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Göttingen, Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1821. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A small crack in leather at upper compartment. IV,326,(2) pp., 11 folded engraved plates. On good paper. Clean and fine. First edition.

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.

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.

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

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").

København, Gyldendal, 1919-56. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 28 (også forkortelsesbindet) solide og ensartede hldrbd. i glat kalveskind. Et fint, frisk sæt af ODS. Originaltrykket med det store satsformat og med blysats i modsætning til optrykkene.

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.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1763. 4to.Samtidigt helldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. Øvre kapitæl slidt og rygforgyldningen svag. Bindet med brugsspor. Stempler på titelbladet. XL,723,(1) pp. samt 29 (af 30) kobberstukne foldeplancher. Nogle af de første 10 plancher forstærket på bagsiden. Spredte brunpletter. Originaltrykket af første bind af Danske Atlas som især er berømmet for at konstituere del allerførste samlede beskrivelse af Danmark I floristisk, faunistisk, geologisk og palæontologisk henseende Denne beskrivelse udgøres af bindets Anden Bog "Indeholdende en summarisk Efterretning om alt det som paa nogen Maade henhører til Landets Natur=Historie", pp. 361-723. De til denne afdeling tilhørende kobberstik (planche 14-30) er alle tilstede. Den manglende planche (planche 6) hører til i Første Bog.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1767. 4to. Contemp. hvellum. Handwritten titlwe on spine. (8),206,579 pp., 15 partly folded engraved plates, 1 table. Internally clean and fine. With original memoirs by: Buache, le Monnier, Haller, d'Alembert (Nouvelle Recherches sur les Verres optiques.. pp. 75-146), de Séjour, Tillet, Morand le fils, Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Pingré, Bailly, le Cardinal du Luynes & Bailly, Bezout (Recherches sur le degré des Équations résultantes de l'évanouissement des inconnues, & sur les moyens qu'il convient d'employer pour trouver ces Équations (now called the Bezoutiant), Cassini de Thury, Chappe d'Auteroche, Tenon, l'Abbe Nollet (Memoire sur les effets du Tonnerre, comparés à ceux de l'Électricité... pp. 408-453), Deparcieux, le Monnier, Guettard (Troisieme Memoir sur la Mineralogie des environs de Paris, & de Corps marins qui s'y trouvent. Pp. 492-526), du Hamel, de la Lande, Daubenton, Montet.

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.

La Haye, P. de Hondt, 1757. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally fine and clean, a nice copy. XVI, 402, (4) pp. + 43 folded maps and plates (complete). Rare and finely illustrated 15th volume of Prevost’s extensive work on various travel accounts which cover numerous travel narratives to different parts of the world, documenting the discoveries, explorations, and adventures of travelers. This present 15th volume contain description of travels To Philippines, Manilla, Borneo and many more. This present Hondt-edition is “Mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions, especially in the later volumes. The maps and plates were finely engraved by J. van der Schley.” (Sabin 65404). According to Tchemerzine this the best edition. The first edition was published in Paris in seven volumes between 1744 and 1747. This present edition was published in 25 volumes between 1747 and 1780. Sabin 65404 Tchemerzine IX, 233: ("C´est la meilleure édition de ce recueil")

Paris, Cailleau, 1763. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Covers with gilt borders. Top and bottom of back a little worn. Inner hinge at end a little weak. Engraved titlepage. XII,358 pp. (pp. 356-58 errata) and 1 large folded engraved map by de Lafosse (30x22,5 cm., dated 1763) and 1 folded engraved plate (Camp de l'Emir des Druses, pres de Baruth). As there seems to be different prints of the so-called second edition (as this) we are not able to decide whether there should be more plates to this printing. The work describes in 3 sections the esoteric religion of the Druses, founded in the 11th century by the Fatimid Calif of Egypt, their history and their commerce.

London, Richard Bentley, 1853. In the original full cloth binding with the original paper title label to spine. Spine and capitals slightly worn. Corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. VIII,220,(4, - ie. oublisher's advertisements) pp. First edition of the first English translation, done by Mrs. Bushby's translation directly from Danish, containing 20 of Andersen's fairy tales, all taken from his third fairy tale collection. With a presentation-inscription from Mrs. Bushby on the half-title: "To Mde van Dockum/with the Translator's/ Kind compliments".

