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Munster, Perrenon, 1769. 8vo. Bound in a very nice contemporary half calf binding with four raised bands and richlty gilt spine. Center and corners of boards with gilt flower ornamentation. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Traces from label (ex-libris?) having been removed from verso of front board. A nice and clean copy. 143 pp. The exceedingly rare second edition of Brument’s attempt at a sequel to Rousseau's "La Nouvelle Héloïse" with the story revolving around Henriette, the daughter of Julie de Wolmar, a central character in Rousseau's novel. The first edition was published in Geneve in 1768 – both editions are of the utmost scarcity and are rarely found in the trade. “Henriette de Wolmar” is part of a broader trend in the 18th century where Rousseau's “La Nouvelle Héloïse” inspired numerous derivative works, including sequels, parodies, and adaptations – all early examples of fan-fiction. The success of Rousseau's novel sparked a wave of creative responses, as readers and writers sought to expand, reinterpret or critique the original story. In Rousseau's original work, “La Nouvelle Héloïse”, Julie is portrayed as a virtuous woman who navigates the complexities of love, duty, and social expectations. Brument's sequel, however, shifts the narrative focus to Julie's role as a mother, particularly highlighting her possessiveness and jealousy towards her daughter. This jealousy serves as the central conflict of the story illustrating the psychological and emotional turmoil that can be within family relationships. Provenance: Valdemar's Castle.

London, Printed by T. Wright, for T. Cadell and P. Elmsly, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt line-borders to boards, gilt lines and gilt title-label to spine. Spine and corners worn, and hinges weak. Somewhat worn. A bit of brownspotting. Book plate of James Barlow to inside of front board. Engraved title-vignette, large engraved weapon to dedication-leaf, woodcut vignettes, large engraved vignette at beginning of text, 3 engraved plates (two of which folded), large engraved end-vignette. Alphabetic character-illustrations in the text. (4), IX, (1), 126, (1 - Hymn to Isis) pp. Scarce first edition of this interesting work on the origin of the alphabet, in which Davy proposes important and original theories that are still considered interesting and useful today. Davy proposes the so-called "articulatory iconicity" as the approach to the explanation of the origin and development of the alphabet and tries to prove how a system of "visible speech" can be at the root of it all, along the lines of William Jones, who never made the practical suggestions of explanation that Davy did. The illustrations for Davy's account of the articulatory formation of the alphabetic characters are used in other works pertaining to the same subject and are considered a noteworthy attempt to explain this frequent subject for research and speculation.The plates depict Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, Coptic, Egyptian letters in comparison.

Hannover, Förster, 1728. 4to. In contemporary wrapper with red and gold ornamentation. Wrappers with a few nicks and tears. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. First leaves with a few small worm tracts, otherwise internally fine. (8), 144 pp. + Frontispiece and 4 folded plates plus numerous illustrations in text. First edition of this rare work describing and illustrating English coronation processes with focus on King Georg II.

Copenhagen. 1850. 4to. Uncut and unopened. No wrappers. Plates loose. Very nice and clean. Pp. (121) - 188 + four plates. First edition of these absolutely fundamental papers, by the (co-)discoverer of the principle of Conservation of Energy, prove Colding's assumption of "the imperishability of nature" and present for the first time in printing his elaborate experiments on the subject, contributing significantly to the cementation of his version of the principle of Conservation of Energy. Ludvig August Colding (1815 - 1888) was a famous Danish engineer and physicist. He was originally educated as a carpenter but graduated as mechanical engineer in 1841. In 1845 he became water-inspector in Copenhagen and in 1847 he was also given the responsibility of the gas- and waterworks. Together with the famous chemist Julius Thomsen, he proved that the cholera spread throughout Copenhagen through the drinking water (1853) - a most significant discovery. After this he was responsible replacing much of the sewer-system of Copenhagen. In 1857 he became state engineer. During this period he overhauled the desperately inadequate water and sanitation system. He articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.His work on the power of water-stem in the steam engine is considered one of his most significant.The principle of Conservation of Energy was discovered and proven independently and practically simultaneously by Colding, Meyer, Joule, and Helmholtz. As the other three, Colding had discovered the principle in the early 1840'ies, but up until 1843 (where he publishes his first breakthrough article on the subject), Colding's experiments had suggested that no force seems to be disappearing but merely undergoes a transformation, whereupon it becomes effective in other forms. On H.C. Oersted's recommendation (Colding was Oersted's assistent in their experiments with the heating of compressed water), however, Colding carried out a more elaborate version of his experiments, which made him able to verify his assumption that led to his principle of Conservation of Energy with much greater certainty. These new results were reported at the 1847 meeting of Scandinavian Scientists and published in 1850 as the two first papers present here.Mayer's famous "Bemerkungen über das mechanische Aequivalent der Wärme" was published a year after Colding's papers, 1851.

