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(Köln, 1593). Kobberstukket prospekt over Odense visende byen i fugleperspektiv. 32,5 x 47,5 cm. Prospektet er i fin stand og i samtidig håndkolorering og indrammet under glas i en smuk ældre guldramme (49 x 62 cm.). Fra Braun & Hogenbergs berømte "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". Odense-prospektet er den ældste trykte afbildning af byen overhovedt, ligesom det er den ældste afbildning af nogen dansk by.

Randers, Boghandler Smiths Forlag, hos Elmenhoff, (1838). Indbundet i et senere marmoreret papbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Usædvanligt stort eksemplar, trykt på velin. Med samtidig, men lidt utydeligt ejertilskrift øverst på titelbladet "M. Fabritius Tengnagel" 1838. Enkelte marginale fremhævninger. Originaludgaven. Et af dansk litteraturs lyriske hovedværker. - Bertelsen 20.

Amsterdam, d'Etinne Roger, 1720. 8vo. Bound in one contemporary full calf with five raised bands alt gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities and internally with occassinal brownspotting. A fine copy. (12),269;(2),283 pp. + 2 engraved frontispieces. Scarce first edition. This work, together with the author's "Voyages and Adventures of Jacques Massé" (ca. 1710), constitute a truly remarkable achievement, marking a highly significant watershed in the evolution of literary accounts of imaginary voyages, predating Jonathan Swift's satirical account of the travels of Lemuel Gulliver, published in 1726, and Jules Verne's classic Journey to the Center of the Earth by 140 years!His discoveries in the Region of the North Pole by Tyssot's eponymous hero discovers a secret underground kingdom inhabited by the descendants of African colonists who left their homeland four thousand years earlier, and spends several years recording their stories and fables. (Brian Stableford).Barbier IV,997.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1886. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with paper label pasted on to top of spine. Occassional brownspots throughout. With 94 figures in the text. X, 156 pp.; (4), 88 pp. 20, 16, 15, 18, (31) advertising First edition of Abakanowicz's famous integraph. It was invented independently about 1880 by the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys and by Bruno Abakanowicz, however, the later being referred to as inventor (Goldstein, L'Europe mathématique: histoires, mythes, identities). "The developments in the integraph design made by Abdank-Abakanowicz in France in the 1870s have been acknowledged as amongst the most noteworthy" (Small, The Electronic Analogue Computer, P. 59)."The integraph is an elaboration and extension of the planimeter, an earlier, simpler instrument used to measure area. It is a mechanical instrument capable of deriving the integral curve corresponding to a given curve. Hence, it is able to solve elementary differential equations graphically. However, it was not until 1878 that he succeeded in developing a practical model. "This volume is a description of the basic Abakanowicz instrument and a few of its later modifications. Abdank-Abakanowicz's instrument was able to produce solutions for only simpler differential equations, i.e., the commonly entountered class having the form dy/dx = F(x). An instrumental solution requires that as a first step a graph of the function F be drawn. Next, a pointer on the instrument is used to follow (trace) this graph. The value of the integral may then be read from the instrumentdials. This Abakanowicz approach was widely adopted in the early twentieth century, and the instrument was produced, and later improved, by such well-known instrument makers as Coradi in Zurich" (The Erwin Tomash Library, Vol. 1, p. 2.).Bound with Abakanowicz's Integraph is:Répertoire Alphabétique des Procédés et Recettes publiés par Le Monde de la Science et de l'Industrie pendant les Années 1880 à 1886. Lausanne, Jaunin, 1887. 15 pp.Du régime de l'invention. Examen des améliorations proposées à la législation relative aux inventions à propos du nouveau projet de loi sur les brevets. Paris, A. Durand, 1862. 160 pp.Erwin Tomash Library A1.

London, Sampson low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. Small 4to. 6 original pictorial full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines and upper covers. Light wear to spine-end. Part 6 lacking ca. 1 cm. of cloth at upper capital. Corners bumped. XXXI, 160; 161-336; 337-512; 513-529, (1), XV, 144; 145-320; 321-472, XV + 62 plates, 3 folding coloured maps, with a coloured section, 105 illustrations in the text. 2 of the folded maps with tear repair. Internally clean and fine. First appearance of this subscriber’s edition, here in the rare 6 original pictoral cloth bindings. The first volume of this set contains an introduction by J. Scott Keltie on Mr. Stanley's African career with 5 full-page and 1 small illustration not called for in the list of plates. Stanley's expedition through the heart of East Africa to the land of the Nile originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha although failing in its primary objective Stanley discovered the snowcapped range of Ruwenzori the mountains of the moon. A new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza etc.

