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Berlin, W. Junk, 1926. Folio. 26 reproduced portraits of old botanists. Loosely interted in the accompanying printed wrappers. Front and back wrapper detached and with light miscolouring, otherwise a fine set. 27 ff.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73 Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adults, on cliffs, one sitting over the nest with 4 eggs. Plants with flowers. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Right margin frayed, not affecting image. 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.

Leipzig, Christoph Cörnern, 1722. 8vo. In contemporary half vellum with gilt lettering to spine. Two small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. (10), 544, (4), 545-708, (20) pp. Uncommon first edition of Rüdiger work on how to live wisely and govern effectively. Andreas Rüdiger (1673–1731) was a German philosopher, mathematician, and physicist of the early 18th century, associated with the rationalist tradition. Educated and later a professor at the University of Leipzig, Rüdiger was influenced by philosophers like Leibniz and Wolff. His work spanned philosophy, ethics, mathematics, and physics, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of Enlightenment thought.

Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1787-1804. Boundin 7 contemp. hcalf. Light wear to spine ends. Some title-and tomelabels gone. Spines rubbed and somewhat worn. Old owners names on titlepage. With 45 folded engraved plates, showing chirurgical instruments. 2 plates frayed in right margin. Internally fine. Richter's classical work on surgery, renowned for its fine engravings depicting chirurgical instruments. - Wellcome:543.

Amsterdam, Roger, 1709. 8vo. In contemporary full with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities. Inner front hinge split. Internally generally nice and clean. (8), 338 pp. Rare first edition of La Placette’s work on the necessity of free will for moral responsibility. Here he refutes Baruch Spinoza’s determinism and defends human freedom arguing that genuine choice is essential for moral accountability. Jean La Placette (1639-1718), known as the Protestant Nicole, was a French Protestant pastor and preacher. He studied theology at Montauban and served as a pastor in Orthez and Nay. In 1685, he left France for Holland and later became pastor of the French Reformed Church in Copenhagen, Denmark. La Placette wrote numerous religious and moral treatises, promoting Reformed orthodoxy.

Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. Contemporary hcalf, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on titlepage. VIII,226,(1) pp. Broadmargined on good paper. Light scattered brownspots. First edition. Poisson made importent contribution to many categories in mathematics and mathematical physics, "Poisson'sTheorem", the mathematical treatment of attractive forces etc.. "The Recherches sur le Mouvement...projectiles (the item offered) is the first workto deal with the subject by taking into account the rotation of the earth and the complementary acceleration resulting from the motion of the system of reference. A decade after its publication it inspired Focault's famous experiment demonstrating the earth's rotation"(Pierre Costabel in DSB). - In this researchhe extended Lapalce's analysis to allow also for the rotation of the projectile in motion, and it helped Léon Foucault to conceive of his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. - The work is a collection of memoirs. "Ce recherches se composent de plusieurs Mémoires lus par l'Auteur à l'Academie des Sciences et insérés dans les XXVIe et XXVIIe cahiers du Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique." (From verso of halftitle) - Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 261.

Stockholm, Lund, 1831-44. Indbundet i 10 velbevarede samt. hldrbd. med tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Vigtigt kildeskrift, såvel personalhistorisk som middelalderhistorisk.

(London, George Bell and Sons), 1901. 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Journal of the Society of Art. No. 2,530, Vol. XLIX, May 17, 1901). A clean copy. [Marconi:] Pp. 505-520 + 17 figures illustrating the paper. First publication of this early and important paper preceding, by just a few months, Marconi's first weak signals received across an ocean. The paper present a description of the experimental process to developing tuning or syntonising the wireless system. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" and was ennobled in 1924 as Marchese Marconi."Marconi, who was anxious to forestall any competitors, sailed for Newfoundland where, using a kiteborne antenna and Solari's carbon-on-stell detector with a telephone receiver, on 12 December he received the first transatlantic wireless communication, the three code dots signifying the letter "S." Already well known, Marconi, at twenty-seven, became world famous overnight." (DSB). If Marconi felt he needed more publicity, he certainly got it in 1912: The two radio operators aboard the Titanic - Jack Phillips and Harold Bride - were not employed by the White Star Line, who ran the Titanic, but by the Marconi International Marine Communication Company. Britain's postmaster-general summed up, referring to the Titanic disaster, "Those who have been saved, have been saved through one man, Mr. Marconi...and his marvelous invention.".

