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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.

Small8vo. Nyere hpergamentsbd. (270) pp. Højre del af bladene er helt igennem skjoldet. Lauritz Nielsen 812. Dette førstetryk af Hemmingsens kommentar til Epheserbrevene er ifølge L. Nielsen kund kendt i 3 eksemplarer i Danmark.

(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 250-265 and 4 engraved plates. Some faint dampstains to plates. One plate with a small tear, no loss. the same plate some creasing at upper part, verso of plate somewhat soiled. Page 261 with some marginal brownspots and some soiling. The other leaves clean and fine. First appearance of a main paper in the history of Computing Science in which Babbage set forth some of the basic principles that guide modern computers."Babbage's first publication of his system of mechanical notation that enabled him to describe the logic and operation of his machiness on paper as they would be fabricated in metal. Babbage later stated that: "Without the aid of this language I could not have invented the Analytical Engine; nor do I belive that any machinery of equal complexity can ever be contrived without the assistance of that or of some other equivalent language. The Difference Engine No.2...is entirely described by its aid." .Babbage considered his mechanical notation system to be one of his finest inventions, and thought it should be widely implemented. It was a source of frustartion to him, that no other machine designerr adopted it (probably because no ther engineer during Babbage's time attermpted to build machines as logically and mechanically complex as Babbage's. More than one hundred years later, in the 1930s, when development in logic were applied to switching systems in the earliest efforts to devwelop electromechanical calculators. Ckaude Shannon demonstrated that Boolean algebra could be applied to the same types of problems for which Babbage had designed his mechanical notation system."(Hook & Norman No. 37).Together with Babbage's paper comes a paper by J.F.W. Herschel "On the parallax of the fixed stars", pp. 266-280.

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1837). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Band 41 No. 5 (= Erstes Stück). 224 pp.(entire issue offered). Schwann's paper: pp. 184-193. Clean and fine. First printing of Schwann's milestone paper on fermentation and putrefaction in which he shows that is is not air as such that brings about putrefaction in a meat extract but something in the air, which could be destroyed by heat. The "substances " present in air is germs or seeds of moulds and infusoria, and he explains putrefaction as the action of these germs on access to organic material. He further demonstrates that it is the living nature of the agent that creates fermentation, and he presents new evidence for the nature of fermentation. "Schwann was lead to the idea that alcoholic fermentation was related to the metabolism of yeast by his conception that putrefaction was related to the metabolism of live organisms."(DSB XII, p. 242)."(Schwann) concluded that the processes of putrefaction and fermentation were probably similar in their essence and were due to live agents which obtaineed their sustenance from the fermentible or putrescible materials. It was in the course of these experiments that Schwann discovered and gave an accurate acoount of the yeast plant and its mode of reproducing by budding. In his paper (the paper offered) he anticipated Pasteur's work when he asserted that fermentation of sugar was a chemical decomposition brought about by yeast attacking the sugar and some nitrogen containing substance necessary for its life whereby the elements not used by yeast itself unite to form alcohol. This classical research by him was described by him as 'preliminary' (vorläufige) and at the end of it he promised to return to it. This he did, to a certain extent in his "Mikroskopische Untersuchungen" (1839 - PMM 307 b), and he added new experiments to confirm his view that alcoholic fermentation is due to the activity of the yeast plant."(Bulloch "The History of Bacteriology", pp. 86-87).Schwann gives the "proof that putrefaction is produced by living bodies. Independently of Cagniard-Latour, Schwann discovered the yeast cell. He is regarded as the founder of the germ theory of putrefaction and fermentation."(Garrison & Morton No. 674).

Argentorati (Strassburg), Conradus Scher, 1608 - (Strassburg), Raab, 1612. - (Strassburg, Raab, 1612 Small 8vo. 3 works bound in one contemp. full vellum. Covers blindtooled in panels with floral cornerpieces. Old handwritten title on spine. Light wear. An: 1. (24),449,(7) pp. First edition. (Thesaurus II,338) - 2. (208) pp. - 3. (24),261,(16 of 24 ?) pp. Lacking the last leaves in the Index. 7 leaves with lower corners torn of which 2 have some loss of letters. Light browning an yellowing to leaves. "Bartholin’s fame is due not to his originality, but to his learning and reputation as a teacher; as a strict Aristotelian he clarified the essential points in the doctrines of his time, eliminating obsolete and superfluous theories. As a theologian his personal life was marked by piety and Lutheran orthodoxy. His anatomical manual Institutiones, well arranged and handy but without illustrations, was reprinted five times. It became still more famous when his son Thomas brought out an enlarged and illustrated edition."(DSB).

