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Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens-Boktryckeriet, 1815. 4to. Orig. blåt papbd. overtrukket med brede gule papirsstrimler således at det afbilder det svenske flag. Ryggen forstærket med gennemsigtig plastfolio. Stempel på titelbladet. 88),138,(2) pp., 13 store kobberstukne foldeplancher (landtoninger). Sidste planche med en svag fugtskjold. De første bladkanter lettere brunede, ellers ren. Originaltrykket. Gustav af Klint er kendt som hovedmanden bag den svenske søkortudgivelse.

Kbhvn., 1902-89. + Registre 1902-62. l.-75.Arg.indbd.i 38 pæne hel-og hshirtbd.,rest heftet.

Paris, Panckoucke. Liege, Plomteux, 1774-97. 4to. 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Ca. 3300 pp. and 75, mostly double-page, engraved plates. At the end of the platevolume is bound the platesection belonging to the heraldic part of the Encyclopédie: "Blason ou Art Héraldique" with 31, mostly double-page, folded engraved plates + 2 engraved plates belonging to "Chorégraphie ou Art d'Ecrire la Danse".

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

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

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

Hamburg, Johan Georg Traufold, 1745-51(52). Folio. Bound in 3 cont. full calf. Top of spines on 2 vols. repaired. Gilt backs, raised bands. Some scratches to covers. Backs a little rubbed. 3 engraved titlepages (the first with a small reapir at foot). Profusely illustrated with textengravings, large vignettes, coins and medals (more than 200). 5 engraved portraits (all) and 22 (of 24) plates of which 12 are double-page (battlescenes and maps). The last 20 leaves of vol. 3 a little dampstained in right margin. Printed on good paper and in general fine and clean internally. Part of front-and endpapers renewed. First German edition, translated by J.H. Heubel. This German translation is much expanded compared to the Swedish original from 1740. Warmholtz 5954. Holtzmann u. Bohatta III:423.

Oslo, 1928-73. Bd. 1-21 + Suppl.bd. 1-8 indbundet i 28 solide hldrbd. af ufarvet niger. Rest heftet. Fra 1972 fortsat som Norwegian Journal of Linguistics.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1905. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", vol. 74, No. 505. With new paper back-strip (presumably after having been extracted from a binding). Ex-libris ("Alan. A. C. Swinton") pasted on to verso of title-page. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 476-487; pp. 488-498. [Entire volume: Pp. (2), 447-518]. First printing of these two seminal articles, in which the basic principle of the modern wireless valve, also called the "Fleming Valve", is introduced for the first time, making radio-telephony and broadcasting possible. "The immense superiority of the Fleming thermionic valve to all previous detectors of wireless waves caused it to be widely used as an efficient and reliable detector." (PMM). When Lee DeForest perfected the "grid" in 1907, Fleming's wireless signals could be amplified to the degree necessary to make radio-telephony and broadcasting possible. The Edison effect was first described in a paper by William Henry Preece, who was shown an experiment by Edison "On a peculier of Glow-Lamps when raised to high Incasdence", 1885. This effect was known as the "Edison effect", and in 1890 Fleming, an electrical engineer who had worked with Edison Company in London and was now professor at University College, began a careful study of this phenomenon in carbon filament lamps. In 1904 he was able to demonstrate that this occurred not only with electric waves but also with wireless waves. He thus introduced the basic principle of the modern wireless valve, which permits only unilateral conductivity. (see PMM No. 396). From the library of Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863-1930), Electrical engineer, member of the Royal Society.Shiers, Early Television. A Bibliographical Guide to 1940, no. 323 (for the first article here present); the article has been reprinted in George Shiers, ed. !The Telephone: An Historical Anthology", 1977. PMM no. 396 (for the first article here present).

