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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.

London, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1885. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Contained in the April issue of Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, pp.167-197, with 8 plates. The whole issue offered here. Custom cloth box with gilt leather title on spine. First edition. Maxim's first announcement of his invention of the automatic machine-gun; using the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one, Maxim came up with the single-man operated machine-gun. Earlier types of machine-guns, as the Gatling and Gardner, consisted of multiple barrels and were powered by the manual turning of a crank, which made them very heavy and caused them to require several men in order to operate them. The invention of the Maxim-mechanism allowed for a single-barrel construction, and the new machine-gun could potentially be operated by just one man, which thus led to the modern automatic machine-gun. Scarce.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. Stamps on title-page. 780 pp., 38 lithographed plates (tinted lithography and chromolithography), 3 folded maps. Internally clean and fine. With printet presentation slip on inside frontcover.

(Berlin, Haue et Spener, 1768). 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XVII, pp. 265-322 and 1 folded engraved plate. First edition, journal issue. "One of Lambert's most famous results is the proof of the irrationality of "N" and e. It was based on the continued fractions, and two such fractions still bear his name."(DSB)."Euler's work on continued fractions was used by Johann Heinrich Lambert.....to prove that if x is a rational number (not 0), then ex and tan x cannot be rational. He thereby proved not only that ex for positive integral x is irrational, but that all rational numbers have irrational natural (base e) logarithms.From the result of tan x, it follows tha, since tan (n/4)= 1, that neither n/4 nor n can be rational.Lambert actually proved the convergencee ofthe continued fraction expansion for tan x. (Morris Kline). - Struik, A Source Book, Chapter V, No 17).

Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Later full buckram. Stamp on verso of titlepage. Narrow inner margins (binding style with cords in margin). In: "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122; 621-624;719-737. Internally fine and clean. First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" were rewritten for the "Annalen" and was first introduced in "Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"."By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature.

Bruxelles, Charles Bulens, 1907. Large 4to. Orig. hcalf. Spine and upper cover with gilt lettering. Spine loose with heavy wear and nicks. Frontcover detached from spine. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece. 567,(3),V pp. and 80 plates, maps etc. Internally clean and fine.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699". Pp. 206-227 a. 5 large engraved plates (tables). Textillustrations. Last leaf with a small paperloss in inner margin First appearance of a milestone paper on the friction loss of energy in machines, hereby establishing the basic concepts of friction."In the same year (1699) Amontons produced the first known study on the question of losses caused by friction in machines. He then established the las of proportionality between friction an the mutual pressure of the bodies in contact." (DSB I, p. 138).

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.

Jenae, Ludovici Neuenhanii, 1657. 4to. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremitiers, boards with scratches and spine slightly cracked. Internally very nice and clean. (22), 1634, (44) pp. + engraved half-title. Rare first edition of Gerhard’s publication of his farther’s commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Torah. “In his years as professor of theology Gerhard continued to publish his father’s work. This was in fact a central preoccupation for the rest of his life. Thus, Sengenwald published the extensive collection of Johann Gerhard’s disputations in the year of Gerhard’s theological appointment, and the year before, on the sixteenth anniversary of his father’s death (17 August 1654), Gerhard signed the dedicatory epistle to a revised edition of his father’s Genesis commentary. In 1657 he published his father’s commentary on Deuteronomy.” (Asaph Ben-Tov, Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World). Johann Gerhard was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent figure in the Lutheran tradition during the post-Reformation period. Gerhard served as a professor of theology at the University of Jena and later at the University of Helmstedt.

Paris, Chez Bernard, 1807. Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. A few scratches to binding, wear to top of spine. In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.." Vol. 63. Entire volume offered. 336 pp. a. 1 engraved plate. Davy's paper: pp. 172-224 a. pp. 225-266. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Browning to halftitle. A few scattered brownspots. First French 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 French 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.

Kjøbenhavn, J.J. Høpffner, 1732 - 35. 4to. Indbundet i 3 ensratede samtidige helpergamentsbd. Lettere brugsspor, permer lidt skrabede, men fuldt intakte. Med O.H. Lodes kobberstukne portræt af Holberg efter Roselius maleri, som idag findes på Sorø Akademi. Dette portræt hører egentlig til anden udgaven. Indvendig velbevaret. Originaludgaven af Danmarkshistorien. "Danmarkshistorien fremkom kort efter at Holberg var avanceret til professor i historie. Han anså denne bog for sit hovedværk..." (Johansen 14). - Ehr-M. I, 146.

Bruxelles, 1881-78. Folio. 2 orig.printed boards. Lithogr.portrait, LVIII,263 pp. and 28 fine lithogr.plates by G.Severeyns, known for excellent quality. - (Annales de Musée Royal D'Hist.Nat. de Belgique Tome III).

(K.),1731. Samt.helldrbd. Brugsspor indvendigt som udvendigt. Dette 4.bind af "Skuepladsen" indeholder 5 komedier alle i originaludgave, bl.a."Dend Pantsatte Bondedreng" og "Henrik og Pernille". Ehr.-M.XI,186 ff.

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1904-11. Ubeskårede og delvist uopskåret i originale bogtrykte omslag, bagomslaget til første bind mangler. (12),372;446;463;XIII,431 pp., talrige tekstillustrationer, 7 litograferde foldekort, 32 plancher (heraf flere i farvelitografi). Ekspeditionens resultater var meget omfattende både de geografiske opmålinger, de zoologiske og botaniske, men særligt må nævnes de betydningsfulde etnografiske samlinger som hjembragtes og som er beskrevet her (Thalbitzer og Amdrup). - (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bd. 27-30).

