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Paris, Chez Crochard, 1824. Later full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 25. 448 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Liebig & Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 285-311. Titlepage with browning and marginal repairs. Stamp to verso of titlepage. A few scattered brownspots, mostly to plates. The paper clean. First printing of a classical paper in chemistry, helping to establish "Isomerism", stating that some chemical substances have the same composition, but different properties."One of Wöhler's earliest researches was made on the cyanates, the same group of compounds which led to the syntheis of urea. The silver salt of cyanic acid was carefully analyzed and reported in the litterature - 77.23 per cent silver oxide, 22.77 per cent cyanic acid. At about the same time Justus von Liebig, working in Gay-Lussac's laboratory, completed analyzing silver fulminate - 77.53 per cent silver oxide, 22.47 per cent cyanic acid. The analyses indicated an identity, but the compounds clearly differed in properties. Liebig, certain that Wöhler analyses was wron, apparently confirmed this by preparing and analzing silver cyanate, it contained 71 per cent of silver oxide... The two chemists were faced with the dilemma of having two compounds, but drastically different properties... brzelius took notice of the fact that the composition of cyanates and fulminates was apparently identical, but was unable to arrive at an explanation. Gay-Lussac, convinced of the correctness of the analyses, attributed the difference in properties to variation in the way the elements were combined." (Ihre "The development of Modern Chemistry", p. 171).The volume contains other notable papers by Humphrey Davy, Poisson, Felix Savart, Humboldt, Wollaston etc.

Carlsruhe u.Freib., 1831. 4to. Nice cont.hcalf.,gilt back a.atlas in folio-oblong bound in cont. hcloth. (8),XVI,218,XII,194,(2) pp.Text somewhat brownspotted. St.on titles. Atlas in folio with 34 + 24 litogr. plates(2 litogr.titles).

Kjøbenhavn, 1847. 8vo. One nice contemporary black/brown full cloth with gilt title to spine. A bit of wear to capitals and corners. Internally a very fresh and bright copy. 224, 203 pp. First edition. Himmelstrup 105.

Carlscrona, Kongl. Amiralitets Tryckeriet, 1787. Lille 4to. Indbundet med de originale marmorerede papomslag i et nyere hshirtbd. Stempel på titelbladet. (4),90 pp. Trykt på svært papir. Enkelte spredte brunpletter. Enkelte samtidige håndskrevne rettelser i teksten.

Kiøbenhaffn, Salomon Sartor og Jørgen Holst, 1639. Lille 8vo. Noget senere hldrbd. Ryg med stregforgyldninger. Forgyldt rygtitel. Noget slid langs kanter.Titelbladet trykt i rød/sort. (16),208,86),214,(10),192,(8) pp. Sidste blad i faksimile (=sidste side af register til 3. afdeling). Indvendig med brugsspor og spredte pletter. Første danske oversættelse. Originalen udkom første gang i Rostock 1633 med 200 historier. Peter Lauremberg var broder til den kendte professor i matematik i Sorø Hans Lauremberg. Han blev i 1624 professor i poesi og medicin ved Rostock universitetet og her blev han rektor i 1635. Han forblev i Rostock til sin død i 1639.Bibl. Danica II,464.

København (Copenhagen), Westermann, 1948. Orig. unstiched loose sheets in the orig. blue cardboard-folder w. paper-title, as issued. In the orig. blue cardboard-slipcase, also with printed paper-title. Spine and edges of slip-case a bit faded, otherwise an excellent, mint copy. No CXLVI of 235. First Danish edition of Eliot's monumental work, signed by Eliot and the two Danish translators. This modernist poem is one of the most celebrated and discussed poems of the 2oth century, and its modernist themes such as the decline of civilization and the lack of meaning of life greatly influenced modern literature and thought. There is no doubt that Eliot also greatly influenced modern Danish literature, and the Danish translator of "The Waste Land", Tom Kristensen, is one of the most acknowledged Danish writers of the 20th century. The work was originally published in 1922, and the Danish translation appeared in 1948, the same year that Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This first Danish translation was printed in a number of 650 regular copies, and 235 (Roman) numbered copies signed by the author and the two translators, of which this is number 146.

