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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".

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).

Kiøbenhaffn.,Peder Hake, Jørgen Holst, 1642-44. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen.. Ryg og permer med en del brugsspor.. Med kobberstukket titelblad til Chr. IV's Reces of til Chr. Iv's Bircke Ræt samt Chr. IV's kobberstukne portræt (med rift, mindre tab ved nederste hjørne). Lidt spredte brugsspor, men ellers indvendig velbevaret. Ca. 900 pp. Omfatter: 1. Den rette Judske Lowbog. 1642. 2. Christian den Tredies (Coldinghusiske Reces). 1642. - 3. Frederichs den Andens Reces (Kallundborgske Reces). 1642. - 4. Frdderichs den Andens Haandfestning. 1643. 5. Friderichs den Andens Gaards=Rætt. 1643.- 6. Friderichs den Andens Søræt. 1643. - 7. Friderichs den Andens Obne Breffve.. 1643. - 8. . Christian IV Reces. 1643. - 9. Christians dend Fierdes Bircke Ræt. 1643. - 10. Hereffter Følger de Forordninger, som end nu hereffter til Anderledis Befalet worder... 1643 (1644).

(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 18 (Septembre Cahier). Pp. 337-443. (Entire issue offered). Faraday's paper: pp. 337-370 a. 2 folded engraved plates (showing the experimental apparatus). Ampère & Savary's Notes: pp. 370-379. Clean and fine. First French edition of Faraday's famous paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism. By Michael Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. (1821)", recording one of the most influential discoveries in physics in the 19th Century, as Faraday here, as the very first, showed how to CONVERT THE ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC FORCES INTO CONTINUAL MECHANICAL MOVEMENT, thus creating the first electric motor, using the principle of electromagnetic rotation. In the first paper he introduced for the first time the concept of "LINE OF FORCE" and hereby deliniating "a picture of the universe as consisting of fields of various types, one that was more subtle, flexible, and useful than the purely mechanical picture of Galileo and Newton. The FIELD UNIVERSE was to be recognized with Maxwell half a century later and with Einstein, after an interval of another halfcentury."(Asimov)."Ever since Hans Christian oersted's announcement of the discovery of electromagnetism in the summer of 1820, editors of scientific journals had been inundated with articles on the phenomenon. Theories to explain it had multiplied, and the net effect was confusion. Were all the effects reported real ? Did the theories fit the facts ? It was to answer these questions that Phillips turned to Faraday and asked him to review the experiments and theories of the past months and separate truth from fiction,...Faraday agreed to to undertake a short historical survey...His entusiasm was aroused in September 1821, when he turned to the investigation of the peculiar nature of the magnetic force created by an electrical current. Oersted had spoken of the "electrical conflict" surrounding the wiree and had noted that "this conflict performs circles".....Yet as he experimented he saw precisely what was happening. Using a small magnetic needle to map the pattern of magnetic force, he noted that oneof the poles of the needle turned in a circle as it was carried around the wire. He immediately realized that a single magnetic pole would rotate unceasingly around a current-carrying wire so long as the current flowed. He then set about devising an instrument to illustrate this effect. His paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism" appeared in the 21 October 1821 issue of the "Quarterly Journal of Science" (The paper offered in the first French edition). It records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contained the first notion of the line of force."(DSB IV, pp. 533).

Nürnberg, ca. 1720. 49,5x58,5 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Oslofjorden med den danske og svenske flåde i søslag ved Svinesund og visende Karl XII' lejr ved Tistedalsfjorden. I samtidig fuld håndkolorereing. I højre side 2 rifter uden tab. Foldningen forstærket på bagsiden. Bred kobberstukken ramme og stor kartouche (kartouchen ukoloreret). Karl XII blev dræbt under belejringen, hvorpå den svenske hær straks trak sig tilbage. De svenske og norske landsdele vises her i dekorativ elevering.