Kjøbenhavn, 1824. Small 8vo. Original paper covered boards. Remains of gilt title-plabel to spine. Spine worn and corners bumped. Internally brownspotted. (4), VIII, 117; (1) pp. Magnificent presentation-copy - for Grundtvig - of the scarce first edition of Howitz' most important philosophical work. With his first work of 1824, "Om Afsindighed og Tilregnelse..." Howitz initiated the seminal 19th century Danish discussion on free will, known as the "Howitz-dispute". Inscribed to front free end-paper: "Til / Hr. Pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig / Ærbødigst / fra / Forfatteren" (i.e. "For / Mr. Pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig / most respectfully / from / the author". The Danish pastor Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872) is arguably, together with Kierkegaard (and perhaps Hans Christian Andersen) the most influential Danish author of all time. He holds a unique position in Danish cultural history, profoundly forming Danish society, the national spirit of which is still widely Grundtvigian. Danish national institutions are widely based on Grundtivg's ideals, and the new form of nationalism that his ideas gave rise to in the last half of the 19th century still permeates Danish society and Danish national understanding. In this foundational work "On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility:", Howitz claimed that those learned in the law (at that time led by Oersted) did not understand the relationship between the normal rational state of man and the mad state, and he thus initiated a discussion about the legal term of imputability, behind which he saw Kant's notion of liberty. With the thoughts of Hume, Howitz sets out to refute Kant's notion of human free will. He equals the relationship between motivation and act with the relationship between cause and effect, and thus, according to Howits, there can be no human act without cause. Like Hume, Howitz did not understand this natural necessity as being in opposition to freedom."The so-called “Howitz-dispute,” which arose in Copenhagen in the second half of the 1820s, represents a sort of tear in a monotonous and uniform ideological fabric, whose consequences are destined to last until the middle of the century and ideally join together with the strongest continental currents. The dispute takes its name from the Danish professor of forensic medicine, Frantz Gotthard Howitz (1789-1826), who wrote in 1824 the treatise On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility: A Contribution on Psychology and Jurisprudence, in which he considered a problem to which the entire post-revolutionary civil society was looking for a fair solution, namely, the problematic relationship between madness and the ascription of responsibility. The treatise immediately evoked a number of critical reactions, since the author “accused” the Danish law of the time of being based on Kant’s view of morality. Howitz’s treatise has the merit of originality not only because, from a chronological point of view, it comes before many of the most important writings on the theme of madness and imputability (and its author is thoroughly acquainted with the inter-national scientific literature on mental illnesses), but also because it shows how at the root of the Danish clinical and legal reasoning of the time, there was the Kantian moral doctrine." (Ingrid Basso: On Madness and Free Will: a Kantian Debate in Denmark in the First Half of 19th Century).

Paris, Florentin Delaulne, 1709. 8vo. Bound in one contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper in contemporary hand. Light wear to extremities, but overall a nice and clean copy. XXI, (3), 454, (2), 563 pp. Rare first edition of Dubos’ history on The War of the League of Cambrai also known as the War of the Holy League, fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice, they were joined at various times by nearly every significant power in Western Europe. “(The present work) was a clear and engaging history of the alliance, including France, assembled by Pope Julius II to wage war against the Venetian Republic between 1508 and 1516. The book was praised by, among others, Voltaire.” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Jean-Baptiste Du Bos (b. 1670, d. 1742) was a French antiquarian, historian, diplomat, polymath, and aesthetician. He participated in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, wrote on numismatics, delved into a variety of historical questions, and had an enduring love of the fine arts. Barbier II, 700.

