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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 90, No 6 a. No 17. Pp. (233-) 260 a. pp. (937-) 1020. (2 entire issues offered). With title-page to vol. 90. Pasteur's papers: pp. 239-248 a. pp. 952-958. A few scattered marginal brownspots. First printing of a these milestone papers which laid the foundations of immunology. Pasteur discovers the procedure for immunizing chicken against chicken cholera. Chickens injected with an old culture of chicken cholera microbes become sick briefly, but revive, and are henceforth immune to new virulent cultures."This paper (the first paper offered) marked the beginning of Pasteur's work onthe attenuation of the infective organism. Noting that fowls inoculated with an attenuated form of the chicken cholera bacterium acquired immunity, he developed the idea of a protective inoculation by attenuated living cultures, and subsequently adopted this principle with anthrax, rabies, and swine crysipelas. His wotk laid the foundatuion of the sciencwe of immunology."(Garrison & Morton No 2537)."In February 1880 (the first paper offered) Pasteur announced that although the fowl cholera microbe retained its virulence through successive cultures in chicken brothe, he had found a way of decreasing its virulence "by certain changes in the mode of culture." In this milder form the microbe usually produced disease, but not death, in chickens. More important, the chickens that recovered from this less virulent form of the microbe became relatively immune to the highly virulent from. Unlike ordinary chickens they did not die from an injection of the microbe in its usual form. In other words, Pasteur concluded, "The disease is its own preventive. It has the character of the virus diseases, which do not recur. "what gave this result special importance and novelty was the demonstrably microbial nature of fowl cholera." (DSB)."In April 1880 he admitted that inoculation with the attenuated form of the fowl cholera microbe produced very different results in different hens, but he insisted that the procedure always conferred some benefit. Even when two or more inoculations were required for complete protection against the disease, each acted in some measure to impede its course. He emphasized that "vaccinated" chickens, as well as species naturally resistant to the disease, must represent cultural media somehow ill-suited for the development of the microbe and suggested that this immunity probably resulted from the absence of some substance essential to the life of the microbe." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1880 B. - Garrison & Morton No 2537.

Potsdam, Johann Georg Bauer, 1756-57. 4to. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Spine richly gilt, gilding faded. Titlelabel with lettering. With the royal crowned monogram of King Frederik V on red background on both covers. Stamp on foot of title-page. XXII,(2),18,302,(7);XLVI,(2),133,(12) pp. and 25 large folded engraved maps and battleplans (each having a descriptive textleaf). Internally clean. A few minor brownspots. First German edition, as a translation of Lancelot Turpin de Crissé: "Essai sur l'Art de la Guerre. 1754."

Jena, Tobiam Steinman, 1591. Small folio. Full later pigskin, title-and tomelabels in red, 4 raised bands (from ab. 1850). Title in red and black. Titlepage mounted and marginal repairs, no loss of letters. (20),589,(4) leaves. Last 10 leaves dampstained in upper margins. Last leaf, having a large printers woodcut.

(København, 1860). Folio-oblong. (44 x 54 cm.). Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg slidt. På forpermen stort titeletiket i guld med titel på de 3 afdelinger. Graveret titelblad. (4) pp., litograferet indholdsfortegnelse. Med ialt 41 store litograferede plancher (27 Wagners Stentryk + 10 Bing og Ferslew's lithogr. Institut - 4 Wagner & Gemmels lithogr. Etablissement). Plancherne rene og velbevarede.

Nürnberg, Steinischen Buchhandlung, 1805. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel in leather on back. Spine ends worn. Back and edges rubbed, corners bumped. VIII,378,18,(2) pp. Throughout some browning and brownspots. First edition of Juch's text, translation and commentary in both German and Latin. - Wellcome IV:p. 370 (having only the edition from 1830).

A la Haye, Pierre Grosse & Daniel Pinet, 1763. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice contemporary full mottled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, primarily affecting spines. Internally fine and clean, a nice set. (4), XXXII, 284 pp; (4), 256 pp. First edition (Hague-edition – an edition in Avignon was published same year, no priority has been established) "Scarce. An early comprehensive dictionary defining terms used in the 18th century study of oryctology, which by today's convention would include all of the earth sciences such as geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology, and vulcanology. In the alphabetical list, various terms deal with earths, salts, sulfurs, bitumens, petroleum, simple and complex stones, common and precious gems, minerals, metals, petrifications of animals and plants, the latest theories on their formation, and their uses. In many instances a substantial definition is provided, which shows Bertrand's good knowledge of the subject.” (Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography, A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920, 523) Elie Bertrand (1713-1797) was a Swizz geologist and naturalist, but also theologian, economist and tutor and one of the key representatives of the Swizz Enlightenment.

