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Paris, Crochard, 1816. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. 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. and 3 engraved plates. Library stamps to verso of title-page and verso of plates. 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).

A Paris, chez le Sr Desnos, 1783. 46x64 cm. Engraved map of South America, contemporary handcoloured. The 2 large cartouches uncoloured. Right margin shaved, small tear showing into scale, of which a small part lost (1x1 cm.). Jaillots impressive map of South America from 1681 in Brion de la Tour's revision from 1783.

London, Richard Taylor, 1834-35. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1835 - Part I. Titlepages to the volume present. (2),95-144. Both papers clean and fine. First appearance of this groundbreaking paper in which Hamilton develops the whole of theoretical dynamics by the aid of one function only, his 'Characteristic' or 'Principal' Function. He applies his method to a case of planetary motion, using a system of canonical elements" (Introduction, The Mathematical Paper of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, xiii). Hamilton then argues that the "tool of the characteristic function could also be applied to reformulate the fundamental laws of dynamics; thus the actual motion of mass point in a field of forces, e.g., is found to be governed by equations that are the analogues of those determining the propagation of the rays of light. Hamilton's optical-mechanical analogy, not only provided a new and more powerful formulation of classical mechanics but also, came to form the foundation of the Schrödinger scheme of quantum mechanics, e.g., wave mechanics. " (Mehra The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)

La Haye, Jean van Duren, 1741. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtooled borders on covers. A paperlabel pasted on spines. Light wear to top of spine on part 1. Stamp on title-pages. Title-pages in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved frontispiece. XXXII,164;(2),VIII,(8),143,(1);(2),158 pp., 40 large folded engraved plates. Clean and fine on good paper. First edition.

Lyon, Chouet, 1607. 4to. In contenmporary full vellum. Binding with wear, soiling and miscolouring. Back board with wormholes and corner and and head and foot of spine with loss of vellum. Title-page with light soiling and previous owner's name in contemporary hand. Small dampstain to upper margin, but internally generally nice and clean. (16), 1172, (22) pp. Rare first edition of Favre’s commentary on Roman jurist Papinian, one of the founding jurists at the school of law at Beirut in the second century. Here Favre attempts to present and analyse all the rules of Roman laws in a scientific and systematic way.

Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1854-62. Bound in 17 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted to lower compartment. A few scratches and light wear to some edges. Upper compartment on last volume defective with a nick in leather. With Arago's engraved portrait in last volume. Some scattered brownspots, but in general clean and fine. First edition.

(Kiøbenhaffn, Hans Stockelmann og Andreas Gutterwitz, (Baltzer Kausis Bekaastning)), Kolophon, 1574). Lille 8vo. Senere hldrbd. i gl. stil med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rygfelter med blindtrykt stempel, forgyld titel. Med 153 (af 168) blade. Mangler bladene I-XII, XIIIa,XV,XVI. Lidt spredte brunpletter og lettere brugsspor. Eksemplaret har tilhørt Jonas Skougaard og har hans kollationering på bagerste friblad. Hans biblioteksnummer tilskrevet 9214. Skougaard anfører, at der kendes 7 komplette og 3 defekte eksemplarer, hvoraf der i Norge er 2 komplette og 1 defekt. Dette er tredie optryk af ordinansen - det første udkom 1553 - af den reviderede og endelige udgave af Danmark og Norges reformations-ordinans fra 1542. Den var gældende i Norge op til 1607 hvor Norge fik sin egen.Laur. Nielsen, 1218. - Thesaurus, 72.

Copenhagen, 1856. 8vo. Bound with the original blank glitted front wrapper in contemporary boards with cloth back-strip. Stamp to title-page. A bit of overall wear and minor brown-spotting. 15 pp. Rare first edition, presentation-copy, of colding's highly interesting first work on the philosophical and religious aspects of his discovery of the principle of conservation of energy, which is of importance for his discussions of joule's experiments and for his priority dispute with mayer, independently of and simultaneusly with both of whom he discovered the principle of conservation of energy. Presentation inscription from the author ("Hr. Generalmajor v. Schlegel / ærbødigt fra A. Colding") [i. e. "Mr. General Major v. Schlegel / Yours faithfully A. Colding"] to verso of the original front wrapper.Ludvig August Colding (1815 - 1888) was a famous Danish engineer and physicist. He was originally educated as a carpenter but graduated as mechanical engineer in 1841. In 1845 he became water-inspector in Copenhagen and in 1847 he was also given the responsibility of the gas- and waterworks. Together with the famous chemist Julius Thomsen, he proved that the cholera spread throughout Copenhagen through the drinking water (1853) - a most significant discovery. After this he was responsible for replacing much of the sewer-system of Copenhagen. In 1857 he became state engineer. During this period he overhauled the desperately inadequate water and sanitation system. He articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected."The Philosophical and religious side of Colding's thesis was first elaborated in his cumbersome treatise of 1856, "Naturvidenskabelige Betragtninger over Slaegtskabet mellem det aandelige Livs Virksomheder og de almindelige Naturkraefter" ("Scientific Reflections on the Relationship between the Intellectual Life's Activity and the General Forces of Nature"), his last paper on this topic to the Danish Society of Sciences; it was published on the occasion of his being elected member of the Society. It stressed his own philosophical conviction and dwelt at length on the relationship between the material and the spiritual in nature, clearly echoing the intellectual and aesthetic influence of Oersted and in a tone reminiscent of Kant and Schelling. This paper is also of interest for Colding's discussions of Joule's experiments, with which he was acquainted by then, and for his passionate priority dispute with Mayer." (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 15 & 16, s. 86)