München, J.F. Lehmann, (1927-31 ?). 4to. 13 orig. pictorial full cloth. Ca. 250 chromolithographed plates, ca. 50 plates in black a. white, numerous textillustrations. Upper part of spines with a volume-number 1-9. Fine and clean.

Kiøbenhaffn, Jørgen Holst, Peder Hake, 1642-44. 4to. Nær samtidigt helldrbd. med rester af rygtitlen i guldtryk. Kapitæler og false let slidte. Kun Chr. IV's Recess og de efterfølgende forordninger har paginering, således (10),363,(22) + (2),103,(3) pp. Ialt ca 1000 pp. 4 af værkerne har træskårne titelblade. Jydske Lowbog er gennemstukket med beskrevne blade i gl. hånd, henvisninger og domme m.v. ligeledes med mange marginalnoter i samtidig hånd. Jydske Lov med nogle skjolder og brunpletter. Omfattende lovsamling, som indeholder gældende ret under Christian IV med hans såkaldte Store Recess, som er forløberen for Chr. V's Danske Lov fra 1683.

London, Hodgson & Son, 1947. Royal 8vo. Bound with all the six original front-wrappers for all six parts of the volume (bound in at rear) in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Very minor bumping to extremities. Binding tight, and in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-papers and to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-paper and book-plate stating that the book was presented to the Library of Bedford College by "Professor H. Simpson./ 1946-47." Pp. 421-435. [Entire volume: (4), 481pp.]. First publication of Bailey's seminal work on what is later known as a Bailey pair.While studying the second proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, Bailey discovered how to find a pair of sequences satisfying certain relations. In 1984 George E. Andrews introduced the Bailey chain, a series of Bailey pairs.

Kiøbenhavn, Høpffner, (1736). 4to. In a nice full calf Cambridge mirror-style binding with five raised bands. Blind-tooled ornamentation to spine and boards. Crowned monogram (Christian VI) to both front and back boards. Boards with a few holes in the leather and some scratches. Internally fine and clean, an overall vey nice copy. (12), 100 pp. + 2 plates. Rare early Danish work on applied geometry. From library of Danish King Christian VI.OCLC only lists two copies, both in Copenhagen. Bibliotheca Danica II, p. 43.

(New York), An American Quarterly Review, 1956. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "An American Quarterly Review", October, 1956. Authors presentation inscription "With the author's compliments / HK" to top of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 37-56. Scarce offprint, with author's presentation inscription to front wrapper, of Kissinger's reflections of American foreign policy. The essay was written 14 years before he was elected US National Security Advisor and 18 years before he was elected the 56th United States Secretary of State and it anticipates many of his actions toward China and Soviet during the early 70ies. Kissinger states that: "There can be little doubt that the foreign policy of the United States has reached an impasse. For several years we have been groping for a concept to deal with the transformation of the cold war from an effort to build defensive barriers into a contest for the allegiance of humanity. But the new Soviet tactics, coupled with the equally unassimilated increase in the destructive potential of the new weapons technology, have led to a crisis in our system of alliances and to substantial Soviet gains among the uncommitted peoples of the world". (From the introduction). Kissinger played the dominant role in forming the United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977, which not only led to a significant relaxation in U.S.-Soviet tensions during the Cold War but also reached a rapprochement between the United States and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish a ceasefire and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.

Kjøbenhavn, A. Goldin, 1816-1828. 8vo. 27 uniform volumes bound in contemporary cardboard bindings with red titel label with gilt lettering to spines. Four volumes with parts of spines missing. Otherwise a fine and clean set. First printing of the first Danish encyclopedia, being a translation - but with numerous additions and alterations - of Brockhaus's third (and partly forth and fifth) edition of 'Lexicon'. It became immensely popular not only in Denmark but in Sweden and Norway as well and remained the most important and thorough encyclopedic reference work in Scandinavia untill the end of the 19th century.

London, Printed for the Palæontographical Society, 1850-72. 4to. Bound in 2 later solid full cloth, title-and tomelabels gilt in leather on backs. LXXXV,322;III,66,26,46,24,73,12 pp. and 121 fine lithographed plates (each with many figs. and each with an unpaginated description-leaf). Only very few brownspots. First edition of these 2 works, in reality separate with their own titles, but Duncans work considered as a succession of the first. - Nissen ZBI: 2841 for the first work, Duncan's not in Nissen.

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.

Kbhvn., 1925-31. Folio. 3 orig. halvpergamentsbind, ubeskårede med topguldsnit. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. Illustreret med 276 plancher (173 i farve) og tegninger af Johannes Larsen, H. Scheel og Gerhard Heilmann. Anker No 442. Wood p. 554.

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.

Paris, Libraires Associes, 1762. 4to. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Scratches to boards, otherwise a nice and clean set. Vol. 1, 2, 3 and 6. Wanting 4, 5, 7 and 8. (4), XXIV, 414 pp. + 1 folded frontispiece; (2), XVI, 776 pp.; (2), XVI, 400 pp. + frontispiece.; (2), XXIV, XVIII, 589 pp. First edition of this monumental work of political science and law. Brunet IV, 1129.