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1875-76. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 very nice green hmorocco, raised bands, profusely gilt spines with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. IV,94,(2);XXII,336 pp. and 7 chromolitographed plates (2+5) each with many figs. The plates strenghtened on verso. A fine clean copy. First edition. A main work in the development of Darwinian evolutionary theory."In his Studien zur Descendenztheorie (Leipzig, 1875-1876) - with a preface by Darwin himself in the English translation (London, 1882) - Weismann treated the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies and questions of evolution and herdity. Although he remained one of the foremost defenders of the Darwinian theory of evolution through natural selection, Weismann - a strict selectionist, more so indeed than Darwin - proceeded to construct his own theory of heredity rather than accept Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis."

Paris, Nyon, 1776. Later hcloth (ca. 1840). Gilt lettering to spine. XXXII,253 pp., 2 folded engraved maps. Wide-margined, clean and printed on good paper. First French edition. Translated from the German translation of his "Drevniaia rossiiskai istoriia..." (St. Petersburg 1766)."Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was the first Russian scientist-naturalist of universal importance. He was a poet who laid the foundation of modern Russian literary language, an artist, an historian and an advocate of development of domestic education, science and economy. In 1748 he founded the first Russian chemical laboratory at the Academy of Sciences. On his initiative the Moscow University was founded in 1755." (Russiapedia).

London, Macmillan and Co., 1928. Royal8vo. In recent full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extracted from "Nature", January - June, 1928, Vol. 121. Entire April 14-issue offered. Fine and clean. [Bohr:] Pp. 580-90. [Entire issue:] Pp. 561-608. First edition of Bohr's exceedingly influential statement of his 'complementarity' principle, the basis of what became known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. In the paper he coined the term 'complementarity' and thereby created an entire new fundamental principle of quantum mechanics."Immediately after Heisenberg's work on uncertainty relations, Bohr presented his concept of complementarity at a conference a Lake Como in Italy. Bohr's lecture marked the first attempt to provide a genuine philosophical underpinning to the new advances in physics. The uncertainty relations had provided Bohr a concrete measure of the consequences of the wave-particle duality and thereby a physics-based justification for the ideas he was working on. Bohr had already embraced the wave-particle duality underlying quantum theory and he presented the concept of complementarity as the fundamental feature of a new conceptual framework broad enough to include it" (Paul McEvoy, Niels Bohr). "For Bohr, complementarity was an almost religious belief that the paradoxes of the quantum world must be accepted as fundamental, not to be 'solved' or trivialized by attempts to find out 'what's really going on down there.' Bohr used the word in an unusual way: the 'complementarity' of waves and particles, for example (or of position and momentum), meant that when one existed fully, its complement did not exist at all" (Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement). "The lecture was published in Nature in 1928 in a revised form It sparked significant debate in the years that followed and solidified the boundaries between those who accepted Bohr's view of the consequences of quantum theory and those who were seeking a more 'realistic' microscopic theory or a more realistic interpretation of quantum theory itself" (McEvoy, P. 70).The paper was published almost simultaneously in English, Danish, English, French and German, the present English publication being the first.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1805. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 20, Fünftes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Titlepage to vol. 20. Pp. 1-128. Biot's paper: pp. 1-18. - Gay-Lussac: pp. 19-37 - Humboldt & Gay-Lussac: pp. 38-92. - Sacharow: pp. 107-124. These 4 accounts of the earliest scientific ascents with balloons, had the same purposes, namely to make observations on the composition of the air, pressure and the earth's magnetic force. Brockett "Bibliography of Aeronautics" Nos 1856 a, 6303 a a. 10654 a.

