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Paris, L'Imprimerie de Monsieur (et) Firmin Didot, 1786-1816. Bound in 3 contemp. uniform full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines, title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XLII,453;(4),402,(4);VIII,310 pp., 11 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table. Poggendorff I, 607.

Genève, chez Barrillot & fils, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Binding with some wear. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Map with a few nicks and tears in margin. Light occassional brownspotting throughout, otherwise a fine and clean copy. (2), 510 pp. + 4 folded plates (including the folded map). Rare first separately published edition of Sale’s important introduction to his English 1734-translation of the Koran, originally being published as ‘Preliminary Discourse’, but here in the seperate publication translated into French. Though he did not place Islam at an equal level with Christianity, Sale seemed to view Mohammad as a conqueror who sought to destroy idolatry and a lawgiver who managed to change and supplant many practices in Arabia:“George Sale (1697-1736), the first translator of the Qur’an from Arabic to English and the author of the influential ‘preliminary discourse’ (1734), is regularly given credit for facilitating a balanced approached to Islam among the educated European public” (Lange, Follow the Light).

Leipzig, Supprian, 1801. Contemp. blue boards. Minor scratches along edges. XXX,252 pp., 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First German edition. An early work on deaf-mutism, remedies and treatment.

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.

[Berlin, G. Reimer, 1831]. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 1831, Pp. 145-69. First printing of Lamé and Glapeyron seminal paper which constitute one of the very earliest works on the theory of elasticity.Lame's stress ellipsoid, here presented for the first time is an alternative to Mohr's circle for the graphical representation of the stress state at a point. The surface of the ellipsoid represents the locus of the endpoints of all stress vectors acting on all planes passing through a given point in the continuum body."During their service in St. Petersburg, these two engineers wrote their important memoir "Sur l'équilibre interieur des corps solides homogénes" [...]. This memoir owes its importance to the fact that it contains not only a derivation of the equations of equilibrium (which were already known at that time from the work of Navier and Cauchy) but also some applications of these general equations to the solution of problems of practical interest.In the first section of the memoir they deduce the equations of equilibrium using Navier's notion of the molecular forces and show that the same equations are obtained by using the concept of stresses, introduced by Cauchy. In the second section the stresses at a point of an elastic body are studied and it is shown that if, for each plane passing through the point, the corresponding stress is represented by a vector drawn from that point, the ends of all such vectors will be on the surface of an ellipsoid. This is the so-called 'Lamé stress ellipsoid'." (Timoshenko, History of Strength and Materials Pp. 115-6)."Following his graduation in 1820, he went to Russia with his friend Bénoit Clapeyron. There he was appointed director for the School of Highways and Transportation at St. Petersburg and introduced mechanical testing for the iron used in the construction of suspension bridges. Praised by Todhunter and Pearson for the clarity of his exposition and the depth of his though, Lamé's greatest contributions were made through his lectures and textbooks. He wrote extensively on elasticity and was the first to advance the theory of failure based upon an ultimate tensile stress. His name is immortalized by the "Lamé Equations" for determining the strength of thick cylinders" (Bibliotheca Mechanica, P. 193).

Amstrd., J.Jamssonium, 1645. Folio. Contemporary full vellum with fragments of ties. Binding intact with a few scratches and spots. Engr, title, (4),364 pp. The last few pages a little soiled in lower right corner. A copy without plates, they have never been bound up in this copy. First edition. First edition.

