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(Barby), Zu finden in der Brüder=Gemeinen, (1772-) 1775. Bound in 3 contemp. hcalf., raised bands, gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Engraved portrait (Zinzendorf) as frontispiece. (20),766;(4) 767-1602;(4),1603-2258 pp. + Register. Light wear to boards, internally fine and clean. First edition.

A Lyon, Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1790. Small 8vo. Cont. full vellum. With some old inscriptions on covers. Engraved frontispiece. XII,286 pp. and 24 folded handcoloured engraved maps.

Paris, Barbin & Aubouin, 1677. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities. Spine-ends chipped and some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. (2), 407 pp.; (2), 335, (5) pp. Uncommon first edition of this compilation of letters and major polemical texts that marked the feud between don Juan José of Austria (1629-1679), illegitimate son of Philip IV of Spain, governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1656-1659) and the Austrian Jesuit Johann Eberhard Nithard (1607-1681). Not in Barbier.

Amsterdam, Waesbergios, Boom, & Goethals, 1702. 8vo. Bound in 3 nice contemp. full vellum with gilt lettering. Marbled edges. 3 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved portrait and 12 engraved plates. Dibdin II, p. 267.

Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1887. Lex8vo.Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed at edges. Upper right corner of frontwrapper gone. A faint stamp on wrapper and on titlepage. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosscha", Tome XXI. VI,492 pp. a. 8 plates (2 in chromolithography, 2 with 8 mounted photographs (photottypie)). Uncut and unopened, clean and fine.(The entire volume offered). Lorentz's paper pp. 103-176. First appearance of an importent paper on the aberration of light "in which he concluded that Fresnel's view of the luminiferous ether was superior to Stokes's. Unlike Stokes, Fresnel in his theory of aberration assumed that the ether near yhe earth did not participate in its motion. Lorentz thought that the hypothesis of the complete transparancy of matter to the ether was implicit in Fresnel's whole theory."(DSB VIII, p.493). Lorentz further shows that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments did not vindicate the theory of Stokes as Michelson thought, and he demonstrates that the results can be explained by his own theory as a combination of Fresnel's and Stokes's theories.

K., 1866. Samt. hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. False m. revner, øvre kapitæl slidt, hjørner stødte, indvendig indimellem brunplettet. Den ikke almindeligt forekommende originaludgave af værket, der bragte Ibsen berømmelse videnom. First edition of the work that brought Ibsen fame, not common.

Large 4to. Loose as issued in publisher's portfolio and slip-case, uncut. No 75 (printed for Maurice Keller) of 160 copies réservés aux Sociétaires. With numerous original engravings, both in the text and as plates.

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.

Edinburgh, Cadell and Co., 1829. Small 8vo. Uncut in 3 orig. boards with orig. printed paper-titlelabels on spines. Spine ends lightly chipped. A good copy in its original state and binding. IV,II,421;(1),II,432;VII,436 pp. + Advertisements (4) pp. and large folded engraved and handcoloured map, 1 folded table. Some scattered foxing. With all 3 htitles. First edition. - Sabin 29725.

Altenburg, Richterschen Buchhandlung, 1794-96. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines.Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved portrait (Langsdorf in Fortsetzung). CX,(2),655;XX,656-816 pp. A large dampstain mainly to last half of the first volume and its plates causing some foxing in upper right corners of plates. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 1372.

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.

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.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates (1 heliogravure (instrument), 4 folded recordings). First edition of Gaskell's classic in neuroscience on the musculature and innervation of the heart."In the Croonian lecture for 1881, dealing with the frog heart, Gaskell presented an important new method for studying heart action (later named the "suspension method") and insisted that cardiac inhibition depended less on nerve or ganglionic mechanisms than on the inherent properties of the cardiac musculature. The role of the vagus nerve in inhibition was reduced to that of being the “trophic” (anabolic) nerve of the cardiac muscle. Yet in the same lecture Gaskell produced impressive evidence against Foster’s myogenic theory of rhythmicity and advocated instead the neurogenic view that discontinuous ganglionic discharges are responsible for the rhythmicity of the normal heartbeat. The background to this defection was exceedingly complex, but it derived from an initial assumption (which Foster himself accepted) that ganglionic impulses - whatever their role in rhythmicity - are somehow involved in coordinating the normal sequence of the vertebrate heartbeat."(DSB).Garrison & Morton, 829.

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.

(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).

(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, Barth, 1834. Contemp. hcalf., raised bands, spine gilt. Spine with light wear. in. "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. J.C. Poggendorff", Zweite reine, 3. bd.VIII,558,(4) pp. and 5 plates. (Entire volume offerd). Faradays papers: pp. 149-189 (Sixth series) + pp. 301-331 a. 481-520 (Seventh series). Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen - of 2 historical papers in chemistry and physiscs in which Faraday in the first detects a new recombination-effect in electrolysis and in the second we have the MILESTONE PAPER in which Faraday announces the discoveries of further laws of electrochemistry, stating the general relations of electricity to chemistry and introducing new terms with precise meanings. The first part of the paper introduces his new terminology, giving the words a limited and precise meaning. These words, devised with the assistance of William Whewell, are now familiar to all chemists, electrode, anode, cathode, ion, anion, and cation. He also introduces the "Volta-electrometer", and arrives at the "Law of electro-chemical equivalents". The paper offered is one of Farday's most famous papers."Another section of the paper is devoted to a closer examination of the law of constant electrochemical action with respect to water and to the development of a gas electrometer to measure quantities of electricity. Faraday's "Volta-electrometer" provided the first practical means for the quantitative measurement of electricity." (Source Book in Chemistry p. 280-81).The Sixth series: "In the course of his experimental investigations of a general and importent law of electro-chemical action, which required the accurate measurement of thegases evolved during the decomposition of water and other substances, the author was lead to the detection of a curious effect, which had never been previously noticed, and of which the knowledge, had he before possessed it, would have prevented many of the errors and inconsistencies occurring in the conclusions he at first deduced from his earlier experiments. The phenomena observed was the gradual recombination of elements which had been previously separated from each other by voltaic action. This happened when, after water had been decomposed by voltaic electricity, the mixed gases resulting from such decomposition were left in contact with the platina wires or plates, which had acted as poles; for under these circumstances they gradually diminished in vo.umes, water was reprioduced, and at lust the whole of the gases disappeared."(Abstract) - Faraday explains the causes of this recombination.

(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.

Augsburg, Kletts sel. Wittwe und Franck, 1779. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (2),86 pp. and 3 large folded engraved plates. Light scattered browning and some scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition. "In the early 1770s, while still studying theology, Weber bought an electrival machine from an old-clothes peddler. The purchase showed its value in 1778 when, just after his ordination, he won the prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for an 'air electrophore', an air condenser with a movable coating, whose action he explained in the modern manner, using 'atmosphere' to mean 'sphere of activity'"(J.L. Heilbron).Poggendorff II, 1271. - Ronalds Library, p. 526.

Kiøbenhavn, 1768. 4to. Slidt, senere halvlæder (ca. 1850). 851 s. + 21 kobberstukne plancher. (af i alt 24. Mangler; kort over Aarhus Stift, Randers i grundtegning samt Randers i prospekt). Plancher velbevarede skønt nogle med få brune pletter og andre med marginale revner. Enkelt planche med mindre revne ind i stikket. Med kort over Viborg Stift (Præfecturæ Viburgensis, A.H. Godiche, 1767.) Kortet med revner i margin.Bogen i øvrigt pæn og ren indvendig. Originaltrykket.