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Undated, Around 1820. 4to. (22 x 18 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Title-page. I-X (Table des materières),186 pp. and 6 folded MS-plates in folio with 29 geometrical figures. Written in a fine small legible hand in brown ink in French. Many mathematical formulas describing different trajectories, loads, ammunition etc., discussing and correction the theories of Gregory, Poisson, Rumford, Robins, Bezout, Borda, Legendre etc. The MS does nor unveils the name of the author. Unprinted ?.

Istanbul, Milli Egitim Basimevi, 1948 [Vol. 1 & 2] & 1955 [Vol. 3 & 4]. 8vo. 4 volumes in the original printed wrapper. Spines (especially on vol. 1 and 4) with wear and a bit of miscolouring, otherwise a fine and clean set. IV, 393, (8); (6), 340; 386; 415, (2) pp. Rare first Turkish translation of Adam Smith's landmark work "Wealth of Nations". Despite his indirect impact in the Ottoman intellectual sphere [the present work] was not translated into to Turkish until 1948. "The reason for not translating The Wealth of Nations in full was purely pragmatic and was simply caused by market conditions. Above all, the market for books was small due to very low literacy rate." (Kilinço?lu, Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire)"A 1881 Turkish translation of Wealth of Nations by Sakisli Ohanes is recorded by Vanderblue in 1936 as having been published in Constantinople, printed in 'old Turkish characters' , the modified Arabic-Persian script in use until about 1928. There is indeed a work by Sakizli Ohannes Pasha published in 1881 whose title translates as 'the science of the wealth of nations', but it is not a translation of Wealth of Nations. The book is a discussion of political economy in five parts - production, exchange, distribution, consumption and a conclusion; it is therefore recognizable as a work written more under the influence of Jean-Baptiste Say than Adam Smith, but given a title reminiscent of Smith all the same" (Mizuta, A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith)Cheng-chung Lai, Table A18.

Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1839. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e series, Volume 71. (4),445,(3) pp. (Entire volume offered). Arago's paper: pp. 313-340. The first and last leaves with some browning. A few scattered brownspots. First printing of probably the first (in the Juillet issue of Annales) official announcement of Daguerre's invention of the photographic process. The paper offered here preceeded the official report in Comptes Rendues which was published at the end of 1839 (in the July-December issue). The first report of on the discovery was presented to the Royal Academy on January 7, 1839 and delivered in full on August 19, 1839 (and printed in the July-Dec. issue of Comptes Rendues). The paper also preceeded Daguerre's own publication of 1839 "Historique et description du daguerréotypie..."In 1839 Arago took a personal interest in announcing and popularizing the inventions of Niepce and Daguerre, who were awarded government pensions as a result of Arago’s recognition of their inventions’ potential significance."In 1829 Daguerre went into partnership with Niepce, who had managed to produce images by the action of light some three years earlier but had failed to make the process really practical. Daguerre carried on and began to use copper plates on which silver salts were deposited. ight was made to focus upon that and an image was formed. The light portions of the image darkened the salts, while the shadowy portions left them unaffected. The unchanged salt was dissolved away by sodium thiosulfate (a process that had been suggested by John Herschel and a permanent image of sorts was left behind."(Asimov).

