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London, Printed for Nathanial Ponder, 1680. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Light wear to extremities. Corners bumped. Light occassional marginal browning, but generally a nice and clean copy. (8), 400 pp. Wanting the frontispiece (Erroneously paginated as follows: Pp. 1-167 & 176-400. Complete, except for frontispiece). Later edition of Owen’s highly influential work on Psalm 130 also known as the "De Profundis" or "Out of the Depths". This work reflects Owen's commitment to both the rigorous study of Scripture and the practical application of biblical truths to the lives of believers. John Owen (1616-1683) was a prominent English theologian and minister in the Puritan tradition during the 17th century. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest theological minds in the Reformed tradition. Owen was born in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England, and he attended Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied classics and theology. Owen's theological writings covered a wide range of topics, including theology proper, soteriology, ecclesiology, and pneumatology. He was a staunch defender of Calvinism and Reformed theology, and he engaged in theological debates with various religious factions of his time, including Arminians and Socinians, two different branches of Pietism.

(Ca. 1885). 13,6 x 9,7 cm. Monteret på hvidt pap, som måler 14,5 x 10,8 cm. Ibsen er fotograferet i 1/3 profil med hovedet drejet til venstre, i dobbeltradet jakke med adskillige mindre medaljer på jakken og en stor om halsen og med briller. Imposing original photograph of the famous Norwegian playwright, the author of "Hedda Gabler" (PMM 375: "Revolution in the Theatre"), "Pillars of Society, "A Doll's House" etc, etc. Original photographs of Ibsen are hard to come by and very sought after.

(Paris), Gallimard, (1964-65). 8vo. Both vols. in orig. printed wrappers, uncut and 95% unopened, on very thick paper. Near mint. 384, (5) + 342, (7) pp. First edition of Sartre's sixth and seventh "Situations", together making up the entire "Problèmes du marxisme". Both volumes no. 22 of 36 copies on "velin de Holland van Gelder.""Il a été tiré de l'édition originale de cet ouvrage trente-six exemplaires sur vélin de Hollande van Gelder numérotés de 1 à 36 at cent vingt exemplaires sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre numérotés de 37 à 156." (Verso of title-page). Contat & Rybalka 64/396 + 65/417.Sartre's "Situations" contain many of Sartre's most important articles and essays, and it is within these that Sartre foremost shows his philosophical and political face. "The several volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Situations, published from 1947 on, constitute the most weighty and, in the two first volumes in particular, the most original body of essay writing of the middle of the 20th century." (Encyclop. Britannica). In all 10 "Situations" appeared.

London, 1774. 8vo. Very nice, contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spine. Gilt line to edges of boards. Marbled edges. A bit of minor scattered brownspotting and some smaller dampstaining towards end. All in all a very nice copy. (4), III, (1), 151 pp. Beautiful woodcut vignettes. Possibly first edition. One of three editions printed in 1774, none of which has been established as the true first. All three editions are printed in London but differ in number of pages, the other two having 96 and 84 respectively, ours having 151. This very interesting work of the French Enlightenment is probably not written by Helvetius, but by whom is not known. It does stay within the controversial lines of the great Enlightenment philosophers, though, probably being the reson why the author has never been identified. It has a lot in common with d'Holbach's monumental "Système de la Nature" from 1770, which constitutes the main work of materialism and one of the most important works of natural philosophy. Tchermerzine VI:195.

Cracovie, Imprimerie de L'Université, 1910 + 1911. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Two offprints from "Bulletin de L'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie", Mai, 1910 & Octobre, 1911. Both very fine and clean. Pp. (2), 130-53; Pp. (1), 549-57. Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski's important paper in which he documented that a layer of smooth spherical particles in vacuum may be used as an effective thermal insulator."This was discovered by M. Smoluchowski some forty years ago. He investigated both theoretically and experimentally the thermal conductivity of powders, and concluded that filling the space between the walls of a Dewar vessel with a suitable powder would provide improved insulation by reducing the convective currents as well as the radiation and, moreover, would improve the vacuum by absorption. His application for a patent resulted in a long argument with the German Patent Office, whose examiners were reluctant to admit that any material agent could provide a better insulation than 'absolute' vacuum. At that time a large metallic Dewar vessel with its interstice filled with powdered active carbon was built at the Physical Institute of the University in Lwów, and showed the expected high insulating properties." (Klemensiewicz, Thermal Conductivity of Powders)

