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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.

(Wien, ca. 1730) (49x58,5 cm.). Kobberstukket, håndkoloreet Skandinavienskort med Estland, Letland, Litauen og det vestlige Rusland. Velbevaret indrammet under glas i fin ramme af brun birketræsfiner. Håndkolorereingen en smule svag. Kortet er fra Seutter's "Atlas Novus", som blev udgivet 1730-35.

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.

Heidelberg, Karl Groos, 1825 - 1833. 8vo. Four parts bound in one contemporary half cloth binding with paper title-label to spine. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. With occassional brownspotting. XVI, 130, (2), 94, (2), 94, IV, 164 pp. + 4 frontispieces, 1 to accompany each part. Exceedingly rare first edition of Dierbach's work on Germany’s early botanists such as Tragus, Fuchs, Clusius and Gessner. He claimed “that at a time when botanists across much of Europe were deeply engaged in discovering, classifying, and studying the plants of their native lands - exploring their nature and delving into every branch of the wide field of botany with a passion that earlier centuries never knew—it seems appropriate to take a moment to look back. We can honor the early German pioneers who first turned their attention to the plants of our homeland and laid the foundation for everything we do today in this field of science.” (From the preface of the present work).

Pont-A-Mousson, Nancy, Paris chez Magimel, 1807. Large 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. (2),298 pp. and Atlas with 32 fine engraved folded plates in folio. Printed on good paper, clean and fine, wide-margined. First edition.

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.

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.

Tiguri (Zürich), Officina Wolphiana, 1609. Folio. Contemp. full pigskin, richly blindtooled. Handwritten title to spine. Remains of ties. Name cut from foot of titlepage (no loss of letters), 2 old owners name on tp. (22),275,(1) Ff. Last 25 leaves with a dampstain to lower part, increasing towards end. Some scattred brownspots and some faint dampstaing to lower margin. Hospinianus's anti-Catholic writing was against the supposed harmony of Catholic doctrines and institutions with the early Church, concentrating on baptism, the Eucharist, church festivals, fasting, religious orders, the rule of the papacy, and funerals.