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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.

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.

Geneve, Barrillot, 1749. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label to spine. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches and holes in the leather showing the wooden boards. Wormholes to spine. Part 1 with underlignings and marginal annotations. Bookblock split between part 1 and 2, otherwise internally nice and clean. (4), XXIV, 356, (4), 358, (6), XII, 383 pp. Early edition, published the year after the original, corrected by the author, of this seminal work, "[i]n many ways one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century" (PMM 197), in which the author presents his theory of constitutional monarchy, advocating constitutionalism and the separation of powers, and explains human laws and social institutions. Montesquieu began writing this his magnum opus in 1743, by the end of which year he had almost finished the first draft of it. The same year he began the first of two great revisions of it, which he finished in 1746. In 1747 he finished his second revision, adding several new chapters, and chose J. Barrillot from Geneva to publish the work, which finally appeared for the first time in November 1748, in two quarto volumes, with no mention of author or year. Numerous editions and issues appeared the following months and years, and by 1751 22 editions of the work had appeared. Already in 1750 the work was published in English, the English editions amounting to 10 by 1773, and by 1801 the work had appeared in both German (1789), Dutch, Danish, Polish, Italian, and Russian (1801). The work exercised the greatest of influence, both negative and positive, and numerous anti-Montesquieu-pamphlets and articles appeared during the last half of the 18th century. Because of the work, Montesquieu was also attacked by the Sorbonne, as well as in the general assembly of the French clergy, and in Rome. In 1751 the work was placed on the Index.As the number of editions, translations etc. bears witness to, the work provided the greatest of impact on 18th century political thought as well as actual politics and law. In fact, few other works can be claimed to possess the same power of influence as this one, directly affecting the likes of Tocqueville and Catherine the Great. Although Montesquieu had to defend himself against great thinkers like Voltaire, "his theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated." (PMM 197). "Montesquieu was one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, he constructed a naturalistic account of the various forms of government, and of the causes that made them what they were and that advanced or constrained their development. He used this account to explain how governments might be preserved from corruption. He saw despotism, in particular, as a standing danger for any government not already despotic, and argued that it could best be prevented by a system in which different bodies exercised legislative, executive, and judicial power, and in which all those bodies were bound by the rule of law. This theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on liberal political theory, and on the framers of the constitution of the United States of America." (SEP).(PMM 197 - first edition)

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.

Leipzig, Fritsch, 1694 & 1698. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities. Parts of gilting on spine worn off. Head of spine on vol. 2 chipped. Internally nice and clean. (14), 1223, (33) pp. + frontispiece; (28), 870, (8), 730, (50) pp. + frontispiece. Later edition of Pfeiffer’s extensive work on how to find consolation and support in the bible. The work is especially noteworthy and gained fame in the mid 18th century because of composer Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the title of the present work as a recommendation in his manuscript notebook “Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach” which he presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena: “They [the book-titles] were inserted there not by accident or for a fancy, but indicate his [Bach] particular liking for the books, of which the purport was to be reflected in the content of the little music book”. (Spitta, Bach)

