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Augsburg, Johann Georg Hertel, 1759. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Gilt spines, raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of both spines. Stamps on title-pages. Title-pages in red/black. Engraved frontispiece. (30),402,(26);23 pp., 152 engraved plates (many double-page and folding, some with text on verso) - Anhang with 33 folded engraved plates. A few leaves with a faint dampstain in upper right corner. Internally clean and fine.

London, University of London, 1842. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. In "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", Vol. XXI. July - December, entire volume offered. Spine with wear and lacking bits of the leather especially affecting front hinge. Leather brittle. Front hindge loose. Exlibris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. [Darwin's paper:] Pp. 180-88. [Entire volume: viii, 568 pp.]. First appearance of Darwin’s paper on the effects produced by the glaciers of Caernarvonshire. In 1831 Charles Darwin came to Cwm Idwal and failed to perceive the evidence of glaciation there. In 1842, Darwin then went on to describe the glaciation of Cwm Idwal in some detail. He recorded both his first visit with the Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick and his second, more aware, visit in his autobiography: “Next morning we started for Llangollen, Conway, Bangor, and Capel Curig. This tour was of decided use in teaching me a little how to make out the geology of a country. Sedgwick often sent me on a line parallel to his, telling me to bring back specimens of the rocks and to mark the stratification on a map. On this tour I had a striking instance of how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them; but neither of us saw a trace of the wonderful glacial phenomena all around us; we did not notice the plainly scored rocks, the perched boulders, the lateral and terminal moraines. Yet these phenomena are so conspicuous that, as I declared in a paper published many years afterwards in the ‘Philosophical Magazine’ [Darwin, 1842], a house burnt down by fire did not tell its story more plainly than did this valley. If it had still been filled by a glacier, the phenomena would have been less distinct than they now are. (Darwin, 1887)” “By 1842, not only had Darwin travelled widely (Herbert, 1991) but Agassiz (1840) had published his theory of glaciation. Darwin was also then apprised of the arguments of the geologist William Buckland. Buckland was known for his penchant for eating every variety of animal, a trait which his son inherited (Burgess, 1967: Chapter 1; Chorley et al., 1964: 100–118; see also Lewry, 2008) but he also developed highly significant ideas on glaciation and the limitations of the diluvial theory (Chorley et al., 1964: 207–210). A key realization is that water-lain flood deposits are normally laid down in stratified layers, with the coarser material below the fine, while the glacial deposits are unstratified and mixed in size. Thus, in contrast to his earlier 1831 lack of glacial observation” (Trudgill, Do theories tell us what to see? The 19th-century observations of Darwin, Ramsay and Bonney on glacial features), Darwin wrote: “Guided and taught by the abstract of Dr. Buckland’s memoir ‘On Diluvio-Glacial Phænomena in Snowdonia and the adjacent parts of North Wales’ I visited several of the localities there noticed, and ... I have been enabled to make a few additional observations. Dr. Buckland has stated that a mile east of Lake Ogwyn there occurs a series of mounds, covered with hundreds of large blocks of stone, which approach nearer to the condition of an undisturbed moraine, than any other mounds of detritus noticed by him in North Wales. By ascending these mounds it is indeed easy to imagine that they formed the north-western lateral moraine of a Trudgill 559 Downloaded from ppg.sagepub.com at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on September 16, 2016 glacier, descending in a north-east line from the Great Glyder mountain. But at the southern end of Lake Idwell the phænomena of moraines are presented, though on a much smaller scale, with perfect distinctness. (From the present paper, p. 180)” Darwin then gives a detailed description of the glacial features: “On entering the wild amphitheatre in which Lake Idwell lies, some small conical, irregular little mounds, which might easily escape attention, may be seen at the further end. The best preserved mounds lie on the west side of the great black perpendicular face of rock, forming the southern boundary of the lake. They have been intersected in many places by streams, and they are seen to consist of earth and detritus, with great blocks of rock on their summits. They at first appear quite irregularly grouped, but to a person ascending any one of those furthest from the precipice, they are at once seen to fall into three (with traces of a fourth) narrow straight linear ridges. The ridge nearest the precipice runs someway up the mountain, but the outer one is longer and more perfect, and forms a trough with the mountain-side, from 10 to 15 feet deep. On the eastern and opposite side of the head of the lake, corresponding but less developed mounds of detritus may be seen running a little way up the mountain. It is, I think, impossible for any one who has read the descriptions of the moraines bordering the existing glaciers in the Alps, to stand on these mounds and for an instant to doubt that they are ancient moraines; nor is it possible to conceive any other cause which could have abruptly thrown up these long narrow steep mounds of unstratified detritus against the mountain-sides. (From the present paper, p. 180)”