Leipzig, Barth, 1887-91. 8vo. No wrappers. 4 papers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann", Neue Folge, Bd. XXX, No. 4, XXXI, No 6, XXXII, No. 11, XLIV, No. 11. - Pp. 545-704 a. 1 plate, pp. 145-336 a. 1 plate, pp. 337-528 a. 1 plate, pp. 385-576 a. 1 plate. With titlepge to vol. XXX, htitlepage to vol. XXXI, titlepage to vol. XXXII and titlepage to vol. XLIV. Titlepages with a stamp and on verso. Planck's papers: pp. 562-582, pp. 189-203, pp. 462-503 and pp. 385-428. Clean copies. First appearance of all 4 papers constituting Planck's seminal papers on entropy carrying the general title "On the principles of Increase of Entropy" in which he applied the second law of thermodynamics to chemical problems."His goal was, as he said in the first paper of the series, to carry further the "grand generalization" of Helmholtz, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and others: like the first principle of the mechanical heat theory, the second, the "Carnot-Clausius", principle applies not only to heat phenomena but to all kinds of physical and chemical phenomena; and because the second principle applies not only to reversible processes but also to irreversible, or "natural", processes, it applies to all processes whatsoever..."(Jungnickel and McCormach "Intellectual Mastery of Nature, vol. 2, pp. 52 ff.)What Einstein admired and called Planck's "first great scientific discovery" was the generality of its formulas which contain all that can be derived from pure thermodynamic principles. Einstein referred to the third paper in this series with the title "Gesetze des Eintritts beliebiger thermodynamischer und chemischer Reactionen"Akademie Nos. 8,9,10 and 20.

København, 1890. Særdeles nydeligt halvlæderbind af rød-brun maroquin med forgyldt titel og blindtrykte stregdekorationer på ryg. Forgyldte streger på permer. (Erik Olsen). Nogle blade til slut er sat på fals i forbindelse med indbindingen, men næsten umærkeligt. Et meget rent og fint eksemplar. Originaludgaven i bogform af et af de vigtigste skandinaviske romaner nogensinde. "Knut Hamsuns debutroman fra 1890 er en af de bøger, der har sat skel. Den har virket med til at forme et nyt menneskesyn og en ny skrivemåde. Hamsun hentede stoffet fra sine egne trængselsår, da han uden slægt og venner gik arbejdsløs i Kristiania og kæmpede mod skuffelser, nederlag og sult." (Johannes V. Jensen).

Goslar, Typis Nicolai Duncker, Impensis Johannis Hallevordij Rostochiensis, 1631. Small 8vo. Cont. limp vellum. (2),615,(7) pp. Some browning to leaves throughout. A few leaves with a small wormtract in upper margin. First edition. This collection by the famous Danish anatomist contains 6 works on anatomy and physiology in form of "Quæstiones": 1. De homine. 2. De partibus eorumque facultatibus et functionibus. 3. De infimo ventre. 4. De thorace. 5. De capite. 6. de musculis, venis, erteriis, nervis et ossibus, and it can be considered as supplementary works to his enormously influential "Institutiones Corporis Humani..." from 1611.Waller No 700 - Gosch III, B.5. - Not in Wellcome. - Not in Osler.

Barcelona, Bernardo Pla, 1781. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on htitle and titlepage. (14),XXXVI,(4),391,(1) pp., 7 large folded engraved plates and 1 folded engraved plan. First inner hinge a bit loose, not broken. A few scattered brownspots, but a fine, clean copy printed on good paper. First edition.- Klaus Jordan: 2359.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1864). No wrappers, as extracted from"Proceedings of the Royal Society". From November 19, 1863, to December 22, 1864, inclusive.", Vol. XIII. Pp 531-536. First printing of the first announcement of Maxwell unification of light-waves, electricity and magnetism, the most importent of the papers relating to his electromagnetic theory, in which he brought electro-magnetical phenomena on a clear mathematical form. The present paper is an abstract of the larger paper which was read to the Royal Academy in 1864, but only issued the year later (1865) in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" , where it was printed in full, and as an abstract in "Philosophical Magazine" (1865)."A generation later Einstein's work on relativity was founded directly oupon Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to equate Faraday with Galileo and Maxwell with Newton." (PMM No 355, but only the paper from 1865). - Dibner. Heralds of Science No 68 (1865 paper).

