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Paris, Crochard, 1838. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, Tome 68, Cahier 1. Pp. 1-112. With titlepage to vol. 68. Liebig's paper: pp. 1-42. Clean and fine. A few later leaves with some brownspots. This milestone paper on organic acids, in which Liebig set forth the now accepted view, that hydrogen is the essential element in acids and that acid are salts of hydrogen. The paper appeared simultaneously in German ("Über die Constitution der organischen Sauren") and French. The offered paper is the French version."The paper on organic acids was one of Liebig’s finest achievements, reflecting the best of the attributes that had marked his previous work. He based his position on precise analyses of numerous compounds. Some concerned substances he had discovered, but many were refinements of analyses done by others. He had not originated the theories he defended, but had greatly extended approaches drawn from Davy, Graham, Pelouze, and others. Through his extensive knowledge of compounds and reactions, he was able to amass impressive evidence for his inferences. He displayed a realistic sense of the value and limits of theoretical conceptions. He utilized flexibly such currently accepted foundations of reasoning as the radical theory. He was able to weld these elements into a comprehensive, unifying whole. He took a major step in one of the most important revisions in general chemical theory since the acceptance of Lavoisier’s system of chemistry: a revision completed a few years later in the more universal statement of the hydrogen theory of acids by Liebig’s former student, Gerhardt."(DSB).

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoir, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt. Title-and tomelabel with gilt lettering. Corners a bit bumped, spine slightly rubbed. XVI,480 pp. and 1 folded engraved and handcoloured map, 34x42 cm. "Charte von Abyssinien...einrich Salt 1809 u. 1810). Scattered brownspots. First German edition.(Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von F.J. Bertuch, Vierter Band). Having also the general titlepage with a stamp.

Paris, Catilian-Goeury et Von Dalmont, 1850-58. Large 4to. and Folio. 4 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-pages. VIII,523;(4),628 pp. Plate-volumes: 13 pp., 82 engraved plates; XI pp. and 86 engraved plates. A faint dampstain in upper margin on the first 10 leaves in volume 1 of text. Some scattered brownspots to text and plates. First edition.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, both sexes in a tree, foliage and fruits.. 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.

No Place, No Printer, 1894. 4to. Orig. hcalf, raised bands and gilt lettering. Clothcovers with gilt lettering. Upper cover with a bit of foxing. (6) pp. and 34 photographic plates (13 double-page), reproduced in fine heliogravure, each with a printed leaf with details. The first plate is double-page "Vue Génerale des Usines du Creusot". Fine and clean. Original publication from the factory exposing in heliogravure the factory's wide range of canons.Schneider-Creusot, or Schneider et Cie, was a historic French iron and steel-mill which became a major arms manufacturer. After World War II, it evolved into Schneider Electric.

Berlin, Auf Kosten des Verfassers (und) Realschulbuchhandlung, 1802-08. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. (8),9-72;(8),57,(1);VIII,9-146,(2);(6),92 pp. and 47 folded engraved plates. Poggendorff I, 898.

(Litho, The American Physical Society), 1987. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "Physical Review Letters" Vol. 59, Number 4, July 27, 1987. A few traces are having been bend to extremities. Small label with subscriber's name printed on to back wrapper. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 381-84. [Entire volume: 381-519, (5) pp.]. First printing of Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld landmark paper in which they proposed their self-organized criticality (SOC) theory or the Abelian sandpile model: the mechanisms by which complexity arises in nature. It is one of the very few evolutionary models to challenge Darwinism. It is regarded as one of the most profound and fundamental theories put forth in the later part of the 20th century and the paper is one of the most frequently-cited papers in the last few decades.Its concepts have been applied across fields as diverse as geophysics, physical cosmology, evolutionary biology and ecology, bio-inspired computing and optimization (mathematics), economics, quantum gravity, sociology, solar physics, plasma physics, neurobiology and many others.SOC is typically observed in slowly driven non-equilibrium systems with extended degrees of freedom and a high level of nonlinearity. "The nonlinear dynamics approach encapsulated in GCT envisions self-organization as an asymptotic process of approaching stability through a series of intermediate states (also known as evolution). There exists, however, a fundamentally different process known as self-organized criticality (SOC) in which an avalanche-like transformation rapidly moves the system into a self-organized mode. A popular metaphor for SOC is the sandpile paradigm. If additional sand grains are randomly added on top of a sand pile then inevitably an instance will occur when local steepness of the slope surpasses a certain critical threshold thus causing local failure of structural stability. The excess of material will cascade into adjacent areas of the pile causing their failures as well. Thus an avalanche will occur, shifting the entire sandpile into a new stable state. What is fundamentally important in this process is that a random local event quickly propagates through the entire system, thus establishing longrange correlations within the system" (Rosenfeld, Global Consensus Theorem and Self-Organized Criticality)."Ask the average person, What is the theory of evolution? and you are likely to get answers like "natural selection", or "survival of the fittest", or "Darwin's theory". Because these ideas are systematically taught in classrooms, they may represent the only evolutionary theory people know. But, ask, What is the theory of Earth evolution? you will likely get a blank stare, or at best a superficial discussion of the fossil record. The Earth as a multi-faceted evolutionary system that undergoes continuous change through time was incorporated in the National Science Education Standards, even if it is absent from many contemporary curricula and common perceptions. Darwinism, however, is not the only mechanism of evolution. If we define evolutionary change as any process that leads to increases in complexity, diversity, order, and/or interconnectedness then there are at least three distinct mechanisms, or theories of evolution: elaboration, self-organization, and fractionation." (Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 58, n. 2, March, 2010, p. 58-64).