Königsberg, Nicolovius, 1798. 8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's names in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper and front free end-paper. First leaves slightly browned, a nice copy. XIV, 334 pp. First edition of Kant's major contribution to empirical psychology, in which he attempted a classification of mental diseases. It was developed from lecture notes for a number of successful classes taught by Kant from 1772 to 1796 at the Albertus Universität in then Königsberg, Germany. Scholars Victor L. Dowdell and Hans H. Rudnick, for example, have argued that Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View constitutes the best way for layperson readers to begin learning Kant's philosophy 'To some extent the division of subjects in this book helped inadvertently to establish the three-fold classification of mental experiences, namely, knowing, feeling and willing, in place of the traditional two-fold classification, namely, cognition and appetition' (Wolf). The present work was the subject of Michel Foucault's doctoral dissertation. Garrison & Morton 4969Norman 1201Warda 195Wellcome II, 378

Franckfurt, Georg Müllers, 1657. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges marbled. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Margin of front board faded. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. First 20 ff. with damp stain in upper outer corner, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (34), 1266, (26) pp. + frontispiece. The rare first complete German translation of Tacitus. Tacitus’ texts had a profound influence in Germany, more so than most other classical works. Tacitus’ works influenced German identity and nationalism by providing a romanticized view of ancient Germans, contributing to the development of a distinct cultural identity. Tacitus’s description of ancient Germanic tribes in Germania was idealized by many German intellectuals as depicting noble and pure ancestors. It created a romanticized image of Germanic virtues like bravery, simplicity, and freedom. From the 16th century onward, particularly during the Renaissance and the Romantic era, Germania was used to foster a sense of national pride and distinct identity. It played a role in the rise of German nationalism, especially in the 19th century leading up to the unification of Germany in 1871. In the 20th century - particularly under Nazi rule – ‘Germania’ was misinterpreted and misused to promote ideas of racial purity and Aryan superiority, contributing to the ideology that justified many of the regime's atrocities. “The first printed translation of Tacitus’ texts sees the light in 1535 in Mainz and offer a German version of A.[De vita Iulii Agricolae], the H.[Historiae], and the G.[De origine et situ Germanorum], by Jacob Micyllus. Although German inaugurates the European movements of translations of Tacitus, the initial momentum ceases immidialtely. We must wait until 1612 before a new version of A. and the H. are worked on by Ludwig Kepler. German readers do not gain access to the entirety of the works of Tacitus (without the D.[Dialogus de oratoribus]) until 1657 [the present], thanks to the translation of Carl Melchior Gronitz von Grodnau. For the first time, also the Ag. is translated in this language.” (The Tacitus Encyclopedia). During the 16th and 17th centuries, the works of the Latin historian Caius Cornelius Tacitus, who wrote in the irst century AD, became bestsellers in Europe. From Italy to France, and in England, the Netherlands, the German Empire, and the Spanish monarchy, Tacitus’s Annals, Histories, Life of Agricola, Germania, and even the Dialogue on Orators – which in that period was not consistently attributed to him – became privileged objects of reading. Soon, a wide array of derivative works appeared. Commentaries on the text, discourses based on selected passages, aphorisms, judgments or notes, and virtually any kind of book related to Tacitus’s texts in any possible form found a printer and readers” (Bermejo, Translating Tacitus).

Stockholm, 1845. Uncut in the original printed yeallow wrappers. A very fresh, clean and bright copy. The rare first Swedish edition of Romeo and Juliet. The book also contains a cast-list for the first performance of the play in Stockholm, for which the translation was made. OCLC lists merely four copies outside of Sweden.

Odense, Trykt paa forfatterens Forlag i S. Hempels Officin, 1837. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and blindstamped ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped. Paper label pasted on to pasted down front front end-paper "Skjænket fra Kongens Haandbibliotek" (i.e. English: "Donated from the Kings private library"). Stamp, "FGP", (i.e. Fredericia Garnisions Bibliotek). to title-page. Title-page slightly browned but overwise a nice and clean copy. (6), XV, (1), 468, (1) pp. The rare first edition – here with a most interesting Royal provenance - of Cohen’s seminal work, being the first comprehensive work on the history of Jews in Denmark.The book examines the impact of legal enactments on their emancipation, tracing their status from being permitted to settle in Denmark in 1684 to gaining full Danish citizenship in 1814. From the stamp on the title-page we know this copy has been part of Fredericia's Garrison Library. Prince Frederik, Later King Frederik VII was banished by his farther-in-law, King Frederik VI to Fredericia because of his scandalous behaviour towards his wife, princess Vilhemine, the youngest daughter of the King. The Prince must have kept the book, which later with his return to Copenhagen, went into the Royal Private Library (Kongens Haandbibliotek). Asser Daniel Cohen (1794–1863), a Jewish theologian and author, became a royal catechist for Jews in Funen and Lolland-Falster. He documented Jewish history in Denmark and wrote on the First Schleswig War. In 1855, he was appointed catechist in Schleswig, living in Frederiksstad until his death.

Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard, 1933. + Berlin, Springer 1931. + Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1950. First paper: Published as no. 8 of vol. 12 in 'Kgl. Dankse Vid. Selsk. Math.-Fys. Medd.'. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With the ownership signature of Danish physicist Mogens Pihl (Prof. of physics at Copenhagen University 1957-77). 65,(1) pp. Second paper: Published in 'Zeitschrift für Physik', vol. 69, pp.56-69. The entire volume in contemporary half cloth offered here.Third paper: Published in 'The Physical Review', vol. 78, no. 6, pp.794-798. The entire issue in original printed wrappers offered here. With rubber stamp of Danish physicist Christian Møller (Author of "The Theory of Relativity, 1952"). First editions of these fundamental papers in the development of quantum field theory. The process of measuring electromagnetic fields involves the observation of charged test bodies in those fields. Therefore the theory of electrodynamics is an inseparable extension of mechanics. A quantum theory of fields thus inherits, in some form, the limitations of measurement which lie at the foundation of quantum mechanics. In 1931 Landau and Peierls published a critical analysis of the consequences of such limitations in a relativistic quantum theory of fields (second paper offered). Landau and Peierls came to the negative conclusion that in several cases, the concept of momentum was without physical meaning and quantities such as the strength of a field was un-measurable. In their famous paper from 1933 Bohr and Rosenfeld (first paper offered) carefully reviewed the arguments of Landau and Peierls and showed, through the use of particular measuring arrangements, that a consistent quantum theory of fields is possible without further limitations than the ones which secure the consistency of quantum mechanics. The BR-paper is often credited with having laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics. Bohr continued his work in this field, and in 1937 he completed a manuscript entitled "Field and Charge Measurement in Quantum Theory", but this was never published. When, in the late 1940s the important work on QED by Tomonaga, Schwinger, Dyson, and Feynman appeared in The Physical Review, Bohr and Rosenfeld again joined and published the essentials of the 1937 manuscript in the same journal (third paper offered).See Abraham Pais: Bohr's Times, pp.358-364. Mehra & Rechenberg: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, vol. 6, pp.697-703. Collected Works of Niels Bohr, vol. 7, pp.3-33.

London, Edwardi Story, 1654. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Binding slightly twisted. Front board with large stain. Annotations in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper and free front end-paper. Small marks with annotations pasted in margin. Internally fine and clean. (10), 302, 72 pp. with many diagrams and illustrations in text. Rare first edition of George Fournier's work on Euclid's Element. “Some of the benefits of the smaller format adopted by Clavius’s edition were negated by the length of the text, and the next phase of Euclidean publication during the seventeenth century saw the rapid adoption of smaller formats, culminating in a number of tiny duodecimo issues such as the 1644 Paris edition of Georges Fournier, later reprinted in Cambridge. (In note:) Issued as a duodecimo in Paris in 1644 and 1654, and in London in 1654 and 1665.” (Anja-Silvia Goeing, Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning). Georges Fournier, a French Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician, served as a naval military chaplain on a ship of the line, and acquired a strong knowledge of technical and naval matters. In 1642, he published the treaty Hydrographie, where he attempted to provide a scientific foundation to the design of ships. He also authored a Treaty of fortifications or military architecture, drawn from the most estimated places of our times, for fortifications, whose original edition was published in Paris in 1649 by Jean Hénault at the Salle Dauphine of l'ange gardien. Another edition was published in 1668 in Mayence by Louis Bourgeat. His works on Euclidean geometry (Paris, 1644 and 1654) were translated into English, and gave rise to three successive editions.Georges Fournier taught René Descartes.Steck IV, p. 100.