Odense, Kongl. Privil. Adresse=Contoirs Bogtrykkerie, 1780. 8vo. Indbundet i en pænt, noget slidt samtidigt papbind. Rygpapir bortslidt. Kanter slidte og falmede. Hjørner en smule stødte. Ren og pæn indvendig. Den yderst sjældne forøgede udgave af Stubs 'Arier', oprindeligt udgivet posthumt i 1771. Bogen er udgivet af sønnen, Christian Stub, og indeholder adskillige digte i originaltryk.

Copenhagen, 1933-42. 4to and 8vo. 6 originale hshirtbd. Ubeskåret. Omfatter faksimileudgaver af: 1. Hid Nya Testament, 1540. - 2. Gudspajallabók, 1562 - 3. Jónsbok, 1578 - 4. Passio, 1559 - 5. Gudbrands Visnabok, 1612 - 6. Erngr. Jonsson, Groenlandica 1688.

(Paris, Crochard, 1816) No wrappers. In: 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Tome I, Sec. Series, Cahier Mars 1816. With htitle to vol. I. Pp. 225-336 and 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 239-281. The plate shows the diffraction patterns. First appearance of Fresnel's landmark mémoir - this mémoir was his first paper on diffraction, and was later given the prize of the French Academy and published in Memoires de l'Academie in 1826 in full, together with his further developments of his light theory - in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment."In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." (DSB V, p. 171)."Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper, presented to the Academy...in October 1815, and entitled "La Diffraction de la Lumiere" (the paper offered), was written after a long correspondance with Arago, who had promised Fresnel his full support. "The wave theory" Fresnel wrote, "is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena, and since, as we know from the case of sound, waves can surcomvent obstacles, I decided to make a study of shadows.....It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other."

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two birds, female in the nest, foliage, flowering plants, fungi on trunk. 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.

Nice hcalf. Boards with marbled cover paper. Leather title label on front board. Compositor marks in text. Complete autographed manuscript by Jean Richepin (1849-1930) who was imprisoned for the boldness in his writings (Chanson des Gueux, 1876). This story is complete in itself, and is, as far as seen, not published by itself. As it is not a poem, it is not to be found in R.'s poetical works, but the compositor marks do point to printing.

Paris, Bachelier, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),295,(1) pp., 6 folded engraved plates with many figures. A few faint scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition of Montgéry's notable work on the mechanics, chemistry and useability of rockets in warfare."Montgéry’s investigations of pyrotechnics led him to do research into the war rockets of William Congreve and to the production of what may be the first documented history of rocketry, Traité des fusées de guerre (1825). Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject, appeared in serial form in several official journals, and was republished in 1841. Montgéry’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics."(DSB).

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).

Dublin, S. Powell, 1733. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along fronthinge. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. XI,(1),(12 - Subscriber'øs List),176 pp., 4 folded engraved plates. Clean, printed on good paper. Light toning to the first quires. First edition.

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, Hirzel, 1902]. Royal8vo, [275 x 195 mm]. Without wrappers, as issued. Offprint from "Physikalische Zeitschrift", 3. Jahrgang, No. 10. Pp. 210-214. With "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" printed in top right corner of first leaf. Small blue gummed labels (from the library of Becquerel) pasted to top of first leaf. First leaf with brownspotting in inner margin. Traces after having been folded hjorizontally, otherwise fine. Rare offprint, given by the author to Henri Becquerel, of Rutherford's important paper on the transferal of excited radioactivity. British-New Zealand chemist and physicist, Ernest Rutherford, became known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered the concept of radioactive half life, proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1908 for "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances". Becquerel was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903 for "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity".

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".

Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1844. 12mo. Contemp. full cloth. (original ?). Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Faint remains of a numbering on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. (2),IV,293,(1) pp. and (4) pp. of publisher's announcements. Occassionally faint scattered browning. First printing under this title, but it is the second edition of the author's "Texas und seine Revolution" 1843. It is the best first-hand account of the Texas revolution.Sabin,22072. - Howes E83.

Odense, Kiøbenhavn, Iversen, Gyldendal, 1776-98. 4to. Indbundet i 7 ensartede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titel- og tomefelter. En kapitæl forstærket med tape. 2 kobberstukne portrætter, genealogiske tabeller, kobbertukne titelvignetter, 1 kobberstukket foldekort. Ganske sjælden i komplet stand med alle 3 afdelinger.

Soræ, Joachim Moltke (Henrik Kruse),1644- (45). Folio. Samtidigt helpergamentsbd. Håndskrevet titel på ryg. Kobberst.titelbl. (6), 384, (20), 252, (22) pp. samt talrige træsnitillustr. i kommentaren. Spredte brunpletter, mest i kommentardelen. Originaludgaven af den berømte "Sorø-udgave" som skulle afløse Chr. Pedersen's "Pariserudgave". Stephanius' tekst er filologisk set fremragende.