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Nürnberg, C.C. Monath, 1741. 4to. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Spine ends repaired. Titlelabel in leather on back, gilt. Inner hinge reinforced. Engraved frontispiece, 3 titlepages in red/black. (14),432;(12),176;(8),48 pp. and 62 folded engraved plates (30+20+12). Stamps at foot of first title. A few of the first leaves with light browning, otherwise fine and clean. This fourth - and the third - edition of the esteemed work on instruments, is the largest and most profusely illustrated and it was enlarged by Doppelmayr. - Poggendorff I:194.

Franckfurt, Erasmo Kempffern, 1621. Small folio. Recent hmorocco. New endpapers. Engraved pictorial title-page. 132,(3) pp., but lacks 3 leaves in the beginning (= pp. 1/2, 5/6 a. 7/8). With large engraved armor (Fr. V, Pfaltzgraffen) and 36 engraved plates, probably all, but 4 have been split in 2 illustrations and inserted at the places where the text refers to them. Occassionally rather heavy browning to leaves and throughout with a dampstain, filling half of the pages, starting from bottom. First German edition. - Graesse VII,222.

Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900 a. 1901. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine a bit rubbed. (1900) and the issue (1901) unbound. In: "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Band 1. a. Bd. 6, 12. Heft. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Bd. 1). + Halftitle and Titlepage to Bd. 6 and pp. 661-876 a. 1 plate (Heft 12).(Entire volume offered and entire issue offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122; 621-624;719-737 a. pp. 818-831. A stamp to margins of halftitle and titlepages. Internally clean and fine. First edition of these four fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" were rewritten for the "Annalen" and was first introduced in "Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin", 1897-1901."By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature. "Entropie und Temperatur strahlender Wärme" is pivotal for understand how Planck reached his conclusions in "Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum" and "Ueber des Gesetzes der Energiverteilung im Normalspectrum" (PMM 391) where by using the first two laws of thermodynamics first described by Rudolf Clausius and Ludwig Boltzmann Planck outlined the Quantum Hypothesis that energy from atom can be quantized. Planck established a connection between Wien's formula (Ueber die Energievertheilung im Emissionsspectrum eines schwarzen Körpers, 1896) and the analytic expression of the thermodynamic function. This paper represents a purely thermodynamic approach to the study of the properties of the radiation field which was fundamental in reaching the famous conclusions in his 1900- and 1901-paper. Akademie No. 41, 42, 43, 50.

Amsterdam, Ioannes Van Keulen, Ca. 1680. 52x61 cm. Kobberstukket søkort visende Storebælt, Lillebælt og Øresund, med Fyn, Sjælland, Bornholm og Øerne. Med Østjylland fra Skagen til Holsten, den svenske vestkyst, Skåne, Halland og Blekinge. I syd nordtyskland med Rügen. Kompasrose og skibe i søen. Det smukt komponerede søkort blev udgivet i Van Keulen's "Zeeatlas" hvis førsteudgave udkom 1680."Af de gamle søkorter van Keulens vel de eneste, der, på grund af deres enorme udbredelse, ses nogenlunde hyppigt i handelen, men de er alligevel sjældnere end alle samtlige landkort" (Bo Bramsen p. 109).

London, Henry Colburn, 1817. 4to. In a recent half calf pastische binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. First few leaves with soiling and a few small marginal tears, plates with a few brownspots. Small hole affecting p. 95/p. 96. A fine copy. xiii, (3), 376 pp. + 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates + 1 engraved folded map. Second edition, containing "we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and it details such scenes and events, it gives such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, and intrigue, as will seem scarcely credible to the mind of an European." (From the preface).This second edition contains an additional two plates compared to the first edition: that of a Bedouin peasant woman and her child, and that of a Cologee guard.Atabey 1241Tooley 494

Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 4to. In a nice contemporary full mottled calf binding with five rasied bands and rchly gilt spines. Gilt borders on covers. In "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M. DCCLI" 1751, entire volume offered. Small tear to upper part of spine and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A fine copy. Pp. 164-210 + folded map. [entire volume: (8), 202, 536 pp + 23 folded plates. First edition of Guettard important paper which includes one of the very earliest mineralogical/geological maps of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.Guettard, French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Étampes, near Paris. In the mit 1740ies, he communicated to the Academy of Sciences in Paris a memoir on the distribution of minerals and rocks, and this was accompanied by a map on which he had recorded his observations. He thus, as remarked by W. D. Conybeare, "first carried into execution the idea, proposed by Martin Lister years before, of geological maps." In the course of his journeys he made a large collection of fossils and figured many of them, but he had no clear ideas about the sequence of strata.The present volume contain many original scientific contributions by scientists such as Du Hamel, Daubenton, Fouchy, Bouguer.

