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Nürnberg, Joh. Andr. Endt., 1769. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilding weak. Large engraved oval vignette on first titlepage. (22),315 pp. + Latin & German Indexes - (2),449 pp. + Latin & German Indexes. Profusely illustrated with more than 300 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, showing different trades, industries, occupations, geography, astronomy etc. etc.. A few minor brownspots. old name on title-page J.D. Tode. With German and Latin text by the "father of modern education". Comenius was the innovator who first introduced pictorial, educational textbooks (as here) and written in native language.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702". Pp. 155-174 a. textillustrations. First appearance of this paper in which Amontons describes his invention, construction and function of his air thermomer. He thus improves on Gallileo's design by using air pressure instead of volume. The paper is the earliest study in this field, and Amontions concludes "that unequal masses of air under equal weights invcrease equally the force of their spring for equal degrees of heat" Fifteen years later Gay-lussac performed the same experiments with better technique and results - the Gay-Lussac laws.The paper "contains Amontons' account of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source book in Physics", pp. 128 ff.)."His first scientific production was a Hygrometer in 1687....The other was an air thermometer independent of the atmospheric pressure. Air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end ofthe branch formed a barometric chamber."(DSB I, p. 138 a).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1702 M).

Sth., 1866. Folio-oblong. Orig.komp.helshirtbd. Ryg fornyet. 62 pp. tekst samt 21 pragtfulde farvelitograferede plancher, tekstillustr.i træsnit og l stort foldekort.

Kristiania, Mallingske Bogtrykkeri, 1909. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. XX,390,XII pp., 28 folded plates in colour (folded maps, diagrams, plans etc.). Clean and fine. First printing of this classic in physical oceanography. Printed in "Report on Norwegian Fishery and Marine-Investigations Vol. II, 1909, No. 2". The whole volume offered here and bound with No. 1: "Review of Norwegian Fishery and Marine Investigations 1900-1908), 204 pp.

Reykjavik, Stofnu Árna Magnússonar, 1974. Folio. Fine orig. hmorocco, gilt. In orig. slipcase. XLVIII pp. and 662 pp. of facsimiles. (Islenzk Handrit. Icelandic Manuscripts Series in Folio, Vol. III). The book contains facsimiles of: Sturlubók, AM 107 fol. - Hauksbók, AM 371 4to. - Hauksbók, AM 105 fol. - Melabók, AM 445b 4to - Skardsárbók, AM 104 fol. - Thordabók, AM 106 and 112 fol. - Thordabók, AM 106 fol., leaf 1-10.

(1929). 14,3 x 10,4 cm. Monteret på pap (14,8 X 11 CM.) og med fotografens blindtrykte enerets-signatur i nederste højre hjørne ("Wilse/ ENERET"). Det prægtige fotografi af Hamsun son 70-årig ferestiller forfatteren frontalt, i fuld figur og nydeligt klædt i tredelt jakkesæt og med hat, siddende på en bænk, med en stok i den ene hånd, liggende over bægge ben, og en pibe i den anden hånd. Fotografiet er med al sandsynlighed taget udenfor på Nørholm. Der er rester af lim i venstre nedre kant på forsiden, ellers er fotografiet i glimrende stand. På bagsiden er skrevet i blyant, i Hamsuns egen, en anelse rystende, hånd: "(Photo 1929)". Særdeles smukt originalfotografi af Nordens litterære gigant.

Eisenach, Griessbach, 1737. 8vo. Three volumes uniformly bound in three contemporary full vellum bindings with title in contemporary hand to spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Stain to inner margin of title-page and frontispiece in vol. 1, otherwise internally nice and clean. (26), 435, (1) pp. + frontispiece; (2), 490, (1) pp. (2), 442 pp. Rare second edition, published the year after the original, of Schatz’ comprehensive geographical work providing detailed explanations and interpretations of various maps produced by the famous cartographer Johann Baptist Homann and his publishing house. “Johann Jacob Schatz, a German philologist, geographer, educator, and librarian; student in Strasbourg in 1706 (received his master's degree in 1709), in Jena in 1715, and in Halle (Saale) in 1716; from 1716 to 1720, tutor at the Pädagogium in Halle; from 1720 to 1726, director of the Gymnasium in Trarbach; in 1728, director of the Gymnasium in Eisenach and librarian until 1737; from 1737 to 1760, head of the Protestant Gymnasium and librarian in Strasbourg.” (See CERL Thesaurus).

