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Freyberg, Barthelischen Schriften, 1776-86. 4to. Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf and the last volume in later modest clothbacked boards. Spines a bit rubbed. Gilt titlelabels in leather on spines.. Stamps on titles. 6 general titles, each with engraved vignette and 6 parttitles. Having all 43 large folded engraved maps and plans. Light browning to part 1 and 2, a few scattered brownspots. The 6 parts, comprising the works which have the following separate titles: 1. Das Treffen bey Maxen..2. Der Feldzug der Kayserlich=Russischen und Königlich Preussischen Völker, im Jahre 1758...3. Der Feldzug...Im Jahre 1761, nebst Untersuchung der Feldbefestigungs=Kunst...4. Die drey Belagerungen und Londonsche Ersteigung der Festung Schweidnitz, in den Feldzügen von 1757. bis 1762..5. Der Feldzug...des Herzogs von Würtemberg und Generalleutnamts von Platen in Pommern im Jahre 1761...6. Fortsetzung der Untersuchung der Feldbefestungs=Kunst...

London, Miles Flesher, 1649. Folio (285 x 195 mm). In contemporary full with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, especially back board with numerous scratches and a few holes in leather, making the wooden boards visible. Lower part of back hinge split. A few annotation in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Internally with marginal browning and a few worm-tracts. (26), 173 [i.e. 179], (9), 90, (9), 221, (6) pp. Fourth edition of Byfield’s commentary of The Epistle to the Colossians being the twelfth book of the New Testament written by Paul, the first edition being from 1615. “The present Commentary is a fine specimen of Puritan exposition, indicating an extensive and intensive knowledge of the Word of God, and great soundness of judgment, and great faithfulness in dealing with the hearts and consciences of men. There is no eloquence in it, but a serious, earnest desire is manifest to keep back nothing of the counsel of God ; and we are much mistaken if ministers do not find it profitable, as suggestive of many hints which may enrich their own expositions of this Epistle.” (From the introduction to the 1849 reprint).

Nürnberg, Auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1805-15. Small 8vo. Bound in 3 nice cont. green boards, gilt backs. Titlelabels on backs with gilt lettering. Edges and corners lightly rubbed, otherwise fine. (4),271;(1)273-279,272;192 pp. and 76 folded engraved plates for the most part in beautifull original handcolouring. Plates as well as text printed on good paper, only a few scattered brownspots. First edition of the first 3 volumes of Sturm's well known work. These volumes on Beetles are the first 3 of part 5 of Sturm's work on Fauna Germanica, which in all comprises 23 volumes (the last published 1856) having a total of 424 plates. The general title is also present here: "Deutschlands Fauna in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. V. Abtheilung. Die Insecten. 1.-3. Band. Käfer." - Nissen ZBI No 4033. - Horn & Schenkling No 21700.

London, Addey & Co., 1852. Original full cloth. Uncut. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering to upper board. Small neath repairs at spine ends. Corners a bit bumped. Complete with htitle and advertisement leaf. XL,535 pp. Clean and fine. The first complete English translation of Andersen's Fairy-tales. It contains 45 Fairy-tales of which 31 are first translations. The "Advertisement-leaf" states that "The former edition of the "Danish Fairy Legends and Tales", published in 1846, was, eith the exception of a few stories rendered by mrs. Howitt, thefirst English translation of andersen's "Eventyr". That edition however contained only fourteen tales, while the present numbers forty-five, being in fact the only complete collection printed in this country. It may be well also, to state that the translation has been made from the original Danish, not from any numerous versions which have appeared in Germany." The translator is Caroline Peachey.

Paris, Dupont, 1849-1864. Bound in 32 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Spine gone on volume 11. Some maps and plates. Conating first hand investigations on colonial history, ethnography, hydrography, nautical matters, geography etc. etc.

