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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.

Leipzig & Magdeburg, Seidel, 1717. Folio (365 x 235 mm). In a very nice contemporary Cambridge mirror-style binding with six raised bands with richly gilt spine. Blindstamped ornamentation to board and single gilt line to boarders of boards. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment of spine. Light wear to extremities, scratches to boards but overall a very nice and clean copy. (4), 524, (160) pp. Beautiful later edition of Scriver’s highly praised work describing the progress of the soul from misery to eternal life by combining allegory, dogmatics, and ethics. It has been translated into numerous languages, including Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish. The first edition was published in 1689. Christian Scriver (1629–1693) was a German Lutheran theologian and devotional writer. Scriver's writings focused on practical spirituality and personal piety, aiming to guide readers in their Christian walk.

Paris, Bachelier, 1850 a. 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 30, No 8 and Tome 33, No 9. Pp. (185-) 215 a. pp. (253-) 276. Helmholtz's papers: pp. 204-206 a. pp. 262-265. Clean and fine. First appearance (also in Berichte königl. Preuss. Ak. the same year) of these short notes in which Helmholtz announced his discovery and measurements of the time delay of nervous impulses, a discovery "which opened a new and unbounded field of investigations to physiologists". It is one the most importent discoveries in physiology in the 19th century."Du Bois-Reymond... received Helmholtz's first two-page note. Müller, to whom Du Bois tried to ecplain it, insisted on rejecting the conclusion, arguing that Helmholtz had not eliminated the time for the contraction of the muscle. Humboldt, du Bois wrote Helmholtz, "war ganz depaysiert", and at first refused to send the paper to Paris for publication there. Du Bois had first to edit it and then Humboldt, won over, had it published in the "Comptes Rendus", adding a further explanatory foot-note of his own. By summer, Müller had also been won, and then helmholtz published his longer paper in which he included a measurement of tghe time of the muscular cobntraction and nes determinations of the rate of transmission."(Boring "History of Experimental Psychology", p. 48)."To separate the movement in time from the event of will that caused it was in a sense to separate the body from the mind, and almost from the personality or self. At any rate, helmholtz's discovery was a step in the analysis of bodily motionthat changed it from an instantaneous occurrence to a temporal series of events, and it thus contributed to the materialistic view of the psychophysical organuismthat was the essence of nineteenthy century science.... The most impiortent effect of the experiment and all the research that followed upon it was, however, thatit brought the soul to time, as it were, measured what had been ineffable, actually captured the essential agent of mind in the toils of natural science." (Boring "History of Experimental Psychology", p. 42)."Helmholtz’ research in sensory physiology began in 1850, when he determined the velocity of the nerve impulse in the sciatic nerve of the frog. In 1852 he obtained more precise results through his invention of the myograph. This device, in which the muscle traces the motion of its contraction upon a rotating drum, permitted more exact measurement of the small time intervals involved than any previous method. Helmholtz’ measurements yielded not only a finite velocity for nerve propagation but also the surprisingly slow one of about ninety feet per second. The result was considered a victory for the mechanistic school, for it seemed to confirm du Bois-Reymond’s hypothesis that the nerve impulse consisted in the progressive rearrangement of ponderable molecules."(DSB).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunder Company, 1909. 8vo. In the original green embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With authors presentation inscription to front free end paper: "To Dr. J. C. Ant. / with the complements of / Graham Lusk". Hinges internally weak, light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 402, (2), 16 pp. The second revised and enlarged edition with the authors presentation inscription of this seminal exposition on respiratory and intermediary metabolism which founded "the science of nutrition in the United States" (Dict. Amer. med. biog., 1:465).The book rapidly became the standard textbook on nutrition, and what is more important, a source book for all who wrote on the subject. The importance of the work was described by his collegue A. J. Carson: ""If there be any one book having had a wider and more penetrating influence on medical research in this country than Lusk on the Science of Nutrition, I do not know it. If there be, to date, by the pen of any other one man in any language, a better discussion of the whole scope of the science of nutrition, I have not seen it." (Du Bois, Biographical Memoir of Graham Lusk, p. 129).(Garrison & Morton 1045)

København, 1895-96. Alle 3 bind i originale bogtrykte omslag, ubeskårede og uopskårede. Omslagene lettere falmede og med et par smårifter, ellers aldeles frisk eksemplar. (8),374;(8),513;(8),272 pp., talrige tekstillustrationer, 40 plancher, heriblandt farvelitograferede plancher, kort m.v. First edition of one of the first scientific expedition to Greenland lead by The Greenlandic Commission. It contains the first scientific survey of the huge areas around Scoresby Sound. (Meddelelser om Grønland, Bind 17-19).

