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Kopenhagen, Höpffner, 1740. 2 contemp. full vellum, not uniform. Textvol with some browning to boards. Blindtooled title on spine. King Christian VI's blindtooled monogram on upper board. 563,(5) pp. Endpapers loose. - Atlas (Tabellen): With flap and ties. Handwritten title on spine. A paperlabel pasted on spine. All plates are folded (from folio to 8vo). Engraved title-page in baroque-style. Engraved plate with signatures and 38 folded engraved folio-plates. Bibl. Dan II,341.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. Bound together in one contemp. halfcalf. Spine gilt. Minor scratches to spine. A stamp to titlepage and htitle. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 20. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude." , Portrait (Paul Drude), VIII,1048 pp. and 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 199-206 and 627-33. The entire volume offered. Both papers first edition. It was for the papers "Ueber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" of 1905 and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung...( Theory of light emission and absorption), the offered item), that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921."The quantum theory has affected virtually every branch of physics. Its earliest and one of its most significant developments was Einstein's application of the theory to what is known as the 'photo-electrical effect'....Einstein explained this effext by suggesting that the classical view that light is emitted in the form of continous waves must be abandoned. The photo-electrical effect could be explained only as an example of quantum action where the waves of light or X-rays are emitted in minute particles or bullets. It is he size of the bullet (the wave-lenght of the radiation) which determines the number of electrons ejected. It was for this, and not for the theory of relativity, that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Einstein's two fundamental papers on this subject are "Ueber einem Erzeugung...." 1905 and Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung (the paper offered here)" (PMM the note to 391). In the second paper (Principle of the conservation of the centre of mass motion and the inertia of energy) he shows that the conservation of mass is a special application of his energy principle (E= Mc2) - Weil: 12 & 13.Among the many papers in this volume we have Max von Laue: Zur Thermodynamik der Inteferenzerscheinungen. pp. 365-378.

Chria., 1848, Tvær-folio. 2 samt.hldrbd. m.rig rygforgyldn. Rygge med brugsspor. Litograferet titelblad. 82 tonede litograferede plancher (de fleste litograferede af Bærentzen efter forskellige malere og tegnere). Tekstsiderne varierende brunplettet p.g.a. papirkvaliteten. Plancherne her og der med brunpletter. Originaludgaven.

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.

U.sted(1818-26). Lille 4to. Her foreligger 39 (af de udgivne 50) kort, i træsnit og grænsekoloreret. Langt de fleste angår Danmark og Hertugdømmerne samt Slesvig. Selv om atlasset er fremstillet til skolebrug, er det det første dansk producerede atlas overhovedet. - Bibl.Dan.II:391.

A La Haye, Jaccob van Ellinckhuysen, 1705. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Gilt super ex-libris to front board. Wear to extremities, corner bumped and boards with scratches. Internally nice and clean. (12), 282, (17) pp. Rare first complete French translation of Gracián’s vol. 1 of El Criticon first published in 1651. Various French editions were published in the end of the 17th century (París, Colombat, 1696; París, Colombat, 1697; Brussels, T’Sertstevens, 1696; Brussels, François Serstevens,; Brussels, François Foppens, 1697), all incomplete. This present 1705 translation is considered the best and also serves as basis for the modern reissue by Alfred Coster (1931). El Criticon is considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish Baroque literature and is regarded, along with Don Quixote and La Celestina, to be one of the most influential works in Spanish literature,

Copenhagen und Leipzig, Rothischen Buchhandlung, 1753. Samtidigt papbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldt titelfelt. Noget slid i rygkanter, hvor noget af rygforgyldningen er forsvundet. (8),248,136 pp. Indvendig velbevaret. Med egenhændig dedikation på fribladet fra den danske komponist Carl Nielsen "Til Th. A. Müller/ venskabeligst fra/ Carl Nielsen". Nederst på fribladet har Th. A. Müller tilføjet "Denne bog fik jeg foræret af Komponisten Carl Nielsen da vi i Sommeren 1918 sammen søgte Holberg udg. og da han tænkte paa en ny Holberg opera. Th. A. Müller." - Th. A. Müller var historiker og pædagog, men mest kendt som Holbergforsker, f.eks. med bogen "Den unge Ludvig Holberg" Første tyske oversættelse af Holbergs "Den Berømmelige Norske Handel-Stad Bergens Beskrivelse", 1737.Ehr.-M. X, p. 258-59.