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1948. Royal8vo. Royal8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. In "The Physical Review", Volume 74, Second Series, Number 10, November 10. With cloth back-strip. Wrappers bound 1 mm lower than book-block, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1430-1438. [Entire volume: Pp. (1271)-1567]. First edition of Feynman's very first paper on quantum electrodynamics (QED), being one of Feynman's most important publications which pre-dates his work on Feynman diagrams by a year. Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonago shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1867. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spinewith gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 131. (Entire volume offered). (2),X,660 pp. and 5 engraved plates. Small stamps to verso of titlepage and to verso of plates. Clean and fine. First German edition (which originally appeared the same year in Danish in "Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Viidenskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger") of Lorenz' paper, which contains his important studies on the electromagnetic theory of light in which he - less than two years after, but independently of, Maxwell - found that LIGHT MIGHT BE INTERPRETED AS ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, and that his equations lead to the CORRECT VALUE FOR THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT. AND: First appearance of RIEMANN'S important paper (issued posthumously) in which he introduces the concept of "RETARDED POTENTIALS". Riemann suggests that Poisson's equation be modified by introducing terms which, though too small to be appreciable in ordinary experiments, would be capable of accounting for the propagation of electrical effects through space with a finite velocity c. This, so far as it goes, is in agreement with the view now accepted as correct."The procedure which Lorenz followed was that of which Riemann had suggested in 1858 (the present paper by Riemann, which was published for the first time in 1867), namely, to modify the accepted formula of electrodynamics by introducing terms which, though too small to be appreciable in ordinary laboratory experiments, would be capable of accounting for the propagation of electrical effects through space with a finite velocity...The (Lorenz-) equations are, however, the fundamental equations of Maxwell's theory; and therefore the theory of L. Lorenz is practically equivalent to that of Maxwell, so far as concerns the propagation of electromagnetic disturbances through free aether.....he suggested that ALL LUMINOUS VIBRATIONS MIGHT BE CONSTITUTED BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS, and hence that there was 'no longer any reason for maintaining the hypothesis of an aether, since we can admit that space contains sufficient ponderable matter to enable the disturbance to be propagated" (Edmund Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I", p. 267-70)."Maxwell seems to have considered the great paper of L. Lorenz on retarded potentials (published simultaneously in 1867 with a paper written in 1858 by B. Riemann on the same theme) as insufficiently supportive of his vision of a dynamical theory of theelectromagnetic field, whereas the present attitude is that Riemann and Lorenz made important contributions to the Maxwellian view." (Kirk T. McDonald in "Maxwell's Objection to Lorenz' Retarded Potentials").

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1701". Title-page to Année 1701 with an engraved vignette. Pp. 297-364 a. Corrections & Remarques Pour le Systeme de Musique (2) pp. With 3 large folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Wide-margined. First appearance of a founding paper in musical theory and the physics of acoustics, in which the term "acoustique" is coined. The paper deals with the relations of the tones of the musical scale. It established the practice of music upon a science superior to it which Sauveur calls "Acoustics", the subject of which is sound in general. This is Sauveur's main paper on acoustics in which he states the first clear recognition of the composite nature of the vibration of strings."Like Mersenne and others in the Seventeenth century, Sauveur used musical experience to obtain information on sound and vibration. According to Fontenelle, Sauveur was fascinated by music, even though he had no ear for it, and consulted frequently with musicians. Despite the musical foundation of his work, Sauveur proposed the development of a new subject, which he named "acoustique", dealing with sound in general rather than with the "son agréable" of music." (DSB XII, p. 127)."Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716) introduces the term "acoustics" for the study of sound and examines the relations of the tones of the musical scale in the memoir "Systeme général des intervalles...." (General System of sound intervals and its application to all musical systems and instruments) - the paper offered - He shows that a string can vibrate at integral multiples of a a fundamental frequency simultaneously with vibrating at the fundamental frequency itself, callinf the toned produced by the vibrations at the multiples the "harmonics" of the fundamental tone."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1701 P.

Kjøbenhavn, L.A. Jørgensen, (1858-65). Folio. Samt. slidt, sort hldr. m. forgyldt ryg. Hjørner stødte og indre false lidt løse. 61 tavler (tavle LIV+LV mrk. Supplementtavle) + 35 tavler + 8 tavler + 2 unumm; (Tavlerne mrk. I-LV (LIV+LV mrk. Supplementtavle)) + (1ste.Suppl. Tab 1-23, Suppl. 24, 1ste. Suppl. Tab. 25-35) + (2det Suppl.Tab 1-8) + (2 unumm.) Ialt 106 tavler (komplet). Alle håndkolorerede. Flere tavler småbrunplettede, men alle pænt farvelagt. Anker, 249.

Leipzig, Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1782. Contemp. boards. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. (12),98 pp. and 1 folded engraved map, divided in 3 sections: 1. Grundriss des Fort St. Philipp. 2. Grundriss der Gegend von Porto Mahon und Fort St. Philipp. 3. Abriss der Festung Gibraltar. A few faint brownspots. The scarce first edition.