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 1-44. First printing of this importent historical paper in chemistry, in which Davy shows that electricity is capable of decomposing some alkalies, isolating two new substances and discovering potassium and sodium. Neville in his Historical Chemical Library vol. I, p.340, writes about this paper "ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY, in which Davy announced in this, his second Bakterian lecture, the isloation of metallic potassium and sodium by the electrolytic decomposition of their fused oxides.""He (Davy) began his own electrical experiments...The results were spectacular. On October 6, 1807, the current passing through molten potash liberated a metal, which Davy called potassium. The little globules of shining metal tore the water molecule apart as it eagerly recombined with oxygen and the liberated hydrogen burst into lavender flame. Davy danced about in a delirium of joy. A week later he isolated sodium from soda."(Asimow). The paper offered here describes these discoveries."Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lecture to the Royal Society on November 20, 1806.(A Source Book in Chemistry p. 243). - Wheeler Gift: 2514.

Washington, 1938 & 1939. Royal8vo. 2 volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Exlibris to front paste down. In "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science", vol. 24 and 25. Fine and clean. Pp.556-57; Pp. 220-24). [Entire volumes: VII, 572 pp.; VII, 661 pp]. First edition of arguable Gödel's most important publications only second to his incompleteness theorem. The first problem of Hilbert's famous 1900 address asks for a proof of Cantor's continuum hypothesis. Hilbert considered this problem one of the most important problems confronting the mathematical world. As a first step towards such a proof Ernst Zermelo proved in 1904 another hypothesis by Cantor, namely that every set can be well ordered. In his proof Zermelo introduced a necessary tool which later became known as the axiom of choice. Because of its non-constructive nature this axiom, and the continuum hypothesis, became the object of much controversy in the mathematical community. Gödel's results on this topic are, besides his completeness and incompleteness theorems, his most celebrated. During the autumn terms of 1938 and 1939 Gödel delivered a series of lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study, in which he proved that the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum hypothesis are consistent with the other axioms of set theory if these axioms are consistent.

Otthiniæ (Odense), Christian Schröder, 1698. Folio. Velbevaret samtidigt helldrbd. i flammet kalv. Ryg med 4 ophøjede bind og de 5 titelfelter rigt blindtrykte. Ganske små reparationer på bindet. (42), 688 pp. samt Hubert Schatens store kobberstukne portræt af Bering. Kobberstukne vignetter og talrige figurlige kobberstukne initialer, som er specielt lavet til denne udgivelse. Trykt på godt papir og ren, nogle få svage skjolder i slutmarginer. Originaludgaven af Berings latinske Danmarkshistorie frem til 1448. Trykt på Thomas Kingos foranledning i hans, i 1682 oprettede trykkeri i Odense. "Værket har en meget monumental Karakter og er et imponerende Vidnesbyrd om, hvad et forholdsvis beskedent Provinstrykkeri har kunnet Yde..." (Birkelund Nr. 70). - Dette eksemplar har tidligere tklhørt bogsamleren Einar Christiansen og har hans exlibris indsat.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtooled covers. First corner a bit bumped. In "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. XIV,(2),602,(4) pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: p. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). The title-page with faint brownspots. Otherwise internally clean and fine. First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency."The original paper in the "Philosophical Transactions" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine." (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904). The volume also contains WILLIAM CROOKES "On the Spectra of Argon", OSBORNE REYNOLD "On the Dynamical Theory of Incompressible Viscous Fluids and the determination of the Criterion", KARL PEARSON "Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution. - II. Skew Variations in Homogenous Materials" etc.After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, "Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular compound, from a second compound, or from the air. The situation was different with nitrogen. The nitrogen he obtained from air constantly showed a slightly higher density than the nitrogen he obtained from any of various compounds. Rayleigh could think of several ways in which the nitrogen obtained from air might be contaminated but none of the possibilities checked out experimentally. He was so frustrated that he went so far as to write to the journal "Nature" asking for suggestions. Ramsay, a brilliant Scottish chemist, asked permission to tackle the problem and received it. The upshot was that a new gas, somewhat denser that nitrogen, was discovered to exist in the atmosphere. It was named argon and it was the first of a series of rare gases of unusual properties whose existence had never been suspected."(Asimow).Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 50 - Neville, Historical Chemical Library vol. II, p.358.