København, 1890. Orig. komp. brunt helshirtbd. m. helt guldsnit. Lidt slitage v. kapitæler og hjørner. Lille svag plet på forperm. Gl. ejernavne og tilskrifter på forreste friblad. Indimellem lettere brunplettet, men et nydeligt eksemplar. Originaludgaven af et et Ibsens internationalt mest berømmede værker, det norske bidrag til Printing and the Mind of Man: "Ibsen's influence on the whole course of modern drama may be indicated by the inclusion of his plays in the repetoire of every Anvant-garde theatre of his day - the Théâtre Libre, Paris, 1887, Die Freie Bühne in Berlin, 1887, and The Independant Theatre in London, 1891-" (Printing and the Mind of Man: 375).

A Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 4to. A little later hcalf. Gilt back, gilt titlelabel. Small stamp on title and verso. Title in red/black. Fine engraved frontispiece (Rigault inv. et sculp.). (16),80,64,96,104,80,80,(8) pp. and 53 large folded engraved plates (of which one is in xerox-copy (No. 28)). Clean and fine, printed on good paper. On lower compartment the gilt Coat of Arms from the famous Danish Library "Det Classenske Bibliothek". First edition. - Klaus Jordan No. 219.

Kbhvn., 1926-82. Bd. 1-28 indbundet i 19 solide hldrbd., rest i hefter.

Leipzig und Liegntz, 1771-74. Bound in 3 contemp. uniform full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartments. Light wear to spine ends. Stamp on title-pages. (24),400,(16);(28),584;(26),694,(46) pp., 107 folded engraved plates. Title-page with light toning. A few faint scattered brownspots. First German edition.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1861. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 52, No 8. Pp. (321-) 368. (Entire issues offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 344-347. Minor marginal brownspots. First printing of a milestone paper in microbiology, being the paper in which Pasteur disclosed his discovery of organisms that lived without oxygen. Two years later he named them anaerobic or zymics, contrasting to aerobic which only lived in the presence of free oxygen."In 1861 he turned his attention to the butyric fermentation and made another importent discovery, viz. that this fermentation proceeds in the absence of oxygen. In the fermented material he found cylindrical rods, which he showed were the cause of the fermentation. Following the nomenclature and ideas of the time he regarded them as animal in character and named them Vibrio..." (Bullock "The History of Bacteriology", p. 61).

London, John Murray, 1824. 4to. Contemp. full calf. rebacked, but original gilt spine preserved. Corners a bit bumped. Light wear along edges. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XXX,(2),571,(1) pp., Textillustrations, 38 engraved plates (9 maps - 4 large and folding, 25 plates, 4 folded coastal profiles). Tissue-guards to plates. A bit of offsetting on title-page. A few scattered marginal brownspots. First edition. - Sabin, 58864.

