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France (Paris ?), Undated, around 1770. Folio. (42,5 x 28 cm.). Loose inlaid, sewn 4 by 4 leaves, in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 134 pp. Written in a fine, large legible hand, but unidentified, in brown ink. On good thick paper, clean and fine.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Kolophon: Peter Haake paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning), 1650. Lille 8vo. Senere hldrbd. med glat ryg og uden rygtitel. Marmoreret sidepapir. Fællestitelbladet i rødt/sort og med alle 5 deltitelblade. Vignetter i træsnit på titelblade. Fællestitelbladet med reparationer i hjørner og et mindre hul i midten. 7 af de første blade med reparationer i hjørner, uden tab af tekst. Fællestitelbladet med brugsspor, men ellers ganske ren og velbevaret. (16),569,(5);(2),165,(4);(4),256,(2);(12),73,(1);(8),37,(1);(7),368,(10) pp. Sidste udgave af Henrik Smiths berømte lægebog. Dette eksemplar er varianten med kolofon: Paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning.Bibl. Danica I:799.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1930 a. 1932. Royal8vo. 2 contemp. full cloth. A stamp to verso of titlepages. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Series A, vol. 129 and vol. 137. V,698,XXXVIII pp., plates, textillustr. and portraits. + V,724, plates and textillustr. (Entire volumes offered). Cockcroft & Walton's papers: pp. 477-489, textillustr. a. 1 plate (vol. 129) + pp. 229-242, textillustr. and 1 plate (vol. 137). Firs appearance of these two milestone papers in nuclear physics recording the set up of the first proton accelerator and describing the first nuclear reaction brought about artificially. the first paper describing the sccelarator, the second the nuclear reaction. their experiment with the accelerator is regarded as the first demonstration of the mass-energy equivalence. cockcroft and walton were awarded the nobel prize in 1951."Cockcroft, with the assistance of Walton, devised aninstrument in 1929 that could built up voltages(a voltage multiplier) and, in so doing, accelerate protons (which are easy to obtain by ionizing hydrogen atoms) to energies higher than those of natural alpha particles. In 1932 Cockcroft and Walton mbombarded lithium with such protons and produced alpha particles. It was clear, that what they had done was to combine lithium and hydrogen to form helium. This was the first nuclear reaction brought about through artificially accelerated particles and wihtout the aid of any form of natural activity....Both during and after World War II, Cockcroft was engaged in work having to do with the development of the atomic bomb. And, as it happened, his very first artificially-induced nuclear reaction, that of lithium with hydrogen, proved to be of GREAT IMPORTENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB."(Asimov).Sigmund Brandt "The Harvest of as Century", Episode 50.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Peter Haake paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning), 1650. Lille 8vo. Nyere hpergamentsbind med titlen i kalligrafi på ryg. Originalt marmorert snit. Fællestitelbladet trykt i rød/sort. Med alle 5 deltitelblade.(16),569,(5);(2),165,(4);(4),256,(2);(12),73,(1);(8),37,(1);(7),368,(10) pp. Lidt ormehuller i margin af 1. del. Titebladet kantrepareret og forstærket på bagsiden. Lettere brugsspor, men et ganske velbevaret eksemplar. Sidste udgave af Henrik Smiths berømte lægebog. Dette eksemplar er varianten med kolofon: Paa Joachim Moltkens Bekostning. - Bibl. Danica I:799.