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, Paris, Dubochet, 1844. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back, but the gold nearly weared away. (2),421 pp. Some brownspottings mainly in right margins. Name on title. - First edition, first issue (on verso of title: H.G. Voigt's Buchdruckerei). Containing the first printing of "Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen".

Te Breda, 1845. Folio. Cont.hcalf. Back worn. Plates fine. Containing 78 fine lithogr. plates. Description of the illustr. in small folio, 12 pp.

London, Albion Press, 1808. 8vo. Cont. full calf. Binding somewhat worn. Ends of spine chipped. Engraved fronstispiece (portrait). IV,634 pp. +Advertisements and 10 engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, but internally fine. Scarce first edition. Macdonald was Headcook at the Bedford Tavern and Hotel, Covent Garden. - Vicaire p. 545 (an edition from 1809) - Simon No. 978 (edition 1812).

(New York), American physical Society, 1955. Lex8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Physical Review", Volume 100, No. 3, November 1, 1955. Previous owner's stamp (Danish physicist C. Møller) to front wrapper. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally. Pp. 947-50. [Entire issue: 763-979]. First printing of Chamberlain, Segré, Wiegand and Ypsilantis landmark paper in which they first presented their discovery of antiprotons. Chambelain was together with Segré in 1959 awarded the Nobel prize in physics "for their discovery of the antiproton".The detection of the antiproton was first achieved in the fall of 1955 by the Berkeley physicists Owen Chamberlain [et al]. Their scintillators and Cerenkov counters showed about 60 antiproton condidates, but the ultimate proof of the particle, its annihilation with an ordinary proton, was not immediatedly confirmed. (Kragh, Quantum Generations). Since 1955, the antiparticles of many other subatomic particles have been created in particle accelerator experiments. In recent years, complete atoms ofantimatter have been assembled out of antiprotons and positrons, collected in electromagnetic traps.

Jena, (1781). 4to. Cont. hcalf w. traces of use. Lower part of t-p. cut of, thus lacking year of printing. Old owner's name on t-p. ("T.Hansen"). A few leaves w. very minor brownspotting. (12), 200, 47 (second part), (12) pp., 35 folded engr. plates.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1787. Samtidigt helldrbd. med overdådig rygforgyldning, forgyldt skindtitel. Stregforgyldning på permer. Kobberstukket titelblad med stor kobberstukket vignet. XVI,454,(4),104 pp. Skrivepapirseksemplar i aldeles frisk stand. Originaludgaven.

London, Cunningham & Mortimer, (1843-) 1844. Large 8vo. (24,5 x 16 cm.). Bound uncut in a splendid, near contemporary in full red morocco with raised bands. Richly tooled in gold on covers and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. The gilding is in grolier-style with arabesque-bands. Broad inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Free endpapers and covers inside with green silk. The binding is signed in gold on foot of inside froncover "Tout. Binder". The 2 novels were published in monthly installments, bound as such and with original printed wrappers from Ainsworth's Magazine: "A Monthly Miscellany of Romance, General Literature and Art. Edited by William Harrison Ainsworth". With a lithographed portrait of William Maginn and 11 plates in steel-etching by Cruikshank.

(København, T egner & Kittendorff,1852). 4to. Samtidigt hellæderbd. Forgyldt rygtitel. lettere kantslid. Litograferet titelblad, 40 pp. tekst samt 30 tonede litograferede plancher med motiver fra de af Galathea besøgte lande. Svag skjold på de første blade. Plancherne gennemgående friske, bortset fra en svag skjold på bagsiden af de første plancher.. Litografierne udførte af Tegner & Kittendorff. Thornam var sammen med maleren A. Plum med på Galathea-ekspeditionen som tegner. Foruden videnskabelige tegninger udførte han et stort antal skitser, heraf de 30, som her blev udgivet med tekst af ham selv. "Han besad stor teknisk dygtighed, og havde en vis sans for dramatiske situationer og "de varme landes" romantik kommer til udtryk i billederne fra Galathea-Ekspeditionen" (Weilbach).

