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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.

Madrid, Calpe, (1921 & 1922) 8vo. Bound in one half calf binding with four raised bands. Spine with wear, otherwise a fine copy. X, (6), 361, VIII, 359, (3) pp. + 1 folded map. First complete Spanish translation of Darwin's "Journal of Researches": "La única que completa e intacta, se ofrece en castellano" (From the introduction to the present work). The work now, now known as Voyage of the Beagle, was Darwin's first published book. As Darwin later recalled in his autobiography 'The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career'. "On its first appearance in its own right, also in 1839, it was called Journal of researches into the geology and natural history etc. The second edition, of 1845, transposes 'geology' and 'natural history' to read Journal of researches into the natural history and geology etc., and the spine title is Naturalist's voyage. The final definitive text of 1860 has the same wording on the title page, but the spine readsNaturalist's voyage round the world, and the fourteenth thousand of 1879 places A naturalist's voyage on the title page. The voyage of the Beagle first appears as a title in the Harmsworth Library edition of 1905. It is a bad title: she was only a floating home for Darwin, on which, in spite of good companionship, he was cramped and miserably sea-sick; whilst the book is almost entirely about his expeditions on land." (Freeman).Freeman 252.Blanco & Llorca: 5 (Blanco & Llorca: Bibliogrfía crítica illustrada de las obras de Darwin en españa, (1857-2005).

(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 29-84, textillustr. and pp. 85-122, textillustr. Both papers clean and fine. First appearance of a historical paper in physiscs in which Faraday on purely theoretical grounds predicts the magnecrystallic effect and experimentally proves this prediction to be correct.Faraday was successfull in explaining the diagmagnetic phenomena with his lines of magnetics force, and he now applies his concept of "lines of force" to magnecrystallic bodies. "A magnecrystallicsubstance would then be one which in the crystallised state would conduct onwards, or permit the exrtion of the magnetic force with more facility in one direction than another; and that direction would be the magnecrystallic axis. hence, when in the magnetic field, the magnecrystallic axis would be urged into a position coincident with the magnetic axis, by a force correspondent to that difference, just as two different bodies were taken, when one with the greater conducting power displaces that which is weaker" The prediction was shown to be correct; a body like bismuth became less magnetc when its axis was parallel to the magnetic axis than when it is perpendicular to it.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 Whitta

(Stockholm, ca. 1915). Stor folio. (52x38 cm.). Orig. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Et oversigtskort og et blad med Teckenförklaring samt 96 farvelitograferede kort i dobbeltfolio (=alle kort som udkom optil udgivelsen ca. 1915).

(Genoa), No printer, AN IX (1801). Later hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. 110,(2) pp., 3 large folded engraved maps and plans. Wide-margined, clean and fine, printed on thick heavy paper.

Leipzig, Weidmannischen Buchladen, 1736. Small 4to. Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back, gilt borders on covers. leather titlelabel on back. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Back very slightly rubbed. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (14),358 pp. and 32 folded engraved plates. Occasional light brownspotting and light yellowing of leaves. First German edition.

Lugduni (Lyon), Laurentii Durand, 1630. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. Some soiling to vellum. Frontcover wrinkled at foot. Ms title on spine. Title-page printed in red/black. (12),460 pp. A later picture of St. Catharine's Church pasted on verso of title-page. Some of the first leaves with a faint dampstain in margin. Presentation inscription on first leaf of second part (dated 1897). Scarce edition of Anselm's collected works. Saint Anselm was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the eleventh century. He is most famous in philosophy for having discovered and articulated the so-called "ontological argument;" and in theology for his doctrine of the atonement. However, his work extends to many other important philosophical and theological matters, among which are: understanding the aspects and the unity of the divine nature; the extent of our possible knowledge and understanding of the divine nature; the complex nature of the will and its involvement in free choice; the interworkings of human willing and action and divine grace; the natures of truth and justice; the natures and origins of virtues and vices; the nature of evil as negation or privation; and the condition and implications of original sin. (Encycl. of Philosopy).

Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes, 1798. 8vo. Later modest paperbdg. Back somewhat worn, occationally brownspotted. XIV, 327, (1) pp. First edition, not common. In the late 18th century. Schelling dealt with the natural sciences and in that respect was especially interested in the objective side of knowledge. "Von der Weltseele" was widely noticed and it was this work that made Scelling famous in the university city of Jena. Goethe was especially interested in and fascinated by this work.

Nürnberg, Grattenauer, 1783. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Wear to titlelabel. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Lower right corner of front free endpaper gone. Stamp on titlepage. (4),176 pp. Internally fine and clean. First German edition of this first-hand account of the campaign of the allied armies under command of general Washington. It also contains reflexions and observations on the customs of the Americans, together with an account of the capture of general Burgoyne and Cornwallis with their armies. - Sabin: 72037.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part I. Pp. 187-218 and 3 engraved plate. Fine and clean. First printing of pioneer paper in which Brewster laid the foundations of new fields of investigations. by showing that in a large class of crystals there are two axes along which there is no double refraction. Such crystals he calls BIAXAL, the simpler type to which Iceland spar belongs being called UNIAXAL."Brewster created new fields of optical mineralogy and photoelasticity. In 1813, while studying the "depolarising" action of Topaz, he observed two sets of elliptical rings (interference patterns) centered on axes in the Topaz that were apparently inclined at 65 degr.. He interpreted this to mean that Topaz must have two axes, not one, of double refraction, an entirely unexpected result. After many laborious experiments he was able in 1819 to group all but a few of hundreds of minerals and crystals into mutually consistent optical and mineralogical categories: the primitive form determined the number of axes of double refraction."(DSB).

London, John Creswick and Co., 1796. (Drawback). Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine, broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Inner hinges weak. Engreved portrait (Sterne). XV,200 pp. and 2 engraved plates. A marginal brownspot to one plate. Internally clean. One of the scarce issues with the printed "Drawback" on the title-page beneath the year, INDICATING THAT THE EDITION WAS INTENDED FOR EXPORT. The 1794 Act for Repealing the Duties on paper... allowed the refond of duty paid on paper used for books intended for export. To qualify, the paper used had to be watermarked with a year, 1794 or later (this copy marked "94", and the refund or drawback could only be claimed by a printer, publisher or bookseller exporting it as merchandice.

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.

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.

Kjøbenhavn, S. Paulsen, 1792-95. 4to. 4 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titel-og tomefelter. En kapitæl lidt slidt. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. Bortset fra en blækklat på nogle sider i bind 4, rent eksemplar trykt på skrivepapir. Bibl. Danica III,7.

Basel, 1853. 8vo. A little later green hcloth w. simple handwritten paper title label to spine. Some leaves brownspotted. VII, (1), 512 pp. First edition of the first publication of any of Burckhardt's books, his fist major publication, the important and influential "The Age of ConstantinE the Great".Burckhardt's "The Age of Constantine the Great" was the first work to describe an "Age of Constantine". It was also the first work of a series of cultural histories that Burckhardt had planned. The series was supposed to begin with the age of Pericles and end with that of Raphael, and that of Constantine became the first to appear. The work founded the basic structure of his other later cultural histories, namely representing what he considered the three great powers: state, religion and culture. Burckhardt eminently describes transitional periods and periods of crises, and this work deals with the transition from late pagan Antiquity to early Christian Middle Ages.The age of Constantine is here considered as the necessary transition from Antiquity to the Christian era and as such it is also understood as the basis of the culture of the Middle Ages. In opposition to the historians of his time, Burckhardt portrayed the Emperor Constantine negatively, as a calculating politician only concerned with preserving his own power, whose turn toward Christianity was purely speculative and driven by politics. He is thus portrayed as wholly unreligious and as having the sole goal of dominion. The work and the portrayal of Constantine caused the greatest controversies within religious and historical circles. The work became hugely influential and many later historians were inspired by both the controversial portrayal of Constantine, which they applied to other historical figures as well, as well as of Burckhardt's theories of the transition between the two eras. The Swiss historian of art and culture, Jacob Chrisoph Burckhardt (1818-1897), contributed seminally to the historiography of these two fields. He is considered the discoverer of the Renaissance, and with his later main work, "Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien", he founded the study of thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy and thereby the historical study of the Renaissance, the society of which he dealt with all aspects of. In general, Burckhardt's works all constitute an original historical approach to the study of art, culture, social institutions etc. As a highly respected scholar of Greek civilization, Burckhardt, with his original historiographical approach, was highly admired by Nietzsche, who also attended his lectures. The two kept in contact and corresponded frequently. Like Nietzsche, Burckhardt was a great admirer of Schopenhauer, and he greatly opposed the Hegelian interpretations of history."Outstanding among his (Burckhardt's) writings are, besides the books on Italian art and civilization, "The Age of Constantine the Great", 1853, in which he reinterpreted Gibbon, and the two posthumously published books..." (PMM, p. 210).

