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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.

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.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. XIV,250 pp. and 1 large folded engraved map "Neue Charte von den Mittleren, Westlichen und Südlichen Ländern der Nord-Americanischen Freistaaten. Gezeichnet von Dupuis, Sohn. Weimar 1805." A few scattered brownspots. Very light browning to some leaves. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 17. Bd.:2. Theil). - Sabin: 48707

A La Haye. Paris, chez Desaint, 1765. Small8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Back richly gilt. Top of spine end with a little wear. XVI,326 pp. Scarce first edition. Laugier's philosophy of architecture was much debated by his contemporaries and the works influence on estethic theory is great.

Kbhvn., 1777. 8vo. Smukt samt.helldrbd. m. oph.bind på ryg, rygforgyldn.,helt guldsnit. På svært skrivepapir. XXIV,(4),656,(1) pp., 4 foldetabeller samt 38 kobberst.foldetavler. Pragteksemplar af dette arbejde, som er det første danske af sin art. Bibl.Danica II:338

Copenhagen, Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. Cont. full marbled calf. Gilt back and gilt borders on covers. Back slightly rubbed. Small loss of leather at bottom of frontcover. Stamp on title and old owners name. (12),183 pp. and 11 large folded engraved maps and plans. Printed on good paper, internbally clean. First German edition. A translation of the author's "Idées d'un militaire pour la Disposition des Troupes...Paris, 1783". - Klaus Jordan No. 1253.

London, Whiting, 1819. Royal8vo. Original blank boards. Scratches to spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps to foot of title-page. VI(7-)55 pp., 2 textillustrations, 3 engraved plates (one folding). One plate with scattered brownspots. On good paper. Exceedingly scarce. This second edition was published a year after the first (1818).

Sorøe, Georg Hantsch, 1658. Folio. Samt.helldrbd. Med rester af rig rygforgyldn. False rep. Kobberst.titelbl. (opklæbet), portræt (i faksimile). (40), 183, (2), 324, 374, (2) pp. Stort eksemplar med brede marginer og trykt på godt papir (de fleste er på trykpapir). Titelbl. rep. uden teksttab. De sidste blade med lidt brunpletter i øverste margin. Originaludgaven af dette hovedværk, som Erik Dahl kalder "En af det 17. årh.'s store bøger".

Paris, Deterville, 1807. Bound in 2 hcalf, rebacked to style in morocco, spines gilt and with gilt lettering. Contemp. marbled boards. Light wear to edges. XII,564;(4),443,(1) pp. and 16 large folded engraved plates (on 15). A few quires a bit browned. A few scattered brownspots. First (and his first book) of Brongniart's influential textbook on mineralogy. "In 1807 Brongniart published Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, a work commissioned as a textbook for his and Haüy’s courses at the Faculté des Sciences and the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. He adopted a simple scheme of classification based mainly on physical properties, but he also made extensive use of Haüy’s crystallographic work. Like other mineralogists at this time, he could not easily distinguish some fine-grained rocks from true simple minerals; but he classed clay and basalt, for example, as fausses espèces, recognizing that they were mélangées although they were too fine-grained to be analyzed. He emphasized the importance of studying the modes of occurrence of minerals as well as their properties, but firmly avoided any discussion of their origins as being too speculative. The sole exception to this was a review of divergent opinions on the aqueous or igneous origin of basalt, but even in this he avoided expressing his own opinion." (DSB II, pp. 493 ff.).Poggendorff I, 306.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1787-1805. Boundin 9 contemp. hcalf. Spines richly gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to some top of spines, somes of these repaired with tape. Stamp on titlepages. Internally clean and fine.

Augsburg, Verlag bey Tobias Conrad Lotter, (Ca. 1740). 50,5x59,5 cm. Kobberstukket plan over København visende bydelene lige efter den store brand 1728 og med den afbrændte del markeret. Fuld samtidig håndkolorering. Nederst på siden er der et detailleret prospekt af København, ukoloreret. Med våbenskjolde, kompasroser og skibe i søen.

Bruxelles, J.-B. Petit, 1837. Large 4to-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamp on htitle and title-page. (4),122,(2) pp., 30 handcoloured kithographed plates. A few marginal brownspots. Clean and fine.

Paris, Barrois l'aine, 1792 (et) An septieme (= 1799). 2 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to edge on backboard on volume 1. Stamp on title-pages. XLVIII,454;(4),320 pp., 73 large folded engraved plates (37 + 36). Internally clean, on good paper. First edition. - Klaus Jordan : 2717.