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1860. 8vo. (207x124mm). Entire volume offered here in contemporary card board binding with hand written paper label to spine. A fine copy. First edition of the paper which marks the beginning of spectrum analysis. In this work Kirchhoff and Bunsen announced their discovery of the two alkali metals, cesium and rubidium, with the aid of the spectroscope they had invented the year before. These discoveries inaugurated a new era in the means used to find new elements.

Kopenhagen, Munksgaard, 1944-72. Small folio. In clean parts. All 12 parts with orig. printed wrappers, uncut.

Nürnberg, Johann Hofmanns Kunst- und Buchhändler. Jena gedruckt bey Johann Zachario Nisius, 1695 [Vol. 1] & 1691 [Vol. 2]. [+] Franckfurt und Leipzig, Hoffmann, 1693. Folio (340 x 225 mm). Bound in two beautiful uniform contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings. Six raised bands to richly gilt spine. Boards with beautiful "mirror"-style decoration, blindstamping and gilt line-borders. A few worm tracts affecting boards and four small worm tracts affecting first 77 pp. of vol. 1. and first 401 pp of vol 2 and last few leaves of vol. 2, otherwise a fine copy. Lacking partrait in vol. 1. (20).250, (28) pp.; 1044, (2), 230, (34) pp. Second enlarged edition.

A Londres, Tonson & Watts, Guillaume Darres et Jean Brindley, 1724-40. Large 4to. Bound in 4 uniform full calf. Some rebacking preserving old spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Cracking to some hinges, but not detached. Corners bumped. Wear to spine ends. Extremities somewhat rubbed. Engraved portrait. Wide-margined, a few scattered brownspots. Occasionally marginal browning. Printed on good paper. First edition of Coste's famous Montaigne-edition. Scarce with the supplementary-volume. This esteemed edition of Montaigne's Essays is regarded as "l'une des plus belles et des meilleurs éditions de Montaigne" (Tchemerzine). - Brunet III, 1838.

Nuremberg, Joh. Andr. Endt, 1756. 8vo. Two parts bound in one contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and leather on spine cracked. Internally fine and clean. (22), 315, (105); (2), 449, (60) pp. Later, much enlarged and improved, edition of Comenius’s ‘Orbis Pictus’ - the first widely used children's textbook with pictures and arguably the most influential textbook for children in the late 17th- and early 18th century. “The historical importance of this schoolbook for beginners in Latin lies in its educational approach. Comenius’s simple encyclopedic format, consisting of keyed pictures with descriptive columns of bilingual text, reflects his progressive educational approach, as does the richly varied content” (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature).The first edition was published in 1658.

Jena, Matth. Birckneri, 1686. Small8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling to extremities. Underlignings in text throughout, otherwise a good copy. (22), 795, (7) pp. + frontispiece and 102 engraved emblems (in text). Uncommon Jena-edition of Saavedra’s anti-Machiavellian emblem book, originally published in Spanish in 1640, containing a hundred short essays on the education of prices. Offering guidance on governance, diplomacy, and statecraft the work provides insights into political philosophy during the Baroque period. The format of the work, short essay each accompanied by beautiful illustrations, help popularize the work outside academic and scholarly circles and the work became immensely popular with numerous edition and translations.

