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Paris, Librairie Scientifique-Industrielle, 1842. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Spine rubbed at upper compartment. Stamp on title-page. XIX,335 pp., 1 folded table and 5 large folded engraved plates. a few scattered brownspots. First edition. A classical work on the use of steam-machinery in vessels, discussing the advantages of steam ships over sailing ships.

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.

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).

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.

Kbhvn., Jørgen Holst, 1642-44. 4to. Senere hldrbd. Ryg slidt, forreste fals revnet. Med kobberstukket titelblad til Judske Lowbog og til Chr. IV's Reces. Ialt ca. 1.000 pp.. Her og der med brugsspor. Omfatter: 1. Den rette Judske Lowbog. 1642. 2. Christian den Tredies (Coldinghusiske Reces). 1642. - 3 Frederichs den Andens Reces (Kallundborgske Reces). 1642. - 4. Fredderichs den Andens Haandfestning. 1642. - 5. Den Danske Søræt. 1642. - 6. Gaards Rætten. 1642. - 7. Kongelige Majestæts Aabne Breff (Forordninger). - 8. Frederichs den Anden...Om visse Vilkaar...som de Fremmede der begiere at bygge oc Bo her i Rigerne skulle indgaa...643. - 9. Christian IV Reces. 1643. - 10. Chr. IV's Forordninger. Med træskåret titelblad. (Heri 16 Forordninger) - 11. Rigens Ret oc Dele. 1643. - 12. Chr. IV's Birckeret - samt register til Loubog og Reces etc.

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

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

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))".

Newcastle, Edward Walker, 1807. Large 8vo. Fine contemp. full brown calf. Raised bands, gilt and blindtooled spine, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtooled and gilt borders on covers. Marbled edges. First inner hinge weakening. X,525 pp., 225 woodcuts of quadrupeds and many vignettes. Large fine copy, absolutely clean and printed on fine paper (Royal). Wood p. 236.

(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.

Samt. helldrbd. m. rig rygforgyldn. Her og der lidt brunplettet. Stort ekspl. på skrivepapir. "Pragtudgaven" m. 16 kobberst. tavler af J.J. Clemens efter Wiedevelt samt 11 kobberst. vignetter.

Ulm, Stettinischen Buchhandlung, 1791. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (10) pp., 722 columns, (30) pp. A few minor brownspots. First edition. - Poggendorff I, 1241.

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.

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.

In Vinegia (Venice), (Aldus, 1555). Small 8vo. Contemp. full vellum, spine renewed around 1850, gilt and red titlelabel with gilt lettering. Titlepage with the anchor of Aldus in woodcut. Right margin of titlepage with a small loss of paper, the printing intact. 399 leaves and 1 blank. Throughout clean and fine. One of the earliest translation from Latin, here into Italian. Cicero's letters "Ad Atticum" covers the years 68 to 44 and takes up 16 Books. The letters was probably not published before the time of Nero. The work has a great value as a historical source. There are, all told, ninety-nine different correspondents, writers, or recipients of letters, and the whole correspondance ranges over the years 68-43. - The book collates slightly different from Adams C 1996, but having the same numbers of leaves. It is complete. - Brunet II:62 - Adams C 1996.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1891. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 112, No 5. Pp. (265-) 324 (entire issue offered). The papers: pp. 274-277. First printing of Lippmann's milestone (and Nobel Price-) paper in which he describes how he - for the first time - produced fixed photocromes by direct exposure from nature. Lippmann is honoured with the Nobel prize in physics in 1908 "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.""Lippmann presented to the Paris Academy... (the paper offered) on February 2, 1891, his report on photochromy, in which he described his famous method of photography in colors, the so-called "interferende" method, based on the action of stationary waves... His first experiments were carried on with silver bromide albumen plates sensitized for color with cyanine. His successfull experiments in the reproduction of the solar spectrum in its colors arousd much attention in the scientific world, because he had solved the problem of direct photography in natural colors on silver haloid layers and the fixation of the color images."(Eder "History of Photography", p. 668).

