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Kjöbenhavn, Ernst Henrich Berling, 1743. Lille folio. Senere hldrbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldt titel. Ryg med lette brugsspor. Mangler titelkobber, titelbladet og 3 dedikationsblade. Titelblad i nyere afskrift. (4),128 pp. samt 67 (af 68) kobberstukne plancher, hver med talrige figurer. Sidste blad mangler ligeledes (pp.129-30). Forrest i bogen nogle svage skjolder og brunpletter, såvel i teksten som på plancherne. Originaltrykket, men ikke komplet. "Trykt af Ernst Henrich Berling og er et af de første store arbejder han udførte. Som Brødskrift er anvendt en temmelig stor Fraktur, og som Udsmykning er brugt store, ret grove Friser og Vignetter samt Stregslyngninger, alt i Trøsnit. Bogens Titekobber og de 68 Helsides-Kobbere med instruktive Opstillinger er tegnet of stukket af en Amatør, Søløjtnant H.C. Ullrich (der modtog en kgl. Dusør paa 200 Rdl. for Arbejdet), og Resultatet er da også ret ringe, dog er flere af Tavlerne med Flaadeformationer og sirligt udførte Skibstegninger af en vis dekorativ Virkning. Oversættelsen til Dansk er foretaget af C.F. Wadskiær." (Birkelund nr. 87).

Hildesburghausen u. N.Y., Bibliographischen Institut, 1833-37. 4to-oblong. 4 cont. hcalf, gilt backs, gilt leather-titles on frontcovers. Occasionally brownspotted. With 46+47+48+46 (in all 187) steel-engraved plates.

(London, ca. 1810). Folio. (45 x 28 cm.). Later hcloth. Gilt lettering on upper cover. 4 pp. in folio. + engraved map (44 x 52 cm.) Chart of the East Coast of Scotland Bu John Thornton. Left and right margins shaved (no loss of image). Light browning and a few brownspots.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Contemp.hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine very slightly rubbed. Small stamp on htitle, title and verso of titlepage."Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann". Neue Folge Bd. 23. VIII,696 pp. and 8 folded plates. Röntgen's paper: pp. 1-40 a. 259-298, 2 folded plates. - Hertz's paper: pp. 84-103. Clean and fine. First printing of Röntgen's early paper on the heat absorption in vapor. "Having constructed a very sensitive air thermometer, he was able to measure the absorption of heat in water vapor, and his flair for experiment was also shown by his work on the compressibility of liquids and solids."(DSB XI, p.530).An. HERTZ'S paper: This is a major paper by Hertz in which he gives simple proofs of Maxwell's fundamental equations. "In 1884, at Kiel, Hertz had already carried out a study of Maxwell's theory. It was a theoretical response to Helmholtz' general problem of deciding between the electrodynamical theories. Whereas Helmholtz had shown that the experimental decision lay with unclosed currents, Hertz showed that a theoretical decision could be made on the basis of predictions for closed currents. Hertz proved that Maxwell's equations were compatible with the physical assumptions shared by all electrodynamical theories and that the equations of the contending theories were not. He concluded that if the choice lay solely between Maxwell's equations and the equations of the other type of theory, then Maxwell's were clearly preferable." (DSB VI, pp. 344-45).The volume contains also an importent paper by OTTO RICHARD LUMMER his Inauguraldissertation: "Über eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung an Planparallelen Glasplatten und eine Methode, die Planparallelität solcher Gläser zu prüfen". Pp. 40-84 a. 1 plate. and "Ueber eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung." pp. 513-548. - Also papers by Kundt, Kohlrausch, Weber and others.

Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 1872. 8vo. 2 volumes in one (as issued) contemporary half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy. (Frontiespiece), (1), 314, (2) pp.; (4), XV, (1), 294, (6), 39 pp. The rare first Swedish translation of "The Descent of Man" translated by Rudolf Sunderström. Freeman's collation is incorrect (as he also dated the first Swedish translation of "Origin of Species" wrongly).Withbound is Lawrence Heap Åberg's "Ett försök att uppvisa darwinismens öfverensstämmelse med en rationelt idealistisk verldsåskådning" (1874). Freeman 1136

[Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1915] Folio. In fine red half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped and a few nicks to spine, otherwise fine. (6), LXVII, (2), 190, (1) pp. + 160 plates. Printed in 150 numbered copies, this being number 95. "King's mirror" is one of old Norse's most famous works of literature written around the year 1250.

A Paris, Ve Nyon, An XII=1804. Uncut in orig. blue blank wrappers. With the original printed titlelabel on spine. Backstrip with a few tears. VIII,327,(1),(8) pp., 1 large folded engraved plate and 16 tables. A few leaves browned, some scattered brownspots. First edition of a work which laid the foundation of a new science as it is the first work to demonstrate the photosynthetic assimilation of carbon by green plants."The decisive work of Saussure was published in 1804 under the title "Recherches Chimiques sur la Végétation", and consisted of a number of classic research papers which laid the foundation of plant nutrition and of the methodology of plant physiology." (A.G. Morton: History of Botanical Science). -"The book contains the theory on the formation of vegetable mould and the conversion of carbon dioxide into organic compounds under the influence of water and light." (Duveen p. 531).

