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Paris,R. Chapelot et Cie, 1903-05. 8vo. Bound in 6 modest (but solid) contemp. hcloth. The orig. printed frontwrappers pasted on all 6 frontboards. Around 3100 pp. and 32 large folded maps. The maps to vol. 1 bound at end of the volume, the maps to vol. 2-3 in 2 clothboxes, 8vo-size). First printing of the importent Metz-part of the series.

Altona, Burmester, 1749-53. 4to. Bound in 4 contemp. (vol. 1 bound in 2) full calf. raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtooled borders with cornerpieces on covers. All edges gilt. Engraved title-page (and printed) in volume I. (18),1724;(8),1396;(6),1480 pp. With king Frederik V's engraved bookmark (rococo style) in all volumes. Clean and fine. Bibl. Danica I:698.

Berlin, Erich Reiss, (1917). 4to. Bound uncut in original full brocade. Title-label with gilt lettering. Very light wear along edges and hinges. 115, (2) pp. With an orig. lithograph by Max Slevogt, signed by the artist and 1 orig. etching by Hans Meid, signed by the artist. Clean and fine. No. 52 of 70 copies on "handgeschöpften Bütten abgezogen und bei der Firma Fikentscher zu Leipzig in Brokat gebunden. Die Kunstblätter dieser Ausgabe wurden von den Künstlern eigenhändig signiert." In all 600 copies. (Nr. 71-600 auf imitiert Japan=Bütten).

(1806-10). Tvær-8vo. Samt. helldrbd. m. tidstypiske forgyldninger. E.S.'s navn navn i guld på forsidens skindfelt og på bagsidens skindfelt årstallet 1806.E.S. gik officersvejen, endte som kaptajn og postmester i Nyborg. Datteren arvede stambogen og medførte den i sit ægteskab med Peter Ferd. Giødesen. - Ualmideligt flot udstyret eksempel på en stambog - helt i tidens romanriske stil.

Frankfurt am Mayn, Heinrich Ludwig Broenner, 1767. 4to. Nice cont. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. Title with large engraved vignette. Small stamp on title and verso. (8),224 pp. and 8 double-page folded engraved plates. Fine and clean, printed on good heavy paper. First German edition, the same year as the French original. - Klaus Jordan No. 248.

Altona, J.D.A. Eckhardt, 1781. 4to. Cont. blue boards. Back worn. (14),356,(16) pp. and 15 folded engraved plates of which 3 are maps. Printed on good paper.

.London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Three birds shown, natural surroundings, flowers. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, 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.

London, (G. Woodfall) for F.C. and J. Rivington and others, 1822. Bound in 6 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. 6 titleengravings. A good copy.

London, Harrison and Son, 1851. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Wear to extremities and front hindge a bit weak. One small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xxiii, (1), 886 pp. + 1 folded map. The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Tripoli, Turkey, United States and Venezuela, containing, amongst several other issues, a lengthy report from James Hudson, Brazil, to Palmerston on the bourgeoning sentiments in Brazil towards abandoning the slave trade. An act which Palmerston instructs James Hudson to fight against.Eusébio de Queiróz Act (Law 581 of 4 September 1850) ended up criminalizing the maritime slave trade as piracy, and imposed other criminal sanctions on the importation of slaves in Brazil.

Gand, Paris, 1894. Royal8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Minor wear to back. Internally clean and fine. VIII,601 pp., textillustr. and 31 fine chromolithographed plates. First edition. Nissen No 1031.

London, Bell and Dodley, bell & sons, 1872-74. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. Richly gilt. First vol. in green pictorial cloth. Sec. vol. in blue cloth, gilt. Spineends worn. Some scratches to covers and backs. XXII,152;(4),140 pp. and 108 (54+54) fine handcoloured engraved plates by A.F. Lydon, all with tissue-guards. Slightly brownspotted, mainly vol. 1 and mainly marginal. Some prvious owners names and a historical note on p. 2 in ink. Both series first edition. Nissen BBI: 2186 - Sitwell, Great Flower Books p. 152 - Jackson p. 119.