Paris, La Compagnie des libraires 1738 [vol. 2] & 1740 [vol. 1]. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Small paper-labels pasted on to top of spines. Light wear and sunning to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (12), 555, (25) pp.; (8), 671 pp. With numerous engravings in text. Final and most expanded edition of famous work which “established obstetrics as a science” (Garrison & Morton). Here Mauriceau discusses various aspects related to pregnancy, labor, and the management of complications that may arise during gestation and delivery and introduced for the first time the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. “The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. It was to Mauriceau that Hugh Chamberlen attempted to sell the secret of his forceps; Chamberlen translated the Traité into English in 1672. This book established obstetrics as a science.” (Garrison-Morton) François Mauriceau (1637 - 1709) was a French obstetrician “had an extensive practice in midwifery in Paris, both private and in the Hotel Dieu, which was at that time the leading establishment for lying in women in Europe. In 1668, when only 31, he published his great work Traite' des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchies,' which according to Andre Levret 'drew from the cradle' the art of midwifery. Two years later Mauriceau received a visit from Hugh Chamberlen, a member of the British family that possessed the secret of the obstetric forceps, who then translated his text making it available to the English speaking world. The influence of this work on many aspects of midwifery was immense, and Mauriceau is still remembered eponymously for his description of delivery of the after coming head in breech presentation. Mauriceau's book also contains a section entitled 'Of children newborn and their ordinary Distempers, together with necessary directions to chuse a Nurse'. Among the 18 chapters are ones on 'Of cutting the Tongue when Tongue-ty'd' and 'How to cure the Venereal Lues in Infants'. Perhaps, though, in retrospect his greatest impact was in the influence his advice had on the position that women should adopt during delivery. From earliest times women throughout the world had usually assumed an upright posture during parturition. In Europe the birthing chair was particularly popular.4 As Atwood has written5: 'The first major obstetrical change in the position of the parturient occurred when Francois Mauriceau substituted the bed for the birth stool. The time honoured 'position' assumed in an obstetric chair was replaced with the recumbent position to facilitate examinations and obstetric operations for the obstetrician'.” (Dunn, Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709) and maternal posture for parturition) (Garrison-Morton 6147, the 1668-edition)

Jena, Meyer, 1714. 12mo. In contemporary blank (original?) wrappers. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Missing lower parts of spine and lower outer corner of back wrapper. Internally with light brownspotting and a few dampstains throughout. (16), 270 pp. + 1 folded plate. Very rare third edition of Ehrenberg theological-cosmological treatise arguing for the existence of multiple inhabited worlds. Under his pseudonym Hareneus Geierbrand, Ehrenberg explores whether other planets could be populated and considered these ideas within a Christian framework. All edition are scarce and are almost never found in the trade. “Andreas Ehrenberg hastens to stress in his preface to Curiose und wohlgegründete Gedanken (Jena, c. 1710) that the case he makes for the existence of many inhabited worlds will give “all Christians” cause to extol God’s wisdom, power, and majesty still more highly; but he reaches his conclusion that “we are not alone” purely by the scientific method of analogical reasoning and by arguing from the belief that the Creator’s activity must be purposeful. This demonstration is followed by a second section: “How Holy Scripture possibly can and must be taken, understood, and elucidated in order not to be contrary to our opinion” (pp. 7–8). […] But for Ehrenberg, the Bible is no longer an independent source of knowledge about the natural world: on the contrary, it must be read in the light of scientific knowledge. In other words, it is necessary to show that, correctly interpreted, the words of the biblical passages that speak of a circling sun and a stationary Earth (Josh. 10:12–13; Ps. 19:6–7) are in accord with the findings of science. Viewed in the proper light, as a description of the mere appearance of things, or as a version of the truth adapted to unsophisticated minds, the Bible only appears to express a geocentric conception of the universe. In reality its cosmology is that of Copernicus—which Ehrenberg, like so many others, sees as the basis for the plurality of worlds.” (Guthke, The Last Frontier, p. 204) OCLC list four copies, all in Germany.