München und Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1918. Lex 8vo. Uncut in the orig. dark grey-brown wrappers, printed in gold on front wrapper and spine. Spine and lettering thereupon faded. Some smaller nicks, creases and loss of paper to extremities. Minor loss to capitals and two smaller holes w. a bit of loss to hinges. Overall an excellent copy in the fragile wrappers, rarely seen in such fine condition. Internally some minor brownspotting throughout, due to the paper-quality. With the ownership signature of J.B. Dumont deted "Sept. '21" to title-page and his stamp on half-title. 445 pp. The rare first edition of Bloch's first major work, "The Spirit of Utopia", an expressionalist main work, which attempts to unite Marxism with Jewish-Christian messianism.The hugely influential German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was born as the son of Jewish parents in Ludwigshafen. He studied philosophy, physics, German and music in Munich and Würzburg and later became a main figure in Neomarxism. His first book, "Geist der Utopie" was written while Bloch was in exile in Switzerland during the First World War, and in this seminal work we find the cornerstones of his later so influential philosophy. In the "Spirit of Utopia", Bloch unites Marxism Jewish-Christian messianism by the common utopian element of both views: Hope, and faith in the fact that the world will and can become a better place. Bloch here set out to defend the attempts of humankind throughout history to create a humane world order, against the determinist socialism that viewed socialism as the inevitable result of history. With Marx and with the love and morality of religion, Bloch places man (that thinks of the common good) at the centre of his thinking as well as the metaphysical ideas of that which is not yet, but which can become. And thus he creates the spirit of utopia, due to which man can make the world a better place. This massive work of art begins with the powerful words: "What now? It is enough. Now we have to begin. Life has been put in our hands. In itself it has already become empty long ago. It staggers senselessly around, but we stand firm, and thus we want to be its Faustus and its ends." ("Wie nun? Es ist genug. Nun haben wir zu beginnen. In unsere Hände ist das Leben gegeben. Für sich selber ist es längst schon leer geworden. Es taumelt sinnlos hin und her, aber wir stehen fest, und so wollen wir ihm seine Faust und seine Ziele werden.") (P.9).The work was viewed as attacking the traditional Marxism of the time, and thus it was very controversial but also became hugely influential in the development of social liberation. Bloch is now considered one of the most undogmatic Marxists of the past century, and he influenced later political and philosophical thinkers enormously. Adorno himself cited this text of Bloch as having been transformative for his intellectual life, and as stated on the wrapper of the English translation, "When this work was first published, it had a profound effect on major thinkers and artists in Weimar Germany. A poetical philosophical treatise with unusual insights into culture and political commentary, Bloch' s book laid the groundwork for thinkers like Adorno and Benjamin." (Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota).This rare highly expressionist work consists of 445 pages of non-dogmatic strongly expressionistic and very influential recipes on and analyses of how man does and should behave in the humane world. "But in return, we paint like savages again, in the best sense, in the sense of the primordial, the restless, unconcerned, concerned. For this is more or less how the dancing-mask was carved. This is more or less how primitive man shaped his fetishes, if only the simple need to express oneself should again be the same" ("Aber dafür malen wir auch wieder wie die Wilden, im besten Sinn des Frühen, Unruhigen und Barbarischen genommen. So ungefähr wurde auch die Tanzmaske geschnitzt, so ungefähr baute sich der primitive Mensch seinen Fetisch zurecht, sollte auch nichts als die Not des Aussprechenmüssens wieder dieselbe geworden sein."). (P. 19).The work was much re-written, and the first editions differs from all later editions.

