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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.

Baltimore, Princeton University Press, 1938 a.1940. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 full cloth, gilt lettering to spines. In: Annals of Mathematics", Series 2, Vol. 39 and vol. 40. (Entire volumes offered). The papers: pp. 65-100 a. pp. 455-464. Clean and fine.også on a generalization...... pais p. 496 First appearance of these two importent papers on the General theory of Relativity, in which is shown that the equation of motion follows directly from the field equation that defined the geometry."Einstein's last importent contribution to general relativity deals again with the problem of motion. It is the work done with Leopold Indfeld and Banesh Hoffmann on the N-body problem of motion. In these papers, the gravitational field is no longer treated as external. Instead, it and the motion of its (singular) sources are treated simultaneously. A new approximation scheme is introduced in which the fields are no longer necessarily weak but in which the source velocities are small compared with the light velocity... (These equations) are widely used in analyses of planetary orbits in the solar system."(Pais "Subtle is the Lord", pp. 290-91).Weil: 202 a. 205, both with an asterix, denoting a major paper. - Boni: 236 a. 236.1.

Hannover, Nicolai Förster, 1700 - Leipzig, Nicolai Förster, 1698. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. (16),315,40,124,119 pp. Tome 2: (12),292,592 pp. First titlepage and Praefatio (16) leaves a bit browned, otherwise clean with only a few scattered brownspots. Some neath marginal notes in 2 contemporary hands. Second edition of volume one, and first edition of volume two. In the 15 century chronicle "Vetus Chronicon Holsatiae", first printed here by Leibnitz, states, that the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan, while the Jutes the Jews. This is the first announcement of the theory later called Nordic Israelism or Norse Israelism. "It is the belief that Scandinavian peoples, or the Nordic countries (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) descend from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Although there is evidence of such a belief from literature during the Early Modern Period, Nordic Israelism as a movement and ideology only emerged in the latter half of the 19th century among several early proponents of British Israelism."(Wikipedia).Ravier: 49 (tome I), 44 (Tome II, but Ravier is not clear on this point)

Leipzig, Weidmannischen Buchhandlung, 1796 - 1802. 8vo. Uniformly bound in six contemporary marbled paper covered board with with gilt lettering to spine and single line gilt ruled fillets to boards. Marbled paper on spines almost completely worn of. Internally very nice and clean. XVI, 568 pp.; XII, 562, (2) pp.; VIII, 595, (2) pp.; X, 605 pp.; XIV, 508 pp.; VI, 344 pp. The uncommon first edition, rarely found complete, of Voss’ work extensive work on governmental studies. Voss “most important and at the same time most comprehensive work is his textbook on governmental studies in four volumes, which were published between 1797 and 1800. Perhaps not surprising, given his long friendship with August Ludwig Schlözer, he explicitly followed the latter’s ‘Grundriss’, presenting a complete System of Governmental Studies for the period around 1800. It was deeply influenced by Kant, as is especially clear in his critical discussion of the enlightened absolutism in political science characteristic of the eighteenth century. Voss follows Kant’s emphasis on man as an end in itself. Thus he places the individual and his right at the center of his account. Though Voss advocated a monarchic and aristocratic system, he emphasized human rights as the primary concern of the state. In this he dissociated himself from the ancient régime” (The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-century German Philosophers, p. 822) Christian Daniel Voss (1761 – 1821) started his teaching career as a private tutor in Brunswick. In 1788 he joined the regular teaching staff at the Pädagogium in Halle. By 1795, he was appointed as a counsellor for Weimar-Saxony. In 1799 he became an associate professor at the Prussian University of Halle, and in 1808, he advanced to the position of professor of civil law and cameralistic sciences. Kress B-3307 (The Kress-copy is lacking vol. 6 which is present here).

København, Joachim Schmedtgen, 1683). 4to.(23x19 cm.). Samtidigt helldrbd. af flammet kalv med overdådig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt ramme på permer. Med kongens kobberstukne portræt. Ualmindeligt stort eksemplar trykt på svært papir. Lille skjold på de første blade og nederst på kongens portræt. Enkelte brunpletter. Originaludgaven af Christian den Femtes Danske Lov, her i et af de sjældne eksemplarer trykt på stort papir med brede marginer.

