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Paris, Chez Andran, n.d. around 1700. 8vo-oblong. (130 x 195 mm). Contemp. full mottled calf, raised bands, gilt spine, gilt lettering to spine. Light edgewear. Engraved title-page and a suite of 36 engravings in Le Clerc's delicate, neat style. Each engraving with the same engraved border (105 x 75 mm). The work is complete but a later issue within engraved borders. The first issued 1692.Brunet III,915.

Philadelphia, (Printed by C. Sherman),1850. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, but volume one rebacked, preserving orig. spine. Spine ends neathly repaired on vols 2-5. In all ab. 2350 pp., 13 maps, mostly folding, 64 engraved plates, including 2 portraits as frontispiece, numerous large vignettes and textillustrations. Internally clean and fine. Sabin, 103994.

Leipzig, Fues's Verlag, 1876. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers. Right-bottom corner on frontwrapper slightly bumped. Otherwise fine and clean. XIII, (1), 82 pp. The very scarce first printing of Avenarius' Habilitationsschrift, his first publication, a work that greatly influenced contemporary philosophy, both in Europe and beyond, and was read by the greatest philosophers of the era, e.g. Nietzsche.The German philosopher Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) is most famous for his formulation of the radical positivist doctrine of "empirical criticism" or "empirio-criticism". He was not only read and studied in France and Germany but also greatly influenced Russian philosophy; he and was severely criticized by Lenin in his Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909). In his first publication "Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses", Avenarius states: "Doubt of the correctness of my way heretofore pursued was induced through the barrenness of theoretical idealism in the field of psychology; and yet cognition and experience should belong to this science as psychological ideas." In general he here argues that it is the task of philosophy to develop a natural concept of the world based on "pure experience" and the principle of "economic thought". "Nietzsche received Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses in 1876, "and we know that he read it for the first or second time in the winter of 1883-84. Nietzsche then excerpted and discussed this reading in several longer notes, and shortly thereafter he wrote to Overbeck on April 7, 1884, stating that he needed to revise his views on epistemology and metaphysics. It is thus possible that this reading was of great importance for his thinking at the time. [...] section 14 and 15 of Beyond Good and Evil, with their critique of positivism and physiologist who emphasized the "smallest possible effort", were written in response to Nietzsche´s reading of Avenarius." (Brobjer Thomas H., Nietzsche's Philosophical Context, University of Illinois Press 2008, 93 pp.)

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1858 and Taylor and Francis, 1866. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Vol. 148 - Part I. Pp. 17-37, and Vol. 156 - Part I, Pp. 25-35. Clean and fine. First appearance of this outstanding contribution to mathematics, announcing his invention and developments of the ALGEBRA OF MATRICES, what is now called the Cayley-Hamilton theorem for square matrices of any order. "The subject originated in a memoir of 1858 (the paper offered) and grew directly out of simple observations on the way in which the transformations (linear) of the theory of algebraic invariants are combined...a distinctive feature of these rules is that multiplication is not commutative...we get different results according to the order in which we do the multiplication... (it) seems about as far from anything of scientific or practical use as anything could possible be. Yet sixty seven years after Cayley's invented it, HEISENBERG in 1925 recognized in the algebra of matrices exactly the tool which he neede for his revolutionary work in QUANTUM MECHANICS."(Bell, Men of Mathematics)."It was in connection with the study of invariants under linear transformation that Cayley first introduced matrices to simplify the notation involved. Here he gave some basic notions. This was followed by his first major paper on the subject "A Memoir on the Theory of Matrices.", the paper offered here. (Kline, Mathematical Thought...p. 806).

A la Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1758. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Light wear to foot of spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Title-page in red/black. Large engraved title-vignette. XII,228,(4) pp. + 16 pp. (Supplement). With 61 mostly folded engraved plates. Profusely illustrated with head- and tailpieces. A large and wide-margined copy, clean and printed on good paper. This profusely illustrated second edition has 21 more plates than the first from 1756. - Klaus Jordan, 2617.

Randers, 1907-69. Indbundet i 12 solide private helshirtbd. med røde rygtitler i skind.

Paris, Lejay fils, 1790-91. Bound in 10 uniform contemp. full mottled calf. Gilt spines, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. A few spine-ends with wear. Some corners bumped. 9 engraved frontispieces. Ca. 4100 pp.