Shanghai, Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe, 1986 - 2001. 8vo. 10 volumes, all in publisher's uniform full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. All volumes with presentation inscription from the translator to Niels Bohr's son, Ernest Bohr: "To Mr. Ernest Bohr with / highest respect from / GeGe". A fine and clean set of the first 10 volumes of Niels Bohr Collected Works. First Chinese, and overall, translation of 'Niels Bohr Collected Works' with dedication inscription from the translator ot Bohr's son Ernest Bohr. Translator Prof. Ge Ge found Bohr’s personality and mode of thinking in harmony with traditional Chinese culture, which may be part of the explanation for his lifelong dedication to Niels Bohr and his work, and his great effort to translate and publish the only non-English edition of the Niels Bohr Collected Works in existence today. The first volume in English had appeared in 1972, and Ge Ge was able to publish a Chinese translation in 1986, fourteen years later.Ge Ge’s enthusiasm not only led to the Collected Works being published with impressive promptness in China, but no doubt provided additional motivation for the Director of the Niels Bohr Archive to prepare the volumes faster. In this way, Ge Ge had an influence even on the publication of the original edition. In 2001 Ge Ge received the prestigeousDanish Order of the Dannebrog “for hiscontribution to increasing the Chinese understanding of Danish science and promoting the Denmark-China scientific cooperation. He was in fact able to translate all the volumes of the Collected Works, the last volume of which was published in English in 2006. It testifies to Ge Ge’s dedication that he enthusiastically went on with the work in spite of having lost his eyesight; he died the following year. The volumes contain the following: Vol. 1: Early Work (1905-1911) Vol. 2: Work on Atomic Physics (1912-1917)Vol. 3: The Correspondence Principle (1918-1923) Vol. 4: The Periodic System (1920-1923)Vol. 5: The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics (mainly 1924-1926) Vol. 6: Foundations of Quantum Physics I (1926-1932) Vol. 7: Foundations of Quantum Physics II (1933-1958) Vol. 8: The Penetration of Charged Particles through Matter (1912-1954)Vol. 9: Nuclear Physics (1929-1952) Vol. 10: Complementarity beyond Physics (1928-1962)

Lancaster PA, American Physical Society, 1958. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "The Physical Review", Volume 110, Second Series, Number 4, May 15. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 965-967. [Entire issue: Pp. 793-997]. First printing of Finkelstein's landmark paper in which he identified the Schwarzschild surface as an event horizon, "a perfect unidirectional membrane: causal influences can cross it in only one direction". This did not strictly contradict Oppenheimer's results, but extended them to include the point of view of infalling observers. Finkelstein's solution extended the Schwarzschild solution for the future of observers falling into a black hole. This paper influenced Penrose and Landau and essentially triggered the black-hole research."Many prominent doubting physicists were reluctant to accept the concept of a black hole, in large measurement because of the anomaly that the implosion of a star cannot be observed. Yet a particle inexorably falls into the center at r = 0 just as time marches on - because in general relativity time and space exchange roles inside a black hole (which has the making of another paradox). One solution, or at least reconciliation, of the observational black hole paradox was achieved only in the last decades. David Finkelstein (in the present paper) ascertained a new reference frame of framework for Schwarzschild space-time. Finkelstein's reference frame simultaneously covered all regions of space-time from the imploding star to distant reaches of space. This all-embracing reference frame is now called the Eddington-Finkelstein frame" (Kreitler, Trends in Black Hole research, P. 6).

Kjøbenhavn, 1852 - 53. Indb. i et sædeles nydeligt nyere hldrbd. i gl. stil m. rig rygforgyldn. Ubeskåret. Komplet m. begge smudstitelblade (smudstitelbladet til anden samling er på noget varierende, men samtidigt papir), begge titelblade, begge indholdsfortegnelser og alle alle særskilte deltitelblade til de enklte historier. Nogle blade brunplettede, men et særdeles nydeligt ekspl. Originaludgaven af begge Historie-samlinger. Indeholder i alt otte historier i originaltryk, heriblandt "Det er ganske vist!", "Paa den yderste Dag", "Hjertesorg", "Nissen hos Spekhøkeren".BFN 606, 616.First edition of both "Story"-collections, bound in a very nice later hcalf in old style w. gilt back. Uncut and fully complete w. all titles, half-titles and contents-leaves. Some pages brownspotted, but a very nice copy, containing eight stories printed for the first time.