Kiøbenhaffn, Peder Hake (og) Jørgen Holst, 1642-43. 4to. Samtidigt hellæderbind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Lukkestroppe fornyede. Forgyldte stregrammer på permer. I permernes midterfelt et lille forgyldt ovalt bogmærke med bladkrans (blot dekorativt ?) i hvis midte et forgyldt blomsterstempel som går igen på hjørnerammerne. Øverst på forpermen initialerne I.E.R (?) og nederst årstallet 1643. På bagpermen i svagt guldtryk "In Silentio - et Spe" (I Stilhed og Håb (Luthers valsprog var "I Stilhed og Håb skal Jeres Styrke være")). 2 kobberstukne titelblade og 5 i træsnit samt flere gengivelser af rigsvåbnet i træsnit på bagsider af titelblade. Ialt omkring 900 pp. Indvendig særdeles velbevaret. En af de store lovsamlinger fra Peter Hake og Jørgen Holsts trykkerier, som i store træk udgør den danske lovgivning op til Danske Lov. Samlingen indeholder både Chrstian IV's Store Recess og Den rette Jüdske Lowbog (se Thesaurus 422 og 427 med varianter i kollationeringen). - Bibl. Danica I,629-30.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1771 and Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1774) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres", tome XXV, pp. 68-127 with 3 folded plate, and "Nouveau Mémoires Année 1772", pp. 65-102 and 2 engraved plates. First edition of Lambert's importent work which laid the foundation of the science of Hygrometry and coined the word "Hygrometer". The first instrument was build by the instrumentmaker G.F. Brander after Lambert's description. It consisted of a cat-gut string, the expansion and construction of which was transferred to a wheel-work, and shown on a scale divided by 360 gr.. This was afterward adopted by Saussure. - The second paper "Suite de..." is devoted to a discussion of the different hygrometers.The principles and construction were later published in his famous book "Hygrometrie" Augsburg 1774-75. - Poggendorff I:1356 - Rosenthal, Litteratur der Technologie P. 263. - Attached is two other memoires (Gledisch: Correction caracteristique succinte du Genre de L'Albuca et de L'Alethris de Linné. pp. 57-67 and Beguelin: Extrait des Observations Météorologiques faites a Berlin par Orde de Academie dans les Années 1768. et 1769. pp. 128-164.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part II. With the titlepage to Part II. Pp. 837-878, 1 folded engraved plate, tables in the text. The plate slightly browned. It includes 1 typeset by the Scheutz calculator.Clean and fine. First appearance of a pioneer paper in statistical calculations of life-expectations., containing THE VERY FIRST APPLICATION OF A DIFFERENCE ENGINE TO MEDICAL STATISTICS."Farr's preliminary report (the paper offered), describing the use of the Scheutz Engine no. 3 to prepare life tables, was published 5 years before his "English Life Table". Farr, a pioneer in the quantitative study of morbidity and mortality, was chief statistician of the General Register Office, Englands central statistical office. Influenced by Babbage, he had long been interested in the use of a calculating machine, such as Babbage's Difference Engine to compute life tables; see page 854 of the present report, in which Farr refers to his 1843 letter on the subject to the registrar-general. Farr had seen and tested the machine's predecessor, the Scheutz Engine No. 2, when it was on display in London. It was at Farr's recommandation that the British government authorized in 1857 the sum of Pound 1200 for the Scheutz Engine no. 3 to be constructed by the firm Bryan Donkin, a manufacturer of machines for the color printing of bank notes and stamps....Farr's printing report, received by the Royal Society on March 17 of that year, was written while Scheutz Engine no. 3 was still "in the course of construction by Messr. Donkin" (p. 854). The reports table B1, "Life-Table of Healthy English Districts", made from stereotype plates produced by the calculator, represents the very first application of a difference engine to medical studies."(Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyperspace, No. 77.). - Garrison & Morton: 1700.1.

Åbo, Frenckellska Boktryckeriet, 1798. Orig. blanke kartonomslag. Håndskrevet rygtitel. Lidt rifter i rygpapiret. (4),150,(2) pp. Lidt spredte brunpletter. De sidste 5 blade med en skjold øverst. Originaludgaven. First edition. "His Inleding till chemien (1798) was the first Swedishlanguage textbook written in the spirit of the new combustion theory. Although he accepted the phlogiston theory early in his career, Gadolin attempted to understand Lavoisier’s ideas. In a paper published in 1788 he tried to define phlogiston and admitted that the French explanation of combustion was superior to some phlogiston theories, but for a long time he was not wholly converted. His lectures always made use of the new chemistry, and he eventually became the spokesman in Scandinavia for Lavoisier’s nomenclature and combustion theory, often encountering Berzelius, opposition."(DSB).Poggendorff I, 827. - Neville I, p. 496.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel (F. Hegel), 1872. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. Corners a bit bumped. (10),XIII,605,(1) pp. and 1 folded plate. A few faint brownspots to the first leaves. Scarce first Danish edition of "On the Origin of Species" (1859).Freeman: 643.