Leipzig, Johann Paul Krause, 1766. 8vo. Fine recent boards in old style. Engraved frontispiece. (14),368 pp. The first leaves with brownspots in upper margin, light browning to text. A few old annotations. Old owner's name inscribed in the cartouche of frontispiece:"Marcus Weisz parisiis 1788". Scarce first edition. - "In diesem Buche versichert Jugel u. A. den Stein der Weisen selbst in Hände gehabt zu haben, wie auch dass er einmal von dem Silber ausgehend zu der Darstellung eines weissen Glases gelangt sei, welches von 100 Theilen Silber einem Theil in Gold verwandelt habe." (H. Kopp "Die Alchemie" pp. 253-7).Duveen p. 313 (omitting 'Freyentdeckte') - Ferguson I:p. 441. - Poggendorff I: 1208.

Dated "Freiburg i Brsg. 6. März 1958". 1/2 page 4to. Heidegger thanks Giustiniani for a very nice evening in his house together with his Italian students. He furthermore thanks him for an admittance card to the Italian national museaum and asks G. to thank the Government Department for it as well. Heidegger, who was not fond of travelling, hopes to be able to visit soon, since he has long wished to visit Italy. The letter is for the Italian Freiburger colleague, Vito R. Giustiniani (1916 - 1998). Enclosed it the carbon copy of the letter written by Giustiniani to Heidegger on "5.3.1958", in which he thanks him in very warm tones for having visited him and spent time with his students, and in which he tells him about the entrance card for the national Italian museum and the excavations, which the Italian Ministery of Teching has made for Heidegger and his wife.

Berne, Société Typographique, 1792. Cont. mottled hcalf, gilt back, titlelabel. Top of spine gone (1 cm.). (4),474 pp., 23 engraved plates and 2 folded engraved maps. Clean and on good paper. A few small rubber stamps on verso of title aand on verso of a few plates. The work comprises a selection of the most famous travelaccounts from this region, e.g. Pallas, Gmelin, Forskål...

(London, ca. 1740). Folio. (45,5 x 27,5 cm.). Later hcloth. Gilt lettering to upper board. Stamps on the first leaf. 16 pp. and 1 large folded engraved Sea-Chart, measuring 49 x 96,5 cm., made from joining of 2 sheets.: "A Chart of the Sands, Shoals, Buoys, Beacons, Sea Marks, Depths of Water, and Anchoridge. Upon the Coast of England. From the South Foreland, to Flambrough head. Bu John Thornton, Hydrographer... London." Lower margins of text with a bit of spotting and foxing. A few scattered brownspots. The map with mild toning and a few brownspots. Margins cut close. A small tear in one of the foldings 8no loss). Probably a separately printed extract from one of the editions of "The English Pilot", by Seller, Thornton or Mount & Page, but the accompanying chart is much larger than the sizes of the maps in the different editions of the English Pilot.

Amsterdam, D. Mortier, 1718. 4to. 2 parts bound in 1 full calf binding with five raised bands and coloured frames to boards. Wear and soiling to extremities. A few worm holes to spine. Title-page to vol. 2 with a few lines in red pencil in margin. Last few leaves brownpostted. Internally generally fine and clean. (2), XXIV, (2), 454; (4), VII, (1), 424, (24) pp. + frontispiece, large folded portrait (Wilhelmina Charlotte Princess of Wales by F. Gunst after Kneller), and 6 plates. The uncommon 4to-edition of Boileau-Despreaux’s Oeuvres. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711), often simply known as Boileau, achieved acclaim as a distinguished French poet and critic in the 17th century. Initially educated at the College of Beauvais with intentions of pursuing a clerical path, he eventually shifted his focus from theology to law to fulfill his father's wishes. Boileau's literary journey commenced with the publication of his first satirical poem, "Adieux d'un poète à la ville de Paris," at the age of 25. Subsequently, he released six more satires, including notable works like "Les embarras de Paris," "La satire à Molière," and "Le repas ridicule." In these satires, Boileau not only parodied and critiqued figures such as Cotin, Chapelain, and Le Voyer but also played a pivotal role in refining the practical aspects of the French language. Notably, these satires marked the introduction of systematic literary criticism in France, focusing on art's merits rather than being driven by envy or anger. Tchemerzine II, 293Brunet 1, 1058

Lutetiae Parisior, Guilielmum Linocerium, 1585 (Part Sec. erraneously dated 1535). 8co. Later (19th century) hcalf. Gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. Both title-page with printers woodcut device as well as on last leaf in part II. (16),144,(16) pp. + 183,(1),(6) + 1 leaf with printers large woodcut device. The first intial letters in both parts in contemp. coloured in red. Internally clean and fine. Vwery scarce early edition of Satyricon with the commentary by Janus Dousa.Adams P 870.