Gotha, Justus Perthes, (1879-80). Folio-oblong. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Spine somewhat worn. Corners bumped. Wear to edges.Bound in front is "Vorbemerkungen zu Stieler's Hand-Atlas" 8 pp. Inhalt (2) pp. and 95 (incl. title-page) engraved and coloured maps. Maps dated 1879/1880, some undated. Maps clean and fine, only few minor marginal brownspots.

K., 1835. XII,244 pp. M.kobberst.nodebilag og portræt af Chr.Winther. Samt.pragtfuldt helldrbd i sort saffian m.rig rygforguldn., bred forgyldt bordure på permer, kantforgyldn. samt brede, indvendige bordurer. helt guldsnit og håndsyede kapitæler samt forgyldn. på de skrånende kapitæler. -Yderst frisk og velbevaret. Orig.udg. Med førstetryk af bl.a. H.C.Andersen, Aarestrup, Blicher, Ingemann, Oehlenschläger, Hertz.

Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1799. Later hcalf. Gilt back. Engraved portrait-frontispiece. VIII,325,(2) pp. and 5 engraved plates (all). 2 old owner-names on title. Occasionally slightly browned. Scarce first German edition of Park's "Travels in the interior Districts of Africa" London, 1799.

Paris, Compagnie des Librarires, 1730. Small 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp.full mottled calf, raised bands, titlelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Richly gilt spines. Wear to spine ends. Some minor cracks to leather along hinges, but not broken. XXIV,(8),606,(26);(12),560,(22) pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 12 engraved plates of which 10 are large folded views. A few scattered brownspots, but internally clean and fine.

(London), 1845. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some wear along hinges and spine rubbed. Corners bumped. XXXVI,782 pp., 6 plates and 1 large folded, hand-coloured engraved map. Clean and fine.

London, W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1824. Small 8vo. Later solid fabrikoid cloth. Partly uncut. VIII,172 pp. and 2 folded woodengraved plates with 39 figs. (the first plate numb.:plate 1, the second unnumb.). A few leaves slightly brownspotted, a few annotations in old hand. First edition of a very popular book which ran through at least 3 English editions and 2 American editions. - Chrisp Philip. A Bibliography of Firework Books: M 190.1.

London, John Murray, 1875. Small 8vo. 2 orig. full green pictorial cloth, gilt backs, gilt covers. Top and bottom of spine professionally repaired. Uncut. XIV,(2),308;VII,302 pp. Publisher's Advertisments at end of both vols. 1 large folded map and 14 wood-engraved plates. A few minor brownspots. Fine copy. First English edition.

Stockholm, Petter Hesselberg, 1782. 4to. Et samtidigt hldrbd. Ophøjede bind. Forgyldt rygtitel. Kapitæler slidte. False svage, forstærkede indvendigt. forkanter med slid. 2 kobberstukne titelblade. 1083,(1) pp. samt 2 kobberstukne plancher. Nogle senere tilskrifter i marginer med let blyant. ca 100 blade i midten med en brunplet i øverste margin, ellers ren. Originaludgaven.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1845. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. (8),373 pp., 44 engraved plates (maps, views, coastal profiles etc.). Faint brownspots to the first and last leaves. This extremely scarce first edition was published as "Volume Supplémentaire" to "Annales maritimes et coloniales. 30e Année. - 3e Serie" (1845).

Halle, Christoph Peter Francken, 1760. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Fronthinge at upper compartment slightly weakening. 2 engraved frontispieces. (26),666 pp. and 22 fine engraved portraits. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1827. 4to. No wrappers. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. II, Heft 2, pp. 101-196 (the whole Issue, Heft 2). Abel's paper: (2= titlepage to vol. II) + pp.101-181. First appearence of Abel's discovery of Elliptic Functions and the discovery of their double periodicity, in print. In 1826 Abel "presented his major paper on integrals to the Academy of Science in Paris on October 1926, for publication in its journal. This opaper , "Memoire sur und proprieté générale d'une classe tres-etendu de fonctions transcendentes", contained Abel's great theorem. Fourier, the secretary at the time, read the introduction to the paper and then referred the paper to Legendre and Cauchy for evaluation, the latter being chiefly responsible. The paper was long and difficult, only because it contains many new ideas. Cauchy laid it aside to favour his own work. Legendre forgot about it. After Abel's death, when his fame was established, the Academy searched for the paper, found it, and published it in 1841...Abel published other papers in Crelles Journal on equations and elliptic functions (the first offered here). These appeared from 1827 on." (Morris Kline).