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Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1723. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Light wear to lower spine end. Corners worn with a small loss of leather. (14),922,(47) pp. and 27 engraved plates, each with 16 illustrations. The last plate with only 12 (of 16) illustrations. This couild be a plate not belonging to the edition, as other copies has only 23 or 25 plates (the offered has 27 plates). A few plates shaved in top. Internally clean. Third edition of Lemery's main pharmaceutical work. "Lemery’s chief contributions to pharmacy were his two complementary works, the Pharmacopee universelle and the Traité des drogues simples. These are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively, giving the source, virtues, does, and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals."(DSB).Wellcome III: p. 488 only calls for 23 plates.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1793-94. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, spines gilt and tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on titlepages. XXVI,374;XIV,388;XII,220 pp. and 19 large folded engraved plates. The first few leaves in all volumes a little brownspotted. A few scattered brownspots. First edition.

Paris, Jombert, 1741. 4to. Contemnp. full mottled calf. raised bands. gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XVI,385,(19) pp., 39 folded engraved plates, 4 folded tables. Clean and fine.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche og Wentzel (Tomus 5), 1748 - 1765 - 1754. Indbundet i 3 meget smukke og velbevarede samtidige helldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning, tome-og titelfelter i brun og grønt skind, forgyldt. Epistlerne foreligger her i komplet stand, men Tomus III-IV er i 2. udgaven fra 1765, også trykt hos Godiche. Disse 2 bind er et fuldstændigt optryk af originaludgaven. - Ehr.-M. X, 403 ff og 425.

Servestae, Goeckingiana, 1738. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label to upper part of spine. Boards with a few scratches and part of the gilt ornamentation to spine worn off. Internally with occassional light brownspotting. Last few leaves with wormtract in lower outer margin. (8), 414, (74), (8), 430, (58), (8), 592, (64) pp. The exceedingly rare first (only?) edition of Breithaupt’s examination of faith and ethics and morals. We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade, nor does OCLC list any copies. Joachim Justus Breithaupt (1658 – 1732) was a German Lutheran theologian, preacher and hymn writer.

[Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1882]. Large4to. As extracted from "Acta Mathematica", In "Acta Mathematica", volume 1. Clean and fine. Pp. 193-294. First printing of Poincaré's famous paper which conjectured the uniformization theorem for (the Riemann surfaces of) algebraic curves. It also constitute the second paper in Poincaré's exceedingly important series of six paper's which together represent the discovery of Automorphic Functions. "Before he was thirty years of age, Poincaré became world famous with his epoch-making discovery of the "automorphic functions" of one complex variable (or, as he called them, the "fuchsian" and "kleinean" functions)." (DSB).These manuscripts, written between 28 June and 20 December 1880, show in detail how Poincaré exploited a series of insights to arrive at his first major contribution to mathematics: the discovery of the automorphic functions. In particular, the manuscripts corroborate Poincaré's introspective account of this discovery (1908), in which the real key to his discovery is given to be the recognition that the transformations he had used to define Fuchsian functions are identical with those of non-Euclidean geometry.The idea was to come in an indirect way from the work of his doctoral thesis on differential equations. His results applied only to restricted classes of functions and Poincaré wanted to generalize these results but, as a route towards this, he looked for a class functions where solutions did not exist. This led him to functions he named Fuchsian functions after Lazarus Fuchs but were later named automorphic functions. First editions and first publications of these epochmaking papers representing the discovery of "automorphic functions", or as Poincaré himself called them, the "Fuchsian" and "Kleinian" functions."By 1884 Poincaré published five major papers on automorphic functions in the first five volumes of the new Acta Mathematica. When the first of these was published in the first volume of the new Acta Mathematica, Kronecker warned the editor, Mittag-Leffler, that this immature and obscure article would kill the journal. Guided by the theory of elliptic functions, Poincarë invented a new class of automorphic functions. This class was obtained by considering the inverse function of the ratio of two linear independent solutions of an equation. Thus this entire class of linear diffrential equations is solved by the use of these new transcendental functions of Poincaré." (Morris Kline).Poincaré explains how he discovered the Automorphic Functions: "For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions, I was then very ignorant; every day I seated myself at my work table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results. One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. By the next morning I had established the existence of a Class of Fuchsian functions, those which come from hypergeometric series; i had only to write out the results, which took but a few hours...the transformations that I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of Non-Euclidean geometry..."