Bresslau, Brachvogel, 1728. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice and clean copy. (14), 608 pp. + frontispiece. The rare first edition of Pfeiffer’s work containing various meditations and reflections on the Lutheran tradition – a fine example of Pfeiffer's commitment to nurturing the spiritual life of believers through introspective dialogue and meditation. “Pfeiffer, Christoph a German divine, noted as a hymnologist, was born at Oels in the year 1689. For two years he was assistant-preacher at Dirsdorf, when he was called, March 28, 1719, by the duke H. Chr. von Landskron to the pastorate at Dittmansdorf, near Frankenstein, in the principality of Munsterburg. Having occupied this position for twenty-seven years, he was called to Stolz, where he spent the remainder of his life, and died December 23, 1758. His picture in the church there has the motto, "Mea Christus Portio," and the following epigraph: "Mors tua vita mea est, tuaque, O dulcissime Jesu, vulnera sunt animae Pharmaca certa meoe." Pfeiffer is the author of many hymns, several of which are found in our modern hymn-books.” (McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia). OCLC only list 1 copy (Berlin).

Madrid, Hijos y Compania, 1789. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Edges on covers gilt. Stamps on title-page. (6),LVIII,(2),227 pp. Wide-margined, clean and fine, on good paper. First edition of Tofino's famous Spanish pilot. "Pilot's Log-book of the Coasts of Spain and... the Mediterranean.. for the use of naval intelligence and nautical charts".

Leipzig, 1758. 8vo. Two very nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines. A few traces of wear, but overall very nice. Internally brownspotted throughout, due to the quality of the paper. Owner's inscription dated 1908 to front free end-papers. Old owner's name cut uot at corner of front free end-papers. Old book plate of "Göteborgs Stads Bibliotek" (with a later small stamp in the middle) to inside of front boards. Engraved frontispiece to volume one. General title-page (in volume one, before the preface) with engraved vignette. Woodcut vignette to all the other three title-pages. Woodcut beginning- and end-vignettes. XXXVIII, (2), 610 pp.; (4) pp + pp. (612) - 1004; 198 ff. (Index). The uncommon first printing of the renowned Fischer-edition, esteemed for its seroiusness and correctness and for the 38 pages long preface by Ernesti as well as the very elaborated index of almost 400 pages."This is a good edition, although indifferently printed. It is formed on the basis of N. Heinsius's, and contains the whole of his notes, with some additional ones from Burman. The preface is by the famous Ernesti: there is added a copius "Index Verborum". (Dibdin II:269).

Wien, Kaiserlich-königl. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1861-62. Small 4to. Bound in 3 orig. full pictorial cloth. Vol. 1 rebacked preserving orig. spine. Vol.2 with a tear in backhinge. Vol. 3 a bit loose (first inner hinge weak). Small stamp on title-pages. Lithographed tinted frontispiece. X,368;VI,434;IX,436 pp. Each vol. with Beilagen (42,20,7, music etc.), 34 lithographed folded maps in colour, 42 plates (mostly tinted woodcuts), profusely textillustrated with woodcuts. Internally clean and fine. First edition. - Sabin, 77625.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749. Large 4to. Uncut in 2 contemp. boards. Spines with some scratches and rubbing. Corners bumped. Htitles and titlepages with a stamp. 2 engraved titlevignettes and 2 engraved headpieces (4),411,(5);(20),547,(5) pp. With 51 folded engraved plates and maps. Wide-margined, clean and fine printed on good paper. A classic on warfare. Printed in Paris the same year as the second folio-edition which was printed in A la Haye, Frederic-Henri Scheurleer, 1749.

Cambridge, John Baskerville, 1760. Royal 8vo.(23,5 x 15,7 cm.). Bound in fine red full longgrained morocco. Spine divided in 5 compartments, each richly gilt and with a blindtooled stamp in the middle. Covers with broad gilt borders and blindtooled cornerpieces. Inside gilt borders. Edges of covers also gilt, Edges of leaves gilt. Faint discolouring at upper compartment. Unpaginated. (272) pp. Last leaf is L I2. Title-page laid down. Inner upper corner of title-page gone, but repaired, shaving the "C" in "Common". Brownspots to title-page. B7 with marginal repairs. Some rather faint scattered brownspots. Second edition (the same year as the first). Text printed in double columns and leaves without borders around the text.- Gaskell,13.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adults at the nest, one feeding 4 baby birds.. 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.

Hafniæ (København), Daniel Eichhorn - Chr. Cassube, 1660. 4to. Nyere hldrbd. (slut 19. årh.). Rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. (36),374,(2) pp. I teksten, på kalenderbladene talrige små symbolske træsnit illustrerende de forskellige dagsforløb. Enkelte blade med småreparationer. Delvis ubeskåret. Lettere brugsspor. 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.