Stockholm, G. Kiesewetter, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Extremities with wear. Boards with scratches with loss of the marbled paper. Capitals chipped and leather on spine cracked. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Occassional browning throughout. (6), 362 pp. + frontispiece and 11 plates. The portrait (frontispiece), present here, was only added to a few copies. Complete copies with portrait and all 11 plates are uncommon. First edition of this first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin. It also contains Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature. ‘Philosophia Botanica marks a developmental stage in Linnaeus's botanical philosophy, expanding upon concepts initially presented in his ‘Fundamenta Botanica’ (1736) and ‘Critica Botanica’ (1737). The book also establishes a basic botanical terminology. “Continuing his study on the classification of plants, Linnaeus published [the present work]. In this he attempted to organize a natural system based on structure, but this work was never completed” (Sparrow 135) “Linnaeus’ main mission was to complete his reform of botany. In the work produced during his stay in Holland he had established the principles, maintained more or less unchanged for the rest of his life, but they still had to be developed and put into practice. In 1751 he published Philosophies botanica, his most influential work but actually only an expanded version of Fundamenta botanica. In it Linnaeus dealt with the theory of botany, the laws and rules that the botanist must follow in order to describe and name the plants correctly and to combine them into higher systematic categories. At the same time he struggled with the enormous undertaking of cataloging all of the world’s plant and animal species and giving each its correct place in the system.” (DSB) Sparrow 135 Soulsby 437 Hulth p. 78.

Berlin, 1929. 8vo. Entire volumes 215 and 216 of Biochemische Zeitschrift, bound in one half cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine.Library stamp to first 4 leaves. Traces after paper label to upper part of front board. Hindges a bit weak. Internally fine and clean. Pp. (475)-492. [Entire volumes: V,(1), 500 pp. + IV, 500 pp]. First printing of the documentation of the discovery of the dietary anti-haemorrhiagic factor, Vitamin K. The Danish biochemist and physiologist Henrik Dam (1895-1976) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dam's key experiment involved feeding a cholesterol-free diet to chickens. It was thus that he in 1929 investigated the role of cholesterol, by feeding the chickens a cholesterol-depleted diet. After several weeks, the animals developed hemorrhages and started bleeding uncontrollably. The bleeding could not be stopped with purified cholesterol alone - a second compound had to be added to the food. Dam isolated this dietary substance needed for blood clotting, namely that which is now known as the coagulation vitamin or vitamin K. The new vitamin received the letter K because the initial discoveries were reported (here) in the German journal Biochemische Zeitschrift, in which it was designated as Koagulationsvitamin (Vitamin of Coagulation).G&M: 1062.

Frankfurt, Schrey und Hartmann, 1707. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper label pasted on to upper part of spine inducating the inventory number in an estate library. Light wear to extremities. Leaves closely trimmed, a nice and clean copy. (28), 205, (3), 397, (3), 422, (2), 187, (7), 16, 21, (1), 17-86 pp. + 132 plates and 1 frontispiece (out of 136?) Rare first edition of one of the earliest German-language mathematics textbook for students. Sturm was one of the leading architectural theorists of his time and the present compendium covers general mathematics, arithmetic, architecture and mechanics, astronomy and geography, sundials and optics. “Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669—1719) German mathematician and architect. He published a treatise on Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (1694) in which he endeavoured to prove the building's Divinely inspired dimensions and proportions were the basis for Classical architecture (a notion that resurfaces every so often). He designed parts of the Lustschloss (Pleasure Palace) of Salzdahlum (1694–1702), with its celebrated picture-gallery. Later, he completed the Church of St Nikolai auf dem Schelfe, Schwerin, from 1708, after which he published Architektonisches Bedenken von der protestantischen Klein Kirchen Figur und Einrichtung (Architectural Reflections on the Form and Arrangement of Protestant Churches—1712 and 1718). His main importance lies in his theoretical writings, of which there are many.” (Oxford Reference). Poggendorff II, 1044.

