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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.

Kopenhagen, Nic. Møller, 1764-66. 2 samtidige marmorerede papirsomslag. Stort, helt ubeskåret eksemplar på svært skrivepapir. (8),163,(1),(4),(164-) 434,(2) pp. samt 14 kobberstukne plancher med mange afbildninger. Titelbladet og indholdsfortegnelsen til 2. del lidt snavset, eller aldeles rent eksemplar. Med det trykte blad i del 2 "Flora Danica. Erster Band" (idet værket skulle være et af de tekstbind som var planlagt at medfølge udgivelsen af Flora Danica, der kom kun dette). Originaludgaven af den første danske lærebog i botanik. Det var Oeder som udkastede ideen til udgivelsen af "Flora Danica", og han blev dets første redaktør. Ovenstående er det første tekstværk, som skulle udgøre en del af "Flora Danica", det blev ikke til mere. Værket udkom på både Latin, Tysk og Dansk, som tillægshefter til Flora Danica, og det uddeltes til værkets subskribenter. - Bibl. Danica II:185-86. - Carl Christensen II, p. 47 nr. 10 a. - Stafleu a. Cowan: 7002.

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.

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.

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).

(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.

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

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.

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.

Kbhvn., 1822-28. 5 samt.hldrbd., hvor bd.5 er afvigende. 2 rygge lidt slidte. - Til dette tidsskrift bidrog datidens store indenfor geologi, zoologi, kemi, fysik m.v., så som H.C.Ørsted, Forchhammer, redsdorff, Schouw, Lyngbye, Hornemann, P.W.Lund m.fl.

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, 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.

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

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).

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.

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".

(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).

(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.".

Bologna & Bassano, Remondini, (no year but possibly 1671). 12mo. In contemporary half calf with gilt ornamentation to spine. Dampstain to upper half of leaves throughout. 84 pp. Nicolo Mussi's rare shortened version of Alfonso Chierici’s 1621-edition which in turn was based on a manuscript by Domenico Hierosolimitano, a Jewish court physician to the Ottoman sultan.

Schleswig, J.G. Röhss, 1798-1801. 8vo. Bound in 8 cont. hcalf. Light wear to some spine ends. Titlelabels on backs, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Paperlabels pasted on upper compartments. Having 24 (of 25 ?) folded engraved maps and Plans and 1 folded Table. The Suppl.-volume mentions 3 Planen, but having 1 engraved folded plan and 2 in the text, which must be what is called for. Stamp on titles. First edition.

København, Beekens Forlag, 1824. 8vo. Uncut in the original gift cardboard binding covered in green glazed paper. Tears and loss of paper to spine. Book block split in two. Printed on good paper, internally clean. Inscribed by Rask to inside of front board: "Højvelbårne Hr. Etatsråd / Notarius Publicus Olsen / ærbødigst / fra / Forfatteren". The inscription is later crossed out, presumably by Rask. 22,226 pp. Beautiful presentation copy of the first edition of Rask's Spanish grammar, presumably inscribed to Gottsche Hans Olsen (1760-1829) although he probably never received the copy. Hjelmslev I, 49.

St.-Petersbourg, Pluchart et Cie, 1811. 4to. a. folio. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (12),XIX,284,(4) pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. Atlas: (2) pp. and 20 engraved plates (7 folded in double-folio). A few faint brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 3481.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1856. 4to. In plain white paper-wrappers with title-page of journal volume pasted on to front wrapper. In "Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society", Volume 9. Fine and clean. Pp. (445)-470 + the pasted on title-page. First appearance Maxwell's important paper on the transformation of surfaces by bending in which there are clear links between this paper and his geometrical representation of 'lines of force' in his first paper on the theory of the electromagnetic field 'On Faraday's lines of force' which ushered in a new era of classical electrodynamics and catalyzed further progress in the mathematical field of vector calculus. Because of this, it is considered one of the most historically significant publications in the field of physics and of science in general.

(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.

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