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Wien, Kaiserlich-königl. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1861-62. Small 4to. Bound in 3 orig. full pictorial cloth. Vol. 1 rebacked preserving orig. spine. Vol.2 with a tear in backhinge. Vol. 3 a bit loose (first inner hinge weak). Small stamp on title-pages. Lithographed tinted frontispiece. X,368;VI,434;IX,436 pp. Each vol. with Beilagen (42,20,7, music etc.), 34 lithographed folded maps in colour, 42 plates (mostly tinted woodcuts), profusely textillustrated with woodcuts. Internally clean and fine. First edition. - Sabin, 77625.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749. Large 4to. Uncut in 2 contemp. boards. Spines with some scratches and rubbing. Corners bumped. Htitles and titlepages with a stamp. 2 engraved titlevignettes and 2 engraved headpieces (4),411,(5);(20),547,(5) pp. With 51 folded engraved plates and maps. Wide-margined, clean and fine printed on good paper. A classic on warfare. Printed in Paris the same year as the second folio-edition which was printed in A la Haye, Frederic-Henri Scheurleer, 1749.

Cambridge, John Baskerville, 1760. Royal 8vo.(23,5 x 15,7 cm.). Bound in fine red full longgrained morocco. Spine divided in 5 compartments, each richly gilt and with a blindtooled stamp in the middle. Covers with broad gilt borders and blindtooled cornerpieces. Inside gilt borders. Edges of covers also gilt, Edges of leaves gilt. Faint discolouring at upper compartment. Unpaginated. (272) pp. Last leaf is L I2. Title-page laid down. Inner upper corner of title-page gone, but repaired, shaving the "C" in "Common". Brownspots to title-page. B7 with marginal repairs. Some rather faint scattered brownspots. Second edition (the same year as the first). Text printed in double columns and leaves without borders around the text.- Gaskell,13.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adults at the nest, one feeding 4 baby birds.. 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.

Hafniæ (København), Daniel Eichhorn - Chr. Cassube, 1660. 4to. Nyere hldrbd. (slut 19. årh.). Rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. (36),374,(2) pp. I teksten, på kalenderbladene talrige små symbolske træsnit illustrerende de forskellige dagsforløb. Enkelte blade med småreparationer. Delvis ubeskåret. Lettere brugsspor. Det sjældne originaltryk. Wallensbech var under Københavns belejring Kapellan ved Holmens Kirke og præst ved Kvæsthuset. "Hans ejendommelige Værk Diarium.... Daglig Tegnebog... er en Dagbog paa vers med latinsk og dansk tekst sideløbende. Stoffet er ordnet synkronistisk, saa at Versene om Hændelser paa samme Dato i krigens forskjellige aar staar paa samme Side. Som illustrationer findes nogle kuriøse Smaabilleder, der bestandig gentages for at betegne de stadig tilbagevendende begivenheder, som Udfald, Bombardement, Tilførsel o.s.v., de samme Begivenheder som inspirerede Digteren.... Som man ser, er Versemaalene forskellige, de skifter Maaned for Maaned, saa at Ensformigheden brydes.... Baade for Hjørring og Wallensbech var et solidt Had til Svenskerne en selvfølgelig Ting; de stod begge afgjort paa den ene stridende Parts Side." (Carl S. Petersen).Bibl. Danica III,158. Her nævnes, at i nogle eksemplarer er der før titelbladet indsat 2 blade med et kobberstik på den ene bagside. I foreliggende eksemplar er disse blade ikke tilstede. - Thesaurus II, 701.

Leipzig, Romberg's Verlag, (um 1850). Large 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XXII,(295) pp. (=590 columns) and 166 + 15 folded lithographed folio-plates. First and last leaves of text brownspotted. First and last few plates with brownspots.

Dresden und Leipzig, G.C. Walther, 1757. Bound in 2 later (ca. 1850) hcalf, richly gilt backs. Small stamp on title and verso. (12),(710),(2);(1),(710),199 pp. and 27 large folded engraved plates (flags, shipbuilding, guns, fortification etc.). Titlepages somewhat brownspotted, scattered brownspottings, but well preserved copy.

