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Stockholm, Elménsku, Elméns och Granberg, 1818-19. - Holmiæ, Elmenianis, Deleens och Granberg, 1818. 8vo. Bound in two slightly later half calf binding with gilt spines and title labels. Few scattered brownspots. Snorra: 15,(1),16,384,(2) pp. + (2),XIII,(3),172,(2) pp. - Sæmundar: (10),288 pp. + (20),273,(3) pp. Snorre: Hjelmslev I, 25; Fiske I, 118. Sæmundar: Hjelmslev I, 26; Fiske I, 113.

(Leipzig, B.F. Teubner, 1871 a. 1873). Without wrappers, (wrappers blank to Second Part) as published in "Mathematische Annalen. Hrsg. von Felix Klein, Walter Dyck, Adolph Mayer." Vol. IV, pp. 573-625 and vol. VI, pp. 112-145. Kept in a cloth-portfolio. First edition. In these groundbreaking papers Klein established that if Euclidean geometry is consistent then non-Euclidean geometry is consistent as well and he introduces the adjectives "parabolic", "elliptic", and "hyperbolic" for the respective geometries of Georg Riemann, of Nicolai Lobachevsky, of C.F. Gauss and Janos Bolyai. "Cayley's idea (that metrical geometry is part of projective geometry) was taken over by Felix Klein (1849-1925) and generalized so as to include the non-Euclidan geometries. Klein, a professor at Göttingen, was one of the lading mathematicians in Germany during the last part of the nineeeeteenth and first part of the twentieth century. During the years 1869-70 he larned the work of Lobatchevsky, Bolyai, von Staudt, and Cayley; however, even in 1871he did not know Laguerre's result. It seemed to him to be posible to subsume the non-Euclidean geometries, hyperbolic, and double elliptic geometry, under projective geometry byexploiting Cayley's idea. He gave a sketch og his thoughts in a paper of 1871, and then developed them in two papers (1871 a. 1873, the ppers offered here). Klein was the first to obtain models of non-Euclidean geometries." (Morris Kline). - Sommerville, Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry p.45 (1871) and p. 49 (1873).

Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1764. Later blank boards. A small paperlabel has been pasted over "Erster Theil" on titlepage. The spectacular, large folded engraved frontispiece by P.S. Cabot showing a chemical laboratory, well equipped). (16),576 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. First German edition of Lewis classical work on applied chemistry "Commercium Philosophico-Technicum", published 1763 and 1767, and originally intended as a periodical. It deals with the history of gold, platinum, glass, porcelain etc.Poggendorff I, 1443. - Duveen, 355 (English ed.).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page. First printing of this milestone paper, being the first "Note" from Marie Curie about "radioactivity". This same "Note" contains a the fundamental observation: "Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium." This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property."Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents; Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first "Note" in the Comptes rendus"de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:"I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters; distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure."(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be "radioactive" (the term is Mme. Curie’s; its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany.

K., 1878-1907. Folio. Smukt nyere hldrbd. i sort oaseged med rygforg. 360,XX pp. samt 33 håndkolorerede kobberst. plancher. Her forligger afdelingen med Danmarks Fisk som et afsluttet hele. Selve værket "Zoologia Danica" blev aldrig fuldført. De 33 smukke plancher forligger i original håndkolorering.

Wittenberg, Schurer & Gormann, 1616. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with triple ruled fillets to boards. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Inner hinges split. Wear and soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary to spine. Internally nice and clean. (48), 888, (32) pp. Third edition of this interesting and highly popular work offering a theological interpretation of natural history typical of the early 17th century, where natural phenomena were often seen through religious and moral symbolism. Editions appeared in Wittenberg in 1612, 1613, 1616,1621, 1624, 1633, 1642, 1659 and Amsterdam in 1643, 1654, 1665; “In 1612, the protestant theologian Wolfgang Franzius published a book entitled Historia animalium sacra. Franzius (Franz or Frantze, 1564–1628) was Probst [Rural Dean] of Wittenberg and professor of theology at the university. Wittenberg – the city where Luther had initiated the Reformation in 1517 – was still a stronghold for the Reformation, but the Catholic Counter-Reformation was a threatening reality. The Historia animalium sacra was widely read: A long series of editions appeared from 1612 until 1671, and an English translation was published in London in 1670. To later readers, Franzius’s work was presented together with extensive commentaries written by Johannes Cyprianus (1642–1723), professor of physics and later of theology in Leipzig.” (Roggen, Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra).