Kiøbinghaffn, (Niels Michelssøn), 1610. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helpergamentsbind med blindtrykte rammer og blomsterstempler i hjørner på permerne. En oval medaillon i blindtryk på begge permer. Stiliserede blomsterstempler på ryggen. Med brugsspor. Forsatse fornyede. Rødt snit. Titelbladet trykt rødt og sort inden for en træskåren ramme. (28),142 blade. En del gl. understregninger i blæk og en del understregninger i rødt sammen med røde markeringer uden for tekstens rammer. På bagsiden af titelbladet rigsvåbnet i træsnit. Første danske udgave af Savonarolas prædikener hvis indhold var så anstødelige for de pavelige udsendinge, at han blev bandlyst af Paven i 1497, og idet han fortsatte, blev han dømt til pinebænken, - året efter blev han hængt og brændt. Udgaven har et langt forord af Hans Poulsen Resen, som redegør for Savonarolas betydning for Reformationen.Bibl. Dan.I,185. - Ikke i Thesaurus II.

London, Weaver Bickerton, 1732. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine and gilt boarders to boards. Traces from small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light miscolouring and a few scratches to boards. Previous owner's name to title-page in contemporary hand. IV, 5-171, (7), 54, (8) pp. Rare second expanded edition of Ellis’ work providing advice and guidance on various aspects of farming and husbandry, with a particular focus on the practices in Hertfordshire in England. The book covers topics such as crop cultivation, livestock management and general agricultural techniques. It is considered a valuable historical resource for understanding agricultural practices in 18th-century England. It went through five editions, the last edition published in 1759 – all editions are rare. (Kress S: 1757 - first edition).

London, T. Bensley for Longman Hurst, Bees, and Orme, 1807. Large 4to. Contemp. full calf, panelled and profusely gilt and blindtooled. Broad gilt and blindtooled borders on covers, inner panel with gilt inside-and outside cornerpieces. Spine divided in 6 compartments by 5 raised bands. Compartments richly gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Inner hinge in leather. Hinges neatly repaired from ouside. Broad inner gilt borders. All edges gilt. Edges on boards gilt. Engraved frontispiece. (4),236 pp. and with 15 fine engravings (5 half-titles, 5 1/2-page headpieces, 5 full-page). Printed on fine, thick paper. Clean and fine.

(Lübeck & Rostock, Aswerus Krøgers Arfvinger & Laurentz Albrecht, 1598-99). Lille 8vo. Senere hellædrbind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Permerne med påsat mønstret gyldenlæder fra resterneaf et tidligere bind. Fællestitelbladet i rødt/sort med stregramme. 2 andre deltitelblade. Afd. I: (8),243,(3) blade. - Afd. II: 76,(4),68,(5),19,(8),34,(1) blade - Afd. III: (4),165,(5) blade. De sidste 6 blade i faksimile (= sidste tekstblad samt registerblade). Afdeling III har lidt svage skjolder, ellers ganske velbevaret. Det sjældne første optryk af Smiths berømte lægebog fra 1577. Der findes 2 varianttryk af denne udgave - dette tryk er tryk A, som bl.a. kendes på titelbladets stregramme i stedet for en røskenramme. - Lauritz Nielsen Nr. 1509. - Thesaurus Nr. 269. - Bibliotheca Danica I:799.

London, Bourne, 1636. Folio (285 x 200 mm). In contemporary full calf with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Two compartments with leather split in hinge. Light occassional marginal miscolouring, otherwise a fine copy. (20), 907 pp. The rare first printing of Featley's 21 of the sermons preached by him in the English ambassador's chapel in Paris. The work also contain a fine example of 'ars memorativa': "Perhaps the most instructive, because most explicit case of the arsmemorativa functioning both as a topic of discussion and structuring principle for homiletic discourse is Daniel Featley's Clavis Mystica (1636). Featley served as chaplain to Charles I. Although his sermons are by no means the apogee of the genre, his work exemplifies the commonplace attitude toward the interplay of mnemonic emblems and admonitory sermons in the seventeenth century" (www . biblicalcyclopedia . com) "Daniel Featley was educated as a chorister of Magdalen College. He was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College 13 Dec. 1594, and probationer fellow 20 Sept. 1602. having taken his B.A. degree 13 Feb. 1601. He proceeded M.A. 17 April 1606, and became noted as a disputant and preacher. In 1607 he delivered an oration at the funeral of John Rainolds, president of Corpus, his godfather and benefactor. In 1610 and the two following years he was in attendance as chaplain upon Sir Thomas Edmondes [q. v.], the English ambassador at Paris, and was noticed for his fearless attacks upon the Roman Catholic doctrines and his disputations with the Jesuits." (DNB)