Königsberg, Goebbels & Unger, 1804. 8vo. Original blank blue wrappers with handwritten title to spine. A very nice copy. Contemporary owner's name to inside of front board (S. Grubbe) and stamp to title-page (Gothenburg Museum, 1861). 204, (4, -advertisements) pp. The rare first edition of Kant's famous posthumously published prize essay, written in 1791, answering the question set by the Berlin Royal Academy of Sciences: What are the Actual Advances Metaphysics Has Made in Germany Since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff? Right after Kant's death in 1804, Friedrich Theodor Rink edited and published parts of drafts Kant had written on this topic; Kant never published a finished version, and this is all that appeared.Warda: 220.

Kiøbenhaffn, u. trykker, 1625. Lille8vo. Senere halvpergamentsbd. med forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. 172 blade (=344 pp.). Nogen bruning af blade og marginer. Bogen har tilhørt Peter Skautrup, men er senere ombundet. Originaltrykket i komplet stanf, ikke eftertrykket fra samme år. Thesaurus II,478. - Bibl. Dan. I,1088.

(Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829). 4to. No wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 4. - Gauss' paper: pp. 232-35. - Abel's papers: pp. 236-278 and pp. 309-348. First printing of probably Gauss' most importent work in physics by presenting his "Principle of Least Action" , which states that the motion of a system of points which are influenced both by each other and by outside conditions is such as to maximize the agreement with free motion, given the existent constraint. The work is based on his Potential Theory."In it (the present paper) Gauss stated that the law of least constraint: the motion of a system departs a little as possible from free motion, where departure, or constraint, is measured by the sum of products of masses times the squares of their deviations from the path of free motion. He presented it merely as a new formulation equivalent to the well-known principle of d'Alembert. This work seems obviously related to the old meditations on least aquares, but Gauss wrote to Olbers on 31 January 1829 thai it was inspired by studies of capillarity and other physical problems." (Kenneth O. May in DSB).The two papers (first printings) by Abel (book-lenghts memoirs) are his last works - he died 1829 and they were published after his death - on the theory of "elliptic functions", the discovery of which he shared with Jacobi. In these papers he mentions also the great discoveries published in his memoir 1826 (Memoire sur une proprieté générale d'un classe très-etendu de fonctions transcendentes), which was not published until 1841.Together with these 3 memoirs is found a paper by Alexander von Humboldt: "Über die bei verschiedenen Völkern üblichen Systeme von Zahlzeichen und über den Ursprung des Stellenwerthes in den indischen Zahlen", 1829. Pp. 205-231.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1923. Royal8vo. Bound with the original wrappers (in the back) in publisher's pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spines and front board. In "Nature", July - December, 1923, Vol. CXII [12]. Entire volumes offered. "Emmanuel College" in gilt lettering to spines. Two library stamps to title-page and first index page. A small tear to top of spine and signs after removal of label to spine. Very slight wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. P. 540. [Entire volume: LIV, 960 pp. + advertisements and wrappers]. The important Nature-printing - a summary of his three papers published in "Comptes rendus" the same year - of De Broglie's landmark discovery of the wave nature of matter. "In order to reach an audience wider than the limited readership of the Comptes rendus, de Broglie arranged the publication of a summary of his results in Nature(October 1923)." (DSB).His discovery established a new era in physics by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus creating quantum mechanics. It was extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 "Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta."De Broglie relates "After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924)."He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' ."(Pais "Subtle is the Lord", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses "The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh's 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck's division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school's mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory."