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Zürich, Meyer und Zeller, (1854-) 1879. 4to. Contemporary halfcalf. Gilt spine, gilt letterinf. Fronthinge weakening. 1. Bericht (title without year): pp. (66-) 100 - 2.: pp. (110-) 155 - 3.: X,(73-) 116 - 4.: 34,(2) pp. - 5.: (4),(131-) 188 pp. - 6.: VIII,(245-) 320 pp. - 7.: (2),(4),69,(2),XII,(2) pp. - 8.: VIII,58 pp. and 85 lithographed plates, each with numerous illustr., 2 views (complete). Siebenter berich has 2 titlepages, the first: "Résultat des Recherches exécutées dans les Lacs de la Suisse Occidentale depuis l'année 1866 decrit par V. Gross, F.-A. Forel et Edm. de Fellenberg". The second: "Pfahlbauten. Siebenter Bericht. Von Ferdinand Keller". A few minor brownspots, internally clean.The work was published in "Mittheilungen der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich", Bde IX,,XII,,XIII,,XIV,.XV,,XIX, a. XX. The work has successively belong to three well-known Danish archaeologist: Georg Sarauw, Axel Steensberg and J. Troels-Smith with their names on front free endpaper.Troels-Smith is internatonally known as one of the pioneers in Pollen Analysis, especially with his work "Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zu einigen Schweizerischen Pfahlbauproblemen" founded on his excavations on the "Pfahlbauten". First edition of this pioneer work in Swiss archaeology, exposing in a long series of reports his finds in the Swiss lakes (the Swiss lake Dwellings), - describing the Swiss "Urbevölkerung" with their Stake Buildings and the rich finds around these in the Swiss lakes.

[Stockholm], 1745. 8vo. Extracted from "Kgl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar", 1745, 6. In recent stiff paper wrappers. Uncut, nice and clean. Pp. 116-17. [Pp. 115-18 present]. Seminal first printing of the first actual description of (speech order) aphasia.Linné here describes the case of a patient of his, who suffered from gout, which in the fall of 1742 went to his brain instead of his feet. For the first time, we here find an actual description of speech order aphasia, as Linné states "... he seemed to be raving... he was sort of speaking his own language, having his own names for all words... He had forgotten all the nouns, so that he did not remember one single one; not even the name of his children, his wife or himself, let alone anybody else. And what was even more strange, if you mentioned something he wanted to say, he said yes; but if you asked him to repeat it he replied "can nothing", when he saw someone's name, he knew who it was, and when he wanted to mention one of his colleagues, he pointed to the Catalogum Lectionum, where the name was mentioned." Linné's conclusion is: "Thus, he had lost two things; first the memory of all nouns, and second, the ability to name the nouns." [Own translation from Swedish]. This condition lasted till about Christmas, and the following year, the patient died.The present work is highly interesting in more than one respect. Fist it is of great importance as being the first actual description of speech aphasia, and the first description of aphasia to be given accurately by a physician (vague descriptions of something that might be similar had occurred in blurred forms in the 16th century, and it may therefore be considered not quite accurate, when Garrison and Morton state of the present treatise "Aphasia first described"). The year before Linné's treatise, the great Enlightenment philosopher Biambattista Vico had reported the first known case of a verb production aphasia, and when Linné the following year describes the first reported case of impaired noun production, we actually here, within one year, establish an identification and documentation of both verbal- and noun- dissociation of lexical category retrieval, and thus the actual foundation of aphasia-research."Anomia, especially word-finding difficulty affecting nouns and other substantive words, was well documented before epochal observations of Paul Broca ushered in the modern era of aphasiology. A man who lost the "memory of all substantives" as well as the "power to name the substantives" was reported in 1745 by Linnaeus, the Swedish botany taxonomist." (Kirshner, "Handbook of Neurological Speech and Language Disorders, p. 166)."SPEECH DISORDER Aphasia was described by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) in 1745 and the site of the lesion in the brain causing it was suggested by Jean Baptiste Boulland in 1825." (Sebastian, "A Dictionary of the History of Medicine").Apart from those two aspects of the present article, it also raises highly important questions within the fields of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and logic. Aphasia raises essential questions about the relation between brain and language, a theme which has occupied almost all modern analytical philosophers and logicians (e.g. Wittgenstein etc.), and it thus plays an important role in the area of research of these disciplines.Garrison and Morton: 4616; Hulth: p. 44.

