part of the contemporary system of classification.” Horblit 68b Pritzel 4549 Hunt 703

Jena, Wolfgang Stahl, 1798. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (10),332 pp. and 37 folded engraved plates and 1 large folded engraved plan.

Leiden & Rotterdam, Hacklus, 1669. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in gilt lettering to spine. Binding with wear. Stamp to front free end-paper. Annotations and previous owner's name to front pasted down front free end-paper and title-page. Marginal worktract affecting the last 60 pp. and between pp. 160-260. With brownspotting thoughout. (10), 592, (12) pp. A later, much improved and expanded edition, of Thomas Bartholin's revised edition of his father's classic 'Anatomicae institutiones' (1611). Caspar Bartholins "Anatomy" became known all over Europe and greatly influenced the teaching of anatomy in the 17th century.Thomas Bartholin included in this revised edition of Anatomia also two letters ("Epistolae duae de Motu chyli et sanguinis" - accompanied by 3 plates) on the relation between the lymphatic system and the thoracic duct.Krivatsy 780 Wellcome 11, 107. Waller 714 Choulant-F. 245 Kestner 86.

Hafniae, 1819. 4to. Indbundet ubeskåret,og delvis uopskåret i senere hldrbd. Nogle ark brunet. Med bogtrykt titel blad,uden det kobberstukne. XXXII,248 pp. samt 70 kobberstukne tavler. Danmarks klassiske algevark. Med beskrivelser of 321 arter,hvor af de ca 270 aafbildet og over 50 opstillet som nye.

Folio. Cont. full vellum. Vellum loosening at first edge. Engraved title and printed with engraved vignette. (64),1156 pp + General register (lacks last few pages of the Index).

Edinburgh, Balfour, Cadell, Nourse, 1776. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Upper 2 compartments repaired. Scratches to frontcover. Stamp on title-page. VIII,163 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, on good paper. First edition. The Scottich mathematician, James Glenie is well known for many new geometrical constructions and proofs, a novel demonstration of the binomial theorem, and an alternative approach to the differential calculus.

London, Frederick Warne & Co. and New York, (1905). Small 8vo. Orig. brown boards. Coloured illustration on upper board. Green printed lettering on spine, wholly intact. First inner hinge weakening. Pictorial endpapers in colour. 25 colour-illustrations. Clean and fine. First edition in excellent condition.

Kjøbenhavn, C.G. Iversen, u.år (ca. 1845). Høj tvær-8vo. Original litograferet kartonnage med billede. Ryg forstærket med shirt. Kartonnagen med brugspletter og brugsspor. Litograferet titelblad med litograferet billede (gengivelse af forpermen), men her i koloreret stand 44 pp. samt 8 smukke litograferede plancher, alle i farvelitografi. Tekstsiderne med spredte brunpletter og lettere brugsspor, plancherne i fin stand. Yderst sjælden dansk bearbejdelse for børn af Swifts hovedværk, her i komplet stand.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1848. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Ergänzungsbd., Bd. II, Stück 2. Titlepage to Erg-Bd. 2. Pp. 193-368. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 304-331, textillustr. a. pp. 332-355, textillustr. A stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine. First German editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by "the founder of the new optics". The French versions of the papers appeared in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique"(1846).The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30, was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later, around 1845, when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. "On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel, frère de l'illustre académicien." Thus, the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT (in the German version).The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature, interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts, all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT (in the German version), as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 "Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière" (Annales de Chimie et de Physique, tome 15, pp. 379-386)."As it was, Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal, the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." (DSB V, p. 171).

Dated "20.8.43". 2 pages 8vo. Written on blue paper w. the letterhead "Wedellsborg/ Ejby." The letter is a polite refusal to an invitation to give a lecture. It translates as thus: "I am very sorry/ that that you have not/ received an answer to your letter/ sooner. For about a month/ I have been travelling around Funen, and/ I have been staying numerous/ places, and unfortunately I have not/ received your letter, there/ has possibly been an incorrect re-addressing and thereby delay./ I am sorry that I can/ not accept your/ kind request to/ give a lecture at your place. -/ In the fall I will/ have so much to do that I can/ not accept any more/ engagements. -/ Kind regards/ Yours sincerely/ Karen Blixen-Finecke." The legendary Danish writer, Karen Blixen-Finecke (pseudonym: Isak Dinesen) (1885-1962), was a Danish baroness, who married her cousin, the Swedish Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. They soon moved to Africa, where they ran a coffee-farm near Nairobi, and the happiest years of Blixen's life were spent here (she used to say that "Africa made me"). The farm in the Ngong Hills is the centre of her world famous novel, "Out of Africa". She divorced her husband, who was cheating on her and gave her syphilis, in 1922, and in 1932 she moved back to Denmark after the farm had gone bankrupt and her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton, had died in a plane-crash. She spent the remaining 30 years of her life in Denmark, and died a legendary writer. She greatly influenced writers and cultural personas of the generations to come, and many authors recognize the direct impact she has had on their writings. Several of her novels have been filmatized, most famously "out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice, she was elected honorary member of "The American Academy of Arts and Letters" (1957), and her portrait is printed on the Danish 50 kr. notes. She is the absolutely most famous of all modern Danish writers, and the only one of international fame.

