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Leide, d'Elie Luzac, 1750. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, gilt compartments, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. Engraved titlevignette. XXVIII,413,(7) pp.., 1 large folded engraved maps and 9 folded engraved plates. Occasionnally some ligh browning and a few scattered brownspots. Second French edition. The first published 1749 in 12mo. - Sabin, 22313.

Bremen, Saurman, 1705. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities. Tear to the leather on lower half of front board making the wooden boards underneath visible. Spineends chipped with minor loss of leather, showing headbands. Heavly annotated with scholarly commentaries in contemporary hand throughout. A few small marginal wormtracts. (68), 1046, (2), 960, (52) pp. The rare first German translation of Taylor’s guide to cases of conscience, intended to serve as the definitive work for English Protestant clergy building on the foundations laid by Sanderson, Hall, and Perkins. With this manual clergy would no longer need to rely on Roman Catholic casuists. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a prominent cleric in the Church of England who gained renown as an author during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. Often referred to as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic eloquence, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.

(Stockholm, F.& G. Beier), 1885. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica", Vol. 7. Pp. 259-288. Clean and fine. First appearance of one of Poincaré's main papers."Another famous paper of Poincar´we in celestial mechanics is the one he wrote in 1885 on the shape of a rotationg fluid mass submitted only to the forces of gravitation. Maclaurin had found as possible shapes some ellipsoids of revolution to which Jacobi had added other types of ellipsoids with unequal axes, and P.G. Tait and W.Thomson some annular shapes. By a penetrating analysis of the problem, Poincaré showed that still other "pyriform" shaoes exosted. One of the features of his interesting argument is that, apparently for the first time, he was confronted with the problem of minimizing a quadratic form in "infinitely" many variables."(DSB).

1842. 31 sider egenhændigt manuskript udført af forfatteren selv i form af en lille bog som gave til en veninde. På titelbladets inderside "Med/ Taknemmelighed og Höiagtelse/ tilegnes/ Mdm Amalie Görtzen/ dette/ "Haandarbeide"/ fra/ en/ Wen/ der hverken kan strikke, sÿe/ eller brodere./ 11te Decbr./ Forfatteren." Gavebindet (14,5 x 9,5 cm.) er i blåt helshirt med forgyldte permer og forgyldt ornamentik. Ryg- og kantforgyldning. Indlagt i en nydelig bogæske med overtræk af marmoreret papir. Den kalligraferede titel og de 2 kalligraferede deltitler er rigt ornamenterede, den ene med en håndkoloreret tegning, alt udført af forfatteren selv. Ungdomsarbejde af Erik Bøgh. Erik Nicolai Bøgh (1822-1899), forfatter, dramatisk forfatter, teaterdirektør (Dagens Nyheder) , feuilletonist, redaktør, visedigter etc.Som forfatter og visedigter havde Bøgh en udviklet evne for "Udspekulerede finter og ordleg, der ganske vist blev tilstrækkeligt beundrede og erindrede i et par menneskealdre, gjorde det ofte ud for den dybere sympati med emnerne. Størst talent havde han ubetinget for visedigtning hvor han byggede videre på den tradition han som lille havde mødt i bedstefaderens hus (P.A. Heiberg, Rahbek, Abrahamson etc). Erik Bøgh var i besiddelse af en folkelig slagfærdighed og et barokt lune der har gjort at adskillige af hans viser har holdt sig til vore dage: En lille bitte Mand, Den Skønne gaar ind i sit attende Aar, Det var en Aften paa Tivoli og Du skønne fortryllendes Kjesten."(DBL).

(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. 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).

Leipzig, Ernst Julius Günther, (1872). Small 4to. Orig. pictorial gilt cloth. Rebacked with orig. spine laid down. (2),148;(4),149;(4),204 pp. and 92 (30,30,32) steel-engraved plates, all in orig. colouring. Internally fine, a few scattered brownspots, a few quires with even browning and a few leaves with a bit of fraying.

Lund, Berlingska, 1822. Nydeligt senere hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. XV,266;(2),231 pp. samt 3 foldede kobberstukne og håndkolorerede fugleplancher. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Enkelte bladkanter forstærkede. Nogle blade blandt romertalspagineringen ombyttede. Originaludgaven.

Copenhagen, Reitzel,1914. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened. Sewing loose on middle quire. A small part of upper corner on frontwrapper gone. Lower left corner on endwrapper gone.(4),XIX,755 pp. Numerous illustrations on plates and in the text, 1 folded map. Internally fine and clean. First edition of a main work in arctic ethnology with combined ethnographic results from the importent Danish expeditions to East Greenland: The Expedition by Gustav Holm and The G. Amdrup Expedition (The Carlsberg Fund Expedition). - Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 39.