Bonn, Friedrich Cohen, 1929. Lex 8vo. Uncut and largely unopened in the orig. printed wrappers. Two tears to spine, no loss, and some tears to extremities, but overall an excellent, nice and clean copy. XII, 236 pp. First edition of one of Heidegger's most important works, which was originally planned to constitute the second part of "Sein und Zeit". "Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik" is not only one of, if not the, most important readings of Kant's "Critik der Reinen Vernunft" from the 20th century, it is also one of Heidegger's main works and an indispensible work for anyone interested in Heidegger's thought as well as 20th century philosophy in general. Whereas the Neo-Kantian philosophers had understood Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" as an epistemology, Heidegger here presents this all-time main work of philosophy as a foundation of metaphysics. Heidegger understands this metaphysics in its more original form as that fundamental ontology which is the metaphysics of Dasein in "Being and Time"; as such, "Kant and the Problem of Metahysics" is also to be viewed as an inevitable contribution to the understanding of the main work of 20th century continental philosophy, Heidegger's own "Sein und Zeit". "Heidegger's interpretation of Kant remains a challenging way to address the issues that both Kant and Heidegger saw as crucial...In reading ["Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics"] we can struggle with some basic issues of human existence in the company of two great minds" (International Philosophical Quarterly).

Nürnberg, Johann Adam Stein, 1833. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XVI,236,(1);IV,190,(1);X,163,(1) pp., 17 folded engraved maps and plans + 2 large folded engraved maps. First title-page somewhat brownspotted, otherwise fine and clean, on good paper.

Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Ms title on spine. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved titlevignette. (52),846 pp. + Indexes. Occassional very light browning to upper margins. Clean and fine. From the library of Frederik Heyman with his exlibris on inside frontcover. Front free endpaper with other owners names. First edition of the renowned edition by Longolius. "This is a very critical and elaborate edition, calculated for those who wish to enter minutely into the niceties of grammatical construction and historical illustration. No pains have been spared to collect whatever information the more ancient editions could afford, and the elegant Epistles of Pliny have here received as large a portion of classical commentary as was ever contained in any publication of an author whose writings were equally confined. The work was begun and chiefly compiled by Cortius; but, on his death, his pupil Longolius put the finishing stroke to the undertaking, adding a great number of his own notes and emendations." (Dibdin II, p. 332).

Wittemberg, Fölginer, 1699 (+) Wittemberg, Michael Meyer, 1672 (+) Rostock, Wepplingius, (no year) (+) Rostock, Wepplingius, 1700 (+) Hamburg, Schiller, 1696 (+) Rostock, Wepplingius, 1695. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and titles in contemporary hand to spines. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Miscolouring to extremities. Internally with occassional foxing throughout. (8), 612, (26), (8), 264, (44), 88, (12), 8, (16), 147, 228, (28), [Frontispiece], (2), 404, (144) pp. Interesting sammelband with six works all pertaining to Lutheranism and Protestantism.

(København), 1777. 62x68 cm. Kobberstukket kort opdelt i 24 sektioner og opsat på lærred, foldet i en samtidig kassette. Originaltrykket af Videnskabernes selskabs general-kort over Sjælland m.v., som blev til efter Wessel havde tegnet sine 4 delkort over Sjælland (1768-72) og Skanke havde fuldført sit detailkort over Mön, Falster og Lolland (1776). General-kortet er, ligesom Wessels detailkort, en milepæl i kartografien, idet Wessel anvendte sin opdagelse vedrørende de komplekse tal til denne projektion.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906). Bound in a fine recent hmorocco. Gilt lettering on spine. "Annalen der Physik", Bd. 20, Heft 8, pp. 433-640. The Einstein paper pp. 627-633. First edition of this paper in the periodical form in which Einstein shows that the conservation of mass is a special application of his energy principle (E= Mc2) - "Einstein considers a weightless (horizontal) cylinder filled with electromagnetic radiation and closed to the external world. A certain amount of radiating energy E moves from the left end of the cylinder to the right end, transferring a certain amount of momentum (due to radiation pressure) to the left end which translates the cylinder to the left. When the radiation arrives at the right end, the motion stops. We now imagine, that a practically massless body absorbs this radiation, moves back to the left and deposits it to its original state. Then the body moves back to right end, into its original position. Now a complete cycle has taken place, the system is back in its original state, but the center of mass has moved by a certain amount to the left. This process can be repeated any number of times with the result that a body, all by itself, without any external forces, can change its centre of mass by an arbitrary amount, in contradiction to all physical evidence. This conclusion is avoided if we assume that the energy E is associated with the mass M=E/c2 in which case the centre of mass remains permanently at rest, in agreement with our ecpectations." Cornelius Lanczos). - Weil: 13.

