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Bremen, Brauer 1708. Folio. In contemporary full vellum. Two ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Light miscolouring throughout. A good copy. (20), 572 pp. With numerous vignettes, figurative initials and depictions of coats of arms in text. The uncommon first edition of Mushard's extensive work on the noble families in the Duchy of Bremen and Veern. Dahlmann-Waitz 850 Loewe 4869

Halle im Magdeburgischen, Rengerischen Buchhandlung, 1727-29. 8vo. Bound in 3 contemp. full vellum. One corner a bit bumped. Backcover on vol. 2 with a small loss of vellum at front edge. 3 engraved frontispieces. Titlepages printed in red/black. (14),599,(9);(14),568,(8);(14),624,(8) pp. and 49 folded engraved plates with many figs each (17 + 14 + 18). One plate in vol. 2 with a minor loss in upper right corner, affecting 1 figure. On foot of forst titlepage a stamp (Greve Scheel). Internally fine. Wolff's popular handbook dealing with the whole spectra of physics and technology, depicting experimental apparatus and technical inventions.Poggendorff II:1355.

Carlsruhe, 1829-32. 2 cont. hcalf. Backs somewhat worn a. l hinge weakening on vol.2. XIV,11o4,XVI,632 pp. and 11 + 4 engr.plates (15), 3 handcoloured. Slightly brownspotted. - First edition.

Kjöbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1838. 8vo. Indbundet i et beskedent, senere papbind. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Ingemann til Grundtvig på fribladet: "Til / Digteren Grundtvig / med Venskab og / Hengivenhed / fra / Forfatteren". Ren og pæn indvendig. Særdeles nydeligt eksemplar af originaludgaven med dedikation til den danske præst og digter N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783-1872). Grundtvig var en af de absolut mest centrale skikkelser i den danske guldalder, og hans indflydelse på dansk kultur og nationalisme kan næppe overvurderes. Ingemann opretholdt et tæt venskab med Grundtvig i over 50 år, og deres omfattende korrespondance er stadig en af de vigtigste kilder til det intellektuelle liv i Danmark i det 19. århundrede.

Brünn, Karl Franz Siedler, 1803. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to extremities and small-paper label pasted on to top of spine. Internally very fine and clean - a very nice copy. (20), 227, (3), XX pp. + 4 folded plates. Rare first edition of this first German treatise on gas manufacturing. Winzler initially studied theology before shifting his focus to medicine, chemistry, and mineralogy. Winzler's primary interest lay in the field of chemistry which he applied to improve saltpeter production - a vital component in the manufacture of gunpowder during his time. He became known for his innovations in gas production, specifically through the charring of wood to produce combustible gas. This gas was used for heating, lighting, and other industrial applications. He conducted experiments and installations of this lamp in various locations including his own residence and public buildings such as barracks and castles. Despite facing setbacks during the Napoleonic Wars, Winzler's inventions gained recognition among government circles and found buyers across the Habsburg empire.

Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1872-1873. 8vo. 2 volumes uncut in publisher's original green full cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines and embossed front and back boards. A stamp to title-pages and very light wear to extremities, internally very fine, clean and fresh. XV, (1), 452, 24 [advertisements] pp.; (8), 494, (2) pp. First French translation of Darwin's 'Descent of Man'. Whereas "Origin of Species" established Darwinism as a turning point in nineteenth-century biology "The Descent of Man" helped built a bridge between biology, the social sciences, and the humanities and made Darwinism a broad system of research designs, theoretical principles, and philosophical outlook."Darwin wrote, in the preface to the second edition, of 'the fiery ordeal through which this book has passed'. He had avoided the logical outcome of the general theory of evolution, bringing man into the scheme, for twelve years, and in fact it had, by that time, been so much accepted that the clamour of the opposition was not strident. He had also been preceded in 1863 by Huxley's Man's place in nature. The book, in its first edition, contains two parts, the descent of man itself, and selection in relation to sex. The word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of The origin of species in the following year." (Freeman).It was translated into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Swedish in Darwin's lifetime and into ten further languages since.Freeman 1058

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, both sexes in a tree, many birds in the background.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

