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København [Copenhagen], 1964. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers with green and black lettering. Minor soiling and minor creasing to wrappers. Internally near mint condition. Uncut and unopened. 371 pp. Signed presentation-copy for Michelle Léglise (A Michell/ 11 Janvier 66/ Jean Pauls S") of the first edition of the first Danish translation of "Le Sursis". This is a higly interesting presentation-copy, since Michelle Léglise (or Michelle Vian as she was named at the time), was both the wife of a close friend of Sartre, herself a close friend, and eventually - around the time of this presentation - his lover.In 1940 Michelle Léglise had met the French multi-artist and author Boris Vian, whom she married already in 1941. Boris Vian (1920-1959) is best known today for his novels (many of which were published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan). He was also of great importance to the French jazz-scene and served as liason for Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris. He was also a popular musician in his own time. When he met Michelle, she taught him English and introduced him to American literature. They had a son together in 1942. In the middle of the 40'ies, Vian was struggling to have his novels acknowledged, but those that he published in 1945 were not very successful. He did, however, in 1946 have the luck of meeting, and later befriending Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Albert Camus, and he began publishing in "Les Temps Modernes". Thus, also Michelle got acquainted with the most famous couple in France at the time - and very well acquainted with Sartre! In fact the two became lovers and began an affair that lasted throughout Sartre's life, in 1980. Michelle and Boris Vian thus divorced in 1951 under messy circumstances. Both Beauvoir and Sartre were very fond of Boris Vian and had promoted him often, but the messy divorce seems to have created spite between the different parties involved - Sartre sided with Michelle, and Simone de Beauvoir with Boris Vian. "Le Sursis" originally appeared in 1945 as part II of "Chemins de la liberté". When the first Danish edition appeared in 1965, Sartre and Michelle were still lovers.

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

Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, 1839-40. Royal8vo. 7 cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs. A few browspots, mainly marginal. With 731 engraved plates, all with descriptive text. First edition of one of the first works depicting the treasures from Herculanum and Pompeji. The last volume as an appendix: "Musee Secrets" is nor present. - Brunet I:666.

Kiøbenhavn, N.Møller, 1758. 4to. Indbundet i et pragtfuldt samtidigt hellæderbind af kalveskind af spejlbindstypen med den yderste ramme som en guldbort og de to andre med blindtrykte ornamenter, den ene ramme med buer i bund og top med stiliserede blindtrykte blomsterstempler i hjørnerne. Den inderste ramme trykt i buer som en arabeskagtig medaillon. På ryggen 5 ophøjede bind og rygfelterne med stor forgyldt blomsterstempel. Forgyldt skindtitel. Håndsyede kapitælbånd. Permernes kanter med blindtrykt mønsterdekoration. Marmoreret forsatspapir i mange farver. Øverste hjørne af fribladet med en papirreparation efter udklipningen af et gl. ejernavn. Gl. ejernavn på foden af titelbladet. (2),92,(6) pp. Kobberstukket titelvignet, stort foldet kobberstukket kort over Samsø og 4 kobberstukne plancher. Stort og rent eksemplar, trykt på skrivepapir. Originaludgaven i et pragteksemplar. Laurids de Thura, der kan kaldes dansk arkitekturhistories fader, planlagde et flerbindsværk med beskrivelse af hele Danmark. Dette bind om Samsø er, sammen med beskrivelsen af Bornholm og Amager de eneste, der udkom. Bibl. Dan. II,711.

(No date, no place, (1693). Very large engraved seechart, measuring 60,5 x 85,5 cm. in original outline colouring with inset view of the River Dee at Chester. The chart showing the whole of Ireland and the Westcoast of England from Cornwall to Cuningham in the north. A fine impression on good thick paper, bearing the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693, and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated then those of any preceding book of its kind.This cart is without year, place and "par ordre du Roi", pointing to a later print, but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the most recent impression from 1792. Koeman IV,425:10.

(Paris, 1927). 4to. Bound uncut with in fine hcalf, 5 raised bands, wide back and large corners. Compartment richly gilt, top edges gilt (Flammarion). No 37 of 140 "sur Velin d'Arches", a total of 177. With 46 fine coloured woodengravings in collaboration with Pierre Bouchet and many fine coloured initials in Art Deco.

