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Kiøbenhavn, Höeckes Enke, 1802-06. 8vo. I et lidt senere halvlæderbind med forgyldt titel på ryg. Første og sidste blade en smule brunplettet, ellers pænt eksemplar. Kort over Læsø som kobberstukket vignet på titelbladet. (14), 282; 18 pp. + 2 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven af den første beskrivelse af Læsø og som her omfatter det sjældne tillæg, som først udkom 1806. Bibl. Danica II:712.

Paris, Jean, 1820. (55 x 76 cm.). Engraved plan of Lille with explanatory text on both sides. At bottom inserted "Vue de Lille du costé de la Porte de Paris".

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 56, No 10, No 16 a. No 26. Pp. (409-) 451, (729-) 808 a. (1185-) 1267. (3 entire issues offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 416-421, 734-740 a.1189-1194. First appearance of these importent papers in which Pasteur proved and concluded that putrefaction was, like fermentation caused by living organisms and they are, therefore, analogous processes, for both involve the decomposition of substatances of organisms living in the absence of air. He also here introduced the process of "PASTEURIZATION". The last paper is listed as PMM 336 (d).In these papers "he discovered other organisms that live without air and established the idea of aerobic and anaerobic life and first used these names (1863). Aerobes were only able to live in presence of free oxygen, whereas anaerobic or zymics, as he called them, grew in the absence of oxygen."(Bullocdh "The History of Bacteriology", p. 61).

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1858 [1857]. 8vo. Bound in a beautiful contemporary half calf binding with richly gilt spine. Spine slightly faded. Wear to extremeties. Inscribed by Schack to flyleaf: "Til min egen snälla og kära ven W- / fra hendes hjertelig hengivne / gamle ven E. S." ('For my sweet and dear friend W[endela], from her loving old friend E. S.') An unusually clean copy. (4),470,(2) pp. A beautiful copy of the first edition, inscribed by Schack to his wife Fanny Vendela Armida Hebbe (1833-1912). The copy previously belonged to the distinguished Danish librarian and H. C. Andersen collector Erik Dal (1922-2006).

Kobberstukket kort over Slesvig og Holsten i samtidig håndkolorering. 38,5 x 51,5 cm. Med 2 kompasroser, skib i Nordsøen og 2 indsatte særkort i øverste hjørner. På bagsiden fransk tekst. Kortet er gengivet i Pontanus "Rerum Danicarum Historia" 1631, men støtter sig iøvrigt på Jordans kort med mange nye detaljer. Kortet forekommer uændret i flere atlas fra tiden, således også hos Janssonius.

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.

Berlin u. Potsdam, A. Rüdiger, 1731-38. 4to. Bound in one cont. full calf (Cambridge-binding) with raised bands and richly gilt back. Top of spine slightly frayed. (8),240,(8)-(1),326,(8)-(46),317,(15) pp. and 3 folded engraved maps. Slight browning to some leaves. First German edition of "this well-known and highly estimated work" (Lowndes IV:2390).

Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1829-38. Ubeskårede i 9 orig. blå blanke omslag. Velbevarede med få maginale brunpletter. First edition. Berzelius reported his own discoveries in the various editions of his textbook, and he surveyed the whole progress of chemistry in his annual reports, the "Arsberättelser över vetenskapernas framsteg", which were translated into German, mostly by Wöhler, and were read everywhere.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 26, No 21. Pp. (529-) 548. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538. Clean and fine. First appearance of the announcement of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of "molecular assymetry" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority (the paper offered). A more full exposition was published the same year in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome XXIV."In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the xcrystasls were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resemmbled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on."(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry", p. 374-379).

Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1792 - 1801. 8vo. Uniformly bound (leather on vol. 6 somewhat more darkend and spotted) in 6 contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of wear to extremities and small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Internally fine and clean. (12), 420 pp. + 2 folded plates; (16), 480 pp. + 1 folded plate; (12), 510 pp. + 5 folded plates. (8), 460 pp. + 6 folded plates; (12), 524 pp.; (12), 571 pp. + 2 folded plates; (14), 548 pp. + p plates.

