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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.

Nürnberg, Christoph Weigel, 1759. Small 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. (8),48,(4),58,26,(2) pp., 183 engraved plates. Clean and fine. First German edition.

München und Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1918. Lex 8vo. Original dark grey-brown paper binding, printed in gold on front wrapper and spine. A tear across spine, crudely repaired with tape, also to front hinge. Apart from the spine, a fine and fresh copy. Old owner's name to title-page. 445 pp. The rare first edition of Bloch's first major work, "The Spirit of Utopia", an expressionalist main work, which attempts to unite Marxism with Jewish-Christian messianism.The hugely influential German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was born as the son of Jewish parents in Ludwigshafen. He studied philosophy, physics, German and music in Munich and Würzburg and later became a main figure in Neomarxism. His first book, "Geist der Utopie" was written while Bloch was in exile in Switzerland during the First World War, and in this seminal work we find the cornerstones of his later so influential philosophy. In the "Spirit of Utopia", Bloch unites Marxism Jewish-Christian messianism by the common utopian element of both views: Hope, and faith in the fact that the world will and can become a better place. Bloch here set out to defend the attempts of humankind throughout history to create a humane world order, against the determinist socialism that viewed socialism as the inevitable result of history. With Marx and with the love and morality of religion, Bloch places man (that thinks of the common good) at the centre of his thinking as well as the metaphysical ideas of that which is not yet, but which can become. And thus he creates the spirit of utopia, due to which man can make the world a better place. This massive work of art begins with the powerful words: "What now? It is enough. Now we have to begin. Life has been put in our hands. In itself it has already become empty long ago. It staggers senselessly around, but we stand firm, and thus we want to be its Faustus and its ends." ("Wie nun? Es ist genug. Nun haben wir zu beginnen. In unsere Hände ist das Leben gegeben. Für sich selber ist es längst schon leer geworden. Es taumelt sinnlos hin und her, aber wir stehen fest, und so wollen wir ihm seine Faust und seine Ziele werden.") (P.9).The work was viewed as attacking the traditional Marxism of the time, and thus it was very controversial but also became hugely influential in the development of social liberation. Bloch is now considered one of the most undogmatic Marxists of the past century, and he influenced later political and philosophical thinkers enormously. Adorno himself cited this text of Bloch as having been transformative for his intellectual life, and as stated on the wrapper of the English translation, "When this work was first published, it had a profound effect on major thinkers and artists in Weimar Germany. A poetical philosophical treatise with unusual insights into culture and political commentary, Bloch' s book laid the groundwork for thinkers like Adorno and Benjamin." (Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota).This rare highly expressionist work consists of 445 pages of non-dogmatic strongly expressionistic and very influential recipes on and analyses of how man does and should behave in the humane world. "But in return, we paint like savages again, in the best sense, in the sense of the primordial, the restless, unconcerned, concerned. For this is more or less how the dancing-mask was carved. This is more or less how primitive man shaped his fetishes, if only the simple need to express oneself should again be the same" ("Aber dafür malen wir auch wieder wie die Wilden, im besten Sinn des Frühen, Unruhigen und Barbarischen genommen. So ungefähr wurde auch die Tanzmaske geschnitzt, so ungefähr baute sich der primitive Mensch seinen Fetisch zurecht, sollte auch nichts als die Not des Aussprechenmüssens wieder dieselbe geworden sein."). (P. 19).The work was much re-written, and the first editions differs from all later editions.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, Klaffschenckels Wittib, 1752. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Titlelabel with lettering. Spine richly stamped in blind. Light wear to top of spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Monogram of King Frederik V tooled in blind on red leather on both covers. Stamp on title-page. Title-page in red a. black. Engraved frontispiece. (16),147,(1-errata) pp. and 40 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1775-77. Indbundet i 9 samtidige helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Titel-og tomefelter forgyldte. Enkelte kapitæler med ganske let slid. Stempel på titelblade. Uden åbningsportrættet i første bind. Originaludgaven. Sneedorff var en helt central skikkelse i udbredningen af oplysningstidens idealer i Danmark og Norge: "Sneedorffs oplysningsforhavende er primært formidlende, samfundsopbyggende og ikke af den kritiske, autoritetsanfægtende slags. Det kritiske ytre sig hos ham i det moralsk-opdragende blik på menneskers adfærd i samfundet og de almene menneskelige brist såsom standshovmod, pyntesyge, forfængelighed, hykleri, fordomsfuldhed." (Dansk Litteraturs Historie, Gyldendal, 2007, p. 479).

