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Paris, Chez Fuchs, An X, (1802). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Top of spine with wear. A few scratches to binding. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 43. 332,(4) pp., 2 engraved plates (the entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 137-175. The first 20 leaves a bit brownspotted, otherwise with a few marginal brownspots. 1 leaf (pp. 197-98) torn with loss of some letters. Gay-Lussac's paper fine and clean. First printing of this extremely important discovery, in which Gay-Lussac first formulated the law, Gay-Lussac's Law, stating that if the mass and pressure of a gas are held constant then gas volume increases linearly as the temperature rises. This is sometimes written as V = k T, where k is a constant dependent on the type, mass, and pressure of the gas and T is temperature on an absolute scale. (In terms of the ideal gas law, k = n R / P.)."In 1802 he (Gay-Lussac) showed that different gases all expanded by equal amounts with rise in temperature. Charles had made the same discovery some years earlier but had not published it; the credit therefore belongs to Gay-Lussac at least as much, and probably more. This was an extremely importent discovery, which Avogadro was to use within the decade to formulate hid long-neglected hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases at equal temperatures contained equal numbers of particles."(Asimov).Magie "A Source Book in Physics", p.165-172 - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry", p. 374-379. - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1802 C.The volume contains other importent papers in chemistry by Humphrey Davy (first French translation of his announcement of the finding of "Laughing Gas" (Nitrous Oxide), Parmentier, Vauquelin, Clement et Desormes, Thenard, Guyton, Chenivix

Amsterdam, Kunst und Industrie Comptoir, (1807). Samtidigt hldrbd. Permerne med overtræk af marmoreret papir med en guldbort. Rygforgyldning. Titeletiketten bortslidt. kanter lidt slidte. Hjørner stødte. Titelkobber, signeret Pigeot. Kobberstukket titelblad samt 1 usigneret kobberstukket planche. Trykt på velin. Lettere kantbruning, men ganske ren og velbevaret. På fribladet som iøvrigt er forsynet med laksegl forestillende de tre gratier, den samme figur som er gengivet i kobberstik på titelbladet, har Baggesen egenhændigt dedikeret bogen til den norske maler Jacob Munch (1776-1839) "Til/ En Landsmand og Ven, Kunstneren Munch/ Digteren Baggesen/ Paris d. 21 februar 1808". Med bogsamleren Frederik Heymans exlibris på indersiden af forpermen. Et tilsvarende dedikationseksemplar findes i KB med dedikation til Oehlenschlæger dateret 1. febr. 1808. På samme tid i Paris, malede Jacob Munch portrættet af Oehlenschlæger.K.F. Plesner. Baggesen Bibliografi, p. 112-13.

Kbhvn., 1906-88. Indbundet i 4 hldrbd. og 30 hshirtbd. Nogle bind med brugsspor ( 1 bind med revne i fals).

'S-Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleff, 1861-92. Bound in 27 uniform contemp. hcloth. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. Profusely illustrated with folded maps, charts, diagrams etc. Clean and fine.

London, Macmillan & Co, 1896-97. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 55, November 1896 - April 1897. Bookplates to front free end-papers and library stamp to title page. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise very fine and clean. P. 347. [Entire volume: XL, 624 pp.]. First English edition of this landmark paper in which the Zeeman-effect was first announced. It is one of the most important and influential discoveries made in the later half of the 19th century. "The Zeemann effect not only opened a new world of facts which interest the physicist, the chemist, and even the astronomer, but the study also contributed - to an extent much greater than the study of the Stark effect - to the conceptual development of quantum theory" (Jammer). Together with Lorenz, Zeeman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena". "The last experiment performed by Michael Faraday was an unsuccessful attempt to observe the influence of a magnetic field on the spectral lines of sodium. More than 30 years later, Pieter Zeeman took up the challenge and observed a broadening of the lines, which was soon recognized to be the splitting that we know as the Zeeman effect. Zeeman's account of the discovery, translated for Nature from the Proceedings of the Physical Society of Berlin, includes an interpretation based on Hendrik Lorentz's idea of "small molecular elements charged with electricity", and a rough calculation of the charge to mass ratio of these "ions"." (Nature Physics Portal)."Zeeman is best remembered for his observations in 1896 of the mageto-optic phenomenon that almost immediately was named the Zeeman effect. His experimental discovery was not fortuitous, but the fruition of theoretical views that had motivated attempts over a span of thirty-five years to detect some such interaction between magnetism and light. Zeeman's initial observations were beautifully comprehended by H.A.Lorentz' electromagnetic theory, which also served to guide Zeeman in the very early refinement and extension of his discovery. As a result Zeeman and Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics in recognition of their accomplishment and of the promise, since overwhelmingly fulfilled, of the Zeeman effect for contributing to the understanding of spectra and the particulate structure of matter." (DSB).

