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Göttingen, J.C. Dietrich, 1790. 8vo. Cont. marbled boards, worn, especially corners. Scratches to binding. Endpapers with old annotations. XIX,324,(15) pp. and 40 folded engraved anatomical plates. A nick to upper part of titlepage, but no loss of letters. Light scattered browning, but internally good. First German edition of Cheselden's famous anatomy "The anatomy of the humane Body. London, 1713" a work which ran through more than 10 editions. - Garrison & Morton No. 390 (English edition). - Wellcome does not have the German edition.

Madrid, Hijos y Compania, 1789. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. broad gilt borders on covers. Edges on covers gilt. Very light wear at corners. Stamps on title-page. (2),247 pp. Wide-margined, clean and fine, on good paper. First edition of Tofino's famous Spanish pilot. "Pilot's Log-book of the Coasts of Spain in the Atlantic Ocean and of the Azores, for the use of naval intelligence and nautical charts".

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Mind. A Quarterly Journal", Vol. LX, No. 239, July, 1951. With some nicks to margins of wrappers, internally very fine and clean. Pp. 297-8. [Entire issue: (2), 297-440, (2) pp.]. First printing of Russell's obituary of Wittgentstein. Russell described him as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating".The two meet in 1910 at the University of Cambridge where Russell was approached by the Austrian engineering student Ludwig Wittgenstein, who became his PhD student. Russell viewed Wittgenstein as a genius and a successor who would continue his work on logic. He spent hours dealing with Wittgenstein's various phobias and his frequent bouts of despair. This was often a drain on Russell's energy, but Russell continued to be fascinated by him and encouraged his academic development, including the publication of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1922: From the present obituary: "I naturally lost sight of him during the 1914-1918 war, but I got a letter from him soon after the armistice, written from Monte Casino. He told me that he had been taken prisoner, but fortunately with his manuscript, which was the 'Tractatus'. I pulled strings to get him released by the Italian Government and we met at the Hague, where we discussed 'Tractatus' line by line.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1866. 4to. In: "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik", 65. Bd., Zweites Heft. With title to Zweites Heft (2) pp. and pp. 97-188,(2). Riemann's paper: pp. 161-172. First printing of this paper issued just before Riemann's death. The paper is a follow-up of his paper "Theorie der Abelschen Functionen" issued in the same journal in 1854. - "The Riemann theta function is a complex-valued function of g complex variables. It appears in the construction of many (quasi-) periodic solutions of various equations of mathematical physics."

[No place], 1930. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. With author's presentation inscription to first leaf: "To Samuel Skulsky / with cordial regards / from Ernest Nagel.". A very fine and clean copy. III, (3), 91 pp. First printing of Nagel's important Ph.D. dissertation of the logic of measurement with a interesting presentation inscription to Samuel Skulsky, the famous Jewish philosopher of science and logic. Nagel's approach to the philosophy of science was through its techniques, procedures and its methodology. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement.

Kopenhagen, Franz Christian Mumme, 1753-54. 8vo. 2 contemp. marbled boards. Some scratches to spine-ends and along edges. corners bumped. 53,(11),367;56,536 pp. With 29 (of 30, no. 3 missing) mostly folded engraved plates. Title-page in volume 2 a bit soiled. First German edition of "Det første Forsøg paa Norges Naturlige Historie", 1752-53.

Berlin, Springer, 1929. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 52, 1929. Entire volume 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.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899-1900. 8vo. Bound uncut in 32 orig. full cloth with orig. printed titlelabels on spines. With a stamp to front free endpapers. Each volume with a portrait and titlevignette. Internally fine and clean. Spines slightly faded.

Geneve, Jean de Tournes, 1627 (+) Basel, König, 1685. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, leather on spine cracked. Title-page slightly miscoloured and a few leaves miscoloured in upper outer corner, otherwise internally nice and clean. (16), 317, (82), (16), 450, (10) pp. Reissue of Erpenius's influential and much appraised Hebrew grammer, first published in 1621. It is notable for its systematic approach and innovative methods in the study of Hebrew pronunciation and it played a significant role in standardizing its syntax and pronunciation. Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) was a distinguished orientalist and philologist renowned for his mastery of multiple languages, including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, and Ethiopian. He was a professor at the University of Leiden. Withbound is a later edition of Buxtorf’s Syriac grammar.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 44. VIII,903 pp. (Entire volume offered). Heitler & London's paper: pp. 455-472. A stamp to titlepage. Clean. First appearance of grounbreaking paper which was the first to explain the nature of the chemical bound using wave mechanics and thus explaining the forces active when atoms exchange electrons and creating molecules."In June, Heitler and London published their famous paper on the hydrogen molecule in which they showed the existence of a new kind of saturable, nondynamic forces, the so-called "exchange forces" of attraction or repulsion between like particles, and developed a schematic theory of the homopolar valence which eventually BROUGHT THE WHOLE OF CHEMISTRY UNDER THE SOVEREIGNTY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. These results not only lent weight to the concept of like particles, they also showed that like particles may be indistinguishable, that is, may lose their identity, a conclusion which follows from the uncertainty relations or, more precisely, from the impossibility of keeping track of the individual particles in case of interactions of like particles. (Jammer in "The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanic", pp. 343 ff.).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1927 C.

