Search Results

Paris, Bachelier, 1820-24. 4to a. folio-oblong. (51 x 34 cm.) Textvolumes: 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Paperlabels pasted to spines. XV,(1),280;VIII,(2),274 - XVI,280;VI,(2),284 - XXXII,290;IX,288 pp. - Atlas-Volume: Contemp. hcloth. Title-page and 20 engraved plates (10+10 only to vols 1-2). All right margins in volume 1 having some foxing and soiling, but not reaching the text. Plates with scattered brownspots. Poggendorff I,628.

København, Joh. Frederik Schultz, 1804. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine copy. XL, 328 pp. First edition of Prahl's important work on the Nikobar Islands. Prahl was attorney General General on St. Thomas and Tranquebar. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 18868.100.Bibliotheca Norvegica 410

Stockholm 1877. Tvær-folio. Samt. halvlæderbind med forgyldt tekst på permer. Med 55 plancher, de fleste vandskjoldede. Folio oblong. Contemporary half calf bindig with gilt lettering to boards. With 55 plates depicting the World exhibition of 1876. Most plates with dampstaining.

No Place (Wittenberg), 1598. Bound in 18th century full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Large oval mongram in gold on both covers. Light edgewear. (32),105 (=205) pp. Many astronomical woodcuts in the text. With only one movable hand (pointer) of 4. Title-page with a large sphaerical woodcut. Title-page mounted and a bit frayed, loosing some paper of upper right corner, no loss of text. A bit of fraying to the next three leaves. Old names on title-page. On top "Libris D. Procopii...". 7th edition of this scarce, celebrated and widely used textbook in astronomy. The first edition published 1564.Houzeau & Lancaster, 2637.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1750). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome IV, pp. 103-121 + pp. 122-132 + pp. 133-148 and 6 engraved plates (on 5). Three first editions by Euler. Euler's goal in the first paper is to show that certain phenomena that resulted from the eclipse of July 25, 1748 are evidence that the moon has an atmosphere that is almost 200 times less dense than that of the earth. (The phenomena Euler observed are optical effects of light passing close to a sharp edge, and not the refraction of a lunar atmosphere).The other papers on the physics of rigid bodies are groundbreaking as Euler here set forth what is known as "Euler's dynamical equations of the motion of the mass-center of any solid", and thus STATING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE LAW OF DRY FRICTION, mathematically. Euler explains his experiments with the inclined plane and discovers the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KINETIC AND STATIC FRICTION."Leonhard Euler occupied himself with the mathematical point of view of friction as well as the experimental. He introduced the differentiation between static frictional forces and kinetic frictional forces, and solved the problem of rope friction, probably the first contact problem to be analytically solved in history. (1750, the papers offered). He was the first to lay the foundations of the mathematically way of dealing with the law of dry friction and in this way promoted further development. We have to thank for the symbol as the coefficient of friction. Euler worked with the idea that friction originates from the interlocation, between small triangular irregularities.This understanding survived, in different variations,for a hundred years and is also used today as the "Tomlinson Model" in connection with friction on atomic scale."(L. Popov "History of the Contact Mechanics and the Physics of Function", p.3).Eneström: E142, E143, E144.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1759. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly blindtooled spine. Titlelabel. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved title-vignette. (6),186 pp., 1 large folded engraved plate with handcoloured signatures. On good paper. Light soiling to lower right corner of title-page, otherwise clean and fine. First edition.

Reykjavik, 1967. Large folio. Orig. hcalf, cased. Frontisp., Portrait and 153 facsimile-plates.

Stockholm, Charles Delén, 1804. 4to. Smukt og velbevaret samtidigt moire-præget helshirtbd. med rygforgyldning. Bogtrykt titelblad samt titelblad i aqvatintetryk. 47,(1),(1) pp. samt 12 smukke aquatinteplancher, heraf 1 "Carte du fleuve Göta Elf aux Environs des Cataractes de Trollhätta". De smukke plancher er tegnet og graverede af Skjöldebrand. Et usædvanligt, rent og frisk eksemplar, såvel indvendigt som udvendigt. Skrivepapirseksemplar.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche, 1768. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Titel-og tomefelter i skind. Stempler på titelbladet. (20),851,(1) pp. Med alle 28 kobberstukne kort, byprospekter og planer. (Bl.a. det store General=Kort over Jylland, Det specielle kort over Aarhus Stift, Det specielle kort over Viborg Stift), herudover de 25 foldede prospekter og grundtegninger over stifternes byer. Eksemplar trykt på skrivepapir, plancherne såvel som teksten. Indvendig rent, frisk eksemplar med gode marginer. Originaltrykket af Pontoppidans Danske Atlas Bind IV.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Band IX, Heft 4. Titlepage to Bd. 9. Pp. 513-680 a. 1 folded engraved plate. + Neue Folge Band XI, Heft 9. Titlepage to Bd. 11. Pp. 1-176 a. 2 folded plates. Lorentz's paper; pp. 641-665 (of Heft 4). Lorenz's paper: pp. 70-103. (2 entire issues offered). A stamp on titlepapges and verso. Both clean and fine. First printing of these two fundamental papers, revealing a lasting result in the history of physics, as both authors INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER, discovered the mathematical formula for the dependence of refraction of light upon specific gravity. It is very interesting that they found the formula - now called the Lorenz-Lorentz Equation or Formula - with altogether different ways and methods. They both discovered the formula before 1880, L.V. Lorenz first, but, also independently, published their final versions in the same periodical, and in the same year (the 2 papers offered). - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1880 P.