(DSB)."This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another." (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1914. Large 12mo. In publisher's original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with light wear, primarily affecting head and foot of spine. With previous owner name, "Elisha F. Lee" to front free end-paper. Internally fine and clean. XIII, 248 pp. + 12 plates (of which 8 are coloured) of flies with descriptive tissue guards. First edition of perhaps the most influential 20th century book on how to dress salmon flies. The legendary fly tyer Megan Boyd considered the present work her ‘bible’. Written by an amateur, this is "the most notable book to date on the subject since Kelson. Indispensable to the learner; his flies are distinguished by their beauty and finish and his descriptions are lucid." (Robb, Notable Angling Literature, 1947). The present copy has belonged to Elisha Flagg Lee, one of the most prominent fly-fishers and general advocate for preservation of the Atlantic Salmon. Lee was a Trustee of the New England Aquarium, a Director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and a member of the Miramichi Salmon Association. He also served as President and on the Board of Directors of Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA. His greatest passion in life was fly fishing for Atlantic Salmon. He was an early advocate of salt water fly fishing, and was greatly interested in efforts to restore Atlantic Salmon to the rivers of Maine. He was a longtime member of both The Fly Casters Club of Boston and the Tihonet Club of Wareham, MA.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1863. 8vo. In the original brown embossed full cloth. Wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. 337, (1), 7, (3) pp. First printing of Kemble's famous anti-slavery work which included the first printing of the word 'vegetarian', stating that: ""If I had had to be my own cook, I should inevitably become a vegetarian". (p. 198). Her book is credited with influencing Britain's position of neutrality during the American Civil War despite the cotton industry's lobbying. Frances "Fanny" Kemble, a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century, married Pierce Mease Butler, an American heir to cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on the Sea Islands of Georgia. Kemble found, to her horror, that she was married to a slaveowner and they spent the winter of 1838-39 at the plantations, and Kemble kept a diary of her observations [the present work]. The journal circulated privately among her friends, but was not published until his husbands death in 1863, by the time of publishing the word probably had become more common. Sabin 37329

Kiøbenhaffn, Peder Hake - Jørgen Holst, 1642-43. 4to. Indbundet i et lidt senere hellæderbind. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket på ryg. Nederste rygfelt med tab af en smule skind ved foden. Med træstukket fællestitelblad, Kobberstukket titelblad til Jydske Lov (stukket af Haelwegh) samt kobberstukket portræt af Valdemar II. Christian IV's Reces har kobberstukket titelblad og et kobberstukket portræt af kongen. Usædvanlig rene eksemplarer og alle trykt på svært skrivepapir. Omfattende lovsamling, som indeholder gældende ret under Christian IV med hans såkaldte Store Recess, som er forløberen for Chr. V's Danske Lov fra 1683. - Lovsamlingen er meget lig den som beskrevet i Bibl. Dan.II,629. - Thesaurus 427 ff.

London, Christopher Meredith, 1647. 4to. In contemporary full calf. Wear and soiling to extremities. Dampstain throughout. (8), 380, (2), 127 pp. Rare second edition of Elton’s work containing a compendium of moral teaching based on the Ten Commandments. Elton was a conforming clergyman within the English Church: “Even so, the book was condemned because it was “not conformable to the discipline of the Church of England”. We know more about its licensing history than we do of most books because its authorizer, Daniel Featly, who was called before the King for licensing it once the book was condemned, wrote about it a few years later in Cygnea Cantio. According to Featly, he helped Elton edit and revise the book while he was alive but once the author died, he “the off intermeddling in such a work wherein I could not suffer all things to passe as they were in that copy… yet the booke tooke the libertie to flie out of the Presse without license” (Clegg, Press Censorship in Jacobean England). Edward Elton (1569–1624) was an English Puritan, and a pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Bermondsey.