(London, The Television Press), 1928. 8vo. Original illustrated coloured wrappers depicting a distinguished couple enjoying the opera transmitted on television, with the actual opera in the background. Richly illustrated throughout. A bit of minor spotting to front wrapper; all in all a very nice, fully intact, copy. 52 pp + one loose leaf: "Supplement to Television, No. 1 - March, 1928" (containing the article "Seeing Across the Atlantic!"). The first printing of the uncommon (especially in wrappers) first volume, first number of the world's first television journal, which contains many very important articles in the history of the development of television and which came to highly influence the use and spreading of the television as a broadcast medium.The journal "Television", "The first periodical publication devoted to television, began publication in 1928, the year that marked the beginning of television's transformation from scientific curiosity to commercially viable broadcast medium." (Hook & Norman, p. 205).The most important year for television as we know it today must be said to be 1928, the year in which it became certain that television could be more than a scientific curiosity, the same year that the "Television" journal, aimed at both amateurs and professionals and filled with commercials connected to television, appeared. "In 1927 television was belived to be just around the corner. This imminence became a fact in 1928..." (Shiers, p. 132)."Television" served as the official journal of the Television Society, "a combination which met the needs and interests of amateurs as well as professionals." (Shiers, p. 132). "Of all scientific subjects, perhaps the one which is creating the most interest in the public mind at the present time is television. It is, howevera subject upon which almost no literature or authentic information has been available, either to the interested amateur or to the scientist. It is the object of this, the first journal of its kind in the world, to fill this want, and to supply an organ the sole object of which will be to keep interested members of the public supplied with up-to-date and authentic information upon this new branch of science, which bids fair in time to rival wireless broadcasting in importance and popularity." (beginning of the Editorial, by Dinsdale).Hook and Norman, Originas of Cyberspace, nr. 203, (1) ("A monthly magazine devoted to the interests and progress of the science of seeing by wire and wireless" - the front wrapper of vol. 1, no. 1 depicted). Shiers, Early Television, a Bibliographic Guide, nr. 1152 ("Greetings to the World's first Television Journal"), 1153 ("The Bith of the Television Society"), 1154 ("Technical Notes"), 1155 ("Technical Notes"), 1156 ("Commercial Televsion. When may we expect it?"), 1157 ("Join the Television Society"), 1158 ("How to make a Simple Televisor"), 1159 ("Television on the Continent"), 1160 ("Noctovision. Seeing in total Darkness by Television"), 1161 ("Seeing Across the Atlantic", being the account of Baird's transmission from London to New York).

Lüneburg, Johan und Heinrich Sternen, 1634. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. With two clasps, missing one of the catches. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A few scratches to boards and leather on spine cracked. Internally nice and clean. (12), 480, 76, 115 pp. + double-page frontispiece. The exceedingly rare early (second?) German translation of Bishop Bayly's seminal "The Practice of Piety". The book became immensely popular during the 17th century, particularly among Puritans and other Protestant groups and was “the most popular English book in Germany in the seventeenth century. At least sixty-nine German editions were published before 1743” (Damrau, Early Puritan Literature in Germany). We have not been able to trace a single copy of the early edition in the trade. “Lewis Bayly was born around 1575 at Carmarthen, Wales, where Thomas Bayly, who probably was his father, was serving as curate at that time. Lewis and his first wife, who was probably Judith Appleton, had their first son in 1595, followed by four additional children. Bayly secured the living of Shipston-on-Stour, in Worcestershire, in 1597, and three years later was presented to the crown living of Evesham in the same county, where he served as headmaster of the grammar school. Bayly soon became known for his preaching and was appointed a chaplain to Prince Henry within a few years of King James’s accession. In 1606, he was presented to the rectory of Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, but remained largely at Evesham. Though he was a conformed Calvinist who respected the authority of the church, Bayly emphasized Puritan-like piety. Shortly after his wife passed away in 1608, he began to work on turning some of his sermons into what would become a Protestant classic, The Practice of Piety.”(Beeke, Meet the Puritans). Provenance: Valdemar's Castle, Denmark