Franckfurt & Leipzig, 1771. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Corner bumped and boards with a few scratches. Internally very nice and clean. 152, (2), 100, (2), 76, (2), 82, (2), 82 pp. + 2 hand coloured folded maps, 7 portraits and 1 folded plate. First German translation, part 1 to 6 only, of Carminer’s richly illustrated extensive work on the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 to 1774, with detailed accounts of the prehistory and course of the war, peace efforts, domestic political conditions, description of the Turkish state and its armed forces, and much more. The engravings include portraits of Mustafa III, Halil Pasha, Admiral Spiridov, Peter III, the Dardanelles Strait, among others. The work was first published in Venice in 1770 under the following title “Storia della guerra presente tra la Russia e la Porta Ottomana”.

München, Piper & Co, (1958). Lex 8vo. Original blue full cloth binding with original dust-jacket in red and black with white and grey lettering. Dust-jacket with nicks and tears to extremities. A few underlinings to the first leaves. With the bookplate of the famous American educator Paul Arthur Schilpp. 506, (6, -advertisements). Inscribed by the author to front free end-paper: "Herrn College Schilpp/ in alter Dankbarkeit/ Karl Jaspers". And with the inscription "Basel, den 7. August 1958" underneath. First edition, presentation-copy, of Jasper's main work in political philosophy, "The Atom Bomb and the Future of Man", in which Jaspers outlines his humanist doctrine. It is in this work that we find most explicitly expressed his ideas on the importance of the social and collective conditions of human integrity. The work became greatly influential. The German philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Theodor Jaspers (1883-1969) was one of the main exponents of existentialism in Germany and he had an enormous impact on theology, psychiatry and philosophy of his time. Later on, his works in political philosophy came to exersize an even greater influence upon 20th century thought. "Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) began his academic career working as a psychiatrist and, after a period of transition, he converted to philosophy in the early 1920s. Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century he exercised considerable influence on a number of areas of philosophical inquiry: especially on epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and political theory. His philosophy has its foundation in a subjective-experiential transformation of Kantian philosophy, which reconstructs Kantian transcendentalism as a doctrine of particular experience and spontaneous freedom, and emphasizes the constitutive importance of lived existence for authentic knowledge. Jaspers obtained his widest influence, not through his philosophy, but through his writings on governmental conditions in Germany, and after the collapse of National Socialist regime he emerged as a powerful spokesperson for moral-democratic education and reorientation in the Federal Republic of Germany." (SEP).Paul Arthur Schilpp (1897 - 1993) was famous an American educator. He was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States prior to World War I. Schilpp taught at Northwestern University, University of the Pacific and spent the last years of his professional career teaching undergraduate philosophy courses at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He was considered a serious and driven teacher of moral decision and thought, often controversial. He was known for his passionate teaching methods and highly energetic delivery. For many years he was the editor of the Library of Living Philosophers. As editor he was able to convince people like Albert Einstein to contribute to the library.