Edinburgh & Oxford, 1952, 1956 + 1963. All three articles are present in the entire orig. volumes, all in the orig. wrappers. The two volumes of "Mind" are in the orig. printed grey wrappers and the "Philosophical Essays" is in the orig. green full cloth w. the orig. d-j. in very good condition w. only a few smaller tears to upper capital and upper front wrapper, not price-clipped. Internally mint. Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285 w. a tear to back, else very fine. Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259 w. some signs of wear, especially to extremities, but a fine and internally very clean copy. This set comprises the entire "Logische Untersuchungen" in the first English language translations. In the foreword to "Compound Thoughts", the translator notes: "This article, entitled "Logische Untersuchungen. Dritter Teil: Gedankenfüge", was published in the "Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, III (1923), 36-51. The first two parts of these "logical investigations" were "Der Gedanke" (Beiträge I (1819), trans. "The Thought" in MIND LXV (1956) ) and "Die Verneinung" (Beiträge I (1919), trans. "Negation" in Geach and Black (ed.) "Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege."). The three articles that constitute the Logical Investigations are some of the most important, influential and widely discussed of Frege's philosophical papers. In 1875 the entire "Logical Investigations" appeared together in English translation for the first time. It was Frege's wish that these three articles were viewed as a whole and published together under the title of "Logische Untersuchungen", now considered a work of the utmost importance. These three volumes also comprise many other articles by Frege in the first English translations (in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege) as well as original contributions by P.T. Geach: "On Frege's Way Out" (in Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259. and "Mr. Strawson on Symbolic and Traditional Logic" (in Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285).Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) was a German mathematician, but his main contributions lie in his becoming a logician and a philosopher, who influenced the fields of logic and analytic philosophy immensely. Together with Wittgenstein, Russel and Moore, Frege is considered the founder of analytic philosophy, and a main founder of modern mathematical logic. His influence on 20th century philosophy has been profound, especially in the English speaking countries from the middle of the 20th century and onwards; in this period most of his works were translated into English for the first time.The philosophical papers of Frege were published in Germany in scholarly journals, which were barely read outside of German speaking countries. The first collections of his writings did not appear untill after the the Second World War, and Frege was little known as a philosopher during his lifetime. He greatly influenced the likes of Russel, Wittgenstein and Carnap, though, and bears a great responsibility for the turn modern philosophical thought has taken. Due to his contributions to the philosophy of language, analytic philosophy could be founded as it were.

København, Det Nordiske Forlag, 1902. 8vo. I det originale forlagsbind af blindpræget hellæder. Kapitæler og kanter af permer med en smule slid. Lang revne med tab af skind ved ydre forreste fals. Helt guldsnit. Exlibris på indersiden af forperm. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang på friblad: "Jonas Lie / fra / hans Lærling / Herman Bang. / 6.12.1902." Ren og pæn indvendig. Nydelige eksemplar af originaludgaven med dedikation til den norske forfatter Jonas Lie (1833-1908), et af Bangs store litterære forbilleder.

Coph., 1938-83.

London, Knapton, Lintot..., 1753. Bound in 9 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Covers occassionally very slightly rubbed. Engraved frontispiece. In all 24 engraved plates numbered I-XXIV. Title-pages printed in red and black. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiches Efterleverske, 1777. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen, stregforgyldninger i rygfelter. Forgyldt titeletiket med lille hak. En smule slid ved kapitæler. Kobberstukket portræt af Hofman (Stukket af J.G. Wille), flere vignetter. En foldeplanche og en tabel. På fribladet "Til min gode Ven/ Skjalden Johannes Ewald/ fra/ Forfatteren/ Kjöbenhavn det 1777 Aar." "Forfatteren" er her B.C. Sandvig, som har forfærdiget bogens tillæg. Også tilhørt C. Bricka og Poul Hauge med hans exlibris. Dette er 2. udgaven, som blev sat med fraktur i modsætning til første-udgaven der var sat i antikva. Værket om "Tiende" har som grundlag en opsats om dette emne, som H. havde skrevet på foranledning af Universitetet i Jena, der hædrede ham med den juridiske doktorgrad (diplomet gengivet på foldeplanchen). - Bibl. Danica II:920.

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1794 - 1795. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary (original?) blue cardbord-bindings with author and tome-label in contemporary hand. Small paper-labels pasted on to top of spine. Spines with wear and miscoloured. Internally nice and clean. XVI, 446; pp.; IV, 444 pp.; (8), 391 pp.; (10), 404 pp. First German edition of Ramsay's landmark work on the American Revolution. David Ramsay is considered to be one of the first major historians of the American Revolution. Sabin 67688.

Paris, Maradan, L'An II (1794). 8vo. Bound in 8 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering on spines. A few spine-ends with light wear. Stamps on half-titles. Without Atlas-volume. Brunet IV,325.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1811 a.1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1811-Part II. 269-336 and 2 engraved plates showing the shapes of 42 nebulae and star-clusters. And 1814 - Part I. Pp. 248-84 a. 1 engraved plate. Both fine and clean. First appearance of two milestone papers in cosmology in which Herschel demonstrates the irregular distribution of the stars in space, and "for the first time recognized that the clusters in and near the Milky Way really belonged to it, and were not independent systems that happened to lie in the same direction as seen by us."(Berry, Short History of Astronomy, p. 340)."In 1811 and 1814 (the papers offered) he published a complete theory of a possible process wherby the shining fluid consisting a diffused nebula might gradually condense - the denser portions of it being centres of attraction - first into a denser nebula or compressed star cluster, then into one or more nebulous stars, lastly into a single star or group of stars. Every supposed stage in this process was abundantly illustrated from records of actual nebulae and clusters which he had observed."(Berry)."Illustrated with many examples at every stage, these papers (1811 a. 1814) showed brilliantly how dynamic changes can be inferred from virtually static evidence; and Herschel concluded by characterizing the Milky Way in its present stage of dissolution as "this mysterious chronometer". (DSB VI, p. 333). A paper by Henry Kater attached: "Further Experiments on the Light of the Cassegrainian telescope compared with that of the Georgian". 1814. Pp. 231-247.