København, Godiche, 1777-79. 4to. 3 samt. hellæderbd., ophøjede bind på rygge, rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titel- og tomefelter. Kobberstukket portræt af Hofman som frontispiece. 3 store kobberstukne titelvignetter. XX,193;(8),342;(12),401 pp. Rigt illustreret med kobberstukne portrætter, store vignetter, prospekter, våbenskjolde og genealogiske foldetavler. Indvendig frisk, trykt på skrivepapir. Enkelte spredte brunpletter. På forpermernes indersider et kobberstukket våbenskjold, kronet med 2 løver og 3 hundehoveder i skjoldet (?) og bagpermernes indersider stort kobberstukket våbenskjold Adam Comte Lewenhaupt Falckenstein. Første danske udgave, der udkom som en oversættelse af forfatterens "Portraits Historiques des Hommes Illustres... fra 1746. - Hofmans omgang i Paris med tidens fornemste bogkunstnere gav ham smag for den nye franske bogkunst og han knyttede mange af disse kunstnere til udgivelsen af værket med dets pompøse udsmykninger, således blev hans eget portræt, som indleder værket, stukket af den fremtrædende franske kunstner J.G. Wille. I værket redegøres for over 40 danske adelsslægter, Friis, Skeel, Rantzau, Thott m.v. samt fremtrædende personligheder så som Tordenskjold, og særligt må fremhæves afsnittet om Tycho Brahe, der ud over hans stukne portræt, indeholder kortet over Hven, prospekt af Uranienborg m.v.This fine work describes 40 noble Danish families and renowned Danes, among these Tycho Brahe and his family. There is a chapter on him, with his engraved portrait (1 engraved plate), a map of Hven (in the text) and illustrations of his observatories at the island Hven (2 engraved plates).

(Petropoli (St. Petersbourg), 1750). 4to. Uncut, without wrappers. Extracted from "Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tom. I. ad Annum 1747 et 1748. Pp. 245-266 a. 1 engraved plate (ad. p. 251). Clean and fine. First appearance of a groundbreaking paper in chemistry in which Lomonosov describes his discovery of the transition of a metal into passive state, and this is the first scientific description of this phenomena. He observed and described fast termination of the dissolution of iron in concentrated nitric acid, and attributed this to a change in the solvent properties."Lomonosov employed corpuscular mechanics in chemical explanations more extensively than Boyle had done. Treating chemical compounds as particles in adhesion, he held that "adhesion is eliminated and renewed by means of motion.....since no change in a body can take place withouy motion". He attempted to apply these theories to chemical phenomena - although he was limited to speculation- in papers on the action of chemical solvents in general.."(DSB VIII, p. 469)."Lomonosov was founder of Russian science, and he would be universally recognized as a great pioneer of science had he been born a West European. He was famous also for his literary works, including poems and dramas. In 1755 he wrote a Russian Grammar that reformed the language and in the same year he helped found the University of Moscow. In 1760 he published the first history of Russia."(Isaac Asimov).

La Haye, Nijhoff, 1961. Royal 8vo. Original blue full cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and in the original blue dust-jacket. Cloth with a white spot to spine, from removal of some sort of label. Front board a tiny bit bended towards corners. Dust-jacket unusually clean and fine with just a few tears with almost no loss, and with a bit of loss to upper layer of paper, from removal of some sort of label (exactly the same place as on cloth-spine). XVIII, 284 pp. The rare first edition of this absolute masterpiece of 20th century philosophy and a towering achievement of philosophical ethics, Levinas' main work, in which he introduced the concepts "the face of the other" and "radical alterity".The French-Lithuanian philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was among the first French academic philosophers to come to Freiburg to study phenomenology with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and subsequently introduced this philosophical methodology in France, among others to Jean-Paul Sartre who would, a few years later, go to Germany to study phenomenology himself."Totalité et Infini", Levinas' first major work, grew out of his experience of the Second World War which he survived as a prisoner of war in Germany. It revolves around the possibility of ethics in a world dominated by the will to power and the inescapable reality of war. The prominence, which it rapidly attained through its enthusiastic reception by contemporaries such as Paul Ricoeur, is tied to the originality and urgency of its reflection on the foundation of ethics - and the ethical foundation of philosophy itself. This is at the heart of Levinas' claim that ethics must be understood as the primary form of philosophy.The concepts which "Totalité et Infini" introduced into philosophy (the face of the Other, radical alterity) now form part of the grammar of modern ethical reflection. In these years, the work is also finding reception in aesthetics, in part, through the writings of Levinas' close friend Maurice Blanchot.

No Place, No Date, Probably Wien, Prag,Trieste, 1759-6o. Folio-oblong. 7 parts, all with the original marbled wrappers. Handwritten titlelabels to each part, numbered 1-7, and "Geschichte des Polÿb". With 131 fine engraved plates, with views, battlescenes, fortifications, sieges of towns, maps, war-machinery etc., some in 4to, but mostly engraved on folioleaves. All plates with engraved text under image, in French and German.