Wien, Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1865. 4to. Contemporary hcalf. Corners bumped, edges rubbed. Part of upper wrapper from the general title cut and mounted but having the htitle: "Vögel". Internally fine. IV,176 pp. and 6 fine chromolithographed plates of birds. (T.F. Zimmermann pinx - Lith. A. Hartinger). The original printing of the bird-section from "Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Erster Band Vögel." - Several new species are here fully decribed. - Anker: 391 - Casey A. Wood p. 515 - BMC (NH) I:p.75.

London, Watts, 1752. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. light wear at spine-ends. Covers with gilt lineborders. Titlelabel gone. Title-page in red and black. A repair to upper part of title-page with some reconstruction of the letters in "Voyages". (10),336 pp., 2 woodengraved vignettes. "Boyle's narrative is probably fictitious, but that of Castelman bears marks of authenticity. The latter's visit to Philadelphia took place in 1710. Boyle's voyages have often been reprinted; but Castelman's relation is only to be found in the early editions. The work has been attributed to Benj. Victor; also to Daniel Defoe." (Sabin).Sabin, 12553 (but not this edition which comprises Castelman's account with its own title-page).

Darmstadt, Johann Wilhelm Heyer, 1821. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (16),XV,358,(12);XV,(1),356,(8) pp. and 30 folded engraved plates in folio. Some scattered brownspots. First edition.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1894. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 51, No. 2. (Entire issue offered). Pp. 225-416 a. 2 plates. Lenard's paper: pp. 225-267 a. 1 arge folded lithographed plate, showing the apparatus. Clean and fine. First appearance of Lenard's importent paper on cathode rays for the work on which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905."After many experiments with aluminium foil of various thickness he was able to publish, in 1894 the paper offered), his great discovery that the plate of quartz that had, until then, been used to close the discharge tube, could be replace by a thin plate of aluminium foil just thick enough to maintain the vacuum inside the tube, but yet thin enough to allow the cathode rays to pass out. It thus became possible to study the cathode rays, and also the fluorescence they caused, outside the discharge tube and Lenard concluded from the experiments that he then did that the cathode rays were propagated through the air for distances of the order of a decimetre and that they travel in a vacuum for several metres without being weakened. Although Lenard at first followed Hertz in believing that the cathode rays were propagated in the ether, he later abandoned this view as the result of the work of Jean Perrin in 1895, Sir J.J. Thomson in 1897 and W. Wien in 1897, which proved the corpuscular nature of the cathode rays."(Nobel Prize.org).Shiers "Early Television" no 239.

Havniæ, Typhographéo Regiæ Majest. & Universit., 1707. 4to. Samtidigt hpergamentsbd. Titelblad i rødt/sort. (12),360,(40) pp. Teksten lettere brunet p.g.a. papirkvaliteten. Dedikation på inderside af forreste perm: "Clarissimo et Doctissimo Viro/ Dn: Andreæ Busæo/ D.D.D./ Otho Sperling". (Busæus (egentlig Anders Buss) er den norske historiker og retslærde, der en overgang var borgmester i Helsingør). Originaludgaven. - Bibl. Danica II:578 - Fiske I: p. 545.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1767 and Berlin, Ch. Fr. Voss, 1774). 4to. Without wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres" Tome XXI, pp. 364-380 and " Nouveau Mémoires...", pp. 97-122. Both first edition in the journal form. Huygens proved Geometrically in 1659 that the tautochrone was a cycloid curve. This solution was later used to attack the problem of the Brachistochrone curve. Jacob Bernoulli solved the problem by using calculus in a paper from 1690, which for the first time used the term 'integral'. Both Lagrange and Euler loked for an analytical solution to the problem. Lagrange, in the papers offered here, developed a formal calculus based on the analogy between Newton's theorem and the successive differentiations of the product of two functions. He also communicated this to Eule in a letter written in Latin slightly before the Italian publication. In a letter to D'Alembert in 1769 Lagrange confirmed that this method of maxima and minima was the first fruit of his studies - he was only 19 when he divised it - and that he regarded it as his best work.A paper by Leonhard Euler:¨Éclaircissement plus détailles sur La generation et Propagation du Son et sur la Formation de L'Echo" Berlin Academy Royale 1767" in first edition withbound.

Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1795. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. XXX,652,91 pp. 1 folded table and 41 large folded engraved plates (Plate 35 bis, 36 bis and 37 bis). Occassional light browning to leaves and plates. First German edition of Adams' "Geometrical and Graphical Essays", 1791. - Poggendorff I, 10.

Leipzig, Fritsch, 1725. 4to. In contemporary gilt floral ornamented wrappers. Spine with wear and miscolured. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Inner hinges split. Previous owner's name (Peter Otto Rosenørn - owner of Hersomgård) in contemporary hand to verso of front wrapper. Internally nice and clean. (10), 126 pp. Rare Electoral capitulation (Wahlkapitulation) for Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death in 1740. The Wahlkapitulation was a contract or set of conditions that every Holy Roman Emperor-elect had to agree to before being officially crowned. These conditions defined the powers and limitations of the Emperor in relation to the estates of the empire, essentially functioning as a constitutional agreement. Charles VI faced succession problems due to the lack of a male heir. To secure his daughter Maria Theresa’s inheritance he issued the “Pragmatic Sanction” of 1713, allowing female succession. Despite his efforts to gain European support, his death in 1740 sparked the War of the Austrian Succession. Rivals like Prussia and Bavaria challenged Maria Theresa’s claim, leading to conflict and territorial losses. While Maria Theresa ultimately retained power, Charles’s plans failed to prevent the crisis, leaving her to resolve the instability. Provenance: Valdemar's Castle, Denmark

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1921. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderdruck from "Der Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften zu ihrem 10jährigen Jubiläum". Pp. 50-52. A small tear to right margin (1 cm), otherwise fine and clean. At foot frontwrapper "Nicht im Handel". First edition, the offprint issue, of this pioneerwork in globular cluster physics."In his paper on M13 (Einstein 1921) concluded that the non-luminous mass contributes no higher order of magnitude to the total mass than does the luminous mass.To my knowledge this has been Einstein's only contact with globular clusters. As in other issues, his claim still holds."(Tom Richtler).Weil:117 - Boni:123.

Kbhvn., 1943-63. 4to. Frisk heftet eksemplar.

Sanktpeterburg : Pechatany pri Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk, 1763. 8vo. In contemproary full calf binding with five raised bands and embossed ornamentation to spine. Extremities with wear and front free end-papers heavily annotated. Each leaf printed in two collum. Multi-language (In Latin, Russian, French, and German).Internally fine. (2), 215 pp. Russian translation of Joachim Lange's influential popular "Colloquia Scholastica" translated by Martin Schwanwitz. "After having returned to the Academy of Science in 1735, Schwanwitz got the order to translate Joachim Lange's popular "Colloquia Scholastica" into Russian, whereas his colleague Johann Eberhard Fischer, rector of the Academy School's Latin Section, translated the Latin part into German. The new Latin-Russian-German-French version was published in 1738 at the Academy Press (reprints followed around 1748/49 [year, indicated on the title of this edition: 1738], in 1763 [number of copies published: 1200] and 1789). In Russian schools, the School Dialogues became highly popular and were used intensely until the end of the 18th century. They were indispensable in the lower German classes, where, according to the Academy school's curricula of 1748 and 1758, their use was compulsory. Later, in 1776, the Moscow University issued a version in five languages that also included a translation into Greek (further editions in 1785 and 1800)." (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moskau).

Karlsruhe, C.F. Müller, 1819. 12mo. Original boards with pictorial lithograps on both cover and spine. Light wear to extremeties. In original marbled slip-case with original printed titlelabel on spine. Slip-case with some tears and modest wear. 2 title-pages. (10),294;(4),51 pp., 23 double-page folded lithograped plans. Scattered brownspots.

Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1668. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, small hole to leather on lower compartment of spine. Title-page with underlignings in red and frontispiece partly detached, otherwise internally fine. (26), 310, (9) pp. First edition of Charas’ pharmacopeia specifically dedicated to Theriac of Andromachus – one of the oldest and most complicated medical concoction, containing 65 ingredients, dating as far back as 120 BC.

Leipzig, Jo. Ambr. Barth, 1829. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VI,312 pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition, being the first book by the noted Austrian mineralogist. - Poggendorff I, 996.

Karlsruhe und Leipzig, Kunst-Verlag, 1836-38 8vo. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, but worn and hinges repaired with tape. Stamp on titlepages, first and last leaf.. Engraved and printed titlepages. 214,(2);215-423,(2) pp. and 85 fine steel-engraved plates, all with protective tissue-guards. Plates and text clean and fine, printed on good paper. Internally a fine copy of the first edition.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 1-31.First lower right corner a bit creased. Clean and fine, wide-margined.. First appearance of an importent paper by "The father of physiological optics". In this memoir Young studied, as perhaps the first, the blood circulation and the function of the heart from a hydrodynamic standpoint, and he predicted that there exist a relationship between arterieal stiffness and pulse wave velocity, a relation which was only confirmed much later."In this lecture from 1808 (the item offered) he discusseas the properties of the circulatory system from a remarkkably modern standpoint. His work exerts significant influence on the subsequent studies of the Weber brothers." (Gedeon. Science and Texhnology in Medicine No. 44.8).

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Band 38, No. 6 (= Zweyte Stück). Titlepage to Vol. 38. Pp. 241-450 a. 3 engraved plates.(Entire issue offered, Heft No. 6, Bd. 38). Schwann's paper: pp. 358-364. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in the history of biology, in which Schwann describes his discovery and isolation of pepsin, the substance in the stomach that aids digestion of eggwhite. It is the FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME. The paper appeared at the same time in "Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin"Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) was a great German physiologist, pathologist, and experimenter. One of the founders of the cell doctrine and of the idea of the living nature of yeast. Born at Neuss, near Düsseldorff. A catholic, educated in the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne. Intended for the church but took to medicine. He was a pupil of Johannes Müller and a collegueand lifelong friend of J. Henle, the anatomist. In Berlin Schwann was Johannes Müller's assistent for five years, and it was then that he discovered pepsin in 1836 (the paper offered).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1836 B.The issue contains other importent papers by Seebeck, Matteucci, Marchand, G. Magnus "Ueber die Wirkung des Ankers auf Elektromagnete und Stahlmagnete", Schönbein, J. Müller "Ueber die Structur und die chemischen Eigenschaften der thierischen Bestandtheile der Knorpel und Knochen" + Nachtrag., Forchhammer "Der kopaische See und seine unterirdischen Abzugskanäle.." with a map.

(København., 1852). 4to. Samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Lidt kantslid. Smårevner ved øvre kapitæl. Litograferet titelblad, 40 pp. tekst samt 30 tonede litograferede plancher med motiver fra de af Galathea besøgte lande. Tekstsider her og der lidt brunplettede. Plancherne friske, bortset fra lidt marginale brunpletter. Litografierne udførte af Tegner & Kittendorff. Thornam var sammen med maleren A. Plum med på Galathea-ekspeditionen som tegner. Foruden videnskabelige tegninger udførte han et stort antal skitser, heraf de 30, som her blev udgivet med tekst af ham selv. "Han besad stor teknisk dygtighed, og havde en vis sans for dramatiske situationer og "de varme landes" romantik kommer til udtryk i billederne fra Galathea-Ekspeditionen" (Weilbach).

(London, Richard Taylor, 1835). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1835 - Part I. Pp. 41-56., 1 textillustr. Clean and fine. First appearance of a historical paper in which 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 electr-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).From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).The paper is reprinted in Magie: A Source Book in Physics p.485 ff.