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

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

Stockholm, Kiesewetteri, 1748. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Previous owner's name to pasted down back end-paper. Wear to extremities, a few stains to spine. Internally with occassional brownspotting. (4), 224, (28) pp. + 8 engraved plates. Sixth i.e. third original and first illustrated edition of Linné’s landmark work which founded modern zooloical nomenclature and changed the science more profoundly than any other work before or after. “This edition was completely re-written by Linné and three times as big as the previous (2nd) edition; illustrations appear here for the first time; the Swedish names are given whenever possible, the animals come first and are followed by the plants. The order in previous editions was, minerals, plants, animals.”(Sandberg 5). "During his lifetime, Linnaeus exerted an influence in his field - botany and natural history - that had had few parallels in the history of science. Driven by indomitable ambition and aided by an incredible capacity for work, he accomplished the tremendous task that he had set for himself in his youth: the establishment of new systems for the three kingdoms of nature to facilitate the description of all known animals, plants, and minerals." (D.S.B. VIII:374). "He compiled this work, consisting only of seven folio leaves, as a first outline of what in its further development became the foundation of botanical and zoological classification systems. Linné was first and foemost a systematist, subordinating all botanical problems to that of classification. He established the principles of class, order, genus and species for all plants and animals...” (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 114). Sandberg 5 Soulsby 51 Hulth p. 4

Lancaster, PA and New York, American Institute of Physics, 1962. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In "The Physical Review", vol. 125, second series, Number 3, February 1, 1962. With previous owner's small stamp (Danish physicist C. Møller) to front wrapper. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1067-1084. First publication of Gell-Mann's Nobel prize winning paper in which he classified the hadrons according to a system he called the 'Eightfold Way', and which ultimately led to the quark model of hadron composition."Professor Gell-Mann. You have given fundamental contributions to our knowledge of mesons and baryons and their interactions. You have developed new algebraic methods which have led to a far-reaching classification of these particles according to their symmetry properties. The methods introduced by you are among the most powerful tools for further research in particle physics..." (Nobel Prize Presentation Speech)."The second stage on the way to quarks was what Gell-Mann called the 'eightfold way'. Symmetries are an important feature of physics. They are properties observed when transformation are applied to physical systems. The mathematical theory of transformations is called group theory. In earlier episodes we already discussed features of angular momentum, spin, and isospin, which are described by a special unitary group called SU(2), without mentioning that term. In 1961, Gell-Mann combined isospin and strangeness to form a quantity which he called unitary spin and studied its properties under the group SU(3) of transformation. [Presented in the present paper]" (The Harvest of A Century).

London, 1914. No wrappers, but stiched. All three papers contained in: "Philosophical Magazine", Sixth Series, Vol. 27. No. 159. March 1914. The whole issue issue offered (=no. 159): pp. 397-540 and 2 plates.Rutherford's paper.pp. 488-498. - Darwin's paper: pp. 499-506. - Bohr's paper: pp. 506-523. All clean and fine. First edition and first printing of all three papers. Rutherford, in this paper for the first time identifies the hydrogen nucleus, and called it the 'positive electron'. He later called it 'the proton' . In his definitive paper of 1911 he estimated the radius of the nucleus, a hundred thousand times smaller than that of an atom. Darwin in his paper (offered here) gave a more precise measure.In the first lines of the paper Rutherford outlines the content "The present paper and and the accompanying paper by Mr. C. Darwin (the second paper offered here) deal with certain points in connection with the "nucleus" theory of the atom which were purposely omitted in my first communication on that subject (Phil. Mag. May 1911). A brief account is given of the later investigations which have been made to test the theory and of the deductions which can be drawn from them. At the same time a brief statement is given of recent observations on the passage of alpha particles through hydrogen, which throw importent light on the dimensions of the nucleus." - Rutherford had studies alpha-particles intensely in the years before 1914 and proved quite conclusively that the individual particle was a helium atom with its electrons removed. The alpha particles were like the positive rays that had been discovered by Goldstein (1886), and now in 1914 (the paper offered) Rutherford suggested that the simplest positive rays must be those obtained from the hydrogen and that these must be the fundamentall positively-charged particle. He names it a 'positive electron'.Darwin, in the paper offered "concluded from the known data:"No force proportional to some power of the distance other than the inverse square can give the dependence (the Rutherford scattering cross section) on (the initial velocity)", and he then calculated the distance of closest alpha-particle-nucleus approach.The paper by Niels Bohr relates to "The Stark effect". In 1913 appeared "an importent new discovery: when atomic hydrogen is exposed to a static electrical field its spectral lines split, the amount of splitting being proportional to thefield strenght (the linear Stark effect). After Rutherford read this news in "Nature", he at once wrote to Bohr:'I think it is rather up to you at the present time to write something on....electric effects.'" (A. Pais). Bohrs paper on The Stark effect appeared in 1914, the paper offered here. - Rosenfeld. Niels Bohr' publications No. 10).