Kiøbenhavn, Nicolaus Christian Høpffner, 1774-1778 + 1785-1789 + 1793-1800. 4to. Indbundet i 6 samtidige helldrbd. med rygforgyldning og kongernes monogram på rygge. Originaltrykkene.

Coloniae Agrippinae (Köln), Geruuinum Calenium & Haeredes Iohannis Quientely, 1567. Folio. Bound in a contemp. full calf, raised bands, rebacked preserving most of the old spine, compartments with small vignettes in gold. Gilt lineborders to covers. An oval gilt decoration to middle of both covers. Some scratches. A repair to one corner and a small part of frontcover. Titlepage with large woodcut device. (4),1003 pp. Printed in two columns. Many fine initials in woodcut. Internally fine. This volume comes from the library of the Antoninian munks at the L'Eglise de Saint Antoine in Montferrand ", inscribed on the titlepage "Ex Libris domus sti (Sancti) Antonij Montisferandi; Catalogo inscriptus" and "e......No.4" First edition of the fourth volume of Crabbe and Surius's classic work in which are printed "The Acts of the Councils".Adams C: 2772. - Short-Title German 1455-1600, Councils, p. 225.

Berlin und Leipzig, Christian Friederich Günther, (1764). Small 4to. Contemp. blue boards, modestly clothbacked later. Wear along edges. Corners bumped. Engraved title-page in rococcostyle and all leaves (text and plates) engraved. (16),126,(6) pp., 62 full-page engravings, with engraved explanatory text on verso. Title-page a bit soiled. On inside upper cover "Denne Bog er taget af en dansk soldat fra en fjendtlig Officier i Slaget ved Fredericia den 6te Juli 1849" (this book was taken from a hostile officer (German) in the battle at Fridericia the 6th of July 1849). A few plates with minor brownspots. Klaus Jordan, 3837.

Amsterdam, (Typographia Blaeu), Ianssonio-Waesbergios, 1699 (1695)-98. 8vo. Bound in 6 uniform contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. Light wear to spine ends. 2 hinges with small tears. Engraved frontispiece. Printers woodcut device on title-pages. Around 4000 pp. Intenally fine. First edition of the notes edition by Graevius. "It is beautifully printed by Bleau, and forms the prominent feature in the best octa variorum editions of Civero's works. Some of the volumes bear the dates of 1696, 1698. The second part of the first volume bears date 1695. After all the labours of subsequent Editors, and the efforts of subsequent Printers, I am not sure whether, for commodiousness, accuracy, and beauty, any advantage will be gained by the exchange of this, for any other separately printed, impression of the Orations of Civcero." (Dibdin I:441-42).

Hafniæ, 1837. Folio. Cont. hcloth. Scratches on back, especially at top and bottom of spine. Uncut. A little brownspotted, but generally good. XLIV,479,(6) pp., 8 facsimileplates, 6 plates and 4 engraved maps (some folded). First edition. The work contains the texts from the Old Norse literature relating to the discovery of North America. - Fiske I:p.13. - Sabin: 67470.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Showing 2 birds, one at the nest with 4 eggs, surrounded by flowers. 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.

New York , The Viking Press, 1972. Large 4to. Bound in an elegant light brown full morocco binding with gilt lettered author to spine. Five single gilt lines to front board forming a star with a pentagon inside with inlaid geen leather. Gilt lines inside the pentagon forming a satyr playing the flyte. House in a cloth slip case. A very fine and clean copy. X, 309, (2) pp. Fiirst US edition. With 108 reproductions in full color.