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(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.

London, J.C. for Thomas Dring, 1675. Folio. Cont. full calf. Binding rubbed and covers detached from spine. Some light foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining. Engraved title (and printed). (32),324,(4) pp. and some woodcut-illustr. in the text. Internally a little crisp.

Heidelberg, Carl Winther, 1911. Lex8vo. Cont. hcloth. Paperlabel taped on lower part of back. Stamps on title (Metallbank). XVII,274,(2) pp. and Atlas with 43 plates, mostly coloured and some with "Däckblätter". Internally fine. First edition.

Weimar, B. Fr. Voigt, 1842. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower par tof spine. Stamps on titlepage. XXIV,343,(1) pp. and 16 lithographed plates showing the processes of making barrels and the other parts of a gun. Titlepage and the first few leaves brownspotted, esp. title, otherwise fine with only a few scattered brownspots. Very scarce second German edition. - Sotheran , Second Supplement: 21443 (the English sec. ed.).

Paris, Ballard Fils (Vol. I), Paris, De Prault (Vol.3-4), 1749-67. Large 8vo. Bound in 4 fine full mottled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Top of spine to vol. one with wear. Volume one slightly different in binding. Stamps on titlepages. (4),IV (bound at end),472;VI,563,XXXII,(3);XX,396;VIII,442 pp. and 92 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. Camus main work. He joined Maupertouis, Clairaut and Lemonnier on the scientific expedition to Lapland in 1736, to determine the shape of the earth. "In 1730 he was named to the Academy of Architecture and became its secretary shortly thereafter. There he gave public lessons to aspiring architects as the Academy's professor of Geometry. These lessons later served as the basis of a "Course de mathematique"....In 1755, when Camus was also named the examiner for artillery schools, this "Course" became the standard work for artillery students." (Seymor Shapin in DSB).

Franckfurt und Leipzig, Ernst Ludwig Niedtens, 1723. 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Corners bumped and with light wear, wear to spine ends and spine a little worn. Fronthinge cracking, but still holding Titlelabel with gilt lettering.. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red/black. (14),496,(32) pp. A little browning to first ab. 10 leaves. Scarce second, much enlarged, edition. After several years of medical practice Hellwig became town physician at Tennstädt, Thüringia. He wrote many books on medicine, pharmaceutical chemistry, and related subjects. He died 1712, and some of his works were issued under the pseudonym Valentin Kräutermann. - Wellcome III:240 (only listing an imcomplete 3rd edition) - Not in Duveen and not in Ferguson.

London, R. Mount, 1703. Small 4to. Contemp. full calf. Blindtooled lineborders on covers. No title to spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved portrait. Engraved title-page and printed. (14),146 pp., 9 engraved plates (5 large folding). Textfigures. 3 corners repaired, no loss. The first quires with browning. Engraved portrait and title browned. Scattered brownspots.

Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1809. Contemp. marbled boards. (4),155 pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper. From the library of "Freiherrl. von Romberg'sche Bibliothek" (stamped on title-page). Scarce first edition of Steffen's main work on the organization of the Universities.

Kjøbenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1855. Indbundet i et samtidigt hshirtbd. Hjørner lidt stødte og slid ved kapitæler. Øieblikket: 20, 31, 16, 23, 32, 26, 77, 30, 22 pp. Få spredte brunpletter.Hvad Christus dømmer... 14 pp. Mindre skjold i nogle marginer. - Dette skal siges... 12 pp. Lille svag skjold i ydre margin. - Guds Uforanderlighed... 22 pp. Alle 4 i originaludgave. Øieblikket har alle 9 numre i 1. oplag, hvilket er sjældent. Himmelstrup 180, 199, 177, 200.The first editions of all 4 works. Øieblikket with all nine numbers in first issue, which is very rare.