Leipzig, Johann Benjamin Georg Fleischer, 1799. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XX,172 pp. and 4 large folded plates. A few brownspots to the first few leaves. Scarce first edition. Here Lehmann standardized the Hachure Representation. Hachures are an older mode of representing relief. They show orientation of slope, and by their thickness and overall density they provide a general sense of steepness. Being non-numeric, they are less useful to a scientific survey than contours, but can successfully communicate quite specific shapes of terrain. They are a form of shading, although different from the one used in shaded maps. - Poggendorffr I, 1410.

Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1785. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers to both issues., no backstrip. In: "Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell", 1785:1. Bd., 3. Stück. a. 1785: 1.Bd., Stück 4. ( 2 whole issues = Stück3-4). (2),196-288 a. (2),291-384 a. 1 engraved plate. - Scheele's papers: pp. 229-38 a. pp. 291-299. First appearance of these importent papers by the discoverer of oxygen. "In 1785, Scheele revised his views on the nature of air and fire (the papers offered) as a result of Lavoisier's observations on the increase in weight on burning phosphorus in air. He says he had also often observed the formation of water on the explosion of a mixture of inflammable air (hydrogen) and fire air in a bottle, but had thought that the moisture was in the gases (as Priestly had done in 1781....(Parkinson III:p.228). "It is only the exact observation of Lavoisier which had helped me out of the dream.."(Scheele).

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1865-73. Bound in 10 uniform contemp. red halfcalf. Raised bands, gilt spines. All edges gilt. Covers with blindstamped borders. Slightly rubbed at spine ends. Album in small 4to. with some wear to top of spine. Otherwise fine, on good paper. Music-volume: 79,56,52 pp. of music. Album-volume with engravings, portraits and facsimiles.

Cosmopoli (Amsterdam ), No printer, 1714. 8vo. Full vellum (from ab. 1850). Engraved frontispiece. X,267,(9) pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. First 3 leaves with a small wormtract, some browning and a few scattered brownspots. One of the earliest works dealing with chimneys and fire-places, how to construct them, their heating with coal and wood and their ventilation, giving the subject of ventilation the first scientific-technical treatment. Gauger designed and invented the Louvre-type of fire-place, its system described here. - The first part of the work was published a year before, Paris 1713. - Poggendorff I:852.

Lübeck, Schultze, 1680. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Light soiling to extremities and old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Internally very nice and clean. (32), 1157, 108, (17) pp. Rare second edition of "Palaestra Vere Christiana", but here for the first time published under this title, of Hornstedt devotional work on the perseverance in faith and the ultimate triumph of believers through God's support. Thomas Honstedt (1642 - 1704), was a German Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman, head pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and Senior of the Clerical Ministry. Son of a Lübeck merchant, he studied at several universities before becoming a preacher at Lübeck's Burgkirche in 1670 and later head pastor at the Cathedral in 1684. Known for his Lutheran orthodoxy, he led theological reforms, oversaw the installation of a new organ, and co-authored the official Lübeck hymnbook and catechism. OCLC only list one copy.

Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1862-63. 4to. Contemp. hcalf., spine gilt. A few scattered brownspots. Lithographed frontispiece. XII,50,80,78,(2),79-164 pp. 10 large folded lithographed maps with outline colouring. With general titlepage "Mittheilungen, Erg.-Bd.", General titlepage with map (Skizze von Inner Afrika). A small stamp to first general titlepage. (Petermann's "Geographischen Mittheilungen", Ergänzungsband II. 1862/1863).

(København, ca 1800). Folio. Slidt samtidigt hldrbd.. På forpermen i guld: E. Recke. Ialt ca 200 pp. Nogle blade med rifter og slid. Med ialt 31 helsides tegninger og 12 halvsides, alle i akvarelfarver, håndkolorerede. Der mangler nogle blade forrest og bagerst. Gennemgående med kraftige brugsspor, men et standardeksempel på tidens søkadetmanuskripter. Akvarellerne viser skibe og konstruktioner, kanoner og lavetter, måleinstrumenter, minering, bomber etc. etc.

Würzburg, Hiob Hertzen,1704. 4to. Nice later hcalf with raised bands and blindtoolings. (12), 538, (8) pp. and 50 fine half-page engravings in the text by C. Luyken. A frontisp. seems to be missing. First edition.

Marseille, Trabaud, Buisson, 1793. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small repair to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. 420 pp. A later edition of his famous mediterranean-pilot. Henry Michelot is well known of his several influential cartographic works devoted to the Mediterranean.