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Stuttgart, Buchdruckerei der hohen Karlsschule, 1787-88. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spines. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved titlevignette. (24),619,(3);(60),507 pp. and 52 (12+40) folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. First edition.

London, John Bellamie, 1650. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and triple ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Upper front hinge split and spine-ends with a few tears. Inner hinges split. Boards slightly soiled. Both font free end-paper with annotations in contemporary hand. Internally with occassional light marginal browning but generally nice and clean. (14), 374, (2), 32, 35-58, 61-76, 83-234, 239-334 pp. First edition of Trapp’s commentary and interpretation on three books from the Old Testament of the Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs.

Paris, Croullebois etc., AN XII. - 1804. Bound in one fine contemp. green hmorocco. Richly gilt spine with gilt lettering. (2),LXIII,157;(4),291 pp. a. 24 fine engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. First French edition. - Waller: 9204.

Hannover, Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1787-90. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to spineends.Stamps on titlepages. (4),VIII,(18),346,(8);XVI,448,(2);V,(11),349 pp. and 23 folded engarved plates. (on 22). 1folded table. First edition, but only volume 1-3 of 4. - Klaus Jordan: 3353.

'S-Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1885-96. 8vo (Textvols.) a. 4to (Platevols.). 8 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 512;1032;353;393 pp. and 255 double-page lithographed plates. This section of "Waterbouwkunde" deals entirely with the construction of bridges.

(Copenhagen, 1800). 4to. Uncut without wrappers as issued in "Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". 204 pp. and 7 large folded engraved plates. First edition of the first systematic description of the flora of Morocco. Schousboe was Danish consul-general in Morocco, and sponsored by the Dane Johann v. Bülow, he travlled round Morocco in the years 1791-93 to describe the flora. The catalogue descibes the plants in Danish and Latin. The work was translated the year after into German and many years later into French (1874). - Pritzel: 8343. - Jackson p. 351 (The French edition).

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 863-883 and 1 plate. Margin of plate with small tears.Otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of the first paper describing the invention of the seismograph to record earthquakes."Milne studied at the Royal School of Mines and became mining engineer. He joined an Expedition to Arabia as a geologist. His real chance came in 1875, however, when he accepted an appointment as a professor of geology and mining in the Imperial College of Engineering at Tokyo. He remained in Japan for twenty years and there had a marvelous opportunity to study earthquakes, for no land is more riven with them than Japan. In 1880 he invented the seismograph...and established a chain of seismographs in Japan and elsewhere, marking the beginning of modern seismology."(Asimow).The paper describes 8 sets of experiments set up at different stations in Japan.On Milne's initiative the Seismological Society of Japan was founded, and the emperor of Japan conferred upon him the Order of the Rising Sun.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1904. 8vo. Bound in half cloth with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet 1868 durch von A. Clebsch und C. Neumann. 59. Band." Small bar-code pasted on to top left corner of front wrapper. Two library labels pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamp to verso of title page. Pp. 514-16. First appearence of this fundamental paper in metamathematics and mathematical logic in which he introduced both "The Axiom of Choice" and "his sensational proof of the well-ordering theorem" (DSB). By this paper Zermelo contributed decisively to the development of set-theory. Zermelo took up the problem, left over by Cantor, of what to do about the comparison of sets that are not well-ordered. "In 1904 (the paper offered) he proved....that every set can be well-ordered. To make the proof he had to use what is now known as the axiom of choice (Zermelo's axiom), which states that given any collection of nonempty, disjoined sets, it is possible to choose one member from each set and so make up a new set. The axiom of choce, the well-ordering theorem, and the fact that any two sets may be compared as to size, are equivalent principles."(Morris Kline). A controversy arose around "The axiom of Choice", from Bertrand Russell, Tarski, Frege, Hilbert, Brouwer and others, mainly, and of course importent, over how to interpret the words "choose" and "exists".The issue also contain the following papers of interest:David Hilbert. Über das dirichletsche prinzip. Pp. 161-186.Lie, Sophus. Drei Kapitel aus dem unvollendeten zweiten Bande der Geometrie der Berührungstransformationen. Pp. 193-313.Schoenflies, A. Beitrage zur Theorie der Punktmengen II, Pp. 129-160.

(Amsterdam, ca. 1688). 49x58,5 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Skåne, Halland og Blekinge med Østsjælland og Sundet samt den nordlige del af Halland indsat i nederste højre hjørne. 2 kartoucher med putti. I fin original håndkolorereing. Kortet udkom i De Wits "Atlas Maior" 1688. - (Erman-Mingroot nr. 54)

Nürnberg, Weisel, 1738. - Withbound: Christen von Landsberg: Neue=Grund=Risse und Entwürffe Der Kriegs=Bau=Kunst Die Plätze zu defendiren und zu attaquiren. Dresden und Leipzig, Hekel, 1737. Bound together in one cont. hvellum. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of back. Stamp on first titlepage. 40 pp. and 7 (of 8, the last in facsimile) large folded engraved plates. - Landsberg: Engraved frontispiece. (30),166 pp. and 21 engraved plates. Broad margins, a few scattered brownspots. First work: Klaus Jordan No. 1994 (only listing this edition, the third ?)- Second work: Klaus Jordan No. 2020.

