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Uden sted, u. år og trykker, (1685). 4to. Nydeligt papbd. i imiteret pergament med guldtrykt titel og dekoration på forpermen. (8) pp. Enkelte, sirlige, gamle tilskrifter. Lette brugsspor, men i fin stand. Originaltrykket. Af største sjældenhed.Bibl. Danica II: 680.

Posonii, Ludovici Landerer de Fúskút, 1831. Folio. Uncut in contemp. boards. Small tears at spine ends. A faint dampstain to titlepage. VIII,57,16,235 pp. Internally fine and clean. The work gives the official articles, privileges relating tothe mining industry in Hungary as well as giving the regulations for mining constructions. The work is in Latin.

(Paris), Gallimard, (1947-49). 8vo. All three in the orig. decorated black cardboard-bindings w. art deco-inspired decorations to spines and boards, in white and yellow, yellow and grey, and grey and blue. Gilt titles to spines. All three volumes placed in a custom-made black cardboard-cassette. Very minor traces of use to capitals, and the white paper on boards of vol. one w. a bit of brownspotting, otherwise an excellent, nice and clean set. First editions of Sartre's first three "Situations, all three copies numbered (vol. one: No. 421 out of 990 copies, vol. two: No. 631 out of 990 copies, vol three: No. 781 out of 1000 copies) copies on "alfa des Papeteries Navarre".Volume one states "20 novembre 1947" on colophon, though Contat & Rybalka state "20 octobre 1947".Contat & Rybalka 47/117 + 48/155 + 49/180.Sartre's "Situations" contain many of Sartre's most important articles and essays, and it is within these that Sartre foremost shows his philosophical and political face. "The several volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Situations, published from 1947 on, constitute the most weighty and, in the two first volumes in particular, the most original body of essay writing of the middle of the 20th century." (Encyclop. Britannica). In all 10 "Situations" appeared.

[Nürnberg, 1553]. Small 4to-oblong. 8 leaves in later blank wrappers. Handwritten title in Swedish ("Wolfgang Fuggers/ Grækiska Abbreviaturer/ utgifne i Nürnberg 1553") to front free end-paper. Some soiling, a tear to the first leaf, and some leaves shaved, with loss of a bit of the German lettering. Excerpt from Fugger's extremely scarce handwriting-manual, the earliest work to deal in any way with the design of types. The present leaves comprise most of the Greek part of the work, with the exception of three pages, being: o2v: the textual introduction to the Greek section, o3r+v: both depicting Greek capital letters, o3v, also with pronunciation of the letters. o2r, which constitutes the final page of the Roman section, in present, at the end, but mounted at the verso of q3. Present is: o4-q3 + o2, in all 8 leaves, comprising 15 pages of the Greek section. The present pages constitute: Text in Greek, both in capitals and miniscules, text in German on writing Greek characters, depictions of Greek miniscules, with the names of the characters, illustrations of how to practically write the Greek characters, samples of different styles of the Greek characters, tables of how some of the characters are and can be merged and written together, what the character- and word-abbreviations look like, and the numbers. I.e. a full exposition of all the Greek characters and how to learn and use them.

Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1801 - Stockholm, 1800. 8vo + 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Papirsetiket påsat øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. (8),160 pp. Kortet (56,5 x 85 cm.). i helshirtmappe med bindebånd. Kobberstukket og håndkoloreret med tekst i pladen. Opsat på lærred, foldet og i 8 sektioner. Svagt brunplettet.

Dresden und Leipzig, Gerlachs W. und Sohn, 1774. Cont. hcalf. Lightly rubbed. Remains of a paperlabel pasted on back. Old name on title. Engraved frontispiece. (56),479 pp., 2 Tables and 32 folded engraved plates. A few minor tears to plates, no loss. Klaus Jordan No 3771.

Weimar, Landes= Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. (4),XXVIII,420 pp. and 1 large folded engraved map. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 23. Bd.). Also having the series-titlepage., this with a stamp

K., 1841. Lidt senere beskedent hshirtbd., permer betrukne m. grønt, krokodillelignende papir. Indvendig indimellem noget brunplettet. (8), 350 pp. Originaludgave med Teser. Himmelstrup 8.

