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Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1698 (+) Amsterdam, Lorme, 1699. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Lower part of front board with small hole in leather, showing the wooden boards underneath. With a few occassional brownspots. Line of imprint trimmed off in the second work and small tear to the map ('Relation du voyage de Mr Evert Isbrand'), otherwise a nice and clean copy. (6), 164, (4) pp. + frontispiece and 8 engraved plates; (4), 249, (1) pp. + folded map. Wanting the frontispiece. First French translation of Adam Brand’s ‘Relation du voyage’, an 18-month journey to Beijing where he served as the embassy’s secretary. In 1692, Tsar Peter the Great commissioned Eberhard Isbrand Ides to lead a mission to the Kangxi Emperor of China, with Adam Brand functioning as the embassy's secretary. The delegation, comprising over 250 individuals including noblemen, advisors, merchants, and soldiers, arrived in Beijing after an 18-month journey in 1693. The embassy's primary accomplishment was securing permission for Russians to conduct business in Beijing with a caravan of up to 200 members every three years. The present work became extremely popular in Western Europe and it was quickly translated into various European languages including English (1698 and 1707), French (1699), Dutch (1699) and Spanish (1701). Withbound is Prideaux' "La Vie de Mahomet".

Geneve, Leonardi Chovët, 1677. Folio.. Cont. full vellum, with an old professional rebacking in vellum. 5 raised bands. Remains of ties. Engraved portrait as frontispiece (on verso of halftitle). (10),483,(24);(8),114,(12) pp. A small repair to titlepage of vol. 2, no loss. Throughout light browning. Fortius became the leading physician to the imperial Court of emperor Leopold in Venice. The above 2 works are his main contributions to medicine. - Not in Waller, Wellcome, Brunet, Graesse. - NBG: 18:p. 214.

Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1871-1931. 12mo a. small 8vo. Bound in 61 orig. red full cloth, gilt spines and gilt frontcovers. 8 vols having loose spines, or lacking spines or covers detached. Stamp to titlepage or htitles. With engraved portraits. Internally generally fine. With 2 supplementsvolumes to 1883 and 1884. 2 orig. full cloth.

Paris, Jombert, 1739. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Very light wear to top of spine. One corner bumped. Stamps on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (16),80,64,96,104,80,80,(8) pp., 53 folded engraved plates. A few minor brownspots. Clean and fine. Klaus Jordan,222.

Paris, Chez Pierre Promé, 1664. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Extremities with wear and top 5 mm. of spine missing. Corners bumped and part of lower corner of front board worn of. Front free end-paper detached. Previous owner's name on title-page crossed out. First few leaves missing small parts of paper in lower margin, far from affecting text. Stain to lower edge. (8), 284 (wrongly printed as 184), (3) pp. First edition of Des Hays’ work on his voyage to Denmark, constituting one of the earliest description of a voyage to Denmark. It is written as a diary during his stay in Denmark and his preparations for a diplomatic mission to Moscow regarding a commercial treaty for the Baltic Sea trade. Beside descriptions of various part of of various parts of Denmark it also include Schleswig-Holstein and the Baltic countries.Louis Deshayes was born at the end of the sixteenth century. He undertook various diplomatic missions to the East, Russia and Denmark, on behalf of Louis XIII. Deshayes was accused of conspiring against Cardinal Richelieu and was beheaded in 1632.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 130, No 13. Titlepage to tome 130 a. pp. (809-) 864. (Entire issue offered). De Vries paper: pp. 845-847. Rather poor paperquality, fragile. Small nicks to margins of titlepage. First appearance of a milestone paper in genetics being the "REDISCOVERY" OF MENDEL'S LAWS OF HEREDITY" - This paper, together with the two other papers from the same year by Carl Correns and Erich Tschermak, laid the foundations of a new scientific discipline that, in 1906, was given the name "genetics", and less than a century later, rose to become the leading science in Western society. This French announcement was published 4 days before his longer paper "Das Spaltungsgesetzt der Hybride", in which Mendel is mentioned.De Vries completed most of his hybridization experiments without knowing about Mendel's work. Based on his own results, de Vries drew the same conclusions as Mendel. De Vries published his work in 1900, first in French then in German. In the French report there was no mention of Mendel, but this was amended by de Vries in the German paper. It is possible that de Vries read Mendel's paper before he published his own, and included Mendel's name in the later printing when he realized that other people also knew about Mendel's work. De Vries may have thought that his own conclusions were superior to Mendel's. "During the 1880s, de Vries became interested in heredity. In 1889 he published Intracellular Pangenesis, in which he critically reviewed previous research on inheritance and advanced the theory that elements in the nucleus, ‘pangenes’, determine hereditary traits. To investigate his theories, he began breeding plants in 1892 and by 1896 had obtained clear evidence for the segregation of characters in the offspring of crosses in 3:1 ratios. He delayed publishing these results, proposing to include them in a larger book, but in 1900 he came across the work of Gregor Mendel, published 34 years earlier, and announced his own findings. This stimulated both Karl Correns and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg to publish their essentially similar observations." (Oxford Dictionary of Scientists).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1900 B. - PMM 356 (the note).