[No place], 1936. 8vo. Extract, unbound, unstapled. Pp. 103-105. The uncommon first printing of Post's seminal paper, in which he, simultaneously with but independently of Turing, describes a logic automaton, which very much resembles the Turing machine. The Universal Turing Machine, which is presented for the first time in Turing's seminal paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society for 1936 (same year as the present paper), is considered one of the most important innovations in the theory of computation and constitutes the most famous theoretical paper in the history of computing. "Post [in the present paper] suggests a computation scheme by which a "worker" can solve all problems in symbolic logic by performing only machinelike "primitive acts". Remarkably, the instructions given to the "worker" in Post's paper and to a Universal Turing Machine were identical." (A Computer Perspective, p. 125). "The Polish-American mathematician Emil Post made notable contributions to the theory of recursive functions. In the 1930s, indepently of Turing, Post came up with the concept of a logic automaton similar to a Turing machine, which he described in the present paper [the paper offered]. Post's paper was intended to fill a conceptual gap in Alonzo Churchs' paper on "An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory" (Americ. Journ. of Math. 58, 1936). Church's paper had answered in the negative Hilbert's question as to whether a definite method existed for proving the truth or falsity of any mathematical statement (the Entscheidungsproblem), but failed to provide the assertion that any such definite method could be expressed as a formula in Church's lambda-calculus. Post proposed that a definite method would be written in the form of instructions to a mindless worker operating on an infinite line of "boxes" (equivalent to Turing's machine's "tape"). The worker would be capable only of reading the instructions and performing the following tasks... This range of tasks corresponds exactly to those performed by a Turing machine, and Church, who edited the "Journal of Symbolic Logic", felt it necessary to insert an editorial note referring to Turing's "shortly forthcoming" paper on computable numbers, and ascertaining that "the present article... although bearing a later date, was written entirely independently of Turing's" (p. 103)." (Origins of Cyberspace, pp. 111-12).Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, 2002: 355.Charles & Ray Eames, A Computer Perspective, 1973: 125.

Berlin, Mittler, 1889-1914. Bound in 15 contemp. half cloth bindings. Stamp on titles. With all maps and illustrations. Vol. II (Heft 7-12) + slipcase with 26 folded maps. - Vol. III (Heft 13-18) + slipcase with 21 folded maps. - Vol. IV (Heft 19-24) + slipcase with 21 folded maps. - Vol. V (Heft 25-30) + slipcase with 20 folded maps. - Vol. VI (Heft 31-36) + slipcase with 20 folded maps. - Vol. VII (Heft 37-42) + slipcase with 31 folded maps. - Vol. VIII (Heft 43-48) + slipcase with 33 folded maps. - Vol. IX (Heft 49-50) including 16 folded maps.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. Pp. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). Fine and clean. First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency."The original paper in the "Philosophical Transactions" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine." (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904).After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, "Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular compound, from a second compound, or from the air. The situation was different with nitrogen. The nitrogen he obtained from air constantly showed a slightly higher density than the nitrogen he obtained from any of various compounds. Rayleigh could think of several ways in which the nitrogen obtained from air might be contaminated but none of the possibilities checked out experimentally. He was so frustrated that he went so far as to write to the journal "Nature" asking for suggestions. Ramsay, a brilliant Scottish chemist, asked permission to tackle the problem and received it. The upshot was that a new gas, somewhat denser that nitrogen, was discovered to exist in the atmosphere. It was named argon and it was the first of a series of rare gases of unusual properties whose existence had never been suspected."(Asimow).Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 50 - Neville, Historical Chemical Library vol. II, p.358.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1846. - Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1881. 4to and 8vo. Cayley's paper in "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle, Bd. 31: Drittes Heft.1846". Pp. (179-)268,(2) and 1 plate. The whole issue (Drittes Heft) present with titlepage, stitched without wrappers. Cayley's paper pp. 213-226. - Veronese's paper in "Mathematische Annalen. In Verbindung mit C. Neumann...hrsg. von Felix Klein und Adolph Meyer. XIX. Band. 2 Heft. 1881." Pp. (161-)234. The whole issue (2. Heft) present with orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. Veronese's paper pp. (161-)234. Both papers first edition and first apperance in print of these two main papers in the history of projective geometry."Cayley, in his paper "Sur quelques théorèmes de la géométrie de position", (the paper offered) first calls attention to the figures obtained by taking the section, by a plane or 3-dimensional space, of the complete n-point (viz., n points, and the (n/2) lines, (n/3) plans etc. dtermined by them) in a flat spaceof v dimensions. Later Veronese discusses more fully the nature of this class of configurations thus obtained in r dimensions (the second paper offered). Both Cayley and Veronese state that these same configurations can also be obtained as projections of higher-dimensional figures." (Walter B. Carver). Veronese "in particular may be considered the main founder of the projective geometry of hyperspaces with n dimensions, which had previously been linear algebra presented geometrically, rather than geometry."(DSB). - An: Veronese-paper see Sommerville Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry, 1881:3.This issue of "Crelle's Journal" contains one more paper of Cayley: "Problème de géometrie analytique.", pp. 227-230.