Firenze, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1775. Royal8vo. In patterned contemporary paper wrappers. Wrappers with some tears and minor loss. Internally very fine, clean, and fresh. 62, (2) pp. Scarce first printing of this collection of tax edicts issued by Pietro Leopoldo II, grand-duke of Tuscany. The intention was to raise the tax-level for the rich and for companies in Siena in order to spend the extra income on the poor and needy. In this sense, the present collection of tax-edicts represents one of the very earliest European attempts to create economic social reform in the spirit of the Enlightenment. This became a source of inspiration for the French Constitution. Pietro Leopoldo initiated a process of political, social and economic change in Siena which lasted several decades into the 19th century. It has been argued that this turned Siena from a patrician city - symbolized by the nobility - into a middleclass and bourgeois city. Partly due to laws and guidelines presented in the present work, Siena went from being a city whose most significant features were convents and monasteries to being a city characterized by its public and civil institutions. Leopold also approved and collaborated on the development of a political constitution, said to have anticipated the promulgation of the French Constitution, which bore some similarities to the Virginia Bill of Rights of 1778. Leopold's concept of this was based upon respect for the political rights of citizens and upon a harmony of power between the executive and the legislative. Leopold developed and supported many social and economic reforms. Smallpox vaccination was made systematically available, and an early institution for the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents was founded. Leopold also introduced radical reforms to the system of neglect and inhumane treatment of those deemed mentally ill. On 23 January 1774, the "legge sui pazzi" (law on the insane) was established, the first of its kind to be introduced in all of Europe, allowing steps to be taken to hospitalize individuals deemed insane.

London, 1755. 8vo. Bound in a very nice cont. full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Front hinge a bit weak, upper capital w. minor loss. Internally very nice and clean. LXII, 390 pp. The rare first edition of Bonnet's important first work on psychology, in which he develops his views regarding the physiological conditions of mental activity and thus anticipates physiological psychology (biological psychology or behavioral neuroscience). Bonnet's movement or "vibration" model, which is presented in the present work for the first time, constitutes a much elaborated model of the internal representation of ideas that Newton had also discussed. His contributions to the field of neuro-psychology were highly original, and his theories which included the idea that the understanding of human (and animal) behavior presupposes knowledge of the nervous system and its functions caused quite a stir at the time of their appearance.With the present work, Bonnet became a pioneer in the study of the physiological bases of behavior, and his theories and experiments on the relationship between psychological and physiological processes were much ahead of his time."Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. " (D.S.B. II: 286).After at the age of 26 having discovered the parthenogenesis of the aphid (plant lice), which established virginal generation, having written important works in the field of regeneration of rainwater worms, a groundbreaking work on insectology, which "entitles him consideration as an early exponent of experimental entomology" (D.S.B. II: 286), a work which established him as one of the first naturalists to investigate photosynthesis, and several other works of interest, the Swiss natural historian, biologist and philosopher Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) began concentrating on philosophy and methodology. "A true theoretician of biology, he exercised an enormous influence in this field and maintained a correspondence with almost all the scientists of his time. He published works that caused a considerable stir - among them "Essai de psychologie"..." (D.S.B. II: 286).

London, Printed for G. and H. Eversden, 1654. 8vo. In contemporary full calth with ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Inner hinges split. Internally with occassional brownspotting. (8), 77, (5), 223 pp. Each sermon has a half-title, "A comment on Ruth" has separate dated title page, register and pagination. The rare first edition of Fuller’s detailed exegesis of the ‘Book of Ruth’ from the Old Testament offers moral and spiritual lessons derived from Ruth's story. Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen. He was known for his moderate religious stance. Rooted in his upbringing as the son of an Anglican clergyman, Fuller was deeply influenced by the Church of England's traditions and his education at Cambridge. His theology emphasized practical piety, moral integrity and an aversion to extreme positions within the church and society.