Paris, Guillaume Loyson, 1637. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with wormholes. Title-page with underlignings i red, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (8), 707, (3) pp. Rare first edition of Louis Moreau du Bail’s work on courtiers Little is known about the life of Du Bail and he was probably in the army and spent some time in prison under obscure circumstances. The dedications of his fourteen novels, published between 1622 and 1646, show that he maintained connections with the court and high places. Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu M. le Duc de la Valliere 9529.

Kiøbenhaffn (Copenhagen), (Henrich Waldkirch), 1598. 4to. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges. Soiling and a few stains and marks to extremities. With four-line annotation in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper: "Denne bog hórer mig till / Bertill Bernhill oc haver/ jeg kiöbt hendom af Niels / bogförer i Helsingør 1598". (i.e. English: "This book belongs to me / bought from Niels bookseller in Elsinore 1598")Occassional marginal dampstains throughout, otherwise internally nice and clean. 106 ff. First Danish edition (it was first published in German the previous year) of the first official description of the coronation of King Christian IV. August Erich himself attended the coronation festivities, so it contains firsthand descriptions of the ceremony, the processions with decorations and costumes, fireworks, musical instruments, jousting, etc. The first official coronation description, published in 1597, was written in German by the king's secretary in the German Chancellery, August Erich, who identified himself as an eyewitness to the events. This description was primarily aimed at the northern German regions where Christian IV had or sought influence, and it can be seen as a follow-up to the previous tour of northern German towns that the un-crowned Christian undertook in 1595. Erich's coronation description was translated into Danish in 1598 (The present work) by court chaplain Andreas Benedict Dallin, who added more detailed information. Dallin's coronation description was clearly intended for a Danish audience, with the aim of strengthening and justifying Christian IV's domestic position in relation to the nobility as well as the citizens and common people. Thesaurus I, 230Lauritz Nielsen 574

London, George Virtue, 1838. 4to. In a nice contemporary blue half calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilted ornamentation to spine. occassional brownspotting. A fine copy. (6), 216 pp. + engraved frontis-piece portrait, additional engraved title, folding engraved map & 70 steel-engraved plates. First edition of William Beattie's fine work on the Waldensians and their struggle with the Roman Church.

Kjöbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1831. Bound in a lovely, elegant blue half morocco binding with gilt spine (Kyster). Partly uncut and printed on good, heavy paper. A very pretty copy. Exceedingly scarce first edition of Andersen's second theatre-performed piece. The work is extremely rare and almost never turns up in the trade. Apart from his debut book, "Ungdoms-Forsøg"/"Palnatokes Grav", this is presumably the scarcest Andersen-title. Hans Christian Andersen inaugurated his dramatical production with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn" in 1829, a genre that came to mean a lot to him, and for which he continued producing plays for forty years, amounting to about as many plays. The question as to acceptance from the theatre and the the set-up of the plays, however, -especially at the beginning of his career - would often postpone the actual theatre debut by many months, sometimes years. And thus, although Andersen had translated/ re-written two other plays for the stage, before he re-wrote "Skibet" ("The Ship"), after Scribe and Mazere's "La Quarantaine", "Skibet" came to be the very first re-worked play by Andersen that was performed at the theatre and only the second play at all, following his own "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn". Together with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn", "Skibet" constitutes his dramatical/theatre-debut and was of immense importance to him. After "Skibet", he continued to re-write foreign pieces for the stage and gained more and more success in this endeavour. BFN 166.

(Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1968). 4to. Bound with the original pictorial wrappers - printed in pink, yellow, orange, and green, after Warhol's "Flowers" - in an excellent contemporary Swedish modernist half leather binding with purple mottled cloth boards and a black morocco spine with "ANDY WARHOL" lettered in silver. Wrappers with very light wear to corners and a tiny stain to the bottom of the front wrapper. In overall excellent condition. First 8 leaves with text, the remaining more than 300 leaves full of black-and-white full-page illustrations. First edition, first printing, of the famous Warhol Stockholm-catalogue, which, a part from its obvious artistic value, played a main part in the "Brillo Box-scandal". It is also in this catalogue that the seminal photographs of the Factory, by Stephen Shore and Billy Name, appear for the first time, along with at least one of his most famous quotations (perhaps THE most famous and most frequently quoted): "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes".The exhibition in Stockholm was Warhol's first international retrospective exhibition and as such one of his most important ever."This book was published on the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm February-March 1968. Editing: Andy Warhol, Kasper König, Pontus Huntén, Olle Granath. Typograhy and production: John Melin, Gösta Svensson, Stig Arbman AB, Malmö. Blocks and print: Sydsvenska Dagbladets AB, Malmö, December 1967 - January 1968." (verso of title-page). Photographs by Stephen Shore and Paul Schiff, documenting Warhol's early work.

Paris, G. Masson, 1895. Bound with the original printed wrappers to all 4 issues (8 wrappers) in contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage.In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 7me Series - Tome V. 576 pp. The entire volume offered. Curie's paper: pp. 289-405, textillustrations. Clean and fine. First printing (it was also issued the same year in Comptes Rendu) of Pierre Curie's famous doctoral dissertation in which he shows that when the temperature of a magnet is increased there is a level at which the magnetism is disrupted and ceases to exist, the temperature here is called the "Curie Point" and he further shows that Paramagnetism is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature, which is "Curie's Law". "A little later Paul Langevin, who had been Curie's student at the 'Ecole de Physique et Chimie', proposed a theory that satisfied these facts (the facts expressed in the tqo laws) by postulating a thermal excitation of the atoms in the phenomena of magnetization.. Curie's experimental laws and a quantum mechanical version of Langevin's theory still constitute the basis of modern theories of magnetism."(DSB III, p. 506).

Paris, Rollin, 1732. 8vo. Nine parts uniformly bound in nine nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extremities. All boards with scratches and with a bit of loss of leather. A few leaves with marginal worm-tracts, not affecting text. An overall nice and clean set. (4), 353, (1), CXX pp. + frontispiece and 1 folded map; (8), 570 pp.; (4), 462 pp.; (4), 416 pp.; (4), 416 pp.; (4), 430 pp.; (8), 464 pp. (4), 444 pp. ; (4), 371 pp.; (4), 468 pp. Second enlarged edition of the first history of Denmark in French, here extended with a ninth volume. Des Roches de Parthenay, also known as Jean Baptiste (Blaise) Desroches de Parthenay was a project manager, translator, and journalist. Born in La Rochelle, France, he passed away at Frederiksberg’s Hospital in Copenhagen,Denmark. He worked as a lawyer in his hometown before emigrating as a Huguenot to the Netherlands. He settled in The Hague, where he, along with Bruzen de la Martiniére and La Barre de Beaumarchais, engaged in literary activities. One of the outcomes was this present work which to a large extent is a compilation of older Latin narratives. What it perhaps lacks in originality it gains in historiographical importance being the first substantial work in French on Danish history.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1822. Imperial folio. (53,5 x 37,5 cm.). Contemp. (original) hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Large orig. printed orange titlelabel on frontboard. Bookmark of CH. Picquet on inside frontboard (commissioned seller). Spine and edges rubbed. First inner hinge weak. Engraved title-page, engraved Table of content, (2) pp. and 35 (of 36) double-page folded engraved maps, all handcoloured in outline (except one map: Mappemonde Physique, which is uncoloured). The maps (dated 1820-25) are numbered 1-36, No. 18 lacks: "France, partie Occidentale". One extra map inserted "Carte generale de Colombie", dated 1826. All maps fine and clean, the map of Fance with 2 small closed tears, no loss. First edition of this atlas. It includes two maps of North America: , "Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale", dated 1820 and "Carte General des Etats-Unis, du Canada et d'une Partie des Pays Adjacent." Dated 1825, and 2 world maps "Mappemonde Physique" and "Mappemonde en deux Hémisphéres" - Phillips Atlases 758 (later ed.).