Amsterdam et Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht), Sumptibus Societatis, 1718. Folio. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Gilt and bluindtooled borders on covers, inside gilt borders.Corners bumped. Rebacked, gilt lettering to spines. Titlepages printed in red/black. (18),1008;(4),716,134,70,XXXVI pp. Stamp to first textleaves in both volumes. Internally clean, printed on good paper in double-columns. First edition. - Brunet V:967. - Graesse 7. 207.

Bruxelles, Simonau et Toovey, 1851. Large folio. (54 x 36 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. Lithographed title-page. (6) pp. and 8 lithographed plates, 2 of which are in colour ( views of La Caserne du Petit Chateau). A marginal dampstain to 1 plate.Bound in is an autographed manuscript by a Danish engineer-officer describing the "Caserne du petit chateau i Bruxelles opførte i Aaret 1852". Folio. (26 x 22,5 cm.). (24) pp. Handwritten in black ink on paper. With construction-figures in the text and tables with building costs. MS dated Copenhagen 1855.

(Leipzig), Juxta exemplar Parisiis, Jo. Friderici Gleditschii, 1695. Folio. Conemp. full calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to spine ends. Slightly rubbed. Front free endpapers missing. Titlepages printed in red/black and with engraved vignettes (portraits of the Pithou brothers). (64),492;(12),488,(84),140 pp. A few brownspots, but in general clean. Importent textcritical edition by the brothers Pithou, a reprint of the edition Paris 1687.Graesse II: 274 - Brunet II: 295.

Kbh., 1732 - 35. 3 samt. ensartede slidte hldrbd. Rygge slidte. Øvre kapitæl på bd. 3 defekt. Her og der lidt brunplettet. M. det kobberst. portræt af Holberg. Originaludgaven, også med første bind, der antages at være trykt i færre eksemplarer end de resterende to.

'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.

Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1856. Cont. hcloth. (8),134 pp. and 1 folded lithographed plate. Clean and fine. First edition of this classic work on phonetics. "In order to determine each sound of an arbitrary language in his own (alphabetical) characters and thereby to give a phonetic transcription was the aim of his "Grundsäzte 1856." (DSB). - Garrison & Morton No. 1461.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1872. Royal8vo. In publisher's original red embossed cloth. In "Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", Vol. 6, May-October 1872. Stamp to title-page and p. 1 and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Binding with wear and light soiling, spine loose and missing part of cloth to upper part.. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's paper (co-author): 211-216; P. 279. [Entire volume: XII, 548 pp]. First publication of these two short notices by Darwin. Freeman 1937 & 1756.

(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).

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.

Hamburg, Benjamin Schillers Wittwe, 1713. 8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to title-page. Light wear to extremities and title-page with underlignings i red, leaf p 81/82 lacking half of the paper, otherwise a good copy. (56),432; (8),384, (22) pp. + 2 frontispieces and 4 folded maps. Later edition, first issued 1703, became the prototype for travelling books like the Baedekers. Holzmann-Bohatta III:11756.