Leipzig, Romberg's Verlag, (um 1850). Large 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-pages. XXII,(295) pp. (=590 columns) and 166 + 15 folded lithographed folio-plates. First and last leaves of text brownspotted. First and last few plates with brownspots.

Dresden und Leipzig, G.C. Walther, 1757. Bound in 2 later (ca. 1850) hcalf, richly gilt backs. Small stamp on title and verso. (12),(710),(2);(1),(710),199 pp. and 27 large folded engraved plates (flags, shipbuilding, guns, fortification etc.). Titlepages somewhat brownspotted, scattered brownspottings, but well preserved copy.

Jenae, Mamphrasius, 1653. 4to. In contemporary full calf with three raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Previous owner's name to title-page in contemporary hand. Internally very nice and clean. A blank leaf is inserted in between each text-leaf. (10) pp. 1125 columns, (102) pp. + 18 plates with 84 figures. The uncommon first edition of Micraelius’ influential philosophical dictionary containing one of the very earliest definition and uses of the word ‘ontology’. “Micraelius probably contributed greatly to a wider acceptance of the new term, for his Lexicon (see supra), first published in 1653, with a second printing in 1662, was a relatively successful book. Micraelius did not introduce an article on Ontology in the Lexicon, but the term Ontologia was presented in the article "Philosophia" as one of the subdivisions of Metaphysica. He defined the term as designating a peculiaris discipline philosophica, quae tractat de ente, but added quod tamen ab alis statuitur objectum ipsius metaphysicae, a most unfortunate "regression" in respect to Clauberg, and even in respect to Caramuel, since it somehow presupposes that ontologia and metaphysica are largely interchangeable.” (Mora, On the Early History of `Ontology') Johannes Micraelius (1597 – 1658), German philosopher and historiographer. In 1624, he became a rhetoric professor at the University of Greifswald and in 1639 was appointed rector at the Ratsschule in Stettin, where he wrote six books on Pomeranian history.In 1641, Micraelius became rector of the royal pedagogy in Stettin and a professor of theology and philosophy. He earned his theology degree from the University of Greifswald in 1649, eventually becoming its pro-chancellor in 1656.

Hannover, Carl Meyer, 1865. 4to. Contemp. modest hcloth. 2 orig. photographs mounted as frontispiece (Gauss-medal). 279,72,(2) pp. 3 plates, 6 tables. Internally clean. First German edition of this milestone in mathematical statistics, first published in Latin as "Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectinibus conicis solem ambientum. 1809." - In this work Gauss revealed for the first time his method of least squares. On January 1, 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the planetoid Ceres, but could only observe it for few days before it was lost in the glare of the Sun until the end of the year. After so many months of not being observed it was not possible to calculate with existing methods at which position it should reappear. However Gauss, at an age of 24, astounded when he in December predicted the exact location at which Ceres again could be observed. Gauss did not reveal how he had calculated the orbit of Ceres. First in 1809 Gauss published his second book "Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium" (the offered item) in which he revealed his new method of orbit calculation. In the first part he dealt with differential equations, conic sections and elliptic orbits, while in the second part, the main part of the work, he showed how to estimate and then to refine the estimation of a planet's orbit using a new method involving minimizing the sum of squared residuals, e.g., the method of least squares. He was able to prove the correctness of the method under the assumption of normally distributed errors. It is here that the Gaussian curve, expressing statistical distribution in probablility, makes its appearance. This work, along with the 'Discuisitiones', was the fruit of the triumphal decade in Gauss' life and established his reputation as a mathematical and scientific genius of the first order. Hald: History of Mathematical Statistics 1750-1930, pp.351-357.

København, Schultz, 1788-89. 4to. 2 samtidige ensartede hellæderbind med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Ophøjede bind på rygge, titel- og tomefelter i skind. Permer og kapitæler med slitage, enkelte steder med tab af læder. Indvendig ren og frisk. (2), XXII,400 pp.; (2), XXX, 401-786, (4), (8) pp. + 6 foldede tavler. Originaludgaven af den såkaldte "Store Landbocommission" nedsat 1786. Sammen med "Grundlovsforhandlingerne" den mest vidtrækkende og strukturændrende dansk kommision. Reformerne her gengav den danske bondestand økonomisk og borgerlig frihed, og på baggrund heraf løstes Stavnsbåndet. Hovedmændene var Christian D.F., Rewentlow, Colbjørnsen og Bernstorff.