(London, Taylor and Sons, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1869, Vol. 159 - Part I. Pp. 425-444 and 2 lithographed plates (1 with the spectrum of helium, 1 with his spectroscope (not requiring eclipses to function)). Clean and fine. First appearance of this milestone paper in chemistry, physics and astronomy, announcing the discovery of helium in the sun and naming it 'helium' for Helios, the Greek God of the Sun. In the same paper he demonstrates his invention of the spectroscope by which the prominences of the sun could be observed and studied without an eclipse by leading the light from the very edge of the sun through a prism. - Helium was not discovered on the earth before 1895 by William Ramsay, and it was Crookes who established its identity with the helium Lockyer observed in the spectrum of the sun."This (the last discovery) was announced on the same day by the French astronomer Janssen, who was in India observing a total eclipse. As a result, the French government some ten years later struck a medallion showing the heads of both scientists.By that time, the two men had made a much more dramatic discovery at the same time, this time in cooperation. Janssen, studying the spectrum ofthe sun during the eclipse, had noted a fine line he did not recognize. he send a report on this to Lockyer, an acknowledges expert on solar spectra. Lockyer compared the reported position of the line with lines of known elements, concluding that it must belong to a yeat unknown element, possibly not even existing on the earth. He named the element, from the Greek word for the sun."(Asimov).

Hamburg, Christian Heroldus, 1750-52. Fol. (40x26,5 cm.). Bound in 2 fine contemp. full calf. Richly gilt backs divided in 7 compartments by raised bands. Title-and tomelabels in leather. A few scratches to covers, one corner a bit bumped. A small stamp on titles. 2 fine engraved portraits (A. Fabricius and Reimar), one half-page engraved vignette. (2),XXX,767,(1);(4),(769-)1709 pp. Printed on good paper, clean and fine. Greek-Latin text in double-columns. Dio Cassius' Roman History from the beginnings to 229 A.D., took ten years to prepare and 12 years to write. It is annalistic in arrangement, although modified to meet requirements of subject-matter, concentrating on political aspects (he was himself praetor and consul suffectus), in the manner of Thucydides, giving a rhetorical narrative in Attic style. (Based on Oxford Classical Dict.).A beautifully printed work, "One of the most splendid and truly critical editions (the offered item) which were ever published in Germany. It was begun by the famous Fabricius, whose notes extend from the 35th to the 60th book. On the death of that great man, Reimar, his son-in-law, completed the edition; and in respect to editorial care, diligence, and correctness, and the acquisition of valuable materials for the compilation of it, nothing can exceed the present most admirable performance. All the former publications on Dion Cassious were carefully inspected; some excellent MSS. and fragments were procured and collected;.. Harwood calls this admirable work "one of the most correct and valuable Greek books ever published: the notes contain a treasure of erudition"." (Dibdin I:506). - Graesse II: p. 393. - Brunet II: p. 712: "Edit. la plus belle, la plus complète et le meilleure que l'on ait dans ce format."

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873, 1874, 1874 a.1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences", Vol. 76, No 11, Vol. 78, No 25, Vol. 79, No 1, Vol. 94, No 14. (3 entire issues offered). Pp. (677-) 732, pp. (1721-) 1780, pp. (5-) 72 and pp. (901-) 996. Janssen's papers: pp. 677-679, pp. 1730-31, pp. 6-7 and pp. 909-911. (The main paper having the title-page to the volume (vol. 79), stamp to title-page). First printings of this series of epoch-making papers in which Janssen introduced the "PHOTOGRAPHIC REVOLVER" and its first successfull use leading to the "First Film" and hereby "realized one of the operations necessary for cinematography"(DSB).In the first papers he conceived the idea of a device of historical interest, the photographic revolver, the technique of short exposures, which is announced here. The third paper is the epoch-making paper in which he specifically describes the "revolver" and its results, the "first film". The fourth paper is his responce to Marey's famous expriments with the "revolver" recording the flight of birds."A long barreled canon-like automatic camera was invented in 1874 by an outstanding pioneer of modern astronomical photography, Jules Janssen. Janssen used the revolving plate technique and called his camera a 'pistol'. Janssen's method used the forerunner of a number of 'gun' cameras with a slowly revolving plate and shutter operated by clockwork. The photos were taken every 70 seconds along the margin of the negative and he used his pistol to record a 48 image sequence of the transit of Venus across the sun at an exposure rate of 1.5 seconds.""In planning for the observation of the transit of Venus, which he was to observe in Japan on 9 Deembe 1874, Janssen decided to substitute for visual observation at the time of transit a series of photographs taken in rapid succession, which would permit him to measure the successive positions of the planet in relation to the solar limb. He ordered the construcion of an apparatus consisting of three circular disks with the same axis: the first, pierced by twelve slits, served as the shutter;the second contained a window; the photographic plate, which was circular, was fixed to the third. The first two disks turned with a synchronized movement, the shutter disk continuously and the other irregularly in the intervals of time in which the window was not swept by a slit. A series of separate images laid out on a circle was thus obtained on the plate. In a general manner the apparatus provided an analysis of a motion on the basis of the sequence of its elemental aspects. Here Janssen realized one of the operations necessary for cinematography, which was invented twenty years later, and which required, besides analysis, the synthesis of images." (DSB).

