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London, John Millan, 1780. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Innner hinge strenghtened. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XL,214,(2) pp. A few scattered brownspots. By the head-master of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Muller was "the scolastic father of all the great engineers this country employed for forty years" (Hill, in Boswell).

Kiøbenhavn, Daniel Eichhorns, 1691. 4to. In contemporary full calf. Wear to extremities, leather cracked on spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Inner hinge split. Previous owner's name on contemporary hand to title-page. Internally nice and clean. Printed on good paper. (24), 764, (8) pp. The rare first edition of Bang’s contemplations on the passion of Christ.Jens Thomsen Bang (ca. 1648-1699) was a priest in Slagslunde and Ganløse from 18 July 1673 until his death on 14 February 1699. Before that he was resident chaplain at the Church of the Savior in Christianshavn. He was born in Copenhagen, as the son of dr. and Prof. Theol. T. Jensen Bang of Flemløse and Else Didriksdatter Bartsker. He became a student in Copenhagen in 1666. Biblioteca Danica 453.Not in Thesaurus.

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.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981. Royal 8vo. Orig. full grey cloth w. white lettering to spine. Orig. black, red and white dust-jacket, not price-clipped. A few small tears to capitals and corners of dust-jacket w. very minor loss. Binding and internally near mint. XII, (2), 764, (1) pp. First edition, presentation copy from the author "For Iz/ Fondly,/ Bob", dated "August, 1981", of this highly important work of modern day philosophy. This is Nozick's second book, and it constitutes his most influential contribution to philosophy outside of political theory. In this work Nozick develops his "externalist" theory of knowledge. The work covers many aspects of metaphysics and ethics, but especially the metaphysics of personal identity occupies a central role in this main work, which comes second in importance to only his seminal "Anarchy, State and Utopia" (1974). Robert Nozick (1938 -2002) was an American philosopher, born in Brooklyn, and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He was a thinker with wide-ranging interests, and he is now considered one of the most important and influential political philosophers of the Anglo-American analytic tradition, together with John Rawls. In his Philosophical Explanations, which received the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Waldo Emerson Award, Nozick brings forth the now so famous, but then novel and (still) controversial accounts of knowledge, free will, personal identity and meaning of life. The "Philosophical Explanations" is thus a groundbreaking work in several ways:According to traditional theories of knowledge, a knower S knows a proposition p if and only if S believes p, p is true, and S is justified in believing p. The problem with the three instances here is the last, namely what does "being justified in believing" entail? Nozick here comes up with a unique contribution that has been of great importance to epistemologists ever since: He determines this belief negatively. It is the counterfactuals that make the true belief count as knowledge, i.e. 1) S would not believe p, if p were not true (the "variation" condition), and 2) under different circumstances, S would still believe and would not believe the negation of p (the "adherence" condition). Nozick determines a belief that fulfills these conditions as one that "tracks the truth". Furthermore, Nozick uses his analysis in answering skepticism, and controversially denies the "closure principle" (if S knows that p and that p entails q, then S knows that q), bringing him great (and not necessarily positive) fame among epsitemologists. Thus Nozick here presents an epistemological system designed to deal with Gettier-style problems as well as those posed by skepticism, and his argument became highly influential. Furthermore, in "Philosophical Explanations", Nozick also presents his "closest continuer" theory, his seminal contribution to the debate of personal identity. The question of personal identity has a long tradition among philosophers and can stem from puzzles like: If person A wakes up in the body of person B, who is he? Is he A, or is he B? Nozick comes up with an answer to such questions, namely that it is the later person who "most closely continues" the earlier one who is the one truly identical to the latter. Of course, this leaves room for interpretation, and so in Nozick's view, personal identity comes to partly depend upon the factors that are most important to the answerer, e.g. bodily or psychological properties.Apart from the groundbreaking ideas presented in this work, it is also famous for posing numerous questions, the answers to which are often left to the reader, for using non-philosophical works to illustrate philosophical points, and not least for the curious style, in which it is written."This book puts forward its explanations in a very tentative spirit; not only do I not ask you to believe they are correct, I do not think it important for me to believe them correct, either. Still, I do believe, and hope you will find it so, that these proposed explanations are illuminating and worth considering, that they are worth surpassing; also, that the process of seeking and elaborating explanations, being open to new possibilities, the new wonderings and wanderings, the free exploration, is itself a delight. Can any pleasure compare to that of a new idea, a new question?There is sexual experience, of course, not dissimilar, with its own playfulness and possibilities, its focused freedom, its depth, its sharp pleasures and its gentle ones, its ecstacies. What is the mind's excitement and sensuality? What its orgasm? Whatever, it unfortunately will frighten and offend the puritans of the mind (do the two puritanisms share a common root?) even as it expands others and brings them joy." (Nozick, Introduction, p. 24)."Iz" in the presentation is the famous philosopher of education, Israel Scheffler, Professor Emeritus of Education and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is a founding member of The National Academy of Education and author of "Four Pragmatists", "In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions", "Symbolic Worlds" and other works in philosophy as well as of a memoir on his early Jewish education, "Teachers of My Youth".