Kiøbenhafn, Tyge Nielssøn, 1638. 8vo. I et samtidigt helpergamentsbind. Forperm løsrevet. Titelblad med reperationer. Gennemgående med sporadiske vandskjolder og annotationer i margin i samtidig hånd. Forsatsblade tæt annoteret i samtidig hånd. 221, (3) pp. Husholdningskalenderen foreligger her i komplet stand og er her stærkt forøget i forhold til udgaven fra 1633. Yderst sjælden i komplet stand. (Originaludgaven fra 1622 er gået tabt, der kendes kun et eksemplar af 2. udgaven fra 1631). Værket betegnes som den første vejledning i havebrug og landbrug af en dansk forfatter. Tyge Nielsen blev Norges første bogtrykker idet han 1643 flyttede trykkeriet til Christiania.Bibl. Danica II,257. Thesaurus II,739.

Giessen, G.F. Heyer, 1828-29. Bound in 2 fine cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs. Corners on volume one lightly bumped. 3 titlepages (incl. the general title and the 2 separate). XVI,603,(1);VI,607,(1) pp. A few scattered brownspots. A fine copy. First edition of one of the main works by Feuerbach, founder of modern Criminal Science and Penal Law. His so-called "psychological-coersive or intimidation theory" occupies a prominent place in the history of the criminal sciences, as it focuses on the central problems connected to the application og psychological considerations to cases of crime.

Uppsala, 1913-84. Lex8vo. 1-40 bound in 10 solid hcloth., 41-68 in 14 solid hcalf., rest in parts.

London, Printed for J. Knox, 1767 8vo. Bound in 7 nice uniform contemp. full calf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A small stamp on title-page. With 14 (of 15) folded engraved maps and plans, 29 (34) engraved plates, some folding. A few scattered brownspots. printed on good paper "A capital Compendium. Contains well-digested narratives of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus, Ulloa, Dampier, Kolben, Rogers, Drake, Pocock, Nieuhof, etc." (Sabin, 38163).

(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1840. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1840 - Part I. Pp. 1-59. (Note I- III pp. 51-59) and 2 plates. (one showing Herschel's telescope, lithographed; the other showing the heat spectrum of the sun in stipple engraving). First appearance of an important pioneer-paper in the history of early photography, in which subject John Herschel was one of the main contributors. The paper deals with the dynamical interplay between photochemistry and photography and is of the greatest importence in applied photography. The later sections of the paper deals with the spectrum of the sun, Herschel's so-called thermographical representation of the spectrum of the sun (with description of the Actinograph, invented by him), rendering the heat radiation visible in the spectrum. This first importent spectrum is reproduced here on one of the plates (in stipple engraving). In this paper he introduces the photographical concepts 'positive' and 'negative' to express, respectively, pictures in which the lights and shades are the same as in nature, or as in the original model, and in which they are opposite. For this large paper John Herschel was awarded the Copley archives winners Prize for 1840."The object which the author has in view in this memoir is to place on record a number of insulated facts and observations respecting the relations bothof white light, and of the differently refrangible rays, to various chemical agents whic have offered themselves to his notice in the course of his photographical experiments, suggested by the announcement of M. Daguerre's discovery.....The terms "direct" and "reverse" are also used to express pictures in which objects appear, as regards right and left, the same as in the original, and the contrary....The principal objects of inquiry in the present paper...are the following. First, the means of fixing photographs, the comparative merits of different chemical agents...The means of taking photographic copies and transfers.....The preparation of photographic paper....The chemical analysis of the solar spectrum forms the subjects of the next section in the paper..."(Abstract).

Paris, Guillaume Desprez et Jean Desessartz, 1732. 4to. Contemp. hcalf with raised bands and gilt title-label on backs. A bit rubbed and light wear to covers. Small stamp in upper corner of title-page. XXXII,740,(8) pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates with many figs. Printed on good paper, internally clean. First edition. "The foramen between the greater and lesser sacs of the peritoneum (described on pages 352-65), is named after Winslow. His Exposition is distinguished as being the first book on descriptive anatomy to discard physiological details and hypothetical explanations foreign to the subject. He did much to condense and systematize the anatomical knowledge of his time." - "Section VI deals with the nerves. Winslow designated the ganglion chain "the grand sympathetic nerve", and the smaller branches "the lesser sympathetic", terms which remain today." (Garrison & Morton: 394 a. 1314).

