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Amsterdam, Francois Changuion, 1740. Small 8vo. Bound in 2 fine contemp. full calf. Profusely gilt spines, title-and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Gilt border on covers. Titlepages in red/black with engraved vignettes. CII,(2),429;(6),550 pp. and 2 engraved plates, each with 3 portraits (Leibniz, Newton, Clarke). Printed on good paper. Internally fine and clean. Scarce collection which contains among other correspondences, the correspondence of Leibnitz and A.S. Conti, on the dispute on the invention of the calculus and also Newton's remarks and Leibnitz's letter to him.Babson 233 (the 3rd edition) - Ravier: 410. - Gray: 380.

Paris, Masson et Cie (et Gauthier-Villars), (1906 ?)-1911. 4to. Bound in 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. One hinge broken, but block fine. Stamp on title-pages. (2),119;(2),214;VI,620 pp. 10 maps, 3 folded tables, 11 plates. Clean and fine. Ouvrage publiée sous les Auspices du Ministere de L'Instruction Publique sous le Direction de L. Joubin.

København, Boppenhausiske Arvinger, 1763. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Kapitæler slidte. Øverste rygfelt med en gl. reparation. Forgyldt rygtite, men noget svag. (16),414 pp. samt 3 registre og rettelsesblad. (122) pp. Indvendig ren og frisk. Originaludgaven af den første oversættelse af Jónsbóken (ved Egil Thorhallason). - Fiske: 292. - Klose: 1426.

Leizig, Ernst Schäfer, 1861. Lex8vo. 2 cont. full cloth, covers blindtooled. Small traces of use at top-and bottom of spines. VII,640,540 pp. A few brownspots. - First edition.

Bern, Abraham Wagner, Fils, 1760. 4to. Contemp. blank boards. A fw scratches to covers and a small inkspot on frontcover. (1),118,(2),(1) pp. and 35, partly folded, engraved plates. A faint small spot on titlepage, otherwise clean and fine, printed on good paper. First edition of this importent account of Schmidt's excavations in Schwitzerland, mainly finds in the former Roman settlements, the towns of Aventicum (colonized under Vespasian) and Culm. - "Un des meilleurs ouvrages qu'on eut publiés jusqu'alors sur les antiquitees de la Suisse." (Brunet V:210). The works was reprinted in 1771 under a slightly different title.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1803 - Part I. Pp.29-42 and 1 engraved plate and Appendix: pp. 274-276. With titlepage to the volume Part I. Some browning to lower part of titlepage. Light foxing to the plate. First appearance of this highly importent paper in which Henry announced his discovery of the law, which later was termed "Henry's Law". The law states that when a gas is absorbed in a liquid the weight of the gas dissolved is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas over the liquid. This discovery contributed directly to the atomic theory of Dalton.(Parkinson: Breakthroughs: 1803 C) "Dalton's own experiments on the solution of gases and the stimulus afforded by Henry's work have been seen as crucial in the development of the atomic theory."(DSB VI p. 285).A paper by Humphrey Davy: "An Accont of some Experiemnts and Observations on the constituent Parts of certain astringent Vegetables; and on their Operating in Tanning. Read February 24, 1803", comes with. In the same volume Pp. 233-273.

Berlin, Christian Frioedrich Himburg, 1796. Bound in one cont. hcalf. Gilt back. 2 engraved titlevignettes. VI,406 - XVI,547 pp. Waller 6779 having only the second title. Firts edition of the second title.

Kobberstukket prospekt over Odense visende byen i fugleperspektiv. 32,5 x 47,5 cm. Nogle få brunpletter, mest i de brede marginer, ellers fin stand. Fra Braun & Hogenbergs berømte "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". Odense-prospektet er den ældste trykte afbildning af byen overhovedt, ligesom det er den ældste afbildning af nogen dansk by. På bagsiden findes latinsk tekst, som skulle være mere pålidelig end tegningen.