Frankfurt am Main, And. Wechel, 1576. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. (8), 342, (24),(2) pp. Last leaf with printers woodcut device (also on title-page). 3 exlibris from previous owners on inside front cover. faint browning to foot of title-page. Internally clean and fine, and wide-margined. Third and last 16th century Latin edition of Saxo's "History of Denmark", edited by Philip Loncier, rector of the Frankfurt Gymnasium.Saxo Grammaticus (ab. 1150-1220) was probably a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the great Danish churchman, statesman and warrior. Saxo is remembered today as the author of the first full history of Denmark, in which he modeled himself on the classical authors (e.g. Virgil, Plato, Cicero) in order to glorify his fatherland. The work dates from the end of the 12th century and was edited by Christiern Pedersen, a Canon of Lund, and printed by Jodocus Badius Ascendius in Paris in 1514 (the editio princeps) with 16th century re-issues following in 1534 (Basel) and 1576 (the present). Only with the first printing of this seminal work did the work become known throughout academic circles. The work soon received international fame and is to this day renowned as not only being immensely important historically, but also being extremely well written (Saxo is praised by Erasmus, for instance, for possessing great power of eloquence). The work consists of sixteen books that cover the time from the founders of the Danish people (Dan I of Denmark) till Saxo's own time, ending around 1185 (with the submission of Pomerania), when the last part is supposedly written. The work thus covers the entire history of Denmark until Saxo's own time, seen under a somewhat glorified perspective, from heathen times with tales of Odin and the gods of Valhalla to the times of Absalon, who probably directly influenced the sections on the history of his own time, working closely with Saxo himself. Apart from that, the work contains the first known written narration of the legend of Hamlet (Amleth, the son who took revenge for his murdered father). It is most likely this narrative of Saxo's, which he based on an oral tale, that forms the basis for Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which takes place in Helsinore in Denmark. There is fairly certain evidence that Shakespeare knew Saxo's work on the History of Denmark and thus, from that, the legend of Amleth.The editio princeps was printed in Paris in 1514, the second edition being printed in Basel in 1534.LN 1450Thesaurus 190.

Leipzig, Barth, 1898. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht vom Verfasser" [i.e. "Given by the author"]. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik und Chemie", Neue Folge, Band 64, 1898. Two stamp to top left corner of front wrapper. "Habilitations-Schrift" written in ink to top of front wrapper. A fine copy. Pp. 101-130. First edition, in the scarce author's presentation offprint issue, of this important paper on the discontinuity of temperature widely regarded as being his first important contribution to science. The work is of seminal importance for by publishing it Smoluchowski joined the dispute on the validity of atomic conceptions. These were far from accepted at the end of the nineteenth century and their recognition was partly due to Smoluchowski."In 1875 Warburg and A. Kundt, on the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, had predicted that if the temperature of a gas differed from that of the container wall, the former temperature would not pass continuously to the latter: there would be a discontinuity of temperature between the gas and the wall. Their experiments, successful in the case of the analogous phenomenon of the slipping of gases, had not been decisive for temperature discontinuity. Smoluchowski, observing the cooling time of a thermometer in a gas-filled container, demonstrated that an effect exists and reached significant values with rarefied gas in [The present paper].This work was of special importance. For by publishing it Smoluchowski joined the dispute on the validity of atomic conceptions. These, represented in physics mainly by the kinetic theory of gases developed by Boltzmann. were far from accepted at the end of the nineteenth century; and their recognition was partly due to Smoluchowski. At that time only a few phenomena were predicted by the kinetic theory or required it for intelligibility. Among them was discontinuity of temperature, for its existence was wholly unexplained from a classical point of view. Moreover, in 1897 after his return to Vienna, Smoluchowski pointed out the quantitative agreement of his experimental results with the kinetic theory. In 1898 the University of Vienna admitted him veniam legendi." (DSB).