(Berlin, Haude et Spencer, 1770). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres", tome XIX. Pp. 421-438. Very nice and clean. The rare first printing of one of the few of Lambert's philosophical works that appeared within his life-time. This is one of the three philosophical papers that he published in "Nova acta Eruditorum", which are of varying philosophical content.The present work played a significant role in the rediscovery within philosophy of the concept of the "sublime", the foundational concept which was so famously treated by Kant in his third Critique (of Judgment). Neither the idea of the beautiful nor of the sublime was novel in the 18th century, as the distinction between the two had already been made in ancient philosophy. However, for several centuries, aesthetics had been dominated by the question of the beautiful, and it was only around Kant's and Lambert's time that the sublime had become a topic of interest again - this time primarily as the sublime in nature. When Lambert thus discusses the sublime in the present article, it is probable that his conception of it can have influenced Kant and his exposition in the "Critique of Judgment", which appeared a couple of decades later. "Kant himself recognized Lambert as a philosopher of the highest qualities; and he expected much from his critical attitude. He had drafted a dedication of the "Critique of Pure Reason" to Lambert, but Lambert's untimely death prevented its inclusion.Lambert's place in the history of philosophy, however, should not be seen only in its relation to Kant. The genesis of his philosophical ideas dates from a time when Kant's major works had yet to be conceived. It was the philosophical doctrines of Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Locke that exerted the more important influence - insofar as one can speak of influence with a self-taught and wayward man such as Lambert... The two main aspects of Lambert's philosophy, the analytic and the constructive were both strongly shaped by mathematical notions; hence logic played an important part in his philosophical writing. Following Leibnitz' ideas, Lambert early tried to create and "ars characteristic conbinatoria", or a logical or conceptual calculus. He investigated the conditions to which scientific knowledge must be subjected if it is to enjoy the same degree of exactness and evidence as mathematical knowledge..." (D.S.B. VII:597).

København (Copenhagen), P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1889. 8vo. Ubeskåret i det originale bogtrykte omslag. Foromslag mangler nederste højre hjørne (ca. 2x5 cm), men er ellers fint og helt uden tab af tekst. Ryg noget slidt og med lidt mangler. Blokken løs på midten, men helt intakt. Bagomslag særdeles fint med enkelte rifter ved hjørner. Gammelt ejernavn på halvtitel og tidligere ejers stempel på titelblad. Indvendig meget fin og frisk. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Front wrapper lacking lower right corner (ab. 2x5 cm.), but no loss of any lettering, and otherwise very fine. Spine with wear and a bit of loss. Bookblock loose down the middle, but fully intact. Back wrapper in very fine condition with just a few tears to extremities. Old owner's name to half-title and previous owner's stamp to title-page. Internally very fine and clean. Den ikke almindelige originaludgave med det sjælden originale omslag (ses sjældent bevaret og da oftest kun med formomslaget) af Hamsuns tidlige Amerika-kritiske værk, som udkom samme år som den første del af hans hovedværk, Sult, som udgjorde hans egentlige gennembrud.Værket er skrevet på baggrund af Hamsuns egne erfaringer fra hans to længerevarende ophold i USA og udgør "en udvidelse af et Par Foredrag, jeg har holdt sidste Vinter i Københavns Studentersamfund." (Forord). Efter fra 1886 for anden gang at have opholdt sig i USA, denne gang i Chicago, drog Hamusn i forsommeren 1888 tilbage mod Nord. Han var blevet fyret fra sit arbejde som sporvognskonduktør, og vennerne havde skilliget sammen til en billet hjem fra det efterhånden forhadte land. Hamsun stod dog ikke af i Kristiania men tog skibet videre til København, hvor han allerede i vinteren samme år holdt de par foredrag, som dette værk er baseret på. 1889 er et skelsættende år for Hamsun. Det er i dette år, folket får øjnene op for, hvad det er for en forfatter hér er at gøre med, og "Fra det Moderne Amerikas Aandsliv", som skriver sig fra dette år, er noget af det mest direkte Hamsunske, vi har. Værket er hårdt og slagfærdigt i både indhold og form, og der er ikke meget at tage fejl af: "Det er Uaanden i den amerikanske Etikette, som gør den national, dens uideale Karakter. Det er en Forstandsetikette fra et gammelt, aristokratisk Land, tagen i Brug af et Folk af splinterny Demokrater, for hvem Friheden er Friheder og hos hvem Pieteten er en indholdsløs Form..." (P. 241).____________________________________The uncommon first edition with the rare original wrappers (very rarely preserved and if, then usually only the front wrapper) of Hamsun's early work on the cultural life of America in the 1880'ies, -an extremely critical and harsh work based on Hamsun's experiences from his two year-long stays in America. The first American edition did not appear untill 1969.

