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Dresden, Waltherischen Buchhandlung, 1781-87. Bound in 7 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. A label taped to lower compartments. All parts with separate title-pages (20). Ca 2500 pp., 6 folded tables, 6 folded engraved maps/plans. Internally clean and fine.

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. 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.

Kjøbenhavn, Ernst Henrik Berling, 1744. 4to. Samt. hldrbd. over træ. Ryg lidt slidt Overtrækspapiret på permer med mangler.(12),20,311 pp. samt 5 foldede kobberstukne plancher, i teksten talrige geometriske figurer. De første blade og de 5 plancher med en svag vandskjold. Svag skjold på de sidste ca 20 blade. En del blade med brunplet i øvre margin.4to. Contemporary half calf over wooden boards. Spine a bit worn and lacing some of the paper over boards. Faint damp stain to first leaves, to plates, and to the last ab. 20 leaves. Some leaves with a brown spot to upper margin. (12), 20, 311 pp + 5 folded engraved plates. Numerous geometrical figures in the text. Første udgave på dansk af Euclids "Elementer", omfattende Bog 1-6 og 11-12. J.F. Ramus have allerede nogle år tidligere udgivet Euclid, men disse var mindre lærebøger i uddrag og på latin. Oversættelsen indeholder en lang introduktion af Ramus "Betænkning om Euclidis Elementer og om deres Oversættelse i det Danske Sprog."Ziegenbalg var teologisk kandidat, men havde studeret matematik i flere år, både i Jena og i England. Han blev udnævnt til professor i matematik ved Københavns Universitet efter Ramus, og havde i nogle år forinden fungeret som dennes assistent. Hans oversættelse er dedikeret Christian den VI, og i forordet introducerer han den således "offereres (oversættelsen) Deres Kongelige Majestæt...disse udi det Danske Sprog oversatte Elementa Geometriæ, som ere Hoved=Kilden til alle Mathematiske Videnskaber og have nu i 2000 Aar været i saa stor Estime, at alle de største og erfarne Mathematici have grundet deres Skrifter paa dem og at de til almindelig Nytte og Brug ere bekientgiorte næsten udi alle Europæiske, men ey tilforn i dette Sprog."First edition of the first Euclid-translation into Danish, comprising Book 1-6 and 11-12. Bound in cont. hcalf. Rebacked in old style. A good copy. - Riccardi, Bibl. Euclideana, Parte 4, p. 47. - Bibl. Danica IV:96.

Folio. Probably publishers full blindtooled vellum. Rebacked with most of the orig. vellumback preserved. Title in greek a. latin, red and black letters with a woodcut. Engraved portr., 2 textengravings. (10),376,(6) pp. Ocassionally light browning to leaves. Greek and latin paralelltext. Brunet I,497.

Uden Sted, ca. 1818-30. Lille 4to. (19,5x17 cm). Beskedent hshirtbd. Indre false itu, men blokken som består af kortbladene intakt. Indeholder 44 af Holms kortblade, skårne i træ og herefter grænsekolorerede i hånden. Her og der med lidt brunpletter og brugsspor. Et kort med rift, repareret uden tab. Et kort med lidt tab i øverste venstre hjørne. Det lidt naive, men charmerende, atlas er, selvom det er produceret til skolebrug, det første danske atlas. Det udkom med et varierende antal kort og sammensætning, men ialt er der registreret 50 udgivne blade. Omfatter Danmark, Slesvig og Holsten, herefter kort over "Norge og Sverrig", "Rusland", "Tydskland", "Preussen", "Österrige, Ungern og Gallicien", "Tÿrkiet", "Italien", "Spanien og Portugal", "Frankrige", "Nederlandene", "Storbrittanien", "Asien", "Afrika", "America" og "Australien". - Bibliotheca Danica II:391.

Hannover, Helwing, 1815-29. Bound in 4 nice contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spines. Stamp on titlepages. XXIV,420,(4);XXIV,533,(3);XX,450;XIV,537 pp., folded tables and 32 large folded engraved plates, maps and plans. Internally fine and clean, a few margins with browning. Klaus Jordan No 3358.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1805. 8vo. En smule brunplettet. 46 pp. Originaludgaven af Christian d. 7 omfattende karatæne-forordning, hvilket regnes for den første almindelige karantænelov i Danmark, altså omfattende forhold på både land og vand. Her blev der blev bl.a. blev indført at alle skibe, ikke alene fra udlandet, men også fra allernærmest havn eller fiskerleje, var pligtige til at stoppe op på reden og søge forbindelse med karantænemyndighederne i land, og det var ikke tilladt at have samkvem med personer på stedet, før karantænebetjentene gav tilladelse.