(Paris), Minuet, 1967. 8vo. Original wrappers. A very nice and clean copy with a slightly soiled spine. A bump to fore-edge. 445, (3) pp. First edition (20 Septembre, 1967, numéro 630) of Derrida's seminal main work, the foundational text for deconstructive criticism.1967 marks a turning point in the history of modern philosophy, constituting the birth of "Deconstruction". In this one year, Derrida publishes all of his three break-through books, "De la grammatologie", "L'écriture et la difference" and "La Voix et le phenomene", profoundly altering the course of modern thought. Although all three books are responsible for the introduction of Deconstruction, it is primarily "De la Grammatologie", Derrida's magnum opus, that has come to be associated with this groundbreaking concept."Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960's, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in "De la grammatologie" sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy..." (Review, Spivak's translation of Derrida's "Of Grammatology", 1997).Derrida's concern is to bring to light the binary schema that is hidden in all kinds of texts and ideas of culture. In the present text Derrida brilliantly reveals some of the principles of deconstruction, not through theoretical explication, but, rather, by demonstration, showing that the arguments promulgated by their subject-matter exceed and contradict the oppositional parameters in which they are situated. Put into other words, deconstruction seeks to expose, and then to subvert, the various binary oppositions that undergird our dominant ways of thinking.The ideas that Derrida here present have had an enormous impact on a number of the human sciences, including psychology, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, feminism, sociology and anthropology. Due to this work, a whole new world of problematic suppression and marginalisation has become apparent, making "De la grammatologie" one of the most important philosophical works of the later part of the 20th century. "One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy". (J. Hillis Miller, Yale University).

Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. Lex8vo. Contemp. Hcloth. Gilt spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Clean and fine. in "Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 80. Vesammlung zu Cöln 20.- 26. September 1908. Herausgegeben...Albert Wangerin. Zweiter Theil. 1. Hälfte. Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilungen". pp. 4-9. The whole volume offered with part I-II: (4),245,X,(2),598,124,(2) pp. First appearance of this milestone paper in the development of the theory of Special relativity. The paper offered is the first edition, first printing of the text from Minkowski's famous address held at the 80th meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, in Köln the 21st September 1908. There exists three other printings of this address from the same year:1. Physikalische Zeitschrift, volume 10, number 3 (1. February, 1909.), pp.104-111; 2. Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume 18, number 2 (issued monthly - so February), pp.75-88;3. (Seperate edition by Teubner)."The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strenght. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a inf of union of the two will preserve an independent reality" He ended as follows: 'the validitywothout exception of the world postulate (i.e., relativity postulates), I like to think, is the thrue nucleus of an electromagnetic image of the world, which, discovered by Lorentz, and further developed by Einstein, now lies open in the full light of the day'"(Pais in "Subtle is the Lord", p. 152).Here (in the paper offered) "he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum....Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception; thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature." (PMM No. 401, only listing the print from "Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Leipzig 1909.").

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1904. 8vo. In the original green full coth with gilt lettering to spine and boards. Capitals with slight wear, and inner front hinge a bit weak, otherwise a very nice and fresh copy. Small stamp to title-page. VIII, (2), 399 pp. First edition of Rutherford's important work containing his "proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom", (Horblit 91) being "the first textbook on the subject and recognized as a classic at its publication in 1904" (DSB)."The first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contemporary knowledge of the entire field. Reasearch progressed so rapidly in this erea that the second edition, published only a year later, had to be enlarged by fifity percent. The book includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, developed during the period 1902-1903, which states that radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another." (Norman)."After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom. "(Dibner "Heralds of Science", No 51) Horblit 91Barchas 1840.Dibner 51.