(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.

Coblenz, Baedeker, 1856. Orig. full red cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Very light wear at spine-ends. A few minor, faint spots on frontcover. Chromolithographed frontispiece. IV,LIV,416 pp., 6 maps, 22 lithographed plans and views, 2 large folded lithographed panoramas in colours, 2 large folded views.

1815. (ca. 55 x 94 cm.). Large engraved plan of Köln. Gezeichnet und gestochen von Picquet. Right margins with a few closed tears. A bit of fraying outside image. With 2 engraved attached flaps (fortifications) and with street-indexes.

Halle, Niemeyer, 1922 (Vol.1 and vol. 2, I) - 1921 (Vol 2, II). Royal 8vo. Bound in three original uniform black half cloth bindings w. gilt titles to spines. Capitals a bit worn and inner front hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean. XXII, 257, (1); XI, (1), 508; XIII, (1), 244 pp. A mixed set made up of the third and second edition (Dritte + Zweite Auflage) of Husserl's main work, one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. The "Logical Investigations" fundamentally changed philosophy and invoked the new philosophical era of the 20th century, -with this work Husserl founds phenomenology. Together with Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit" this must be considered the most important work of modern philosophy. The work was originally published 1900-1901, and the first edition is very difficult to come by. The second edition, is enlarged and revised, and the third collates exactly as the second. None of those two are common either.Husserl opens this fundamental work by attacking psychologism, and he then introduces his brand new philosophical method, which he had still by then not fully developed, but which came to influence all philosophy ever since -Phenomenology! Husserl himself calls this a "Work of Breakthrough" (see his preface to the second edition).In short, psychologism taught that logic itself was not an independent discipline, but a part of psychology, and it is this notion that Husserl gives its final blow in his logical investigations, -far more definitely than Frege had tried to some years earlier. Husserl now establishes a philosophy that asks the question of the essence of the matter of perception as opposed to the form of perception, as well as the meaning of the difference between formal or pure and material laws, truths and determinations, -all based on his strong interest in the relationship between the formalities of arithmetic and of logic. The work is the starting point for mereology, the formal first order theory of wholes and their parts. Mereology is both an application of predicate logic and a branch of formal ontology.Husserl is now famous as the father of phenomenology, and he decisively influenced the likes of Heidegger, Sartre, Carnap, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida etc. etc.

Toulouse, Paris,èduard Privat - Gauthier-Villars, 1912-29. 4to. Bound in 9 contemp. uniform hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels on spines with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spines. Portrait in Helogravure as frontispiece. Some plates and some textillustrations.Stamps to titlepages. A fine clean copy, printed on good paper. The origibal printing of this classic work on the history of science. Tannery was an engineer and administrator by profession, and he could devote only his leisure hours to scholarship. Despite this limitation, however, he accomplished a vast amount of penetrating and wide-ranging research and became one of the most influential figures in the rapidly developing study of the history of science at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Wien und Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1912. Royal8vo. Partly uncut in the original printed wrappers. Spine with two tears, otherwise fine and clean. (10), 200 pp. First edition of Schrötter's landmark work in aviation medicine. Here he made the first study on the physiological influence of barometric pressure."Schrötter conducted a great deal of research on the physiological influence of barometric pressure and was one of the first to apply these observations to aviation medicine [In the present work]. Following flight tests he was the first to propose a closed, pressurized aluminum cabin, such as was later used by Auguste Piccard. (Garrison & Morton 7177)Garrison & Morton 7177