Frankfurt a. Main, August 9 and August 20, 1829. 1. Plan: 63 x 81 cm. - 2. Details with 8 large illustrations, profiles, elevations etc.: 63,5 x 96,5 cm. With 2 smaller closed tears (no loss). Surveyed and signed by C. Krag, a Danish military officer. Pen and ink with watercolour.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1857, 1858, 1861, 1867. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 45, No. 20, Tome 46, No 9, Tome 53, No 1, Tome 65, No. 12. Pp. (785-832), (431-478), (1-) 40, (481-) 536. (4 entire issues offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's papers: pp. 811-815, 448-452, 33-35, 505-507. First apperance of these 4 papers relating his discovery of INVISIBLE "CHEMICAL" RAYS, and which, 30 years later, by Henry Becquerel was "re-discovered" as radioactivity (1896).The results of these investigations lead to these statement: Some compounds exposed to light exhibit in the dark the same effect as that produced by the direct action of light. - Cardboards impregnated with both uranium nitrate and tartaric acid are "active" - The "activity" remaining on the exposed cardboard is revealed by its action on a photographic plate - The effect is not due to phosphorescence - The activity is attributed to invisible "chemical" rays.It is amazing how closely these experiments resembled those performed by Henri Becquerel 30 years later."When the work of Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor was brought to light, many persons thought that henri had been aware of these publications prior to his research on uranium. Severel facts seems to support this belief. Henri's father, Alexandre Edmond, had reported several details from Abel Niepce in a book entitled "Light: its causes and effects", published 1869. When Henri Carrington Bolton (1843-1903) reviewed in 1869 the work of Abel Niepce, he mentioned a "remarkable property of uranium nitrate to absorb the actinic rays of light, retaining them in an active condition for a long time". In 1866 and 1869, J. Jamin, henri's first stepfather, lectured at the Ecole Polytechnique on the Niepce effects."(Michel Genet "The Discovery of Uranic Rays: A short Step for Henri Becquerel but a Giant Step for Science" in Radiochimica Acta /0/71 1995).

London, 1873. Small folio. Extracted, with traces from the sewn cords, in the original printed wrappers. In "Nature", No. 172, Vol. 7, February 13. Entire issue offered. Issue split in two, otherwise fine and clean. Housed in a portfolio with white paper title-label to front board. Darwin's notice: P. 281 [Entire issue: Pp. (1), lx, 277-296]. First appearance of Darwin's comment on Dr. Huggins' letter containing an account of three generations of dogs which exhibited fright when in the vicinity of a butcher or butcher's shop, an observation which Darwin considered of the utmost importance: "The following letter seems to me so valuable, and the accuracy of the statements vouched for by so high an authority, that I have obtained permission from Dr. Huggins to send it for publication" (From the present publication). Freeman 1757

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. VIII,582 pp., 5 folded maps, views and plans. The large map, 50x47 cm.: "Carte de la Baltique & des Regions de cette Mer. Par H. Rhue...1815." A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von F.J. Bertuch, Dritter Band). Having also the general titlepage with a stamp.

Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait (heliogravure). XII,592 pp. maps, textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle, but the name of receiver cut out. First edition.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1880-87. 4to. Bound in 10 contemp. half calf bindings, paper labels pasted on spines. Stamp on titles. With numerous woodcuts and lithographic plates, many coloured and folding. This manual of engineering sciences covers the routing of railway lines, bridge building, tunnelling, railway stations and other associated buildings, and railway operations engineering among its many chapters.

Leipzig, Edward Kummer, 1836. Small folio-oblong. (23x37 cm.). Contemp. modest hcloth. Boards rubbed. (4),27 pp. in double-columns with description of the plates. Before the plates an engraved titlepage with the text: "Biblia Sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti representata Centum Imaginibus Aeri incisis in Forma dimidii Plagulae transverssae, una cum Expositione dilucidativa. Augustae Vindelicorum. Prostat apud Antonium Klauber. MDCCCXXXV". With 100 large engraved plates. (Plates sign. C.P.S.C.M. - Klauber Cath. Sc. et exc. A.V.). A bit of browning to edges of text and plates. Otherwise internally fine.

Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith, 1739-49. Bound in 16 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Covers with gilt borders, stamped in blind and panelled in mirror-style (Cambridge-binding). A label pasted to lower compartments. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved vignette on title-pages. 22 large folded engraved maps. Internally clean.