(London, Bulwer and Co., 1803 a. 1804). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1803-Part II. Pp. 339-382 and 2 engraved plates. a. Year 1804-Part II. Pp. 353-384 a. 1 engraved plate. Light browning to a few margins. 2 plates with scattered brownspots, otherwise clean and wide-margined. First appearance of these fundamental paper in cosmology and physics as they contains the FIRST OBSERVATIONAL DATA TO SUPPORT THAT NEWTON'S DYNAMICAL LAWS HOLDS OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Herschel shows here that the circulating motions of double-stars were under gravitational forces. Until then the validity of the law of gravity was only established within the solar system. Now, a century after the establishment of the law, it was traced out in the motion of incredibly distant stars and the theory first truly earned its title of Universal. The exact proof of the mutual gravitation of the double-stars was only obtained five years after Herschel's death, when the motions of the stars were more precisely dtermined.One of the most notable of Herschel's discoveries of double-stars, binary stars. A first cataloque of such pairs was published early in 1782 and contained 269, of which 227 were new discoveries. "Twenty years after the publication of his first cataloque Herschel was of Michell's opinion - Michell had expressed the opinion that the odds in favour of a physical relation between the members of Herschel's newly discovered double stars were "beyond arithmetic" - but was able to support it by evidence of an entirely novel and much more direct character. A series of observations of Castor, presented in two papers in the "Philosophical Transaction" in 1803 and 1804 (the paperS offered ), which were fortunately supplemented by an observation of Bradley's in 1759, had shewn a progressive alteration in the direction of the line joining its two components, of such a character as to leave no doubt that the two stars were revolving round one another; and there were five oher cases in which a similar motion was observed...it was shown that the double-star was really formed by a connected pair of stars near enough to influence one another's mortion."(Berry in "A Short History of Astronomy" pp. 342-43).

Paris, 42, Rue D'Anjou, no date (around 1917). Small folio-oblong. (24,5 x 33 cm.). Original hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt lineborders. Paperlabel pasted on spine. Light wear to corners. With 172 fine plates reproduced in collotype from photographs, all with tissue-guards. Throughout with specifications on cardboards and section- and parttitles. Clean and fine. Original publication from the factory exposing in collotypes the factory's wide range of war materials from World War I. 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.

Hafniae (Copenhagen), Schultz, 1837. Large 4to. Original boards. Spine with original printed titlelabel. Some tears to spine-paper and spineends worn. Stamp on title-page. XLIV,479,(7) pp. 8 plates of facsimiles, 6 engraved plates (runic inscriptions in America) and 4 large engraved maps. With Old Nordic, Latin and Danish text. Internally clean and fine. First edition. The work contains the texts from the Old Norse literature relating to the discovery of North America. - Fiske I:p.13. - Sabin: 67470.

Venice, Aldus, 1559. 8vo. Bound in a recent full morocco binding with four raised bands to spine. Title page with tears and mounted. Waterstain to inner margin throughout, otherwise clean. Few contemporary underlinings in text. With the woodcut Aldine printer's device to title page. 184 leaves (A-Z8). The uncommon reprint of the first part of Paulus Manutius' 1554 edition of Cicero's rhetorical works (Renouard 1554.12), containing three of his most important rhetorical treatises, De Inventione, Topica and Oratoriae Partitiones, as well as the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. Cicero's rhetorical works, Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione in particular, played an important role in teaching of rhetoric throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Paulus Manutius was one of the most prominent Ciceronian scholars of his time, and his editions, containing numerous original textual corrections a valuable contribution to Ciceronian scholarship. Renouard 1559.6

Franckfurt, Jacobi di Zetter, 1644. Folio. Later hcalf. No title to spine. Stamp on foot of title-page. 2 engraved title-pages with letterpress. (12),145,(3); (8),71,(5) pp. Without the 24 plates. A faint dampstain to some leaves in inner margins, otherwise clean. Second Ferman edition. The first part deals mainly with the artillery and its technical aspects and the second part with fireworks.The Italian physician, alchemist and cartographer, Alexis of Piedmont or Girolamo Ruscelli, was born in Viterbo, Italy around 1500 (perhaps earlier), and died in Venice, Italy around 1565. He is (probably) the author of the important "Secreti", published in 1555, and the "Secreti Nuovi", published in 1567, the first of which was extremely popular and of considerable influence, the second of which must be said to be of the greatest interest, but apparently not very widely read. He also translated the Geography of Ptolemy into Italian, and his books on war and fire-works are now quite scarce. Most of his works were popular in his life-time and the century to come, and they were translated into Latin, German, French and Welsh. At a very early point he indicated the plan of a scientific academy, and he must be said to be a very interesting 16th century scientist. Cockle, 663.