Paris, Briasson, 1727. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. XII, 307, (5) pp.; (4), 271 pp. First edition of Pagi’s work on The Dutch Revolt from 1559 to 1648, also known as the Eighty Years' War or the Dutch War of Independence.Joseph Albert Pagi (1690-1740) was a French clergyman, provost of the chapter of Cavaillon, born in Martigues.A second edition was published in 1769.

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1912. Royal8vo. Bound in two contemporary half cloth with white paper title label to spine. In "Physikalische Zeitschrift" Vol. 13, 1912. Library stamp to title pages. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 1084-91. [Entire volume 1: XXV, (1), 576 pp + XXII plates; Pp. 577-1228 + XXXV plates. First printing of Hess's paper in which the discovery of cosmic rays first was introduced. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936.At the start of the 1900's, French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered that certain elements are unstable, and would transmute into other elements, and in the process, emit what appeared to be particles. These "particles" were given the name "radiation", and the process itself referred to as "radioactive decay."To study the source of this background, Austrian physicist Victor. F. Hess made measurements of radiation levels at different altitudes with electroscopes aboard a balloon. The motivation for this study was to distance the electroscopes from radiation sources in the Earth. Hess went as high as 17,500 feet in his balloon without oxygen tanks. Surprisingly, he found that the radiation levels increased with altitude. Hess interpreted this result to mean that radiation is entering the atmosphere from outer space. He gave this phenomenon the name "Cosmic Radiation", which later evolved to "Cosmic Rays". Hess was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays""Hess took up the problem stated by Wulf in 1911. He first verified the rate of absorption of gamma rays and then, with the help of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Aeroclub, made ten difficult and daring balloon ascensions, collecting data with improved instrumentation. He reached a height of 5,350 meters, with striking results. He was able to establish that to a height of approximately 150 meters above sea level, radiation decreased according to known laws, while at greater heights radiation increased steadily, following approximately the same laws. He found radiation at 5,000 meters to be several times greater than that at sea level, and also that radiation at all levels was the same night or day, and therefore not the result of the direct rays of the sun. He was thus able to conclude that the radiation he recorded at high altitudes entered the atmosphere from above and was, in fact, of cosmic origin. His results were verified in an extension of his experiments made by W. Kohlhörster in1913-Kohlhörster reached a height of 9,300 meters, and recorded radiation of twelve times that at sea level-but were not acknowledged by other physicists for a number of years. ("Cosmic rays" were so named by R. A. Millikan in 1925.) In 1913 Hess himself equipped the meteorological station on Hoch Obir (2,141 meters) in Carinthia to accommodate further studies of cosmic radiation; these experiments, however, were brought to a halt by World War I.University, and the University of Innsbruck; the Ernst Abbe prize of the Carl Zeiss Foundation (1932); and the Austrian Medal for Science and Arts (1959). The most important honor, however, was the Nobel Prize in physics, which he shared with C.D. Anderson in 1936, on which occasion he lectured on "Unsolved Problems in Physics: Tasks for the Immediate Future in Cosmic Ray Studies." The discovery of cosmic radiation was one of the keys to the study of elementary particles in general, leading to the discovery of the positron, by Anderson in 1932, and of the ? meson by F. Neddermayer (in 1937)." (DSB)

Warszawa, Bibljoteka Naukowa, 1906. Small4to. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine with four raised bands. Stamp to title-pages and last leaf, otherwise fine. 277, (3), 154, (6), 51, (1) pp. First Polish translation of Marx and Engel's articles on the events in the Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the impact on both middle-class and working-class aspirations and on the idea of German unification. It was originally published as a series of articles in the New York Daily Tribune 1851 to 1852 under Marx's byline, the material was first published in book form under the editorship of Eleanor Marx Aveling in 1896.

Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. Lidt senere hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Skindtitel på ryg. Lille revnedannelse øverst på forreste fals. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. XII,312 pp. De første og sidste sider brunplettede. Enkelte marginalnoter i gl. hånd. Originaludgaven af Prisskriftet, Rasks hovedværk, og et grunlæggende arbejde i Nordisk Sprogvidenskab. - Før Rasks værk er indbundet: PETER ERASMUS MÜLLER. Om det islandske Sprogs Vigtighed. Et af det kongelige Selskab for Norges Vel kronet Prisskrift. Kiøbenhavn, Sebastian Popp, 1813. (10),206,(2) pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter.First edition of Rask's main work, a founding work in Nordic Philology as he was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically and discovered the correspondance of consonant relations between the Indo-European languages which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the High-German sound-shifts.

[No place], The American Economic Association, 1955. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "The American Economic Review", Vol. VII, December, No. 5. Entire issue offered. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 1052-69. [Entire issue: (5), 996-1258 pp. + advertisement]. First printing of Averch and Johnson's seminal paper in which they introduced in what was to become known as the "Averch-Johnson effect". The paper was one of the most cited and influential papers in microeconmocs during the 60ies. "The Averch-Johnson effect is produced when fair rate of return regulation encourages a firm to invest more than is consistent with the minimization of its costs. This can happen when the allowed rate of return exceeds the cost of capital, since the difference between the two represents pure profit. Detailed descriptions of actual regulatory processes may be useful in suggesting guides for action, since actual outcomes depend as much on political and bureaucratic necessity as they do on economic analysis and 'rational' benefit-cost estimates." (The New Palgrave)."Averch and Johnson's famous paper from the early 1960s asks the simple question: If we assume that regulation acts to instantaneously adjust prices so as to maintain a constant target return on a firm's capital stock, what incentives does the firm have to choose an efficient combination of inputs? Averch and Johnson show, using fairly straightforward maths, that if the regulator sets the regulatory rate of return above the firm's true cost of capital, the regulated firm has an incentive to choose too much capital relative to labour - that is, there will be an inefficient capital-labour ratio. This observation sparked off a large empirical and theoretical literature exploring what came to be known as the 'Averch-Johnson' or 'A-J' effect.The Averch-Johnson model assumed an extreme form of what is known as 'rate of return' or 'cost of service' regulation in which prices are continuously and rapidly adjusted so as to yield the desired return on capital stock. In reality, rate of return regulation as it was historically practiced in the US always involved an element of 'regulatory lag' - that is, a period of time before prices were adjusted to reflect changes in costs. This regulatory lag gives rise to some desirable incentives, as discussed furtherbelow. Even in 1962 it was recognised that allowing higher ex post rates of return was necessary to induce desirable incentives. Averch and Johnson note: "We have been told by representatives in both the industry and in regulatory agencies that justification exists for allowing a return in excess of cost to give firms an incentive to develop and adopt cost-saving techniques. If the firm is left only indifferent as among a wide range of activities it has no positive incentive to minimize costs for any given activity."Averch and Johnson's paper was, for a while at least, very widely cited, often incorrectly. The A-J effect later came to be synonymous with 'gold-plating' and with general inefficiency of the regulated firm. But these ideas cannot be strictly attributed to Averch and Johnson. Averch and Johnson only highlighted a potential tendency towards an inefficient mix of capital and labour - but they made no mention of the tendency to simply spend too much on all inputs - so-called 'x-inefficiency' as discussed further below." (biggar, The Fifty Most Important Papers in the Economics of Regulation).

London, John Murray, 1822. Bound uncut in a fien later hcalf. Gilt titlelabels on back. Upper 5 cm. of first joint weakening. (2),VI,334 pp. + 2 pp. of Advertisements. Frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 folded maps, all in lithography. Light yellowing to leaves, some plates a little brownspotted. Fine. First edition. - Abbey No. 289.

