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Geneve, Em. Du Villard, 1761. Large 4to. Contemp. marbled boards. Autographed title on spine. Spine rubbed. Stamp on first title-page. Engraved titlevignette. XXVIII,369,(1);(2),183,(1) pp., 18 large folded engraved plates. A large clean, wide-margined, completely uncut, copy. Printed on good paper. Simultaneously published in Geneve and Amsterdam. - Sloos, Warfare and the Age of Printing,5054.

Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1907. 8vo. 2 issues, to both the original printed yellow wrappers. No backstrip. Wrappers loose. In: "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 22", No. 1. and No. 4. Pp. 1-208, 1 fold. plate a. 1 portrait (P. Curie) a. pp. 609-800, 1 plate. (Entire issues offered). Einsteins paper: pp. 180-190 and p. 800. Astamp to verso of plates and a few leaves. THE PRINTED WRAPPERS LOOSE. First printing of a major paper in Quantum Theory, introducing the first systematic introduction of probability factors in Quantum Theory."From 1905 through 1909 Einstein published five major papers on the hypothesis of energy quanta, its theoretical implications, and its use in the explanation of various phenomena. Among these papers we have his importent paper "Die Plancksche..." and in his second paper from 1906d he asserted that Planck's derivation implicitly assumes quantification of the enrgies of charged oscillators. Now (in the paper offered) he returned to this question, showing that, if the structure function in phase space he had introduced earlier is assumed to restrict the oscillators to orbits with energies that are integral mulætiples of 'hv', then the average oscillator energy in a canonical ensemble yealds Planck's law, when substituted in eg. The works contains the first systematic introduction of probability factors in the mathematics of Quantum Theory." Weil: nos 15 (1-2 with an asterix, denoting a major paper). - Boni: 15.

Hmbg., 1833. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back. VIII,358 pp. and 28 litogr. plates. Text a little brownspotted.

[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.

[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.

Kiøbenhaffn, Salomone Sartor, (1640) + Kiøbenhaffn, Salomone Sartor, 1641. 4to. (21 x 15 cm.). Samtidigt helbind i sort kalveskind hvor bagpermen er fælles for de to værker. Det sorte helbind er velbevaret bortset fra lette krakeleringer på permerne. Blindtrykt bordure på permer og i begge midterfelter et stort ovalt dødningehoved hvor sølvforgyldningen er delvist bevaret på forpermen. I en kassette med skindryg i maroquin med forgyldt rygtitel "Tvende Liig=prædikener". An. 1: Dobbeltsidet kobberstukket frontispiece som viser Jørgen Handorffs stamtræ bevogtet af Pietas og Justitia. (56) pp. hvor teksten er trykt inden for en sammensat træsnitramme. An. 2: Dobbeltsidet kobberstukket frontispiece visende Helle Steens anetavle i talrige våbenskjolde. (134) pp. Her er teksten også trykt inden for en sammensat træsnitramme. Begge trykt på godt kraftigt papir og rene. Med enkelte ormehuller. Ægtefællerne døde med ca. et års mellemrum, og de er nu symbolsk forenet i dette tvillingbind.Bibl. Danica III, 1187 og 1255."Tvillingbind, to, evt. flere bøger eller to halvdele af en bog, der er indbundet således, at delene har én fælles perm og åbnes fra hver sin side af bogblokken; især praktisk til salme- og tekstdelen af en salmebog. Tvillingbind udførtes fortrinsvis i 1500-, 1600- og 1700-t." (Erik Dal i Den Store Danske).