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

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.

London, Macmillian, 1962. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 196, October - December. Stamp to pasted down front end-paper and title-page. A fine copy. Pp. 1080-1. [Entire colume: LII, 1346 pp.]. First appearance of Shapiro's famous paper in which he sought to describe a bathtub vortex with the Coriolis Effect. This eventually gave birth to the urban myth that a toilet vortex always will have a counter clockwise flow in the Northern Hemisphere. The Coriolis effect on a micro level is still disputed and has never been satisfyingly confirmed or rejected. Scientists were aware that Earth's rotation alters the trajectory of objects in motion. This phenomenon causes low-pressure weather systems to twist counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis effect, as it's known, had long been well documented as the cause of hurricanes and tornadoes. But despite previous attempts, no one had shown that the effect-first described in 1835 by the French engineer and mathematician Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis-works on very small scales as well. Though in theory it should influence bathwater's exit through a drain, the Coriolis effect was thought to be too small to see."For his experiment, Shapiro used a circular, flat-bottomed tub with a centered drain hole three-eighths of an inch in diameter to which he attached a 20-foot length of hose, plugged with a stopper at the end. He filled the tank six inches deep with clean, room-temperature water. Small variations-air movement, a temperature change, a surface disturbance-create buoyancy currents that overshadow the Coriolis effect. So Shapiro did much tinkering to cancel out these possible sources of interference-covering the tank with a sheet of plastic to keep out air currents, for example, and carefully controlling the room's temperature. He also filled the tank by swirling water in clockwise, so that if the water drained counterclockwise, the direction would not have been influenced by how the tank was filled.After 24 hours of letting the water settle, Shapiro carefully pulled the plug from the end of the hose, gently placing above the drain a small float made of two crossed slivers of wood an inch long. It took about 20 minutes for the tub to drain completely. For the first 12 to 15 minutes, the float remained motionless. Then it began to rotate almost imperceptibly, counterclockwise, reaching a peak speed of approximately one revolution every three to four seconds. Proving that the Coriolis effect can be detected in a bathtub-size tank, albeit under carefully controlled conditions, was a remarkable achievement. At MIT's latitude of 42°, the effect was "only thirty-millionths that of gravity, which is so small that it will be overcome by filling and even temperature differences and water impurities," reported one of many newspapers and periodicals covering the experiment. Shapiro's results were published in Nature and verified by colleagues who used his technique to demonstrate a clockwise flow in the Southern Hemisphere. The findings fascinated a curious public of all ages. Shapiro would also become known for explaining and improving the aerodynamics of golf ball dimples, as well as for helping to develop the intra-aortic balloon for heart patients and devices to treat blood clots, asthma, emphysema, and glaucoma. But for more than a decade after the bathtub test, he would receive letters and newspaper clippings from all over the world about what was dubbed the "bathtub vortex" controversy. " (MIT Technology Review).

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".

Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1742-49. Bound in 16 contemp. full calf. raised bands, gilt spines, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines with light wear to gilding. A small nick to engraved frontispiece in upper right corner. Engraved titlevignettes. Each volume with folded maps, plans and plates. On good paper, internally clean.

Coph., 1894-1957. 13 solide private hldrbd.

Rotomagi (Rouen), Guillelmi Behourt, 1700. 4to. 3 contemp. full calf. 5 raised bands, richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels gilt. Wear to top of spines. Some small cracks along hinges, but not loosening. Stamps on title-pages. (34),668,(18);(8),669,(15);(16),669,(7) pp. A few woodcut illustrations in the text. A few brownspots. Onternally clean. First edition.

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1851. 4to. Orig. printed boards, clothbacked. Stamp on title-page. VIII,543 pp. and 16 folded engraved plates (1-14 with coastal profiles, landfalls, 15-16 large folded maps). Printed on good paper, internally clean and fine.