(No place but Strasburg, no printer), 1673. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with a few scratches and wormholes. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Title-page with underlignings in red and light occassional foxing throughout, generally a nice copy. (16), 956, (66) pp. Rare later edition of this political essay on coup d'état in which Naude analyses political coups, their causes, consequences, and implications for governance. Despite the theme of the present work Naude is most famous for his work in library science. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. Naudé was given the opportunity to build and maintain the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the library of Cardinal Jules Mazarin at Paris. “Gabriel Naudé (born February 2, 1600, Paris, France—died July 30, 1653, Abbeville) French physician and librarian, considered the first important theoretician of modern library organization. His treatise, Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (1627; Advice on Establishing a Library), was the first important study of library science. Naudé studied medicine at Paris and Padua and practiced after 1626, but his first love was books and libraries. In 1629 he was called to Rome as librarian to Cardinal Bagni and later Cardinal Barberini. He had occasion to expose a falsely attributed book for Cardinal Richelieu, who then called him to Paris as his own librarian, and got him the honorary title of physician to King Louis XIII. He became librarian to Cardinal Mazarin in 1643, when the latter succeeded Richelieu as first minister of France. For Mazarin he collected some 40,000 books from all over Europe to constitute the Bibliothèque Mazarine, widely acclaimed as the best library of the period. In accord with the cardinal’s wishes and his own, Naudé made the library’s motto, “Come in, all you who desire to read”; the library was free and open to all. Adapting a library cataloging system devised earlier, Naudé used the following classifications for books in the Bibliothèque: theology, medicine, law, history, philosophy, mathematics, and humanities and the appropriate subdivisions. The Bibliothèque Mazarine was dispersed during the uprisings of the Fronde (1648–53), and Naudé was exiled to Sweden. He died en route to Stockholm.” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Brunet IV, 21.

Stockholm, Olavus Enaeus, 1710. - Stockholm, Joh. L. Horrn, 1719. Folio. Et velbevaret samtidigt helldrbd., 6 ophøjede bind på ryggen samt rygtitel. Rig rygforgyldning. På for-og bagperm et forgyldt monogram "EWE". (8),306;(6),352 pp. Kobberstukket frontispiece, 1 kobberstukket foldekort samt 38 (6+32) kobberstukne plancher, de fleste dobbeltsidede. Talrige tekstillustrationer i kobbertik og træsnit. Et udmærket eksemplar, få spredte brunpletter og få brugsspor. Originaludgaven af alt som udkom af Peringskjölds stort anlagte værk om "Swea och Götha Minnings-Merken". - Warmholtz 344 ff.

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 61-90. Clean and fine. First appearance of this pathbreaking paper in which Cayley unites 'Metrical Geometry' and 'Projectice Geometry' by introducing "imaginary" elements to metrical properties."The fundamental notions in metrical geometry are the distance between two points and the angle between two lines. Replacing the concept of distance by another, also involving "imaginary" elements, Cayley provided the means for unifying Euclideangeometry and the common non-Euclidean gemoetries into one comprehensive theory."(Bell in "Men of Mathematics").In non-Euclidean geometry prepared the way for Klein's splendid discovery that the geometry of Euclid and the non-Euclidean geometries of Lobatchewsky and Riemann are, all threee, merely different aspects of a more general kind of geometry which includes them as special cases..Dealing with the relations between metrical and projective geometry Klein remarks (In "Entwicklung der Mathematik", Teil I p. 148): "Vor allem kommt für uns sein (Cayley's) berühmtes 'A Sixth Memoir upon Quantics" im betrachtt. Quantioc heisst soviwel "Form", d.h. homogenes Polynom von zwei, drei oder mehr Variablen, wonach man binäre, tertiäre usw. Formen unterscheidet..."

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.

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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).