Berlin, G. Eichler, 1836. In "Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin Herausgegeben von Johannes Müller". Jahrgang 1836. Pp. 66-89 a. pp. 90-139. The entire volume offered in its 6 parts (in 5), all 5 issues uncut with orig. printed warppers. (2),CCXXIV,390 pp. and 15 engraved plates. The 2 first issues with a faint dampstain to lower part of leaves and plates. First appearance of an importent paper in the history of biology, in which Schwann describes his discovery and isolation of pepsin, the substance in the stomach that aids digestion of eggwhite. It is the FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME. The paper appeared at the same time in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff".Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) was a great German physiologist, pathologist, and experimenter. One of the founders of the cell doctrine and of the idea of the living nature of yeast. Born at Neuss, near Düsseldorff. A catholic, educated in the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne. Intended for the church but took to medicine. He was a pupil of Johannes Müller and a collegueand lifelong friend of J. Henle, the anatomist. In Berlin Schwann was Johannes Müller's assistent for five years, and it was then that he discovered pepsin in 1836 (the paper offered).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1836 B. - Garrison & Morton no. 991.The first paper offered, written together with Johannes Müller records the preliminary investigaions leading to the discovery of Pepsin. - Garrison & Morton no. 990.The volume also contains another famous paper by ROBERT REMAK "Vorläufige Mittheilung microscopischer Beobachtungen über den innern Bau der Cerebrospinalnerven und über die Entwicklung ihrer Formenelemente. (Hierzu Tafel IV). Pp. 145-161. This paper contains the first announcement of his DISCOVERY OF "FIBRES OF REMAK", the non-medullated nerve-fibres. (Garrison & Morton no. 1260.

London, Richard taylor and William Francis, 1853-54. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853, Vol. 143 and 1854, Vol. 144. With titlepages to vol. 143 a. 144. The papers: pp. 357-365 a. pp. 321-364, textillustrations. The first titlepage bears the name of P.G. Tait. First printing of these importent papers in which the authors found the so-called Joule-Thomson effect which should be the founding technology in refrigeration. They showed that a gas expanding into vacuum without addition of external work undergo a change in temperature, in spite of the theoretical speculations. The temperature change occurs due to the internal work required to overcome the attractive forces between molecules."The only substantial contribution to thermodnamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson, are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular, a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug (so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition—constant enthalpy), would in general undergo a cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions). For the delicate test of this effect Thomson required Joule’s unsurpassed skill (1852). But the application of the Joule- Thomson effect to the technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics."(DSB).Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. (His name on the first titlepage).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1852 C.

(City of the Regent (St. Petersburg), November 7303 (= 1795)). 4to. Contemp. full calf over wood, remains of clasps. The covers bent. A crack in the wood and leather on the backcover. 82 leaves (164 pp). Printed on thick paper, internally clean. A small nick to margin on the first leaf. First edition of Catherine's Church Ritual for the Old Believers.

Paris, Edme Couterot, 1683. 12mo (160 x 100 mm). In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine (indicating the inventory number in a estate library). A fine copy. (blank), (34), 469, (18), (blank) pp. Rare first appearance of Mouette’s account of Morocco and Fez in particular based on his observations during his eleven years of captivity in Morocco. Mouette is regarded as being one of the few chroniclers of Moroccan captivity. Germain Mouette, also known as Sieur Mouette, faced misfortune during his journey to the French colonies in the Americas. While aboard the warship La Royale in October 1670, he encountered the corsairs of Salé and became a captive of Moroccan pirates. Following his capture, Sieur Mouette, like other foreign captives, was transported to Salé, often characterized as the "pirate capital of Morocco" Throughout his eleven-year sojourn in Morocco, Mouette meticulously documented and remembered his experiences. Initially sold into captivity in Salé, where he toiled alongside fellow slaves in the renovation of the city walls, he was eventually sent to Fes. "It may nevertheless be objecte, that being a captive or slave, he had not leisure to see and inform himself as travelers do : But a man, that has anything of curiosity, though in the depth of misery, never fails to observe what is remarkable", Mouette wrote.

Güstrow (Rostock), Johan Hallervords, 1635. Small 8vo. Later, modest clothbacked marbled boards. (24),255 pp. One leaf torn in lower margin, no loss of text. Very light browning and a few scattered brownspots. Scarce second edition (the first 1630) of an importent work on the borderline of chemistry and medicine. Osler states that he "was one of the founders of modern chemistry"."Sala (following Paracelsus) defined the Spagyric Art as that part of chemistry which has for its subject the natural bodies, vegetable, animal, and mineral, and such operations as tend to the end of rendering them useful in medicine.... its principal operations are separation, subtilisation, and sublimation." (Partington)."He was an able physician and an excellent chemist, an admirer and to some extent a follower of Paracelsus, an advocate of chemical remedies, an opponent of quackery, and he was able to judge fairly the merits both of the chemical and Galenic systems of medicine then in conflict. Concring calls him the first of the chemists who was free from triffling;... (Ferguson)."Considering his work as a whole, it is evident that Sala was above all a practitioner. In his view, demonstrations could be carried out only through manual operations (inventionibus manualibus), that is to say, only with the aid of experimental examples, which he clearly distinguished from argumentation. For him, chemistry was still a handicraft (ars)."(DSB).Ferguson II, p. 314. - Partington II, p. 277. - Not in Duveen - Not in Neville.

