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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

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1758. 4to. 3 contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spines, title-and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. A small nick to lower compartment on vol. 1. A stamp to titlepages. Name on foot of first titlepage. XXVIII,(401;VIII,438;VIII,368,(4) pp. and 9 folded engraved plates a. 3 folded tables. Internally clean and fine. Wide-margined. First edition of this importent work on early human history. - Brunet II:1647.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Peter Haake paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning), 1650. Lille8vo. I samtidigt helpergamentsbind med titel i samtidig hånd på ryg. Mangler øverste centimeter af læderet på ryggen. Fællestitelbladet trykt i rødt og sort. Med alle seks deltitelblade. Udvendigt med slitage. Indvendig sporadisk en smule brunplettet, ellers pæn. (16), 569, (5); (2),165, (4); (4), 256, (2); (12), 73, (1); (8), 37, (1); (7), 368, (10) pp Sidste udgave af Henrik Smiths berømte lægebog. Dette eksemplar er varianten med kolofon: Paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning.Bibl. Danica I:799. Thesaurus 269 (1577 udgaven).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1852. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. One hinge starting. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3ieme Serie, Tome 35. 512 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 482-503. Stamp to verso of titlepage. Faint scattered brownspots. First French version of this monumental, famous paper in thermodynamics in which Clausius for the first time states the Second Law of Thermodynamics, one of the most importent laws of Nature having a huge impact on the development of physical theory, cosmology, communications and information theory. The law states that a) the energy of the Universe is constant, and b) the Entropy of the Universe tends to a maximum.The volume contains further importent papers, extracts of HERMANN HELMHOLTZ announcement of his invention of the Ophthalmoscope, pp. 125-126 with a drawing of its construction. WILLIAM THOMSON (Lord Kelvin) "Examen de la Theorie de la puissance motrice de la chaleur... (On the Dynamical Theory of Heat)", pp. 248-255. A founding paper in Thermodynamics. - JAMES JOULE "Mémoire sur les Changements de temperature produits par la Condensation et la Raréfaction de l'air" and "Sur l'équivalent mécanique de la chaleur" (The conservation of energy-paper), pp. 118-125 a. 1 plate.

Haye, Chez J. Neaulme, 1741. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. five raised bands on back, back richly gilt. Small holes and lack of leather to lower capital and back-hinge, due to insect-bites. Bdg. somewhat worn. Internally a bit of brownspotting and occationally a little soiling, but overall fine. Engr. frontispiece (= engr. t-p. dated 1707), 8 full-page engr. plates and 3 about half-page engr. vignettes. (6), XVIII, 394, (6) pp. This is the Dutch reprint (in French) (also called the "pirated edition") of the first edition from 1706/07, with the engraved title-page from this. The second edition appeared in 1747. "In 1741 Neaulme issued a pirated edition which again, apart from variations on the title-page, is identical to the 1706 edition. Encouraged by this pirated edition Frezier wrote a second edition which appeared in 1747 in three differing versions." (C. Philip, p. 59). Very important reference-work on firewirks. "Frezier was probably one of the most important pyrotechnics in the mid 18th century..." (C. Philip, p. 58). He borrows heavily from other authors, but his works are interesting, also as they scrupulously cite the sources. The plates show different kinds of fireworks, with many illustrations on each and the vignettes show displays of fireworks, as this work also deals much with the conduct and displaying of these.

Berlin, P. Stankiewicz, 1887. Cont. hcloth, rebacked with old spine preserved and with original printed wrappers pasted on covers. V,(2),290 pp. A few pencil underlinings. First German edition of Gauss' "Theoria Combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae" (2819-22) and with 7 supplements on the "method of least squares" from Gauss' other writings.