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1924-44. 8vo. Indbundet med de originale foromslag i 8 lidt senere uniforme halvlæderbind med enkel rygforgyldning. Fire ophøjede bind på rygge. En smule ubetydeligt kantslid. Med exlibris på indersiden af forperme. Alle 8 bind med egenhændig dedikation fra Johannes V. Jensen til Erik Fogh. Rene og pæne indvendigt. Særdeles nydeligt sæt (dog uden bd. 4) af Johannes V. Jensens myter - samtlige bind med egenhændig dedikation. Myterne udgør et banebrydende hovedværk i dansk litteratur.

Folio. Cont. Dutch blindtooled full vellum. At upper part of spine is half of the vellum gone. Vellum shrinked at edges and loosening. Engraved frontispiece(showing physical and astronomical instruments), engr. titlevignette, (10),719 pp. and 30 large folded engraved plates, starting with the world-systems and then depicting all types of physical and chemical experiments etc.etc. Engraved portrait of the author. Internally fine with only a few pages with minor brownspots. Poggendorf I:427. The Dictionary explains the contemporary concepts of the Natural Sciences, Technology and Philosophy. This is the second enlarged edition of the authors work first published in Rotterdam 1692.

Lipsiæ, Johannis Justi Erythropili, 1694. Folio. Cont. full vellum. Small stamp on title. Htitle neathly repaired withoutl loss of letters, title in red a. black with engraved titlevign. (16),792 (=1584 colums),48 pp. Front-and endpapers renewed. A few pages very slightly browned.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, 1886). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 8, pp. 295-344. First edition. "The full recognition of the nature of those divergent series that are useful in the representation and calculation of functions and a formal definition of those series wer achieved by Poincaré and Stieltjes independently in 1886. Poincaré called these series asymptotic while Stieltjes continued to use the term semiconvergent. Poincaré took up the subject in order to further the solution of linear differential equations. Impressed by the usefulness of divergent series in astronomy, he sought to determine which were useful and why. he succededed in islolating and formulating the essential property...Poincaré applied his theory of asymptotic series to diffrential equations, and theree are many such uses in his treatise on celestical mechanics, 'Les Methodes nouvelles de la mechanique céleste". (Morris Kline).

Stockholm, Nicolao Wankijff, 1675. Folio. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryggen, rig rygforgyldning, forygldt titelfelt. Ryg med ganske lette brugsspor. de nedre hjørner lidt stødte. (12),906,(12) pp. Få marginale brunpletter. Udmærket frisk eksemplar. Første Svenske udgave af Sleidanus' historieværk "Commentarii de statu religionis et rei publicae Carolo V Caesare" 1555, oversat på kongens initiativ af Johan Sylvi og trykningen bekostet af kong Karl XI.. - Coljin: 861

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1758. 4to. 3 contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spines, title-and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. A small nick to lower compartment on vol. 1. A stamp to titlepages. Name on foot of first titlepage. XXVIII,(401;VIII,438;VIII,368,(4) pp. and 9 folded engraved plates a. 3 folded tables. Internally clean and fine. Wide-margined. First edition of this importent work on early human history. - Brunet II:1647.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Peter Haake paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning), 1650. Lille8vo. I samtidigt helpergamentsbind med titel i samtidig hånd på ryg. Mangler øverste centimeter af læderet på ryggen. Fællestitelbladet trykt i rødt og sort. Med alle seks deltitelblade. Udvendigt med slitage. Indvendig sporadisk en smule brunplettet, ellers pæn. (16), 569, (5); (2),165, (4); (4), 256, (2); (12), 73, (1); (8), 37, (1); (7), 368, (10) pp Sidste udgave af Henrik Smiths berømte lægebog. Dette eksemplar er varianten med kolofon: Paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning.Bibl. Danica I:799. Thesaurus 269 (1577 udgaven).