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 22, 6. Heft (= No 6). Titlepage to vol. 22. Pp. 145-304 (entire issue offered "Heft" 6). Boltzmann's paper: pp. 291-294. Small stamp to titlepage and verso of. First appearance of this importent paper in which Boltzmann uses the second law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's electromagnetic theory to derive theoretically, based on Stefan's experimental observations, the proportionality of the radiation emitted from a body and the fourth power of the temperature of the body in Kelvin units. "The law show a possible connection between thermodynamics and electromagnetism that was exploited in the later quantum theory. In the 1920s it was applied by Edington and others in explaining the equilibrium of stellar atmospheres."(DSB II, p. 266)."The law states that the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body per unit time (known variously as the black-body irradiance, energy flux density, radiant flux, or the emissive power), is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature T (also called absolute temperature).The Stefan Boltzmann law was experimentally discovered in the year 1879 by Josef Stefan and deduced 1884 by Ludwig Boltzmann theoretically by thermodynamic considerations from the classical electromagnetic theory of the radiation. In the year 1900, thus 21 years after the Stefan Boltzmann law, discovered Max Planck the Planck radiation law designated after it, from which the Stefan Boltzmann law follows simply by integration over all directions and wavelengths. The Planck radiation law could attribute the Stefan Boltzmann constant also for the first time with the introduction of the quantum of action h to fundamental natural constants."Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1883 P.

Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1699. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. A bit of discolouring to spine and covers. Free endpaper lacks. Title-page in red/black. (2),742,(24) pp. and 14 engraved plates (numb. I-XIII a. I bis). 2 of the plates depicts the brain. Occasionally light browning. A few old annotations. Scarce first edition. - Not in Wellcome. - Waller 5223 (the third ed. 1702).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Showing birds flying, foreground with large flowers, natural settings.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, 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.

Hamburg & Leipzig, Philip Herteln, 1724 & 1735. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines. Small paper-label to upper part of spine on vol. 1. Boards with a few stains and scratches, with a bit of loss of leather. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. (20), 936, (16) pp.; (8), 760, 136, (8), 72, (4) pp. First German translation of Bishop Burnet’s “History of his Own Time” covering the period from the English Civil War through the early 18th century offering Burnet's firsthand accounts and perspectives on events of his day. Burnet began writing in 1683 and continued until his death in 1715. The work was posthumously published in two volumes, the first in 1724 and the second in 1734. Although it has been criticized for its biases and occasional inaccuracies it remains an important source for the history of the era. "Ever since the appearance of Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Time it has been the subject of great controversy. It engendered much excitement and clearly sold well in England, each volume going through a number of editions. Burnet's critics often accuse him of overstating, in his History and elsewhere, his own importance in the events of his time. While it is true that Burnet was an egomaniac, and he undoubtedly expected future historians to study him, there is much truth to his assertions. His career can be evaluated by dividing it into two, sometimes overlapping, spheres: his engagement in public affairs and his vocation as an author" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

(No place, nor printer), 1707. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Title-label is either missing or have never been added. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Stains and scratches to boards. Corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. VIII, 268 pp. + 3 folded tables. One of the at least seven different issues of the 12mo edition, published same year as the first edition (in 4to), in which Vauban proposed a comprehensive tax reform plan for France. The central idea was to replace the existing tax system, which heavily burdened the lower classes while exempting the nobility and clergy, with a single tax on income and property that would be fairly distributed among all citizens, regardless of social status. Schumpeter called the work 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument. Purposeful marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the work, and a forerunner of modern tendencies' (Schumpeter, History of Economic analysis, p. 204). 'an erudite economic work much in advance of its time, and distinguished both by accuracy of method and breadth of view' (Palgrave), 'creditable alike to the heart and the head of its illustrious author' (McCulloch). 'Though the book was published anonymously, and only a few copies issued (for circulation among friends), Vauban had to submit to the mortification of seeing it 'pilloried' by the parliament, while he himself incurred the displeasure of the king (Louis XIV).' (Palgrave).

Stuttgart, Societatis Wuertembergicae, 1820-28. 8vo. Bound in 17 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to spine on volume one, especially at upper compartment. Second, enlarged edition of Drakenborch's noted edition of Livius. "The labours of Drakenborch have entitled his edition to a superiority over every preceding one. Ernesti, Harles, and the Bipont editors, are unanimous in their approbation of this truly critical production..."(Dibdin II, p. 169 (the 7 vols. edition of 1738).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Showing 2 bird in flight, 3 others beneath. 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.

Cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back and red titlelabel. Fine except for some wear to top and bottom of spine. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. XLVIII,474 pp., 2 engraved folded maps, 3 folded engraved plates, 1 folded table (complete). Fiske p. 609. First French edition. All of the notes and additions made by the German translator are to be found in this edition, which also is provided with an index.

Berlin, Realschul-Buchhandlung, 1815-17. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. XII,320;316;266,(2) pp., 26 large folded engraved plates. Title-pages a bit brownspotted. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 4325.

Köln, Schultze, 1673. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and title in contemporary hand to spine. Stains and miscolouring to spine and front board. Internally with dampstain in upper outer corner and with occassional brownspotting. (10), 711, (26) pp. The exceedingly rare first German translation of Sedgwick’s work on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, found in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15, verses 11–24. We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade. In was first published in English in 1660. “Born about 1600, Obadiah Sedgwick was the son of Joseph Sedgwick, vicar of St. Peter’s, Marlborough, Wiltshire. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1619, but transferred to Magdalen Hall, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1620 and a master’s degree in 1623. For a few years Sedgwick served as chaplain to Lord Horace Vere of Tilbury, whom he accompanied to the Netherlands. In 1626, Sedgwick tutored Matthew Hale, who was to become one of the most respected lawyers of the time. Hale later defended Christopher Love before the high court.” (Beeke, Meet the Puritans).