Berlin, Springer, 1933. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 85, 1933. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 4-16. [Entire volume: VIII, 811 pp.]. First printing of Stern and Frisch's seminal paper with the very first measurement of the proton magnetic moment constituting the earliest experimental evidence for the internal structure of the nucleon. "It is this work that was specifically mentioned in Stern's Nobel Prize citation" (DSB) in 1943 when he was awarded the prize "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton"."Dirac had promulgated a theory according to which the ratio of the magnetic moment of the proton to that of the electron should have been the same as the inverse ratio of their masses. This theory was believed so generally that when Stern, O. R. Frisch, and this writer began the very difficult experiments, they were told more than once by eminent theoreticians that they were wasting their time and effort. But Stern's perseverance paid off. Measurements showed a proton magnetic moment two or three times larger than expected. While that result has since been reproduced with greater accuracy, a really satisfactory theoretical explanation is still outstanding. It is this work that was specifically mentioned in Stern's Nobel Prize citation." (DSB)The magnetic moment of the proton, first measured in 1933 by Frisch and Stern, was the earliest experimental evidence for the internal structure of the nucleon. Although the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), is over 20 years old, a quantitative description of the magnetic moments of the nucleons based on QCD remains an elusive goal. The phenomenal quantitative success of the standard electroweak theory now allows one to use the weak interaction to obtain additional information on the magnetic properties of the nucleon. In particular, the measurement of the strength of the magnetic interaction with the neutral weak boson Z0(when combined with the usual magnetic interaction with the photon) enables a decomposition of the nucleon magnetism into the contributions arising from the three relevant quark flavors (up, down, and strange). (American Physical Society)The present volume also contain Estermann and Stern paper: "Über sie magnetische Ablenkung von Wasserstoffmolekülen und das magnetische Moment des Protons" in which they demonstrated the existence of de Broglie Waves for Atom and molecules.

Prescott, Wolfe Publishing Co., (1986). Folio oblong. Orig. full calf, raised bands, gilt. All edges gilt. Original Bronze Sculpture (a buffalo) mounted on the frontcover. The book comes with an original box, a hardwood case. 255 pp., 54 fine colourplates and many b/w illustr. in mezzotone process. De Luxe edition one of 500 copies of R.M.(remarque), signed by the author.

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1843. 4to. In two uniform contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear. Title-pages with small library stamp. Light occassional brownspotting throughout. (2), VIII, 576 pp.; (4), 584 pp + numerous plates, and folded maps. Second edition of Dumont D'Urville's selection of important voyages of discovery from Magellan onwards.The six engraved maps are from Dumont D'Urville's famous voyage in the Astrolabe, 1826-1829, 1830-1834.

Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1770. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back and gilt titlelabel. A paperlabel pated on upper compartment of back. Stamps on titlepage. XVI,296 pp. and 10 folded engraved plates (8+2). Lambert's 8 appendixes pp. 187-296 with 2 plates. Some light browning, but a good copy. This is the second German edition (the first from 1749 was abridged) by the famous French astronomer and geographer Jean Picard, who was the first to measure the lenght of a degree of a meridian. It is the first appearance of Lambert's 8 tracts where he treats the measuring with the water-levelling instruments mathematically, and applies some of the principles he introduced in his epochal work on theoretical carthography in 1772. The book has de la Hire's "Vorrede". - Not in Rosenthal, Litteratur der Technologie (only 1749 ed.). - Poggendorff II:442 (as part of Picard's "Nivellement").

(København), 1771. (59 x 69 cm.). Kobberstukket kort over Nordøstsjælland. Opdelt i 24 sektioner og opsat på lærred således, at det ved foldning let kunne medbringes. Det første videnskabelige kort over Nordøstsjælland, som den første udgvne del af Wessels berømte Sjællands-kvartet udgivet af Videnskabernes Selskab. Da kortet udkom var det den mest præcise kortprojektion overhovedet, idet Wessel anvendte sin opdagelse vedrørende de komplekse tal. Dette kort er det første og mest eftertragtede af Videnskabernes Selskabs opmåling af Danmark.Bibl.Danica II,603. - Bramsen p. 146, gengivet.

Jena, Herman Costenoble, 1884. Cont. marbled boards. Gilt back and gilt titlelabel in leather. Light wear to coverpaper at edges. XIV,281,(1) pp., many large textillustrations, 16 tinted lithographed plates and 1 large folded map in colour. Scattered brownspots. Scarce first German edition of his account of his third Asia-expedition. Przhevalskii set out on his third journey in central Asia from Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan, and continued through Khami to the upper reaches of the Huang Ho. He covered some 7,660 kilometers and came within 270 kilometers of his goal, Lhasa in Tibet, but he was forbidden to enter the area. The work contains imoportent first descriptions of the flora and fauna of many of the areas through which he travelled.