Amsterdam, J. Wolters, 1696. 4to. Cont. marbled boards pigskin-backed. Titlelabel in leather, gilt. Back a little rubbed. Internally fine with broad margins and clean, printed on good paper. 13,16,16,16,10,(2),12,(2),14,13,(1),13,(1) pp. and 10 fine engraved plates, known for their accuracy and details. First editions of the 9 tracts called "Epistolae", of which in all 14 were issued, containg Ruysch's answers to anatomical and physiological propositions proposed by different authors. "Ruysch, professor of anatomy at Leyden and Amsterdam, is notable for his method of injecting vessels. The recipe for the material used by Ruysch has remained a secret. He gave the first description of bronchial blood vessels and vascular plexuses of the heart, demonstrated the valves of the lymphatics, and made a great number of other importent discoveries in anatomy" (Garrison & Morton). - Ruysch's prepartions of corpses were known for their dramatic appearences. He prepared e.g. the corpse of a child as it were alive so that Pater the Great was inclined to kiss it. His preparations was well known by the public, many were exhibited in different places, and in 1717 Peter the Great bought his collection for 30.000 Guilders. Some of the items are still held by The Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. - Wellcome IV:pp. 597-98.

Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1836. Contemp. hcalf, spine richly gilt. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on titlepage. XVI,278 pp. and 16 folded lithographed plates with many figs of shotguns, their construction and their engravings. A few brownspots to top of titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Very scarce first German edition. - Sotheran , Second Supplement: 21443 (the English sec. ed.).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1858. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3e Series - Tome 53. 512 pp. a. 2 folded engarved plates.(The entire volume offered). Couper's paper: pp. 469-489. Some scattered brownspots. First appearance of this milestone paper in organic chemistry - a shorter note was published in Comptes Rendus in June 1858 - in which, independently of Kekulé, Couper introduces the CONCEPT OF BONDS (represented as a dash or a dotted line) in chemistry and also observes the very importent fact, that carbon atoms forms the backbone of organic compounds."It was not till 1858 that a satisfactory theory of molecular constitution was advanced, simultaneously and endependently, by thwo young chemists, Friedrich August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper. The theory of molecular constitution put foreward....by Couper and Kekulé rested on two main postulates, the quadriivalency of carbon,....and the capacity of the carbon atom for mutual linking or combining together to form a carbon "chain". By this hypothesis of the mutual linking together of carbon atoms - which waslater confirmed by experiment - it was possible to explain the formation of organic compounds containing a large number of carbon atoms. On the foundation of their postulates two postulates, moreover, (they) showed how the molecular constitution or mutual linking together of the atoms of a compound could be represented diagrammatically and the relstions between different compounds made readily intelligible. In his classic paper "On a New Chemical Theory" (the paper offered here in its first appearance) advanced beyond Kekulé by representing the constitutions of the compounds by means of GRAPHIC FORMULA in which, as at the present day, the valencies pf the atoms are represented by lines....his formulae are similar to those at present in use..."(Findlay pp. 34 ff)"The theory of Kekulé and Couper gave the chemists the maeans of solving the problems of chemical constitution; and by means of the graphic or constitutional formulae it became possible to represent the molecular constitution of known compounds and to foresee the possible existence of isomeric compounds."(Findlay).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1858 C.The volume contains another importent, monumental memoir MARCELLIN BERTHELOT "Sur la Synthèse des Carbures D'Hydrogene", pp. 69-208. Here he prsents his review of his work in organic chemistry during the previous ten years. "In his conclusion Berthelot argued that chemistry differed from a descriptive science such as natural history by being creative and that in this it resembled the mathematical sciences."(DSB)

Kbhvn., 1790-96. 29 x 39,5 cm. Håndkoloreret akvatintestik. Bladet har været foldet, har derfor folderande. I højre side tæt beskåret. Fugtplet i nederste venstre hjørne, der dog ikke berører billedfladen. (Peint par Lorentzen. Gravee par G.Haas). - Schiøtz, 620,I.

