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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.

Basel, Per Ambrosium et Aurelium, Frobenios Fratres, (1565, March, -on colophon). Folio. One cont. full vellum w. six raised bands on back. The boards have perhaps been covered with vellum a bit later. A few wormholes to upper and lower part of back. Inner hinges a bit weak, but binding sound. Some leaves brownspotted, but overall internally nice. Cont. inscription in ink on top of t-p. ("Domus Casa Professore Romana Socieded Jesu"). Woodcut printer's device on t-p. Woodcut initials, three of which are large (4,9 x 4,9 cm). 348, 279, 190, (2), (66, -Index) pp. The rare first Langi/ Langum-edition and third Latin edition of the Opera of Justin. The first edition of the Opera in the original Greek appeared in 1551 (Paris, Stephanus). The first Latin edition appeared in 1554 (Basel Dupuys), the second (the Galen-edition) in 1555 (Basel, Hier. Froben & Nic. Episcopius) and the third (the Langi-edition) in 1565. This is probably the best of the Latin editions, and the Latin version of the Opera by Jo. Langi was also used for the standard Greek-Latin parallel editions of 1593 and 1615. Justin the Martyr (100 - 165 AD) was a Christian philosopher, who was brought up a pagan. He is primarily known for his dailogues and his apologies, all of which are present here. The apologies constitute the earliest Christian ones of some length. He died a martyr in Rome after having been condemned a Christian by Q. Junius Rusticus. As a philosopher he dealt with Stocism, Aristotelianism and Pythagoreanism before he meant to have found the truth in Platonism. Philosophically he is most interesting in his attempt to unite Christianity with philosophy (i.e. Platonism), as Boethius did a few centuries later, and Justin actually anticipates the philosophy of history of Origin (ca. 185 - ca. 255) and Eusebius (ca. 260 - 340). He is very interesting when viewed as a thinker, who represents the union of philosophy and thought with the new religious attraction in the Eastern part of the Empire under Antonius Pius, i.e. Christianity.Graesse III:515, Adams J:497, not in Brunet.

London, Collins and Harvill Press, 1958. Orig. full red cloth w. gilt lettering to back in an excellent, not price-clipped orig. red, blue and yellow dust-jacket w. only very minor nicks and creases to extremities. An excellent, nice and clean copy. First English edition, first printing of this modern classic, which tells the tragic story of the medical doctor and poet, Yuri Zhivago, in the years during the Russian Revolution.Though begun several decades earlier, the work was completed in 1956, and was submitted for publication to the journal "Novij Mir" the same year, but due to the controversial contents of the work and the Soviet government's dislike of Pasternak, it was rejected. The following year the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union by the Italian publisher Feltrinelli, who published the book in Russian in Milan in 1957. Already the following year numerous European translations of the work had been made, and the English and Italian ones appeared as the first. These immediate translations and the publications of them partly caused Pasternak being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958. Due to the immense popularity of the work, all the European translations were reprinted numerous times.In 1965 the work was made into the large-scale film-production by David Lean, which was nominated for ten Oscars and won five.

Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1860. 4to. (263x211mm). Offprint from the eighth volume of the 'Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen'. Bound in recent attractive marbled boards. Paper title label on front board. 25,(1:blank) pp. First edition, offprint issue. In this paper Riemann laid the foundations of the theory of propagation on nonlinear and linear waves governed by hyperbolic equations. The concepts introduced here - Riemann invariants, the Riemann initial value problem, jump conditions for nonlinear equations, the Riemann function for linear equations - are still the basic building blocks of the theory today.

Kiöbenhavn, 1803. Indbundet i et ganske velbevaret samtidigt helbind af rød maroquin (i udstyr som et gaveeksemplar) med rygforgyldning, skindtitel med forgyldning, kantforgyldning og helt guldsnit. Trykt på velin. Kobberstukket titelblad og trykfejlsbladet er tilstede. På firbladene tilskrifter i gl. hånd (digte på engelsk og på tysk). Med gl. ejernavn på fribladet "Sophie Thalbitzer" (Sophie Dorothea Thalbitzer (1774-1851), dansk forfatterinde, kendt for "Grandmamas Bekiendelser". Senere ejer-tilskrift af "Vilh. Andersen" Førstetrykket af den sjældne originaludgave, der bl.a. indeholder "Guldhornene" og "Sanct Hansaften-Spil." Ikke eftertrykket fra samme år (således hér: "Bleglyse bæve" på p. 3).Et af den danske litteraturs absolutte hovedværker, Guldalderens monumentale digtsamling, der indvarslede romantikken i Danmark, og om hvilket P.L. Møller skrev: "Jeg veed ikke, om det er gaat Andre som mig; men denne lille Bog har for mig noget mystisk, noget Hemmelighedsfuldt, noget Helligt, og jeg berører og aabner den kun med Bæven og Andagt. Ingen, der engang har været saa heldig at overkomme denne nu meget sjeldne Bog, vil nogensinde skille sig fra den, han vil føre den med sig overalt, i Hjemmet og paa Rejser, og da vor Tid dog ikke som Oldtiden sværmer for Krig og Heltekampe, vil han, som Alexander sin Homer, gjerne have den om Natten ved sit Hovedgjærde. Ingen anden dansk Bog har en saa vidunderlig kulturhistorisk Duft, udaander en saadan Rigdom af straalende Erindringer, af Fyrighed og Livslyst og umulige Fremtidshaab..." (Adam Oehlenschläger, Et Erindringsblad).

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol 77, Nos 1, 2, 4 a. 5 (4 entire issues offered). Hermite's paper: pp.18-24; 74-79; 226-233; 285-293). With halftitle and titlepage to vol. 77. First apperance of Hermite's epoch-making memoir in which he proved the transcendence of e, and thus initiated a new era in number theory. A decade later Lindemann used the method of Hermite's work to establish the transcendence of pi. Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1873 M.