(Boston, Stanford University Press), 1908. 8vo. Two offprints in the original printed wrappers. Offprints from "Quarterly Journal of Economics", Vol. XXII, August & Vol. XXIII, November 1908. Vol. XXII: Backwrapper detached, a few small nicks to extremities. Vol. XXIII: Front wrapper detached. Fine and clean. Pp. 517-42; Pp. 103-136. Two scarce offprints of Veblen's important publications on the theory of capital. Here Veblen broadens the concept of capital to include the capital of knowledge. Thus, Veblen's theory laid "the foundation for a system of property rights created to enable individuals to productively utilize knowledge that resides within the community as a whole" (Niman, Henry George and the Development of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of Capital). "The foundation of Veblen's theory of capital is rooted in the special position knowledge holds in society. Knowledge forms the basis for the productive use of natural resources and is a community asset that, at its most fundamental level, is not owned by a single individual. Thus, Veblen's theory begins by laying the foundation for a system of property rights created to enable individuals to productively utilize knowledge that resides within the community as a whole. These property rights make it possible for the creation and ownership of capital in the form of industrial equipment. With growth in the scale and scope of the community comes the ability to monopolize a portion of the community's asset for pecuniary gain. Monopolization then leads to a form of economic servitude that is similar to slavery." (Niman, Henry George and the Development of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of Capital).In contrast to conventional theories of capital that are founded on the productive labor of workers and described in individualistic terms, Veblen believed that the history of humanity is not the story of a collection of independent individuals, but, rather, is based on the collective contribution of the group. The group plays an important role because it is the group that forms the entity where knowledge iscaptured and stored."Thorstein Veblen's theory of capital as an important element in developing an evolutionary economics warrants a closer investigation into the origins of the concept. In his essay outlining the basic theory of capital, Veblen (1908) makes explicit reference to the single taxers, and to the relationship between land as an unearned source of rent and the returns associated with capital.If one considers Veblen's anthropological approach to economics, then it becomes easier to see how, as society develops, capital in the form of community-based knowledge takes on the fundamental role previously played in an earlier era by land. Veblen's theory of capital does not invalidate the earlier focus on land, but, rather, is one step further down the path of economic development." (Niman, Henry George and the Development of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of Capital).Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and regarded as being the founding figure of the institutional economics movement. "He studied economics under John Bates Clark, a leading neoclassical economist, but rejected his ideas. He did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins University under Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of the pragmatist school in philosophy, and at Yale University under laissez-faire proponent William Graham Sumner. He repudiated their views as well. Veblen did not reject economists' answers to the questions they posed; he simply thought their questions were too narrow. Veblen wanted economists to try to understand the social and cultural causes and effects of economic changes." (The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics).

Firenze, M. Cellini, 1858. 8vo. In three uniform contemporary half vellum over marbled boards with black and red title label to spine amd gilt ornamentation. Occassional brown spots throughout, otherwise fine. XXVI, 383, (2) pp.; IV, 550, (2) pp.; IV, 498, (2) pp. First edition of Massei's important work which constitutes one of earliest attempts in Italy to link health problems and poverty. In the present work Massei examines the various health problems that can be linked to poverty, and proposes a number of remedies, chiefly linked to hygiene. He argues against the notion that almsgiving can provide a solution, proposing instead a system whereby municipal aid is offered in people's homes.Previously Massei had done extensive work on public education in Bologna, and was involved in a project to reform public charities in the light of the increasing numbers of poor people. His work with the Società agrarian of Bologna initiated much research on rural poverty and its causes.

Hafniæ (Copenhagen), Matthias Godiche, 1661. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt lettering to spine and tooled frames to boards. Leather to spine cracked. Small repair and previous owner's name to title-page. Light foxing throughout. (22), 232, (12), 42, (30), 386, (14), 40, 32 pp. + engraved plate. First edition of Bartholin's important work on anesthetic: "The first work after Avicenna to discuss the use of snow as an anesthetic." (Garrison & Morton). "Chapter XXII of this historically important book makes the first known mention of the use of mixtures of ice and snow for freezing to produce surgical anesthesia. The author states that the technique was taught to him by one Marco Aurelio Severino of Naples. In order not to kill the tissues and cause gangrene, the ice-snow mixture was to be applied on the parts in narrow parallel lines. After a quarter of an hour feeling would be deadened and the part could be cut without pain. This may be the first mention of such a technique since the time of Avicenna." (Heirs of Hippocrates 326). Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the leading physicians of his time, now remembered, among many other things, as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. He "was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe". (Kronick, p. 81). He is considered "a typical representative of the "Curiosi naturae" of the 17th century with all their learning, diligence and insatiable spirit of curiosity... He belonged with all his heart to the learned period, and yet he made an anatomical-physiological discovery of high mark when he found, and demonstrated, a hitherto entirely unknown vascular system in animals, and later in man - the lymphatic." (Meisen, p. 25). He was a hugely influential and extremely productive man. Apart from his seminal discovery of the lymphatic system, he wrote a number of highly influential treatises, published a series of very influential anatomical papers, published his vast correspondence with other scientists, which has the character of a scientific archive at a time when there were not yet periodicals of natural science, provided us with the most extensive information about medicine in Denmark and about the conditions of the physicians, called attention to the significance of pathological anatomy, etc., etc., Heirs of Hippocrates 326.Osler 1933.Wellcome II, p. 107.Garrison & Morton 5645.90