London, A. Millar, 1740. Folio. 4 contemp. full calf. Gilt spines. Gilt lineborders on covers. Raised bands. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to spineends. One cover dteached from spine. One volume with small cracks to leather along hinges. 4 engraved frontispieces. Clean, wide-margined, but with some light offsettings.

Paris, Jean Mariette, 1738. 4to. Cont. full calf with raised bands. Gilt back. Binding worn, corners with loss of leather. Edges worn. Engraved titlepage. (4),408,(38) pp. and 158 engraved plates (many double-page). 2 pages torn with loss and 1 plate torn with loss. Plates and text in general good and clean, occasionally some dampstains and soiling to margins. Second edition. This work was the most influential French architectural work for nearly 100 years. Brunet II:540

Tubingae, Cotta, 1671. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (14), 1552, (72) pp. The rare first edition of Osiander’s commentary on Hugo Grotius's seminal work “De Jure Belli” in which he is analyzing Grotius's legal and ethical arguments through a Lutheran theological lens “Major Lutheran theologians such as Johann Adam Osiander, who taught at Tübingen in the second half of the seventeenth century and counted many Swedish youngsters among his students, engaged intensely with Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. Moreover, Lutheran theologians thoroughly engaged with contract law, in particular, recycling ideas and concepts from the Roman law, the early-modern scholastic tradition and Grotius, but integrating them into a Biblical framework, especially the Eighth Commandment prohibiting false testimony.”

Hannover, Helwingschen Hofbuchhandl., 1804-06. Bound in 2 contemp.hcalf. Spines slightly rubbed and a paperlabel pasted on spine. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Small stamp on first titlepag. XXIV,397,130;(4),XX,608,(2) pp. With 235 partly folded tables and 30 large folded engraved plates, each with many figs. These two volumes is the complete part, dealing with artillery, of Scharnhorst work "Handbuch für Offiziere, in den angewandten Theilen der Kriegeswissenschaften".

La Haye, Moetjens, 1685. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Light soiling to extremities. Worm-tract in margin of pp. 359-401, not affecting text, otherwise a nice copy. (1-14), 15-404, (5) pp. + 3 plates. This third edition of one of the first works to deal with the gastronomic and healing qualities of coffee, tea and chocolate and the first work in any language to describe the three new beverages of the seventeenth century. This is the only edition having the appendix consisting of a dialogue about the medical properties between a physician, an Indian and a civilist. Vicaire p. 293-94.

Hamburg, Lüneburg und Leipzig, G.C. Berth, 1769. Bound in 6 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Gilt volume-and titlelabels on backs. Small tears in top a. bottom of spines on 2 vols. Engr. portr. and 6 engr. titlevignettes. Around 3.000 pages and with General-Index to all volumes. Old names on titles. Unzer was probably the first to employ the word "reflex" in connection with sensory-motor reactions.

Paris, Nyon, 1783. 4to. Later clothbacked boards. Stamps on htitles and title-pages. XXIV,467;VIII,426 pp., 20 large folded engraved plates, maps, plans. Internally clean. Second, expanded edition, complete in 2 volumes.

Paris, Crochard, 1816. Contemp. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Sweries 2, tome 3. (Entire volume offered). 448 pp. a. 3 engraved plates. A library stamp to some upper corners. Fourier's paper: pp. 350-375. A few scattered brownspots. First appearance in print of any part of Fourier's landmark work "Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur" which was published in 1822. The 2 large memoirs (of 1811) out of which - together with the offered memoir - grew his landmark work were only published in 1824 and 1826.The volume contains also original papers by LAPLACE, GAY-LUSSAC, MAGENDIE, PRONY, HUMBOLDT, BIOT etc.etc."In 1816 Fourier published a paper (the paper offered) announcing the imminent appearance of a book on both the mathematical and the physical aspects of heat (Fourie 1816); but six years were to pass before a book was published, and it covered only the mathematical sides. In the 'preliminary discourse' he stated that its writing and printing had taken a long time (p. xvii)." (Grattan-Guiness "Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940", p.356).

Ldn., 1955-94. 4to.

Scarborough, S.W. Theakston, 1842. 8vo. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering on frontcover. IV,103 pp. and 25 tipped-in dried samples of seaweed. The very scarce first edition. - Jackson p. 504. - BMC (NH) II:888. - Not in Pritzel.