Rotterdam, Reinier Leers, 1688. Small 8vo. Fine contemp. full mottled calf, richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather. (6),604 pp. A very small inkspot in upper margin of the last 20 leaves. On good paper, clean and fine. First edition. Malebranche is one of the major philosophers of Cartesianism and his philosophy sought to synthesize Cartesianism with the thought of St. Augustin and with Neoplatonism. His "Entretiens..." (Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion) as a series of 14 dialogues, is perhaps the best introduction to his philosophy in general."The French Cartesian Nicolas Malebranche was hailed by his contemporary, Pierre Bayle, as "the premier philosopher of our age." Over the course of his philosophical career, Malebranche published major works on metaphysics, theology, and ethics, as well as studies on optics, the laws of motion and the nature of color. He is known principally for offering a highly original synthesis of the views of his intellectual heroes, St. Augustine and René Descartes. Two distinctive reults of this synthesis are Malebranche's doctrine that we see bodies through ideas in God and his occasionalist conclusion that God is the only real cause." (Stanford Encycl. of Philosophy).

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1749. 4to. Nice contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spine and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Blindtooled covers, Cambridge-binding style. Large engraved titlevignette. (8),XVI,333,(1) pp. and 33 (of 34 - No. 13 missing) mostly folded engraved plates, maps, charts and views. One of the large maps with a closed tear. Light browning to textleaves. First French edition. - Sabin, 1637.

4to. 3 cont. hcalf with gilt backs. Tear at top of spine on one volume. Library numbers in lower compartments. Stamps on titles. (4),XXIX,403-(4),XX,404-IV,111,64,18,(2) pp. and 19 large folded engraved maps (postions handcoloured). First edition. Volume I-II by Grimoard, vol. III by Servan. Grimoard was the main military adviser to Louis XVI and he was head of the defense during the Revolution.

Kiøbenhavn., Høpffner, 1734. Nyere hldrbd. i gl. stil i ufarvet niger med rygforgyldning og forgyldt rygtitel. 467, (11) pp. Gl. ejernavne på fribladet og titelbladet. lettere bruning, spredte brunpletter, nogle svage skjolder. Alle udgaverne af Holbergs Natur- og Folkeret er af største sjældenhed. Denne er en af de tidlige udgaver.

Paris, Charles Chauvin, 1869. Folio-oblong (535 x 415 mm). In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and two paper-labels pasted on to front board. Very light soiling to first few leaves, otherwise internally fine and clean. 214 pp full page weather charts showing the weather from America to the Caspian Sea. Rare first printing of daily weather charts, issued by Observatoire Impériale de France, covering the North Atlantic and Western Europe, constituting one of the earliest weather or climate atlases to be published

(1913). Smukt privat mønstret papirbind med skindtitelfelt. 92 pp. Forfatterens egenhændige manuskript i lille 4to. har nogle rettelser og overstregninger og er signeret på sidste side. Det kan ikke afgøres om manuskriptet er forfatterens egen afskrift eller det færdige trykms. En del brugsspor. Ingeborg Maria Sick (1858-1951). I flere år syge- og fattigsygeplejerske i københavnske slumkvarterer, studerede menighedsarbejde i London og Paris, arbejdede senere i en årrække ved fattigforsorgen i København. "Carina" blev udgivet i 1913, 2. oplag samme år, oversat til tysk, svensk og finsk.IMS debuterede som skønlitterær forfatter i 1900 med Udi Løndom, 1902 fulgte Højfjælds-Præst og herefter udgav hun i adskillige år en bog om året, skitsesamlinger, børnebøger og romaner mellem hinanden. Hendes læserskare var stor, ikke mindst i de øvrige skandinaviske lande og i Tyskland, hvor hendes bøger regelmæssigt udkom. Hun opnåede også oversættelser til engelsk, fransk, finsk, russisk og hollandsk og i enkelte tilfælde til så fremmed et sprog som bulgarsk. IMSs katolsk farvede religiøsitet gennemsyrer forfatterskabet, og i hendes romaner sejrer gudstroen over det jordiske livs fristelser, bøgerne rummer et vist element af vækkelseslitteratur. Kvindebilledet var allerede på bøgernes udgivelsestidspunkt stærkt forældet og sproget oftest en romantisk pastiche. Hun havde imidlertid evnen til at tegne især kvindelige karakterer og spinde en handlingstråd, ofte omkring erotisk farvede konflikter, og mange af bøgerne udkom i adskillige oplag frem til nogle år efter Anden Verdenskrig. I samtiden var de uhyre populære, fx opnåede romanen Helligt Ægteskab, 1903, seks oplag på ét år. Den skildrer to søstres stærke erotiske betagelse, den ene af sin egen ægtefælle og i åndelig harmoni med ham, den anden uægteskabeligt og derfor dømt til undergang.

Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1842. 4to. Recent half cloth with contemporary marbled boards. Light browning throughout. Small ink signature on title-page. IV,76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. Withbound: Steenstrup, Undersögelser over Hermaphroditismens Tilværelse i Naturen, 1845. XIV,88 pp. and 1 plate. The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'alternation of generations', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. "(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors." (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). "The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was "Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker...", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an importent chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he tought from 1846 until 1885."(DSB XII, p. 9).

Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1631. Folio (330 x 215 mm). In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Corner's bumped, with loss of leather. Boards with scratches with loss of leather and spine-ends chipped. Vague dampstain to upper margin throughout, index with a few worm-tracts, otherwise internally nice and clean. (36), 895, (186) pp. Exceedingly rare first edition Mauden's extensive commentary on the Book of Tobit, also known as the Book of Tobias in some versions. The book is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons and the Dead Sea Scrolls, but not in the Jewish Masoretic text. Protestant tradition places it in the Apocrypha, with Anabaptists, Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists recognizing it as useful for purposes of edification and liturgy, albeit having non-canonical in status. David van Mauden (1575–1645), jurist and theologian, also functioned as parish priest of the church of Our Lady of the Chapel in Brussels and dean of the church of Breda.

(Köln, 1593). Kobberstukket prospekt over Odense visende byen i fugleperspektiv. 32,5 x 47,5 cm. Prospektet er i fin stand og i samtidig håndkolorering og indrammet under glas i en smuk ældre guldramme (49 x 62 cm.). Fra Braun & Hogenbergs berømte "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". Odense-prospektet er den ældste trykte afbildning af byen overhovedt, ligesom det er den ældste afbildning af nogen dansk by.

Randers, Boghandler Smiths Forlag, hos Elmenhoff, (1838). Indbundet i et senere marmoreret papbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Usædvanligt stort eksemplar, trykt på velin. Med samtidig, men lidt utydeligt ejertilskrift øverst på titelbladet "M. Fabritius Tengnagel" 1838. Enkelte marginale fremhævninger. Originaludgaven. Et af dansk litteraturs lyriske hovedværker. - Bertelsen 20.