(Ebbestofte ?), 1770-71. 4to. Bindet dateret 1770 i guldtryk på forperm ligesom ejers initialer i guldtryk O.C.v.H (Oluf Christian v. Hessen) på forperm. Helbind med spejl. og rygforgyldning. Spor efter lukkestroppe. Rygforgyldning. 177 blade (= 354 pp.) i smuk håndskrift, helt igennem er titler og kapiteloverskrifter kalligraferet i rødt og grønt. Et omhyggeligt udført matematisk håndskrift, som delvist er bygget på og afskrevet fra Cramers populære regnebog, men også med talrige tilføjelser af emner og øvelsesstykker, omhandlende de fire regnearter og udvidet med kapitler til brug for husholdningsregskab, rentesregning, procentregning, handels-regning (netto,tara-og brutto), arv og skifte, konkurs, vexel-regning (inden-og udenlandsk), mål og vægt-regning, kubik og kvadrat etc.etc.Af dedikationsbladet fremgår, at bogen er lavet til Oluf Christian v. Hessen og at den er overrakt ham af B. Prostrop (?) Ebbestofte 1. Sept. 1770 "til hans aarsdag". Af sidste side fremgår, at "Denne min Zifre-Bog haver jeg fuldendt Dend 11te Aprilj Anno 1771 Pro MDCCLXXI" og underskrevet A. Heÿm.

Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences", Vol. 54, No 13, No 15 a. No 17. Pp. (749- 772, pp. (806-) 868 a. pp. (941-) 992. And vol. 55, No 15. Pp. (583-) 631. (4 entire issues offered). With htitle and titlepage to vol. 54. Titlepage with a stamp in upper corner of titlepage on verso, shown on recto. Béguyer de Chancourtois's papers: pp. 757-761, 840-843, pp. 967-971 and pp. 600-601. First appearance of Chancourtois's historical paper in which he conceived a way to arrange the chemical elements in a periodic manner, years before Mendelejeff and Lothar Meyer. He arranged the elements on a cylinder in the order of atomic weight. This importent paper was never published in full, but only as abstracts as offered here. His principle of the periodicity of the elements remained unnoticed until the first communication (of April 7) was translated by P.J. Hartog in Nature in 1889 under the title "A Foreshadowing of the periodic law"."Generalizing further from Élie’s ideas, Béguyer formulated a method for classifying chemical elements based "in the last analysis upon the distribution of these elements in the crust of the globe." His scheme, a precursor of the periodic table, was put forth in "Vis tellurique, classement des corps simples ou radicaux au moyen d’une système de classification helicoïdal et numérique" (1862). The model for his theory was the "telluric screw," a helical graph wound about a cylinder. The base of the cylinder was divided by sixteen equally spaced points, and the screw thread was similarly divided on each of its turns; the seventeenth point was on the second turn directly above the first, the eighteenth above the second, and so forth. Each point was supposed to represent the "characteristic number" of some element that could be deduced from its physical properties or chemical characteristics. Actually, Béguyer used unit equivalent weights as characteristic numbers, following Prout, who made hydrogen the unit. These weights were derived by measuring the specific heat of each element in a manner suggested by Regnault." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1862 C.

Zürich, David Gessner, 1756. Later hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. Double-page folded engraved frontispiece (bound at end together with the plates). Engraved titlevignette. XXII,279 pp., 10 folded engraved plates. 2 large engraved vignettes n the text (bombardments). Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Berlin, Mittler, 1828-49. 4to. Bound in 21 cont. hcalf.Backs slightly worn. Stamp on titles.

Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Part of titlelabel gone. Stamps on title-page. (2),174 pp. and 1 folded engraved map. Scattered brownspots, mainly to the first few leaves. First German edition of Parry's first voyage "Journal of a Voyage of Discovery, to the Arctic regions, performed... 1818, in His Majesty's Ship Alexander..." (1819). (Sabin, 36696).

Kbhvn., 1979-84. Lex8vo. Luxusindbindingen i orig.hldrbd.af oaseged.

Kopenhagen, Höpffner, 1740. 2 contemp. full vellum, not uniform. Textvol with some browning to boards. Blindtooled title on spine. King Christian VI's blindtooled monogram on upper board. 563,(5) pp. Endpapers loose. - Atlas (Tabellen): With flap and ties. Handwritten title on spine. A paperlabel pasted on spine. All plates are folded (from folio to 8vo). Engraved title-page in baroque-style. Engraved plate with signatures and 38 folded engraved folio-plates. Bibl. Dan II,341.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. Bound together in one contemp. halfcalf. Spine gilt. Minor scratches to spine. A stamp to titlepage and htitle. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 20. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude." , Portrait (Paul Drude), VIII,1048 pp. and 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 199-206 and 627-33. The entire volume offered. Both papers first edition. It was for the papers "Ueber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" of 1905 and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung...( Theory of light emission and absorption), the offered item), that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921."The quantum theory has affected virtually every branch of physics. Its earliest and one of its most significant developments was Einstein's application of the theory to what is known as the 'photo-electrical effect'....Einstein explained this effext by suggesting that the classical view that light is emitted in the form of continous waves must be abandoned. The photo-electrical effect could be explained only as an example of quantum action where the waves of light or X-rays are emitted in minute particles or bullets. It is he size of the bullet (the wave-lenght of the radiation) which determines the number of electrons ejected. It was for this, and not for the theory of relativity, that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Einstein's two fundamental papers on this subject are "Ueber einem Erzeugung...." 1905 and Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung (the paper offered here)" (PMM the note to 391). In the second paper (Principle of the conservation of the centre of mass motion and the inertia of energy) he shows that the conservation of mass is a special application of his energy principle (E= Mc2) - Weil: 12 & 13.Among the many papers in this volume we have Max von Laue: Zur Thermodynamik der Inteferenzerscheinungen. pp. 365-378.

Chria., 1848, Tvær-folio. 2 samt.hldrbd. m.rig rygforgyldn. Rygge med brugsspor. Litograferet titelblad. 82 tonede litograferede plancher (de fleste litograferede af Bærentzen efter forskellige malere og tegnere). Tekstsiderne varierende brunplettet p.g.a. papirkvaliteten. Plancherne her og der med brunpletter. Originaludgaven.

Reykjavik, Stofnu Árna Magnússonar, 1974. Folio. Fine orig. hmorocco, gilt. In orig. slipcase. XLVIII pp. and 662 pp. of facsimiles. (Islenzk Handrit. Icelandic Manuscripts Series in Folio, Vol. III). The book contains facsimiles of: Sturlubók, AM 107 fol. - Hauksbók, AM 371 4to. - Hauksbók, AM 105 fol. - Melabók, AM 445b 4to - Skardsárbók, AM 104 fol. - Thordabók, AM 106 and 112 fol. - Thordabók, AM 106 fol., leaf 1-10.

U.sted(1818-26). Lille 4to. Her foreligger 39 (af de udgivne 50) kort, i træsnit og grænsekoloreret. Langt de fleste angår Danmark og Hertugdømmerne samt Slesvig. Selv om atlasset er fremstillet til skolebrug, er det det første dansk producerede atlas overhovedet. - Bibl.Dan.II:391.