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.

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.

Braunschweig, 1849. 8vo. Cont. hcloth. w. gilt title and single gilt lines to spine. Tears to top hinges and a bit of loss of cloth to top capital. A bit of even browning, but otherwise internally very nice and clean. Probably lacking a half-title. LX, 654 pp. First German edition of Mill's "A System of Logic", probably his greatest book, an epochal work in logical enquiry, not only for British philosophy, but for modern thought in general. Here in the German version, the title puts emphasis on the main idea of the work, -the inductive logic, which came to found a new strand in the theory of logic throughout Europe. The work was originally published in English in 1843, and it underwent numerous editions. "Mill's most important work in pure philosophy was his "System of Logic", which he began at the age of twenty-four and completed thirteen years later" (D.S.B. IX:383).By the first quarter of the 19th century, the theory of logic had been almost overlooked in the English speaking world for centuries. Logic was practiced merely as an academic study on traditional lines, with Aristotle as the great master, but with Mill and some of his contemporaries this was about to change, and Mill's theory of terms, propositions, the syllogism, induction etc., greatly affected 19th century English thought. The many years that Mill allowed himself to work on his "System of Logic" allowed him to be inspired by a number of important steps that were made towards the development of the theory of logic in order to fulfill his groundbreaking work. Mill's main concern as a philosopher was to overrule the influence of the sceptical philosophers and provide science with a better claim to truth. A main breakthrough in Mill's Logic was thus his analysis of inductive proof, and his originality on this point cannot be denied. "We have found that all Inference, consequently all Proof, and all discovery of truths not self-evident, consists of inductions, and the interpretation of inductions: that all our knowledge, not intuitive, comes to us exclusively from that source. What Induction is, therefore, and what conditions render it legitimate, cannot but be deemed the main question of the science of logic - the question which includes all others. It is, however, one which professed writers of logic have almost entirely passed over. The generalities of the subject have not been altogether neglected by metaphysicians, but, for want of sufficient acquaintance with the processes by which science has actually succeeded in establishing general truths, their analysis of the inductive operation, even when unexceptionable as to correctness, has not been specific enough to be made the foundation of practical rules, which might be for induction itself what the rules of syllogism are for the interpretation of induction... " (A System of Logic, Vol. 1, p. 345) . With his demonstrative theory of induction, Mill reduced the conditions of scientific proof to strict rules and scientific tests. He provided the empirical sciences with formulae and criteria that played as important a role to them as the formulae of syllogism had done to arguments that proceeded from general principles. The laws that Mill established are discovered with his famous "eliminative methods of induction", which later figured prominently in controversies about scientific method.Mill's Logic came to found a new strand in the theory of logic, logic as incorporated in a general theory of knowledge, where the whole is rendered more precise by its definite reference to the question of proof. According to Mill the ultimate elements of knowledge are subjective entities, however, knowledge does have objective validity. "Logic alone can never show that the fact A proves the fact B; but it can point out to what conditions all facts must confirm, in order that they might prove other facts. To decide whether any given fact fulfils these conditions, or whether facts can be found which fulfil them in any given case, belongs, exclusively, to the particular art or science, or to our knowledge of the particular subject." (Introduction, § 3, p. 11).

(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".