London, R. Norton, 1661. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper: "Deborah Bramley / Her Books / Given her (illegible) / may 29 - 1662". With occassional light marginal miscolouring, but generally internally nice and clean. (16), 576 pp. + frontispiece. Rare second edition, first published the year before, of Taylor’s final work in which he provides detailed guidance on the proper approach to receiving the Eucharist, the central sacrament in Christian worship. Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a prominent cleric in the Church of England who gained renown as an author during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. Often referred to as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic eloquence, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.

London, Printed for the Author, 1776. Folio. Later hcloth with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (4),31 pp. Some scattered brownspots. First edition. A pioneering work on the hydrogeography of the coasts of Ireland and the west coast of Scotland.

Cambridge University Press, 1904. Fine hcalf, raised bands, gilt lettering. Probably with renewed spine. On both covers a large gilt crowned coat of arms. Corners professionally repaired. (2),VIII,(2),399,(1) pp. Textfigs. and 1 plate facing p. 169. Halftitle and a few leaves with small brownspots in upper margin, otherwise a fine clean copy. First edition. This work marks a new epoch in the understanding of the nature of nuclear physics. "After the discovery of thorium in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disentegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom. He discovered and named alpha and beta rays emitted from radioactive salts and predicted that disintegration of some radioactive elements would generate helium. he also produced in the laboratory the first artificial transmutation of one element into another." (Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 51). - Horblit No 91.

København, Udgivernes Forlag, 1818-31. Lille 8vo. Indbundet i 12 ensartede samtidige marmorerede papbd. med trykte titeletiketter på rygge. Nogle rygge lidt slidte ved kapitæler. Med talrige litograferde og kobberstukne kort, planer og plancher. Med bogbinderetiketter i hvert bind "C.G.. Ulrich Buchbinder Rendsburg". På indersiden af forpermerne Henri Bruun-Neergaards exlibris. 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.

København, C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. Samtidigt helldrbd. med spejl, blindtrykte rammer og yderste ramme i guld af rullestempel, men guldet næsten bortslid. Rig rygforgyldning (svag), forgyldt titelfelt. Skindet på øverste og nederste rygfelt med tab. Træskåret frontispiece. Titelblad trykt i rødt/sort. (36),585,(21) pp. Indvendig med spredte brugsspor og lettere brunplettet. Med træskårne vignetter og talrige træskårne halv-sides illustrationer. Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede. Til denne udgivelse har Glasing selv skåret illustrationerne efter de originale. - Bibl. Dan. IV,267.

Paris, 1659. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine, edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities, leather cracked and a few holes to boards. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. (4), 187 pp. Exceedingly rare, allegedly new, edition of this work on the peace treaty between France and Spain, The Treaty of the Pyrenees. An edition printed by Sebastien Cramoisy in Paris, also in 1659, and despite the fact this has “nouvelle edition” printed on the title-page it is not entirely clear if this in fact was printed first or is a pirate-edition since the Cramoisy-edition seems to be expanded compared to this present edition. We have not been able to trace a single copy at auction and OCLC only list one copy (The Wiesbaden State Library, Accession no. 1260124839) The Treaty of the Pyrenees was a peace treaty signed on November 7, 1659, between France and Spain. It ended the conflict known as the Franco-Spanish War, which had been ongoing since 1635 as part of the wider Thirty Years' War. The treaty was negotiated and signed in the town of the Pyrenees Mountains, which served as a neutral ground between the two powers.

London, Whittle and Laurie, 1814. 8vo. In later half half cloth with gilt lettering and stamp to front board. Two stamps to title-page. Occassional browning throughout. lV, 150 (2) pp. Second edition, "corrected and materially improved".

Leipzig, Georg Wigand, ohne J. (ca. 1840). 8vo.Bound in one cont. hcalf with richly gilt back. (1),116;(1),128 pp. and 30 fine steel engraved plates (15+15). The first plate as frontispiece with a faint dampstain, otherwise fine and clean plates. Text with some pencil underlinings.