Glogau und Leipzig, Christian Friedrich Günthern, 1763. 8vo. In a nice contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine and richly gilt ornamentation in compartments. Two stamps [previous owner's] to title-page, otherwise a fine copy. (20), 868, (38) pp. Rare first edition of Bilguers' important work on Instruction for performing surgery in field hospitals. Not in Wellcome

Folio. Cont. full calf. Back with 6 raised bands, compartments richly gilt. Red titlelabe. Leather at hinges cracked, but binding not loose. Engr. allegorical frontisp., title with engraved vignette. (22),868,177,(61) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Printed on good paper. Internally clean and fine. Bookplate of Samuel James Baron Waring, engraved. Gree-latin text. Brunet III,123: "Edition fort bien impr., et une des meilleures que l'on ait de cet histoire;"

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1690. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges and title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Small worm-tract on pp. 295-457, 210 far from affecting text. Worm-tract to upper outer margin of Pp. 1-47 (of 'Discours Historique de L'election') slightly touching text, otherwise a fine and clean copy. (4), 457 pp.; 219, (49) pp.; (2), 266, (1) pp. Later expanded edition, first published in 1682, of Wicquefort’s work on ambassadors and international relations in general. From 1626 to 1658, Wicquefort served as Brandenburg's envoy to the French court. However, Cardinal Mazarin suspected him of involvement in a dubious correspondence and had him imprisoned in the Bastille. After a year he was released with a French pension and moved to The Hague as the representative of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In 1675 he faced imprisonment again this time by the Dutch government, on charges of treasonous dealings with the French. Sentenced to life and his assets confiscated, he later escaped to Celle, where he died. Brunet V, p.1442

Paris, Crochard, 1821. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities and hindges weak. Weak dampstain to lower inner margin, not affecting text. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 18 (Septembre Cahier). Entire volume offered. [Faraday's paper:] pp. 337-370 and 2 folded engraved plates (showing the experimental apparatus). [Ampère & Savary's Notes:] pp. 370-379. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 5 plates. First French 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 French 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).

Halle, Schwetschke und Sohn, 1851. Bound in one later (around 1900) hcloth. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A small stamp on foot of titlepage. XIX,256;VIII,256 and 1 large folded lithographed map, outline coloured. Some foxing to part of the map. A few scattered brownspots, but fine and clean. First edition. Scarce.

[No place, nor year. But Copenhagen, not later than 1811). Folio. Manuscript in contemporary marbled paper boards with title in contemporary hand to front board. White paper label pasted on to lower part of spine and upper front board. Label pasted on to verso of front board and stamp to title-page, otherwise fine and clean. 60 ff. Danish manuscript-draft for rules for the "Regiments Jægerne" [Danish Special Forces]. The present draft was published in book-form in 1811 under the title: "Exerceer=Reglement for Regiments=Jægerne", Kjöbenhavn, 1811.

Kiöbenhavn, August Friderich Stein, 1777. 4to. In later marbled paper covered board with cloth backstrip. Small stamp to verso of front board and title-page. Last blank leaf with 16-line agreement in contemporary fine legible hand, signed and sealed (Waterschout), dated December 8, 1780. Internally nice and clean. Printed on good paper. 56 pp, (1) pp. Extremely rare first edition of the official Danish naval and merchant marine code of conduct - laying out the articles of agreement for both officers and common sailors engaged in long-distance trading voyages, especially to colonial outposts in the West Indies, Guinea, the Mediterranean – in this particular case dated 8 December 1780, officially certifying that these “Kongelige allernaadigste Skibs-Articler” were read aloud to the crew of the frigate by its commanding officer, Captain Diderich von Holsten, prior to departure for Tranquebar (the Danish colony in India). The certification notes the ship's weapons (138 cannon) and states that the crew had acknowledged the articles and promised to observe them on the voyage and until the ship's return. The document is signed by Captain Diderich von Holsten and the Waterschout (including his red seal) (from Dutch, “water inspector”), a Danish official, established in 1695, responsible for registering all seafarers departing from Copenhagen on merchant voyages. Documents like these had a very practical purpose and were considered of the utmost importance, and were kept in offcial archives, consequently, they almost never finds their way into the trade. Biblioteca Danica I, 680.

Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1793. 8vo. In contemporary cardboard-binding with title and author in contemporary hand to spine. All edges coloured in red. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. With light occassional brownspotting, overall a nice copy. XX, (2), 296, (2) pp. First edition of Kant's "Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason", the seminal work in which he develops his religion of reason and most fully accounts for his philosophy of religion. Here he argues that religion can be entirely grounded in reason rather than divine revelation. Originally published as a series of four journal articles the book consists of four parts in which Kant explores the parallels between revealed religion and philosophical theology.Warda 141.

Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1780. 8vo. Fine cont. full mottled calf, richly gilt spine and gilt titlelabel in red leather. Edges gilt. LXVIII,333,(3) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate (showing his experimental apparatus). Light browning to margins of title-page, otherwise clean and with broad margins. A fine copy. First French edition of perhaps the most important work in plant physiology. It is in this work that Ingen-Housz for the first time expounds the ideas and experiments that lead to his discovery of Photosynthesis in plant life, and as such it is of fundamental importance in the economy of living things. "His Experiments upon vegetables was published in the autumn of 1779 and was at once recognized as a very important advance. In brief he showed, that oxygen evolution by plant is absolutely dependent on light and that it only occurs from those parts which are green...The proof that light and green tissues are both essential for oxygen production finally cleared up the apparent contradictions and variable results of earlier experiments. Priestly was "much pleased" with Ingen-Housz's experiments and pointed immediately to the salient facts that he had established." (A.G. Morton: History of Botanical Science. p. 332.). Dibner: Heralds of Science No. 29. - Garrison & Morton No. 103. - Horblit No. 55. (All the English edition of 1779).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds in a flowering bush with 7 kinds of preys thorned. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, 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.

Washington, Philip & Solomons, 1869. Orig. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. A stamp on title-page. 166 pp., 23 textillustrations. First edition. This is Morse's comprehensive description of the telegrapic apparatus exhibited in Paris 1867."This extensive illustrated report, probably Morse's most lenghtly published discussion of telegraphy, includes a detailed account of Morse's own telegraph system and of the morse code, a brief report on submarine telegraphy, a section on automatic recording telegraphs and information on telegraph systems in various countries." (Hook & Norman No. 396).Weaver Gift: 1749. - Sabin: 50963.

London, Ralph Smith, 1654 [part 2 and 3] & 1655 [part 1]. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Boards triple ruled in blind. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment. Wear to extremities, boards with a few stains and scratches. Inner hinges split. Dampstain in inner margin throughout. (15), 534, (16), 333, (17), 296 pp. Each with separate title pages, included in the collation. Scarce first and only edition of this work on the minor prophets. Little is known of its author George Hutcheson: "an English Biblical scholar, flourished about the middle of the 17th century. He was a minister first at Colomonell, and later at Edinburgh, but was ejected for nonconformity about 1660. In 1669 he preached at Irvine, though he continued steadfastly to oppose the use of the Episcopal liturgy. He died hi 1678.” (McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia)

Kiøbenhavn, 1767. 4to. Senere, slidt halvlæder (ca. 1850). 712 s. + 77 kobberstukne plancher (af i alt 80. Mangler; kort over Sydsjælland, kort af Lolland, Falster og Langeland samt lkort over Fyn.) Kortet over Bornholm (Bornholmiæ, Kofod, 1768), med revne i venstre side, men uden tab af billede. Kort over Christiansø, repareret for revne på bagsiden. Øvrige plancher pæne og rene. Enkelte med rifter og revnedannelse.Indvendig i øvrigt pæn. Originaltrykket.

København, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1918 - 1922. 4to. Uncut unopened in the original printed wrappers. In "D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, afd., 8, række IV, 1-3" / "Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark". Wrapper with a few minor nicks and tears but otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 118 pp. Collected offprint-edition of Bohr's seminal work "On the Quantum Theory of the Line-Spectra", marking the beginning of the quantum revolution in physics, introduced the concept of quantized energy levels, provided an explanation for the observed line spectra, and served as a foundational model that inspired further developments in quantum mechanics. It is conseidered one of Bohr's most important papers and the basis for his Nobel Prize. These papers give the first clear formulation of his 'correspondence principle' establishing the limit agreement of quantum and classical physics. "By 1918 Bohr had visualized, at least in outline, the whole theory of atomic phenomena. ... He of course realized that he was still very far from a logically consistent framework wide enough to incorporate both the quantum postulates and those aspects of classical mechanics and electrodynamics that seemed to retain some validity. Nevertheless, he at once started writing up a synthetic exposition of his arguments and of all the evidence upon which they could have any bearing; in testing how well he could summarize what was known, he found occasion to check the soundness of his ideas and to improve their formulation. In the present case, however, he could hardly keep pace with the growth of the subject; the paper he had in mind at the beginning developed into a four-part treatise, 'On the Theory of Line Spectra', publication of which dragged over four years without being completed; the first three parts appeared between 1918 and 1922, and the fourth, unfortunately, was never published. Thus, the full impact of Bohr's view remained confined to the small but brilliant circle of his disciples, who indeed managed better than their master to make them more widely known by the prompter publication of their own results" (D.S.B. 2: 246-47).