Paris, Crochard, 1824. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth with gilt lettering to spine. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 26. 448 pp. a. 5 large folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Ampere's papers: pp. 134-162, 246-258 a. 390-411. A bit of browning to halftitle and verso of last plate. A few scattered brownspots. The first paper is the first appearance of one of Ampere's importent contributions to electrodynamic. This memoir was later incorporated in his great memoir of 1827 "Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomenes electro-dynamiques....", published 1827, the "Principia" of electrodynamics.The second paper is the first appearence of the paper in which Ampere describes his invention of the SOLENOID, the electro-magnetic device he used in his early electrodynamical experiments."A solenoid is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix. In physics, the term solenoid refers to a long, thin loop of wire, often wrapped around a metallic core, which produces a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it. Solenoids are important because they can create controlled magnetic fields and can be used as electromagnets. The term solenoid refers specifically to a magnet designed to produce a uniform magnetic field in a volume of space (where some experiment might be carried out)."The volume contains further importent papers by Poisson "Sur la Chaleur rayonnante", pp. 225-246 + Note.. pp. 442-44, Gay-Lussac, Savart, Pelletier et Caventou, Becquerel etc.

London, Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A few scratches to leather at hinge. Engraved frontispiece (View of Athens). XV,IV,167,175 pp. and 1 folded facsimile-letter. The half-title a bit browned, otherwise clean and fine. The scarce first edition.

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.

Kbhvn., 1786. Folio. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg slidt og revner ved forreste fals øverst og nederst. Kobberstukket titelblad, dedikationsblad, 38 pp. samt alle 27 kobberstukne plancher. De første sider brunplettede, ellers mere marginalt brunplettet. Wiedewelt blev under sit ophold i Rom i 1750'erne ven med grundlæggeren af den nyere tids studium af antikkens kunst, Winckelmann, og denne opfordrede og opmuntrede ham til at tegne så meget som muligt af de antikke kunstværker. Først meget senere udkom dette værk på grundlag af ungdomsstudierne i Rom. Bibl.Danica II:457.

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, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1897, Volume 189 - Series A. - Pp. 265-307. Clean fine. Textillustrations, depicting Wilson's famous apparatus First printing of this groundbreaking paper in which Wilson describes the invention which made it possible to view the track of a single atomic projectile or electron. The invenvention of the "Dust-Chamber" made it possible for J.J. Thomson in 1897 to calculate the charge of the electron, and thereby finding its mass, since the ratio between the two was known. In most cases it was found that the track of the particle is a straight, or nearly straight line."C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays." (Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity" II:p.4).

Paris, J. Andriveau-Goujon, 1841. Folio. Bound in full leather with a closing flap just like a briefcase. Slightly scratched and a few tears to binding. Titlepage with a tear, no loss. Complete with 30 double-page (ca 41x53 cm) full handcoloured engraved maps. A few tears in centerfoldings, very ligh brownspottings, otherwise good. Philipps No 324 listing an edition from 1838, but not this (second edition ?). This fine engraved atlas comprises 10 historical maps and 20 recent (1841), among these Mappemonde, North-and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe etc.

Wien, 1785-86. 4 cont. full calf. Richly gilt backs. Top of spines on 2 volumes a little torn. Slightly brownspotted. (62),483,(10),838,(12),827,(6),332 pp. and 21 large folded engraved plates a. 2 fold. tables.

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

(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).

Paris, Gallimard, 1953 Small 8to. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. Back hinge slightly clacked, but a very fine and clean copy. S.P. printed to title-page and bottom of back wrapper. 90, (3) pp. First edition, presentation copy "A Meriam (?) et Ammeend (?) Schcor (?)/ avedCm'amitié de/ Maurice Blanchot.", of Merleau-Ponty's famous inaugural address to the Collège de France, his frequently quoted and highly regarded "In Praise of Philosophy", in which he defines the essence of philosophy and predicts its future. It is here we find his famous passages about philosophy "limping", that "this limping of philosophy is its virtue", and the answer to the question what philosophy will do in the 21st century - It will limp along.

Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1815-31. Bound in 6 contemp. boards. Gilt backs and titlelabels. Edges slightly rubbed. A library number on foot of spine. Internally clean and fine. First edition of this groundbreaking work, treating Roman Law according to new historical principles - Savigny was co-founder of the new historical school - and with an enormous significance for the establishment of international private law in the 19th century.

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, 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.

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.