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(Paris, Didot L'Ainé), 1808 (1805-06). Folio. (54 x 39 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Wear to spine. Spine-ends repaired. Corners bumped.Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. (2) pp. , (recto: Atlas historique.- verso: Index, listing 32), Engraved frontispiece: Les Fastes Napoléens de 1796, a 1808, with a small handcoloured map, dated 1808. With 34 double-page uncut sheets (ca. 53 x 72 cm.) of which 16 are in letterpress text, handcoloured, 18 sheets are maps surrounded by text, all handcoloured. Internally clean and fine in original colouring. Map-sheets dated 1805-06. The frontispiece having a dampstain. Comprising maps from America, Africa, Asia, Russia etc.etc. - See Phillips,124-29 (various editions).

London, Peter Elmsly, 1792. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions". Including title-page of volume. Leaves reinforced in margin. (2), iii-vi, (2), 28 pp. + 1 folded plate. First edition of Herschel's important paper on his observations of the rings of Saturn. "Saturn exercised a special fascination for Herschel, and between 1789 and 1808 he devoted seven papers and part of an eighth to the planet, its ring, and its satellites.On 19 August 1787 Herschel suspected he had found a sixth and previously unknown satellite, but he was not able to confirm this until 28 August 1789, when his forty-foot telescope came into commission. A few days later he found a seventh satellite. For some months he carefully tracked the satellites, establishing for Mimas and Enceladus periods within seconds of the modern values, and giving evidence to show that Iapetus rotates in its period of revolution.He also made careful observations of the rings, which he believed to be solid. As the earth happened to be in the plane of the ring structure at the time, he compared the thickness of the ring when seen edge-on with the diameter of Jupiter's satellites; and although his estimate exceeds modern values, his method showed that the thickness did not exceed a few hundred miles." (DSB)

Paris, Jombert, 1750. 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),XIV,(2),412,(32) pp., engraved titlevignette, 1 large engraved vignette and 60 folded engraved plates. A few leaves with faint marginal dampstaining. A few scattered brownspots. This part of Belidors great work deals exclusively with sluices and floodgates.

1816. Indbundet i nyere privat papirbind udført i gammel stil. Med guldtrykt i titelfekt på forperm. Dateret Sophienholm 22. juli 1816. Rent og pænt både indvendig og udvendig. Egenhændigt manuskript til digtet. Manuskriptet består af tre syvlinjede vers og er forsynet med Baggesens egen underskrift. Digtet blev senere trykt i 'Poetische Werke in deutscher Sprache', bind 5, side 95, hvor det optræder under titlen 'An das Moosröschen das mir mit einem tönenden Blatte von Ida's Mutter geschenckt war'. Fra I.A. Andersens samling.

(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1913. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 157, No 17 & 25.. Entire issues offered. Pp. 708-714; Pp. 1410-13. [Entire issue: Pp. 665-736; pp. 1357-1492]. First appearance of Sagnac two seminal papers which together constitutes the first interferometry experiment aimed at observing the correlation of angular velocity and phase showing that if a beam of light is split and sent in two opposite directions around a closed path on a revolving platform with mirrors on its perimeter, and then the beams are recombined, they will exhibit interference effects. From this result Sagnac concluded that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of the source. The motion of the earth through space had no apparent effect on the speed of the light beam, no matter how the platform was turned."Sagnac interpreted the shift in the position of the interference fringes in terms of an "ether wind" that gave the light beams traveling in opposite directions different velocities. He was convinced that the phenomenon observed with the rotating interferometer demonstrated the existence of an immobile ether. Sagnac later tried to develop a theory of electrodynamics that would retain classical ideas of space, time, and ether by analyzing the propagation of energy statistically and separately from the propagation of motion. He retained a lifelong dislike for relativity, and in 1923 he interpreted some observations of stellar color shift as being due to an ether wind, rather than as supporting the general theory of relativity.The results of Sagnac's interferometer experiments were used by some scientists in France as an argument against the theory of relativity. As late as 1937 Dufour and Prunier repeated the experiment in a modified form for that purpose. The experiment does not contradict relativity theory in any way, however, and in 1921 and 1937 Langevin responded with an explanation of how it should be interpreted." (DSB)

Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1839-58. 3 nice uniform contemp. hcalf., raised bands gilt spines with gilt lettering. XXXV,592;705,(2);X,346 pp. Titlepage to vol 1 calls for 14 plates, these are not present (not published), Vol. 3 has 5 plates, numb.XIV-XVIII. Brownspots to one plate. Clean and fine. Very scarce first edition of this biography of Raphael which became a hall-mark of documentary research, developing three principal genres of art-writing, The scholarly artistic Biography, The aesthetic Travelogue and The reference Survey.