Paris, Bachelier, 1846. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendu hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences", Vol. 22, No 22. Pp. (893-) 928. (Entire issue offered). Le Verrier's paper: pp. 907-018. First appearance of Le Verrier's paper in which he postulated the existance of a new planet on mathematical premises from the gravitational disturbencies of Uranus."In 1846 John Cauch Adams... and Urban J. Leverrier... simultaneously and independently determined the location of a possible new planet... In 1845 he wrote of his findings of the mathematical location of a new planet to Sir George Bidell Airy,,, Because Adams was unknown, his letter was put aside. Meanwhile the same perturbations of Uranus had become of interest to Leverrier. On July 1(should be June !), 1846 he presented a paper "Recherches sur les mouvements d'Uranus" (the paper offered) to the Academie des Sciences inParis. When Airy realized that Leverrier and Adams had reached the same conclusions, he hastened to suggest that a search be made for the newplanert. Shortly hereafter it was seen bur not recognized. About a week before it was found in England, it was discovered by Galle in Berlin on information supplied by Leverrier. Thus, the honour of the discovery, or even co-discovery of the new planet, Neptune, was lost to Adams and credited to Leverrier.... Adams paper was reade before the Royal Astronomical Society, November 13, 1846, and was published in 1847. (Milestones p. 40).Milestones of Science No 132. - Dibner No. 16.

Frankfurt ad Moenum, Andreæ Wecheli, 1580. Folio. Later (20th century) full cloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. Partly uncut. Printers woodcut device on title-page and verso of last leaf. (12),123,(6) pp., 1 folded table. Some leaves with a faint dampstain in lower right corners. Some leaves with some browning to edges of margins. In general clean. Scarce first edition of Dithmar von Merseburg's "Chronicle", the relations of the German and Polish wars around the year 1000.Adams D695. - Brunet II,763.

Århus, 1908-88. l908-66 indbundet i solide private hlshirtbd med rygtitler. 1967-88 i hefter. Med registerbd. til 1908-84.

London, Harrison And Sons, Ltd., 1927. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. A small stamp on verso of titlepage. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", Series A, Vol. 114. VI,IX,748 pp. (entire volume offered). Dirac's papers: pp. 243-265 a. pp. 710-728. Clean and fine. First appearance of these milestone papers in Quantum Physics, constituting the first step in Quantum Field Theory and the invention of the Second Quantifization Method. By these papers Dirac "gave the foundation for that theory, quantum electrodynamics"(Pais)."A New Radiation Theory. Dirac liked his transformation theory because it was the outcome of a planned line of research and not a fortuitous discovery. He forced his future investigations to fit it. The first results of this strategy were almost miraculous. First came his new radiation theory, in February 1927, which quantized for the first time James Clerk Maxwell’s radiation in interaction with atoms. Previous quantum-mechanical studies of radiation problems, except for Jordan’s unpopular attempt, retained purely classical fields. In late 1925 Jordan had applied Heisenberg’s rules of quantization to continuous free fields and obtained a light-quantum structure with the expected statistics (Bose Einstein) and dual fluctuation properties. Dirac further demonstrated that spontaneous emission and its characteristics—previously taken into account only by special postulates—followed from the interaction between atoms and the quantum field. Essential to this success was the fact that Dirac’s transformation theory eliminated from the interpretation of the quantum formalism every reference to classical emitted radiation, contrary to Heisenberg’s original point of view and also to Schrödinger’s concept of ? as a classical source of field.This work was done during Dirac’s visit to Copenhagen in the winter of 1927. Presumably to please Bohr, who insisted on wave-particle duality and equality, Dirac opposed the "corpuscular point of view" to the quantized electromagnetic "wave point of view." He started with a set of massless Bose particles described by symmetric ? waves in configuration space. As he discovered by’ playing with the equations, ’ this description was equivalent to a quantized Schrödinger equation in the space of one particle; this’ second quantization’ was already known to Jordan, who during 1927 extended it into the basic modern quantum field representation of matter. Dirac limited his use of second quantization electromagnetic to radiation: to establish that the corpuscular point of view, once brought into this form, was equivalent to the wave point of view."(DSB).

Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf, raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV,367 pp., 2 engraved plates (1 folded). The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy. First edition of a fundamental work in Meteorology in which Saussure describes how to construct a hygrometer from human hair that can measure the relative humidity, and discussing the principles behind it. Cuvier regarded this book as one of the greatest contributions to science of the eighteenth century."A milestone work in chemistry, physics, and meteorology, which established hygrometry as an exact science. Primarely a geologist who explored and published on the Alps, Saussure (1740-1788) was the first to prove that air expands and becomes less dense the more humidity it contains. In these Essais (the work offered) he describes his experiments with the hair hygrometer of his invention and his theory of the evaporation and hygrometry with their applications to meteorology. he also enunciates his theory of the evaporation of water in hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and other gases."(Neville II, p. 427 a)."In his essay on the theoretical principles of hygrometry (which he conceives as "the art of measuring the absolute quantity of water suspended in the air"), De Saussure distinguishes three classes of methods of determining humidity, which respectively utilize (i) observations of changes in the weight, dimensions, or shape, of a hygroscopic body; (ii) observations of the capacity of the air for taking up water; and (iii) observations of the quantity of water condensing from the air under given conditions on a cold surface, or of the degree of cold necessary to start such an condensation..."(Wolf "A History of Science , Technology, & Philosophy in the 18th Century" I, p. 326 ff.).Partington III, 763. - Partington "Breakthroughs" 1783 M - Poggendorff II, 755-56.

Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 26, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 178-81. [Entire volume: IV, 401 pp.]. First appearance of Bose's seminal paper in which he succeeded in deriving the Planck blackbody radiation law without reference to classical electrodynamics. Einstein was extremely impressed by Bose's paper and translated it into German himself. Shortly after Einstein made a generalization of Bose's method which led to the first of two systems of quantum statistical mechanics, known as the Bose-Einstein statistics. Paul Dirac coined the term "boson" for particles that obey these statistics and later physics historian Abraham Dirac described it as a "confused masterpiece", (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283). "With their work Bose and Einstein established the field of quantum statistics one year before the appearance of quantum mechanics" (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century, P. 139)."In July 1924 he sent a short manuscript entitled "Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese" to Albert Einstein for criticism and possible publication. Einstein himself translated the paper into German and had it published in the Zeitschrift für Physik later that year. He added a note that stated: "In my opinion Boses derivation of the Planck formula signifies an important advance. The method used also yields the quantum theory of the ideal gas as I will work out in detail elsewhere." (DSB)."2 July 1924. Satyendra Nath Bose introduces a new coarse-grained statistical counting procedure which leads to Planck's radioation law. [...] Bose's discovery of a new statistics for photons and Einstein's extension to material gases - including the phenomenon of BE condensation - were made well before anyone had ever heard of a Schroedinger wave function. Bose's derivation of Planck's law is a confused masterpiece. His reasoning is correct but, as he himself once said, he had no idea that it was novel. The Paper also contains the discovery of BE condensation, an effect without application at that time." (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283-4).The present volume contains the following papers of interest:Fermi: Über die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Quantenzustände.Hahn & Meitner: Über die Rollen der beta-strahlen beim Atomzerfall.Heisenberg: Über den Einfluss der Deformierbarkeit der Ionen auf optische und chemische Konstanten. II.Heisenberg: Über eine Abänderung der formalen Regeln der Quantentheorie beim Problem der anomalen Zeemaneffekte.Born: Über Quantenmechanik.

Paris, Baillière et Cie Félix Alcan, 1897. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. XII,462 pp. Small stamps on halftitle and title-page. Internally clean and fine. First edition of this classical study of suicide by "the father of modern sociology".

Large engraved seechart, measuring 46 x 89 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the South-east coast of England from Sandwich to Clay. With inset view of The Thames between London and Greane Island. A fine impression on good thick paper with watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693, and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. This chart is without year, place and "par Ordre du Roi", pointing to a later issue, but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV,425:8.