Hafniæ (København), Daniel Eichhorn - Chr. Cassube, 1660. Lille 4to. Samtidigt grønt indfarvet helpergamentsbind. kanter lidt slidte. Hjørner restaurerede. De første 6 blade reparerede i kanter. En cm. af nederste del af titelbladet tabt med tab af enkelte bogstaver. Forsatsblade fornyede. (36),374,(2) pp. I teksten, på kalenderbladene talrige små symbolske træsnit illustrerende de forskellige dagsforløb. 2 blade med lidt blækpletter. Enkelte brunpletter. Lettere papirsgulning. Et stykke af det oprindelige forsatspapir er bevaret og herpå ejernavnet "Sorterup 1833". Det sjældne originaltryk. Wallensbech var under Københavns belejring Kapellan ved Holmens Kirke og præst ved Kvæsthuset. "Hans ejendommelige Værk Diarium.... Daglig Tegnebog... er en Dagbog paa vers med latinsk og dansk tekst sideløbende. Stoffet er ordnet synkronistisk, saa at Versene om Hændelser paa samme Dato i krigens forskjellige aar staar paa samme Side. Som illustrationer findes nogle kuriøse Smaabilleder, der bestandig gentages for at betegne de stadig tilbagevendende begivenheder, som Udfald, Bombardement, Tilførsel o.s.v., de samme Begivenheder som inspirerede Digteren.... Som man ser, er Versemaalene forskellige, de skifter Maaned for Maaned, saa at Ensformigheden brydes.... Baade for Hjørring og Wallensbech var et solidt Had til Svenskerne en selvfølgelig Ting; de stod begge afgjort paa den ene stridende Parts Side." (Carl S. Petersen).Bibl. Danica III,158. Her nævnes, at i nogle eksemplarer er der før titelbladet indsat 2 blade med et kobberstik på den ene bagside. I foreliggende eksemplar er disse blade ikke tilstede. - Thesaurus II, 701.

In Vinigia (Venice), Comin da Trino, 1553. 4to. Bound in full calf, Cambridge-binding from ab. 1750, raised bands. Top and foot of spine frayed. Back a little worn. Front board detached. Engraved coat of arms of Thomas Foley on verso of title pasted in. Title in ornamented wood-cut-frame. (26) pp. and 244 leaves. Fine wood-cut-initial. One full-page woodcut-illustration (Justitia). A few lvs. very slightly browned, otherwise fine and clean. One of the first Italian translations of this principal historical work, which first appeared in Latin 1487. Graesse VI: p.202. Brunet V:p.6.

(Amsterdam), 1696. 52x59,5 cm. Kobberstukket og håndkoloreret søkort visende Bælterne mellem Østjylland, Fyn, Sjælland, Lolland og Falster, Sydsverige, Rü Bornholm, Nordtyskland m.v. Med det danske rigsvåben i nederste højre hjørne; heri dedikation til Cornelis Tromp, den danske og hollandske flådes admiral. Den store kartouche i øverste venstre hjørne viser scener fra folkelivet og brydning af kalksten fra Møn eller Stevns. Fin reparation i højre margin. Sjældent søkort over de indre danske farvande og porten til Østersøen. Kortet "ligger ned" med øst orienteret oppe. Jacob Robyn var kortsælger og kortudgiver. Han købte rettighederne til Pieter Goos's Zee-Spiegel og Zee Atlas fra Goos' enke, men han udfærdigede også selv adskillige kort. Hans lager blev overtaget af Johannes Loots i Amsterdam."Alle de anførte hydrografers (samtidige kartografer) kortarbejder er overordentlig sjældne både herhjemme og i udlandet og noteres betydelig højere i pris end de samtidige landkort" (Bo Bramsen p. 112).

Frankfurt, Sande, 1712 & 1714. 4to. Four parts uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small old paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Boards with wear and scratches. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. (32), 768, (76), (24), 808, (84) pp. + frontispiece; (24), 511, (60), (20), 656, (38), (10), 244, (12) pp. + frontispiece. The rare first edition of Majus’ extensive work on divine judgment as it is presented across the entire Bible. Johann Heinrich Majus (1653–1719) was a Lutheran theologian born in Pforzheim, Baden. He studied in Wittenberg, Leipzig and Strasbourg, specializing in Oriental languages. After serving as a preacher for the Count Palatine of Veldenz and in Baden-Durlach he became a professor of theology at the University of Giessen in 1688.