Stuttgart, Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1891. 8vo. Near cont. full green cloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Old library marking removed from bottom of spine. Extremities w. traces of wear. Inner hinges reinforced. Old stamps to verso of title-page. VIII, 284 pp + 2 plates. The rare first edition of Weber's influential Habilitationsschrift on Roman law and agrarian history, "Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law".Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (1864-1920) is one of the most important founders of modern sociology and cultural sciences (together with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim). His works have been, and are, of the utmost importance to the fields of sociology, corporational-, social-, musical-, political-sciences etc., and the terms and categories coined by him are now part of the normal vocabulary of these fields of study.In his groundbreaking Habilitationsschrift, which he published at the age of 27, Weber examined the economic, social and political developments of Roman society, and thus laid the foundations of his establishing of modern sociology. He examined the methods of land surveying in Roman society, the terms that were used for the resulting land units, and agricultural works written by Roman authors.As opposed to e.g. Durkheim, Weber took part in creating the antipositivist tradition, opposing the scientific methods of the social sciences to those of the natural sciences.Weber began teaching at the University of Berlin, and later he taught at the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Vienna and Munich. He greatly influenced German politics at the time, and he was appointed the advisor of the German negotiators at both the Treaty of Versailles and the drafting of the Weimar Constitution.Being without doubt the most important social theorist of the twentieth century and a principal architect of modern social science, Weber's seminal contributions helped form the new academic disciplines of sociology and public administration, and changed the way of perceiving law, economics, political science and religious studies. Most of Max Weber's works were published posthumously with the aid of his wife.

Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with gilt lettering to spine. Spine and edges of boards with wear. Small repair to lower margin of first two leaves, not touching text. Small worm-tract to upper margin of first 18 ff. A with marginal underlinings in pencil. 222 pp. The rare first edition, first issue, of Kant's masterpiece, the more popular exposition of the ideas presented in his main work "Critik der reinen Vernunft" (1781). Three variants of the first edition appeared in the same year, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces; this is the first, as described in Warda, 75.This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", and the "prolegomena", being one of the most frequently read and most approachable of his works, also became one of Kant's most influential. It is responsible for spreading his thoughts among a much wider audience than his other works. After having received immense negative critique and having been misunderstood with the first edition of the "Critique of Pure Reason", Kant wrote his "Prolegomena" as a defense and explanation; he later incorporated much of it into the second edition of the "Critique of Pure Reason". It is with the ideas expounded in this work that Kant becomes world-famous. "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy... The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. - No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas... " (PMM 226). Warda 75.

Kbhvn., C.F. Holm, 1786. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. Papiretikker pålimet ryggen. XVI,414 pp. samt 7 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Ganske velbevaret eksemplar, men lettere aldersgulnet. Fiske p.402. Originaludgaven. Det i Fiske anførte eksemplar mangler 1 planche. Mohr blev oprindelig sendt til Island med det formål at søge efter Kaolin; han vendte tilbage allerede det følgende år og udgav dette værk med en anseelig zoologisk afdeling, hvori han meddeler nye bidrag, navnlig til Fuglenes levemåde (Gosch).

Paris, Lacombe, 1766. 8vo. In two contemporary full sprinckled full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Corners and spines with wear, and waterstain affecting lower half of the last third of volume 1, otherwise a fine set. XXVI, (2), 616 pp.; (4), 686, (2) pp. First edtion of this landmark work "which may be regarded as the first scientific work of its class." (Ferguson I:p.60) and is considered the "first modern dictionary of chemistry" ."An ecnyclopedia of all that was then known about chemistry, the Dictionnaire is Marcquer's most important work and a milestone of chemical literature. Begun in 1763, Macquer published it anonymously bacause he was concerned that his reputation might suffer as he had not been able to make it as perfect as he wished. He need not have worried, as the work received very favorably reviews shortly after it appeared. Containing more than five hundred articles in alphabetical order, it was preceded by a brief pattern for many later chemical dictionaries." (Neville, vol2. p. 112)."By far the most important of Macquer's works: there had been technical dictionaries before but this was the first dictionary of theoretical and general chemistry; its success soon produced many imitators". (Duveen).Blake 282; Cole 862; Coleby 22; Duveen 377; Edelstein 1509; Ferchl 332