Altona, Burmester, 1749-53. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spines. Engraved title-page (and printed). (18),1724;(8),1396;(6),1480 pp. Clean and fine.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1874. Royal8vo. In a bit later full green cloth. In "Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", Vol. 10, May 1874 - October 1874. Stamp to title-page and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Stamps to front free end paper. Traces from book block having been bended. Darwin's paper: Pp. 24-25. [Entire volume: XI, (1), 534 pp]. First appearance of Darwin's paper on Primrose flowers. Primrose flowers, and the flowers of related members of the Primulaceae are often removed from their stalks and scattered on the ground by green finches apparently consuming the ovaries and nectaries - here first described by Darwin. Freeman 1771

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1759). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XIII, 1757. Titlepage (Classe de Philosophie Spéculative) and pp. (451-)522. First appearance of this remarkable, mathematical correspondance, comprising 29 letters mostly of mathematical content, and after the death of Herman leading to some controveries in relation to priorities.Ravier "Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Leibniz" No. 465.

Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Spine with a few scratches and light wear to spine ends. "Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1915. 17. Jahrgang. Im Auftrage der Gesellschaft herausgegeben von Karl Scheel." VI,489 pp. textillustr. Einstein/Haas papers: pp. 152-170 a. p. 203 a. p. 420. - Planck paper: pp. 407-418 a. 418-19 a. 438-51. - Laue paper: pp. 198-202. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. All papers first edition. - In the papers by Einstein and Haas prooved the Ampere hypothesis that permanent magnetism is caused by the microscopic circular motions of electric charges. The experimental results was very close to the theoretical value and as such they gave a brilliant proof of the soundness of the hypothesis.

Kiøbenhavn, Ludolph Henrich Lillie, (1756). 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv. Ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Smal blindtrykt bordure på permer. Forkanterne på permerne med forgyldt bordure. (10),160 pp. Ren og velbevaret. Originaltrykket. - Bibl. Dan. II,358.

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1854). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1854, Vol. 144 - Part I. Pp. 245-258. First printing of the first paper in Cayley's famous memoirs on 'quantics', a term he coined for algebraic forms. In this paper Cayley throughout remodelled the whole basis for Invariant Theory."In addition to his part in founding the theory of abstract groups, Cayley has a number of important theorems to his credit: perhaps the best known is that every finite group whatsoever is isomorphic with a suitable group of permutations (see the first paper of 1854). This is often reckoned to be one of the three most important theorems of the subject, the others being the theorems of Lagrange and Sylow. But perhaps still more significant was his early appreciation of the way in which the theory of groups was capable of drawing together many different domains of mathematics: his own illustrations, for instance, were drawn from the theories of elliptic functions, matrices, quantics, quaternions, homographic transformations, and the theory of equations. If Cayley failed to pursue his abstract approach, this fact is perhaps best explained in terms of the enormous progress he was making in these subjects taken individually."(DSB)

Kiøbenhavn, Udgiverens Forlag, 1802. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Lille sprække i fals øverst på ryg. Papirsetiket påsat ryg øverst. Stempler på titelbladet. (10),54,26;86;144,(2) pp., 7 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven. Rawer var stadskonduktør i København efter branden og virkede tillige som arkitekt, så vel teoretisk som praktisk, og satte sit præg på Guldalderens København efter branden og bombardementet. Som løjtnant besøgte han nogen tid Kunstakademiets Bygningsskole, hvor han 1778 vandt begge sølvmedaljer. Bibl. Danica II,377.

Chicago, Western Society of Engineers, 1921. Orig. full cloth, frontcover and back stamped in blind. (2),196 pp., 45 illustrations, mostly full-page, incl. photographic reproductions of calculating machines designed by Pascal, Leibniz, Burroughs, Felt, and others. Fine and clean. With a typed letter in 4to, signed by the author, to Mons. Paul Jeannin in Paris, Turck thanks Jeannin for his letter congratulating him on the success of this book, and recalls with pleasure going with Jeannin to see Pascal's calculating machine in Paris. 21 lines dated Wilmette, Ill., l1 11 décembre, 1925. (in French). Also with Felt & Tarrant shipping lebel addressed to Jeannin, incorporatiing a picture of their invention, the Comptometer, the first practical desktop calculator. This was presumably used on the package that held this book. First edition of the first popular history of modern calculating machines.Turck was the inventor of several calculating machines, the earlliest being the Mechanical Accountant, which appeared around 1900. He joined the firm Felt & Tarrant in 1911, and his name appears jointly with that of Felt. After Felt's death, Turck took over design resoponsabilities for the business. The dual-register SuperTotalizer that appeared in 1934 was undoubtly his work. - Hook & Normann, origins of Cyberspace: 393.