(Potsdam, 1783-85). 4to. (36 x 29 cm.). 4 portfolios in hcalf with ties. Gilt titlelabels on upper boards. Containing maps to all 4 campaigns. 64 (of 70 ?) folded maps in folio, partly handcoloured. Occasionally faint scattered brownspots, but generally clean.

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1959. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. An excellent copy in near mint condition, in- as well as externally. Pp. (1) - 14. (The entire volume: 96 pp.). The seminal first printing of Kripke's debut article, which provided the basis for his logic and for the model theory for modal logic in general. The work constitutes the very beginning of Kripke Semantics (often called possible world semantics). Kripke's works in general are rare in fist editions. Many of them remain unpublished and are only known in privately circulated manuscripts.The American philosopher Saul A. Kripke (born 1940) is an exceedingly important logician and philosopher of language and one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of analytic and Anglo-American philosophy. He is considered the greatest living philosopher and perhaps the greatest since Wittgenstein. In 2001 he was awarded the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, which is considered the philosopical equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Kripke, who grew up in Omaha in a religious Jewish family, was somewhat of a prodigy child. During grammar school he got intimately acquainted with and mastered to perfection algebra, geometry and calculus, and very early on he took up philosophy, which later became his career. Still a teenager, in high school, he wrote a work that was to change the face of philosophical logic forever, namely the groundbreaking paper "A Completeness Theorem for Modal Logic", which was printed a few years later, in 1959, in the Journal of Symbolic Logic, while he was in his first year at Harvard University. This seminal debut work proposed what later came to be known as Kripke models for modal logic. The story goes that the paper earned a letter from the department of mathematics urging Kripke to apply for a job there, to which he is said to have written an answer explaining "My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first."In 1962 he graduated from Harvard University, where he remained until 1968, first as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and then as a lecturer. During these years he developed the logical theories founded in the "Completeness Theorem" further and made seminal contributions to the field of logic and semantics. Kripke Semantics is a formal semantics for non-classical logic systems that Kripke began developing in his teenage years, first published something on in 1959 (the present work) and further developed in the 60'ies and. The development of Kripke Semantics was no less than a breakthrough in the making of non-classical logics, of which no model theory existed before Kripke's. With this work, Kripke laid the foundation for proving completeness theorems for modal logic, and for identifying the weakest normal modal logic, which is now named K after him.