København, N. Møller & Søn (F.C. Løser), (1780) 1793-1905. 4to. Indbundet i 8 ensartede hldrbd. i flammet kalv. Forgyldte rygtitler. Uden titelbladet til Bd. 7. Velbevaret eksemplar. Først efter 125 års arbejde afsluttedes Danmarks første videnskabelige ordbog efter utallige hindringer og vanskeligheder og skiftende redaktioner. Først med Molbechs ansættelse som redaktør (1834-57) kom der fart på udgivelsen. "Trods disse iøjnefaldende Svagheder tror vi dog at turde hævde, at Videnskabernes Selskabs Ordbog vil være af blivende Betydning for Kendskabet til vort Modersmaals og dets Ordforraads Historie særlig i Tiden fra det 17de til den første Halvdel af det 19de aarhundrede. Allerede den Omstændighed, at den har optaget største delen af det Stof, der er samlet i Moths store haandskrevne Ordbogsarbejde, vil altid give den en særlig Værdi." (Vilhelm Thomsen og Ludwig Wimmer i Fortalen til tome VIII).

Paris, Courcier, 1817. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. An old repair to spine at upper compartment. Some small cracks to leather at spine. Spine a bit rubbed. XVI,XXII,253 pp. and 3 large folded engraved plates with many figs. showing crystal forms and Nicholson's hydrometer. Some scattered brownspots, mainly at margins. A wide-margined copy. Scarce first edition of Haüys landmark work on the crystallography of gemstones. Haüy had already in 1784 demonstrated the constancy of aspects of the geometric form of the individual crystals and hereby he laid the foundation stones of the science of Crystallography in general. In the offered work he applies his crystal-discoveries of the constancy of angles to the cutting of gems, thus providing us with the first handbook to show how to determine different kinds of gemstones, and he thereby also founded the science of Gemology. "He hypothesized that each crystal was built up of successive additions of what we now call a "unit cell" to form - in the absence of external inteference - a simple geometric shape with constant angles and with sides trhat could be related by simple integral ratios. he maintained that an identity of difference in crystalline form implied an identity or difference in chemical composition. This was the beginning of the science of crystallograpy, which was to attain maturity over a century later with the development of X-ray techniques by Laue and Bragg."(Asimov).

Very large engraved seechart, measuring 61 x 87,5 cm. in original outline colouring with large inset view of the harbour of Kinsal and Kinsal River. The chart showing the Westcoast of Ireland from Bay of Roonstahound to Kiriec (in lower left corner C. Berey scr.) A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. fOLDED DOWN THE CENTER. The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693, and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year, place and "par Ordre du Roi", pointing to a later issue, but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV,425:11.

Stuttgart, Fr. Brodhag'sche Buchh., 1829. (Boards with the year 1830). Folio. Text and plates inserted in the orig. printed cardboard. Plates uncut, and all as issued. (4),30 pp. and 24 lithographed plates, of which 22 are in beautiful original handcolouring. (Sign.: Auf Stein radiert von J.G.M.). A fine copy of a rare work on poisonous plants, also listing the appropriate antidotes."In dem gleichen Jahren um 1830...brachte Joh. Gottlieb Mann mit seinem selbstlithographierten Bildern deutscher und ausländischer Arzneipflanzen ein brauchbares, dabei künstlerisch aussprechendes Werk auf dem Markt." (Nissen ZBI I:p. 219). - Pritzel No. 5787. - Nissen ZBI: No. 1273. - BMC (NH) III:1233.

Pavai & Paris, Pierre J. Duplain, 1787. 3 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs, raised bands. Light wear to top of spines. 88),CXIV,352,(4),413,(4),730,(2) pp. and 9 folded engraved plates. First collected edition in French, comprising Spallanzani's most important works. He was one of the first to dispute the doctrine of spontaneous generation, making importent experiments in support of his views. He likewise was the first to advance the doctrine of the regeneration of the spinal cord, and showed the reflex actions. Some of his conclusions were similar to those expressed by Pasteur, nearly a century later.