Paris, Crochard, 1838. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, Tome 68, Cahier 1. Pp. 1-112. With titlepage to vol. 68. Liebig's paper: pp. 1-42. Clean and fine. A few later leaves with some brownspots. This milestone paper on organic acids, in which Liebig set forth the now accepted view, that hydrogen is the essential element in acids and that acid are salts of hydrogen. The paper appeared simultaneously in German ("Über die Constitution der organischen Sauren") and French. The offered paper is the French version."The paper on organic acids was one of Liebig’s finest achievements, reflecting the best of the attributes that had marked his previous work. He based his position on precise analyses of numerous compounds. Some concerned substances he had discovered, but many were refinements of analyses done by others. He had not originated the theories he defended, but had greatly extended approaches drawn from Davy, Graham, Pelouze, and others. Through his extensive knowledge of compounds and reactions, he was able to amass impressive evidence for his inferences. He displayed a realistic sense of the value and limits of theoretical conceptions. He utilized flexibly such currently accepted foundations of reasoning as the radical theory. He was able to weld these elements into a comprehensive, unifying whole. He took a major step in one of the most important revisions in general chemical theory since the acceptance of Lavoisier’s system of chemistry: a revision completed a few years later in the more universal statement of the hydrogen theory of acids by Liebig’s former student, Gerhardt."(DSB).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt. Title-and tomelabel with gilt lettering. Corners a bit bumped, spine slightly rubbed. XVI,480 pp. and 1 folded engraved and handcoloured map, 34x42 cm. "Charte von Abyssinien...einrich Salt 1809 u. 1810). Scattered brownspots. First German edition.(Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von F.J. Bertuch, Vierter Band). Having also the general titlepage with a stamp.

Paris, Catilian-Goeury et Von Dalmont, 1850-58. Large 4to. and Folio. 4 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-pages. VIII,523;(4),628 pp. Plate-volumes: 13 pp., 82 engraved plates; XI pp. and 86 engraved plates. A faint dampstain in upper margin on the first 10 leaves in volume 1 of text. Some scattered brownspots to text and plates. First edition.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, both sexes in a tree, foliage and fruits.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

No Place, No Printer, 1894. 4to. Orig. hcalf, raised bands and gilt lettering. Clothcovers with gilt lettering. Upper cover with a bit of foxing. (6) pp. and 34 photographic plates (13 double-page), reproduced in fine heliogravure, each with a printed leaf with details. The first plate is double-page "Vue Génerale des Usines du Creusot". Fine and clean. Original publication from the factory exposing in heliogravure the factory's wide range of canons.Schneider-Creusot, or Schneider et Cie, was a historic French iron and steel-mill which became a major arms manufacturer. After World War II, it evolved into Schneider Electric.

Berlin, Auf Kosten des Verfassers (und) Realschulbuchhandlung, 1802-08. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (8),9-72;(8),57,(1);VIII,9-146,(2);(6),92 pp. and 47 folded engraved plates. Poggendorff I, 898.