Erlangen, Johann Jacob Palm, 1803. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. X,518 pp. and 9 large folded engraved plates. Printed on good paper. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition of this classic study of mathematical and geometrical optics, outlining the theories of light, dioptrics, measurements, the theory of reflexion etc. etc. A second part (volume) was published 1805. - Poggendorff I, 1372.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799. 4to. Bound to style in a fine later hcalf. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtoolings to bands and compartments of spine. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. XXVIII,(2),372,XCII pp., 2 engraved plates with music, 5 engraved plates (of which 3 are views) and 3 large folded engraved maps. One map strenghtened in foldings and edges, one map with a closed tear to folding. Wide-margined, a few margins slightly brownspotted. Light offsetting to title and portrait. Second edition - the same year as the first - of this classic work of travel litterature."Until the publicationof Park's book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and coastal areas....the real opening up of Africa by the white races began with the African Association, founded in 1788 with the express purpose of exploring Africa and furthering British tradee and political influence onthe continent...Parl's travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages...ita scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the negroes , have remained of lasting value. Park's career was short, but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa." (Printing and the Mind of Man: 253.).

Berlin, Friedländer & Sohn, 1910-38. Small 4to. 4 orig. hcalf., gilt spines. Spine on vol. 1 very slightly rubbed. XLIX,2328,,602 pp. + Nachtrag I (1923) in orig. wrappers. 16 pp. Textillustrations.Bookplate of Lorenz Ferdinand. First edition, the original printing.The work is a thorough monograph of the birds of the palaearctic Region, indispensable to the ornithological study of that portion of the world. - Zimmer p. 286.

Leipzig & Coburg, Pauli Güntheri Pfotenhaueri, 1707. Bound to style in a fine later full calf., raised bands, gilt compartments and titlelabel. 69 pp., 19 full-page engraved illustrations and 2 half-page. 2 nicks to the right part of titlepage neathly repaired, no loss of text. Fifth edition of Sturm's excellent illustrated work on the different branches of pure and applied mathematics, such as geometry, arithmetics, algebra, trigonometry, optics, statics, mechanics etc.

Haarlem, Amsterdam, 1767. Cont.hcalf. Extremities with traces of use. A small hole in back on titlelabel. XXXIV,356,282,382,(2) pp. and 14 fine fold. engraved plates (amonfg these 2 maps). Complete. - First Dutch edition. - Sabin 17415.

Stockholm, Lars Salvius, (1746). Hldrbd. fra omkr. 1820 (Bunden hos E. Thegerström, Stockholm). Ryg med lettere brugsspor og rygforgyldningen lidt slidt. (20),271,(12) pp. Indvendig rent, frisk eksemplar. Originaludgaven. First edition.

Leipzig, Kummer, 1807. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt lineborders on covers. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. XXIV,270 pp., 22 folded engraved plates. A few faint scattered brownspots. A fine copy. First german edition. - Chris Philip, R070.1

Zürich u. Bern, Tübingen, 1803. Orig. boards. Covers detached from spine. Printed title-label on frontboards. XVI,164 pp. Some browning to leaves, the last ab. 25 lvs. dampstained in inner left corners and a little in right corners. - First edition of one of the few published works by the great Swiss educational reformer. His name appears only on the htitle: "Pestalozzi's Elementar=Bucher".

Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1884. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Top of spine worn and taped., a paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title. XIV,281 pp., many illustrations in the text and 16 tinted litographed plates, 1 folded map. Internally fine and clean. 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.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. Cont. hcalf. Neathly rebacked preserving original gilt titlelabel. Endpapers renewed. XLIII (content-leaves bound at end),472 pp., 8 engraved plates (2 of these are large folded maps). Plates with some brownspots causing a little offsetting to nearby leaves. First edition.

Paris, Briasson, 1738-40. Small 8vo. 12 very nice cont. uniform full mottled calf. 5 raised bands on backs, backs richly gilt. Some capitals and hinges w. traces of use. Woodcut vignettes on title-pages. Vol. 1 lacking 8 leaves (pp. 169-92), blank leaves inserted. A very nice and clean set. Barbier IV:167. First edition.