Paris, Victor Masson, 1852. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. One hinge starting. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3ieme Serie, Tome 35. 512 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 482-503. Stamp to verso of titlepage. Faint scattered brownspots. First French version of this monumental, famous paper in thermodynamics in which Clausius for the first time states the Second Law of Thermodynamics, one of the most importent laws of Nature having a huge impact on the development of physical theory, cosmology, communications and information theory. The law states that a) the energy of the Universe is constant, and b) the Entropy of the Universe tends to a maximum.The volume contains further importent papers, extracts of HERMANN HELMHOLTZ announcement of his invention of the Ophthalmoscope, pp. 125-126 with a drawing of its construction. WILLIAM THOMSON (Lord Kelvin) "Examen de la Theorie de la puissance motrice de la chaleur... (On the Dynamical Theory of Heat)", pp. 248-255. A founding paper in Thermodynamics. - JAMES JOULE "Mémoire sur les Changements de temperature produits par la Condensation et la Raréfaction de l'air" and "Sur l'équivalent mécanique de la chaleur" (The conservation of energy-paper), pp. 118-125 a. 1 plate.

Haye, Chez J. Neaulme, 1741. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. five raised bands on back, back richly gilt. Small holes and lack of leather to lower capital and back-hinge, due to insect-bites. Bdg. somewhat worn. Internally a bit of brownspotting and occationally a little soiling, but overall fine. Engr. frontispiece (= engr. t-p. dated 1707), 8 full-page engr. plates and 3 about half-page engr. vignettes. (6), XVIII, 394, (6) pp. This is the Dutch reprint (in French) (also called the "pirated edition") of the first edition from 1706/07, with the engraved title-page from this. The second edition appeared in 1747. "In 1741 Neaulme issued a pirated edition which again, apart from variations on the title-page, is identical to the 1706 edition. Encouraged by this pirated edition Frezier wrote a second edition which appeared in 1747 in three differing versions." (C. Philip, p. 59). Very important reference-work on firewirks. "Frezier was probably one of the most important pyrotechnics in the mid 18th century..." (C. Philip, p. 58). He borrows heavily from other authors, but his works are interesting, also as they scrupulously cite the sources. The plates show different kinds of fireworks, with many illustrations on each and the vignettes show displays of fireworks, as this work also deals much with the conduct and displaying of these.

Berlin, P. Stankiewicz, 1887. Cont. hcloth, rebacked with old spine preserved and with original printed wrappers pasted on covers. V,(2),290 pp. A few pencil underlinings. First German edition of Gauss' "Theoria Combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae" (2819-22) and with 7 supplements on the "method of least squares" from Gauss' other writings.

Rotterdam, Reinier Leers, 1688. Small 8vo. Fine contemp. full mottled calf, richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather. (6),604 pp. A very small inkspot in upper margin of the last 20 leaves. On good paper, clean and fine. First edition. Malebranche is one of the major philosophers of Cartesianism and his philosophy sought to synthesize Cartesianism with the thought of St. Augustin and with Neoplatonism. His "Entretiens..." (Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion) as a series of 14 dialogues, is perhaps the best introduction to his philosophy in general."The French Cartesian Nicolas Malebranche was hailed by his contemporary, Pierre Bayle, as "the premier philosopher of our age." Over the course of his philosophical career, Malebranche published major works on metaphysics, theology, and ethics, as well as studies on optics, the laws of motion and the nature of color. He is known principally for offering a highly original synthesis of the views of his intellectual heroes, St. Augustine and René Descartes. Two distinctive reults of this synthesis are Malebranche's doctrine that we see bodies through ideas in God and his occasionalist conclusion that God is the only real cause." (Stanford Encycl. of Philosophy).

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1749. 4to. Nice contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spine and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Blindtooled covers, Cambridge-binding style. Large engraved titlevignette. (8),XVI,333,(1) pp. and 33 (of 34 - No. 13 missing) mostly folded engraved plates, maps, charts and views. One of the large maps with a closed tear. Light browning to textleaves. First French edition. - Sabin, 1637.