Franckfurt, (Corvinus), 1568. Large folio. (38 x 25 cm.). Later hcalf. Covers nearly detached and spine gone. Some old owners signatures on titlepage. The first ab. 50 leaves frayed in lower right corners, likewise some at end. Some quires loosening. In general sewing somewhat loose. Old underlinings in ink and some old annotations in margins. Titlepage with broad pictorial wood-cut border. (32),(2) blank,988,(20 - Register) pp. Profusely illustrated with smaller and larger wood-cut initials, and with more than 100 large, fine wood-cut engravings in the text (each ab. 11x15 cm.) by the well-known renaissance-illustrator Jost Ammon.With two traceable Danish ownerships (their names on titlepage). Axel Jul (Juul) 1606-1671. Danish numismatist. He acquired the book 1630. - Michael (Mikkel) Hvass from Sjørup or Søgaard( in Jutland 1583 - ca. 1655). Studied at Sorø Academy and the University atLeyden. Author of two works. "A uncommon and magnificent edition: it has a number of curious wood-cuts, and the typography is exceedingly splendid. The connesseur will discover many singular traits in the engravings - the bustle of a battle and solemnity of a marsh are sometinmes well represented - but he will smile on finding cannons and bombs indtroduced in a Roman siege. The text is printed with frequent contractions, but, from what I have perused, it is not incorrect. The engravings, and general splendour of the volume, will always render it a great acquisition to the library of the curious." (Dibdin II, p. 166).Jost (Ammon) Amman (1539 - 1591) was a Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. "Amman was born in Zurich, the son of a professor of Classics and Logic. He was himself well-educated. Little of his personal history is known beyond the fact that he moved to Nuremberg in 1560, where he continued to reside until his death in March 1591. He worked initially with Virgil Solis, then a leading producer of book illustrations. His productiveness was very remarkable, as may be gathered from the statement of one of his pupils, that the drawings he made during a period of four years would have filled a hay wagon. A large number of his original drawings are in the Berlin print room. About 1,500 prints are attributed to him. He was one of the last major producers of woodcuts for books, as during his career engravings were gradually taking over that role." (Wikipedia).Adams L 1345.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1876-79. Witout wrappers as three issues from "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", Vol. 24, No. 167+ Vol. 27, No.187+ Vol. 28, No. 191. Pp. 250-344, pp. 284-408 a. pp. 103-232. Papers: In No. 167:pp. 262-265 (James Thomson), pp. 266-68, pp. 269-271, pp. 271-275. In No. 187: pp. 371-373. In No. 191: pp. 111-113 (W. Thomson). Titlepages to vols. 24, 27 a. 28 present. 2 papers with textillustrations. First appearance of all the 6 founding papers around the invention of the "Harmonic Analyzer" and with the mathematical theory for the differential analyzor, containing both the mathematical theories and the practical descriptions of the analyzer and further also having the paper by Lord Kelvin's brother (the first paper offered) in which the machinery is shown for the first time."A ball and disk integrator was the vital invention needed to build the FIRST AUTOMATIC ANALOG COMPUTING MACHINES. Lord kelvin used this integrator -devised for a planimeter in the 1860s by his brother, James Thomson - on two new kinds of analog computers: a harmonic analyzer and a tide predictor. he later specified a more general machine - a differential analyzer."(Eames in "A Computer Perspective")."The harmonic analyzer was used in conjunction with Thomson's tide predictor...The present paper ("Harmonic Analyzer") contains the first full description of the harmoniz analyzer, which was "designed rudimentally" (p. 371) in Thomson's "On an integrating machine having a new kinematic principle"(also offered here),,,,James Thomson's integrator - "one of the first really workable integrating devices" (Williams 1985, 207) - served as the basis for other analog machines designed by William Thomson for solving simultaneous linear equations and integrating differential equations. Thomson first described such a machine, composed of several Thomson integrators connedted together, in his paper on "Mechanical integration of the linear differentialequations of the decond order...." (also offred here); however the "idea could then hardly be carried out, forone reason because an integrator, which is simply a variable- speed drive, could not then be buitl both accurate and capable of carrying sufficient load to move numerous mechanical parts" (Bush 193, 450). The full realization of Thomson's idea did not come until fifty years later, when Vannevar Bush invented the torque amplifier for use in his differential analyzer."(Hook and Norman).

Genevae, Chovët, & Socij., 1682. Folio. Cont. full blindstamped vellum. First hinge professionally repaired. Halftitle and title in red/black with engraved vignette. (24),987,(15) pp. Scarce first edition. Bonet was one of the founders of pathological anatomy and predecessor of Morgagni. He is specially known for his collection of pathological descriptions selected from the literature from the time of Hippocrates, but mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries. - Wellcome II:198. - Waller: 1276.