(Cambridge), Printed for Leonard Greene, 1612. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment on spine. Title-page mounted on second front fly-leaf. Two small wormtract affecting back board and last 4 leaves and a small wormtract affecting first 3 leaves. Vague dampstain affecting upper outer corner of app. first 70 leaves. A good copy. (8), 366 pp. + 1 folded plate. Rare first edition of Taylor’s work on a sermon delivered by Peter, which is described as the first general calling of the Gentiles (non-Jewish people) and was preached before Cornelius referring to the biblical account found in the New Testament book of Acts, chapter 10, where Peter preaches to Cornelius, a Roman centurion, and his household, leading to the conversion of Gentiles to Christianity. Thomas Taylor (1576–1632) was an English clergyman and academic known for his involvement in religious and theological matters during the early 17th century. He served as the rector of St. Mary Aldermanbury in London and was also associated with Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Nuremberg, Wolfgangi Maurittii Endteri, 1689. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Extremities with light soiling and a few spots. Internally nice and clean. (40), 474, (4) pp. + 30 plates, mostly loosely inserted. Small contemporary geometrical illustration in contemporary hand are inserted in the text. Rare first edition of Sturm’s textbook on mathematics and geometry. Johann Christoph Sturm(1635 – 1703) was a German mathematician, astronomer who made significant contributions to mathematics and astronomy, particularly in the areas of geometry, trigonometry, and optics. He wrote several influential textbooks on mathematics and natural philosophy that were widely used in European universities during the 17th and 18th centuries. One of Sturm's most notable contributions to mathematics is the Sturm's theorem, which he developed in collaboration with his brother, Jacob Sturm. This theorem is used to count the number of roots of a polynomial equation within a given interval

(Loire, Saint-Chamond, 1891). Folio. 45 technical drawings, most printed and hand-coloured on blue paper. All plates depicts the "Tourelle à éclipse pour canon 1 Canon de 75 m/m á tir rapide". Sizes vary from 75x36 cm to 101x73 cm. All housed in contemporary portfolio, front board detached. All plates with stamp and nubering in contemporary hand. Plates fine and clean. Collection of techincal drawings of Saint-Chamond's fast 75 mm canon. The Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH) (Company of marine forges and steelworks and of Homécourt) was a French industrial enterprise that made iron and steel products for the French navy, army and railroads. It is often known as Saint-Chamond from its main location in Saint-Chamond, Loire.

Leipzig, Gledischen, 1753-54. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine on vol. 2, foot of spine repaired. Stamp on title-pages. XX,236;(8),256 pp. + Register. 2 engraved titlevignettes, engraved vignettes and 52 large folded engraved maps and plans (38 + 14). Clean and fine. First German edition.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Small 8vo. Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 12, 13 u. 15. Pp. 310-318 a. pp. 385-95 (Bd. 12) - pp. 438-45 (Bd. 13) - pp. 1-24 a. pp. 121-43.. With the 3 titlepages to the 3 volumes. Stamp on titles. Some scattered brownspots. First German translations of these fundamental papers in which Dalton formulated his gas-and pressure laws, such as "The Law of Partial Pressures" , "The Charles Law" or The Charles-Gay-Lussac Law" (this law arrived at almost simustaneously with Gay-Lussac).These papers were read and published in the memoires from the "Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" in 1801 and 1802 in 4 parts, the German translation, the item offered, is divided in 5 parts, probably incorporating the paper from Nicholson's Journal from 1801. The publication of these papers gave him at once international reputation they tried to explain why the gases of the atmosphere remain mixed instead of segregating with the heaviest element at the bottom, it states that the maximum density of a vapour in contact with its liquid remains the same whether other gases be present or not and the vies that the particles of everykind of elastic fluid are elastic only with regard to their own kind. and that the otal pressure of the atmosphere equals the sum of the pressures exerted by the individual gases, each of which excerts its pressure independently of the others. This was the first step toward his atomic theory of in chemistry. - He also showed that the quantity of water evaporated in a given time to be stricktly proportional to the force of aqueous vapour at the same temperature, and last, announcing the law that all elastic fluids expands the same quantity by heat, "The Charle's Law or Charles-Gay-Lussac Law".