Washington, Beverley Tucker, 1856. Large 4to. Volume I bound in contemp. full calf, gilt spine with gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends, spine somewhat worn. Volume II-III in original blindstamed full cloth. Spines gilt, but faded. XVII,(1),537 pp., 89 tinted lithographed plates (views and portraits), folded maps and numerous textillustrations. II: (8),414,XI pp., 14 facsimile plates, 15 (mostly coloured) plates (fishes and molluscs), plates with diagrams etc. III: XLII,705 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations of zoodiacal light. First edition of the so-called "United States Japan Expedition". - Sabin, 30958.

Berlin, Ambrosius Haude, 1727. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Minor repairs at upper joint. In: "Miscellanea Berolinensia, ad Incrementium scientiarum ex Scriptis Societati Regiæ Scientiarum exhibitis editia, Continuatio II." (6),346,(4) pp., 11, partly folded engraved plates. Scattered brownspots. Roemer's letter to Leibniz: pp. 276-78, 2 textillustrations. The entire volume offered. First printing of Roemer's letter to Leibniz in which he describes his plan for a new observatory and the circle-instrument."In a letter written to Leibniz, dated December 15, 1700, - (the offered item) - in reply to Leibniz's request for the most suitable plan for an observatory, Roemer describes his plans for the "Observatorium Tusculanum". He has an excellent discussion of the need of building the observatory so that it can best serve the function for which it is intended, namely, observation. He probably was thinking of the construction of the Paris Observatory, a beautiful building, but impractical as far as actual observational needs were concerned. He also describes the prime vertical transit and states his preference for the circle as compared to quadrants and sextants, saying that he would have confidence in a circle of four feet in diameter than a quadrant of ten." (I. Bernard Cohen in "Roemer and the first determination of the Velocity of Light", p. 48).

Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1778. 4to. Bound in one contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Raised bands.Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Gilt monogram of King Christian VII stamped on red leather on upper cover. Stamp on title-page. (4),XII,329;(4),VII,226 pp. and 33 folded engraved plates (including 2 folded maps depicting the surroundings of Quibec, North America). Light browning to a few quires. Volume II having 3 parts: 1. "Essai sur les Mines" - 2. "Nouveau Traité du Nivellement" - 3. Essai sur la Maniere de Faire les Cartes" - Klaus Jordan, 2116.

A la Haye, Adrian Moetjens, 1693. 12mo. Cont. full calf. Gilt back and gilt titlelabels. Edges worn, especially lacking outer part of backcover. Engraved title (showing an Arab, a Chinese and an Indian drinking their products) and printed title. (1-14)15-404,(4) pp. and 3 engraved plates (depicting the appropriate plants together with their cultivators). Somewhat brownspotted. Plates shaved, traces of use. This third edition is the only edition having the appendix consisting in a dialogue about the medical properties between a physician, an Indian and a civilist. - Vicaire p. 293-94.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1877 u. 1894. Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1892. 8vo. Bound in one well-preserved contemp. hcloth with gilt lettering to spine. X,(2),53 pp. + XII,147 pp. + VIII,128 pp. Halftitle and titlepage to the first work with some brownspots in upper right corners. A few scattered brownspots and a few underlinings, otherwise internally fine and clean. From the library of Hans Rupe (with his exlibris on inside frontcover). Rupe became extraordinary professor for organic chemistry at the University of Basel. In 1912 , he was promoted to ordinary professor for organic chemistry. First German edition (in the adaptation of Wislicenus) of van't Hoff's epoch making work "La chimie dans l'espace", published 1875 (a French expanded translation of his dissertation of 1874), and in which he established the fact that optically active substances contain at least one "asymmetric" carbon atom, that is, a carbon atom linked with four different kinds of atoms or radicals. Together here with the second, much expanded version and also WITH THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF OF "Dix Années...", which includes nearly three times as much material as the first edition ("La Chimie dans l'Espace"). "His revolutionary ideas on the theory of the asymmetric carbon atom did not attract the attention of chemists, however, until Wislicenus asked van’t Hoff’s permission for a German translation by one of his pupils, Felix Herrmann."(DSB)."In 1874, at the age of twenty-two, and with his Ph.D., as yet a few months in the future, he published a startling paper on the structure of organic compounds. Chemists had been puzzling for more than half a centurt over the fact that some organic compounds were optically active while others were not. As long ago as Biot there had been suggestion that this was due to some sort of assymetry, but the nature and location of that asymmetry remained a mystery. Pasteur had located the asymmetry in crystals, but that did not help with respect to the optical activity of subsatnces in soolution.Van't Hoff suggested that the symmetry exisyted in the molecules themselves. He drew four valences of the carbon atom (each represented as a short line or "bond"), not two-dimensionally toward the four angles of a square, as Couper had done, but three-dimensionally toward the four angles of a tetrahedron. When the tetrahedral arrangement was considered, matters cleared up..." (Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia..).Van't Hoff was the first to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1901.Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1874 C.