Breslau und Leipzig, Korn, 1755. 4to. In Contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands. Richly gilt spine and boards with gilt ornamentation. Fine hand coloured end papers. Small blind stamp to upper part of title-page. Wear to extremities, otherwise a fine copy. 262 pp. + 41 plates. First German edition, translated G.D. von Gröben.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840 a. 1842. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2me Series - Tome 75 a. 3e Series - Tome 4.. With titlepage to Tome 75 and orig. printed wrappers to the issue (Septembre issue). Pp. 1-112 a. 1 engraved plate (entire issue offered). With titlepage to Tome 4. Pp. 129-256 (entire Fevrier issue) and pp. 257-384 (entire Mars issue). Hess' papers: pp. 80-103 (tome 75), pp. 211-229 (tome 4), pp. 290-316 (tome 4). First appearance in France of Hess' two fundamental laws in thermodynamic 1: "the law of heat formation" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the "LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that "the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages"and 2: "the law of thermoneutrality" (1842), stating, that when neutral salts exchange acids and bases in solution, the heat of the reaction is zero. - These papers were published at the same time in France and in Russia. Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia)."Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps. This generalization, known now as "Hess's Law", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable."(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329."The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329.

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850. Contemp. red hcalf. Gilt spine (line-borders). Broad raised bands, the bands gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. very light wear along edges. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title. Printed title. (VII-)XIV,(2-errata leaf),624 pp., 38 engraved plates. A few minor brownspots. The plates with some browning and foxing. First edition in bookform. With dating on the vignette title-page. Page 132, line 20 having "screwed" instead of "Scremed". Errata-leaf.

Kjøbenhavn., Kgl. Majest. priv. Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio. 2 samtidige helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på rygge. Rygfelter med rig forgyldning. Titelfelter forgyldte. Rygge fint reparerede med bevarelse af oprindelige rygge. (4),10,1534,(1) pp. De 2 kobberstukne portrætter (Chr. IV og Slange) mangler. Indvendig ganske ren og velbevaret, få spredte brunpletter. På begge forreste friblade gl. ejernavn Michael Lassenius Lassen, 1757. Originaludgaven af dette monumentalværk som fortsætter hvor Arild Huitfeld slap, og giver en indholdsrig fremstilling af Christian IV's begivenhedsrige historie.

(Nürnberg, ca. 1730). 51,5x41,5 cm. Engraved map of eastern Asia with part of China and Japan up to Saghalin Island, in original handcolouring. The broad margins a bit browned, orherwise fine.

Kjøbenhavn, Andr. Schou, 1879. 12mo. Indbundet i et nydeligt lidt senere halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. En smule brunplettet, ellers ren indvendig. 97,(1) pp. Med dedikation fra Herman Bang på titelbladet: "Frøken Margrethe Dreyer / til venlig Erindring om Herman Bang / 9.7.79." Særdeles nydeligt dedikationseksemplar af den sjældne originaludgave af Bangs debut. Eksemplaret er dedikeret til skuespillerinden Margrethe Dreyer. Herring, 61.

Stockholm, 1899. 8vo. In contemporary boards with the original blank front wrapper pasted on to front board. Two stamps to front board and first leaf. With authors dedication to front board: "Her Amiral Wandel / hoyaktnings fell / af / forfatteren". [Sir Admiral Wandel / with high esteem / from / the author"]. Pp. 141-166. First appearance, with dedication from the author, of Pettersson important study of the influence of ice on ocean currents. In his 1880s writings, Pettersson proved that pure ice, which moves freely in salt water, must occasionally encounter a surface current. When he resumed the investigation of ice-related problems in 1899 with the present paper, he addressed two new factors: 1) the action of ice cooling warmer water while melting, and 2) cooled water sinking owing to its higher density.Admiral Carl F. Wandel, to whom the book was given, was a Danish naval officer and polar explorer and was largely involved in hydrographic work.Wandel was regularly deployed as commander, including in 1884 and 1897 commander of the Danish ironclad Helgoland, in 1895 and 1896 as leader of the Ingolf Expedition to Greenland[2] and in 1898 as commander of the frigate HDMS Fyn to the Mediterranean. he Wandel Sea between Greenland and Svalbard, Cape Wandel and the Wandel Land nunatak in Greenland, were named after him.

(Copenhagen), 1746. 4to. Bound in a very nice full sprinkled calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice copy, printed on good paper. (8), 89 pp. + frontispiece and 3 plates. Fine copy of Hofman’s elegantly printed copy of his work on three illustrious Danes: Count Griffenfeld, Admiral-General Adeler, and Vice-Admiral Tordenskjold.