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1690. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine in 6 compartments, raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine. A small nick in leather in middle of front hinge. Fronthinge weakening, but still holding. Engraved portrait. (24),550,(14) pp. and 19 engraved anatomical plates. A few brownspots. Some scattered inkspots. A faint dampstain on foot of portrait. A dampstain to lower right corners of the last 5 leaves. Last leaf and errata-leaf repaired in right margin, no loss of letters. Scarce first edition of this surgical textbook that opened a new era in which French surgical teaching dominated Europe."A native of Paris, Dionis studied surgery at the Confraternity of St. Côme and was first surgeon to Queen Maria Theresa until her death in 1684. When Louis XIV established a demonstratorship in operative surgery at the Jardin Royal in the early 1670s, he appointed Dionis to the position. Dionis remained there until 1680 when he returned to serve as surgeon to the entire royal house. The present work was first published in French in 1690 and soon became a standard work and popular textbook on the subject. It remained in print for over half a century and was even translated into Chinese. The illustrations, limited in number, are rather unimpressive copperplates." (Heirs of Hippocrates, 649 (Latin edition of 1696)). - Wellcome II, 471.

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.

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.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, Rengeriana, 1739 & 1741. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Board with a few dots and marks. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. Printed on good paper. (22), 1084, (34) pp. (20), 736, (20). Later improved edition of Wolff's large and most important work on "natural theology". The work is the culmination to his treatment of ‘special metaphysics.’ Defined as "the science of those things that are possible through God," natural theology represents the end of metaphysical inquiry insofar as metaphysics is concerned with the realm of all possible objects.According to Kant, in the (Preface) to the Critique of Pure Reason (2nd ed), Wolff is "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers." Wolff's "strict method" in science, Kant explains, is predicated on "the regular ascertainment of principles, the clear determination of concepts, the attempt at strictness in proofs, and the prevention of audacious leaps in inferences".Wolff's A POSTERIORI PROOF for God's existence (the primary topic of discussion of Volume 1) is as follows:The human soul exists or we exist. Since nothing is without a sufficient reason why it is rather than is not, a sufficient reason must be given why our soul exists, or why we exist. Now this reason is contained in ourselves or in some other being diverse from us. But if you maintain that we have the reason of our existence in a being which, in turn, has the reason of its existence in another, you will not arrive at the sufficient reason unless you come to a halt at some being which does have the sufficient reason of its own existence in itself. Therefore, either we ourselves are the necessary being, or there is given a necessary being other and diverse from us. Consequently, a necessary being exists (§24, Natural Theology vol. 1).Wolff's A PRIORI PROOF for God's existence (the primary topic of discussion of Volume 2) is as follows:God contains all compossible realities in the absolutely highest degree. But He is possible. Wherefore, since the possible can exist, existence can belong to it. Consequently, since existence is a reality, and since realities are compossible which can belong to a being, existence is in the class of compossible realities. Moreover, necessary existence is the absolutely highest degree. Therefore, necessary existence belongs to God or, what is the same, God necessarily exists (§21, Natural Theology vol. 2).

London, chez les Libraires associés, 1777 - 1783 [Presumably printed in Liège by Clément Plomteux in association with Elmsly in London, van Harrevelt in Amsterdam, Rosset in Lyon and Panckoucke in Paris]. 4to. Uniformly bound in 30 contemporary half calf binding with leather title-label with gilt lettering to spines. Wear to extremities and small paper-label paper on to top of spines. First few leaves in most volumes with light soiling, otherwise internally very fine and clean. Complet. First edition of Robinet monumental encyclopedia, still regarded as being the first main encyclopedia on European social sciences. Robinet, in collaboration with Charles-Joseph Panckoucke were exponents of Diderot's Encyclopédie, and published a supplement to it in four volumes (1776-1777), the present work published as a direct extension to the Encyclopédie.Robinet is one of the precursors in the history of evolutionary thought who contributed to the process which later crystallized in the work of Charles Darwin.

Prag, Wolfgang Gerle, 1773. 8vo. Contemp.haclf. Spine richly gilt, titlelabel withgilt lettering. Marbled covers. A small paperlabel pasted on frontboard with an old librarynumber. Large engraved titlevignet showing an eruption of Vesuv. (8),407,(1) pp. Small stamp to titlepage. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition of Ferber's importent geological and mineralogical letters from his travels in Italy in 1771-72. Most of his works, and also this, contains importent observations on mineralogy, metallurgy and geology of the places visited in Italy. "His descriptions of the environment of Neapel and specially the eruptive products of Vesuv belongs to the most prominent scientific descriptions of his time."(Transl. from Zittel p. 61.).