Uppsala, Stenhammar och Palmblad, 1810-13. Indbundet i 4 ensartede velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning samt skindtitler i guldtryk på rygge. Årgang 1810 har alle 6 hefters orange originale for-og bagomslag, 1811 har alle 6 dobbelthefters orig. for-og bagomslag, 1812 har begge hefters orig. for-og bagomslag, 1813 som kun består af et hefte har kun det orig. bagomslag. Med 3 kobberstukne titelblade. Med spredte brunpletter. Originaltrykket, og alt som udkom, af dette vigtige litterære tidsskrift, den såkaldte "Nya Skolans" organ, som blev udgivet af medlemmerne i Aurorafórbundet i Upsala. Medlemmerne af forbundet fik navn efter dette tidsskrift og blev kaldt "Fosforister".Heri talrige førstetryk og oversættelser af klassikere. Bidrag af Afzelius, Atterbom, Dahlgren, Elgström, Gjörwell, Hæffner etc. etc.

(No place, nor printer), 1753 & Paris, Aux depens de la Societe, 1755. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. Internally nice and clean. [Academie... :] XVI, 142 pp. [Lettre d'un Inconnu... :] 44 pp. Rare first edition of this work related to the 'König affair,' the renowned controversy over the principle of least action, described as "perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes" (DSB VII: 442). The main figures in this highly publicized affair, which led to numerous pamphlets supporting one side or the other, were the mathematicians and scientists P. L. Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), then head of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and Johann Samuel Koenig (1712-1757), a member of this Academy. In 1751 Koenig presented his "Law of least Action". The law states that the kinetic energy of a system of mass points is equal to the sum of the kinetic energy of the motion of the system relative to the center of gravity and of the kinetic energy of the total mass of the system considered as a whole, which moves as the center of gravity of the system. "While still in Franeker, Koenig wrote the draft of his important essay on the principle of least action, which was directed against Maupertuis. The controversy touched off by this work, which was published in March 1751, resulted in perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes. Its principal figures were Koenig, Maupertuis, Euler, Frederick II, and Voltaire; and, as is well known, it left an unseemly stain on Euler’s otherwise untarnished escutcheon. The quarrel occupied Koenig’s last years almost completely; moreover, he had been ill for several years before it started. Koenig emerged the moral victor from this affair, in which all the great scientists of Europe—except Maupertuis and Euler—were on his side. The later finding of Kabitz testifies to Koenig’s irreproachable character."(DSB).

København., L.H. Lillie, 1756. Samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv, ophøjede bind på ryg, rig rygforgyldning, forgyldt skindtitel, brede forgyldte bordurer på begge permer. Helt guldsnit. Grev Moltke's store forgyldte superexlibris på begge permer. Øvre kapitæl slidt. Kobberstukket titelvignet visende et kildespring. (24),134,(1) pp., 1 udfoldelig tabel og 2 udfoldelige kobberstukne plancher, begge i original håndkolorering visende vanddyr. Plancherne lidt brunet i marginer. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Originaludgaven. Første egentlige undersøgelse af drikkevandsforsyningen til København, men også første danske beskrivelse af vandets småkrebs, daphnier og cyclops, som afbildes i bogen. - Lange trøster sine læsere med, at disse kan frasies med en pose af hvidt hattefilt, hvis De da ikke foretrækker at synke dem eller nyde suppen af dem når vandet er kogt.

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1531. Small folio. Contemp. full blindstamped vellum. Spine defective with old repairs (old leather pasted on spine, leather cracking). remains of ties. (24),363 (wrongly paginated 374),(1) pp. Printers large wood-cut device at last leaf verso. Many fine wood-cut initials throughout (Holbein ?). Very faint dampstain to a few leaves in Index, otherwise internally clean and fine, good paper, wide margins. Early Diodorus-edition, printed by the famous Basel printer Henricus Petrus (1508-1579), best known as the printer of Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia".VD 16. D 1827. - BM (German Books): 1306. m. 3. (I).