Tokyo, Antonin Raymond Seisho-Kwan 4-Chome Ginza, 1938. 4to (300 x 240 mm). In the original cloth covered board with spiral spine. With white title paper label to front board. Front board with a few stains. Previous owner’s stamp (Arkitekt Georg Fischer) to upper inner margin of front free end-paper. Both author’s printed signatures including a list of names from his staff and pupils to title-page. Internally fine. 116 pp. Printed in 1000 copies. First edition of Antonin’s famous work published the same year he ended his Japanese period and returned to USA. Antonin played a pivotal role in the dissemination of modern architecture in the Japan. His initial work with American architects Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright gave him an insight into the use of concrete that he would refine throughout his career, taking these innovations with him to Tokyo where he explored it’s use and integration with traditional Japanese building techniques. Antonin Raymond (1888-1976) was a prominent Czech-American architect now primarily known for his significant contributions to modern architecture in Japan.In 1919, Raymond relocated to Tokyo, Japan, where he would spend the majority of his career and make a lasting impact on the architectural landscape of the country. He was invited by the Japanese government to work as a consultant and advisor on contemporary architecture. Along with his wife, Noémi Pernessin Raymond, who was also an architect, Raymond established an architectural firm called "Raymond and Raymond."One of Raymond's most notable projects is the iconic Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, completed in 1923. The hotel showcased his ability to merge Western architectural techniques with traditional Japanese craftsmanship, resulting in a groundbreaking design that successfully withstood the devastating 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. The Imperial Hotel became a symbol of Raymond's architectural prowess and innovation. After World War II, Raymond returned to the United States but maintained connections with Japan. He continued his architectural practice and also worked as a professor at the University of Hawaii. Raymond received numerous accolades for his contributions to architecture, including the Order of the Sacred Treasure, a prestigious honor bestowed upon him by the Japanese government in recognition of his significant achievements.

Kiøbenhaffn, Andrea Koch paa Niels Jacobsens Bekostning, 1631. 4to. Samt. helpergamentsbd. med lettere brugsspor. Lille reparation ved kapitæl. Titelblad trykt i rødt/sort med røskenramme. (24),135,(7),(2) pp. Let brunet, ellers ganske velbevaret. Titelblad og 1 blad repareret i kanter, uden teksttab. Forsatse fornyet. Første danske bog om Jødisk ret, her i optrykket idet den først udkom 1605. Niels Jacobsen Holst, som i indbydelsen (her bundet til sidst) skriver: "Der jeg, O Christne Læsere, tænckte paa at det vaare den gemene Mand gaffnligt, denne Guds Lowbog igien paa ny at bliffue tryckt, effterdi der vaar en enten saa eller slet ingen igen aff det slags at bekome, da fant jeg tvende fornemme Aarsager, Hvorføre wi bør at haffve Guds Low offven paa naturlig oc verdslig Menniskens Low, man seet at denne udflyder aff den, oc den aff hin, oc der udoffer lader sig tee at de næsten skulle være it." - Bibl. danica I:610. Thesaurus 563.

Hannover, Helwing, 1815-29. Bound in 3 fine contemp. speinckled hcalf, gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Volume 4 in contemp. full calf, raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel torn. Stamp on titlepages. XXIV,420,(4);XXIV,533,(3) pp., folded tables and 32 large folded engraved plates, maps and plans. Internally fine and clean. Klaus Jordan No 3358.

Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1808. 4to. Uncut in original blue wrappers. Chipping to backstrip. A paper label to foot of back-strip. (2), 76 pp. a. 11 double-page folded engraved plates (geometrical figs). Printed on good paper, clean and fine, apart from a minor stain to 2 leaves. First edition. In this scarce and unusual work Salimbini combines moral philosophy with elementary mathematics. In the first part he discusses aspects of moral philosophy, discussiong the ideas of Spinoza, Hobbes, Bayle, Wolff, Pufendorff etc. while examining questiions of moral obligation, freedom of the will, atheism etc.The socond part is concerned with the elements of mathematics, discussiong the calculus, logarithmns, arithmetic, geometry, proportions and different kinds of equations, spherical geometry etc.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1735. 4to. Fine recent marbled boards. Printed titlelabel on frontcover. (6),144 pp. and 1 double-page folded engraved plate. Johann B's paper: pp. (1-) 91. - Daniel B's papers: pp. (93-) 122 and pp. 123-144. A few marginal brownspots. First edition of these prize winning papers by father (Jean) and son (Daniel). - Both papers deals with the cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits relative to the solar equator. - In Daniel's paper he put foreward the hypothesis of the existence of an atmosphere, resempling air, and rotating around the solar axis, resulting in an increasing inclination of the planetary orbits toward the equator of the sun. Daniel was the first importent Newtonian outside Great Britain. The problems faced here (by Daniel) are treated in Newtonian manner.The publication of these papers by father and son resulted in a controversy between the two, forcing Daniel to leave his fathers house. - Poggendorff I:161.