Franckfurt am Main, Joannis Baptista Schonwetteri, 1665. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. Engraved portrait as frontispiece (engr. by S. Pass). Large engraved titlevignette. (10),(6) pp.+ 1324 columns (= 672 pp) + Index. Some offsettings to titlepage from a modern picture of St. Catherine's Church pasted on verso of title-page. A few notes in a large hand. Some browning and scattered brownspots.The different works collected having their own printed title-pages, dated 1664. Second Latin edition of Bacon's Opera Omnia, the first London 1623.Brunet I:604 - Graesse I:273.

Berlin und Libau, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1789-92. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. 4 engraved frontispieces. XL,384,(2);XXVIII,(2),286,(2);(4),416,(2);(2),VIII,(2),308,IV,(2) pp. Many textillustrations, diagrams and woodcuts. Faint scattered brownspots. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 335 but here listed as separate volumes and not listing the last, published 1792.

(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1774). 4to. Uncut with wide margins, without wrappers as issued in "Nouveaux Memoires de L'Academie Royales des Sciences et Belles- Lettres", Année MDCCLXXII, pp. 353-372. First edition of a work which is a breakthrough in the theory of "First Order Partial Differential Equations", generalizing the method of variation of parameters for solving differential equations. " The oldest theory of integration of partial differential equations of the first order are due to Lagrange; it is based on the fundamental fact that the most general solution of such differential equations can be calculated with the help of differentiations and eliminations if a complete integral of the differential equationn is known" - "This problem (of partial differential equations) had only been lightly touched on by Clairaut, Euler, d'Alembert, and Condorcet. Lagrange wrote: "Finally I have just read a memoir that Mr de Laplace presented recently.....This reading aweakened old ideas that I had on the same subject and resulted in the following investigations...(which constitute) a new and complete theory." Laplace wrote on 3 February 1778 that he considered Lagrange's essay "a masterpiece of analysis, by the importence of the subject, by the beauty of method, and by the elegant manner in which it is represented." (DSB). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs 1774 M.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1890. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. A small offsetting to upper left corner of frontwrapper. A small tear to endwrapper repaired. In "Mathematische Annalen. Gegenwärtig hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walter Dyck, Adolph Mayer, 36. Band, 2. Heft." Pp. (153-)320. The whole issue (Heft 2) with orig.wrappers. Peano's paper: pp. 182-288. First edition and the first appearance of this fundamental paper in which Peano gives the proof of the so-called "Peano-Existence-Theorem" and at the same time contains the first explicit statement of "The axiom of choice".The Peano-Existence-Theorem, or "Cauchy-Peano-Theorem" guarantees the existence of solutions to certain initial value problems. He first published the theorem in 1886 in "Sull'integrabilita della equazioni differenziali del primo ordine" in Atti Accad. Sci. Torino, 21, with an incorrect proof. The new correct proof appeared in this paper, as offered."Peano's work in analysis began in 1883 with an article on the integrability of functions. The article of 1890 (the paper offered) contains notions of integrals and areas. Peano wasthe first to show that the first-order differential equation y' = f(x,y) is solvable on the sole assumption that f is continuous. His first proof dates from 1886, but its rigor leaves something to be desired. In 1890 this result was generalized to systems of differential equations using a different method of proof. This work is also notable for containing the first explicit statement of the axiom of choice. Peano rejected the axiom of choice as being outside the ordinary logic used in mathematical proofs." (Hubert T Kennedy in DSB).