Franckfurth & Leipzig, 1745. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment on spine. A few occassional brownspots, otherwise a fine copy. (20), 152 pp. + 3 folded hand coloured maps and 1 double-page frontispiece. Rare early German account of Admiral Thomas Mathews life, published only one year after his catastrophic Battle at Toulon. During this battle, the British Royal Navy, under the command of Admiral Thomas Mathews, engaged with the combined fleets of France and Spain. The battle was marked by a series of misunderstandings and miscommunications among the British commanders. The most notable incident was the indecisive nature of the engagement, and Mathews faced criticism for not pressing the attack more aggressively. Following the battle, Mathews faced a court-martial in England, where he was found guilty of not doing his utmost to destroy the enemy and was relieved of his command. The outcome of the court-martial was controversial, with some arguing that Mathews was unfairly scapegoated for the failures of the overall campaign. Mathews was tried and convicted of the charges, and dismissed from the navy. He returned to his estates at Llandaff, before moving to London and dying there in 1751.

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

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1811. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 39 (der Reihe), Eilftes u. Zwölftes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 39. Pp. 129-244 a. 2 engraved plates. (The entire issue offered). Young's papers: pp. 156-205 a. pp. 206-220. And pp. 245-360 a. 2 engraved plates. (The entire issue offered). Young's papers: pp. 255-261 a. pp. 262-290. First appearance in German of Youngs 3 groundbreaking papers ( On the Theory of Light and Colours 1802 - An account of some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described 1802 - The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and Calculations relative to physical Optics. 1804) - which gives the first really convincing evidence that the fringes are produced by interference of light waves, and giving the experimental demonstrations of the general law of Interference.These importent demonstrations served as the experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light. - In his two first papers "On the Theory of Light and Colours", 1802 and "An account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described", 1802 - he only partially announced his principle of Interference, and the statement of it in "An Account..." was entirely hypothetical and not experimental. (Magie. Source Book in Physics gives extracts of this paper and a later paper under the head: Discovery of the interference of light, pp.308-15).Young also shows here that diffraction effects can be explained by the interference law."The experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light as Young formulated it was interference. The fact has already been observed that two trauins of water waves may be so superposed that in certain regions the throughs of one train will lie continuously on the crests of another, thereby producing zero disturbance...Destryctive interference is said to occur between the two trains of waves in the former case and constructivee interference in lthe latter. Similarly, two sound waves may be so combined as to produce alternate regions of silence and enhanced sound. The phenomenon of interference, of which the forgoing are familiar examples, is easely comprehensible in the case of combining waves, but would be utterly incomprehensible in the case of combining streams of particles. So when Young demonstrated that two beams of light could, under properly controlled conditions be made to combine in such a way as to produce alternate regions of darkness and light, he was rightly considered to have identified in light a characteristic property of waves." (Lloyd Taylor in: Physics. The Pioneer Science. p. 511).Of the three papers published in the years 1802-04 the last is the most importent as it gives the experimental demonstrations of the interference of light. (Dibner in Heralds of Science No. 151 list the first paper, so does PMM: 259).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XIX,. (2 =halftitle Mémoires..),141-220. 1.memoir pp. 141-179 a. 1 enraved plate. - 2. pp. 180-193. - 3. pp. 194-220. - 4. pp. 221-234 a. 1 plate. First printing of these 4 fundamental papers on the perturbations of the moon, as Euler was the first to use of the Calculus on the motion of the moon in relation to the attractive powers of the Moon, the Earth and the Sun. The theories laid down here is also called Euler's second theory and it is the most interesting. It was of the greatest importtence as a basis for later developments."He applied his mathematics to astronomy, working out the nature of some perturbations, being in this respect the precursor of Lagrange and Laplace. He began to replace the geometric methods of proof used by Galileo and Newton with the algebraic, a tendency carried to its conclusion by Lagrange. In particular he worked on lunar theory, that is, on the analysis of the exact motion of the moon, the complications of which have been the despair of astronomers and mathematicians since the time of Kepler. - Eneström: 398, 399, 400 a. 401.

Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Przegladu Tygodniowego, 1891. 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine and four raised bands. Spine with wear and top right corner (3 x 5 cm) of title-page lacking, not affecting text. Internally fine and clean. (4), 446, (2) pp. Rare first edition of the first Polish translation of Darwin's autobiography.Freeman 1529

(København [Copenhagen], 1967). 4to. Original illustrated self-wrappers. 36, (4) pp. (Containing 16 poems on 16 leaves and 16 full-page illustration on 16 leaves). Exceptionally fine and clean. Nr. 50 out of 100 numbered copies of this interesting, richly illustrated, publication that was issued in connection with the second International Tribunal on War Crimes, which took place in Denmark. The present copy is signed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir on front free end-paperThe International Tribunal on War Crimes was initiated by Bertrand Russell in 1966 in order to investigate the background for and art and nature of the American warfare in Vietnam. The tribunal was constituted by a number of internationally famous scientists, authors, and cultural personas; because of their status in society, their moral opposition against America's war-crimes in Vietnam was internationally very effective. The first session of the Tribunal was planned to take place in Paris in April 1967, but when De Gaulle proclaimed that the French government would not allow the arrangement, the first session was quickly moved to Stockholm, where it took place from May 2nd till 10th. It was then decided that the second session should take place in Denmark, which contrary to neutral Sweden through NATO was an ally of USA, and where the press coverage would thus be more effective. Thus, in 1967 a "Danish Bertrand Russell Foundation" was founded - supporting the international war crime tribunal -, which included many of the leading Danish intellectuals of the time. Russell was 95 at the time of the second session, and he couldn't participate, so Sartre acted as president of the jury instead. This session took place at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, from November 18th till December 1st 1967.Another member of the Tribunal was Simone de Beauvoir, who was also present, together with Sartre, in Roskilde the last weeks of November 1967. The present work was issued by the Copenhagen office of the International War Crime Tribunal and the Collection for Vietnam. The work is constituted by contributions by numerous famous Danish poets and artists of the period, who wished to express their solidarity with the International War Crime Tribunal.The work was issued in 1500 copies, 100 of which were numbered.

Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1845. Bound in 2 orig. full red cloth. Gilt spines, gilt covers. Spineends with light wear. Spine on volume 1 a bit spotted. 411,(3);376,IV,IV pp., 150 steel-engraved views and 43 (of 50) lithographed colourplates with German national costumes. Scattered brownspots to views and textleaves, colourplates in general clean.

Vinegia (Venedig), Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1551. Cont. full limp vellum. Small fraction on back-cover cut away. (76),(4) pp. Printers large wood-cut device on title and at end. Old inscription at top of title. Positions Illustrated in the text by woodcut and letters. Bound with: FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS. Astutie militari di Sesto Ivlio Frontino huomo consolare, di Li Famosi et eccellenti Capitani Romani, Greci, Barbari, & Hesterni. In Venetia (Venedig), Per Comin de Trino, 1541. 144 pp. With wood-cut initials. Printers wood-engr. device on title. Aelian was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century A.D., resident in Rome. His military treatise is dedicated to Hadrian. It is a handbook of Greek, i.e. Macedonian, drill and tactics as practised by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great. The work exercised a great influence. The translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics. The first edition of the Greek text was issued by Robortelli in Venice 1552 - the Italian edition as here a year before. Recorded in Conrad Walther: Versuch...Militair=Bibliothek. 1783 p. 7 (x), and by Rumpf: Allg. Literatur d. Kriegswiss. 1824, No 321. - The work by Frontinus is third Italian edition (Graesse II:640), and is a translation of the authors military work which consists of military Stratagems from Greek and Roman History (Strategematcon libri III). He was also the author of De aquis urbis Romae (Romes water-supply) as he was appointed to superintendent of the aquaducts. - Both works of greatest rarity, and internally in fine condition.

Paris, Comité de Salut Public, AN 2 (1794). 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small tear to leather at top of spine and joint. (4),VIII,231 pp., 4 folded tables and 60 large folded engraved plates. The first few leaves with scattered brownspots. First edition. The plates are identical with those in Panckoucke's Encyclopedie. " Between 1786 and 1788 Monge investigated with Berthollet and Vandermonde the principles of metallurgy and the composition of irons, cast metals, and, steels. This research enabled them to unite previous, findings in these areas, to obtain precise theoretical, knowledge by means of painstaking analyses, and, to apply this knowledge to the improvement of various, techniques." (DSB) - Poggendorff II,184.