4to. Bound in 2 fine cont. full calf, 5 raised bands, richly gilt compartments, titlelabels in red and green. Gilt borders on covers. Slight wear to top of spine on vol.II. Leather along fronthinhes cracking, but not loose. Engraved frontispiece. (58),730,(1)-(2),553 pp. + Indexes (Rerum et Verborum). Printed on good paper. Clean. Brunet IV:757. "Collection estimée à cause des notes savantes qu'elle renfermé.."

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1907. Contemp. hcloth. Light wear to top of spine. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 22", Engraved portrait of Pierre Curie. VIII,1016 pp. and 4 plates. Einstein papers. pp. 180-190, pp. 569-572 and p.800. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. All papers in first edition. "From 1905 through 1909 Einstein published five major papers on the hypothesis of energy quanta, its theoretical implications, and its use in the explanation of various phenomena. Among these papers we have his importent paper "Die Plancksche..." and in his second paper from 1906d he asserted that Planck's derivation implicitly assumes quantification of the enrgies of charged oscillators. Now (in the paper offered) he returned to this question, showing that, if the structure function in phase space he had introduced earlier is assumed to restrict the oscillators to orbits with energies that are integral mulætiples of 'hv', then the average oscillator energy in a canonical ensemble yealds Planck's law, when substituted in eg. The works contains the first systematic introduction of probability factors in the mathematics of Quantum Theory.The second paper represents Einstein's third stage in dealing with brownian motion. He had previous explained the zigzag motion of suspended particles and looked as this penomenon from a more general angle. In the present investigation he extends his reults to all macroscopic parameters by giving a general principle for the calculation of theit fluctuations. Weil: nos 15 (1-2 with an asterix) a. 16.

(No place), Speyer, 1785. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) marbled paper covered boards. Paper title-label to spine. Light wear to extremities and previous owner's name to title-page, otherwise a nice and clean copy. VIII, 196, (2) pp. + coloured folded map. Sabin calls for 272 pp. This present copy appears to be complete and corresponds to OCLC Accession No: 5814488 & 833586056. Second edition, possibly a variant - not recorded by any of the major bibliographies - of the first German work on the American revolution. Sprengel was interested in the American Revolution and also made a translation of the Declaration of Independence. (Sabin 89758)

Kbhvn., 1619-1739. 4to. Et hldrbd. fra omkring 1750, ryg slidt. Ialt ca. 500 pp. Af Ole Worm kan fremhæves: Laurea I Philosophica. Summa. Waldkirch, 1619 og "Jubileum Evangelium...Salomon Sartor, 1619".

(Ca. 1900-1905). 8,6 x 5,7 cm. Monteret på hvidt pap (pappet måler 10,6 x 6,6 cm). I fotografiet står for neden i hvid ramme: "Minister Fridthjof Nansen". Fotografiet forestiller Nansen i trekvart-profil, med ansigtet drejet til venstre. Et nydeligt og ydererst interessant fotografi af den norske polarhelt, Fridthjof Nansen.Den verdensberømte polarfarer, opdagelsesmand, politiker og videnskabsmand, Fridthjof Nansen, som i 1922 fik Nobels Fredspris for sin store internationale indsats for at hjælpe flygtninge efter Første Verdenskrig, førte et rigt politisk liv. Grundet sine store popularitet i hjemlandet, Norge, spillede han i starten af det 20. Århundrede en vigtig rolle som politisk meningsdanner, og han blev sendt til London og Berlin som uofficiel diplomat. Oprindelig var Nansen republikaner, men han ændrede standpunkt, og blev en varm fortaler for et monarki med den danske Prins Karl som norsk konge, og han bidrog aktivt til at overtale denne til at takke ja til tilduddet.I 1906 blev han udnævnt til Norges første ambassadør i London og spillede også her en vigtig rolle i norsk politik. Med ønsker om at modarbejde arbejderpartiets stadige vækst, blev Nansen lanceret som statsministerkandidat, og det må være fra denne periode, dette fotografi stammer. Han skulle stå i spidsen for en bred borgerlig samlingsregering, men dette blev aldrig en realitet, og Nansen blev aldrig minister!A very nice and interesting photograpf of Nansen, the author of "Farthest North" (PMM 384), at the age about 40-45. At the bottom of the photograph, as part of it, is printed, black on white, "Minister Fridthjof Nansen", which he never became...Original photographs of Nansen are rare.