Small 4to. Bound uncut with orig. wrappers in a fine green hmorocco, 5 raised bands, spine with 6 compartments, each richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Back slightly faded. No 225 of 350 copies "sur vergé de Rives", a total of 420. With 33 fine original engravings by Laboureur. The first volume of "Grande Collection".

Large 4to. Bound in fine longgrained hmorocco, 4 raised bands, compartments richly gilt with large ornaments, broad back, large corners (Flammarion). Uncut. Top edge gilt. All wrappers withbound. No 34 of 40 "sur japon imperial" and with all the plates in 2 states "contenant l'état définitif des eaux-fortes". With 25 fine engraved plates in 2 states by Brouet.

Hafniæ (Copenhagen), Melchior Martzan, 1634. Lille 8vo. Lidt senere hldrbd. Let rygforgyldning. Rester af titeletiket. Ryg lidt slidt. (4),54,(2) pp., 1 kobberstukket planche. De første blade løse. Mangler blad A8 (Pp. 11-12). Originaludgaven af en af de allerførste lærebøger udgivet i Danmark vedrørende læren om de hele tal og regnearterne i matematikken. Bogen var tiltænkt som lærebog i elementær aritmetik for de studerende på Christian den IV's Akademi i Sorø og indøvelsen skete ved hjælp af en række opgaver som stilles i bogen. Lauremberg (1590-1658) var både mathematiker, filolog og digter. Han blev af Chr. IV indkaldt til professoratet i matematik ved det adelige Akademi i Sorø, hvor han forlod sin stilling i Rostock som det Filosofiske Fakultets dekan. I Sorø virkede han som professor i matematik og ingeniørvidenskab fra 1623 til sin død i 1658. Han var en ikke ubetydelig matematiker og foregangsmand, særlig kendt er han for sin indførelse af logaritmerne i Danmark. Det er oså velkendt, at Chr. IV havde udset Lauremberg til at udføre det første danske kartografiske værk ved opmåling af landet. Hans virksomhed som korttegner var allerede begyndt i Mecklenburg og det ses, at han i en del år var optaget af denne virksomhed i Danmark. Kortværket blev imidlertid aldrig til noget til kongens store fortrydelse. Herefter overtog Johannes Meyer kortlægningen. Lauremberg er yderligere kendt som en af tidens mest fremragende latinske poeter, således indeholder hans "Satyra" fra 1636 spirene til de senere plattyske "Skjæmtedigte".The very scarce first edition of one of the first elementary textbooks in arithmetics published in Denmark. The work should be used teaching mathematcs at the University in Sorø founded by the king Chr. IV in 1623.Bibl. Danica II,18. - Niels Nielsen. Matematikken i Danmark 1528-1800, p. 127 No. 3.

Amsterdam, Ravesteynum, 1670. - Without place and printer, (Danzig ?),1669. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. handwritten titles on spine. Engraved title-page. (16),428,(12) pp. + Olszowski: (10),92,(2) pp. + 12 pp. + 53 pp. Clean and fine. Olszowski's 3 works are main contributions to the "Golden Liberty", the foundation of the Commonwealth's political system in Poland.

Christiania, Brøgger & Christie, 1867. Large 4to. Orig. full maroon cloth. Richly blindtooled on covers. A gilt medaillon on frontcover. A bit faded. Spine with some small cracks. All edges gilt. Equipped as a gift-copy. (2),74 pp., 18 plates. Clean and fine. First edition edition of the large French version of this pioneer work on the law of mass action, the discovery that the direction taken by a chemical reaction is dependent not merely on the mass of the various components of the reaction, but upon the concentration, that is, upon the mass present in a given volume. Since the pamphlet was published in Norwegian (1863), it escaped the notice of most chemists. It became translated into French (the item offered) and it still made no impression. By the then Van't Hoff had described this law partially, but the priority of Guldberg and Waage was however recognized when Gibb's work became known. It could then be seen, that the law of mass action followed naturally from the basic principles of chemical thermodynamics.

Kiøbenhaffn, Bockenhoffer, 1685. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helpergament. Lille stempel på titelbladet. (14),116,82) pp. Enkelte gl. tilskrifter og understregninger. Et par ark svagt bruntonede, men et velbevaret eksemplar. Originaludgaven af den første danske grammatik skrevet på modersmålet.Thesaurus II,675. - Bibl. Danica IV,62.

Paris, Jombert, 1739. 4to. Contemp. full marbled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. (8),423,(1),XXVIII pp., engraved titlevignette, 1 large engraved vignette and 55 folded engraved plates. Faint scattered marginal brownspots. One plate loose. This part of Belidors great work deals maily with waterpumps and ways of rising water.