Kbhvn., 1788. 4to. Samt.hldrbd. Revne i ryg øverst og nederst. 3 kobberstukne vignetter(med landtoninger) bortklippet fra teksten. (4),72 pp. På skrivepapir. - Til værket hører løse kort, som ikke er med her. Foreliggende er: 1.Kaart over Torshavn. 2.Boesands Havn. 3.Kiible Wiig. 4.Waslösewiig. 5. Strömswiig. 6. Kaart over Havnefiord. 7. Kaart over Stoppens og Budenstads Reeder. 8. Kysten af Island ved Cap Reikianæs. 9. Udkast af rindewiigs Havn...(i teksten indtrykt). 1o. Fortoninger af Westlige og Nordwestlige Kyster..Denn sidste med skjold. Kortene måler 24x18-35 cm. - Fiske 368. Eksemplaret hos Fiske er heller ikke komplet.

Amsterdam, Huguetan, 1699. Small 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Stamped in blind on spine. Titlelabel with lettering. The gilt monogram of King Frederi V on red background on both covers. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (34),344,(16) pp., 125 engravings (42 on foilded sheets, 83 full-page in the text), a few textillustrations are engraved. Some other textillustrations in woodcut. Clean and fine. First German edition.

Kiøbehavn, Schubothe, 1805. Indbundet i 2 pragtfulde helbind af rødt maroquin med rig tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Permer med rammer i punktforgyldning og brede rammer i form af guirlander. Tome- og skindtitler i grønt på rygge. Indvendige forgyldte bordurer. Fladstrøgne forgyldte kapitæler. Alle permer kantforgyldt. Begge bind signerede af Anker Kyster i guld. Håndlavede forsatspapirer med blomster i farver. Opbevares i en foret skindæske af sort saffian med messinglukke lavet til formålet. Trykt på skrivepapir og indvendig aldeles ren. Originaludgaven med bl.a. førstetryk af "Aladdin, eller den forunderlige Lampe.." og "Langeland-Reise".

Argentinae (Strassburg), Lazarum Zetznerum, 1592 - Montebelgardi, Lazari Zetzneri, 1596 - Lugduni (lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1535. Small 8vo. All three bound in one full vellum (from around 1600). (12),206,(10) pp. - (19),322,(4) pp. - (16),203 pp. Woodcut on all titlepage. 2 previous owners name cut from first title, no loss of text. Second work with a faint dampstain in lower part of inner margins. Three scarce renaissance works dealing with rhetorical science - . Junius: Animorum in first edition (Adams J. 479) - Junius: Methodus probably second edition (not in Adams) - Bucoldianus: De Inventione in first edition...(not in Adams). None of these in British Museum, German Books, shortti

Leipzig und Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1913. Orig. green printed wrappers. Frontwrapper nearly loose but without loss. Backstrip faded. Very small nicks to spineends. IX,(1),169,(1) pp. + Publishers catalogue. Textillustrations. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition. As privatdozent Hermann Weyl had given a course on Riemann's theory of functions; but instead of following his predecessors in their constant appeal to intuition for the definition and properties of Riemann surfaces, he set out to give to their theory the same kind of axiomatic and rigorous treatment that Hilbert had given to Euclidean geometry. Using Hilbert's idea of defining neighborhoods by a system of axioms, and influenced by Brouwer's clever application of Poincare's simplicial methods (which had just been published), he gave the first rigorous definition of a complex manifold of dimension 1 and a throughout treatment (without any appeal to intuition) of all the questions regarding orientation, homology, and fundamental groups of these manifolds. "Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche" (1913) immediately became a classic and inspired all later developments of the theory of differential and complex manifolds.(J.Dieudonne in DSB).

Prag, Verlag von Wenzel Hess, 1849 -1852. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary black half calf binding with embossed ornamentation to spines. Light wear to extremities, leather on spine cracked and corners bumped. Ex-libris (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Occassionally brownpostted, primarily affecting first and last leaves. VIII, 374, (2), 386, (1) pp.; 369, (7), 338, (2) pp. Uncommon first edition of Bolzanos’ posthumously published “Edifying Discourses to Academic Youth" consisting of a collection of moral and philosophical lectures or discourses that Bolzano gave to students during his tenure as a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Prague in the early 19th century.