Jenae, Mamphrasius, 1653. 4to. In contemporary full calf with three raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Previous owner's name to title-page in contemporary hand. Internally very nice and clean. A blank leaf is inserted in between each text-leaf. (10) pp. 1125 columns, (102) pp. + 18 plates with 84 figures. The uncommon first edition of Micraelius’ influential philosophical dictionary containing one of the very earliest definition and uses of the word ‘ontology’. “Micraelius probably contributed greatly to a wider acceptance of the new term, for his Lexicon (see supra), first published in 1653, with a second printing in 1662, was a relatively successful book. Micraelius did not introduce an article on Ontology in the Lexicon, but the term Ontologia was presented in the article "Philosophia" as one of the subdivisions of Metaphysica. He defined the term as designating a peculiaris discipline philosophica, quae tractat de ente, but added quod tamen ab alis statuitur objectum ipsius metaphysicae, a most unfortunate "regression" in respect to Clauberg, and even in respect to Caramuel, since it somehow presupposes that ontologia and metaphysica are largely interchangeable.” (Mora, On the Early History of `Ontology') Johannes Micraelius (1597 – 1658), German philosopher and historiographer. In 1624, he became a rhetoric professor at the University of Greifswald and in 1639 was appointed rector at the Ratsschule in Stettin, where he wrote six books on Pomeranian history.In 1641, Micraelius became rector of the royal pedagogy in Stettin and a professor of theology and philosophy. He earned his theology degree from the University of Greifswald in 1649, eventually becoming its pro-chancellor in 1656.

Hannover, Carl Meyer, 1865. 4to. Contemp. modest hcloth. 2 orig. photographs mounted as frontispiece (Gauss-medal). 279,72,(2) pp. 3 plates, 6 tables. Internally clean. First German edition of this milestone in mathematical statistics, first published in Latin as "Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectinibus conicis solem ambientum. 1809." - In this work Gauss revealed for the first time his method of least squares. On January 1, 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the planetoid Ceres, but could only observe it for few days before it was lost in the glare of the Sun until the end of the year. After so many months of not being observed it was not possible to calculate with existing methods at which position it should reappear. However Gauss, at an age of 24, astounded when he in December predicted the exact location at which Ceres again could be observed. Gauss did not reveal how he had calculated the orbit of Ceres. First in 1809 Gauss published his second book "Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium" (the offered item) in which he revealed his new method of orbit calculation. In the first part he dealt with differential equations, conic sections and elliptic orbits, while in the second part, the main part of the work, he showed how to estimate and then to refine the estimation of a planet's orbit using a new method involving minimizing the sum of squared residuals, e.g., the method of least squares. He was able to prove the correctness of the method under the assumption of normally distributed errors. It is here that the Gaussian curve, expressing statistical distribution in probablility, makes its appearance. This work, along with the 'Discuisitiones', was the fruit of the triumphal decade in Gauss' life and established his reputation as a mathematical and scientific genius of the first order. Hald: History of Mathematical Statistics 1750-1930, pp.351-357.

København, Schultz, 1788-89. 4to. 2 samtidige ensartede hellæderbind med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Ophøjede bind på rygge, titel- og tomefelter i skind. Permer og kapitæler med slitage, enkelte steder med tab af læder. Indvendig ren og frisk. (2), XXII,400 pp.; (2), XXX, 401-786, (4), (8) pp. + 6 foldede tavler. Originaludgaven af den såkaldte "Store Landbocommission" nedsat 1786. Sammen med "Grundlovsforhandlingerne" den mest vidtrækkende og strukturændrende dansk kommision. Reformerne her gengav den danske bondestand økonomisk og borgerlig frihed, og på baggrund heraf løstes Stavnsbåndet. Hovedmændene var Christian D.F., Rewentlow, Colbjørnsen og Bernstorff.