Berlin, Grau,1811. (Atlas 1800). 8vo. and folio. 2 textvolumes bound in 2 contemp. hcalf with. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Paperlabels taped to bottom of spines. Atlas-volume in contemporary full calf. XLIV,579,XVI,550 pp. and 57 engraved plates (double-triple-and quadriple folio-plates). The atlas dated Berlin, 1800. First German edition. - Klaus Jordan, 421.

12mo. Bound in 3 fine cont. full vellum. Engraved titlepage and woodcut portrait of Plinius in vol. 1. Fine and wellpreserved both externally and internally. A small old rubberstamp in lower part of titles. Willems, 428. The only Plinius-edition published by Elzevier and edited by Jean de Laet. "Les exemplaires bien conservé se trouvent difficilement" and Willems calls it one of the finest works from the Elzevier Press. This copy measuring 128 mm in height.

Kopenhagen, Schubothesen Buchhandlung, 1833. Lex8vo. Smukt velbevaret samtidigt hldrbd. medophøjede bind på ryggen, rig rygforgyldning. Bordurer i guld på permer. (4),XXXVIII,372,(8) pp. Litograferet foldekort over Færøerne samt 1 faksimileplanche. Her og der med lidt bruning af teksten. Stort eksemplar med brede marginer. Originaltrykket. I forhold til den dansk-færøske version fra 1832, er denne udgave forsynet med en oversættelse til tysk af G.C.F. Mohnike. - Klose I, 149. - Klose No. 5777.

London, 1870. 8vo. Original full cloth with some wear. Inner hinges a bit weak, a stain to the spine ,and minor loss to upper capital. Spine cocked. Bookplate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to inside of front board, the book-plate stating: "Presented to the Library by Mrs. WM. Boxwell in memory of her husband William Boxwell Professor of Pathology in the Schools of Surgery 1915-1943". XI (including the frontispiece), (1), 180 pp + the 40 pages long advertisement catalogue. Scarce first edition, presentation-copy from the author, of this milestone in the history of aphasia, being one of the first books dedicated exclusively to aphasia, thus constituting one of the most important books ever written on the subject. It influenced not only the field of medicine, but also that of lingustics, psychology, and philosophy. "One of the first books dedicated exclusively to aphasia was published in 1879 by Frederic Bateman (1824-1904) [...] In Bateman's exemplarily systematic workaltogether 72 cases (already published and his own) are discussed in order to clarify the question of localisation of speech. [...] Bateman is the first to clearly propose that aphasia could be described in terms of syndromes and the probability that each individual with aphasia has a unique pattern of symptoms. A range of symptoms and features of aphasia are presented in detail and with examples by Bateman [...] The presentation is impressive from a modern perspective and only disorders of language comprehension and syntax are missing from his extensive surgery." (Juergen Tesak and Chris Code: "Milestones in the History of Apasia. Theories and Protagonists", 2008, p. 63).

Lyon, Antonio Constantino, (ca. 1540). 8vo. Contemp. full calf. 6 raised bands, spine gilt with an eagle in each compartment. Blindtooled borders on covers, floral cornerpieces gilt. In middle of covers "D" and "S" and inbetween these letters a crowned gilt eagle. Corners and edges neathly repaired. Title-page yellowing and neatly repiared with japan-paper. 243,(51) pp. Initials in woodcut. A brownspot in lower right corner on the first ca. 20 leaves and a small inkspot on lower corners of the last 15 leaves. Without the last blank. From the library of Thore Virgin, the famous Swedish book collector, having his bookmark on inside frontcover and his entry on front free endpaper: "Thore Virgin/ 20.12.1927". A chronological world history, ending with the year 1535.The discovery of America by Columbus is listed for the year 1492. Gasser, the astronomer and mathematician, is well know for his editing Copernicus second edition (1566, Basel) of "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", and it contained an introduction by Gasser.Adams G, 267.