Edinburgh, William & Charles Tait / London, Longman, etc, 1823. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh" 9, pt. 1 (1821). Leaves reinforced in margin. Pp. (6), 153-177, 337-352. First Edition of Babbage's only paper on probability. "In this paper [Babbage's] concern was primarily mathematical, and we will find considerable skill in the manipulation of functions and polynomials. [...] The major interest in this particular paper [is] the ingenious use of algebra to solve probability problems, especially the devices using the coefficients of polynomials and the roots of unity" (Dubbey, The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage, pp. 141-42).Erwin Tomash B22

London, Macmillian and Co, 1954. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with title to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 173, 1968. Library stamp to upper right corner of title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 709-13. [Entier volume: LXVVI, 1246 pp.]. First printing of Gamow's exceedingly influential discovery of four different kinds of acino-acids, nucleotides, which were to influence Watson and Crick in their further work. To Gamow, most famous for his work within physics and cosmology, this was a highly unfamiliar field. His work was described as: "perhaps the last example of amateurism in scientific work on a grand scale"."In early 1954, less than a year after J. D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA, Gamow recognized that the information contained in the four different kinds of nucleotides (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) constituting the DNA chains could be translated into the sequence of twenty amino acids which form protein molecules by counting all possible triplets one can form from four different quantities. This remarkable way in which Gamow could rapidly enter a more or less unfamiliar field at the forefront of its activity and make a highly creative contribution to it, often far more by intuition than by calculation, led Ulam to characterize his work as "perhaps the last example of amateurism in scientific work on a grand scale." It earned him membership in a number of professional societies-American Physical Society, Washington Philosophical Society, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters-as well as an overseas fellowship in Churchill College, Cambridge." (DSB)"Even as he was starting research in relativistic cosmogony, Gamow came to think that the time was nearly ripe for phys-ics to help biology move beyond its descriptive stage. This perception probably derived from Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell (1945) and his longtime friend Max Delbrück's successful migration from theoretical physics to experimental genetics. In any case, Gamow got so caught up with the idea that rejecting his initial plans to revive the Washington conferences with one focused on cosmogony, he instead devoted the first postwar gathering to "the physics of living matter." His preparations for the conference held in the fall of 1946, and his subse-quent endeavours to promote the infusion of more physics into biology, led Gamow to believe by the early 1950s that the central "riddle of life" is how each species' genes shape its distinctive proteins. But lacking any notion about the molecular structure of genes, he could not imagine how to formulate this enigma in a tangible way.In June 1953 Gamow got an idea for doing so from reading James Watson and Francis Crick's soon-to-be-famous Nature paper on DNA's structure. Confident that they were on the right track, he impulsively introduced himself to them by letter, praising them for their success in moving biology into the "exact' sciences" and expressing his hope that he could meet with them in England at the end of the summer to talk about the possibility of using combinatorics to tackle genetic problems. As both were planning to be away then, Watson discussed Gamow's letter briefly with Crick, then filed it away. In late October, undeterred by their failure to respond, Gamow sent a short note off to Nature on a "Possible Relation between Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Protein Structures" (1954). He opened by crediting Watson and Crick with having established that the basic hereditary materials are DNA molecules. Then he daringly outlined what soon evolved into the protein-coding research program. He proposed that each organism's DNA "could be characterized by a long number written in a four-digital system" that "completely determined" the composition of its unique complement of proteins, which in turn "are long peptide chains formed by about 20 different amino-acids [that] can be considered as 'long' words based on a 20-letter alphabet." The problem to be solved was how these "four-digital 26 numbers [are] translated into such 'words.'" Gamow closed by suggesting how this might be done and promising that a fuller account would be published elsewhere.During the next few months, Gamow plunged into work on the protein-coding problem. He wrote up an expanded version of his note in Nature for the National Academy of Sciences' Proceedings and, when it was not accepted there-possibly because Gamow jokingly listed his fictional character Tompkins as co-author-submitted it successfully (without Tompkins as co-author) to the Royal Danish Society of Sciences' biological series. He also spurred first Crick, then Watson, and then many other researchers-especially those associated with Caltech's Delbrück and Berkeley's Gunther Stent-to join the enterprise of identifying how DNAcoded proteins. As this growing research circle reviewed prior and ongoing experimental work of relevance, a consensus soon emerged that DNA did not serve as a simple template in protein synthesis. It appeared instead that the coding might be a two-step process in which DNA first coded RNA and then RNA coded proteins. Although initially resisting this view, Gamow ended up as the "synthesizer" in the "RNATie Club," founded in mid-1954 to foster the circle's informal communications and camaraderie.Gamow's involvement in the expanding circle of coding researchers remained intense for another year and a half. He found it stimulating to be once again on the wave crest of an exciting new specialty. Just as important if not more so, he enjoyed being at the center of the ambitious circle's partying and joking. But starting in late 1955, years before a consensus emerged about the coding of proteins, Gamow's engagement with the problem wilted. One reason was that his marriage of 23years had just fallen apart. Asecond, and more compelling reason was that, as he had experienced toward the end of his active participation in nuclear, stellar, and cosmogonical researches, he was getting bored with coding research because the opportunities for someone with his freewheeling style were ever more limited in this increasingly competitive and empirically constrained field" (George Gamow: A Biographical Memoir, National Academy of Sciences).