(Kbh.), 1842 - Sept. 1846. 130 hefter i orig. heftet stand, nogle en smule løse, nogle hjørner bøjede. Utallige træsnit. Her en stor samling numre af det berømte og kontroversielle ugeblad Corsaren. Dette sæt indeholder adskillige af de beslaglagte numre. Ugebladet udkom under Goldschmidt fra oktober 1840 til september 1846 og skaffede Goldschmidt fængslsidømmelse og censur. " "Corsaren" gjorde betydelig Sensation i Fyrrernes sociale Tilværelse. Den var det utaalmodigst ventede og det ivrigst læste af alle blade." (P. Hansen III:334).

(Christiania (Oslo), Grøndahl & Søn, 1882). Folio. (36 x 28 cm.). Samtidigt hshirtbd. Kapitæler reparerede. 36 pp. med dobbeltspaltet tekst (dansk of engelsk) og træsnit i teksten samt 6 pragtfulde kromolitograferede plancher tegnet af F.W. Schiertz, litograferet af F. Larsen, Hoffenberg & Trap, 2 litograferede kort. Udsnit (eller særtryk) af "Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition 1876-1878. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878". De 6 farvelitografier er i perfekt stand: 1. Fra Vestmanna-Öerne. Island. - 2. Lagunen paa Östsiden af Jan Mayen. - 3. Beerenberg. Jan Mayen. - 4. Östsiden af Beeren-Eiland. - 5. Sydkap. Spidsbergen. - 6. Magdalene-Bai. Spidsbergen. - Kortene: 1. Kaart over Jan Mayen udarbejdet af C. Wille og H. Mohn. - 2. Kart over Advent Bay. Optaget af C.F. Wille.

Amsterdam, Wetsteins & Smith, 1728. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the placement in an estate library. Gilt super ex-libris to front board of all four volumes. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and some of the gilt ornamentation worn off. Internally fine and clean. (38), 550, (32) pp. + frontispiece; (8), 608 pp. + frontispiece and folded map; (6), 635, (1) pp. + frontispiece; (6), 752 pp. + 2 frontispieces and folded map. Later improved edition of De Missey's highly popular work on Peter the Great of Russia.

London, Henry Colburn, 1827. 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. boards with orig. printed titlelabels on backs. Wear to spine ends. 2 engraved portraits as frontispieces. XX,380;XV,496 pp., 3 facsimiles, 2 large folded aquatint plates (Panoramic view of Teflis, Installation of the New Khan of Kasikumuk) and 1 large folded engraved map. (complete, and also with both htitles, not mentioned by Abbey). Light browning to titlepages and some scattered brownspots. The scarce first edition. - Abbey Travel No 24 - Palau 351701.

(New York), American physical Society, 1959. Lex8vo. Volume 3, No. 9, November 1, 1959 of "Physical Review Letters", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 439-441. [Entire issue: 411-457]. First publication of the Pound-Rebka experiment which is regarded as being the last of the classical test of general relativity proposed by Albert Einstein to be verified. It is a test of the general relativity prediction that clocks should run at different rates at different places in a gravitational field and is considered to be the experiment that ushered in an era of precision test of general relativity. Today the so called gravitational redshift is essential for understanding the cosmos and operating the Global Positioning System (GPS)."Before he worked out the general theory of relativity, Einstein had already deduced that gravity must affect a light wave's frequency and wavelength. Light moving upwards from Earth's surface, for example, shifts to longer wavelength and lower frequency, as gravity saps it of some energy. But the effect is tiny in earth's modest gravity. In 1959 Robert Pound and Glen Rebka of Harvard University finally succeed in testing this crucial prediction, and they reported their results in [The present paper]." (Physical Review Focus, 12 July 2005). Although the Global Positioning System (GPS) is not designed as a test of physics, it must account for the gravitational redshift in its timing system. When the first satellite was launched, some engineers neglected to predict that a noticeable gravitational time discrepancy would occur. So the first satellite was launched without the clock adjustment that was later built into satellites. It had a predicted time difference of 38 microseconds per day which, if not accounted for, could lead to hours of discrepancy.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1828. Contemp. hvellum with gilt lettering on spine. (4),182 pp. a. 1 large folded engraved map (Plan des Triangles de Martinique). Printed on thick paper. Internally clean and fine. Sabin, 50001

