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(Kbh, (Phoenixberg ?), Tryckt Aar 1720. Samtidigt slidt hldrbd. Med det kobberstukne portræt af Dorothea (opklæbet) og alle 14 træskårne plancher. Indvendig med nogle brugsspor. Titelbladet i faksimile. Der mangler yderligere et blad (sign. 8) i fortalen. Den uhyre sjældne udgave, som indeholder førstetrykket af fjerde bog, den såkaldte "tredie edition", som tillige udgør den første komplette udgave af "Peder Paars".Retmæssigt må dette siges at være anden udgave af Peder Paars og første samlede udgave. Eftertrykket af de første tre bøger var ikke besørget af Holberg selv, men solgte bedre end originalen og regnedes i forordet til denne udgave af Holberg selv tilsyneladende som anden udgaven, således at denne blev "tredie edition". Den udgave, der af Holberg må regnes som "anden edition" var altså et pirattryk, en ikke autoriseret udgave, og det er således mest rimeligt at regne dette for anden udgave, om ikke andet er det anden autoriserede udgave. Det er ligeledes "den sidste autentiske af Holberg selv besørgede Udgave af Peder Paars." (Ehr.-M. XI:16).Af originaludgaven (som kun indeholder de tre første bøger) fra 1719 findes der sandsynligvis kun to komplette eksemplarer, og ingen eksemplarer kendes i privateje. Af pirattrykket, det såkaldte eftertryk fra 1720, kendes også kun to eksemplarer.Nærværende første komplette udgave med fjerde bog i originaltrykket er med undtagelse af de to ovennævnte udgaver uden tvivl den sjældneste og mest interessante udgave af Peder Paars. Denne udgave er den mest originale udgave af Peder Paars, men kan håbe at få fat på. "Denne 3. Edition blev hurtigt udsolgt og derfor sjælden; det ses saaledes, at da Pragtudgaven skulde udkomme, kunde man ikke faa fremskaffet noget Exemplar, men maatte nøjes med 3. Eftertryk, der helt igennem blev rettet efter denne Holbergs egen retmæssige Edition." (Ehr-M. XI:21).Ehr-M. XI:15-22. P. Johansen 4,2 (p. 22).

Kiøbenhavn, Tikjøbs Forlag, 1800. 8vo. Beskedent, lidt senere hshirtbd. med håndskreven titeletiket på ryg. (16),479 pp. Her og der lidt brunplettet, men velbevaret. Uden de tre kobberstukne plancher. Den sjældne originaludgave, som er den første systematiske beskrivelse af Færøernes Flora og Fauna. I 1791 fik Jørgen Landt præstekald på Færøerne og han påtog sig for Det Naturhistoriske Selskab at indsamle øernes forskellige naturalier i løbet af sit 7-årige ophold her.

Stuttgart, 1839 - 52. 8vo. Seven volumes in orig.(?)/ cont. yellow cardboard-bdgs. the last three different from the first four. Bdgs. worn, especially capitals and hinges. Bad repairs to volume one and two. Internally a bit of brownspotting, but fairly good. First edition of the famous and inevitable "Pauly", -an essential encyclopedic work of the classics. The absolute standard reference work which now comprises 83 volumes. This first edition is not common and gives an unusual insight into the development of this sort of encylcopaedic work as well as into the study of classics in the mid 19th century.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1853-54. No wrappers. "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Vol. 89, No 8 and vol. 91 No 2 a. 4. Pp. 497-628, pp. 161-320 a. pp. 497-628 a. 1 folded plate. (3 entire issues offered). Clausius's papers pp. 568-579 (vol. 89, "Heft" 8) a. pp. 601-604 (vol. 91,"Heft" 4). Helmholtz paper: pp. 241-260 (vol. 91, "Heft" 4). With titlepages to both volumes 89 a. 91. All three issues clean and fine. First printing of the 3 main papers in the famous Helmholtz-Clausius controversy about the principle of the "Conservation of Energy". His reply to Clausius contains very importent additons to his conservation law, as it clarifies his use of the concepts of "energy", "vis viva", "electrical tension" , "potentials" etc.Helmholtz famous work Über die Erhaltung der Kraft" from 1847 gave the first comprehensive statement of the first law of thermodynamics: All modes of energy, heat, light, electricity, and all chemical phenomena, are capable of transformation from one to the other but are indestructible and cannot be created. Clausius (in the papers offere) critized helmholtz on his theory of heat over the consistency of the physical interpretation and of the use mathematics. He argued that Helmholtz's demonstration of his conservation law was valid only for Helmholtz's particulat model of matter, and that he had not understood the notion of the potential. This criticism lead Helmholtz expand and clarify the central concepts of physics, importent steps in the history of theoretical physics.

Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. As extracted from "Die Naturwissenschaften", vol. 23, 1935. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 807-812; 823-828. First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in "Physical Review", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on "The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further; he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall; the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-; the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the "Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. "Schrödinger was "concerned and disappointed" that this "transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena" had become the "almost universally accepted dogma."" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of "Schrödinger's Cat". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.

Berlin, 1930-93. Vol. 1-35 bound in hcloth, 36-37 in parts as issued.

(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).

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1776-79. 4to. Indbundet i 3 samtidige helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på rygge. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte skindtitler. Stempel på titelblade. Supplementsbindet i lidt større format. Kobberstukket portræt af Chr. III som frontispiece. (18),180,768,(12),650;(8),267 pp., 4 foldetabeller, 1 kobberstukket planche. Alle 3 bind trykt på svært skrivepapir, ren og frisk. Med det sjældne Supplementsbind. - Bibl. Danica III,53.

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.

Hafnia (Copenhagen), Gyldendal, 1790 & 1791. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 6 contemporary full calf bindings with six raised bands and richly gilt spines. Wear to extremities, boards with stains and a few scratches. Some of gilting on spines worn off, spine-ends chipped. Head of spine on vol. 5 with loss of leather. Stamp to front free end-papers and title-pages, otherwise internally nice and clean. [Vol. 1:] VIII, 718, (2) pp.; [Vol. 2, part 1:] (2), 532 pp.; [Vol. 2, part 2:] (2), 533-882 pp.; [Vol. 3] 244 pp.; [Vol. 4:] (2), 621 pp.; [Vol. 5:] (2), 677 pp. Rare first edition of Rosenmüller’s extensive commentary on the New Testament Johann Georg Rosenmüller (1771–1829) was a German Protestant theologian primarily known for his contributions to biblical scholarship and oriental studies. Rosenmüller made significant contributions to the field of exegesis. From 1785 he was professor of theology in Leipzig where he established a modern Lutheran liturgy

Paris, Claude J.B. Harrisant, 1770. Small 8vo. 2 cont. full calf. Richly gilt backs. Title-and tomelabels in leather on backs, gilt. Spine ends worn. Backs a little rubbed. Crack in leather along first hinges, but covers not loose. Corners a bit bumped. XII,389,(7);(4),IV,438,(2) pp. Light yellowing to leaves. At end of "Epitre" (p.VII) the work is signet by the author with his initials "D.G." in order to prevent pirated reprinting First edition. This work was authoritative for more than 30 years, as Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology at "Ecole Chirurgie". - Wellcome III: p.102. - Waller No. 3469.

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.

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.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1908. 2 contemp. hcalf and hcloth. Spines slightly rubbed. In "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck", vol. 26 and 27. VI,1032 and plates, pp. VIII,1112 pp. and plates.- Einstein & Laub papers: pp.532-541, pp. 541-550, pp. p. 232. Whole volumes offered. First editions of all three papers.- Volume 26 contains also a first printing of Max Planck. "Zur Dynamik bewegter Systeme". Pp. 1-34. Planck, Akademie No 76. - Weil: 22 (1-2) and 23.

København, Schubothe, 1832. 8vo. Bound uncut in a later marbled cardboard binding with gilt title label to spine. Carl S. Petersen's signature to front free endpaper. Hole in title page neatly restored, not affecting text. Scattered brownspots, otherwise clean. 16,287,(1) pp. The First edition of Rask's Lappish grammar. Rask was the first to classify Lappish as a non-indo-european language. The present copy belonged to the renowned Danish librarian and scholar Carl S. Petersen (1873-1958) and carries his signature to front free endpaper. Hjelmslev I, 199.

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).

(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.

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.

(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.

Oversatte of S.S.Blicher. 2 Bd. K., 1807-09. 2 velbevarede samt.hldrbd.m.rig rygforgyldn. Bertelsen nr.1. Blichers første bog. Usædvanligt eksemplar, idet det er på skrivepapir. Med det oprindelige titelblad. Af en gammel tilskrift på forsatsen fremgår, af P. And. Meyer(?). af forlæggeren.