London, Unwin Brothers Limited, 1932 - 2005. 8vo. Volume 7,2 till 66 bound uniformly in black half cloth. Volume 67 till 80 in full black cloth. All with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper label pasted on to back board and small stamp to first leaf. A fine set of the British journal consisting of the following volumes: Vol.: 7,2- 16, 20-31, 48, 51-80. 58 volumes in total. "Philosophy is the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, which was founded in 1925 to build bridges between specialist philosophers and a wider educated public. The journal continues to fulfil a dual role: it is one of the leading academic journals of philosophy, but it also serves the philosophical interests of specialists in other fields (law, language, literature and the arts, medicine, politics, religion, science, education, psychology, history) and those of the general reader. Contributors are required to avoid needless technicality of language and presentation." (Cambridge University Press).

Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1842. 4to. Bound in the original boards with silver stained papercovers. Some nicks to backstrip. Margins of covers having the silver-staining toned down (oxidation). Edges gilt. As it is printed on "vellum-paper" and edges gilt, it is probably one of the gift copies, but unsigned. IV, 76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. Light marginal browning to plates, otherwise fine. The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'alternation of generations', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. "(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors." (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). "The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was "Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker...", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an important chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he taught from 1846 until 1885." (DSB XII, p. 9).

Halle in Magdeburgischen, Johann Justinus Gebauer, 1740 - 1745. 4to. Bound in 15 cont. full vellum, some corners soiled, most inner-hinges cracked, so cords are showing, but not loose, most bookblocks tight. Internally overall a nice and clean set, except for vol. nine, the last about 60 leaves of which are marginally ink-soiled and stuck together in margins, but not affecting text. Vol. five lacks lower part of t-p. i.e. printer and printing-year, vol. 13 loose and lacking leaves at end. Vol. one w. engr. frontispiece. Title-pages in red and black, some woodcut vignettes. In all about 22.000 pp.

Nürnberg, 1800. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A fine copy. XII, 132 pp. Rare first German translation of Pearson's work on smallpox translated by J. Fr. Küttlinger (originally published in 1798 under the following title: "An Inquiry Concerning the History of the Cowpox, Principally with a View to Supersede and Extinguish the Smallpox"). Vaccination reached the European continent in 1800 and the present publication is one of the very earliest to describe this. Pearson was an early supporter of smallpox vaccination and endorsed Edward Jenner, promptly publishing his initial observations shortly after Jenner's Inquiry was released. In 1799, he played a key role in establishing the Original Vaccine Pock Institute in London, distributing vaccine samples. Unfortunately, some of these samples were contaminated with the smallpox virus, leading to a disagreement with Jenner, who felt overshadowed. As Jenner gained prominence, Pearson became envious. In 1802, when Jenner sought financial recognition from Parliament, Pearson presented a detailed account of his own contributions, challenging Jenner's sole credit for the discovery of vaccination. Pearson highlighted farmer Benjamin Jesty and others with prior claims. Despite Pearson bringing Jesty to London in 1805 to support his case during Jenner's second Parliamentary grant request, it proved unsuccessful. Not in Garrison & Morton