(London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1873). Royal8vo. In contemporary cloth. In "Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", Vol. 8, July 1873 - October 1873. Extremities with wear and end papers brownspottet. Internally fine and clean. C. R. Darwin's papers: P. 244; Pp. 431-432. G. H. Darwin's paper: p. 505 . [Entire volume: Pp. 237-562]. First appearance of these three papes, two by Charles Darwin and one by his son. Freeman 1761, 1762 & 1763

Paris, No Printer, AN IX. - 1800. 4to. Near contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),103,500 pp., 6 folded tables and 2 folded engraved plans. Internally clean.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. The entire issue (vol. 81, nr. 14) of Comptes Rendus present. Unbound, and without wrappers. Very light brownspotting. Pp. 571-574. [Entire issue: pp. (545)- 604]. First printing of the paper in which Mouchot presents his seminal solar generator. Auguste Mouchot was a French mathematics teacher, who in the 1860'ies became famous as the designer (and patent-taker) of the first machine that generated electricity with solar thermal energy electricity by the exposure of the sun. Mouchot began his work with solar energy in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. His work on solar energy and on the development of his sun machine forms the basis for the later developments on solar energy. "The work of Adams, Ericsson, and Shuman had been directly influenced by the solar conceptions of Augustin Mouchot, a man who arrived on the scene in nineteenth century France at precisely that moment when his ideas were likely to attract the most attention. It was a time when French industrial might was at a peak and her leaders open to new ideas, none more so than her emperor. In 1867, to commemorate the explosion of technology that had accompanied the industrial and artistic carnival over which he had presided for 15 years, France's Napoleon III decided to invite the whole world to an international exposition that he would host in Paris." (Kryza, The Power of Light, p. 147). "His initial experiments involved a glass-enclosed, water-filled iron cauldron, in which sunlight passed through a glass cover, heating the water. This simple arrangement boiled water, but it also produced small quantities of steam. Mouchot added a reflector to concentrate additional radiation onto the cauldron, thus increasing the steam output. He succeeded in using his apparatus to operate a small, conventional steam engine. Impressed by Mouchot's device, Emperor Napoleon III offered financial assistance, which Mouchot used to produce refinements to the energy system. Mouchot's work help lay the foundation for our current understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The publication of his book on solar energy, "La Chaleur solaire et ses Applications industrielles" (1869), coincided with the unveiling of the largest solar steam engine he had yet built. This engine was displayed in Paris until the city fell under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was not found after the siege ended.In September 1872, Mouchout received financial assistance from the General Council of Indre-et-Loire to install an experimental solar generator at the Tours library. He presented a paper on the generator to the Academy of Sciences on 4 October 1875, and in December of the same year he presented to the Academy a device he claimed would, in optimal sunshine, provide a steam flow of 140 liters per minute. (The Energy Library).Mouchot is the first author to write explicitly about solar energy and how to convert solar radiation into usable energy, thus laying the foundation for what we now call "green energy".

Paris, 1860. 4to. 4 papers laid loose in a marbled cover, from "Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences" vol. 50: pp. 303-307 and pp. 849-854 - vol. 51: pp. 348-352 and 675-678. Uncut, light marginal browning and a few brownspots. First edition. These 4 papers mark the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, and all of Pasteur's later work in this field can be seen as an extension, elaboration, and defence of the principles and methods set forth here, and it is from these conclusions all modern bacteriology and immunology have developed. Pasteur was awarded the Zecker Price 1861 for these discoveries. - Printing and the Mind of Man No, 336 (b) - Garrison & Morton No. 2474.

Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1846. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary half calf with black and red title labels to spine with gilt lettering. In "The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal", Vol. I [1], (Being Vol. V [5], of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal), 1846. Bookplate pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library code written in hand to lower part of spine. Library cards in the back. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 75-96. [Entire volume: IV, 288, VIII pp.]. First English translation (and first translation in general) with 'considerable additions' (as stated on p. 75) of Thomson's highly influential paper in which he for the very first time occupies himself with - and anticipates the invention of - the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. "When resident in Paris he published in Lionville's Journal a paper [first publication of the present], in which he examined the experiments and deductions of Sir. W. Snow-Harris. This investigator had made an experimental examination of the fundamental laws of Coulomb. Thomson showed by pointing out the defects of Harris' electrometer that the results, instead of disproving these laws, actually confirmed them, so far as they went, from this examination dates Thomson's interest in electrometers, which led to the invention of the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. " (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, P. 57)."Thomson's extensive contact with Liouville led him to think more deeply about electrical theory. Liouville had heard of Faraday's work in electrostatics, or at least of the aspects in which Faraday claimed to have found that electrical induction occurs in "curved lines." The conception seemed to conflict with the action-at-a-distance approach, and Liouville asked Thomson to write a paper clarifying the differences between Faraday on the one hand and Coulomb and Poisson on the other. This request prompted Thomson to bring together ideas he had been turning over in his mind during the previous three years.From Thomson's new point of view, both the French approach to electrical theory and that of Faraday should consist only of sets of mathematical propositions about the "distribution of electricity" on conducting bodies. Of Coulomb, who had never written like Poisson of the "thickness" of the electrical layer, Thomson said that he had "expressed his theory in such a manner that it can only be attacked in the way of proving his experimental results to be inaccurate." He did not, therefore, believe that Coulomb's approach would stand or fall with the fate of the electrical fluid.Of course, it may be wondered how Thomson could have employed the phrase "distribution of electricity" without believing that some hypothetical entity is implicated. He did not think so, however. Instead, by 1845 he was drawing a distinction between a "physical hypothesis" and an elementary mathematical law." By a physical hypothesis he meant an assumption concerning the physical existence of an unobservable entity like the electrical fluid or Faraday's contiguous dielectric particles. By an elementary mathematical law he meant a statement that can be directly applied in experiments because its referents are phenomenal entities and mathematical propositions about them. For example, when it is a question of the "distribution of electricity" a phrase that might appear in an "elementary mathematical law," the actual subject concerns the effects produced when a proof-plane is applied to a point of an electrified conductor. The measure of those effects is the twist given to the torsion-bearing thread of an electrometer. Coulomb's laws, therefore, and also those aspects of Poisson's mathematical development of them that do not depend upon the conception of electricity as a physical fluid, were thus actually concise, mathematical laws applicable to the results of such experiments. They were not hypotheses concerning the nature of electricity." (DSB)

Avignon, Delaire, 1759 8vo, contemp. full mottled calf with five raised bands to richly guid spine; A very nice, clean, and fresh copy. Blindstamped initials (RL) to front board. XLVI, 209 pp. First edition of this rare work of the Enlightenment.Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli ( 1719 - 1803) was a French writer, poet, historian, and biographer long time considered an "enemy of Philosophy" because of his extensive apologetic production. In his "L'Univers Enigmatique" he illuminates the mysteries of Christian faith and tries to build the foundation of modern Christianity in accordance with the Enlightenment. He was a strong opponent to deism, which is reflected in his attempt to combine Christianity with the spirit of the Enlightenment.

London, George Virtue, 1836. 4to. 2 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. All edges gilt. Ocassinal some light foxing, mainly to margins, esp. to the 2 engraved titles. IV,(2),188,(4),152 pp., 2 engraved titles, 106 steel-engraved plates and 1 fold. engr. map (all). First edition.

Paris, Chez l'éditeur, 3, Rue Coq-Héron, (Presses mécon de Boulé et Cie), 1838. 8vo. One cont. (or a bit later) brown hcloth w. gilt title on back. Some brownspotting. On fine, white paper. W. both half-titles and advertisements. First edition of one of Balzac's major novels. Not common. Carteret I:73.

2 cont. hcalf. Spines a little rubbed. Gilt spines with titlelabels. Top of spine on vol. 1 with a few small tears. Very slightly brownspotted. (20),756,(20),556 pp. and 3 large fold. tables and 17 folded engraved plates (plates 1-7 loose inlaid in vol 1). Complete. Scarce German translation of B's main work. B. invented a pelvimeter and advanced the knowledge of pelvimetry and of the mechanism of labour. The external conjugate diameter is known as "Baudelocque's diameter" (Garrison & Morton No 6255).

Götheborg, Charles Backman, 1834 & 1835. Ubeskåret i lidt senere hshirtbd. Stempler på titelbladet. (12),492 pp. Bogen er gennemstukket med ca. 230 blade af skrivepapir hvorpå der næsten hele vejen igennem er tilført samtidige udførlige notater vedrørende de enkelte fyr, diverse kendetegn m.v., tilføjelser til sejladsruter, belliggenheder af fyr og kendetegn m.v. og adskilige steder med tegninger af fyr, bøjer m.v. Tilføjelserne er i mindst 3 forskellige håndskrifter.

Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1838. Lille 8vo. Pænt samtidigt halvlæderbind med enkelte, diskrete stregforgyldninger på ryg. False slidte, ellers ren og frisk. X + 79pp. Small 8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with discreet gilt lines to spine. Hinges with wear, but fine and tight. A large and unusually clean copy. X + 79pp. Originaludgaven af Kierkegaards debut, -værket i hvilket han skarpt kritiserer H.C. Andersen, og i hvilket inspirationen fra Poul Martin Møller (til hvem han dedikerede værket "Begrebet Angest" - den eneste uden for familien, der er blevet beæret med en trykt dedikation af Kierkegaard) formenlig er tydeligst at spore. Den specielle titel kan med en vis rimelighed siges at hentyde til en villet videreførelse af den beundrede og på tidspunktet for udgivelsen netop afdøde Poul Martin Møllers nærmest upublicerede produktion. Den "endnu Levende" skulle således være "Danmarks Gæde i Glæden over Danmark", "Mindet i den danske Sommer", Poul Martin Møller, den mand, der ved sin person har inspireret Kierkegaard mere end nogen anden. Himmelstrup 6.First edition of Kierkegaard's first work; -the work in which he sharply critisizes Hans Christian Andersen and ridicules the genre of fairy tales in general.

Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1890. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint of "Nord. med. arkiv, 1890. band XXII, n:r 2". An extraordinarily fresh and clean copy, near mint. (2), 102, (1) pp + 1 plate. Scarce offprint issue of Gullstrand's doctoral thesis on the astigmatism, a visual defect that leads to blurred vision. This is Gullstrand's first published work on optics (geometric and physiological) and even though self-taught he made many new discoveries on the physiological aspects of the eyes which eventually in 1910 made him a Nobel Laureate in Medicine: "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye"""Allvar Gullstrand's greatest achievements lie in the field of ophthalmological optics, the study of the human eye as an optical system. This study engendered his interest in geometrical optics. He then drew the attention of the optical designers to several misconceptions and so made important contributions to this field as well.Gullstrand started his work in ophthalmology with a paper on the astigmatism of the cornea. He became interested in the accommodation mechanism of the human eye and in an exact theory discussed the influence which the layers of the crystalline lens play. This was a difficult mathematical problem which had not been attacked in detail before. It led to the conception of a new and more accurate model of the human eye, a big step beyond Helmholtz. This is described in Gullstrand's masterly commentaries on the occasion of his reediting Helmholtz' Handbook of Physiological Optics. These commentaries contain by far the clearest and best description of all of Gullstrand's ideas on geometrical and physiological optics.Gullstrand represents a scientist of very rigorous standards, and as such, he was highly respected by his peers for his intelligence and integrity. His advice was widely sought, even outside his special sphere of interest; among other honors, he was a member and late president of the Nobel Prize committee." (DSB)

Paris, Courcier, 1805. 4to. Contemp. Full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page.Corners a bit bumped. Spine slightly rubbed. XXIV,318,( 4 Errata) pp., 16 Tables and 10 large folded engraved plates (apparatus). Wide-margined and clean. First edition. Pouissant is best remembered for his invention of a new map projection for a new map of France, and he was involved in the production of the map. The map was produced with considerable detail, the projection used spherical trigonometry, truncated power series and differential geometry as described here.

Paris, P. Chevalier, 1613. Folio. Cont. hvellum made of an antiphonar-leaf. Front cover with reminiscents of antiphonar-leaf, back cover blank. Titlepage with large engraved portrait-vignette. (48),974,(46),284,98,(22),16,(1) pp. Bookplate of Abrahem Francke 1710. A few underlinings and marginal notes. Faint yellowing to leaves.

Paris, Durand, 1775. 4to. Bound in 2 fine cont. full mottled calf, 5 raised bands, richly gilt backs, tome-and titlelabels in different colours. Engraved Frontisp., IV,(4),916-(8),918,(2) pp. Printed on good paper, clean with only a few brownspots. With many wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 36 engraved plates. Liger started this great work in 1700 under the title "d'Oeconomie Générale de la Campagne ou Nouvelle Maison rustique" and it ran through 12 editions up to 1790, the later editions (as this) much enlarged.