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Nürnberg, Christoph Riegels, 1697. Folio. Bound in a nice (a bit later, ca. 1740) full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Covers richly blindtooled with a curved decoration of rococco-stamps. Large goldstamped cornerpieces. Edges of covers gilt. a stamp on htitle and title-page.(10),734,(66) pp. Having 1 engraved portrait (Carolus XI), many engraved vignettes. Fine and clean, but WITHOUT THE PLATES. Scarce first German edition of Pufendorf's "De rebus a Carolo Gustavo gestis commentario..Nürnberg, 1696." The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was enthrusted by the King Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law.Swedish Books No 38 - Warmholtz: 4840.

Antwerp, Beller, 1620. Folio (320 x 215 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Edges of boards gilt. Title-page with marginal soiling and with traces from having been folded vertically. Light wear to extremities, but generally a nice and clean copy. Text in two collums within single line framed boarder. (8), 1079, (48) pp. Rare later edition (Possibly second, the first being from 1619) of this extensive bible commentary by Jesuit Pineda. Pineda entered the Society of Jesus in 1572. He taught philosophy and theology in Seville and Cordova and functioned as consultor to the Spanish Inquisition and, in this capacity, visited numerous libraries in Spain which culminated with his publication “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” (1612)”.

Havniæ, (Arnamagnæani), 1817. 4to. Smukt nyere hldrbd. i brun oaseged. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Forgyldt skindtitel. Rygforgyldning. Også med ekstra titelblad med kobberstukket vignet. (4),LX,XII,550,138,(2) pp., 4 kobberstukne plancher. Aldeles frisk eksemplar, trykt på svært papir. Oldnordisk-dansk paralelltekst samt latinske kommentarer. The first edition. Edited and translated by Grimur Thorkelin. - Fiske I,336. - Klose,1399.

Lyon, Seb. Gryphim, 1535. 4to. Bound in a later full calf pastiche-binding in Cambridge-style, with elegant 'mirrors' to boards and blindstamped borders and decorations, spine with five raised bands, forming six compartments. Leather title-label with title in gilt lettering to spine. Spine miscoloured and several stains to boards. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page. Annotation in contemporary hand to title-page and last leaf with woodcut-device depicting a griffin. Waterstain to inner margin, affecting lower part of first 10 and last 15 leaves. a-z8, A-Z8, AA-BB8, CC10, aa-mm8, nn10. Rare second edition of this Latin Bible Concordance (the first being from 1529) from the printer Sebastian Gryphius. The present work being one of the first to use the griffin mark.

(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."

[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.

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.

(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).

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.

Kiøbh., Johann Jacob Bornheinrich, 1711. Samt. helldrbd. m. 5 oph. bd. på ryg, rygforgyldn. slidt. Titelfelt på ryg m. mangler. Kapitæler professionelt restaurerede. Marginale rifter og mangler v. frontispiece. Nederste hjørne af de første ca. 10 blade m. mindre tab, der ikke berører tekst. Lidt tæt beskåret for neden. Indimellem lidt brugsspor og brunpletter. Kobberst. frontispiece. (14), 720, 198, (21) pp. Den sjældne originaludgave af Holbergs første bog. Ehr-M. X:54 ff.

London, John Murray/Thomas Davison, 1810-21. 8vo. Bound in 6 uniform near contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Wear to spine-ends. Gilt lettering. Upper part of spine on the first volume loosening. Light wear to edges. All but one are Murray imprint. In general clean and fine, on good paper. An interesting collection of nearly all of Byron's works and here with many first editions.

Berlin, Erich Reisz, (1922). Large 4to. (40,5 x 35,5 cm.). Uncut in contemp. full calf, raised bands. Broad inside gilt borders. Title with gilt lettering on frontcover. A few minor scratches to boards and edges with very light wear. (24) pp. of text in double-columns. and 6 original etchings, all signed by W. Jaeckel. Clean and fine. No. II of V copies "von den unverstählten Platten gedruckt und vom Künstler unterschrieben worden". Printed on heavy paper (Bütten-Karton). Total issue 100 copies. First edition. "Als elfter prospero=Druckwurde "Die Epistel St. Paul an die Römer" für den Verlag Erich Reisz bei Otto von Holten, Berlin, im frühjahr 1922 in einer Auflage von 100 nummerierten Exemplaren in der Handpresse gedruckt. dem text liegt die uebersetzung Luthers zugrunde. Die dem Werk beigegebenen Radierungen von Willi Jaeckel wurden von Alexander Rogall in Berlin abgezogen. Die Radierungen in Nr. I-V sind von den unverstählten Platten gedruckt und vom Künstler unterschrieben worden. Die Radierungen in Nr. 1-20 wurden gleichfalls sämtlich vom Künstler bestätigt. Die Exemplare Nr. 21-95 trägen je eine Unterschrift. Dieses is nr. II." (Colophon).

Paris, Saillant & Nyon (et) Pissot, 1775. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. XII,260 (incl. 2 folded tables),(4) pp., 3 folded engraved maps and 9 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, 3 plates with a faint dampstain. First French edition. "An importent addition to nautical science which does honor to its author. Besides of a journal of the voyage, it contains a descriptive catalogue of the natural productions of Spitzbergen." (Sabin). Phipps here mapped the northern part of Spitzbergen.Sabin,62574.

Giessen, Kriegerischen Buchhandlung, 1777-89 Bound in 11 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to lower compartments. Stamp on title-pages. 11 engraved titlevignettes. With 49 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean. Volume 12 was published 1795 after the death of Böhm by Carl Friedrich Haus.

Paris, 1934. 4to. Textvolumes with orig. printed wrappers. A few tears to wrappers on spines. Orig. portfolio with 140 fine plates (Héliotypie Barry). The first 3 leaves in volume one (title-page and pp. I-IV of Introduction) in facsimile. Text and plates fine and clean.

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.

Berlin, Haude und Spener, 4to. Cont. full calf. Raised bands. Blindtooled compartments. Titlelabel with lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. (20),172,(4),12; (8),137,(3) pp. Engraved frontisp. and 47 folded engraved plates (numb. 1-33 + 3 bis and 1-11). A few leaves with light browning, a few plates with light toning, otherwise clean and fine. Second German edition. - Klaus Jordan No 3920.