La Haye, P. de Hondt, 1749. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally fine and clean, a nice copy. XVI, 402, (4) pp. + 22 folded maps and plates and a large folded world-map (complete). Finely illustrated 9th volume of Prevost’s extensive work on various travel accounts which cover numerous travel narratives to different parts of the world, documenting the discoveries, explorations, and adventures of travelers. This present 9th volume contain description of numerous travels to China, Tibet and Bhutan. This present Hondt-edition is “Mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions, especially in the later volumes. The maps and plates were finely engraved by J. van der Schley.” (Sabin 65404). According to Tchemerzine this the best edition. The first edition was published in Paris in seven volumes between 1744 and 1747. This present edition was published in 25 volumes between 1747 and 1780. Sabin 65404 Tchemerzine IX, 233: ("C´est la meilleure édition de ce recueil")

[Menasha, Wisconsin], The Econometric Society, 1933. Royal8vo. In a contemporary black half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. In "Econometrica", Vol. 1, 1933. Entire volume offered. Light wear to extremities and small stamp to title-page. A fine copy. Pp. 339-357. [Entire volume: (4), 448 pp.]. First edition of Fisher's seminal work in which he introduced the concept of 'Debt deflation': a theory of economic cycles that holds that recessions and depressions are due to the overall level of debt shrinking (deflating): the credit cycle is the cause of the economic cycle.The theory was developed by Irving Fisher following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. The debt deflation theory was familiar to John Maynard Keynes prior to Fisher's discussion of it, but he found it lacking in comparison to what would become his theory of liquidity preference. The theory, however, has enjoyed a resurgence of interest since the 1980s, both in mainstream economics and in the heterodox school of post-Keynesian economics, and has subsequently been developed by such post-Keynesian economists as Hyman Minsky and Steve Keen and by the mainstream economist Ben Bernanke. "During the Great Depression, observing the catastrophes of the world around him, which he shared personally, Fisher came to quite a different theory of the business cycle from the simple monetarist version he had espoused earlier. This was his 'Debt-deflation theory of depression', summarized in the first volume of Econometrica, the organ of the international society he helped to found. The essential features are that debt-financed Schumpeterian innovation fuel a boom, followed by a recession between excessive real debt burdens and deflation. Note the contrast to the Pigou real balance effect, according to which prices declines are the benign mechanism that restores full-employment equilibrium. The realism is all on Fisher's side. This theory of Fisher's has room for the monetary and credit cycles of which he earlier complained, and for the perversely pro-cyclical real interest rate movements mentioned above."

Paris, Didot, Quillau, Nully, 1736. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A nick in leather at lower compartment. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. A bit rubbed. A stamp on "Avis"-leaf and on title-page. (4),268 pp. With 112 full-page illustrations of fortifications and townplans as well as town-arms, engraved inside monumental borders in woodcut. Internally clean and fine.

Paris, Nicolas Langlois, 1699. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Traces from old paper-label on both spines. Light wear to extremities. Head of spine on vol. 1 chipped. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. Previous owner's name to title-page in both volumes. A few occassional brownspots in vol. 2, otherwise internally nice and clean. (10), XII, (68), 355 pp. + 31 folded doublepage plates, not in the collation and 84 full page engraved plates, included in the collation and 1 frontispicece (a total of 116 plates); (6), 259 pp. + frontispiece. Third edition of Daviler’s beautifully illustrated architectural work which significantly contributed to architectural education and theory and helped to standardize architectural education and practice in France. It provided detailed explanations and illustrations of classical architectural orders as defined by Renaissance architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. It "was the best work of its kind yet issued and soon superseded F. Blondel's Cours d'architecture" (Fowler). It “was the standard work for architects (…) This book included a life of Vignola, a description of buildings by him and by Michelangelo, and a dictionary of architectural terms. Daviler also gave practical advice for the design and construction of buildings. His book contained plans and elevations of a typical house and designs of all architectural details such as door-ways, entrances, and windows, including even the design of gardens.” (Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, Vol. I, p. 504).

Frankfurt am Main, Apud Johannem David. Zunnerum et Nicolaum Wilhelmum Helwig,1702. Small folio. Very nice recent blue hcalf w. gilt lettering on spine. Title-page printed in red and black, w. woodcut vignette and stamp: "Jews college, London". Some brownspotting, but all in all a very nice copy. (12), 184, (8) (Index) pp. Second edition of Ludolfus' groundbreaking Ethiopian Grammar. The German, Job Ludolf, was the first to bring the study of Etiopian subjects into a system, and his present work is the first of its kind to see the light of day. It was unusal for the time to take up the study of something like the Ethiopian laguage, and after Ludolfus' important philological works followed a long period of neglect, which did not end till the second half of the nineteenth century, when these studies were finally resumed, causing them to flourish. Brunet III, pp. 1223.

Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1974. 8vo. Original red wrappers. Previous owner's name [Frank Mckinley]. to front free end-paper. A very nice and clean copy. 197-218 pp. First publication of Tinbergen's Nobel speech, in the off-print with presentation-inscription from Tinbergen to front wrapper: "To Frank - with many thanks for your / ecovative Delta pictures! / Niko".In 1973 Tinbergen shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns".Frank McKinley, to whom the offprint is inscribed and who has written his name on the front free end-paper was a post-doctorate student who studied under Tinbergen. McKinley later became curator of Ethnology and professor in the deparment of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at the University of Minnesota. McKinley was not the only successful student under Tinbergen; Richard Dawkins, Marian Dawkins and Desmond Morris all became prominent biologists under the guidance of Tinbergen. Tinbergen is known for "Tinbergen's four questions" which he believed should be asked of any animal behaviour. The questions relate to function, phylogeny, causation and development and this approach has had immense influence in almost all branches of biology.

A Neuchatel, De l'Imprimerie de la Societé Typographique, 1789. Bound in 5 cont. hcalf with gilt backs. Backs slightly rubbed. Paperlabels pasted on lower part of back. Internally in general clean and on good paper. Small rubber stamp on titles. Macquer's researches are numerous, varied, and original. Though he worked just before the oxygen period he seems to have been conscious of the defects of the phlogistic hypothesis, and some of his work has a bearing upon the later development. His chief book was the Dictionary, which may be regarded as the first scientific work of its class. (Ferguson I:p.60).

Merseburg, Gottschick 1689 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and part of gilting worn off. Small wormtract to upper margin of first few leaves. Last 72 ff. with small wormtract. (20), 364, (369)-835 pp. + double-page frontispiece. Rare third expanded edition of Riemer’s influential work on rhetoric providing the emerging bourgeoisie with linguistic tools. Riemer attended the Gymnasium in Halle with support from Gottfried Olearius and enrolled in theology and rhetoric at the University of Jena in 1670, earning a Master's degree in 1672. He taught at Jena's philosophical faculty and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Gymnasium Augusteum in Weissenfels in 1673. In 1678, he succeeded Christian Weise as chair of eloquence and poetry. Riemer gained fame for his rhetorical writings such as the present. He also wrote political-didactic dramas and novels, influential well into the 19th century. All editions are rarely found in the trade.

Nürnberg, C.C. Monath, 1726, 1727, 1728. 4to. Cont. full vellum. Richly gilt back. Engraved frontispiece, 3 titlepages in red/black. (14),432;;(8),48;(10),176 pp. and 62 large folded engraved plates (30+20+12). Stamp at foot of first title (Greve Scheel). A few of the first section of plates with some small tears, no loss. A few margins with light browning, but fine. This third edition of the esteemed work on instruments, was the largest and most profusely illustrated and it was enlarged by Doppelmayr. - Poggendorff I:194.

Kiøbenhavn, Kongel. Majests. priviligerede Bogtrykkerie, 1699-1773. 4to. Indbundet i 10 samtidige helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Originaltrykkene.

Copenhagen, 1927-72. 4to. Bound in 12 solid private full fabrikoid. Textvolumes bound separately except for the vol. 10 (where text and plates are bound together). Around 950 pp. of text and nearly 1400 plates, partly in colour. Volume 10 without titlelabel on back.

Strassburg, Amand König, 1765. 4to. Contemporary hcalf, raised bands richly gilt back. (4),140,(4) pp. 9 folded engraved plates with many figs. The first leaves somewhat brownspotted, otherwise mostly marginal brownspots. Scarce first edition. The text gives clear and basic instructiuons for recreative fireworks with receipts, and the engravings shows in details their construction. - Chris Philip B 130.1

Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1789. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (6),65,(1) pp., 36 engraved plates and "Anhang" with 4 large folded engraved plates (Bridges). Scattered brownspotting, mainly to text. "Anhang" depicting and describing the 4 bridges is here published for the first time. - Poggendorff II, 612.

Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1858-59. Lex8vo. 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt with gilt lettering. Corners a bit bumped. 3 tinted frontispieces. XX,330;VIII,392;VIII,424 pp., 1 facsimile, 21 plates (some tinted) and 12 maps (10 large and folded, finely strenghtened on verso). Clean and fine. First edition. - Sabin 31241.