København, Godiche, 1777-79. 4to. 3 samt. helldrbd., ophøjede bind på rygge, rig rygforgyldning. Titelfelter i skind, forgyldt. Rygge med lettere brugsspor. Kapitæler slidte. et par revnedannelser ved false. Bagpærm på bind 3 løs. Kobberstukket portræt af Hofman som frontispiece. 3 store kobberstukne titelvignetter. XX,193;(8),342;(12),401 pp. Rigt illustreret med kobberstukne portrætter, store vignetter, prospekter, våbenskjolde og genealogiske foldetavler. Et af portrætterne opsat på sværere papir. Indvendig frisk eksemplar med brede marginer og trykt på svært skrivepapir. Enkelte spredte brunpletter. Første danske udgave, der udkom som en oversættelse af forfatterens "Portraits Historiques des Hommes Illustres... fra 1746. - Hofmans omgang i Paris med tidens fornemste bogkunstnere gav ham smag for den nye franske bogkunst og han knyttede mange af disse kunstnere til udgivelsen af værket med dets pompøse udsmykninger, således blev hans eget portræt, som indleder værket, stukket af den fremtrædende franske kunstner J.G. Wille. I værket redegøres for over 40 danske adelsslægter, Friis, Skeel, Rantzau, Thott m.v. samt fremtrædende personligheder så som Tordenskjold, og særligt må fremhæves afsnittet om Tycho Brahe, der ud over hans stukne portræt, indeholder kortet over Hven, prospekt af Uranienborg m.v.This fine work describes 40 nobleDanish families and renowned Danes, among these Tycho Brahe and his family. There is a chapter on him, with his engraved portrait (1 engraved plate), a map of Hven (in the text) and illustrations of his observatories at the island Hven (2 engraved plates).