Paris, 1842. 4to. a. Atlas-vol in folio. 3 cont.hcalf. XVI,515,XII,496,XXXII pp. and Atlas with 14 mounted engr.plates, chiefly showing Geodetic instruments. Slightly brownspotted. Stamp.on title. - "Puissant avait une prédilection toute particuliere pour la Geodesie, dont on peut dire qu'il fut pendent un demisiecle le represéntent le plus eminent" (Biogr.Gén.).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73 Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. An adult with prey outside nest with 4 baby birds.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. Lower margin with loss of 1/2 cm., not affecting print or image.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.

Washington, 1853. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. 59 pp., 4 plates (details of the light-house) and 6 large folded engraved maps (under the direction of A.D. Bache). Clean and fine. Inscribed to "Mr. Sten Bille/ Charge of Affairs from Denmark/ (?)/ with the Compliments of Major Bache." The inscription in faint pencil. Special Session - (Senate) - Ex. Doc. No. 8.

London, Köbenhavn, John Russell Smith, Michaelsen and Tillge, 1866-68. Folio. Bound in 2 fine contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers, inner panel with gilt cornerpieces (Cambridge-binding style). On covers goldstamped "HL", (Johan Henrik Schubothe Langhoff) and also with his engraved exlibris on inside frontcovers. 2 engraved frontispieces (1 portrait). LXX,(2),1038,(2) pp. Richly textillustrated with chemitypes and 13 plates of which 12 are printed in colour 8gold, silver, bronce etc.). Faint scattered brownspots.

4to. Bound in 2 cont. full calf (Cambride-binding-style). 5 raised bands, gilt backs. Corners bumped, backs slightly rubbed. Engraved frontispiece. (2),600,6,(2),706 pp. and 6 folded engraved maps and plans. Titlepage of vol. 2 loose. The 2 volume form part of "Uebersetzung der Algemeinen Welthistorie der Neueren Zeiten die in England durch eine Geselschaft von Gelehrten ausgefertiget worden. Hrsg. von S.J. Baumgarten u. J.S. Selmer". The Ost-Indien section is complete. The maps shows Tranquebar, Batavia, Karte von Ostindien, Stadt Diu, Goa.

(Wien, ab. 1840). Folio. Cont.hcalf. Containing 27 fine double-page engr.plates. (35 x 49 cm.). G.Schinnerle sculpsit.

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1808). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 28, Erstes u. Zweites Stück. Pp. 1-160 a. 1 folded engraved map. + pp. 161-256 a. 1 engraved plate.The entire issues offered. Davy's paper: pp. 1-43. a. pp. 161-202. First German edition of ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTENT CONTRIBUTIONS EVER MADE TO CHEMICAL SCIENCE, as Davy here outlined a theory of mass action, forcast the use of electricity in atomic disintegration and announced the isolation by electrolytic methods of two new elements, sodium and potassium. He used the most powerful electric battery of the time, a voltaic pile, invented 1800 by Volta."Humphrey Davy...was among the first to investigate the decomposition of water. In 1806 he delivered a Bakerian Lecture (the paper offered here in the German version) before the Royal Society of London "On some chemical agencies of electricity" (1807), which pointed out several fallacies in the theory of electrolysis. Davy's experiments on the chemical effects of electrical currents on substances, causing their decomposition, led to his discovery of several new elements: potassium (1807), sodium (1807), barium (1808), calcium (1808), and boron (1808)" (Milestone of Science No. 52) - Davy's first Bakerian Lecture won a Prize from Napoleon, even though France and England were at War. - Partington vol. IV pp. 42 ff. - PMM No 255 (note). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1807 C.The issue contains also Heron de Villefosse: "Nivellement des Harzgebirges mit dem Barometer", pp. 49-114 a. 1 engraved folded map.Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Breslau, Josef Max - Berlin, E.S. Mittler, 1821-27. Bound in 2 contemp.bindings, but not uniform. Theil 1 in fine contemp. green boards, richly gilt spine and gilt borders on both covers. All edges gilt (in style of a presentation-copy). Theil 2 bound in contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Both printed on good paper and internally clean and fine. Stamp to both titlepages. (10),XVIII,359;X,216 pp., 5 large folded engraved maps and plans. First edition.

Oxford, Humphrey Milford, 1932. Large 4to. Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. Frontispiece-portrait. XI,502,(2) pp. and 74 plates.