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1810. Large 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. 2 engraved portraits as frontispieces (perronet a. Le Sage).(4),II,296;(2),XVI,324,(2) pp. and 37 fine folded engraved plates. First edition. The first volume contains interesting memoirs on civil engineering in England, including views of houses in Picadilly and Oxford Street, and the second a translation of Smeaton's account of the Eddystone Lighthouse, with 4 platess reengraved. There is also a fine folding view of the Place and Pont de la Concorde, Paris, after Desprez."(Henry Sotheran).

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 later full buckram with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 31. Entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of half title. Light occassional brownspotting. [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

(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.

Bruxelles, Aux Èditions du Nord, 1934. Uncut in orig. wrappers with orig. coloured woodcut as frotwrapper. Top of spine on vol. one with a small loss of paper. In 2 fine custom made boxes with green morocco spines, gilt and with gilt lettering. Illustrated with many orig. coloured woodcuts, both as plates as in the text and a suite of the illustrations in black One of 50 copies "sur Hollande et une Suite en noir sur Chine" (Numerotés de 27 a 76) - This copy no. 72. A total of 1076 copies. Clean and fine.

London, Van Voorst, 1860. 8vo. Original blind and gilt-stamped publishers cloth. XL,362 pp. with 12 plates (11 printed in colors by W. Dickens) and numurous woodcut illustrations in the text.

Berlin, Springer, 1929. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 52, 1929. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 853-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 894 pp]. First appearance of the important paper which constitutes one of the first results obtained from the study of quantum electrodynamics and "played an important role in discussions of the applicable limits of quantum mechanics to studies of cosmic rays and nuclear physics." (DSB)."In early 1928 Nishina returned to Copenhagen and worked with Oskar Klein. As a result of their cooperation, the Klein-Nishina formula was completed in October of the same year, before Nishina's return to Japan. In 1923 the quantum (particle) nature of X rays was discovered by Arthur Compton. Nishina had once made an experimental approach to this phenomena at the Cavendish Laboratory. The relation among the increased wavelength of the scattered X rays, the energy of recoiled electrons, and the scattering angle was accounted for by the quantum nature. In 1928 Nishina and Klein calculated the cross section and intensity of the Compton scattered radiation by the use of Dirac's new relativistic quantum mechanics of electrons. They succeeded in a complicated calculation by doing this separately and checking it together. (Nishina also brought this method of calculation with a team back to Japan.)Nishina and Klein searched for the solution of Dirac's wave equation in the case of a free electron (initially at rest) in the field of a plane electromagnetic wave." (DSB).The Klein-Nishina was one of the first results obtained from the study of quantum electrodynamics. Consideration of relativistic and quantum mechanical effects allowed the development of an accurate equation for the scattering of radiation from a target electron. Before this derivation, the electron cross section had been classically derived by the British physicist and discoverer of the electron, J.J. Thomson. However, scattering experiments showed significant deviations from the results predicted by the Thomson cross section. Further scattering experiments agreed perfectly with the predictions of the Klein-Nishina formula.

Køpenhavn, Alex Vincents Kunstforlag, (1945). 4to-oblong (249 x 222mm). In the original yellow illustrated boards. Internally with traces from moisture wrinckles, otherwise a good copy. 20 pp. of which 9 are fullpage color illustrations by Palle Wennerwald. Rare first edition of this illustrated book that uses H. C. Andersen’s "The Evil Prince" as a model for an audacious plot that shows Hitler's megalomania and greed for power. Hans Christian Andersen’s 1840 tale, The Evil Prince, concerns a tyrant who, not satisfied with conquering neighboring countries, builds a spaceship and sets out to conquer God. In this version of the tale, published after the liberation of Denmark from Nazi occupation, Adolf Hitler assumes the title role and pursues the mad dream of world conquest, helped by Nazi storm-troopers and soldiers.