Paris, Crochard, 1824. 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 26, issue 2 and 3. With titlepage to vol. 26. Pp. 113-224 a. pp. 225-336, 1 folded engraved plate (entire issues offered). Ampere's papers: pp. 134-162 a. pp. 246-258. First appearance of one of Ampere's importent contributions to electrodynamic. This memoir was later incorporated in his great memoir of 1827 "Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomenes electro-dynamiques....", published 1827, the "Principia" of electrodynamics.

Geneva, WMO, 1981. Folio (595 x 395 mm). In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board. Fine and clean. 28 large folded coloured maps of Asia. One of the earliest atlases dedicated to climatic change related to human activity. Published by World Meteorological Organization with text in English, French and Russian. “The problem of climatic impact on the various aspects of human activity has been attracting increasing attention all over the world in recent years on the part of the public as well as governments and their planning bodies. International organizations and various scientific bodies are also giving this problem more and more attention. […]For the first time in world climatic mapping practice, detailed isoline maps are being presented for the mountainous area in the Asian region, which is the dominant form of underlying surface here. […]It is hoped that the contents of this Atlas will be of use to the countries in Asia, in particular, to those which have not yet prepared their national climatic maps, as these countries may use the regional climatic maps temperature and precipitation as a basis to meet some of their national requirements.” (From the Foreword)

Kjøbenhavn, Schultziske Officin, (1851). 4to. Heftet. Uden omslag. Mindre ubetydelig revne i højre margin. 12 pp. Aldeles rent, frisk eksemplar. Originaltrykket. Ved "Lov angaaende Postforsendelser" af 11. marts 1851 indførtes der med virkning fra 1. april 1851 enhedsporto i det danske kongerige og i forbindelse hermed frimærker med pålydende "FIRE R.B.S." (= 4 RigsBankSkiIling). Enhedsportoen blev pr. lod (15,625 g) 6 R.B.S., uanset om portoen blev betalt kontant ved indleveringen eller ved udleveringen. Hvis et brev blev frankeret forud med et påsat frimærke, fik man altså 33 % rabat på normalportoen.

Lyon, Bruyset ainé & Compagnie, L'an IIIe (1795). 8vo. Bound undcut in 2 cont. boards with title-and tomelabels in leather on backs, gilt. Some scratches along edges and on backs. XVI,704;(4),668 pp. Some quires somewhat browned (variation in paperquality) and some scattered brownspots. Scarce second French edition of Euler's large textbook, first published as "Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra" 1774 and published in many languages. It is translated by his friend Bernoulli with his "elaborate tractions" and with Bernoulli's extensive "Additions". The work greatly influenced nineteenth-and twentieth-century texts on the subject, and it is one of the earliest attempts to put the fundamental processes on a sound basis.

Strassburg, Bauer und Treuttel, 1780. - Cassel, Cramer, 1783. - Cassel, Cramer, 1778. Bound together in contemp. marbled boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on frontboard. A paperlabel pasted on spine.36 pp., 1 folded engraved plate. - 48 pp., 1 folded engraved plate. - 19 pp., 1 folded engraved plate. An. Ehrmann: Scarce first German edition (the French published the same year). Ronalds Library p. 154. - Poggendorff I, 648.An. Stegmann: First editions. - Poggendorff II, 989-990.

(Sorøe, Jonas Lindgren, 1764-83). Indbundet i 7 smukke og velbevarede samtidige hellæderbind i flammet kalv. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte tome- og titelfelter. Med kobberstukne titelvignetter. Med alle bindtitelblade og deltitelblade. Rent velbevaret eksemplar. Originaltrykkene. Heri bl.a. Ewald Balders Død samt bidrag af Charlotte Dorothea Biehl m.v. Selskabet blev bibragt navnet "Det smagende Selskab".Bibl. Dan. IV,161.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810 a. 1811. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1810 - Part I. Pp. 231-257 and 1811 - Part I. Pp. 1-35. Both papers clean and fine. With titlepages to 1810, Part I and 1811, Part I. Titlepage to 1810 with a brownspot to upper inner margin. First appearance of these importent papers in the history of chemistry in which Davy announces his proofs of the elementary nature of clorine, describing the preparation, physical and chemical properties of a new gas, which he called 'euchlorine'. It is unstable and explodes on heating to give chlorine and oxygen. Davy here suggested the name 'chlorine', from a greek work for green, because of the greenish colour of the gas.Thorpe said of this first paper "As a piece of induction, the memoir is a model of its kind, and as an exercise in "the scientific use of ofthe imagination" it has few equals."Davy's researches on chlorine are of an importence comparable with those on the alkali metals. Chlorine, first discovered by Scheele, was regarded by him as a *dephlogisticated muriatic acid". As phlogiston was practically synonymous with with hydrogen to Scheele, this view was essentialy correct. Lavoisier, however, chiefly occupied with phenomena of combustion, assumed that chlorien was an oxide of an unknown "radical". Davy performed many experiments endeavouring to confirm the presence of oxygen and finally concluded that chlorine was an element."(A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900, p. 244).