Kiøbenhavn, Kanneworff, 1767. 8vo. In contemporay half calf. Wear to extremities, hinges a bit weak. Front free end-paper with previous owner's names and verso heavily annotated. Internally with marginal browning throughout. (2), 297, (6) pp. + 2 folded engraved plates and 1 folded table. Rare first edition of the first description of Fredericia. Biblioteca Danica II, 704.

Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1715. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with black lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. All edges coloured in red. A nice and clean copy. (24), 704, (46) pp. Rare first edition of this extensive work on ceremonial practices and etiquette observed at European courts during the Baroque period containing protocols, rituals, and customs that governed interactions and events within royal courts and diplomatic circles.

Jena und Leipzig, Chr. Ernst Gabler, 1799. Bound together in one cont. boards. Richly gilt back, gilt titlelabel. The marbled covers with a gilt frame. Back a little rubbed and with a few scratches. (2),84 pp. and (4),X,322 pp. A few brownspots. Both works first edition and both main works of Schelling to expose his "Naturphilosophie".

Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1886, 1897, 1905, 1917. Folio. Et hldrbd. i flammet kalv, rygforgyldning og forgyldt skindtitel. XIV,114 pp. samt 60 litograferede plancher (1039 afbildn.), (4),67 pp. samt 51 plancher i zinkætsning (1160 afbildn.), XXVIII,140 pp. samt 140 plancher i forotypi (talrige afbildn.), XVII,20 pp. samt 21 plancher (mange afbildn.) i fototypi. Dwe sidste plancher lidt løse. Indvendig ren og velbevaret.

Hmbg., Hoffmann and Campe, 1834-40. Bound in 4 cont.full green cloth. Richly gilt backs. Somewhat brownspotted, esp.vol.1. First edition.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810 a. 1811). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 231-257 and 1811 - Part I. Pp. 1-35. Both papers clean and fine. First appearance of these importent papers in the history of chemistry in which Davy announces his proofs of the elementary nature of clorine, describing the preparation, physical and chemical properties of a new gas, which he called 'euchlorine'. It is unstable and explodes on heating to give chlorine and oxygen. Davy here suggested the name 'chlorine', from a greek work for green, because of the greenish colour of the gas.Thorpe said of this first paper "As a piece of induction, the memoir is a model of its kind, and as an exercise in "the scientific use of ofthe imagination" it has few equals."Davy's researches on chlorine are of an importence comparable with those on the alkali metals. Chlorine, first discovered by Scheele, was regarded by him as a *dephlogisticated muriatic acid". As phlogiston was practically synonymous with with hydrogen to Scheele, this view was essentialy correct. Lavoisier, however, chiefly occupied with phenomena of combustion, assumed that chlorien was an oxide of an unknown "radical". Davy performed many experiments endeavouring to confirm the presence of oxygen and finally concluded that chlorine was an element."(A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900, p. 244).

Wittemberg, Mevius, 1654. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Upper outer corner of front board with loss of vellum, showing the wooden boards underneath. Internally very nice and clean. (22), 692, (70) pp. + frontispiece. The rare first edition of Quenstedt’s rather ambitious attempt to account for all theologians throughout the history of the world. We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade. A second edition was published in 1691. “Johannes Andreas Quenstedt was the Thomas Aquinas, so to speak, of Lutheran Orthodoxy, the last great representative. To anyone following his arrangement of material and noting his exegesis it will become evident that he was fair and meticulous in his work and drew from the best which his precursors had to offer. Preus, Robert D. (1961) “The Vicarious Atonement in John Quenstedt,”, Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 32, Article 8, 78-97, 79.) “One might say that Quenstedt's [Opus] killed systematic theology in the period of Lutheran orthodoxy as Michaelangelo killed Renaissance art by the unexcelled quality of his work. Quenstedt's lifework is so big, so complete, so concise and systematic, and so excellent that no later Lutheran ever came close to equalling it." (Robert Preus in "The Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism," Volume I, p. 62.)