Kiöbenhavn, Henrich Lillies Enke, 1765. 8vo. Bound partly uncut in a later very nice paper covered cardboard binding with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine (Anker Kyster). Fine and clean. 118, (1) pp. 8vo. I et nydeligt senere mønstret papbind med rødt læder titelfelt med forgyldt titel (Anker Kyster). Et pænt eksemplar. 118, (1) pp. The exceedingly rare first edition of Biehl's famous work about a woman using men's sexuality as a mean of self confirmation made a scandal, constituting one of the very earliest Scandinavian plays to focus on the issues of gender and gender equality. Den yderst sjældne originaludgave af Biehls kontroversielle skuespil; et af de tidligste eksempler på skandinavisk litteratur med fokus på ligestilling og kønsproblematikken. "Blandt Biehls i alt syv komedier er Den listige Optrækkerske (1765) den morsomste og dens kvindelige hovedperson, Lucretia, den interessanteste. Det er også det mest kontroversielle og 'umoralske' af hendes dramaer og sikkert derfor også det eneste, der i nyere tid er blevet genopført og genudgivet. Der er ingen tvivl om, at der har stået blæst om stykket i samtiden. Det afspejles i en enakter, Biehl skrev efter opførelsen, men aldrig fik opført, Tvistigheden eller Critiqve over Den listige Optrækkerske (1766), hvor hun lader sit talerør, Ariste, forsvare såvel stykket som dets forfatter."(Den Store Danske Encyclopædi).

Without place, (Basel ca. 1650). 30x36 cm. Fine engraved map of North and South America from Terra del Fuego, Terra Australis Incognita and the Magellan Strait in the south to the unmapped regions in the north. A small map of the known parts og Greenland in inset. Outer left shows the coasts regions of Spain and Africa. Ships and whales in the see. Signed M. Merian fecit (lower right). Clean and fine, broad margins, uncoloured.

Bruxelles, Charles Bulens, 1907. Large 4to. Orig. hcalf. Spine and upper cover with gilt lettering. Wear to spine ends. Tears to upper part of spine and some cracking to part of joint. Stamp on title-page. Frontispiece. 567,(3),V pp. and 80 plates, maps etc. Internally clean and fine.

Kjøbenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1855. 8vo. Bound in one nice, contemporary half calf with richly gilt decorative spine. A bit of wear to extremities. Internally very nice, with only a bit of occasional browning. Øieblikket: 20, 31, 16, 23, 32, 26, 77, 30, 22 pp.; Dette skal siges... 12 pp.; Hvad Christus dømmer...: 14 pp. First printings of all three works, and with first issues of all nine parts of "Øieblikket" ("The Moment"), which is rare. Himmelstrup 180, 177, 199.

A la Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1758. 4to. Fine cont. full mottled calf, title-and tome-labels in red and green. Richly gilt back. Gilt borders on covers. Covers a little bumped. Titles in red a. black. X,250,275 pp. and Printers Cataloque (5) pp. between vol. 1 a. 2., 15+6 (1 map) large folded engraved plates. Printed on fine thick paper, broad margins, clean. A fine copy. St.o. title. First edition.

Bln., 1942. 4to. 2 orig. full cloth and 3 clothbacked boxes all in atractive slip-case. 2 boxes with tears in top of spines. XXII,588,474 pp., 1 facs. of music and 250 fine facsimeles of letters (lichtdruck). No. 489.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905). 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick at top edge on frontwrapper. Offprint from: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Series 8, tome V. 34 pp., textillustrations. Inscribed on frontwrapper "A mon cher Collegue/ Monsieur K.V. Palmaer/ Hommage de l'auteur/ Henri Moissan" First edition, offprint issue, being Moissan's largest stydy on his synthesization of diamonds."Moissan founded the study of high-temperature chemical reactions by his invention of the electric furnace and using itto fuse and purify many refractory oxides, silicides, carbides, and borides. He firs synthesized small diamonds (not of gem quality) by dissolving carbon in molten iron and then rapidly cooling it. Moissan's process was successfully repeated by Otto Ruff.... Using his electric furnace to reduce metallic oxides with carbon, Moissan prepared many metals, e.g. chromium, manganese, molybdenium, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium" (Roy G. Neville in "Historical Chemical Library" II, p. 179 ff.).Moissan received the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1906 "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation nd isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him".

Strassburg, Bauer und Compagnie, 1771-72. Bound in 3 fine cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs, titlelabels in leather on backs, gilt. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of backs. Stamps on titles. The titlepages framed within a woodcut-border. IV,496;IV,464;IV,508 pp. and 38 large folded engraved plates. Printed on good thick paper, internally clean. First German edition.