Riga und Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1791. Nice contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small stamp on top of title-page. (16),200;272,(4) pp. and 1 folded engraved map. A few marginal brownspots. Printed on good paper. First German edition.

Budapest, Stephaneum, 1902-16. 4to. Bound in 12 uniform solid buckram. Some plates, textillustrations, plans and maps. Internally fine and clean.

München, Fleischmann, 1819. Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. Stamps on title-page. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (2),VI,92,(2) pp. and 1 fine lithographed plate as frontispiece. Text with faint scattered brownspots. Plate clean and fine. First edition. The fine plate, here as frontispiece, is among the very first lithographs used in bookillustration.

Wisconsin, The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1938-39. Lev8vo. Entire volume one of "Journal of Symbolic Logic" (i.e. number 1-4), March 1938, June 1938, October 1938, January 1939. Bound in blue half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Crossed-out library paper-label to lower part of spine and top left corner of front board. Two library stamps (in Chinese) to verso of title page. Internally a very fine and clean copy of the entire volume. [Kleene:] Pp. 150-55. [Entire volume: IV, 212 pp.]. First printing Kleene's milestone paper in which Kleene's O (Ordial numbers), a recursive function, is introduced. In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations."In the seventeenth century, Leibniz envisaged a universal language that would allow one to reduce mathematical proofs to simple computations. Then, during the nineteenth century, llgicians such as Charles Babbage, Boole, Frege and Peano tried to formalize mathematical reasoning by an "algebraization" of logic. Finally, [...] Gödel, Church and Stephen Kleene introduced the notion of recursive functions. (The Princeston Companion to Mathematics. P. 111).The volume also contains the following papers of interest:1. Quine, W. V. Completeness of the propositional calculus. Pp. 37-402. Quine, W. V. On the theory of types. Pp. 125-39.3. Church, Alonzo. Additions and corrections to A bibliography of symbolic logic. Pp. 178-92.

Berlin=Lichterfelde, (1935-36). In 2 orig. boxes in foliosize, containing 2 books as well as 6 records, recorded on both sides with birdvoices. A part from a few scratches on the boxes in fine condition. Scarce early recordings of birdsongs.

Berlin, F.T. Lagarde, 1801. Nice contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. XXIV,498,(1) pp., 60 textillustrations in woodcut and 5 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition of this importent manual of hydraulics. "His Handbuch...(1801) was the most importent book of this era, for it was the first to combine practice and theory. He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1803...Eytelwein, like his French contemporary M.R. de Prony, was one of the first to write on the application of mechanics and mathematics to the design of structures and machines in order to bring rational methods to both the practicing engineer and the student"(DSB). - Eutelwein was the first director of the Berlin Bauakademie, the first German engineering school, later to become part of Technische Hochschule-Berlin. - Poggendorff I:708.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1939. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 208, No 10, 12, 18, 20 a. 21. Pp. (5 Entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 742-744, 744-746, 898-900,1394-96,1573-1575 a. 1643-1645. Disbound. First printing of 5 importent papers containing substantial contributions to the development and understanding of the fission process in the crucial year 1939, the results leading to the creation the atomic bomb and nuclear energy production. Among the papers here are Francis Perrin's landmark paper: "Calcul relatif aux conditions éventuelles de transmutation en chaine de l'uranium." (in 2 parts).Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on December 17, 1938 by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, and explained theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch. The Group at College de France, headed by Joliot and Perrin, worked in the month after January intensively with the uranium processes and succeeded in establishing the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production."The remaining piece of the fission/atomic bomb concept was provided in 1939 by Francis Perrin who introduced the concept of the critical mass of uranium required to produce a self-sustaining release of energy. His theories were extended by Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham University and the resulting calculations were of considerable importance in the development of the atomic bomb. Perrin's group in Paris continued their studies and demonstrated that a chain reaction could be sustained in a uranium-water mixture (the water being used to slow down the neutrons) provided external neutrons were injected into the system. They also demonstrated the idea of introducing neutron-absorbing material to limit the multiplication of neutrons and thus control the nuclear reaction (which is the basis for the operation of a nuclear power station)."

Paris, Corréard (Imprimerie de De Lacombe), 1834-54. Bound in 28 contemporary hcalf, gilt backs, title-and tomelabels in leather. Bindings with light wear to backs, some tears to spine ends. All volumes with a taped paperlabel on lower part of back. Many folded maps and plates.

Kbhvn., Schultz, 1788-89. 4to. 2 samt., men lidt uens helldrbd. med skindtitler på rygge og rygforgyldning. Kapitæler på bind 1 lidt slidte. XXII,XXX,(2),786 pp. + Anhang og Bilag. Originaludgaven af den såkaldte "Store Landbokommission" nedsat 1786. Reformerne her gengav den danske bondestand økonomisk og borgerlig frihed, og på baggrund heraf løstes Stavnsbåndet. Hovedmændene var Chr. D.F. rewentlow, Colbjørnsen og Bernstorff.