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1956. Lex8vo. Volume 104, October 1, No. 1, 1956 of "The Physical Review", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor bumpings to extremities and two small tears to bottom and right side of front wrapper. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 254-58. [Entire issue: (2), 272 pp.]. First printing of Yang and Lee's seminal and topic-creating paper which proved that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. "The discovery of parity nonconservation contributed to a general change in the intellectual climate of fundamental physics, leading to a tendency to question the absolute validity of other conservation laws as well." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 318-9). Before 1956, the general belief was that parity conservation is never violated in nature, a firm paradigm that was not challenged until the publication of the present paper. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". Lee is the youngest Nobel laureate after WWII. It had earlier been suggested that parity might not be conserved but noone had been able to put forth compelling evidence. A careful review by Lee and Yang went further, showing that while parity conservation had been verified in decays by the strong or electromagnetic interactions, it was untested in the weak interaction. They proposed several possible direct experimental tests.When Lee and Yang's paper appeared in 1956, physicists were not immediately swept away by their ground breaking conclusions. The physicist Freeman Dyson wrote of his reaction to the paper: "A copy of it was sent to me and I read it. I read it twice. I said, `This is very interesting,' or words to that effect. But I had not the imagination to say, `By golly, if this is true it opens up a whole new branch of physics.' And I think other physicists, with very few exceptions, at that time were as unimaginative as I." Wolfgang Pauli wrote to Weisskopf after reading the paper: "Now after the first shock is over, I begin to collect myself. Yes, it was very dramatic. I am shocked not so much by the fact that the Lord prefers the left hand as by the fact that He still appears to be left-right symmetric when he expresses Himself strongly." (Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp. 319).The presented theory paved the way for a reconsideration of physical theories and led to new, far-reaching discoveries regarding the nature of matter and the universe. The removal of the restrictions imposed by parity law brought order to the theoretical chaos that existed with regard to subatomic particles elementary particles seen in cosmic rays and particle accelerator experiments were understood to be manifestations of the strong and weak nuclear interactions. Eventually the better understanding of their characteristics has led to a more unified theory of the fundamental universal forces of nature.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929 u. 1930. Bound in 2 contemp. uniform hcloth. Spine ends a bit worn, cloth broken on fronthinge to vol. 56. (binding not loose).. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Herausgegeben von Karl Scheel", 56. und 59. Band. VII,867 pp. u. VII,874 pp. (2 entire volumes offered). Heisenberg & Pauli's paper: pp. 1-61 a. pp. 168-190. Internally clean. First appearance of these two papers of seminal importence as Heisenberg and Pauli here laid the foundation, by using a new method, for the quantum field theory, and gave the "relativistic formulation of quantum electrodynamics in the presence off charges and currents"(Pais). They were the first to attempt a general formulation of quantum electrodynamics by setting up a general scheme for the quantization of fields which they hoped would be applicable to the Maxwell field.In the papers they also introduced what is today called "gauge fixing", which from then on are among the precious tools of field theory."Heisenberg and Pauli thus established the basic structure of QFT which can be found in any introduction to QFT up to the present day" (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy).

København, Gyldendal, 1930. Indbundet i et samtidigt rødt halvlæderbind. Med dedikation fra forfatteren: "2 Juni 1945 - / Kære Løfler og P. W. / Da I har set og oplevet / den kære Kristensen / i nogle Hærværks - / Situationer / maa i forstaa / at denne Bog / er sand / jeres Ven / Tom". Ryg med en del ridser, indvendig pæn og ren. Den ikke almindelige originaludgave med egenhændig dedikation på halvtitlen til Poul Westermann: "2 Juni 1945 - / Kære Løfler og P. W. / Da I har set og oplevet / den kære Kristensen / i nogle Hærværks - / Situationjer / maa i forstaa / at denne Bog / er sand / jeres Ven / Tom"."Hærværk" er ikke alene Tom Kristensens hovedværk, den udgør tillige kulturradikalismens og expressionismens hovedværk i dansk litteratur og regnes for nok det største psykologiske skønlitterære værk skrevet i Danmark.

Kiøbenhaffn (Copenhagen), Henrich Waldkirch, 1599. 4to. Bound in a bit later nice full calf binding with four raised bands with richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Upper margin closely trimmed, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. (20), 285, (23) pp. + 1 folded genealogical table. Rare first edition of Huitfeldt’s famous history of Denmark, the present part being on Christian the 1. from 1448 to 1481 – The work is part of a ten volume work published over a period of eight year but each volume constitute a separate work in itself. It is considered the first printed comprehensive history of Denmark and spans from the history from King Dan and up to the death of King Christian III "After publishing his translation of Saxo Grammaticus, Vedel was asked to continue saxo's work and to bring the study of Denmark down to his own time. There were disagreements about how thorough this history should be and which language should be used, Danish or Latin. The project was then given with Vedel's notes to another historian, who accomplished little, and finally to Arild Huitfeldt. Huitfeldt worked quickly, from 1595 to 1603, providing nine volumes of Danish history from King Dan I down to 1559 and the reign of Christian III. He published the ninth volume first (1595)... In 1604 he added a tenth volume, a chronicle of Danish bishops. Huitfeldt had hoped to create a more carefully written version of hist history, but he died before he had the chance. Although roughj in some places, this work provides an invaluable source of information not otherwise available. For example it contains the text of original documents, letters, and description of laws." (Houghton Library, Danish Literature, 1986).Thesaurus 224Lauritz Nielsen 958

Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier & Paris, Chez Huart, 1744. 4to. Beautiful cont. full mottled calf with five raised bands and gilt red title-label to richly gilt back. All edges of boards gilt. A very beautiful and well preserved copy with only minor fowing to a few leaves. Half-title, beautiful engraved frontispiece (a bit ahaved at bottom, where half of the last line of text is cut away - thus not disturbing image, and all text still legible), XXVIII, (1), 435, (1, -errata), (8, -contents) pp. First edition of the important first French translation of Cumberland's magnum opus, the highly important and influential masterpiece, which not only criticized Hobbes, absorbing and neutralizing many of his insights, but which thus also created a new political and ethical theory, which came to greatly influence later jurists and philosophers of natural law and ethics, e.g. Locke, Pufendorf, Hutcheson, and Shaftesbury, as well as much philosophy of the French Enlightenment. The present work also greatly influenced the understanding and reception of Hobbes in France and affected the French Enlightenment philosophers. "Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles", originally published in Latin in 1672, the same year as Pufendorf's "De jure naturae et gentium", constitutes Cumberland's earliest work, published by him at the age of 40. It was immediately read by the greatest of his contemporaries, exercised a great influence and was soon regarded as one of the three greatest works of the modern natural law tradition, together with Grotius' "On the Law of War and Peace" and Pufendorf's "De jurae naturae". In a later work Pufendorf commended the "De legibus" highly, and with its early utilitarian views and its doctrine of the common good as the supreme law of morality, it anticipated and influenced the direction that much ethical thought was to take in the 18th century. "Some of the earliest utilitarian thinkers were the 'theological' utilitarians such as Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) and John Gay (1699-1745). They believed that promoting human happiness was incumbent on us since it was approved by God." (SEP)."His combination of a strong critique of innate ideas and assertion of the moral community with God was a contributing factor in the formation of the kind of empirically based natural providentialism, or natural religious teleology, which soon became the framework or natural law thinking and, indeed, for the mainstream of Enlightenment moral thought." (Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy", p. 51).At the age of 60, the English philosopher and theologian Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was appointed bishop of Peterborough (without having applied for it). Before that, he had been educated at Magdalen College in Cambridge and at the University of Oxford. He studied medicine for some time and then theology, becoming Doctor of Divinity in 1680. In 1658 he became rector of Brampton Ash in Northamptonshire, and in 1661 he became one of the 12 preachers of the university. In 1670 he became rector of All Saints at Stamford. He was known for the great effort and time that he put into his work, and it was not until his late thirties that he found time to finish the major work that he had been working on. Thus in 1672, he published his first work, his magnum opus "De legibus naturae"( "Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles"), which became famous for its vast critique of Hobbes - mainly of that which he saw as his egoistic ethics- and for its propounding of utilitarianism.The main purpose of the "De legis naturae" is to refute Hobbes' theories of the constitution of man, morality, origin of society, etc. and to show that the state of nature is not a state of war. According to Cumberland, man's primary end is not self-advantage, and power is not the foundation of society. He puts forth a new doctrine of morality, which is still based on natural law, but which is accompanied by a running criticism of Hobbes' views, which seem to him subversive of religion, morality, and civil society. He sees the law of nature as capable of pointing out that which will promote the common good, and he believes that the law of nature can be inferred by observing physical and mental phenomena. Thus, Cumberland agrees with Hobbes in the attempt to provide a naturalistic account of the normative force of obligation and in the attempt of establishing a rational dictate, but he opposes Hobbes in the way that these can be derived.Another edition of the present work was published simultaneously at Lausanne and Geneva, and it was published again in 1757 in Leyden. The first English translation of the work appeared in 1727, and a new translation into English followed in 1750.Brunet II:442 (only mentioning the present Amsterdam-edition and the 1757 Leyden-edition).