Berlin, in der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1800. 8vo. Cont. hcalf w. signs of wear. Upper capital worn, crack to lower front hinge. Corners bumped. Old stamps to title-page and verso of t-p. Some brownspotting. VI, 338 pp. First edition of Fichte's important "The Vocation of Man", the first (and best) work he wrote after having been dismissed from Jena.In the beginning of the 1790'ies Fichte wrote the work "Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbahrung", which Kant approved of and found a publisher for. The work appeared without mention of author on the title-page, and the work was immediately ascribed to Kant, -a better mistake could not have happened for Fichte, and when Kant corrected it, Fichte's reputation was secured. Already at the end of 1793 he was offered a chair teaching philosophy at the University of Jena. In Jena he published several important works, and in 1798 he published an essay "On the Basis of Our Belief in a Divine Governance of the World". In this short essay he wished to indicate how a philosophy of religion should be developed in accordance with the principles developed in his "Wissenschaftslehre". Because of this Fichte was accused of atheism, and as a consequence he was forced t leave his position and Jena. The matter had greatly escalated and involved a great number of German writers, who wrote articles both for and against Fichte. The whole thing culminated, when Jacobi wrote his "open letter", in which he directly accused Fichte's transcendental philosophy of being nihilistic, and Fichte afterwards had to flee to Berlin in the summer of 1799.Fichte was forced to live from giving private lectures and tutorials and also by writing more easily understandable works. The first of these more popular writings is his "Vocation of Man", in which he presents the main ideas and notions of his system, especially the moral and religious character of it. The work is considered a brilliant performance, and "perhaps Fichte's greatest achievement" (Encycl. Britt.). It was a direct response to Jacobi's misunderstood attack, which had just lost him his position. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) was of one of the founding thinkers of German idealism. He is considered a very important philosopher in at least two respects: 1) as the uniter of the ideas of the two great - Kant and Hegel -, and as an important philosopher in himself, who has contributed originally to the philosophy of the self. By some he is considered the father of German nationalism.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1819. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Tear in upper part of upper joint. Frontcover loosening. Spine rubbed. Stamp on htitle. Engraved portrait. (4),XII,(2),666,(2) pp., 56 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. All published of this enlarged edition of the work. Additional plates and notes for the first time by Navier.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1911. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip and a small nick to front wrapper. In "Mathematische Annalen. Begründet durch Alfred Clebsch und Carl Neumann. 70. Band. 2. Heft." Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Brouwer:] Pp. 161-65. [Entire issue: Pp. 161-296]. First printing of Brouwer's "revolutionary" and "landmark" contribution to topology. It marked a new period within topology-research: "Although the paper is short and merely contains a simple proof of the invariance of dimension, "it is infact much more than this - the paradigm of an entirely new and highly promising method now known as algebraic topology"". (Aull. Handbook of the history of general topology. P. 150). "The article submitted in June was the momentous "Proof of the invariance of the dimension number". In the following month it was followed with a longer paper, also a masterpiece. Of these two revolutionary papers, [The present paper] used his newly discovered "degree of a mapping" concept implicitly for the proof of dimensional invariance. [the paper] effectively swept away all previous attempts to prove dimensional invariance. (James. History of Topology, P. 16)"Cantor and others offered proofs that, indeed, a continuous mapping of points between dimensions was impossible, but a fully satisfactory proof establishing the invariance of dimension was not provided until the topologist L. E. J. Brouwer did so in 1910". (DSB).

Tubingen: Osiander, 1835 & 1836. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporay half calf bindings with red leather title-label with gilt lettering. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches and leather on spine cracked. Ex-libris (Danish philosopher Carl Henrik Koch) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper and front free end-paper heavily annotated in contemporary hand. Internally with occassional light marginal browning and occassional brownspotting. XVI, 731, (1) pp.; XII, 750, (2) pp. First edition of Strauss’ landmark and sensational work in which he argued that the miracles in the New Testament were mythical additions with little basis in facts - a seminal text in the history of biblical studies and of religious scholarship generally. Because of the present work Strauss is today regarded a pioneer in the historical investigation of Jesus. "The publication of 'The Life of Jesus Critically Considered' aroused a storm of controversy; its revolutionary thesis and content were violently attacked, and wrenched out of context... Strauss's principal objective was to explode not only the traditional orthodox view of the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, but also earlier rationalistic views..." (PMM). PMM 300.

Around 1800. 26,5x43 cm. (Paper size 32x48,5 cm.). Detailled manuscript plan on the fortifications and surroundings of Neustadt. Ink and handcoloured. Upper right corner of paper gone but not affecting image. Light browning and marginal brownspots. Framed and under glass.