Kbhvn. 1818-31. Indbundet i 12 samtidige halvlæderbind med forgyldte rygtitler og nyere bibliotekslabels på ryg. Med 39 kobberstukne portrætter, planer og kort (de fleste foldede). Stempler på titelblade. Grundlægger af den moderne militære historie i Danmark blev Ferdinand Heinrich Jahn, født 1789 i Neumiinster, hvor hans fader var apoteker. Han ville oprindelig have været søofficer, men da dette måtte opgives, blev han 1803 rekrut i Binzers Feltjægerkorpsog 1805 fændrik i Ewalds 1. slesvig-holstenske Bataillon. Da han var livfuld, lærelysten og pligtopfyldende, blev han 1807 sekondløjtnant; udmærkede sig 1808, 09 og 13 og deltog i 111 Auxiliaircorps i Frankrig, hvor han oversatte stykker af Holberg og Ingemann til tysk. Efter hjemkomsten til Ratzeborg startede han 1818 sammen med kaptajn Johan Adolph Fibiger »Magazin for militair Videnskabelighed«. Bibl. Dan. II, 330.

Hafniæ & Lipsiæ, Sumptibus Iacobi Prevssii. 1741. 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. gilt back and 4 raised bands. Front board loose. Gilding on back and capitals worn. Complete w. the engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates and the foldable map of the underworld (placed after the title-page). Engraved title-page. Internally very nice and clean, on good paper. Originaludgaven. af Holbergs berømte utopiværk, Niels Klim i Undervendenen. Ehr.-M. XII:213 ff.First edition of this influential utopian mastepiece. The satirical piece of science fiction by the "father of Danish Literature", the famous Danish professor of Law and Philosophy, Ludvig Holberg, can be compared in style and setup to Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", which was published 15 years earlier. The sharp political satire is not bound to a specific nation, but to the entire human race, and thus gives a picture of human conditions and thought in general in this period. Though the work does not bear a title which directly indicates its obvious utopian connections, as does for instance More's "Utopia", the name of the land of the living trees, in which Niels Klim arrives, "Potu", is very likely to constitute a word game indicating it's obvious literary intention: Spelled backwards we get: "UTOP". The quaint creatures and societies that Niels Klim meets in the underworld are said to be comparable to the characterization he gives in his Epistles (III) of the different European peoples, and thus we find satirical examples of the English mixed with the Dutch (in Potu) and the French mixed with the Germans (in Martinia). "I det hele er Modsætningen mellem Potu, Ideallandet - det kaldes virkelig saaledes i Bogens Slutning - og Martinia, Karikaturen, ikke blot geografisk, men historisk som mellem det attende Aarhundredes Realisme og det syttende Aarhundredes Formalisme. Potu er Naturrettens og den naturlige Religions Land, Martinia (for ikke at sige Lutheria) Ortodoksiens og Aristokratiets. Aands-Frihed og Stats-Tugt er Bogens Tendens. Da Holberg holdt saa haardt ved den faste Stat, turde han vel vente Absolution for at han ikke opgav den frie Tanke." (Vilh. And. II, p. 133). (= "All in all the contrast is between Potu, the ideal country - it is actually called so in the end of the book - and Martinia, the caricature, not only geographically, but historically as being between the realism of the 18th century and the formalism of the 17th century. Potu is the country of natural law and natural religion, Martinia (not to say Lutheria) is that of orthodoxy and aristocracy. Freedom of spirit and state-discipline are the tendencies of the book. Since Holberg stood so strongly on the dominating state, he ought to have expected absolution for not giving up free thought.").Ehr-M.: XII, 213.

Erfurt, Joh. Friedr. Weber, 1749. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on front free endpaper. 270,(50) pp. With old underlinings throughout. Scarce first German edition of Nollet's first book on electricity, his "Essai sur l'électricité des corps", 1746. It is one of the earliest detailed treatises on electricity. He here developed a theory of electrical attraction and repulsion that supposed the existence of a continuous flow of elctrical matter between charged bodies. Nollet’s theory at first gained wide acceptance, but met its nemesis in 1752 with the publication of the French translation of Franklin’s "Experiments and Observations on Electricity".Poggendorff II, 296.