A La Haye, Jaccob van Ellinckhuysen, 1705. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Gilt super ex-libris to front board. Wear to extremities, corner bumped and boards with scratches. Internally nice and clean. (12), 282, (17) pp. Rare first complete French translation of Gracián’s vol. 1 of El Criticon first published in 1651. Various French editions were published in the end of the 17th century (París, Colombat, 1696; París, Colombat, 1697; Brussels, T’Sertstevens, 1696; Brussels, François Serstevens,; Brussels, François Foppens, 1697), all incomplete. This present 1705 translation is considered the best and also serves as basis for the modern reissue by Alfred Coster (1931). El Criticon is considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish Baroque literature and is regarded, along with Don Quixote and La Celestina, to be one of the most influential works in Spanish literature,

Copenhagen und Leipzig, Rothischen Buchhandlung, 1753. Samtidigt papbd. med rygforgyldning og forgyldt titelfelt. Noget slid i rygkanter, hvor noget af rygforgyldningen er forsvundet. (8),248,136 pp. Indvendig velbevaret. Med egenhændig dedikation på fribladet fra den danske komponist Carl Nielsen "Til Th. A. Müller/ venskabeligst fra/ Carl Nielsen". Nederst på fribladet har Th. A. Müller tilføjet "Denne bog fik jeg foræret af Komponisten Carl Nielsen da vi i Sommeren 1918 sammen søgte Holberg udg. og da han tænkte paa en ny Holberg opera. Th. A. Müller." - Th. A. Müller var historiker og pædagog, men mest kendt som Holbergforsker, f.eks. med bogen "Den unge Ludvig Holberg" Første tyske oversættelse af Holbergs "Den Berømmelige Norske Handel-Stad Bergens Beskrivelse", 1737.Ehr.-M. X, p. 258-59.

København, 1890. Orig. komp. brunt helshirtbd. m. helt guldsnit. Lidt slitage v. kapitæler og hjørner. Lille svag plet på forperm. Gl. ejernavne og tilskrifter på forreste friblad. Indimellem lettere brunplettet, men et nydeligt eksemplar. Originaludgaven af et et Ibsens internationalt mest berømmede værker, det norske bidrag til Printing and the Mind of Man: "Ibsen's influence on the whole course of modern drama may be indicated by the inclusion of his plays in the repetoire of every Anvant-garde theatre of his day - the Théâtre Libre, Paris, 1887, Die Freie Bühne in Berlin, 1887, and The Independant Theatre in London, 1891-" (Printing and the Mind of Man: 375).

A Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 4to. A little later hcalf. Gilt back, gilt titlelabel. Small stamp on title and verso. Title in red/black. Fine engraved frontispiece (Rigault inv. et sculp.). (16),80,64,96,104,80,80,(8) pp. and 53 large folded engraved plates (of which one is in xerox-copy (No. 28)). Clean and fine, printed on good paper. On lower compartment the gilt Coat of Arms from the famous Danish Library "Det Classenske Bibliothek". First edition. - Klaus Jordan No. 219.

Kbhvn., 1926-82. Bd. 1-28 indbundet i 19 solide hldrbd., rest i hefter.

Leipzig und Liegntz, 1771-74. Bound in 3 contemp. uniform full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartments. Light wear to spine ends. Stamp on title-pages. (24),400,(16);(28),584;(26),694,(46) pp., 107 folded engraved plates. Title-page with light toning. A few faint scattered brownspots. First German edition.

(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1861. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 52, No 8. Pp. (321-) 368. (Entire issues offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 344-347. Minor marginal brownspots. First printing of a milestone paper in microbiology, being the paper in which Pasteur disclosed his discovery of organisms that lived without oxygen. Two years later he named them anaerobic or zymics, contrasting to aerobic which only lived in the presence of free oxygen."In 1861 he turned his attention to the butyric fermentation and made another importent discovery, viz. that this fermentation proceeds in the absence of oxygen. In the fermented material he found cylindrical rods, which he showed were the cause of the fermentation. Following the nomenclature and ideas of the time he regarded them as animal in character and named them Vibrio..." (Bullock "The History of Bacteriology", p. 61).

London, John Murray, 1824. 4to. Contemp. full calf. rebacked, but original gilt spine preserved. Corners a bit bumped. Light wear along edges. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (8),XXX,(2),571,(1) pp., Textillustrations, 38 engraved plates (9 maps - 4 large and folding, 25 plates, 4 folded coastal profiles). Tissue-guards to plates. A bit of offsetting on title-page. A few scattered marginal brownspots. First edition. - Sabin, 58864.