Sth., 1806. Cont.hcalf. Back with traces of use. Contains all 36 beutifull hand coloured copper engr. with describing text. Here and there some traces of use.

Paris, Piget, Damonneville, Durand, 1743. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the placement in an estate library. A very fine and clean copy. (2), IV, 250, (1) pp. + 3 folding maps and plans and 16 folding plates. First edition of Barrere’s beautifully illustrated work on the early days of the French colony in Guiana and its capital city Cayenne. Pierre Barrère, a French physician and naturalist, practised in Perpignan from 1717. In 1722, he travelled to Cayenne in Guiana where he stayed for five years and became botanist to the local king. He compiled numerous observations on the tribes inhabiting Cayenne and its surroundings, the local economy, plants - especially those he deemed useful for medicine - and the animals of the region, as well as the cultivation of coffee, cocoa, and sugarcane. The author provides essentially new and valuable details about the Indians. The beautiful engraved plates illustrate the customs, costumes, and instruments of the daily life of the known tribes inhabiting the territory of French Guiana in the first quarter of the 18th century, enumerated in the final chapter: Barrere distinguishes between the coastal Indians and those settled inland, admitting that he does not know them all, but asserting that they are 'all cannibals' (p. 235). Leclerc, Bibliotheca americana 119Pritzel 426Sabin 3604

Paris, Bassange, Masson et Besson, 1808. 4to. Bound in one full mottled calf, gilt borders on covers. Spine richly gilt with tome-and titlelabels in leather, gilt. Light wear to spine ends. Slightly rubbed and corners a bit bumped. (4),XII,329;(4),VII,286 pp. and 33 large folded engraved plates (maps and battleplans). Some sheets browned. Stamp on title and verso. Vol. I deals with attacs and defence - Vol. II deals with mining - levelling and mapmaking. The collation corresponds to the editions of 1776 and 1778 issued under the title "Oeuvres Completes" also in 2 volumes. - Klaus Jordan Nos 2116 a. 2119.

Kbhvn., Melchior Martzan, (1651). 4to. Samt. blank kartonnage. (24),(138) pp. På kraftigt papir, ren. Første danske udgave. Indeholder beretningen om Ulfeldts søgsmål mod Dina Vinhofer for falsk anklage. Dina lod, efter tilskyndelse fra oberstløjtnant Walter, kong Fr. III vide, at Corfitz Ulfeld og Leonora Christina pønsede på giftmord mod kongen. Ulfeld blev renset for anklagen, men Dina blev dømt til døden. Senere rejstes anklage mod Ulfeld for svigt i embedsførelsen. Forsvarsskriftet er oversat fra latin af Otto Sperling. Oehlenschläger benyttede siden motivet som baggrund for hans "Dina" (1842). Yderst sjælden.

Kjøbenhavn [i.e. Copenhagen], 1885. 2 original beautifully decoreted (in golf, red and black) full cloth bindings. Minor wear and a few small spots to spines, otherwise and excellent, clean and fresh copy. The uncommon first edition of the first Danish translation of Tolstoj's masterpiece, "War and Peace", translated by the renowned Danish author Edvard Brandes and published a year earlier than the first English language edition.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1822. Uncut in later hcloth. Bound with the original blue, blank stiff wrappers. Stamp on title-page. 100 pp., 1 large folded engraved map (57 x 90 cm.) "Carte des Cotes de la Guyane et des Cotes septentrionales du Brésil. Publ. en 1827 par M. Lartique".

Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. Samt.hldrbd. med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Kapitæler en smule slidt. XII,312 pp. Rent eksemplar. Originaludgaven af Prisskriftet, Rasks hovedværk, og et grunlæggende arbejde i Nordisk Sprogvidenskab.First edition of Rask's main work, a founding work in Nordic Philology as he was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically and discovered the correspondance of consonant relations between the Indo-European languages which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the High-German sound-shifts.