Stockholm, Elménsku, Elméns och Granberg, 1818-19. - Holmiæ, Elmenianis, Deleens och Granberg, 1818. 8vo. Bound in two slightly later half calf binding with gilt spines and title labels. Few scattered brownspots. Snorra: 15,(1),16,384,(2) pp. + (2),XIII,(3),172,(2) pp. - Sæmundar: (10),288 pp. + (20),273,(3) pp. Snorre: Hjelmslev I, 25; Fiske I, 118. Sæmundar: Hjelmslev I, 26; Fiske I, 113.

(Leipzig, B.F. Teubner, 1871 a. 1873). Without wrappers, (wrappers blank to Second Part) as published in "Mathematische Annalen. Hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walter Dyck, Adolph Mayer." Vol. IV, pp. 573-625 and vol. VI, pp. 112-145. Kept in a cloth-portfolio. First edition. In these groundbreaking papers Klein established that if Euclidean geometry is consistent then non-Euclidean geometry is consistent as well and he introduces the adjectives "parabolic", "elliptic", and "hyperbolic" for the respective geometries of Georg Riemann, of Nicolai Lobachevsky, of C.F. Gauss and Janos Bolyai. "Cayley's idea (that metrical geometry is part of projective geometry) was taken over by Felix Klein (1849-1925) and generalized so as to include the non-Euclidan geometries. Klein, a professor at Göttingen, was one of the lading mathematicians in Germany during the last part of the nineeeeteenth and first part of the twentieth century. During the years 1869-70 he larned the work of Lobatchevsky, Bolyai, von Staudt, and Cayley; however, even in 1871he did not know Laguerre's result. It seemed to him to be posible to subsume the non-Euclidean geometries, hyperbolic, and double elliptic geometry, under projective geometry byexploiting Cayley's idea. He gave a sketch og his thoughts in a paper of 1871, and then developed them in two papers (1871 a. 1873, the ppers offered here). Klein was the first to obtain models of non-Euclidean geometries." (Morris Kline). - Sommerville, Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry p.45 (1871) and p. 49 (1873).

Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1764. Later blank boards. A small paperlabel has been pasted over "Erster Theil" on titlepage. The spectacular, large folded engraved frontispiece by P.S. Cabot showing a chemical laboratory, well equipped). (16),576 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. First German edition of Lewis classical work on applied chemistry "Commercium Philosophico-Technicum", published 1763 and 1767, and originally intended as a periodical. It deals with the history of gold, platinum, glass, porcelain etc.Poggendorff I, 1443. - Duveen, 355 (English ed.).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page. First printing of this milestone paper, being the first "Note" from Marie Curie about "radioactivity". This same "Note" contains a the fundamental observation: "Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium." This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property."Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents; Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first "Note" in the Comptes rendus"de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:"I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters; distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure."(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be "radioactive" (the term is Mme. Curie’s; its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany.

K., 1878-1907. Folio. Smukt nyere hldrbd. i sort oaseged med rygforg. 360,XX pp. samt 33 håndkolorerede kobberst. plancher. Her forligger afdelingen med Danmarks Fisk som et afsluttet hele. Selve værket "Zoologia Danica" blev aldrig fuldført. De 33 smukke plancher forligger i original håndkolorering.

Wittenberg, Schurer & Gormann, 1616. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with triple ruled fillets to boards. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Inner hinges split. Wear and soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary to spine. Internally nice and clean. (48), 888, (32) pp. Third edition of this interesting and highly popular work offering a theological interpretation of natural history typical of the early 17th century, where natural phenomena were often seen through religious and moral symbolism. Editions appeared in Wittenberg in 1612, 1613, 1616,1621, 1624, 1633, 1642, 1659 and Amsterdam in 1643, 1654, 1665; “In 1612, the protestant theologian Wolfgang Franzius published a book entitled Historia animalium sacra. Franzius (Franz or Frantze, 1564–1628) was Probst [Rural Dean] of Wittenberg and professor of theology at the university. Wittenberg – the city where Luther had initiated the Reformation in 1517 – was still a stronghold for the Reformation, but the Catholic Counter-Reformation was a threatening reality. The Historia animalium sacra was widely read: A long series of editions appeared from 1612 until 1671, and an English translation was published in London in 1670. To later readers, Franzius’s work was presented together with extensive commentaries written by Johannes Cyprianus (1642–1723), professor of physics and later of theology in Leipzig.” (Roggen, Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra).