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.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1807). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1807 - Part I. Pp. 1-56 and 1 engraved plate. A bit of browning to the plate. Clean and fine, wide-margined.. First printing of a milestone paper in electrochemistry in which Davy shows that electricity is capable of decomposing the most stable elements."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 (the paper offered here). His experiments, along the lines stated in this paper, lead to his discoveries of potassum and sodium in 1807 and the year after to barium, calcium and boron.(A Source Book in Chemistry p. 243). - Sparrow: Milestones of Science No 52. - Wheeler Gift: 2511.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1821. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine. In: "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 7 (= Bd. 67 der Reihe). (8),444 pp., 2 folded tables and 8 engraved plates. Small stamp to verso of titlepages. Ampére's paper: pp. 113-167 a. 225-258 with 4 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. First German versions of Ampére's famous papers, the first announcements of Ampère's discoveries on electromagnetism, being the German version of Ampére's "Mémoires sur I'action mutuelle de deux courans électriques, sur celle qui existe entre un courant électrique et un aimant ou le globe terrestre, et celle de deux aimans I'un sur I'autre."Ampère first heard of Ørsted's discovery of electromagnetism on the 4th of September when Arago announced Ørsted's results to the Paris Academy of Sciences. In Ørsted's experiment a current-carrying wire is held over, and under, a compass needle - the result being that the needle is positioned at 45 degrees in respect to the wire. Ampére immediately saw that this result made no physical sense and realized that the true nature of the effect could not be observed until the force of terrestrial magnetism was somehow neutralized; what Ørsted had observed and reported on was the resultant of the force from the wire and that from the earth's magnetic field. Ampère discovered that the compass needle sets at 90 degrees to the current-carrying wire when the effect of terrestial magnetism is eliminated. He also observed that current-carrying wires which are formed as spirals act as permanent magnets, and this lead him to his theory that electricity in motion produces magnetism and that permanent magnets must contain electrical currents. And thus Ampère laid the foundation of the new field of electrodynamics.Ampère announced his theory and experimental results, for the first time, in a series of memoires read before the Paris Academy of Sciences in September and October 1820. These memoires were first published in the September and October issues of Arago's 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique'. In November Ampère had a seperate printing of his findings published under the title 'Mémoires sur I'action mutuelle de deux courans électriques, sur celle qui existe entre un courant électrique et un aimant ou le globe terrestre, et celle de deux aimans I'un sur I'autre.' (Dibner 62, Norman 43). Honeyman 82, Barchas 51, Wheeler 762. (The French versions).The volume contains other importent papers of historical importence, relating to the discovery of electro-magnetism by Oersted in 1820. (Raschig, Bechstein, Georg von Buquoy, Prechtl, Boisgiraud).

Kbhvn., 1682-88. 2 samt.hldrbd.m.rig rygforgyldn. Rygge med brugsspor. (34), 594, 332, (36) pp. Med dedikation til kongen og den islandske dedikation i bd. 1. I bd. 2 er dedik. til kongen og gentagelsen af forordet om ordsprog udeladt. Originaludgaven af dette hovedværk i dansk sproghistorie.