Leipzig, Heinrich Gräff, 1809. Modest cont. hcloth. A small part of bottom of spine gone. Stamp on titlepage. IV,308 pp., 9 engraved folde plans (7 handcoloured) and one large folded map: "Plan der Stadt Halle nebst der um ihr liegenden gegend von P.A.W. von Hincke" (56x68 cm.) handcoloured, on thick paper and very fine. First leaves browned and brownspotted, some scattered brownspots. First edition.

(Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1735). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tomus IV ad Annum 1729. The whole section of "Historica"offered. (2) pp. (title to the section),(100)pp. Baye's paper: (23) pp. (wrongly paginated) and 10 engraved plates with numerous, characters, letters etc. First printing of a pioneer work in Sinology, the Chinese dialects etc.

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.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1745. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1742". Titlepage to Année 1742/1745. - 52 pp. (pp. 1-52) and 5 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper on the relative movement and the dynamics of a body in motion. It is Clairaut's main contribution to mechanics.The principle of "Galilean invariace" "was stated most clearly by Cairaut in a paper published in 1745 (the paper offered); in effect, it is the modern principle of relative motion, according to which a body seen from a non-inertial frame experiences an "apparent force" per unit mass equal to the negative ofthe acceleration of that frame relative to inertial frame."(Truesdell "Essays in the History of Mechanics", p. 131)

Paris, 1942. Lex 8vo. Original printed green wrappers. A few small tears to front wrapper (no loss) and a bit of light wear to spine. Uncut and unopened. A very nice copy. (2), 314, (2) pp. Scarce first edition on Merleau-Ponty's first published work, "The Structure of Behavior", which constitutes the outset of his philosophy, the work on the basis of which he was awarded his doctorate, perhaps the most important of all of his works and as such a main work of 20th century thought. "The first sentence of "The Structure of Behavior reads", "Our goal is to understand the relationship of consciousness and nature: organic, psychological or even social" (SB, 3). In the philosophical field that Merleau-Ponty entered, the question concerning the relationship of consciousness and nature was dominated by two distinct approaches: on the one hand, what Merleau-Ponty would call ‘objectivism’, understood as naturalism in philosophy, behaviorism in psychology, and mechanism in biology; on the other hand, what he calls ‘intellectualism’, that is, the neo-Kantianism which loomed large in France at that time, particularly the thought of Brunschvicg. Merleau-Ponty's own position emerges as he critically negotiates his way between these two approaches. In "The Structure of Behavior", he argues against naturalism and objectivism, however, he does not employ the epistemological resources of the Kantian tradition. In his rejection of an epistemological starting point, Merleau-Ponty's position resembles that of Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit. The Hegelian influence on "The Structure of Behavior" should not be underestimated. Like Hegel, Merleau-Ponty ‘starts from below’, which is to say, he does not begin with an analysis of a subjectivity which would constitute the condition of possibility for the appearance of objectivity. Rather he turns his attention to the research that was currently being done in the psychology and the biology of his day, attempting to demonstrate that the actual results of this research contradict the explicit ontology that subtends it." (SEP).

London, J. Bumpus, 1818. 4to. Uncut in later full buckram. Orig. printed titlelabel on spine. Part of orig. printed wrappers (the circle) pasted on frontboard. (8),616 pp., 42 (on 39 leaves) engraved plates each with many figs. Scattered, mostly marginal brownspots.

(Kopenhagen, Höpffner ?, 1740). 4to-oblong. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. stamp on verso of title-page. Engraved title-page in baroque-style. Engraved plate with signatures and 38 folded engraved folio-plates. Bibl. Dan II,341.

Paris, Bachelier, 1847 a. 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 25, No 8 and Tome 27, No 16. Pp. (286-) 324 a. pp. (373-) 400. (Entire issues offered). Joule's paper: pp. 309-311. Mayer's paper: pp. 385-387. First apperance of the paper in which Joule presented his last and most exact measurement of "THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT" by using his famous experimental design, the Paddle-wheel experiment, the most direct demonstration of the heat-mechanical-work equivalence. - He reported his final determinations of the equivalent to the French Academy of Sciences, and presented this learned body with the iron paddle-wheel calorimeter he had used in the case of mercury, thus establishing that heat is a form of energy.Mayer, in his paper, claimed that he was the first to evaluate the mechanical equivalent, and thus claiming priority to the importent conservation law, the first law of thermodynamics and the conservation of energy.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1847 P.

Dresden und Leipzig, Gerlach W. und Sohn, 1774. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and slightly rubbed. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A piece of leather pasted on upper compartment. Engraved frontispiece. (56),480 pp., 4 folded tables and 32 folded engraved plates. Internally clean.