Amsterdam, M. Magérus, 1766. 8vo. Uncut in the original boards. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Dampstain to lower half of front board, otherwise nice and clean. VIII, 132, (4) pp. + folded plate. First edition with an illustration of this treatise on miniature painting on glass presented as a dialogue between the author and his female apprentice, a marquise. Initially published in 1755 without an illustration, the book appears to serve as both an endorsement for Vispré as a tutor and supplier of artistic materials. By 1766, with the release of this edition, Vispré had established himself in London, enjoying success as a portrait painter and miniaturist. He began exhibiting with the Society of Artists and later became a frequent participant at the Royal Academy.

‎Paris, Penaud, sans date [1846-1848]. Royal8vo. Nine parts bound with the original printed wrappers in two nice contemporary red half calf bindings with richly gilt spines. Book plate of "Le Comte Louis Tascher de Lapagerie" pasted on to pasted down front end-paper in both volumes. Bindings with light soiling and corner bumped. Inner hindges partly split but bookblocks firmly attached. Very light occassional brownspotting - an overall nice copy. (2), VIII, 645; (4), 610, (2) pp. + 30 coloured plates. Complete. Fine copy of Saint-Hilairy’s extensive and beautifully illustrated work on the history of the Russian campaign in 1812 and of the captivity of French prisoners in Siberia and in other provinces of the Russian empire.

(Berlin, Ch. Fr. Voss, 1774). 4to. Large uncut copy, broadmargins, without wrappers as issued in "Nouvaux Memoires d l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres. Année 1772." pp. 185-221 and pp. 222-258. First edition of these two important papers. In the first paper "Sur une Nouvelle Espece de Calcul..." he made the most ambitious attempt to rebuild the foundation of the calculus. The paper is in fact an outline of his "Theorie des functions", issued later in 1797."This work greatly impressed Lacroix, Condorcet and Laplace. Based on the analogy between powers of biniminals and differentials, it is one of the sources of the symbolic calculuses of the nineteenth century. A typical example of Lagrange's thinking as an analyst in this sentence taken form the memoir: "Although the principle of the analogy (between powers and diffrentials) is nor self-evident, nevertheless, since the conclusions drawn from it are not thereby less exact, I shall make use of it to discover various theorems...""(Jean Itard in DSB). The second paper "Sur la Forme..."When D'Alembert red the paper he gave the following respons:"Your demonstration on imaginary roots seem to me to leave nothing to be desired, and I am very much obliged to you for the justice you have rendered to mine, which, in fact, has the minor fault (pwerhaps more apparant than real) of not being direct, bu which is quite simple and easy. D'Alembert was alluding to his Cause de vents (1747)."(DSB).

Wien, Kaiserlich=königlichen Hof= und Staats=Druckerey, 1807. 4to and folio. Both volumes with the original blue stiff wrappers. Light discoloration to wrappers. (8),251 pp. + Printed title-page and 74 engraved plates. The folio-plates folded to 4to. Internally clean. Both volumes uncut.

Berlin, Roger, 1690. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities. Stains to boards and spine-ends missing part of leather. Small worm-tracts to lower margin, not affecting text. (16), 399, (3) pp. The exceedingly rare first edition of Ancillon’s influential history on the migration and settlement of French Huguenot refugees in the state of Brandenburg during the late 17th century. “Charles Ancillon (1659–1715), one of a distinguished family of French Protestants, was born on the 28th of July 1659, at Metz. His father, David Ancillon (1617–1692), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin. Charles Ancillon studied law at Marburg, Geneva, and Paris, where he was called to the bar. In 1699 he succeeded Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in Brandenburg. Of his fairly numerous works the only one still of value is the Histoire de l’établissement des Français réfugiés dans les états de Brandebourg (Berlin, 1690).” (Encyclopædia Britannica).

Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf with 5 raised bands on spine. Richly gilt compartments, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome VIII. XXIV,624 pp., 8 engraved plates a. 52 folded tables. (Entire volume offered). Van Swinden's work: pp. 1-576, 3 folded engraved plates and 52 folded tables. First edition of Van Swinden's large work on magnetism and the function of the compass and the variability of magnetic needles. It also explained the diurnal variation of the earth's magnetic force.In 1767 van Swinden obtained the chair of philosophy, logic, and metaphysics at Franekar University. He studied all the popular scientific topics of the period, especially magnetism, electricity, meteorolgy, and chemistry, and corresponded with many leading scientists, including Bonnet, Euler, Deluc, J. C. Wilcke, Bertholon, and Lalande. His Tentamen de magnete (1772) dealt with his mathematical theory of magnetism, and in 1777 he and Coulomb shared the gold medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences for a very detailed prize essay on magnetism, Recherches sur les aiguilles aimantées. (the essay offered).Poggendorff II, 1057

Berlin, Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften etc., 1828-41. 8vo. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. One volume with loose spine, otherwise with weak hinges, a few broken. Small stamps on title-pages. Each year around 300 pp. 2 engraved plates. Some leaves at beginnings with browning and brownspots. On inside on frontcovers in all 7 bound volumes the engraved bookplate of John Couch Adams (Ex Libris Johannis Couch Adams and is portrait). This copy of the first 14 volumes of the "Jahrbuch" was probably one of the "tools" by which Adams discovered the planet Neptune (1845) and finally confirmed Newton's theory of gravitation.Johann Franz Encke was editor of the "Jahrbuch" from 1830 to 1866. The "Jahrbuch" contains importent papers on the problems of the calculating astronomy. With e.g. Gauss "Über die Methode der kleinsten Quadrate", "Über Interpolation", Olbers "Über die zweckmässigste Art bei der Berechnung einer Cometenbahn die versuche anzustellen" many by Encke etc. etc.

Bremen, Hermann Jäger, 1730. 4to. Samt. helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen, rig rygforgyldning. Lille revne ved øvre forreste fals. Ganske lille tab af skind ved false nederst. Titelblad trykt i rød/sort. (32),454,200,(16) pp. samt 33 (af 35) kobberstukne plancher, kortet og grundtegningen af København mangler. Udmærket rent eksemplar med brede marginer. Tidligere i.....samt med stort kobberstukket exlibris på indersiden af forpermen: Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen (stukket of tegnet 1772 af J.G. Winckler, Frederiksværk). Originaludgaven af forløberen for "Danske Atlas" indeholder en udførlig beskrivelse af kongeriget og Slesvig i topografisk, historisk og politisk henseende.

Kbhvn., 1904-84. Fra 1904-52 indbundet i 15 solide hshirtbd. 1953-77 i 12 solide hldrbd., rest i hefter (incl. Generalregister 1904-65).

Leipzig, Breitkopf und sohn, 1765. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel on lower compartment. Spine slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (20),424,(22) pp. and 32 partly folded engraved plates of which 12 are maps. Internally clean. First German edition.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine. With titlepage to 1808, Part I. First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's "Law of Multiple Proportions", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. "In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's "New System of Chemistry Philosophy" (1808). This paper, "On Oxalic Acid" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas."(DSB XIII, p. 373)."This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c." (Parkinson in "Breakthroughs", 1808 C)."In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation."(DSB XIV, p.488).

København, J.J. Höpfner, 1738. 8vo. I et samtidigt særdeles nydeligt mørkeblåt hellæderbind med seks ophøjede bind. Med forgyldt kongeligt våben og titel på ryg. Med ciseleret guldsnit. Med forgyldt spejlornamentik på permer. Indbundet af Engelke Maria Boppenhausen (ca. 1717-1778) hvis signatur fremgår i forgyldt skrift på rødt skind på verso af forperm. Bindet er dateret til 1740.

Wittenberg, Hæredes Georg Rhau, 1560. Small 8vo. Later boards. Boards Loose. Woodcut portrait of Melanchthon on first title. (24),(360),(25);(16),(380) pp. Some marginal notes in a contemporary hand. A few leaves at end fainltly dampstained in margins. Occasionally slightly browned. One of the very first latin editions of Melanchthon's textbook on universal history, founded on Johannes Carionis' "Chronik" but completely rewritten by Melanchthon. The work had a wide influence on contemporary historical theory and was translated into many languages. - Not in Brunet & Graesse, not in BMC, Short-title catalogue. - Adams C 712-21 (but only later editions).

Amsterdam, Johannes van Keulen, Ca. 1680. 51x58 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Kattegat med gengivelse af Østjylland fra Skagen til Horsens Fjord, Anholt og Læsø, den svenske vestkyst fra Göteborg i nord til Malmø i syd. Nordsjælland med Øresund fra Helsingør i nord til København i syd, Saltholm og Hven. 2 kompasroser, skibe i søen og kartouche med Neptun. Det smukt komponerede søkort blev udgivet i Van Keulen's "Zeeatlas" hvis førsteudgave udkom 1680."Af de gamle søkorter van Keulens vel de eneste, der, på grund af deres enorme udbredelse, ses nogenlunde hyppigt i handelen, men de er alligevel sjældnere end alle samtlige landkort" (Bo Bramsen p. 109).Nørlund: 85.