London, John and Paul Knapton, 1750. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Spine worn and frontcover detached. Corners of binding worn. (12),420 pp., textdiagrams and textfigs. (12),420 pp. Browning to titlepage and repairs to verso of. A bit of inner lower corner of titlepage gone, loosing 3 letters in "Printed for" Some brownspots to outer margins. Some traces of use. Internally generally clean and printed on good paper. The first edition was published 1707 and it was regularly printed throughout the eighteenth century. All issues are scarce. Dougharty (1677-1755) was an Irisman who ran a writing and arithmetic school in Worchester (Macclesfield No 657 (1707)).

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1717. 4to. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXVII". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Pp. 317-322; Pp. 322-336; Pp. 353-360; Pp. 360-362. [Entire volume: (4), 553, (39) pp. + seven engraved plates.]. First printing of the famous Libnitz-issue of Acta Eruditorum published a year after the death of Leibnitz, including the renowned obituary by the German philosopher Christian Wolff. In 1706, Leibniz recommended Wolff for the Professorship at Halle, the post Wolff held for seventeen years until his dismissal, and in 1711, Leibniz sponsored Wolff's membership to the Berlin Academy. It is also mentioned that during the year of Leibniz's death in 1716, Leibniz visited Wolff in Halle when returning to Hanover from Vienna. To honor Leibnitz memory Wolff undertook the project of writing ELOGIUM GODOFREDI GUILIEMI LEIBNITII, a treatise of the life of Leibnitz. As early as 1679 George I, acting as Leibnitz patron, directed him to write the history of the house of Brunswick. Immediately after he began arranging material he had collected. The work was, however, only the preparatory steps when Leibnitz died in 1716 and the work was never published. The present paper, NOTITIA DE HISTORIA BRUNSUICENSI, is the only part of the work, which could have become a opus magnum with historiography, that has ever been published. The volume also contains:Goldbach, Christian. Temperamentum Musicum Universale. Pp. 114-15.And many other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians, philosophers and historians.

Firenze, Stamperia d'Amadore Massi, et Lorenzo Landi, 1640-1637-1642. 4to. Bound in 3 cont. full vellum (Italian bindings). Title- and tomelabels in leather gilt on backs. Some wormholes to top and bottom of backs. All 3 volumes have loss of vellum on one cover. 3 nice engraved titlepages in baroquestyle and 3 halftitles. (4),748;(22),687,(10);(6),544 pp. Printed on good paper. Lower right corners in vol. 2 and 3 faintly dampstained. First edition.

Berlin, Decker, 1864-73. Lex8vo. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines and with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. XXII,(4),352;VI,(4),375;XI,(4),426 pp., 24 engraved plates and 3 folded maps. Faint brownspots to margins in volume 1. First edition. The offered volumes contains the general description of the expedition which relates to Japan and China. They do not comprise the scientific parts (zoology, botany) of the expedition and not the landscape plates published as "Ansichten aus Japan, China und Siam".

La Haye, P. de Hondt, 1758. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally fine and clean, a nice copy. VII, (1), 486, (2) pp. + 26 folded maps and plates (complete). Rare and finely illustrated 16th volume of Prevost’s extensive work on various travel accounts which cover numerous travel narratives to different parts of the world, documenting the discoveries, explorations, and adventures of travelers. This present 16th volume contain description and depictions of numeous 16th century travels to Australia and Mexico and Latin America in general. This present Hondt-edition is “Mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions, especially in the later volumes. The maps and plates were finely engraved by J. van der Schley.” (Sabin 65404). According to Tchemerzine this the best edition. The first edition was published in Paris in seven volumes between 1744 and 1747. This present edition was published in 25 volumes between 1747 and 1780. Sabin 65404 Tchemerzine IX, 233: ("C´est la meilleure édition de ce recueil")

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. Bound together in one contemp. hcloth. Small tears to spine ends. (=) "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. Internally fine and clean. The whole 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.

Wien und Nürnberg, 1755. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Stamped in blind on spine. Titlelabel with lettering. The gilt monogram of King Frederi V on red background on both covers. Stamp on title-page. Engr.portr., (10),144,23,(1) pp. and 79 engravings (on 42 folded plates). Internally clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 3688.

Nytaarsgave for 1826. Viborg,(1825). Samt. hldrbd.m.rygtitel. Associationseksemplar med flg.tilskrift på fribladet:"Foræret mig af Forfatteren,Ole Bork" (Bork var Blichers nabopræst og tillige udgiver af "Nordlyset").