Kbhvn. 1818-31. Indbundet i 12 samtidige halvlæderbind med forgyldte rygtitler og nyere bibliotekslabels på ryg. Med 39 kobberstukne portrætter, planer og kort (de fleste foldede). Stempler på titelblade. Grundlægger af den moderne militære historie i Danmark blev Ferdinand Heinrich Jahn, født 1789 i Neumiinster, hvor hans fader var apoteker. Han ville oprindelig have været søofficer, men da dette måtte opgives, blev han 1803 rekrut i Binzers Feltjægerkorpsog 1805 fændrik i Ewalds 1. slesvig-holstenske Bataillon. Da han var livfuld, lærelysten og pligtopfyldende, blev han 1807 sekondløjtnant; udmærkede sig 1808, 09 og 13 og deltog i 111 Auxiliaircorps i Frankrig, hvor han oversatte stykker af Holberg og Ingemann til tysk. Efter hjemkomsten til Ratzeborg startede han 1818 sammen med kaptajn Johan Adolph Fibiger »Magazin for militair Videnskabelighed«. Bibl. Dan. II, 330.

Hafniæ & Lipsiæ, Sumptibus Iacobi Prevssii. 1741. 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. gilt back and 4 raised bands. Front board loose. Gilding on back and capitals worn. Complete w. the engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates and the foldable map of the underworld (placed after the title-page). Engraved title-page. Internally very nice and clean, on good paper. Originaludgaven. af Holbergs berømte utopiværk, Niels Klim i Undervendenen. Ehr.-M. XII:213 ff.First edition of this influential utopian mastepiece. The satirical piece of science fiction by the "father of Danish Literature", the famous Danish professor of Law and Philosophy, Ludvig Holberg, can be compared in style and setup to Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", which was published 15 years earlier. The sharp political satire is not bound to a specific nation, but to the entire human race, and thus gives a picture of human conditions and thought in general in this period. Though the work does not bear a title which directly indicates its obvious utopian connections, as does for instance More's "Utopia", the name of the land of the living trees, in which Niels Klim arrives, "Potu", is very likely to constitute a word game indicating it's obvious literary intention: Spelled backwards we get: "UTOP". The quaint creatures and societies that Niels Klim meets in the underworld are said to be comparable to the characterization he gives in his Epistles (III) of the different European peoples, and thus we find satirical examples of the English mixed with the Dutch (in Potu) and the French mixed with the Germans (in Martinia). "I det hele er Modsætningen mellem Potu, Ideallandet - det kaldes virkelig saaledes i Bogens Slutning - og Martinia, Karikaturen, ikke blot geografisk, men historisk som mellem det attende Aarhundredes Realisme og det syttende Aarhundredes Formalisme. Potu er Naturrettens og den naturlige Religions Land, Martinia (for ikke at sige Lutheria) Ortodoksiens og Aristokratiets. Aands-Frihed og Stats-Tugt er Bogens Tendens. Da Holberg holdt saa haardt ved den faste Stat, turde han vel vente Absolution for at han ikke opgav den frie Tanke." (Vilh. And. II, p. 133). (= "All in all the contrast is between Potu, the ideal country - it is actually called so in the end of the book - and Martinia, the caricature, not only geographically, but historically as being between the realism of the 18th century and the formalism of the 17th century. Potu is the country of natural law and natural religion, Martinia (not to say Lutheria) is that of orthodoxy and aristocracy. Freedom of spirit and state-discipline are the tendencies of the book. Since Holberg stood so strongly on the dominating state, he ought to have expected absolution for not giving up free thought.").Ehr-M.: XII, 213.

Erfurt, Joh. Friedr. Weber, 1749. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on front free endpaper. 270,(50) pp. With old underlinings throughout. Scarce first German edition of Nollet's first book on electricity, his "Essai sur l'électricité des corps", 1746. It is one of the earliest detailed treatises on electricity. He here developed a theory of electrical attraction and repulsion that supposed the existence of a continuous flow of elctrical matter between charged bodies. Nollet’s theory at first gained wide acceptance, but met its nemesis in 1752 with the publication of the French translation of Franklin’s "Experiments and Observations on Electricity".Poggendorff II, 296.