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, both sexes in a tree in which three 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. A fine repair to right margin, just touching foliage. 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.

Paris, Bachelier, 1822. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on titlepage. (4),XV,458 pp. and 7 large folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, plates with marginal brownspots. With the stamped monogram of the Danish king Frederik VI on inside frontcover. printed on good paper and broadmargined. Scarce first edition in which Paixhans describes his invention og the so-called Paixhans-gun, or in French: Canon Paixhans, which was the first naval gun using explosives shells."General Paixhans made importent improvements in the construction of heavy ordnance, and also in the projectiles, in the carriages, and in the mode of working the guns. The Paixhans-guns are especially adapted for the projection of shells and hollow shot, and were the first adopted in France about the year 1824. Similiar pieces of ordonance have since been introduced into the British Service. They are suitable either for ships of war, or for fortresses which defends coasts..."(Penny Encyclopedia)

London, Henry Colburn, 1843. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Top of spines a bit worn. Light wear along edges. 2 engraved frontispieces. XXXVIII,387;IV,474 pp., 3 large folded maps and 17 engraved plates. Woodengravings in the text. Two maps bound in volume 1, 1 map bound in volume 2. The 7 plates in volume 1 with a dampstain. The plates with light spotting. text clean. First edition. "In 1836, Edward Belcher was appointed by the Admiralty to the command of the H.M.S. Sulphur and the H.M.S. Starling, which resulted in his voyage around the world. He distinguished himself highly while on this adventure, and consequently, he became famous. Upon the voyage’s successful completion, he was honored with a knighthood, and his published journal of the voyage was praised as being exceedingly interesting." (Belcher Foundation).

Paris, P. Chevalier, 1607. Folio. Newer full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt leather title-label to spine. First title-page a bit "dusty" and the first few quires with a damp stain to upper right corner. Some leaves with light underlinings. Internally mostly very nice and clean. First title-page in red and black and with large engraved portrait; second title-page with woodcut vignette. Woodcut initials and vignettes. 8, (4), 974, (46, -Indices), 116 pp + (12), 284, 98, (32, -indices), (2, - colophon) pp. The 1607-edition (with the additional notes of Lipsius) of this highly important edition of the works of Seneca the Younger (the philosopher) and Seneca the Elder (the rhetorian), having the excellent and important notes by some of the most noted scholars, e.g. Muretus and Erasmus. The work first appeared in 1602, but that did not contain the notes of Lipsius, which first appeared in the 1607-edition (i.e. the present). The work was very popular and new editions kept appearing - 1613, 1619, 1627. "This is called a very excellent edition by Ernesti... The 1607 edition contains, besides the preceeding materials, some notes of Lipsius..." (Dibdin).