Kjøbenhavn, Jul. Hoffenberg, (1858). Folio. (35,5 x 26 cm.). Indlagt ubeskårede i original bogtrykt papbd. med ryg i shirt. Mappen lidt slidt. Indeholder det trykte titelblad og 10 (af 20) originale plancher i litograferede farvetryk og håndkolorering. Plancherne i fin stand. Værket udkom med ialt 20 uniformsplancher samt 6 blade med insignier etc. Her foreligger 10 plancher (de 10 først udgivne ?): 1. Den Kongelige Livgarde til Fods. - 2. Dragoner. - 3. Den Kongelige Livgarde til Hest. - 4. Garde-Husar-regimentet..- 5. Armeens Spillemænd. - 6. Adjutanter. - 7. Kjøbenhavns Borgervæbning. - 8. Den Kongelige Artillerie-brigade. - 9. Det Kongelige Lancadetcorps. - 10. Den Kongelige Marine III.

Paris, Crochard, 1826. 8vo. In a bit later half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 31. Entire volume offered. No institutional stamps. [Berzelius' paper:] Pp.5-37. [The entire issue:] 448 pp. + 3 plates. First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry. In this paper Berzelius drew up the table of atomic weights of the elements, which, with only a few exceptions are similar to those used today. He symbolizes the elements by the first or two letters of the Latin name of the element, and he symbolizes compounds by stting the element symbols together together with the number of atoms involved when grater that one. This is the importent revison of his system announced in 1818. "In 1819 Mitscherlich showed that similarity in chemical structure is accompanied by identity of crystalline form (Mitscherlich's law of isomorphism). berzelius realized at once that Mitscherlich's findings called for importent changes in his own system. he accordingly published a new table of atomic weights in 1826 (the paper offered)."(Taton "Science in the 19th Century", p. 279). - Holmberg, Bibliografi öfver Berzelius, nr. 29. The present volume also contain the following important papers: Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes (Gustave Rose)Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore, et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène (Dumas)Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil, de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien, près de Montpellier (Hérault)adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres ; Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer; de poussières ou de substances molles, sèches ou humides, suivant l'ordre chronologique (E. F. F. Chladni) Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires (Félix Savart)Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de temp

Witteberg, Haken, 1671 (+) Lugduni Batavorum (i.e. Leiden), Officina Elzeviriana, 1618. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities. Title-label to spine with loss of leather. Inner front hinge split, otherwise internally nice and clean. (16), 558, (30), (72), (16), 162 pp. An interesting sammelband containing two works both addressing theological controversies within Protestant Christianity, specifically the conflict between Calvinist and Arminian doctrines. They critique Arminianism and defend orthodox Reformed theology (Calvinism). ”Consideratio Arminianismi” is a direct critique of Arminian theology, analyzing and refuting its doctrines. “Specimen Controversiarum Belgicarum” reinforces the Reformed position by outlining the confessions and beliefs of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands which stood firmly against Arminianism.

Paris, Leclerc, Imprimé par Paul Renouard, (1829). Folio. (53 x 37,5 c.). Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Original engraved titlelabel on upper board. Spine rubbed. Some wear to edges and corners. Title-page loose. Stamp on title-page. 6 pp. + 35 doublefolio sheets, partly with text and maps. Maps and some textsheets handcoloured. Comprising maps from America, Africa, Asia, Russia etc.etc. - See Phillips,124-29 (various editions).

(Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1836). Folio. (38 x 28,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. With 18 double-page lithographed plates. The last plate (Die Belagerung der Citadelle von Antwerpen) with handcolouring. Some scattered brownspots, mainly on the first few plates. Atlas-volume to Sonntag's "Der Festungskrieg im Geiste der neuesten Kriegsführung, für Offiziere jeder Waffe." - Klaus Jordan,3535.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Salomon Sartor), ml. 1612 og 1619. Lille 4to. Samtidigt enkelt hldrbd. over træpermer. Hjørner fornyede, overtrækspapiret sandsynligvis fornyet med gl. materialer. Nyere forsatse. Svag skjold i margin af de første blade. Titebladet i rød/sort. Titelbladets bagside med rigsvåbnet i helsides træsnit. En del brugsspor. Titelbladet lidt snavset. 96 blade (=192 pp.). Det første af de pirattryk, som blev udgivet med forlæg i Mads Vingaards udgave fra 1590. (Se Lauritz Nielsen artikel i Nord. Tids. Bok. och Biblv. fra 1921, hvor de 3 piratudgaver beskrives). Med udgivelsen af Danske Lov i 1683 blev Jydske Lov overflødig, undtagen i Slesvig, hvor den var gældende helt op til 1900. - Thesaurus I:168, hvor anføres "The pirated editions seem rarer, (end Vingaard-trykket 1590))".