4to-oblong. All orig. wrappers, loose as issued in publisher's cloth box. No 18 of 88 "sur vélin de Rives", a total of 100. With 32 original lithographs in colour, all signed by the artist.

Amsterdam, G.& J. Blaeu, 1638. Folio. Samt. hollandsk helpergamentsbind, forlagsbind med stor blindtrykt roset på begge permer. Øverste 2 cm. af ryg fint repareret. Lidt slid ved hjørner. Det 3. værk også med det andet titelblad, her indsat forrest. Kobberstukket portræt af Meursius ved Simon de Pas. (6),118 - (6),133 - (6),87 - (4),150,(2) - (4),112 pp. Frisk, rent eksemplar. Samlingsbind bestående af 5 værker, alle udgivet af Blaeu- Ehr.-Müller V:377 anfører ikke tryk 4 og 5, ej heller Bibl. Dan. III:13-14.

Greifswald, Ferdinand Röse, 1771-94. Bound in 8 fine contemp.hcalf. Gilt spines.Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spines. Stamps on front free endpapers. 9 engraved titlevignettes. Ca.5600 pp. and 129 folded engraved plates. Internally fine. Poggendorff I, 1225.

Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1774. Bound in 2 very fine contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels in leather on spines with gilt lettering., gilt border on all covers. Blindtooled decorations on covers in Cambridge-style, "mirror-binding". Edges gilt. Stamp on foot of titlepages. (22),312;(16),296 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. Light browning to some quires and to top of titles, otherwise fine. Scarce first edition of the famous German educators mathematical textbook, - his suggestion to how mathematics should be taught in his educational reform. Basedow’s views were based on the writings of men such as John Amos Comenius, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His practical teaching methods were more expansive in their implications for education than those of any of his immediate predecessors in the field, and by the early 19th century they had become a fundamental force in Germany’s public school systems.Basedow blev i 1753 ansat af J.H.E. Bernstorff ved Sorø Akademi som professor i moral og de skønne videnskaber. Her kom han bl.a. i forbindelse med den danske oplysningsforfatter og Sorø-professor Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, hvis værker han oversatte til tysk. Sneedorff blev selv inspirereret af Basedows pædagogiske idéer.

Glückstadt, Andrea Koch, 1637. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Title-page printed in red/black framed by a woodcut border. (8),117,(12) leaves. Some contemporary annotations and underlinings. Printed on good paper. Internally clean. Withbound 4 ordinances issued by Friederich III (1649, 1650, 1650, 1650). On inside frontcover an engraved portrait of Christian IV inserted(Husum Matthias Peterss, Goldschmidt. Sculp. 1645 - See Krohn nr. 26). Scarce first revised edition of the work which for years regulated the civile proceedings in the courts in Schleswig and Holstein.Bibl.Dan. I,703. - Thesaurus II,428.