A Paris, Debure, 1735. 4to. Contemp. full calf, 5 raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel gone. XVIII,(8),408,(2) pp. and 20 engraved plates (on 10 folded sheets). A wide-margined copy, clean and fine, printed on good paper. First French edition - "Vegetable Staticks", 1727 - of this milestone work in plant physiology, being the first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and the movement of the sap. Hale's also here introduced a new method of gas collection and the work greatly influenced the subsequent develpment in chemistry and contributed to the discovery of many of the most impirtent medical gases. This importent French translation by Buffon which has the famous "Préface du traductcur," in which Buffon praises the experimental method, and includes Hales’s appendix of 1733, was very influential."Hale's many experiments with gases led him to demonstrate the dependence of plants on air, that plants inspire and give off "air". He measured the volume of waterabsorbed and evaporated in plants and studied the movements of the sap in plants. By weighing a grown potted plant and also the loss in soil in which it grew, hales proved that something material was absorbed by the plant from the air. With the use of a manometeer (pressure gauge) he traced the blood pressure and velocity in the veins and arteries of animals."(Dibner in "herald of Science", no. 26).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1727 B - Milestones of Science:91 (Engl. ed.) - Dibner: No 26 (Engl. ed.). - Horblitt 45 a (Engl. ed.).- PMM: 189 a (Engl. ed.).

Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1827 -33. Bound in 27 cont. uniform yellow glazed paper-bdg.s w. red and orange title-labels on backs. Backs richly gilt. Some bdg.s rebacked, traces of use. All edges green-coloured. Internally an unusually clean copy, complete w. 4 "Falttafeln" and one "Bildtafel". W. all the half-titles for vol. 41 - 55, the "Nachgelassene Werke, Erster - Fünfzehnter Band", usually lacking. The 55 volumes complete according to Hagen. Hagen I:23.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water."The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation, so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat, another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is, 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer, however, nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water; and as a result, when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris, they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points, 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1730 P.

Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 26, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 178-81. [Entire volume: IV, 401 pp.]. First appearance of Bose's seminal paper in which he succeeded in deriving the Planck blackbody radiation law without reference to classical electrodynamics. Einstein was extremely impressed by Bose's paper and translated it into German himself. Shortly after Einstein made a generalization of Bose's method which led to the first of two systems of quantum statistical mechanics, known as the Bose-Einstein statistics. Paul Dirac coined the term "boson" for particles that obey these statistics and later physics historian Abraham Dirac described it as a "confused masterpiece", (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283). "With their work Bose and Einstein established the field of quantum statistics one year before the appearance of quantum mechanics" (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century, P. 139)."In July 1924 he sent a short manuscript entitled "Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese" to Albert Einstein for criticism and possible publication. Einstein himself translated the paper into German and had it published in the Zeitschrift für Physik later that year. He added a note that stated: "In my opinion Boses derivation of the Planck formula signifies an important advance. The method used also yields the quantum theory of the ideal gas as I will work out in detail elsewhere." (DSB)."2 July 1924. Satyendra Nath Bose introduces a new coarse-grained statistical counting procedure which leads to Planck's radioation law. [...] Bose's discovery of a new statistics for photons and Einstein's extension to material gases - including the phenomenon of BE condensation - were made well before anyone had ever heard of a Schroedinger wave function. Bose's derivation of Planck's law is a confused masterpiece. His reasoning is correct but, as he himself once said, he had no idea that it was novel. The Paper also contains the discovery of BE condensation, an effect without application at that time." (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283-4).The present volume contains the following papers of interest:Fermi: Über die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Quantenzustände.Hahn & Meitner: Über die Rollen der beta-strahlen beim Atomzerfall.Heisenberg: Über den Einfluss der Deformierbarkeit der Ionen auf optische und chemische Konstanten. II.Heisenberg: Über eine Abänderung der formalen Regeln der Quantentheorie beim Problem der anomalen Zeemaneffekte.Born: Über Quantenmechanik.

Paris, Librairie Rue Visconti, n.d., around 1850. Folio. (48x32 cm.). Orig. full cloth. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering to frontcover and gilt Napoleonic arms. Wear to spine ends. A crack to hinge at backboard. With 60 plates, including Portrait of Napoleon, Frontispiece (title in red black), Table des Planches, 5 plates (With 100 portraits) and 52 battlescenes in fine detailled etchings (l'eau forte). Internally clean with a few marginal minor brownspots.

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Zeitler, 1698. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raise bands. Boards with scratches and a few stains. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Previous owner's name to title-page. Dampstain to first and last leaves. (18), 288, 388 pp. + engraved half-title. Exceedingly rare German translation of this devotional work containing 100 significant passages from the Bible, which are interpreted and used for moral, theological and spiritual reflections.We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade and OCLC list no copies.