Amsterdam, d'Etinne Roger, 1720. 8vo. Bound in one contemporary full calf with five raised bands alt gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities and internally with occassinal brownspotting. A fine copy. (12),269;(2),283 pp. + 2 engraved frontispieces. Scarce first edition. This work, together with the author's "Voyages and Adventures of Jacques Massé" (ca. 1710), constitute a truly remarkable achievement, marking a highly significant watershed in the evolution of literary accounts of imaginary voyages, predating Jonathan Swift's satirical account of the travels of Lemuel Gulliver, published in 1726, and Jules Verne's classic Journey to the Center of the Earth by 140 years!His discoveries in the Region of the North Pole by Tyssot's eponymous hero discovers a secret underground kingdom inhabited by the descendants of African colonists who left their homeland four thousand years earlier, and spends several years recording their stories and fables. (Brian Stableford).Barbier IV,997.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1886. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with paper label pasted on to top of spine. Occassional brownspots throughout. With 94 figures in the text. X, 156 pp.; (4), 88 pp. 20, 16, 15, 18, (31) advertising First edition of Abakanowicz's famous integraph. It was invented independently about 1880 by the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys and by Bruno Abakanowicz, however, the later being referred to as inventor (Goldstein, L'Europe mathématique: histoires, mythes, identities). "The developments in the integraph design made by Abdank-Abakanowicz in France in the 1870s have been acknowledged as amongst the most noteworthy" (Small, The Electronic Analogue Computer, P. 59)."The integraph is an elaboration and extension of the planimeter, an earlier, simpler instrument used to measure area. It is a mechanical instrument capable of deriving the integral curve corresponding to a given curve. Hence, it is able to solve elementary differential equations graphically. However, it was not until 1878 that he succeeded in developing a practical model. "This volume is a description of the basic Abakanowicz instrument and a few of its later modifications. Abdank-Abakanowicz's instrument was able to produce solutions for only simpler differential equations, i.e., the commonly entountered class having the form dy/dx = F(x). An instrumental solution requires that as a first step a graph of the function F be drawn. Next, a pointer on the instrument is used to follow (trace) this graph. The value of the integral may then be read from the instrumentdials. This Abakanowicz approach was widely adopted in the early twentieth century, and the instrument was produced, and later improved, by such well-known instrument makers as Coradi in Zurich" (The Erwin Tomash Library, Vol. 1, p. 2.).Bound with Abakanowicz's Integraph is:Répertoire Alphabétique des Procédés et Recettes publiés par Le Monde de la Science et de l'Industrie pendant les Années 1880 à 1886. Lausanne, Jaunin, 1887. 15 pp.Du régime de l'invention. Examen des améliorations proposées à la législation relative aux inventions à propos du nouveau projet de loi sur les brevets. Paris, A. Durand, 1862. 160 pp.Erwin Tomash Library A1.

London, Sampson low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. Small 4to. 6 original pictorial full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines and upper covers. Light wear to spine-end. Part 6 lacking ca. 1 cm. of cloth at upper capital. Corners bumped. XXXI, 160; 161-336; 337-512; 513-529, (1), XV, 144; 145-320; 321-472, XV + 62 plates, 3 folding coloured maps, with a coloured section, 105 illustrations in the text. 2 of the folded maps with tear repair. Internally clean and fine. First appearance of this subscriber’s edition, here in the rare 6 original pictoral cloth bindings. The first volume of this set contains an introduction by J. Scott Keltie on Mr. Stanley's African career with 5 full-page and 1 small illustration not called for in the list of plates. Stanley's expedition through the heart of East Africa to the land of the Nile originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha although failing in its primary objective Stanley discovered the snowcapped range of Ruwenzori the mountains of the moon. A new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza etc.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1875-76. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 very nice green hmorocco, raised bands, profusely gilt spines with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. IV,94,(2);XXII,336 pp. and 7 chromolitographed plates (2+5) each with many figs. The plates strenghtened on verso. A fine clean copy. First edition. A main work in the development of Darwinian evolutionary theory."In his Studien zur Descendenztheorie (Leipzig, 1875-1876) - with a preface by Darwin himself in the English translation (London, 1882) - Weismann treated the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies and questions of evolution and herdity. Although he remained one of the foremost defenders of the Darwinian theory of evolution through natural selection, Weismann - a strict selectionist, more so indeed than Darwin - proceeded to construct his own theory of heredity rather than accept Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis."

Paris, Nyon, 1776. Later hcloth (ca. 1840). Gilt lettering to spine. XXXII,253 pp., 2 folded engraved maps. Wide-margined, clean and printed on good paper. First French edition. Translated from the German translation of his "Drevniaia rossiiskai istoriia..." (St. Petersburg 1766)."Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was the first Russian scientist-naturalist of universal importance. He was a poet who laid the foundation of modern Russian literary language, an artist, an historian and an advocate of development of domestic education, science and economy. In 1748 he founded the first Russian chemical laboratory at the Academy of Sciences. On his initiative the Moscow University was founded in 1755." (Russiapedia).