Pisavri (Pesaro), Typis Flaminij Concordiæ, 1619. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Fronthinge nearly broken, but still holding. Titlepage in red a. black. (8) of 10 leaves, lacking first leaf of the foreword and last leaf of Index. Text complete. 255 leaves with many figures in the text. First 16 leaves with some browning and foxing in lower right corners. 5 leaves mended, no loss of text and 8 with smaller repairs, no loss. A few annotations in margins in old hand. Scarce second (expanded) edition of Federico Commandino's importent translation of the Elements. Commandino's first translation was published in 1572, and this translation was made use of by subsequent editors for centuries. The first Italian translation was also done from the Latin text of Commandino. - Riccardi 1619,2. - Max Steck: IV 19.

London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. 8vo. Bound in 2 fine red longgrained hmorocco with clothsides and uncut. CXXIV,707;(4),782 pp. , 2 engraved portraits (Bolivar and Zea). A few scattered minor brownspots, clean and fine copy. Sabin calls for a map, which is not present here. Scarce first English edition, it was issued the same year in Spanish with the title: "Colombia: siendo una relacion geografica, topografica...". This is the first major description of the new country, The Republic of Colombia, founded in 1820.

(New Haven), 1880. 8vo. Modern plain wrappers. In: American Journal of Science", Third series, Vol. XX, No. 118, October 1880. Frontispiece-plate. Pp. 257-352 (entire issue offered). Bell's paper: pp. 305-324 and 11 textillustrations. A small stamp to verso of plate and the first leaf. First printing of this important paper in which Bell describes his and Charles Sumner Tainter's, his assistent, invention of the Photophone or Radiophone, THE PROGENITOR OF MODERN FIBER OPTICS. This invention made possible the world's FIRST WIRELESS TELEPHONE MESSAGE, and the first call was sent from the Franklin Scool to the window of Bell's laboratory, some 213 meter away."On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented "photophone." Bell believed the photophone was his most important invention. The device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light. Of the eighteen patents granted in Bell's name alone, and the twelve he shared with his collaborators, four were for the photophone. Bell's photophone worked by projecting voice through an instrument toward a mirror. Vibrations in the voice caused similar vibrations in the mirror. Bell directed sunlight into the mirror, which captured and projected the mirror's vibrations. The vibrations were transformed back into sound at the receiving end of the projection. The photophone functioned similarly to the telephone, except the photophone used light as a means of projecting the information, while the telephone relied on electricity." (Mary Bellis).The first successful attempts were based upon the properties of selenium: "The electric resistance of which varies with the degree of illumination to which it is exposed. Hence, given a transmitting instrument, such as a flexible mirror, by which the vibrations of a sound could throw into vibrations a beam of light, a receiver, consisting of sensitive selenium, forming part of an electric circuit with a battery and a telephone, should suffice to translate the varying intensities of light into corresponding varying intensities of electric current, and finally into vibrations of the telephone disk audible once more as sound." (Prescott, George. Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone. 313 p.).

(Paris, Imprimerie de Bachelier), 1843. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées...Publié par Joseph Liouville", tome VIII. Pp. 273-360. Clean and fine. First appearance of Le Verrier's provisional theory on the motion of Mercury, his studies of which eventually did much to demonstrate the validity of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The planetary orbits should agree with the predictions of the General Theory of relativity, but as Einstein pointed out in his "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkurs aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" from 1915, the divergences predicted were too small to be observed, except in the case of the nearest planet Mercury, where the perihelion advance, according to the formula, reaches the value of 43"" per 100 years, being in full agreement with the calculations of Le Verrier, who found this unexplained rest in the perihelion advance of Mercury per century, if the perturbations due to the other planets are deduced.- Einstein tells in a letter to a friend that for several days he was in a 'state of delirious joy' by this wonderful astronomical confirmation of his theory."Le Verrier first began to study Mercury on the suggestion of Arago in 1840. Astronomers realized that Mercury's perihelion (the point at which the orbit of a planet is closest to the sun) advanced along its orbit at a rate of 566 seconds per century. Le Verrier calculated that, even when taking into account the forces exerted by other planets in the solar system, there still existed a discrepancy between calculation and observation. Le Verrier's accurate calculations showed that the planet's perihelion...did indeed advance forty seconds of an arc per century more than could be accounted for by Newton's theory of gravitation, even after the minor pertubing effects of the other planets had been allowed for." (Asimov). - Le verrier published these findings in the present work, carefully as to the mass of the planet, comparison with other orbits of planets and their perihelia. At the time, Le Verrier put down the discrepancy to mis-observation or mis-calculation.- Sparrow, Milestones of Science No. 133.

(Paris, 1780-81). 8vo. Bound in a very fine full red longgrained morocco with raised bands, richly gilt backs. Covers with triple gilt ornamental borders and with large gilt floral stamps in corners. All edges gilt. Inside gilt borders. (Binding from ab. 1920, unsigned). Engraved frontispiece after Dunker by Eichler and 73 fine engraved plates after Freudenberg by Guttenberg (2), Halbou (24), henriquez (1), de Launay jeune (1), de Longueil (22), Le Roy (16), Mmes Duflos and Thibault (6) and one without signature. First edition of this esteemed suite of plates belonging to the Heptameron francais 3 vols. Paris 1780-81, without the text. The suite seems to be a separate issue, printed on special and larger paper, each measuring 18,2 x 12,5 cm and all with tissue-guards."Figures...très jolies et gravées avec une finesse remarquable." (Cohen 680). - Lewine p. 338-39. - Brunet III:1418.