Turici (Zürich), Typis Orellii, Fuesslini et Sociorum, 1826-38. Lex8vo. Bound in 11 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Some scattered brownspots.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1850. 4to. Without wrappers. From "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", 40. Bd., Heft 1, pp.IV,92,(2) pp. and 2 lithographed plates. Entire issue offered with titlepage. Kirchhoff's paper: pp. 51-88. First printing of Kirchhoff's milestone paper on "the theory of plates in which we find the first satisfactory theory of bending of plates...he established the correct mathematical expressions for the potential energy,...further he shows that are only two boundary conditions and not three, as was supposed by Poisson...The advent of this theory of plates was a very great step foreward in the theory of elasticity, and it has become especially importent lately owing to its wide application in the design of various kinds of thin-walled structures." (Timoshenko p. 253-54).

London, The Author, 1807. 8vo. Contemp. calf, rebacked with brown buckram. Title- and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XVI. - VIII,392,(8) pp. a. 8 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Flinders letter: pp. 107-118 a. pp. 173-182. Internally clean. Second printing of this important paper relating Flinder's observations on the ship "Investigator" when exploring the coast of Australia. IN THE PAPER THE NAME "AUSTRALIA" APPEARS PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A SCIENTIFIC MEMOIR (here p. 118). The letter was first printed in Philosophical Transactions, late in 1806 (read to the Royal Society March 27). Nicholson reprinted it here in the February issue of the offered volume 16. (1807).The name Australia was popularised by Matthew Flinders, who pushed for the name to be formally adopted as early as 1804. When preparing his manuscript and charts for his 1814 A Voyage to Terra Australis, he was persuaded by his patron, Sir Joseph Banks, to use the term Terra Australis as this was the name most familiar to the public. Flinders did so, but allowed himself the footnote:"Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term, it would have been to convert it to Australia; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth." In the paper offered he used the name "Australia" as early as 1806."Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."(Wikepedia)

London, printed for R.H. Laurie, 1833. Clothbacked boards with the orig. printed titlelabel on upper board. Stamp on title-page. VIII,61 pp., a few coastal profiles in the text.

Strasburg, Bauer und Compagnie, 1771-72. Bound in 3 full calf. Vol. 1 in contemp. full calf, gilt spine. Top of spine taped and with a little wear. Vol. 2-3 bound to style in 2 recent full calf with tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamps on titlepages. Engraved frontisp. (4),IV,496;463,(1);(4),507,(1) pp. and 38 folded engraved maps and plans. Internally clean and fine. First German edition.

Kbhvn., 1893-1908. Folio. 6 orig.hshirtbd. med orig. smudsomslag. Helt frisk velbevaret eksemplar.

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1873. Original clothbacked printed boards. Offprint from "Oversigter over d. K.D. Vidensk. Selskabs Forhandlinger. 1873, Nr. 1). A stamp on title-page. 20 pp. with 1 textillustration (apparatus). Scattered brownspots. Inscribed from the author on top of frontcover "Vensk. fra Forf" (i.e. with friendship from the author). Extremely scarce first edition in the OFFPRINT issue with inscription from the author. Here Lorenz established the method for absolute ohm determination by means of the elctromotive force and the geometrical dimensions of his apparatus. The paper was immideately translated into German and published the same year in Annalen der Physik und Chemie.Lorenz is well known for his achievements in optics, the formula for dependence of refraction upon specific gravity (the Lorentz-Lorenz formula), and his electromagnetic theory of light, developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867, two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands, spine with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. (24), 366, (10) pp. First Swedish translation of the official account of Cook's second voyage and Georg Forster's unofficial Voyage round the World."Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century" (Printing and the Mind of Man p.135). "The success of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, […] Cook discovered and charted South Georgia, after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the Azores. This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy" (Hill p.123)

Leipzig & Halle, Zeidler, 1695. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to board with a bit of loss of leather. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Spine-ends chipped. Internally with light occassional browning. (22), 865 pp. + frontispiece and 1 folded table. Rare first edition of Ludwig’s commentary on Samuel von Pufendorf’s ‘Einleitung zur Historie der Vornehmsten Reiche und Staaten’, a standard textbook for politically aspiring young aristocrats across Europe. Johann Peter von Ludwig or Ludewig) (1668-1743), was a prominent German jurist and historian. He studied at the University of Wittenberg and became a professor at the University of Halle, where he also served as royal historian and archivist. In 1719, he was ennobled by Emperor Charles VI. He later became Chancellor of the University and founded Halle's first regular newspaper.