Jena, Frommann, 1808. 8vo. Contemporary (original?) blue full paper binding with blindstamped title-lable to spine. Occasional light brownspotting throughout. All in all a very nice and fine copy. (6), 359, (1) pp. Scarce first edition of Niethammer's seminal work, in which he introduces the term "humanism" for a systematically worked out body of thought with its own value structure and becomes the first to apply the word within a conceptual framework, thus profoundly influencing all later research on the humanistic period. "The term "Humanismus" was coined in 1808 by the German educator, F.J. Niethammer, to express the emphasis on the Greek and Latin classics in secondary education as against the rising demands for a more practical and more scientific training. In this sense, the word was applied by many historians of the nineteenth century to the scholars of the Renaissance, who had also advocated and established the central role of the classics in the curriculum..." (Kristeller, Renaissance Thought and its Sources, pp. 21-22). Niethammer's work not only came to determine how we have come to talk of the Renaissance and that essential part of it which we now call "humanism", it also illustrates how scholars framed the essential values embodied in humanism at the time. It furthermore anticipated the 19th century age of "-isms" and ideology and the attempts at developing more structured and systematic ways of organizing theories and ideas with the purpose of influencing society and its culture.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815 and 1816). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part I. and 1816 - Part II. Having both titlepages to the parts. Pp. (2),389-446 and (2),179-256. First titlepage with a stamp on verso. Otherwise fine and clean. First printings of Babbage's main mathematical contributions."Babbage's major Contribution to mathematics was his calculus of functions, which he became interested in as early as 1809 and continued to develop during his years at Cambridge. Babbage presents his major ideas on the subject in the above two papers, published in the "Philosophical Transactions" in 1815 and 1816. "It can be said with some assurance that no mathematician prior to Babbage had treated the calculus of functions in such systematic way...Babbage must be given full credit as the inventor of a distinct and importent branch of mathematics" (Dubbey 1978, 90). Elsewhere Dubby states that his new scheme would serve as a generalized calculus to include all problems capable of analytical formulation, and it is possible to see here a hint of the inspiration for his concept of THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE. While the work on the engines and his other scientific, social and political activities caused him virtually to abandon mathematical research at the age of thirty, the calculus of functions was the area he often yearned to continue. In fact the calculus of functions was not taken up by other workers, and it is the aspect of Babbage's mathematical work that modern mathematicians find most fascinating (Dubbey 1989, 18-19)." (Hook a. Norman No. 19).Charles Babbage, William Herschel and George Peacock founded in 1810 in Cambridge the "Analytical Society", at Trinity College in order to reform the notation and the teaching of mathematics in England, introducing Leibniz' differential notation instead of Newton's fluxions. The continental texts and papers then became accessible to English students.

Viennae, Typis Antonii Strauss, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary blue marbled boards. Wear to capitals and corners. Internally very nice and clean. 144 pp. The scarce first edition. with a signed presentation-inscription to front free end-paper: "In/ perennem antiquae amicitiae T(? -I? - J?)esseram/ Andreas Rethy", of this interesting attempt at a universal language by the Hungarian professor of Greek.The work, which was published more than half a decade before Esperanto and Volapük appeared, constitutes a "Dictionary" with words and their Latin translations - divided into 9 "Classis" that are sub-divided into nouns, verbs, and adverbs.

Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783 + Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1794 + 1798. 8vo. Bound together in one slightly later full green cloth binding with gilt title to spine: Kant/ Religion/ und/ Metaphysik. A bit of wear to extremities and a bit of brownspotting throughout. But all in all a harmonious and nice "Sammelband" of three of Kant's important works. With stamp (Studentersamfundet") to front free end-paper and to all three title-pages. 1) Woodcut title-vignette, woodcut flower-and putti-headpiece on p. 3 and woodcut end-vignette (ornamentail piece with flowers). 222 pp. 2) With contemporary ownership-signature to title-page. XXVI, (4), 314, (2, -errata) pp. 3) With contemporary ownership-signature to title-page (same as previous work: v. Holmfeld"). XXX, 205 pp. The three works together constitute an excellent introduction to the full range of Kant works and are all of the utmost importance to the understanding of his philosophy:1) First edition, third 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 are known to exist, distinguishable by head- and tailpieces, and this is the third one listed in Warda, i.e. Warda 77.This work constitutes a more comprehensible exposition of the main thoughts of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", and it is probably one of the most frequently read and approachable of his 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, and 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: 77. 2) The improved and enlarged second edition of Kant's seminal work, in which he develops his religion of reason and most fully accounts for his philosophy of religion.The "Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason " originally appeared in 1793 but was enlarged and revised by Kant himself, and it appeared in the definitive second edition on 1794. It is this second edition which became the standard version of the text.The work is constituted by four essays, in which Kant accounts for relationship between the moral doctrines that he had developed in his works of moral philosophy and his understanding of religion. One of his most frequently cited conclusions is that even though morality in itself does not need religion, morality will still inevitably lead to religion."The work in which Kant offers his most extensive and systematic treatment of religion from the perspective of his critical philosophy is "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason". In addition to its importance in the development of Kant's view of religion as discussed below, this work is notable because of the controversy over censorship that attended its publication, the reprimand then given to Kant in the name of the Prussian emperor, Friedrich Wilhelm II, and Kant's pledge not to publish on matters of religion, which he later considered abrogated upon the death of the emperor in 1797." (SEP).Warda: 145.3) First edition of the last book that Kant himself published (together with his simultaneously published lecture "Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht"), in which he defends the Faculty of Philosophy against those of Theology, Law, and Medicine, claiming that Philosophy is superior in that it is the only of them that pursues truth in stead of usefulness. Criticizing the contemporary practice at the universities, he argues that the disciplines of the humanities and sciences, which are those collected in the Faculty of Philosophy, ought to be free from censorship or any form of state control, both in teaching and research. Warda: 193