Norimbergae, Sumptibus Johannis Ziegeri, 1694. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Extremities with wear, hindges cracked. Upper part of spine lacking some of the leather. Lower outer corner of title-page missing, affecting a few letters. Small worm-tract affecting first 35 pp, not affecting text. Otherwise internally fine. 464 pp. Scarce first edition. Not in Wellcome.

Bruxelles, J.B. Petit, 1840. Large folio. (53 x 34 cm.). Contemp. marbled boards, later clothbacked. Scratches to boards. Engraved title-page, lithographed table, 58,(1) pp. (description of the maps/plans). 38 engraved/lithographed maps and plans, many folding with handcoloured positions of troops. Some of the larger maps strenghtened on verso in foldings, a few with tears. Margins a bit frayed. some scattered brownspots.

Regensburg, Joseph Manz, 1856-81. Bound later in 4 solid hcloth with marbled covers. Gilt lettering to spines. 2 title-pages with some brownspotting. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. John of Ávila 1499 - 1569) was a Spanish priest, preacher, scholastic author, and religious mystic, who has been declared a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church. He is called the "Apostle of Andalusia", for his extensive ministry in that region.

(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1842.). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1842 - Part II. Pp. 181-214 and one double-page folded engraved plate. First appearance of a pioneer-paper in the history of early photography in which Herschel announced some of his importent discoveries of the photographic printing processes, the process of photographic contact-printing in Prussian blue, brought to light just three years after Louis Daguerre and Henry Talbot had announced their independent inventions of photography in silver, using metal and paper substrates, respectively. and the photographic properties of red ferro sesquicyanuret of potassium."This is the first recorded observation of Prussian blue being formed for a photographic purpose by the action of light on potassium ferricyanide, so it represents the moment of discovery of the first cyanotype process, although this name still lay in the future. The significance of this observation impressed Herschel sufficiently to mention it also in his general diary entry for 23 April 1842...."(Mike Ware in "John Herschel's Cyanotype. Invention or discovery ?").

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x37 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 birds seen, female and male in natural habitat with flowering plants. 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, Macmillan, 1940. 8vo. In the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with the orignal price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket with a few nicks and a 2 cm tear to lower part of spine. Previous owner's name and an "X" to front free end paper, other wise a fine and clean copy including all the folded plates. XII, 504 pp. + 5 folded plates. First edition of the author's seminal and "monumental" work which had a profound influence on Western thinking about the undeveloped world and is today considered one of the classic studies on growth. "not only gave a considerable stimulus to the subsequent development of growth theory and models but also had an important effect on western thinking about the undeveloped world. For the first time, the gulf between living standards in the rich and poor countries of the world was brought home in hard statistical terms. Well into the postwar years, until United Nations data became available, almost every writer on development economics quoted Colin Clark's estimates." (Arndt, Economic Development)Colin Grant Clark (1905-89) was a British economist and statistician. He was widely noted for his groundbreaking work in economic statistics and national income estimates pioneering the use of the gross national product (GNP); Clark was also among the first economists to use gross national product rather than national income as the basis of his studies.

Paris, Coustelier, 1745. Contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. With the crowned monogram in gold of King Christian VII on red background on upper cover. Stamps on title-page. XII,(4),224 pp., 13 engraved plates. Clean and fine, on good paper. First edition. - Chris Philip, P060.1.

Roma, Dai Tipi dello Stesso Canini, 1841. Royal8vo. Cont. full cloth. Extremities with traces of use. Joints with tears. (8),327,(1) pp. and 40 fine steel-engraved plates. Text a little brownspotted.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1829. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Fronthinge and spine-ends repaired with a small loss of spine at ends. Stamp on title-page. (4),124 pp. and 1 large folded enraved map. Internally clean and fine, wide-margined, printed on good paper. First edition. Beautemps-Beaupré was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810 and was appointed chief hydrographer and keeper of the Dépôt de la Marine (predecessor of the Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service) in 1814. His work earned him the name "father of hydrography".