(København, 1867). Contemp. marbled clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Pp. 26-45. Extracted from "Oversigt over det Kgl. danskeVidenskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger 1867, Nr. 1". Extremely scarce first edition of the paper in which Lorenz, independent of Maxwell, stated that light is electromechanical in nature, probably inspired by his former teacher H. C. Oersted, the discoverer of electromagnetism and professor at the Polytechnic College, he aimed at unifying the forces of nature without introducing new physical hypotheses. "The idea that the various forces in nature are merely different manifestations of the one and same force has proved itself more fertile than all physical theories".Most impressive of all Lorenz’ achievements in optics is his electromagnetic theory of light, developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867, two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject. At that time Lorenz did not know Maxwell’s theory, and his own approach was quite different. Lorenz’ electromagnetic theory of light can be described briefly as an interpretation of the light vector as the current density vector in a medium obeying Ohm’s law. This paper contains the fundamental equations for the vector potential and the scalar potential or - for the first time - the corresponding retarded potentials expressed in terms of the current density vector and the electrical charge density. The concept of retarded potentials had already been introduced in an earlier paper by Lorenz in connection with research on the theory of elasticity. He found that the differential equation for the current density vector was the same as his fundamental wave equation for the light vector, completed with a term which explains the absorption of light in conducting media, and that his theory led to the correct value for the velocity of light." (Mogens Pihl in DSB).The paper was published in English, 1867 "On the identity of the vibrations of light with electrical currents." (Philosophical Magazine 34: 287-301) and also in German in "Annalen der Physik"

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1862). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1862. Vol. 152 - Part II. Pp. 333-416, textillustrations (his photoheliograph), scale of colours and 13 plates. Plates somewhat soiled, but the 6 engraved plates, showing the prominences only the margins affcted by the soiling. These facsimiles (copies of touched photographs) probably the first of their kinds. Text clean. First appearance of pioneer-paper in astronomical photography, where he took wet-plate photographs of the moon-blocked sun during a total solar eclipse, and from them discovered solar prominences. - This was the first solar eclipse to be photographed, using the Kew Photoheliograph, a purpose-built combined camera and telescope designed by de la Rue and built in 1857 by Andrew Ross. De la Rue, Warren 1815-89, British scientist and inventor. Especially noted as an astronomer, he was a pioneer in celestial photography. He adapted the wet-plate process to lunar photography and invented (1858) for Kew Observatory a photoheliograph, the first device to give good solar pictures. His photographs of a solar eclipse in 1860 demonstrated that prominences observed at the sun's edge are of solar origin. De la Rue is known also for his research in chemistry, solar physics, and electrical discharge through gases.In 1860 De la Rue took the photoheliograph to Spain for the purpose of photographing the total solar eclipse which occurred on 18 July of that year. This expedition formed the subject of the Bakerian Lecture - the paper offered -. The photographs obtained on that occasion proved beyond doubt the solar character of the prominences or red flames, seen around the limb of the moon during a solar eclipse. In 1873 De la Rue gave up active work in astronomy, and presented most of his astronomical instruments to the university observatory, Oxford. Subsequently, in the year 1887, he provided the same observatory with a 13-inch refractor to enable it to take part in the International Photographic Survey of the Heavens.

Stockholm, Johan Hörberg, 1824. Senere mønstret papomslag. med forgyldt skindtitel på forpermen. 27 pp. samt 1 stor litograferet foldeplanche visende planerne af Stjerneborg og Uranienborg (34x20 cm.). Very scarce. This is Bishop Faxe's account of the first archaelogical excavation on the island of Hven to determine exactly the plans and properties of what was left over of Tycho Brahe's two kinds of observatories, Uranienborg and the underground observatory, Stjerneborg.

Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, F. & G. Beijer, 1906. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Acta Mathematica", Vol, 30, 1906. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 355-400. [Entire volume: 6, 410 pp]. First appearance of Fatou's seminal Ph.D. thesis in which he presented his famous Fatou theorem, which state that a bounded analytic function in the unit disc has radial limits almost everywhere on the unit circle. This theorem was at the origin of a large body of research in 20th-century mathematics under the name of bounded analytic functions. Fatou set is the 'regular' appearance of the chaotic Julia set and both if these initiated what was to be known as "complex dynamics" which eventually resulted in the Mandelbrot set.Fatou's thesis also include the first application of the Lebesgue integral to concrete problems of analysis, mainly to the study of analytic and harmonic functions in the unit disc. He furthermore studied for the first time the Poisson integral of an arbitrary measure on the unit circle and also made a major contribution to finding a solution to the related question of whether conformal mapping of Jordan regions onto the open disc can be extended continuously to the boundary."He contributed important results on the Taylor series, the theory of the Lebesgue integral, and the iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. When studying the circle of convergence of the Taylor series, several points of view are possible: (1) one can look for criteria of convergence or divergence of the series itself on the circumference; (2) one can consider the limit values of the circle of the analytic function represented by the series and try to determine where these limit values are finite or infinite, as well as the properties of the functions of the argument represented by the real and imaginary parts of the series when these functions are well defined; (3) one can consider what points on the circumference, singular in the Weierstrass sense, also determine the analytic extension of the series. The link between these problems led Fatou to formulate a fundamental theorem in the theory of the Lebesgue integral." (DSB).

Hafniae (Copenhagen), 1837. Folio. Orig. blue wrappers, rebacked. Orig. printed titlelabel preserved. Uncut. XLIV,479,(6) pp., 8 facsimileplates, 6 plates and 4 engraved maps (3 large and folded). Occasional a little brownspotted. The work contains the texts from the Old Nordic Litterature which deals with the discovery of America. - Fiske p. 13.

London a. N.Y., Macmillan and Co., 1893. Orig. full green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. IX,507 pp., textillustrations. A fine clean copy. First edition og one of the most importent work in the Theory of Functions.

Philadelphia, Fraklin Institute, 1835. 8vo. Later full green cloth. Tome-and titlelabels in leather with gilt lettering on spine. In: "Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania... Edited by Thomas P. Jones", Vol. XV. New series. Engraved frontisp. (2),446 pp., 2 folded engraved plates and 2 folded engraved maps. (Entire volume offered). Henry's announcement: pp. 169-70. A stamp to verso of frontispiece (Library of Congress duplicate stamp). First printing of this importent paper, the first to describe in detail how the phenomena of Self-Induction was discovered. Henry discovered the induction phenomena - how an electric current in one coil may set up a current in the other through the development of the magnetic field - independently of Faraday, but Faraday was first to publish on electromagnetic induction. Henry's experiments with induction led him to his importent discovery of SELF-INDUCTION, which is the phenomenon in which a change in electric current in a coil produces an induced emf in the coil itself. This phenomenon was also discovered inependently by Faraday, but this time Henry had published first. The basic unit of inductance was to be called "the Henry". Relevant to the controversy between Faraday and Henry is the following statement by A D Bache, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society introducing an abstract of Henry in J Franklyn Inst. 1835 pp. 169-70 (H. Norman 1053 and the paper offerd): "A memoir on this subject has been since submitted to the Society, containing an extension of the subject, the primary fact in relation to which was observed by Professor Henry as early as 1832, and announced by him in the American Journal of Science. Mr. Faraday having recently entered upon a similar train of observations, the immediate publication of the accompanying is important, that the prior claims of our fellow countryman may not be overlooked."(Spark Museum).Magee "Source Book in Physics", p. 515.

London, Richard Bentley, 1859. Orig. full cloth. Blindtooled covers, gilt back. Back with light wear, top and bottom of back frayed. Inner hinges a little loose, but not broken. XIV,(2),587 pp. and 8 wood-engraved plates, textillustration. Light scattered brownspots. A few marginal pencil strokes. First English edition of his famous work "Aus Amerika" 1867-58. - Sabin 25992.

London, Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1829. 8vo. Bound in 2 nice, well-preserved contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. 2 engraved frontispieces (portrait a. Idols). XVI,536;VIII,576 pp., 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 6 engraved plates, 1 plate in woodcut and 16 woodcuts in the text. Printed on good paper, internally fine and clean. First edition. "The "Rechearches" excited great interest; the book was reviewed in the "Quarterly Review" by Southey, whose judgement was given in the words "A more interesting book we have never perused." The publication of this book went far to redeem the characters of missionaries in the eyes of some who had thought of them as all ignorant and narrow-minded." (DNB).

(Kbhvn., 1823-24 og 1826). 4to-oblong. Til samlingen udkom intet titelblad. Med 24 smukke akvatintetryk (19 x 22 cm.) samt tilhørende tekst. - Krohn anfører p.181 (nr. 1400), at der ialt udkom 26 blade (bl.a. med Pompeji og Roeskild, disse 2 er ikke her). Yderst sjælden.