Paris, Ambroise Dupont et Roret, 1826-28. 16mo. Bound in 7 contemporary half cloth bindings with paper titlelabels. With portraits, plans and engravings. Library stamps on titlepages.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1900. Contemp. hcalf, spine gone and covers loose. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", Vol. 50, Fifth Series. VI,(2),624 pp. a. 5 plates. (Entire volume offered). Pearson's paper: pp. 157-175. A stippled stamp on titlepage. Internally clean and fine. In this fundamental paper in statistics, Pearson introduced his chi-squared test, the statistical procedure whose results are evaluated by reference to the chi-squared distribution, or the formula yielding a measure of how well a set of observations fits a theoretical hypothesis, the test of goodness of fit. A founding seminal paper in statistical testing theory."Pearson’s many contributions to statistical theory and practice, many contributions to statistical theory and practice, this X2 text for goodness of fit is certainly one of his greatest; and in its original and extended forms it has remained one of the most useful of all statistical tests." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1900 M.

Tucuman, Argentina, 1941. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Revista. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman", Series A Matematicas y Fisica Teorica, Vol. 2, Diciembre de 1941, Nos 1 y 2. Pp. 11-15. Fine and clean. First edition of a scarce paper in the offprint version. The paper "represents the basis of the one written by the same author in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli in 1943, in which, by following analogous lines, the proof of the non-existence of regular particle-type solutions was generalized to the case of cilyndrical geometries in Kaluza-Klein theory (Einstein & Pauli, 1943). Besides, other generalizations were subsequently presented. The (non)-existence of such solutions in classical unified field theory was undoubtedly an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations."Galvagno and Giribet)."In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics, Einstein considered five-dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a non-singular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated, and in the x5-independent theory Einstein, together with Pauli, argued it would be impossible to find these structures." (Jeroen van Dongen).Weil: 208. - Boni: 243.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds in a flowering bush. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. 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.

Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700-01. 4to. (29,5 x 23,5 cm.). Bound in 3 contemp. full vellum, raised bands, blindtooled covers. (Publisher's original bindings ?). Large wide-margined copy. 3 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved portrait., 27 engraved plates and more than 250 textengravings. Internally clean and fine.

Franckfurt am Mayn, Joann Benjamin Andrea & Heinrich Hort, 1742 & 1745. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contmeporary half calf binding with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities, parts of marbled paper on boards worn off. Internally nice and clean. (14), 1522, (44) pp. + frontispiece; (8), 1304, (48) pp. Rare first edition of Schmucker’s extensive work on interpretations of the Gospel and readings assigned to Sundays and feast days throughout the liturgical year in the Christian calendar.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1937. 8vo. In the original green full cloth with the original dust wrapper. Dust wrapper with wear, lacking 5 mm to top and bottom of spine and the upper right part of the back. Apart from the dust-jacket, a very fine and clean copy. XIX, (1), 151 pp. Economist Simon Kuznets's copy of the first edition of Bowley's conclusive work on wages and income in United Kingdom. Bowley produced a stream of studies on British economic statistics, beginning in the 1890s with works on trade and on wages and income, and proceeding to studies of national income in the 1920s and -30s. The present, although rather short, work became highly influential, as it introduced much of Bowley's more technical work to a broader public.Simon Smith Kuznets (1901 - 1985) Russian American economist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for "his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".Kuznets revolutionized econometrics with the important book "National Income and Its Composition, 1919-1938. Published in 1941 which eventually formed the famous Kuznets Curve. This work relied to a large extent on Bowley's work on national income.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1768. 4to. Ganske velbevaret samtidigt helldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stort eksemplar på skrivepapir. Nogle blade med svag skjold i øverste hjøner. (20),852 pp. samt 27 (af 28, det Generelle Jyllandskort mangler)) kobberstukne kort, byprospekter og byplaner. 1 planche med revne i foldningen, uden tab. Alle trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven af Pontoppidans Danske Atlas Bd. IV.

Paris, Simart, 1725. 4to. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Tape to two compartments. Some cracking to leather at joints. Some wear to spine ends. Some wear along edges. Corners bumped. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XXII,(2),739;(4),641,(1) pp., 31 engraved plates, 1 folded table. Lower margins in volume 2 with a faint dampstain throughout. Light toning to leaves, but in general clean. First edition. - Rumpf,704.