Kjöbenhavn, Chr. Steen & Søn, (1849-61). Titelbladet uden år. Stor folio. Samt. hldrbd. Forperm med orig. bogtrykt omslag påsat. Udvendig noget slidt og med brugsspor. Litograferet titelblad med trykt indholdsfortegnelse over atlassets 20 dobbeltsidede foliokort, alle litograferede og håndkoloreret (hvert målende ca 52x64 cm). Her og der med lidt brunpletter, særligt marginer, men indvendigt iøvrigt i god stand. Kortene er litograferede hos Emil Bærentzen & Co. Lith. Institut og alle daterede mellem 1849 og 1861, opsat på false. Prægtigt stort atlas af dansk oprindelse. Ikke anført i Dansk Bogfortegnelse - ikke hos Phillips. Indeholder: 1. Den östlige og vestlige Halvkugle. 2. Europa. 3. Asien. 4. Afrika. 5. Nordamerika. 6. Sydamerika. 7. Australien. 8. Danmark. 9. Norge og Sverrig. 10. Storbrittanien og Irland. 11. Frankrig. 12. Spanien og Portugal. 13. Schweitz. 14. Tyskland. 15. Preussen. 16. Nederlandene og belgien. 17. Italien. 18. österrig. 19. Rusland. 20. Tyrkiet og Grækenland.

Göttingen, Dieterich, (1793-1804). Bound in 10 (a bit later) nice uniform hcalf. Profusely gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel taped to foot of spines on all volumes. Engraved title-pages, engraved frontispieces. Around 3000 pp. Profusely illustrated with engraved portraits and plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

London, Macmillan and Co. 1866. 8vo. 2 volumes, both in the original green pictoral cloth. Light wear to upper and lower part of spines. Front free end-paper in vol. 1 with repair and the large folded general map of the country (erroneously called for in vol. 2) reinforced in margin and with two small tears. A fine and clean set, housed in custom made red clam shell box. XXX, 395; IX, 384 pp. + double-portrait frontispiece in volume 1, lithograph frontispiece in volume 2, 2 maps (1 large folding), 13 full-page plates, 20 illustrations in text. First edition of Baker's famous account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile, Speke and Grant having established Lake Victoria Nyanza as the source of the White Nile and Bruce discovering the source of the Blue. The present work constitute one of the great travel narratives on African exploration. “First published in two illustrated volumes in 1866, this account of his most celebrated expedition is amongst the most important works of its type. Baker promises 'to take the reader by the hand, and lead him step by step … through scorching deserts and thirsty sands; through swamp and jungle … until I bring him, faint with the wearying journey, to that high cliff … from which he shall look down upon the vast Albert Lake and drink with me from the sources of the Nile!' Volume 2 finds Baker a prisoner of a native king. Baker offers a number of 'gifts' to buy his release, and after an arduous journey, with his wife in a coma, in March 1864 he reaches Luta N'zige, which he renames in memory of Prince Albert. A compelling account of an historic adventure.” (Editor’s note to the facsimile reprint published by Cambridge University Press (2011)) Czech (Africa) p.10 Hilmy I p.50

Napoli, 1777-1786. 4to. 13 contemporary full vellum (italian), title- and tomelabels gilt and in 2 colours. 3 volumes with parts of the vellum missing from front and back covers. Some overall yellowing to pages, a few quires browned, but no major flaws. All volumes with engraved titlepages. From 1770 Girolamo Tiraboschi (1731-1794) was the head of Biblioteca Estense in Modena. During the following 11 years he worked on his "Storia della letteratura italiana". A work with great influence and today considered a major work in 18th. century philology. This being a complete set including the register to the whole work.

A Paris, 1729. 4to. Cont.boards. Back somewhat worn. A large clean uncut copy. St.o.t. and small spot on title. Otherwise fine. Engr.frontisp. and 53 large fold. engr.plates. (16),80,64,96,104,80,80,(8) pp. First edition.

Adelaide, The Limited Editions Club, 1963. 4to. In half wallaby over paper covered boards, imitating wooden boards. Spine in black wallaby hide with gilt lettering and ornamentation with green inlaid label. XXXII, 470 pp. + 6 engraved coloured plates and 72 illustrations in text. The paper was also produced in Australia for this specific edition. No. 785 out of 1500 copies. Housed in a green slip-case. A fine and clean copy. First Australian edition of Darwin’s seminal ‘Origin of Spcies’, here – to honor this copy’s Australian origin – bound in wallaby hide and printed on paper produced in Australia. The Limited Editions Club was founded by George Macy in 1929 to publish finely printed, illustrated, and bound editions of literary classics in editions limited to 1500 copies. The books were available on a subscription basis. The company continued to produce books through multiple changes in ownership, but has not released new books since 2010.