Paris, Estienne et Fils 1753. 4to. In a nice comtemporary full sprinked calf binding with five raised bands to spine. Red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Comportments with gilt ornamentation. Binding with a few repairs. Small white paper-label pasted on to top left corner of pasted down front free end-paper and small stamp to top right corner of half-title. A [blank], (4), XII, 280, 206, (2), [blank] pp. First edition of Véron de Forbonnais French translation of Ustariz influential tratise on the practicalities of international trade (taxation, monopoly, population ect.), the Spanish navy and its American colonies.. The original Spanish edition first published in 1724.It examines the causes of economic decline and he advocated a thorough financial reform to curb the imbalance of trade relations between Spain, England and America. Kress 5316

Halle, Curt, 1764. Bound in a nice contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (32),364,(24) pp., 2 folded engraved maps, 3 engraved plates. A neath repair to upper inner corner of margin on some of the first leaves. Otherwise clean and fine. First German edition - and the only translation in any foreign language - of "Öländska och Gothländska Resa...", Stockholm & Uppsala, 1745.Soulsby,207. - Hulth,45.

Barby und Leipzig, Ebers/ Weidmanns Erben, 1765. Bound in a little later hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. (34),1132,(26) pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 6 folded engraved plates. One plate with a closed tear, no loss. Light scattered brownspots and occassionally light browning. First edition. - Lauridsen II,51. - Sabin, 17413.

Berlin, 1879-92. Lex8vo. Bound in 45 hcalf with richly gilt backs. Illustr.with maps, plates a.textillustr.

Leipzig, Insel=Verlag, 1913. Small 4to. Bound in fine full morocco (red), signed "A Keller, Leipzig" 4 raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt compartments. Inner gilt line-border. All edges gilt. 177,(2) pp. 12 plates in woodcut and many large woodcut initials. Clean and fine. Nr. 25 of 30 copies "auf Chinapapier". A total of 800 copies.

Bound in 3 cont. full sprinkled calf. Richly gilt backs. Top of backs on 2 volumes slightly worn, otherwise fine. CII,696,692,(4),405 pp., 3 engraved frontisp. (one with portrait of W.), 65 engraved plates and many fine half-page engravings. A few brownspots on plates. On good paper, wide margins. Brunet V:1463. "Bonne édition, dont les 2 prem. volumes parurent d'abord en 1793, sous le titre d'Oeuvres de Winkelmann".

Berlin, Erich Reiss, (1920). 4to. Orig. full, blindtooled lettering to frontcover. Uncut. Top edge gilt. (60) pp. and 16 original lithographs by Wilhelm Kohlhoff, all signed by the artist. A very faint dampstain in lower margins of some leaves. Otherwise clean and fine. No. 19 of 60 copies signed by the artist. In all 250 copies. "Als zwölfter Prospero-Druck wurde die vlämische Märe "Herr Halewijn" von De Coster für den Verlag Erich Reiss bei Otto v. Holten, Berlin, im Sommer 1920 in einer Auflage von 250 Exemplaren gedruckt. Die Übersetzung stammt von Albert Wesselski, Die dem Werk beigegebenen 16 Originalsteindricke von Wilhelm Kohlhoff wurden von Alex. Rogall mit den Hand abgezogen. Die ganze Auflage wurde auf handgeschöpftes Bütten gedruckt. Die Steindrucke in Nr. 1-60 hat der Künstler signiert. Dieses Exemplar trägt die Nummer 19."(Kolophon).