Basel, 1860. 8vo. A little later green half cloth with a recent printed paper title-label to spine. Brownspotting to some leaves. Some underlinings and maginal annotations, all in pencil. Near contemporary annotations/description pasted on to verso of dedication-leaf. (4), 576 pp. The scarce first edition of Burckhardt's main work, the groundbreaking work on the culture of the Renaissance, which helped found the historical study of this previously much overlooked era. " "The most penetrating and subtle treatise on the history of civilization", in Lord Acton's words, "a mere essay", as Burckhardt himself called it, "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Ittaly" has, for more than a century, determined the general conception of thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy." (PMM p. 210)This classic of Renaissance historiography is of the greatest importance to the development of the history of the Renaissance and of history of art and culture in general. More specifically, Burckhardt here establishes the fact that the Renaissance came first in developing the human individuality to the highest degree. He places the earliest signs of "the modern European Spirit" in Florence, which was a great contributing factor to the comprehension of this city as representing one of the highlights of European culture.The Swiss historian of art and culture, Jacob Chrisoph Burckhardt (1818-1897), contributed seminally to the historiography of these two fields. He is considered the discoverer of the Renaissance, and with his main work he founded the study of thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy and thereby the historical study of the Renaissance, the society of which he dealt with all aspects of. In general, Burckhardt's works all constitute an original historical approach to the study of art, culture, social institutions etc. As a highly respected scholar of Greek civilization, Burckhardt, with his original historiographical approach, was highly admired by Nietzsche, who also attended his lectures. The two kept in contact and corresponded frequently. Like Nietzsche, Burckhardt was a great admirer of Schopenhauer, and he greatly opposed the Hegelian interpretations of history."... as in the case of other great historians such as Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, no criticism of details can detract from the powerful spell which Burckhardt's book has exercised upon such widely different writers as Ruskin, Nietzsche and Gobineau, as well as upon innumerable lovers of the most magnificent period of European history." (PMM).Printing and the Mind of Man 347.

London, 1758. Folio (355 x 225). In contemporary full full calf. Rebacked and boards with scratches and and a few cracks. First and last leaves with brownspots, otherwise a good copy. XX, 207 pp. + folded map of iceland. First English translation of Horrebow's extensive topographical work on Iceland, the Danish original being published in 1752.

Maestricht, J.E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1776-80. Folio. (40,5x27 cm.). 2 contemp. full calf. with raised bands. Tome-and titlelabels in leather on back. Upper and lower compartments of both backs repaired. Slightly rubbed. (4),26,954;(4),284 pp. and 2 folded tables (in Supplement). Margin on htitle repaired. Upper margins of text in vol. 2 faintly dampstained. Second edition of this extensive encyclopedia of the Islamic world, Herbelot's great work, which is based on the immense Arabic bibliography (Kashf al-Zunun), but it also contains a vast number of other Turkish and Arabic compilations and manuscripts. - "Ce savant ouvrage se trouve aujourd'hui fort arriéré; mais , comme aucun autre ne le remplace, il est toujours très-recherché." (Brunet II:664). - Graesse II:376.

London, 1844. All three volumes in the orig. burgundy full cloth w. gilt lettering to spines and blindstamped boards. Capitals and corners a bit bumped and spines a bit crooked. Internally very nice and clean. W. 8 pp. of advertisements in vol. one and 14 pp. of advertisements in vol. three. First edition of Lady Georgiana's first novel, one of her main works, inscribed on half-title of each volume: "Sophy Consulonieri/ from Lady Georgiana."Lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton (1812-1885) was a hugely succesful English novelist, whose great novels played an important rôle in disseminating the main controversies of religious debate to the novel-reading public. This, her first novel, was written while she was still a practising Anglican. The work focuses on the issue of confession, and it was very well received. In "The English Review", Mr. Gladstone said of it: "the least didactic and the most instructive" of religious novels. Two years after the appearnce of the novel, Lady Georgiana converted to Roman Catholocism.