(Paris, Crochard, 1823). 8vo. Without wrappers as extracted from: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Vol. 22, pp. 375-389. First appearance of this paper, revealing the results of experiments with the galvanic elements, using pairs of small antimony and bismuth bars welded in series, which Oersted performed together with Fourier during his visit to Paris. This constitutes the invention of the first thermo-electrical pile. Oersted and Fourier had found that heat had a significant effect upon the performance of the galvanic element. - "Seebeck seems to have had another theory about this. However, I have experimented with the matter, and found the conjecture correct. I believe that this discovery will be of far-reaching consequence. The laws for this new effects are, I suppose, in reality the same as for the galvanic battery; yet this looks so different that I have been obliged to spend a great deal of my time during the last fortnight in discovering and defining them...". In a letter of somewhat later date to prince Christian, he states that he has made the experiments "in conjunction with Fourier, the secretary of the mathematical department of the Institute". Oersted, when reading this paper to the Academy on 31st of March 1823, proposed the name "thermo-electric" for these currents, a name which has since been adopted everywhere. Ronalds Catalogue p. 374. - Ørsted, Works II, p. 272. Stitched together with this paper is "Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Ampere à M. Faraday". Pp. 389-400. First printing. Dealing with electricity.

Paris, Dezauche, (1784). (58 x 87 cm.). Engraved map of Metz. A few small closed marginal tears to paper, not reaching image. A tear to lower part (3 cm) repaired on verso, no loss of image.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. XIV,448 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, Bd. 29). Also having the general titlepage, this with a stamp.

Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1836. Lille 8vo. Ubeskåret i senere blankt , grønt papirsomslag. Gl. ejernavne på titelbladet. (2),36 pp., 1 planche. Brunplettet. Enkelte gamle understregninger. Originaludgaven af vel den første egentlige beskrivelse af Torshavn.

København, C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind med spejldekoration og rester af rig rygforgyldning. Titelblad trykt i rødt og sort. Bind slidt og forperm løsnet fra bogblok. Tidligere ejers navne på titelbladet. Nummerstempel bag på titelbladet. (32), 585,(21) pp Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede. Til denne udgivelse har Glasing selv skåret illustrationerne efter de originale. Fuchs/Reynard the Fox har rødder i tysk middelalderlig folklore og dukkede første gang op i en trykt dansk version i Herman Weigeres oversættelse, Lübeck 1555. I Weigeres oversættelse, som i Høyers og Glasings version er kommenteret og suppleret efter alle kunstens regler, residerer kong Løve i Lemvig.Bibl. Dan. IV,267.

London, Akerman, 1822. Bound in 2 fine longgrained hmorocco, richly gilt backs. Top edge gilt.(Bayntun). LXXIV,444,494 pp. and 12 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Tooley No. 142.

Berlin, Mittler und Sohn, 1874-81. Lex8vo. 5 contemp. hcalf, gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Paperlabels pasted on spines. Spines rubbed. Stamps on title-pages. With textmaps and 67 large folded lithographed maps and plans. The maps in 5 portfolios with matching spines in leather. Somewat worn spines. Some maps in part I with traces of use.

Copenhagen, N. Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Traces from old paper-label to top of spine, otherwise a very nice and clean. (12), 186 pp. + 11 folded plates. First German transtion of "Idées d'un militaire pour la Disposition des Troupes...Paris, 1783". Klaus Jordan No. 1253.

Franckfurth, Metzler, 1713. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, corner bumped and foot of spine with minor loss of leather. Internally fine and clean. (28), 400, (12), (16), 296 pp. Rare first edition of Petersen’s work on biblical parable of the workers in the vineyard, found in the Gospel of Matthew (20:1-16). The parable tells the story of a landowner who hires workers at different times of the day to work in his vineyard but pays them all the same wage which has been interpreted in various ways in Christian teachings. OCLC is only listing one copy (in Sachsen, Germany).

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1869-73. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcloth. Around 300 pp., plates. Some brownspots. First edition of Thomsens main contributions in thermochemistry, undoubtly the most importent contribution from a Dane in chemistry in the 19th century. - The construction of a complete and quantitative system of thermochemistry required an extensive and accurate collection of thermochemical data over and above the observations upon which the principle was based. The amount of data which he amassed was so great that it enabled him the calculation of heats of reaction for practically speaking every fairly common inorganic reaction. The results, which are based between three and four thousand measurements, were later collected in his famous work "Thermochemische Untersuchungen" (The Danish original oferred here).

København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1944. Stor folio. Orig. hshirtbd. Ca. 10 cm. revnedannelse øverst i shirtfalsen på bagpermen. Stempler på titelbladet. 110 pp., 170 foldeplancher gengivende historiske kort, delvis i farver, de fleste i dobbeltfolio. Indvendig ren og frisk.

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.

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

London, P. Stephens, 1653. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Stains and scratches to boards, front board with two wormholes. Inner hinges split, bookblock partly detached. (14), 106 pp. The rare first edition of Abbot’s work in which he discusses the principles of building and maintaining a Christian family. The central theme is the idea that God’s influence should be evident in all aspects of family life, shaping both individual behavior and interactions within the household. In this work, Abbot emphasizes the significance of piety, obedience and strict devotion to Christian doctrine within the family. He delves into the roles of each family member with particular emphasis on the responsibilities of parents to nurture their children in the fear and instruction of the Lord.