London, Macmillan and Co., 1928. Royal8vo. In recent full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extracted from "Nature", January - June, 1928, Vol. 121. Entire April 14-issue offered. Fine and clean. [Bohr:] Pp. 580-90. [Entire issue:] Pp. 561-608. First edition of Bohr's exceedingly influential statement of his 'complementarity' principle, the basis of what became known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. In the paper he coined the term 'complementarity' and thereby created an entire new fundamental principle of quantum mechanics."Immediately after Heisenberg's work on uncertainty relations, Bohr presented his concept of complementarity at a conference a Lake Como in Italy. Bohr's lecture marked the first attempt to provide a genuine philosophical underpinning to the new advances in physics. The uncertainty relations had provided Bohr a concrete measure of the consequences of the wave-particle duality and thereby a physics-based justification for the ideas he was working on. Bohr had already embraced the wave-particle duality underlying quantum theory and he presented the concept of complementarity as the fundamental feature of a new conceptual framework broad enough to include it" (Paul McEvoy, Niels Bohr). "For Bohr, complementarity was an almost religious belief that the paradoxes of the quantum world must be accepted as fundamental, not to be 'solved' or trivialized by attempts to find out 'what's really going on down there.' Bohr used the word in an unusual way: the 'complementarity' of waves and particles, for example (or of position and momentum), meant that when one existed fully, its complement did not exist at all" (Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement). "The lecture was published in Nature in 1928 in a revised form It sparked significant debate in the years that followed and solidified the boundaries between those who accepted Bohr's view of the consequences of quantum theory and those who were seeking a more 'realistic' microscopic theory or a more realistic interpretation of quantum theory itself" (McEvoy, P. 70).The paper was published almost simultaneously in English, Danish, English, French and German, the present English publication being the first.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1805. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 20, Fünftes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Titlepage to vol. 20. Pp. 1-128. Biot's paper: pp. 1-18. - Gay-Lussac: pp. 19-37 - Humboldt & Gay-Lussac: pp. 38-92. - Sacharow: pp. 107-124. These 4 accounts of the earliest scientific ascents with balloons, had the same purposes, namely to make observations on the composition of the air, pressure and the earth's magnetic force. Brockett "Bibliography of Aeronautics" Nos 1856 a, 6303 a a. 10654 a.

Bresslau, Brachvogel, 1728. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice and clean copy. (14), 608 pp. + frontispiece. The rare first edition of Pfeiffer’s work containing various meditations and reflections on the Lutheran tradition – a fine example of Pfeiffer's commitment to nurturing the spiritual life of believers through introspective dialogue and meditation. “Pfeiffer, Christoph a German divine, noted as a hymnologist, was born at Oels in the year 1689. For two years he was assistant-preacher at Dirsdorf, when he was called, March 28, 1719, by the duke H. Chr. von Landskron to the pastorate at Dittmansdorf, near Frankenstein, in the principality of Munsterburg. Having occupied this position for twenty-seven years, he was called to Stolz, where he spent the remainder of his life, and died December 23, 1758. His picture in the church there has the motto, "Mea Christus Portio," and the following epigraph: "Mors tua vita mea est, tuaque, O dulcissime Jesu, vulnera sunt animae Pharmaca certa meoe." Pfeiffer is the author of many hymns, several of which are found in our modern hymn-books.” (McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia). OCLC only list 1 copy (Berlin).

Madrid, Hijos y Compania, 1789. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Edges on covers gilt. Stamps on title-page. (6),LVIII,(2),227 pp. Wide-margined, clean and fine, on good paper. First edition of Tofino's famous Spanish pilot. "Pilot's Log-book of the Coasts of Spain and... the Mediterranean.. for the use of naval intelligence and nautical charts".