A la Haye, Thomas Johnson, 1723. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, corner bumped and part of gilting to spine worn off. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. XXXVI, (4), 304, (12) pp. First French translation of Cornelius van Bynkershoek’s work “De foro legatorum”, first published in 1721, on state jurisdiction over diplomats in civil and criminal matters. Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743), Dutch jurist and legal theorist. Van Bynkershoek made significant contributions to international law. He served as president of the Supreme Court of the Dutch Republic, the Hoge Raad van Holland en Zeeland, from 1724 to 1743. His most notable contribution was in the development of the Law of the Sea. Expanding upon Hugo Grotius' concept of coastal state rights, Bynkershoek proposed that a state's control over adjacent waters should correspond to the range of its weapons, famously stating, "terrae potestas finitur ubi finitur armorum vis."

Berlin, August Mylius, 1763. Small 8vo. Contemp. blank boards. Handwritten title on upper board. A bruise to upper cover, affecting lightly margins of the first few leaves. X,237 pp., 10 engraved plates and 1 large folded engraved map also showing a bit of North America. Internally clean. German edition by Krünitz of "Det gamle Grønlands Nye Perlustration, Eller Natural-Historie...", 1730.Lauridsen VIII,193 - Sabin, 22025.

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Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann.", Neue Folge Bd. 31, 7. Heft. With the titlepage to vol. 31. Pp. 337-544 a. 2 folded plates, (entire issue offered "Heft" 7). Hertz's paper: pp. 421-448 A. PP. 543-544. A Stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine. First edition of Hertz's seminal paper on electromagnetic waves in which he empirically demonstrates Maxwell's equations. This discovery and its demonstration led directly to the invention radio of communication, television and Radar. The paper is the "ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE PRODUCTION BY ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE OF WAVES WHICH HAVE THE PROPERTY OF VERY LONG WAVES"(H.M. Evans).Hertz demonstrates what Maxwell had predicted that electromagnetic waves radiated in space with the speed of light. Hertz determined these waves to be of greater length than light and that they could be reflected."Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis that electrical waves can be projected through space was begun in 1887, eight years after Maxwell's death. The two main requirements were (a) a method of producing the waves, supposing that they existed, and (b) a method of detecting them once they were produced." (PMM, 377.). In the present paper Hertz "describes the apparatus that he had devised for the detection and measurement of electromagnetic waves, the key to his later success. To prove that electromagnetic waves can be projected through space it was necessary to devise a means of both producing the waves and, more difficult at the time, of detecting them once produced." (Norman Library, No. 1123)."Hertz's researches on electrical waves vindicated the Helmholtz ideal of the physicist as one whose competences embraced both experiment and mathematics. Hertz entered physics at the right time for one of his abilities to make a critical contribution; because the outstanding problem of physics was the disorderly condition of electrodynamics, what was needed was someone with the theoretical power to analyze the competing theories and with the experimental judgment to produce the evidence that would persuade the physical community that a decision between the theories had been reached." (DSB, VI, 348b.)"In the early 1890's the young inventor Guglielmo Marconi read of Hertz's electric wave experiments in an Italian electrical journal and began considering the Possibility of communication by wireless waves. Hertz's work initiated a technological development as momentous as it physical counterpart." (DSB, VI, 349a.).

Stuttgart, Hoffmann'sche Verlags=Buchhandlung, 1840. Orig. printed boards. Top and bottom of spine a little worn, some scratchings and discolouring to binding, but intact. (1),145,(5) pp. and 21 fine lithogrpahed plates of which 18 have a fine handcolouring (the 3 first plates with 2 illustrations each, complete). Textlvs. brownspotted.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1728-29. Large 4to. (28,5 x 20,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Title- and tomelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on first title-page. Engraved folded frontispiece. Title to vol. 2 engraved and folded. (10),96;(2),59,(1);44;60;74,(2) pp. and 3 + 144 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean, printed on good paper. Brunet I, 1261.