4to. 3 cont. hcalf with gilt backs. Tear at top of spine on one volume. Library numbers in lower compartments. Stamps on titles. (4),XXIX,403-(4),XX,404-IV,111,64,18,(2) pp. and 19 large folded engraved maps (postions handcoloured). First edition. Volume I-II by Grimoard, vol. III by Servan. Grimoard was the main military adviser to Louis XVI and he was head of the defense during the Revolution.

Kiøbenhavn., Høpffner, 1734. Nyere hldrbd. i gl. stil i ufarvet niger med rygforgyldning og forgyldt rygtitel. 467, (11) pp. Gl. ejernavne på fribladet og titelbladet. lettere bruning, spredte brunpletter, nogle svage skjolder. Alle udgaverne af Holbergs Natur- og Folkeret er af største sjældenhed. Denne er en af de tidlige udgaver.

Paris, Charles Chauvin, 1869. Folio-oblong (535 x 415 mm). In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and two paper-labels pasted on to front board. Very light soiling to first few leaves, otherwise internally fine and clean. 214 pp full page weather charts showing the weather from America to the Caspian Sea. Rare first printing of daily weather charts, issued by Observatoire Impériale de France, covering the North Atlantic and Western Europe, constituting one of the earliest weather or climate atlases to be published

(1913). Smukt privat mønstret papirbind med skindtitelfelt. 92 pp. Forfatterens egenhændige manuskript i lille 4to. har nogle rettelser og overstregninger og er signeret på sidste side. Det kan ikke afgøres om manuskriptet er forfatterens egen afskrift eller det færdige trykms. En del brugsspor. Ingeborg Maria Sick (1858-1951). I flere år syge- og fattigsygeplejerske i københavnske slumkvarterer, studerede menighedsarbejde i London og Paris, arbejdede senere i en årrække ved fattigforsorgen i København. "Carina" blev udgivet i 1913, 2. oplag samme år, oversat til tysk, svensk og finsk.IMS debuterede som skønlitterær forfatter i 1900 med Udi Løndom, 1902 fulgte Højfjælds-Præst og herefter udgav hun i adskillige år en bog om året, skitsesamlinger, børnebøger og romaner mellem hinanden. Hendes læserskare var stor, ikke mindst i de øvrige skandinaviske lande og i Tyskland, hvor hendes bøger regelmæssigt udkom. Hun opnåede også oversættelser til engelsk, fransk, finsk, russisk og hollandsk og i enkelte tilfælde til så fremmed et sprog som bulgarsk. IMSs katolsk farvede religiøsitet gennemsyrer forfatterskabet, og i hendes romaner sejrer gudstroen over det jordiske livs fristelser, bøgerne rummer et vist element af vækkelseslitteratur. Kvindebilledet var allerede på bøgernes udgivelsestidspunkt stærkt forældet og sproget oftest en romantisk pastiche. Hun havde imidlertid evnen til at tegne især kvindelige karakterer og spinde en handlingstråd, ofte omkring erotisk farvede konflikter, og mange af bøgerne udkom i adskillige oplag frem til nogle år efter Anden Verdenskrig. I samtiden var de uhyre populære, fx opnåede romanen Helligt Ægteskab, 1903, seks oplag på ét år. Den skildrer to søstres stærke erotiske betagelse, den ene af sin egen ægtefælle og i åndelig harmoni med ham, den anden uægteskabeligt og derfor dømt til undergang.

Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1842. 4to. Recent half cloth with contemporary marbled boards. Light browning throughout. Small ink signature on title-page. IV,76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. Withbound: Steenstrup, Undersögelser over Hermaphroditismens Tilværelse i Naturen, 1845. XIV,88 pp. and 1 plate. The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'alternation of generations', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. "(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors." (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). "The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was "Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker...", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an importent chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he tought from 1846 until 1885."(DSB XII, p. 9).

Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1631. Folio (330 x 215 mm). In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Corner's bumped, with loss of leather. Boards with scratches with loss of leather and spine-ends chipped. Vague dampstain to upper margin throughout, index with a few worm-tracts, otherwise internally nice and clean. (36), 895, (186) pp. Exceedingly rare first edition Mauden's extensive commentary on the Book of Tobit, also known as the Book of Tobias in some versions. The book is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons and the Dead Sea Scrolls, but not in the Jewish Masoretic text. Protestant tradition places it in the Apocrypha, with Anabaptists, Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists recognizing it as useful for purposes of edification and liturgy, albeit having non-canonical in status. David van Mauden (1575–1645), jurist and theologian, also functioned as parish priest of the church of Our Lady of the Chapel in Brussels and dean of the church of Breda.