Leipzig, B.G. Tuebner, 1898-99. Royal8vo. Uncut and unopened in original printed wrappers. Wrappers with some tears. Front wrapper loose. Lithographed portrait of Lobachevsky, XVI,236,(3),237-476 pp. First edition. Contains the first translation of Lobachevsky's seminal 1829 paper 'O Nachalakh Geometrii / On the Principles of Geometry' (see Sommerville Bibliography 1829).

Paris, Caude Jombert, 1724. 4to. Nice recent marbled boards in old style with titlelabel on frontcover. 24 pp. and one folded engraved plate. A few weak brownspots to margins. Otherwise fine and clean. First edition of this extremely scarce work by the famous mathematician, solving an important problem in dynamics and extending Newton's work."Despite the invention by Leibniz and Newton of the Calculus, the problem of mechanics of impact or percussion remained of centarl interest. The Royal Academy of Sciencesin Paris biannually qwarded a prize for the most outstanding paper; in 1724 and 1726 the prizes were for papers on percussion. Colin Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, was awarded the prize in 1724 (forthe paper offered) over John Bernoulli...He expressed thet the interaction of forces on ciolliding bodies are equal in magnitude but opposed in direction (newton's third law) and used the physical construct of an elastic spring between the contact points in order to obtain changes in velocity during compression and restitution phases of collisions..."(W.J. Stronge in "Impact Mechanics").The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) is best known for developing and extending Newton's work in calculus, geometry and gravitation; his 2-volume work "Treatise of Fluxions" (1742) was the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods. It is well known that MacLaurin was awarded prizes by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, for his earlier work on the collision of bodies (the work offered here) and the tides (1740).

Copenhague, Claude Philibert, 1777. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some repairs to upper compartment of spine. Engraved titlevignette. (4),XVI,(8),440,(1) pp., 6 folded tables and 30 large folded engraved plates. Some marginal dampstaining, mainly to the first ca. 20 leaves, decreasing towards end and a few at end. On good paper. First edition. Having very detailled descriptions and illustrations of all kinds of gunnery for the reformed French Army. -Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing, 7125.

Paris, 1927. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the original green printed wrappers, also the back-strip, and the original white dust-jacket (fastened on spine) with the black and green lettering. Dust-jacket with some minor browning, likewise the extremities of leaves (the part that would usually have been cut). All in all a very nice copy. 306, (2) pp. First edition of this "major event in political thought between the two wars" (PMM), "The Treason of the Intelligentsia". Number 98 out of 170 copies on "vélin pur fil" out of a total of 3.862 copies (62 copies were printed on "Madagascar", 170 on "vélin pur fil" and 3.650 on "alfa satiné")."The "Clerc" is what Benda conceived the intellectual to be, someone disengaged from the mere contingencies of the existence and fighting for ideals that went beyond the demands of a given moment in space and time. In violent and brilliant invective, he attacked the intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for having fallen short of this ideal by becoming the devoted advocates not of ideals, but of groups or existences, material and transient, such as a nation or a social class. The title of Benda's manifesto became a kind of catch phrase which, by a curious irony of fate, inverted its original sense, and came to be used as a term of reproach for the intellectuals who shut themselves off from the march of events in an ivory tower. "La Trahison des Clercs" achieved a world-wide popularity and was translated and reprinted over and over again... After the war, some of his magic seemed to have departed... but "La Trahison des Clercs" continues to be read; and its invigorating attack on over-involvement deserves not to be forgotten." (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 252)."The publication of the latter in 1927 was undoubtedly one of the major events of political thought between the two wars." (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 252).PMM 419.

Kiøbenhavn., H.H. Godiche, 1760. 4to. Pragtfuldt samtidigt helldrbd., stønkede bindsider og med 5 ophøjede bind på ryggen og med overdådig rygforgyldning. Stregforgyldning på permer og kanter. Skindtitel på ryg. (32),512 pp. samt 14 kobberstukne plancher. Næsten lydefrit, nærmest uåbnet eksemplar på skrivepapir og helt rent. På fribladet stemplet "Moltke". Originaludgaven af Pontoppidans lærde Københavns-beskrivelse, som blev optakten til udarbejdelsen af hans "Danske Atlas".