Lancaster, PA & New York, American Physical Society, 1948. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 74, 1948. Spine with a bit a wear and front hinge a bit loose, otherwise a fine and clean copy. First printing of the single most important volume of The Physical Review containing an exceptional number of important papers - amongst other the first paper to describe the transistor: One of the most important inventions of the 20th Century which awarded them the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.,The three first titles are the short letters in Physical Review which first announced the invention of the transistor. The following year Bardeen and Brattain published the more comprehensive report "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action". This paper was simultaneously published, the same month, in The Bell System Technical Journal (Number 2 volume 28). In 1956 Bardeen and Brattain shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". In 1972 Bardeen again received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory), and thus became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field. "The invention of the transistor would in time change the world by making possible the microchip and all the devices that followed from it, but the discovery ruined the spirit of the Bell Laboratories semiconductor group. Shockley, who had been uninvolved in the invention of the original transistor, stunned Bardeen and Brattain when he tried to patent the invention in his name, hoping to base it on his suggestion of the field-effect amplifier. Shockley's plan failed because the patent attorneys discovered that Julius E. Lilienfeld, a Polish-American inventor, had already patented the field-effect notion in 1930. Shockley further antagonized Brattain and Bardeen by preventing them from working on the consequences of their historic invention, a second transistor, known as the junction device, which could better be used commercially." (DSB)The issue also contain two of the papers leading to Richard Feynman's 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, (A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics & Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics) and the paper that led to Polykarp Kusch's 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics (The Magnetic Moment of the Electron)Also containing Maria Goeppert-Mayer paper that led to her 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics (On Closed Shells in Nuclei), the seminal P. A. M. Dirac paper on magnetic monopoles (A theory of Magnetic Poles) and three important papers on The Big Bang Theory by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and George Herman (The Origin of the Elements and the Separation of Galaxies & Thermonuclear Reactions in the Expanding Universe & On the Relative Abundance of the Elements & A Neutron-Capture Theory of the Formation and Relative Abundance of the Elements).See Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace, No. 450.

Paris, Estienne et Fils, 1753. 4to. In a nice comtemporary full calf binding with five raised bands to spine. Red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Compartments with gilt ornamentation. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment indicating the library number from an estate library. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A fine and clean copy. (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

Copenhagen, Bianco Lunas, 1929. Royal 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers and the original back-strip in a fine half morocco binding with gilt lettering to spine (Signed "Ole Olsen 1978 Co´libri"). An exceptionally fine copy. 76 pp. First edition of this collection of three articles translated into Danish and appearing as thus for the first time. Inscribed by Bohr (signed "the author") on the title-page: "Hr. Assistent cand. mag. V. Thorsen / med venlig Hilsen / fra Forfatteren". The work constitutes the first Danish translations of the present three articles: "Atomic Theory and Mechanics" (1925, Rosenfeld 33), "The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory" (1928, Rosenfeld 37), and "Wirkungsquantum und Naturbeschreibung", (1929, Rosenfeld 39), here published together for the first time under the title "Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature" and with an introductory overview. The present collection of articles, translated into Danish, Bohr's mother tongue, constitutes an important insight into Bohr's thought and fundamental views on atomic theory and nature. The work, as it is here, has been elected as the Bohr-entry in the official list of Danish canonic literature, which collects the most important literary contributions to Danish culture. This is the only Bohr-item on the list. (see: http://www.kanonudvalget.dk). Rosenfeld, Bohr Bibliography No. 40.

1937. 8vo. Bound in recent marbled boards. Title-page for volume 2 of Journal of Symbolic Logic withbound. First edition of Turing's important paper, in which he links Kleene's recursive functions, Church's lambda-definable functions and his own computable functions and proves them to be identical. In the appendix of his milestone-paper "On Computable Numbers" from 1936, Turing gave a short outline of a method for proving that his notion of computability is equivalent with Alonzo Church's notion of lambda-definabilty. It was not until the present article, however, that it was proved that Steven Kleene's general recursive functions, Church's lambda-definable functions and Turing's computable functions were all identical. Kleene had already proved that every general recursive function is lambda-definable, so by showing that computability follows from lambda-definability and that general recursiveness follows from computability, Turing had ended the circle, which was a primary reason for its acceptance as a notion of "effective calculable" demanded by Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem."The purpose of the present paper is to show that the computable functions introduced by the author (in "On computable numbers") are identical with the lambda-definable functions of Church and the general recursive functions due to Herbrand and Gödel and developed by Kleene." Turing wrote this paper while at Princeton studying with Church."(Hook and Norman No. 395)

Zusätzen und Anmerkungen vermehrt von Johann Christoph Gottscheden. Statt einer Einleitung ist Fontenellische Lobschrift auf den Herrn von Leibnitz von neuem übersetzt. Hannover u.Lpz., 1744. Nice cont.full vellum. Engr.portr. (24),843 pp. and Register, 1 fold.engr.plate. First Gottsched-edition.