Kiøbenhavn, Thiele, 1787. Velbevaret samtidigt hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning. Ryg med 5 ophøjede bind. En påklistret papirsetiket nederst på ryggen. Øverste kapitæl lidt slidt. Stempel på titelbladet. XVI, 434 pp. samt 6 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Indvendig ren og frisk, trykt på blåligt skrivepapir. Originaludgaven. Et af de mest eftertragtede værker i dansk provinstopografi.

Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 55, No 12 a. 21. Pp. 481--519 a. pp. 781-803. (Entire issues offered). With title-page to vol. 55. Foucault's papers: pp. 501-503 a. pp. 792-796. Clean and fine. First printing of Foucault's famous experiments on the velocity of light with the description of his improved equipment, the rotating mirror. Foucault's method was later developed by Michelson and Morley in their famous experiment in 1887."Foucault’s first experiment, carried out in 1850 and written up in full in his doctoral thesis of 1853, was purely comparative; he announced no numerical values until 1862. Then, with an improved apparatus, he was able to measure precisely the velocity of light in air. This result, significantly smaller than Fizeau’s of 1849, changed the accepted value of solar parallax and vindicated the higher value which Le Verrier had calculated from astronomical data. Foucault’s turning-mirror apparatus was the basis for the later determinations of the velocity of light by A. A. Michelson and Simon Newcomb."(DSB).Leon Foucault, used a similar method to Fizeau. He shone a light to a rotating mirror, then it bounced back to a remote fixed mirror and then back to the first rotating mirror. But because the first mirror was rotating, the light from the rotating mirror finally bounced back at an angle slightly different from the angle it initially hit the mirror with. By measuring this angle, it was possible to measure the speed of the light. Foucault continually increased the accuracy of this method over the years. His final measurement in 1862 determined that light traveled at 299,796 Km/s. Magee "A Source Book in Physics", p. 342 ff. and "Source Book in Astronomy", p. 282 ff.

Kjøbenhavn, C. Steens Forlag, 1827. 8vo. Indbundet aldeles ubeskåret i smukt nyere marmoreret papbd. med skindtitel på ryg (Psilander & Berg). (12),(80) pp.= tekstblad til hver planche samt 40 pragtfulde håndkolorerede kobberstukne plancher. Tekst på skrivepapir, tekst såvel som plancher ubeskåret. Originaludgaven af Hegers giftbog, hvor plancherne for størstedelen er fremstillet efter "Flora Danica" og Palmstruchs "Svensk Botanik". Teksten er hovedsageligt forfattet efter Hornemanns "Forsøg til en dansk oekonomisk Plantelære". Et sjældent rent og frisk eksemplar. - Bibl. Danica I:826.

Paris, Corréard, 1838. Folio. (53 x 41 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt titlelabel on upper cover. Spine rubbed. Stamp on title-page. 2 leaves (Title-page, Table des Planches). With 5 lithographed maps/plans (2 large double-page maps, 2 plans (1 double-page), 1 view). Plates fine and clean.

Berlin, Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1793. Unbound, but stitched. (2),XXVI,469 pp., 8 engraved plates, one folded. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition of "Travels through North and South Carolina, georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the xtensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy....Containing an Acoount of the Soil and Natural Productions of those Regions, together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians". (Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, aus dem fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Bd. 10). Also having the series titlepage. - Sabin: 3872.(Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions - It is written in the Spirit of the old Travellers (Coleridge)).

K., 1846. Samt. hldrbd. m. rygforgyldn. Øvre fals restaureret. Skjold i øvre højre hjørne. X+480+(4)pp. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 90. "Jakob Knudsen" på smudstitilbl.

Weltevreden, 1923. 4to.. Orig paintes boards. 5,VIII,446 pp. Frontp., 34 plts, 17 double-page plts and 37 fine chromlithogr. plts, map, 3 tables. The standard work on Javanese theatre.

London, William Berry, (1689). 56x87 cm. Large engraved map of Denmark in original outline colouring. Perhaps the largest engraved map of Denmark from the 17th century. Berry is sometimes called the English Sanson as he copied Sanson's maps and his followers Jaillot, Seller and Senex. This scarce map is a copy of Jaillot's map from 1674 in spite of the printed information "Described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry." The large map shows "Schonen, Blecking, Halland, Dukedom of Sleswick and the Diocess of Holstein." Bramsen p. 11 (kartoushen) and p. 120.

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).