Rønne, Viggo Sonne, 1963. 4to. Indbundet af Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London i et smukt helbind af langnarvet maroquin med håndsyede kapitælbånd og fladstrøgne kapitæler. Ryg opdelt med to ophøjede bind med titel i guld på langs af midterfeltet. Helt guldsnit og indvendig guldbordure. Oluf Høsts smukke illustrationer er delvis i farver. Trykt i 185 eksemplarer, hvoraf dette er nr. 66.

Paris, Fournier & Urbain, 1716. Contemp. full vellum. (32),446,(42) pp. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition of this classic work on trades and navigationin in classical times, dealing extensively with seabattles and naval expeditions. Commerce with India, Egypt, Persia, Arabia, Africa, the European countries etc. etc.Kress Library, No 2991.

Paris, deterville, 1817. 2 contemp. blue boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding with some scratches along edges. X,576;(4),IV,608 pp. and 14 large folded engraved plates with many figs. A few minor brownspots. First edition of this important work as it was one of the best textbooks of the period on physics, and in which he reports his investigations on the rotatory dispersion of plane-polarized light. Apart from the physical part, the work also deals with the chemical properties of gases, exothermic reactions, electrolytes, and Voltaic piles. In a long and importent chapter (vol. II, pp.. 397-500), Biot gives the first full exposition of the effect on plane-polarized light of various compounds. "The present pioneer-work led to the later epochal discoveries of such giants as Pasteur, Le Bel and van't Hoff, and Werner. Partington (IV, 750-51) discusses the importence of Biot's work on optical activity." (Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Liobrary, vol. I, p.154.

Kopenhagen, Brummer, 1821. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. XXIV,336 pp. First and last few leaves slightly brownspotted. Scarce first edition. Den sjældne originaludgave hvori Schmidt-Phiseldek udvikler sine tanker om hvorledes den europæiske føderale stat skal opbygges med regering, domstole, møntvæsen og forsvar. "De tre bøger (Europa und Amerika, 1820, Der Europäische Bund, 1821 og Die Politik nach den Grundsätzen der heiligen Allianz, 1822) vakte trods deres omstændelige stil og til tider mærkværdigt uklare disposition opsigt - navnlig Europa und Amerika der i løbet af 1820-21 blev oversat til fransk, engelsk, hollandsk og svensk foruden at der udsendtes en dansk udgave. S.-P. havde, som det i dag er nemt at se, både mht. forudsigelsen af Amerikas voksende magt og mht. sine betragtninger om den europæiske union fat i to af 18- og 1900-tallets væsentligste verdenspolitiske udviklingslinjer. Dette har sikret S.-P., måske som den eneste dansker, en plads i den internationale politiske idéhistorie som forløber for Alexis de Tocquevilles studier fra 1830'erne over det amerikanske samfund og som én af restaurationstidens betydeligste fortalere for Europatanken." (Den store danske Encyclopædi).

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1871. (+) Paris, G. Masson, 1872. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 4e Series - Tome 23 a. 25. 480 pp. a. 1 folded engravedplate. + 576 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire volumes offered). Liebig's papers: pp. 1-49 a. pp. 194-212 (both in vol. 23). Pasteur's paper: pp. 145-151. First appearance in French of Liebig's two papers on fermentation and first appearance of Pasteur's paper. Liebig's papers started a bitter controversy (after Liebig's death continued by Claude Bernard) as he claimed, that all ferments are chemical reactions and not vital processes. Pasteur, on the other hand, claimed that life is needed for fermentation."From 1865 to 1870, while Pasteur was preoccupied with the silk-worm problem, his theory of fermentation enjoyed increasing favor, especially abroad. What criticism did appear during the period failed to distract him from his centraltask. In 1871, hovever, the "Annales de chimie et de physique" published a French translation of a wide-ranging critique by Liebig (the papers offered), who had broken a long silence on the issues of the two lectures (1868, 1869). In a reply (the paper offered) of almost arrogant brevity, Pateur discussed only two aspects of Liebig's critique, both of which involved direct challenges to experimental claims made a decade beforee by Pasteur: (1) that pure yeast and a simple alcoholic fermentation could be produced in a medium free of organic nitrogen and (2) that acetic fermentation required the intervention of "Mycoderma aceti". OPasteur responded by challenging Liebig to submit the dispute to a commission of the Academie des Sciences. before this commission, Pasteur boldly predicted, he would prepare, in a medium free of organic nitrogen, as much beer yeast as Liebig might reasonably demand and would demonstrate the existance of "Mycoderma aceti" on the surface of the beechwood shavings used in the German methpd of acetification....Liebig died in 1873 without accepting Pasteur's challenge."(DSB X, ppp. 376 ff.). - Partington IV, pp. 307 ff.The volumes contains other notable papers: BERTHELOT "Mémoire sur la force de poudre et des matieres explosives", pp. 223-273., JANSSEN: "Études sur les raies telluriques du spectre solaire", pp. 274-298, KEKULÉ, BOUSSINGAULT, STAS, WURTZ et al.

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.