Schleswig, 1796. Cont.hcalf. XVI,398 pp. a. 6 fold. Tables + Verzeichn.d.Subscribenten(8) pp. A wormhole in lower margin of Verz.d.Subscr.,otherwise fine.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik", band 74, 1924, entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of title-page and hindges loose, otherwise fine. [Heisenberg's paper:] Pp. 577-627. [Entire volume:] VII, (1), 760 pp. + 3 plates. First appearance of Heisenberg's doctoral dissertation on the stability and turbulence of fluid flow, which "involved an approximate solution of the complicated equations governing the onset of hydrodynamic turbulence"(David C. Cassidy). It is widely regarded as being "the most important early paper devoted to this subject". (Yaglom, Hydrodynamics Instability and Transition to Turbulence).Despite Sommerfeld's positive evaluation of Heisenberg's thesis "In the handling of the present problem, Heisenberg shows once again his extraordinary abilities: complete command of the mathematical apparatus and daring physical insight" (Arnold Sommerfeld, evaluation of the thesis, 1923.), the oral presentation did not go as Heisenberg could have hoped for:"Acceptance of the dissertation brought admission of the candidate to the final orals, where in this case trouble began. The examining committee consisted of Sommerfeld and Wien, along with representatives in Heisenberg's two minor subjects, mathematics and astronomy. Much was at stake, for the only grades a candidate received were those based on the dissertation and final oral: one grade for each subject and one for overall performance. The grades ranged from I (equivalent to an A) to V (an F).As the 21-year-old Heisenberg appeared before the four professors on July 23, 1923, he easily handled Sommerfeld's questions and those in mathematics, but he began to stumble on astronomy and fell flat on his face on experimental physics. In his laboratory work Heisenberg had to use a Fabry-Perot interferometer, a device for observing the interference of light waves, on which Wien had lectured extensively. But Heisenberg had no idea how to derive the resolving power of the interferometer nor, to Wien's surprise, could he derive the resolving power of such common instruments as the telescope and the microscope. When an angry Wien asked how a storage battery works, the candidate was still lost. Wien saw no reason to pass the young man, no matter how brilliant he was in other fields." (Cassidy, Uncertainty)The result was that Heisenberg received the lowest of three passing grades in physics and the same overall grade (cum laude) for his doctorate, both of which were an average between Sommerfeld's highest grade and Wien's lowest grade.There is an interesting epilogue to the story. When Heisenberg derived the uncertainty relations several years later, he used the resolving power of the microscope to derive the uncertainty relations - and he still had difficulty with it. When Bohr pointed out the error, it led to emotional difficulties for Heisenberg. Likewise, this time a positive result came of the affair: Heisenberg's reaction induced Bohr to formulate his own views on the subject, which ultimately led to the so-called Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics.Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen".Cassidy 1924b.

Amsterdam & Leipzig, Schreuder & Mortier, 1751 - 1760. 4to. Uniformly bound in four nice contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Elaborate gilt borders to boards, edges of boards gilt. All edges gilt and chisel. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches and parts of gilting worn off. Spine-ends chipped with minor loss of leather. Internally nice and clean. (2), XXVIII, 560, (2) pp. + 1 portrait; (16), 348, 202, (4), 144, 34, (76) pp.; (8), XVII, (7), 523, (1) pp. + 1 portrait. XX, (2), 482, 54, (36) pp. First edition of this collection of letters by, to and on Christina of Sweden, list of commemorative medals, lists of correspondents, ect. Johan Arckenholtz (1695-1777), for twenty years librarian to the landgrave of Hessen-Cassel, was appointed historiographer to the Swedish king in 1666. “Christina (born Dec. 8, 1626, Stockholm, Swed.—died April 19, 1689, Rome [Italy]) was the queen of Sweden (1644–54) who stunned all Europe by abdicating her throne. She subsequently attempted, without success, to gain the crowns of Naples and of Poland. One of the wittiest and most learned women of her age, Christina is best remembered for her lavish sponsorship of the arts and her influence on European culture.” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Pope Alexander VII described Christina as "a queen without a realm, a Christian without faith, and a woman without shame."