London, John Murray, 1828-40. Bound in 6 solid full fabrikoid. Gilt library number to foot of spine. Gilt lettering to spine. With 55 engraved maps and plans. Stampson ront free endpapers. Internally clean. First edition.

4to. 2 cont. full calf. 5 raised bands. Gilt back. Top of spines a little worn. Extremities a little rubbed. One titlelabel torn. Engraved frontispiece, engr. titlevign. (34),756,575 pp. + Index. printed on good paper.

Kiöbenhavn, Johan Frederik Schultz, 1789. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. m. ophøjede bd. på ryg og rig rygforgyldn. Forgyldt skindtitel. Mindre revnedannelse på false ved øverste kapitæl. Lidt marginale spredte brunpletter. Eksemplar på skrivepapir med brede marginer. 16 kobberstukne plancher af Clemens, de 15 efter Abildgaard og Niels Klim som drabant efter Juel. Godt eksemplar af den såkaldte "Pragtudgave", "et af det 18. Aarhundredes bedste bogværker" (Birkelund nr. 182).

Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Waldkirchs Arvinger, 1640. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helldrbd. Permer med tredobbelte stregrammer i blindtryk, florale blindtrykte i hjørner. I midtfelterne et ovalt ornament, som flere gange er set på bøger fra Waldkirchs trykkeri. Ryggen med blindtryk. Lidt ryg- og kantslid. Hjørner stødte. Med træstukket portræt af kongen og rigsvåbnet. 159,(8) blade + 18 blade. Ca. 15 blade har en svag fugtskjold. Christian III's Kirkeordinants fra 1537 blev genudgivet 1617 følgende teksten i udgaven fra 1553. Denne udgave fra 1640 er et nøjagtigt optryk af 1617-udgaven.Thesaurus II,424. - Bibl. Danica II,913 og I,635. - Christian IV og Europa, 1670.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. Engraved frontispiece. (6),114,274 pp., 10 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. With original papers by: de la Hire, Maraldi, Lemery de Cadet, Cassini, Nicole, Saulmon, Delisle le Cadet, Chevalier de Louville, Rouhaut, Saulmon, Malezieu, Maraldi & Cassini, Petit, Malezieu, Reaumur, Varignon, Winslow (FIRST EDITION of the paper, describing "forarmen Winslowii": Nouvelles Observations anatomiques sur la Situation et la Conformation des plusieurs Visceres. pp. 226-235, Geoffroy le Cadet, Senés.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 91, No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. 251-310. The Curie's paper: pp. 294-295. First apperance of the paper in which the two brothers announced their discovery of the Piezoelectric Effect, as they observed how an electric potential appeared across crystals of quartza and of Rochelle salt when pressure was applied to them. The potential varied directly with the pressure, and they named the phenomenon Piezoelectricity, meaning "to press" (Greek). Crystals with piezoelectric properties form an essential portion of sound-electronics devices such as microphones and record-players."The applications of piezoelectric crystals are innumerable; one of the most important is their use in frequency stabilization of oscillating electromagnetic cirasciots for radio broadcasting stations. They are used in most piezometers for measuring with great precision either very strong pressure variations, such as those of a cannon at the moment of firing, or very weak ones, such as artery pulsations. These applications have led to the creation of a new industry, the manufacture of large "mono" such as quartz obtained hydrothermally around 500°C. under high water pressures, or crystals such as Rochelle salt, obtained from aqueous solutions. These two substances were mentioned in the Curie brothers’ report announcing the discovery of piezoelectricity." (DSB)."The first experimental demonstration of a connection between macroscopic piezoelectric phenomena and crystallographic structure was published in 1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie. Their experiment consisted of a conclusive measurement of surface charges appearing on specially prepared crystals (tourmaline, quartz, topaz, cane sugar and Rochelle salt among them) which were subjected to mechanical stress. These results were a credit to the Curies' imagination and perseverance, considering that they were obtained with nothing more than tinfoil, glue, wire, magnets and a jeweler's saw." (Piezo Systems, Inc.).Magee "A Source Book in Physics", p. 547 ff.

Providence, Rhode Island, The American Mathematical Society, 1969. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "Transactions of the American Mathematical Society", Volume 141, July, 1969. Entire issue offered. Spine faded and a few bumps to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 1-35. [Entire volume: (4), 527 pp.]. First printing of Rabin's landmark paper in which he introduced his infinite tree automaton; a state machine that deals with infinite tree structure. It can be viewed as an extension from a finite tree automaton, which accepts only finite tree structures. Here he proved that the second-order theory of n successors is decidable; A key component of the proof implicitly showed determinacy of parity games, which lie in the third level of the Borel hierarchy.It was used by Rabin for proving decidability of monadic second order logic. It has been further observed that tree automaton and logical theories are closely connected and it allows decision problems in logic to be reduced into decision problems for automaton.