Nürnberg, Christ. de Launoy seel. Erben (und) Winterschmidt, (1766-) 67. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. paperlabels pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. (30),318,(10);205,(7) pp., 36 folded engraved plates. The first 7 leaves slightly brownspotted, otherwise clean, occasional with marginal brownspots. First German edition.

Güstrow (Rostock), Johan Hallervords, 1634. Small 8vo. Later, modest clothbacked marbled boards. (16),223,(20) pp. Very light browning and a few scattered brownspots. One leaf (pp. 143/44) loosing part of margins, but no loss of text. Scarce first edition of an importent work on the borderline of chemistry and medicine. Osler states that he "was one of the founders of modern chemistry"."Sala (following Paracelsus) defined the Spagyric Art as that part of chemistry which has for its subject the natural bodies, vegetable, animal, and mineral, and such operations as tend to the end of rendering them useful in medicine.... its principal operations are separation, subtilisation, and sublimation." (Partington)."He was an able physician and an excellent chemist, an admirer and to some extent a follower of Paracelsus, an advocate of chemical remedies, an opponent of quackery, and he was able to judge fairly the merits both of the chemical and Galenic systems of medicine then in conflict. Concring calls him the first of the chemists who was free from triffling;... (Ferguson)."Considering his work as a whole, it is evident that Sala was above all a practitioner. In his view, demonstrations could be carried out only through manual operations (inventionibus manualibus), that is to say, only with the aid of experimental examples, which he clearly distinguished from argumentation. For him, chemistry was still a handicraft (ars)."(DSB).Ferguson II, p. 316. - Partington II, p. 277 (the second edition 1637). - Not in Neville, Not in Duveen.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1694. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. a small stamp on titlepage. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCIV". (2),518 pp.. and 11 folded engraved plates. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. The entire volume offered. Leibniz's papers: pp. 311-316, pp. 364-375. - Johann Bernoulli's papers: pp. 200-206, pp. 394-99, pp. 435-437, pp. 437-441. - Huygen's papers: pp. 338, pp. 339-41. - Jakob Bernoulli's papers: pp. 262-276, pp. 276-280, pp. 336-338, pp. 391-400. Some mispaginations. All papers first appearance, dealing with, and clarifying the problems and the new applications of Leibniz' inventions of the differential- and integral calculus.In the papers Leibniz shows how to reduce linear first order ordinary differential equations to quadratures. I the other paper he gives a general method of finding the envelope of a family of curves, which helped to spread the theory of plane curves.In the groundbreaking paper offered here, Jakob Bernoulli introduces THE LEMNISCATE, a symmetric self-intersecting curve resembling a figure eight and defined by the condition that the product of the distance of anay point on the curve from two fixed points is (d/2)2, where d is the distance between the fixed points."Jacob Bernoulli was fascinated by curves and the calculus, and one curve bears his name - the "lemniscate of Bernoulli", given by the polar equation r2=a cos 2"0". The curve was described in the Acta Eruditorum of 1694 as resembling a figure eight or a knotted ribbon (lemniscus). However the curve that most caught his fancy was the logarithmic spiral....he swowed that it had several strioking properties not noted before...it is easy to appreciate the feeling that led Bernoulli to request that the "spira mirabils" be engraved on his tombstone together with the inscription "Eadem mutata resurgo" (Though changed, I arise again the same)." (Boyer in his History of Mathematics).