Oslo, Grøndahl & Søns, 1926. 8vo. In the original modest boards with cloth to spine. Red library stamp to front board and top of first page. Otherwise fine and clean. 40 pp. First printing of Frisch's scarce landmark paper which not only coined the term "econometrics" but also introduced it as an entirely new economic discipline thereby holding a seminal position in 20th century economics. The paper was a powerful demonstration of the meaning of econometrics: mathematical precision in the formulation of theoretical concepts and relationships so as to make them quantifiable, and erudition and ingenuity in the application of statistical methods to available data. The paper drew up further perspectives for the development of the newly coined discipline. Frisch was in 1969 awarded the Nobel Prize in economics "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes". "The Sur un problème essay made a forceful impression on the small number of mathematically inclined economists who - like Irving Fisher - happened to be introduced to it. It was not translated and published in English until 1972 at the very end of Frisch's life. The paper would deserve a place in the history of economics, even for no other reason than the opening sentences, which coined the first of Frisch's many - and by far the most important - contributions to the international terminology of the discipline" (Regnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research): 'Intermédiaire entre les mathématiques, la statistique et l'économie politique, nous trouvons une discipline nouvelle que l'on peut, faute de mieux, désigner sous le nom de l'économétrie. L'économétrie se pose le but de soumettre les lois abstraites de l'economie politique théorique ou l'économie 'pure' à une vérification expérimentale et numeriques, et ainsi de constituer, autant que cela est possible, l'economie pure en une science dans le sens restreint de ce mot' (i.e.'Intermediate between mathematics, statistics, and economics, we find a new discipline which for lack of a better name, may be called econometrics. Econometrics has as its aim to subject abstract laws of theoretical political economy or 'pure' economics to experimental and numerical verification, and thus to turn pure economics, as far as possible, into a science in the strict sense of the word'.).Frisch's paper on economics had been prepared largely during his stay in Paris in the preceding years. Since 1923 Frisch had published some papers in theoretical statistics, but he was on a course to become - for lack of a better term - a mathematical economist, firmly determined to give his scientific contribution within economics. He had prepared himself for the task by far-reaching studies in mathematics and statistics in addition to his readings of economic literature. The two professors of economics in Norway at this time belonged to the Faculty of Law, and there was no research institution or separate university department in economics. Hence, colleagues with related scientific interests had by and large to be found abroad, and Frisch had established connections, mostly within Europe, by travels and correspondence.Frisch was one of the founders of economics in general as a modern science. He coined a number of new words including econometrics and macroeconomics. He helped set up Neo-Walrasian research. He formalized production theory. In econometrics he worked on time series and linear regression analysis. With Frederick Waugh, he introduced the celebrated Frisch-Waugh theorem (Econometrica1933) (sometimes referred to as the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem). His 1933 work on impulse-propagation business cycles became one of the principles of modern New Classical business cycle theory. He also helped introduce econometric modeling to government economic planning and accounting. He was one of the founders of the Econometric Society and editor of Econometrica for over twenty years. The Frisch Medal, so named in his honor, is given every two years for the best paper published in the Econometrica in the previous five years. (The New Palgrave).

Hamburg, Friederichsen & Co., 1885 u. 1902. Lex8vo a. folio. Orig. full cloth and contemp. hcalf (spine rubbed). Light wear along edges. Stamps on title-pages. X,(2),596 pp., 9 plates, textillustrations. + Publishers Cat. (48) pp. Atlas: (4),11 pp. and with 36 maps in colour.

Stockholm, Schneider, 1737 - 1738. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Wear to extremities, spine-ends with loss of leather. With light occassional brownspotting throughout. (30), 18, 84, 48, 56, 40, 48, (16), (8), (14), (8), (4), (4), (4), (4), (4), (16), (36) pp. A highly interesting sammelband of numerous rare Swedish occasional and commemorative, literary, political, and ceremonial printings from Sweden’s Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden). Printed in Stockholm by Schneider and Nyström, these rare pamphlets represent multiple genres: funeral orations, royal obsequies, political odes, seasonal and festive verse, literary satire and national poetry anthologies.