(Litho, The American Physical Society), 1987. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "Physical Review Letters" Vol. 59, Number 4, July 27, 1987. A few traces are having been bend to extremities. Small label with subscriber's name printed on to back wrapper. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 381-84. [Entire volume: 381-519, (5) pp.]. First printing of Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld landmark paper in which they proposed their self-organized criticality (SOC) theory or the Abelian sandpile model: the mechanisms by which complexity arises in nature. It is one of the very few evolutionary models to challenge Darwinism. It is regarded as one of the most profound and fundamental theories put forth in the later part of the 20th century and the paper is one of the most frequently-cited papers in the last few decades.Its concepts have been applied across fields as diverse as geophysics, physical cosmology, evolutionary biology and ecology, bio-inspired computing and optimization (mathematics), economics, quantum gravity, sociology, solar physics, plasma physics, neurobiology and many others.SOC is typically observed in slowly driven non-equilibrium systems with extended degrees of freedom and a high level of nonlinearity. "The nonlinear dynamics approach encapsulated in GCT envisions self-organization as an asymptotic process of approaching stability through a series of intermediate states (also known as evolution). There exists, however, a fundamentally different process known as self-organized criticality (SOC) in which an avalanche-like transformation rapidly moves the system into a self-organized mode. A popular metaphor for SOC is the sandpile paradigm. If additional sand grains are randomly added on top of a sand pile then inevitably an instance will occur when local steepness of the slope surpasses a certain critical threshold thus causing local failure of structural stability. The excess of material will cascade into adjacent areas of the pile causing their failures as well. Thus an avalanche will occur, shifting the entire sandpile into a new stable state. What is fundamentally important in this process is that a random local event quickly propagates through the entire system, thus establishing longrange correlations within the system" (Rosenfeld, Global Consensus Theorem and Self-Organized Criticality)."Ask the average person, What is the theory of evolution? and you are likely to get answers like "natural selection", or "survival of the fittest", or "Darwin's theory". Because these ideas are systematically taught in classrooms, they may represent the only evolutionary theory people know. But, ask, What is the theory of Earth evolution? you will likely get a blank stare, or at best a superficial discussion of the fossil record. The Earth as a multi-faceted evolutionary system that undergoes continuous change through time was incorporated in the National Science Education Standards, even if it is absent from many contemporary curricula and common perceptions. Darwinism, however, is not the only mechanism of evolution. If we define evolutionary change as any process that leads to increases in complexity, diversity, order, and/or interconnectedness then there are at least three distinct mechanisms, or theories of evolution: elaboration, self-organization, and fractionation." (Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 58, n. 2, March, 2010, p. 58-64).

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1924-44. 8vo. Indbundet med de originale foromslag i 8 lidt senere uniforme halvlæderbind med enkel rygforgyldning. Fire ophøjede bind på rygge. En smule ubetydeligt kantslid. Med exlibris på indersiden af forperme. Alle 8 bind med egenhændig dedikation fra Johannes V. Jensen til Erik Fogh. Rene og pæne indvendigt. Særdeles nydeligt sæt (dog uden bd. 4) af Johannes V. Jensens myter - samtlige bind med egenhændig dedikation. Myterne udgør et banebrydende hovedværk i dansk litteratur.

Folio. Cont. Dutch blindtooled full vellum. At upper part of spine is half of the vellum gone. Vellum shrinked at edges and loosening. Engraved frontispiece(showing physical and astronomical instruments), engr. titlevignette, (10),719 pp. and 30 large folded engraved plates, starting with the world-systems and then depicting all types of physical and chemical experiments etc.etc. Engraved portrait of the author. Internally fine with only a few pages with minor brownspots. Poggendorf I:427. The Dictionary explains the contemporary concepts of the Natural Sciences, Technology and Philosophy. This is the second enlarged edition of the authors work first published in Rotterdam 1692.

Lipsiæ, Johannis Justi Erythropili, 1694. Folio. Cont. full vellum. Small stamp on title. Htitle neathly repaired withoutl loss of letters, title in red a. black with engraved titlevign. (16),792 (=1584 colums),48 pp. Front-and endpapers renewed. A few pages very slightly browned.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, 1886). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 8, pp. 295-344. First edition. "The full recognition of the nature of those divergent series that are useful in the representation and calculation of functions and a formal definition of those series wer achieved by Poincaré and Stieltjes independently in 1886. Poincaré called these series asymptotic while Stieltjes continued to use the term semiconvergent. Poincaré took up the subject in order to further the solution of linear differential equations. Impressed by the usefulness of divergent series in astronomy, he sought to determine which were useful and why. he succededed in islolating and formulating the essential property...Poincaré applied his theory of asymptotic series to diffrential equations, and theree are many such uses in his treatise on celestical mechanics, 'Les Methodes nouvelles de la mechanique céleste". (Morris Kline).

Stockholm, Nicolao Wankijff, 1675. Folio. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen, rig rygforgyldning, forygldt titelfelt. Ryg med ganske lette brugsspor. de nedre hjørner lidt stødte. (12),906,(12) pp. Få marginale brunpletter. Udmærket frisk eksemplar. Første Svenske udgave af Sleidanus' historieværk "Commentarii de statu religionis et rei publicae Carolo V Caesare" 1555, oversat på kongens initiativ af Johan Sylvi og trykningen bekostet af kong Karl XI.. - Coljin: 861