(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Année 1773. Pp. 37-232. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. First printing of Laplace's famous double-memoir in which he made a coupling of probability theory with astronomy. The first memoir here is his third memoir on probability, a follow-up of his groundbreaking paper "Mémoire sur la Probabilité des Causes par les Évènemens" from the same year; the main portion of the paper deals with the theory of chances. He solves different problems, that of odd and even, a solid has p equal faces, which are numbered 2,2,....p: required the probability that in the course of n throws the faces will occur in the order of 1,2,...p., a complicate problem arising with more players, the Problem of Points in the case of two players and with 3 players, on Duration and Play..."The present memoir may be regarded as a collection of examples in the history of Finite Differences"(Todhunter).The second memoir constitutes Laplace's "FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PIECE ON THE MECHANICS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM", and his theory of the gravitational force. His modifications of Newton's laws set forth here, became the foundation for his developed celestial mechanics."A close reading of the astronomical part of the dual memoir, Laplace’s first comprehensive piece on the mechanics of the solar system, serves to temper the conventional image of a vindicator of Newton’s law of gravity against the evidence for decay of motion in the planets. Nothing is said about apparent anomalies gathering toward a cosmic catastrophe;on the contrary, the state of the universe is assumed to be steady. The problem is not whether the phenomena can be deduced from the law of universal gravity, but how to do it. Since that appeared to be impossible on a strict Newtonian construction of the evidence, Laplace proposed modifying the law of gravity slightly. He proceeded to try out the notion that gravity is a force propagated in time instead of instantaneously. Its quantity at a given point would then depend on the velocity of bodies as well as on their mass and distance. Even more interesting, the reasoning in this argument was not that of normal ,mathematical astronomy but was of the type that he brought to physics in other, much later writings. Lastly, in a problem that he did handle in the tradition of theoretical astronomy, namely in the secular variations in the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn, the conclusion is that the mutual attraction of the plants cannot account for them, contrary to what we expect from Mécanique céleste."(DSB).

Berlin, Hermann Peters, 1867. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back. Minor wear to back. (8),175 pp. Clean and fine apart from a waterstain in upper margin throughout. First edition of the only book which Graefe wrote, and it was presented on the occasion of G.s inauguration as professor. Graefe is considered the creator of modern surgery of the eye, and indeed the greatest of all eye surgeons. (Garrison). - Garrison & Morton No 5899: "Graefe's Monograph on the symptomatology of ocular paralyses forms the basis of modern knowledge on the subject."

Kiøbenhafn, Salomon Sartor samme Aar (1629). Lille8vo. Senere hldrbd. Enkel rygforgyldning. Titelbladet med ramme i træsnit. (1),150 blade. Lettere brugsspor, gl. ejernavn på titelbladet, få brunpletter. Første danske udgave af Luthers Store Katekismus - den Lille Katekismus blev allerede oversat i 1532 - og med Hans Poulsen Resens forord på bagsiden af titelbladet.Bibl. Dan. I,258. - Ikke i Thesaurus II.

[No place], 1802. Folio. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Wear to extremities and paper labels pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Stamp to title-page. Written of thick paper. XVII, 291, (4) pp. Danish manuscript translation of Tofino's famous description of the Spanish and Portuguese coast towards the Atlantic Ocean. "Vincente Tofiño was a rear-admiral in the Spanish navy. He was a renowned astronomer and mathematician and near the close of his career was the King’s hydrographer. Between 1783-1788, Tofiño charted the ports and coasts of Spain as well as the shore of North Africa. He eventually was elected as correspondent of the Spanish Academy of History and of the French and Portuguese Academies of Sciences." Translator De Løwenørn (Kommandør-Kaptajn Friderich de Løwenørn) n 1784, captain lieutenant Poul de Løwenørn assisted the Danish crown in establishing the Royal Danish Nautical Chart Archive. He was appointed the institution’s first Director. At this time, only France had a similar institute."In the first instance, the Danish Admirality requested Løwenørn to collect all existing nautical charts and navigational details in the country, for both Danish and international waters. He was to develop accurate and reliable charts for both the Navy and Merchant Marine.In addition to these formidable tasks, Løwenørn also took the initiative to establish a Lighthouse Authority, a Buoy Authority and a Pilot Authority as well as improve the country’s harbours." (Danish Geodata Agency).Hansen, Sources of the History of North Africa, Asia and Oceania in Denmark, p. 459.