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1858. Contemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Vierte Reihe Bd. 15, (=Poggendorff Bd. 105). X,636 pp. and 4 folded lithographed plates. Clausius's paper: pp. 239-258. The entire volume offered. Fine and clean. First printing of this main paper in the working out of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in which Clausius announced his determination of the equation governing the mean free path lenght of a molecule moving freely in gases. By this he inscribed his name as one of the founders of the Kinetic Theory of Gases."Clausius was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases and of the science of thermodynamics. He and Lord Kelvin at about the same time and independently announced the Second Law of thermodynamics. Clausius particularly developed the theory of thermodynamics by applying it to the study of gases and vapors."(Magie in "A Source Book in Physics", p. 228)."In order to analyze the process (of molecular collisions), Clausius adopted a simplified model for his admittedly complicated molecule. He assumed that whatever the actual patterns on intermolecular forces, one could suppose that there is some advantage distance between the centers of molecules which would represent a general boundary between attractive and repulsive forces. If two molecules were to approach each other within that boundary, repulsion would generally occur. Thus the very complex problem of intermolecular action was reduced to a "billiard ball" model." (DSB III, p. 307-06). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs, C/P 1858.

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. Royal8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. full blue cloth, gold medaillons on covers. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Spineends a bit frayed and with 2 small repairs. Inner hinges neatly strenghtened. Stamp on half-and title-pages.Top-edge gilt. 2 Frontispieces in photogravure. XX,556,XII,508 pp., 260 photographic illustr. on plates, 12 colourplates, panoramas and 5 maps (2 in pockets at ends). Internally clean and fine. First edition, first issue.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1838 a. 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1838 - Part II. Pp. 371-394 and 2 engraved plates. Light browning to plates. + 1852- Part I. pp. 1-17 and 1 engraved plate. A dampstain to plate. First appearance of these classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 (in the paper offered). In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus, in the stereoscope, an arrangement of lenses or mirrors, two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors, and bringing it into its existing form with lenses."As the inventor of the stereoscope, later developed by Brewster, Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye..."(DSB XIV, p. 290).Garrison & Morton No. 1498.

København, Bianco Luno, 1835-1840. Tvær-8vo. Indbundet i 6 samt ensartede halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Permer med lidt brugsspor. Som altid, med lidt brunpletter og enkelte skjolder. Plancherne gennemgående i god stand. Første danske udgave med Oehlenschlägers tekstoversættelse.

Kjøbenhavn, 1861-66. Four issues, in varying bindings: 1: Very nice later light brown half morocco binding in pastiche-style with lovely gilding to spine. A nice and clean copy.2: Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board and blindstamped ornamental border to boards. Spine professionally restored. A very nice copy. 3: Bound with the original printed illustrated wrappers in a lovely later brown half mororcco binding with lovely gilding to spine and lovely gilt borders to boards. Back wrapper with restorations. A bit of brownspotting and an old owner's signature to front wrapper, but all in all an excellent copy. 4: Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt title to front board. Lacking 1 cm at top capital. Inner hinges weak. Contemporary owner's presentation-inscription to front free end-paper. Very nice and clean. First editions, first issues. An excellent set with three of the issues in various original states. Here, we have the entire second series, all four issues, of Andersen's third fairy-tale collection, which contains some of his most beloved tales and stories, among them "Tolv med Posten" (Twelve by the Mail), "Hvad Fatter gør er altid det Rigtige" (What the Old Man Does is Always Right ), "Sneemanden" (The Snow Man), "Isjomfruen" (The Ice Maiden), "Psychen" (The Psyche ), "Gjemt er ikke glemt" (Kept Secret but not Forgotten), "Skrubtudsen" (The Toad), etc., etc.In all, the present four issues contain 18 fairy-tales in their first printing.

Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1785. Bound in a fine and well-preserved contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. A stamp on titlepage and verso. (18),344,(10) pp., 1 folded table and 4 large folded engraved plates showing many types of experimental equipments. On frontcover the crowned coat-of-arms of the Danish king Christian VII, in red and gold. This is Cavallo's main work (transl. from "Complete treatise of Electricity in theory and practice with original experiments. London, 1777), and its descriptions of a huge number of electrical phenomena and experiments, are for most parts, original works on electricity."...Tiberius Cavallo was a neopolitan settled in London where Volta met him in the spring of 1782. Cavallo had come to the metropolis in 1771 to study commerce, and remained to become the leading English electrician of the 1780s and a profilic writer of authoritative textbooks on natural philosophy, particularly electricity." (Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th & 18th Venturies)."Cavallo's first studies (1775-1776) concerned atmospheric electricity, which he explored with Franklin kites and with improved detectors of his qwn invention, fashioned after Canton's pith-ball electroscope. Althoug little came of his investigations...they required a course of self-instruction that culminated in Cavallo's most importent work, A complete treatise...(1777). (Heilbron in DSB). - Not in Wheeler Gift cat.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, P.W. Stock, 1713. - Witbound: Schalitz, Christian. Die Von Aberglauben, Vanitæten und Teuscherey gereinigte Chiromantia und Physiognomia. Leipzig, Wilh. Stocken, 1716. Small 8vo. Bound in cont. blue boards. - Praetorius: Title in red/black. (14),128 pp. and 9 folded woodcut-plates ( one plate defective loosing a third from lower left corner, repaired, one plate loose, some tears), woodcuts in the text. - Schalitz: Engraved portrait as frontispiece. 61 pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates. Some browning to leaves and light staining to plates. Plates showing traces of use. Two scarce works on Chiromantcs in German. Praetorius' work (from 1661 in latin) was abandoned by the Catholic Church and put on Index

Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1770. Bound in a fine, near mint, contemporary full sprinckled calf. 5 raised bands, profusely gilt compartments and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Covers with gilt boder. Wide-margined. Edges of covers gilt. VI,(4),988,(18) pp. and 6 large folded engraved plates showing chirurgical instruments. A wide used chirurgical work in Germany in the 18th century, running through several editions. Translated from the authors main work "Institutiones chirurgiae rationalis..." Leipzig 1745. - Wellcome IV: pp. 398-99 only latin editions) - Waller: 7504 (only a latin edition).

K., 1843. Lidt senere simpelt hshirtbd. Rent ekspl. 157 pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 53.

France (Paris ?), 1770. Folio. (42,5 x 28 cm.). Loose inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 60 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. With 2 Ms-plates of which the first is in double folio (74 x 51 cm.), handcoloured: Assut de Place Calibre de 16.tt. On good thick paper, clean and fine.

Jakob Benediktsson ritadi Inngang. Reykj., 1974. Folio. Smukt originalt halvlæderbind i kassette med skindforstærkninger. XLVIII pp. and 662 plates of facsimiles. Landnámabók, "Book of Settlements", often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE. According to this tradition, Naddoðr the Viking was the earliest Norseman to discover Iceland after his ship was blown off course. Subsequently Garðar the Swede explored Iceland and named it Garðarshólm (Garðar’s Island). Raven Flóki Vilgerðarson was the first to attempt to permanently settle the island, but his effort failed because he neglected to collect enough hay for the winter. Flóki’s experiences convinced him to return to Norway and to give the island the less than favorable name Iceland.

Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1701. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf. Rebacked, corners bumped. (8),294 pp. and 72 engraved plates (a few folded). Internally fine. Last and largest edition of this popular work in horology, where the first edition appeared 1641.

København, 1908-34. 8vo. og 4to. Indbundet i 11 ensartede solide hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Illustreret.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, Rengerschen Buchh., 1750. Bound in 4 contemp. full sprinckled calf, richly gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Very lightly rubbed. Engraved portrait (Wolff) as frontispiece.(30),1934,(48) pp. + 178,(12) pp. With 152 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Værket har tilhørt C.F. Molbech (1785-1864) og bærer hans navn på indersiden af forreste friblad. "Carl Frederik Molbech. Soröe 1825." Yderligere en tilskrift af samme nederst på samme side omhandlende klassificerinssystemet for biblioteker: "Kunde man ikke i decade Systemet definere 0 saaledes: 0 est Potenzator unitatis ? (I hele Tal Plus_Potenzator, i Decimalbrök Minus-Potenzator ?)/ C.F. Molbech

Nürnberg, Georg Peter Monath, 1767. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece (bound after p. 64). (4),178 pp. and 114 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.