A la Haye, Frederic-Henri Scheurleer, 1749. Folio. Cont. full calf. 6 raised bands. Gilt back. Minor crack at hinge at top and bottom of spine. Corners a little bumped. Small rubberstamps on title. Engraved frontispiece-portrait. 2 large engraved titlevignettes and 2 large engraved headpieces. (4),VI,176;(6),210 pp. and 41 large mostly folded engraved plates (maps and plans). Internally fine and clean printed on good paper. Second folio-edition. An edition in-4to was issued the same year in Paris.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome IX, No. 8 a. 14. Pp. (249-) 282 a. pp. (417-) 436. Arago's rapport: Pp. 250-267 - Daguerre's letter: pp. 423-429. Both issues clean and fine. First printing of the first official and complete report of the invention of the "daguerreotype", the photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre. The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication "Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama", (1839). Together with Daguerre's letter to Arago in which he relates the process of heliography and describes his contract with Niépce to exploit the heliogrphis process. The Heliogravure was invented by Niépce

Kiöbenhavn, Thiele, 1793. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rig rygforgylsning, dog er forgyldningen lidt svag. Forgyldt titeletiket på ryg. (8),363,(1) pp., 1 foldetabel samt den ekstra nummererede side, som er foldet (p. 212). Titelbladet og de første få sider med lidt kantslid i øvre marginer og lettere brugsspor. Trykt på skrivepapir og med lidt spredte brunpletter. Den sjældne originaludgave af den første danske bog om de dansk-vestindiske besiddelser. "Foruden at udgøre en del af den danske oplysningstids debat om negerslavesystemet giver W.s skrifter også et interessant billede aflivet i dansk Vestindien i 1700-tallet, herunder, således som Inge Mejer Antonsen har fremhævet det, af boligkulturen. Også botanikken i dansk Vestindien havde W.s interesse." - Bibl. Danica III,647. - Sabin, 102732.

København, Philipsen, 1894. Bound with the original printed wrappers in an exquisite nice later (ca 1940'ies) red goatskin binding wih gilt spine and lovely marbled paper over boards (Harry Larsen). Front wrapper with smaller repairsand light brownstaining to top. Back wrapper with a couple of small restorations, barely visible. Otherwise completely fresh. First edition of Hamsun's masterpiece, generally considered his best work, one of the most important literary productions of the late 19th century, and together with "Hunger", Hamsun's most famous book. "Pan" profoundly influenced the entire trajectory of modern literature and with its brilliant and intimate descriptions of nature, it also pioneered the Pantheism of 20th century literature, as well as creating a new kind of Neo-Romanticist novel. Together with "Hunger (from 1890), "Pan" pioneered modern psychological literature and the techniques now known as "stream of consciousness" and "interior monologue".Few other authors of the period have had the kind of impact that Hamsun had. Ernest Hemingway attempted to write in the style of Hamsun, as did Henry Miller who considered him his teacher. Thomas Mann loved him and considered him the most important author of the period, and Hermann Hesse referred to him as his favourite author. The Russian authors of the period, e.g. Boris Pasternak, were profoundly influenced by his books, and Andre Gide considered him superior to Dostojevski. Everyone read him, and everyone was influenced by him, Kafka, Brecht, Gorky, Wells...According to his American bibliographer Robert Ferguson (in 1987), Hamsun is "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years". Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in every aspect - his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun", and Hemingway stated that "Hamsun taught me to write". Einstein said about him "I consider him to be one of the greatest men of our period", and Henry Miller said that it was reading Hamsun that prevented him from committing suicide. Maxin Gorkij wrote to him in a letter "- I tell you this quite sincerely, at this moment you are the greatest artist in Europe; there is no one who can compare with you.", and Thomas Mann considered himself a disciple of Hamsun.Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. By critics, Hamsun specialists, and Hamsun lovers, "Pan" is generally considered his greatest achievement, although "Hunger" is better known by laymen. The work is scarce with the original wrappers.

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.

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.