London, Taylor & Francis, 1924. Full buckram. Spine with gilt lettering. Stamps on titlepage. Bookmark of "Pomona College Library" on inside frontcover. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", Vol. XLVIII, Sixth Series. VIII,1144 pp., textillustr. and 27 plates. (Entire volume offered). Stoner's paper: pp. 719-736. First apperance of Stoner's importent paper in which he formulated "Stoner's Rule", a paper which inspired Pauli to his Exclusion principle in 1925. "The publication of his paper (the paper offered) brought Stoner rapid recognition. His theory, however, was subsequently overshadowed by the exclusion principle of Wolfgang Pauli, who, exploiting Stoner’s insight and applying it to individual electrons, transformed it into a general and powerful analytic tool." (DSB)."In 1924 (in the paper offered) Stoner had proposed the following rule: "The number of electrons in each completed shall is equal to double the sum of the inner quantum numbers".... Stoner's rule says: a shell corresponds to a fixed n and the number of electrons in that shell, if completetely filled. equals twice N.... Why twice ?... Here Pauli takes over."(Pais "Inward Bound", p. 273.)."Soon after Bohr developed his initial configuration, Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich realized the need to characterize the stationary states of the electron in the hydrogen atom by means of a second quantum number-the socalled angular-momentum quantum number. Bohr immediately applied this discovery to many-electron atoms and in 1922 produced a set of more detailed electronic configurations. In turn, Sommerfeld went on to discover the third, or inner, quantum number, thus enabling the British physicist Edmund Stoner to come up with an even more refined set of electronic configurations in 1924..... Stoner assumed that three quantum numbers could be specified in many electron atoms. In any case, Stoner’s scheme solved certain problems present in Bohr’s configurations. For example, Bohr had assigned phosphorus the configuration 2,4,4,4,1, but this failed to explain the fact that phosphorus shows valencies of three and five. Stoner’s configuration for phosphorus was 2,2,2,4,2,2,1, which easily explains the valencies, since it becomes plausible that either the two or the three outermost subshells of electrons form bonds." (Eric R. Scerri. "The Periodic Table and the Electron").

Amsterdam, Kunst- und Industrie - Comptoir, 1808. 8vo. and folio. Textvol. bound in contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Atlas-volume in contemp. boards with printed title from orig frontwrapper pasted on frontboard, backstrip worn. Brownspots to frontboard. Stamp on titlepages. (2),490,(2) pp., 2 engravwed plans and 1 folded table. Scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume with titlepage, on which content of maps. 18 (I-XVII + VII a) large folded engraved maps, mostly folded and in double-folio, with outline and position colouring. Maps uncut and clean.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1891. Royal8vo. Contemporary half calf. Some wear to spine. Owners name in ink on title page. Else fine and clean. LXXIX,(5),586,(2) pp. Text illustrated. First German edition of Galilei's "Dialogue".

Ubeskåret i med den original hollanderede forperm bevaret. Ryg restaureret m. papir som det originale samt ny bagperm. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 90.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1832. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 26, Stück 2-3. Pp. 193-352 a. pp. 353-496 a. 3 folded engraved plates. (2 whole issues offered having titlepage to vol. 26).). Wöhler & Liebig papers: pp. 325-343 (2. issue) a. pp. 465-485 (3. issue). Both issues clean and fine. First appearance (but also in "Annalen der Chemie") of these outstanding researches on the benzoyl radical. where the importence of "radicals" to organic chemistry is illustrated."Along with his collegue, Friedrich Wöhler..who had already synthetized urea, Liebig wrote a famous paper (1832, the paper offered) in which he showed, for the first time, that a complex organic group pf atoms - a "radicale" as it is now called - is capable of forming a long series of compounds, behaving throughout as though it were an element. THE DISCOVERY IS OF PRIMARY IMPORTENCE FOR OUR CONCEPTION OF THE CHEMICAL CHANGES IN THE LIVING BODY."(Singer in "The Story of Living Things" p. 374)."In their classic paper - which was actually written by Wöhler although Liebig is listed as coauthor - they summarized their achievements: "...we make the general assertion that as a result of our experiments, it is established that there is a body, composed of three elements, that remains stable in the presence of reagents and that can be regarded not only as the radical of benzoic acid, bur perhaps with slight variatioons, as the radical of a large number of similar compounds.....Incidentally, many of the compounds they first prepared and described (such as benzoyl chloride) were importent in the future development of organic chemistry."(DSB XIV, pp. 476-477). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1832 C