K., 1852-53. Smukt senere hldrbd. i gl. stil m. rig rygforgyldn., brede hjørner og enkelte stregbordurer i guld på permer. Topguldsnit. Særdeles friskt ekspl. m. begge smudstitelblade og begge indholdsfortegnelser. BFN 606 og 616. 2 originaludgaver. Indeholder 8 eventyr i førstetryk, heriblandt "Det er ganske vist!" Fra Knud Scavenius' bibliotek, med hans super-ex libris i guld på inderside af forperm.

Amsterdam, Changuion, 1735. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands with richly gilt spine. Gilt frame to boards and edges of boards gilt. Small paper label pasted on to upper compartment of spine. Extremities with wear, boards with scratches and missing small part of the leather. Internally very fine and clean. (14), 251 pp. This unoffical second edition was published the year after the first edition (1734) and a year before the official second edition (published in 1736). Here Melon discusses various economic principles and policies, focusing on the role of commerce and trade in the prosperity of nations: “"His Essai' is noteworthy not only because it constitutes the first systematic presentation of mercantilist doctrines to appear in France but also because it adumbrates the transition to physiocracy" (ESS X, 305). Melon's "Essai politique sur le commerce" is considered a significant work in the history of economic thought, particularly for its advocacy of free trade and its insights into the functioning of markets. It contributed to the development of liberal economic ideas that would later influence thinkers such as Adam Smith and the classical economists.

Upsala, J. Edmans Enka, 1793 &1794. 8vo. In contemporary paper covered boards with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Spine cracked, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XII, 147, (1), (7), 86, (1) pp. First Swedish translations (abbreviated) of these two important travel accounts.[John Whites Resa:] John Whites, principal naval surgeon for the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia. In 1788 White was appointed Surgeon-General of New South Wales [Nya Holland] and organized a hospital for the new colony, somewhat hampered by a lack of medical supplies. He became interested in the native flora and fauna of the new land and investigated the potential of Australian plants for use as medicine. He observed the olfactory qualities of eucalyptus and distilled eucalyptus oil in 1788.[Berättelse om ängelska skeppets Grosvenors:] "The ill-fated vessel sailed from "Trincomale" on the 13th of June 1782, and struck on the coast of Kaffraria a few weeks after. The passengers agreed to accompany Captain Coxon in an attempt to reach the Dutch settlements in the Cape..., One by one, however, the doomed sufferers succumbed or were left behind, and when, after 117 days of fearful hardships, a remote Dutch farm was reached, only six men arrived out of a whole ship's company" (Mendelssohn I, p.651);The works were translated by Samuel Ödmann (1750-1829) who also translated works by James Cook, Pierre Sonnerat and Carsten Niebuhr.

Leipzig, Flittner und Müller, 1775. Cont. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Back with a few tears to paper. (48),744 pp. and 16 folded engraved plates (also showing instruments, globe and map) and 1 folded table. Some browning to leaves and scattered brownspots. Old inscription to titlepage. First German edition. A translation of his "Abrégé d'Astronomie, Paris 1774." One of the plates depicts Le Monnier's famous Quadrant. - Houzeau-Lancaster: 8908.

Kbhvn., Trykt hos Johann Jacob Bornheinrich, Paa Johan Krusens Bekostning, 1711. Samt. helldrbd., men slidt, især rygen øverst med revner og rifter. Indvendig med brugsspor, brunpletter, sidste blade af register med skjold. Uden portræt. (14),720,198 pp. + Register. Ehrencr.-Müller, Bd. I:p.54 ff. Holbergs første bog i den uhyre sjældne originaludgave.

Bound with: FEUQUIERES, (A. de PAS). Geheime und Sonderbare Kriegs=Nachrichten. 2 Theile. Leipzig, Weidemannischen Buchladen, 1738. Bound in one cont. full vellum. Paperlabel pasted on back. Stamp on title. Engraved portrait (Montecuculi) as frontispiece. (14),358 pp. and 32 folded engraved plates. - (56),173,(3),(1),420,(2) pp. and 10 folded engraved maps. Faint yellowing to leaves, otherwise fine. Both in first German editions.

Altona, David Iversen,1764. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities, back board with loss of the marbled paper and leather partly detached. Small worm-tract to lower and inner margin. LXII, 272, XXXII, 224, 144 pp. First edition of the inaugural educational work by renowned German pedagogue and reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790), one of the co-founders of modern pedagogy and an Enlightenment thinker following in Rousseau’s footsteps. Basedow critiques the shortcomings of traditional education and presents his own idea of ideal instruction. He progressively develops his argument starting from an understanding of human nature and the natural world, leading to a comprehensive and liberated idea of duty, morality and the truth of Christianity.