Dateret "1942". Selve portrættet måler ca. 25x22 cm, papiret, på hvilket den er trykt, er i passepartout, og størrelsen herindenfor er 44x37 cm. Passepartouet måler 6,5 cm. på alle sider, og rammen (i sort og sølv), som det er indsat i, måler 63x55 cm. Usædvanligt portræt af den 83 år gamle Knut Hamsun, tegnet i en lidt grov skitse-agtig stil af hans dengang 30-årige søn Tore Hamsun, som i dag er en meget anerkendt kunstner, egenhændigt nummereret i blyant "49/100, og med med egenhændig signeret ("Tore") dedikation fra Tore til hans søster Ellinor, Knut Hamsuns ældste datter.Tore Hamsun (1912-95) begyndte i 1933 at studere på Torstein Torsteinssons malerskole, studerede fra 1934-35 på kunstakademiet i München, og året etter fortsatte han sin kunstnerutdannelse i Berlin. Senere fulldførte han uddannelsen ved Statens kunstakademi i Oslo, hvor han fik sin debut som maler 1940. "Som billedkunstner var Tore Hamsun først og fremst landskapsmaler, med en dempet, raffinert fargeskala, påvirket bl.a. av fransk impresjonisme. Han er representert i Nasjonalgalleriet og i Nationalmuseum i Stockholm. Hans virke som billedkunstner ble imidlertid i mange år sterkt forstyrret av hans rolle som Hamsun-biograf og som familiens talsmann i norske medier." (Norsk biografisk lexicon). Det er først i nyere tid, at man rigtig er begyndt at værdsætte Tore Hamsuns kunstneriske evner, da han i årtier har lidt under familiens og hans egne Nazi-sympatier. Inden for de seneste år er man dog begyndt at anerkende Tore Hamsun som en særdeles begavet kunstner, hvis værker indgår i de store skandinaviske malerisamlinger.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1822. Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 71. Titlepage to vol. 71, pp. 124-171 a. pp. 172-176 and 1 folded engraved plate showing experimental apparatus. Clean and fine. First German edition of Faraday's famous paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism. By Michael Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. (1821)", recording one of the most influential discoveries in physics in the 19th Century, as Faraday here, as the very first, showed how to CONVERT THE ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC FORCES INTO CONTINUAL MECHANICAL MOVEMENT, thus creating the first electric motor, using the principle of electromagnetic rotation. In the first paper he introduced for the first time the concept of "LINE OF FORCE" and hereby deliniating "a picture of the universe as consisting of fields of various types, one that was more subtle, flexible, and useful than the purely mechanical picture of Galileo and Newton. The FIELD UNIVERSE was to be recognized with Maxwell half a century later and with Einstein, after an interval of another halfcentury."(Asimov)."Ever since Hans Christian oersted's announcement of the discovery of electromagnetism in the summer of 1820, editors of scientific journals had been inundated with articles on the phenomenon. Theories to explain it had multiplied, and the net effect was confusion. Were all the effects reported real ? Did the theories fit the facts ? It was to answer these questions that Phillips turned to Faraday and asked him to review the experiments and theories of the past months and separate truth from fiction,...Faraday agreed to to undertake a short historical survey...His entusiasm was aroused in September 1821, when he turned to the investigation of the peculiar nature of the magnetic force created by an electrical current. Oersted had spoken of the "electrical conflict" surrounding the wiree and had noted that "this conflict performs circles".....Yet as he experimented he saw precisely what was happening. Using a small magnetic needle to map the pattern of magnetic force, he noted that oneof the poles of the needle turned in a circle as it was carried around the wire. He immediately realized that a single magnetic pole would rotate unceasingly around a current-carrying wire so long as the current flowed. He then set about devising an instrument to illustrate this effect. His paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism" appeared in the 21 October 1821 issue of the "Quarterly Journal of Science" (The paper offered in the first German edition). It records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contained the first notion of the line of force."(DSB IV, pp. 533).

Nürnberg, Endterus, 1642. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Binding with light soiling and miscolouring. Closed tear to upper margin of engraved half-title. Internally nice and clean. (102), 939 pp. + frontispiece. Rare first edition of Walther’s work on Mosaic law as outlined in the Pentateuch. Michael Walther (1593-1662) was a German theologian and scholar born in Nuremberg. Initially studying medicine in Wittenberg, he later shifted his focus to theology, continuing his studies in Giessen and Jena. He served as an adjunct at the philosophical faculty in Jena before becoming court preacher to Duchess Elisabeth of Braunschweig and a professor in Helmstedt. In 1626, Waltherus was appointed as the general superintendent in East Frisia, and in 1642, he assumed the same role in Celle, where he remained until his death on February 9, 1662. Waltherus was known for his work in Protestant Bible studies, approaching critical questions with a Lutheran orthodox perspective. Waltherus discussed canonical books, distinguishing between those with unquestionable apostolic authorship and those with some doubts, such as the Epistle to the Hebrews, the letters of James and Jude, and the Apocalypse. (See 'Deutsche Biographie')

Saint-Malo, L.H. Hovius, 1785. Small 4to. Near contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. (4),385 pp., profusely textillustrated in woodcut with coastal profiles, harbours, maps etc. The first and last leaves with some brown-toning, otherwise clean with a few scattered brownspots.