(Ebbestofte ?), 1770-71. 4to. Bindet dateret 1770 i guldtryk på forperm ligesom ejers initialer i guldtryk O.C.v.H (Oluf Christian v. Hessen) på forperm. Helbind med spejl. og rygforgyldning. Spor efter lukkestroppe. Rygforgyldning. 177 blade (= 354 pp.) i smuk håndskrift, helt igennem er titler og kapiteloverskrifter kalligraferet i rødt og grønt. Et omhyggeligt udført matematisk håndskrift, som delvist er bygget på og afskrevet fra Cramers populære regnebog, men også med talrige tilføjelser af emner og øvelsesstykker, omhandlende de fire regnearter og udvidet med kapitler til brug for husholdningsregskab, rentesregning, procentregning, handels-regning (netto,tara-og brutto), arv og skifte, konkurs, vexel-regning (inden-og udenlandsk), mål og vægt-regning, kubik og kvadrat etc.etc.Af dedikationsbladet fremgår, at bogen er lavet til Oluf Christian v. Hessen og at den er overrakt ham af B. Prostrop (?) Ebbestofte 1. Sept. 1770 "til hans aarsdag". Af sidste side fremgår, at "Denne min Zifre-Bog haver jeg fuldendt Dend 11te Aprilj Anno 1771 Pro MDCCLXXI" og underskrevet A. Heÿm.

Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 54, No 13, No 15 a. No 17. Pp. (749- 772, pp. (806-) 868 a. pp. (941-) 992. And vol. 55, No 15. Pp. (583-) 631. (4 entire issues offered). With htitle and titlepage to vol. 54. Titlepage with a stamp in upper corner of titlepage on verso, shown on recto. Béguyer de Chancourtois's papers: pp. 757-761, 840-843, pp. 967-971 and pp. 600-601. First appearance of Chancourtois's historical paper in which he conceived a way to arrange the chemical elements in a periodic manner, years before Mendelejeff and Lothar Meyer. He arranged the elements on a cylinder in the order of atomic weight. This importent paper was never published in full, but only as abstracts as offered here. His principle of the periodicity of the elements remained unnoticed until the first communication (of April 7) was translated by P.J. Hartog in Nature in 1889 under the title "A Foreshadowing of the periodic law"."Generalizing further from Élie’s ideas, Béguyer formulated a method for classifying chemical elements based "in the last analysis upon the distribution of these elements in the crust of the globe." His scheme, a precursor of the periodic table, was put forth in "Vis tellurique, classement des corps simples ou radicaux au moyen d’une système de classification helicoïdal et numérique" (1862). The model for his theory was the "telluric screw," a helical graph wound about a cylinder. The base of the cylinder was divided by sixteen equally spaced points, and the screw thread was similarly divided on each of its turns; the seventeenth point was on the second turn directly above the first, the eighteenth above the second, and so forth. Each point was supposed to represent the "characteristic number" of some element that could be deduced from its physical properties or chemical characteristics. Actually, Béguyer used unit equivalent weights as characteristic numbers, following Prout, who made hydrogen the unit. These weights were derived by measuring the specific heat of each element in a manner suggested by Regnault." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1862 C.

Zürich, David Gessner, 1756. Later hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. Double-page folded engraved frontispiece (bound at end together with the plates). Engraved titlevignette. XXII,279 pp., 10 folded engraved plates. 2 large engraved vignettes n the text (bombardments). Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Berlin, Mittler, 1828-49. 4to. Bound in 21 cont. hcalf.Backs slightly worn. Stamp on titles.

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Part of titlelabel gone. Stamps on title-page. (2),174 pp. and 1 folded engraved map. Scattered brownspots, mainly to the first few leaves. First German edition of Parry's first voyage "Journal of a Voyage of Discovery, to the Arctic regions, performed... 1818, in His Majesty's Ship Alexander..." (1819). (Sabin, 36696).

Kbhvn., 1979-84. Lex8vo. Luxusindbindingen i orig.hldrbd.af oaseged.