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

Leipzig, 1858-62. 8vo. Bound in one nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. A bit of wear to capitals and hinges, and front hinge slightly cracked at bottom, otherwise fine. Minor occassional brownspotting. A small stamp to title-page. XIV, 371, (1) pp. + 1 folded plate; XVI, 398, (1 - errata) pp. The scarce first edition of Curtius' magnum opus, a work of immense importance to the theory of the Greek language and one of the most important, influential, and useful works on the theory of language in general. "Nach den Ansichten Aller, auch der Gegner, gehören diese "Grundzüge" zu den werthvollsten und nützlichsten Werken der Sprachwissenschaft überhaupt" (Ernst Windisch in: Sebeok, Portraits of Linguists, I: p. 332).The work took Curtius about a decade to write, and the two volumes appeared with four years in between them. It is very rare to find any of the two volumes in the first edition, and both volumes in the first edition are almost never seen together. The work became immensely popular, and five editions appeared between this first and 1879. Georg Curtius (1820-1885) is one of the leading German classicists of all times. His writings were fundamental to the study of the Greek language and are among the most profound, influential and thorough ever written.Within the theory of language, one can hardly point to a work more generally influential than the present, which also excels in stringently and eloquently pointing out the connection between etymology and phonetics and proving that only through phonetics has etymology become a science.

[Slovene Littoral, Printed for Agitprop, Presumably 1944]. Small4to. In the original stapled printed grey wrappers. Previous owner's name in light pencil to front wrapper and title-page. A few brown spots to title-page, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 52 pp. Exceedingly rare Slovenian translation of the Communist Manifesto. This virtually unknown edition is not to be found in any bibliography nor on OCLC. The present edition of the Manifesto was printed and distributed by Agitprop, the Communist Party institution that controlled education, publishing, libraries and mass media from the end of World War II until 1952. Presumably the present publication was among the first publications made by Agitprop. Until the end of World War II Agitprop was essentially an underground movement whose goal was to pave the way for communism after the war. After the resistance in Slovenia started in summer 1941, Italian violence against the Slovene civilian population escalated and to counter the Communist-led insurgence, the Italians sponsored local anti-guerrilla units, formed mostly by the local conservative Catholic Slovene population that resented the revolutionary violence of the partisans. After the Italian armistice of September 1943, the Germans took over both the Province of Ljubljana and the Slovenian Littoral. They united the Slovene anti-Communist counter-insurgence into the Slovene Home Guard and appointed a puppet regime in the Province of Ljubljana. The anti-Nazi resistance however expanded, creating its own administrative structures as the basis for Slovene statehood within a new, federal and socialist Yugoslavia.In 1945, Yugoslavia was liberated by the underground resistance and soon became a socialist federation known as the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined the federation as a constituent republic, led by its own pro-Communist leadership and Agitprop became the official mass media institution.Not in OCLC

Stockholm, 1756. Tvær-folio. Nyere halvlæderbind. Plancherne friske, dog nogle med lidt brunpletter nederst (ca. 25 x 36 cm.). Alle graveret af C.Bergquist och P.Geringius. - Originaltrykket. Til samlingen udkom yderligere et titelblad samt 3 andre plancher(pl. V,XXII og XXIII).

Kbhvn., 1759-91. 4to. Indbundet i 7 samt. helldrbd. (Bd. 6 i spejlbind). Rygforgyldningen lidt afvigende i rækken. Med brugsspor. Nogle kapitæler slidte. Indeholder alle 30 dobbeltsidede kobberstukne landkort (også globe-og hemisfærekort), alle håndkolorerede i kontur. De 7 kobberstukne titelvignetter er stukket af J. Haas. Dette omfangsrige værk, hvis udgivelse strakte sig over mere end 30 år, har ikke meget med Holberg at skaffe, idet værket er en kompilation af en række udenlandske værker foretaget af Junge. Bindene omfattende Danmark, Norge, Island og Vestindien har dog en vis selvstændighed.

Kbhvn., C.G. Glasings Efterleverske, 1756. 4to. Stort, næsten ubeskåret, eksemplar i nyere helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryg og rygtitel i skind. Forsatse i gl. marmoreret papir. Rygforgyldning. (8),288,(24) pp. Kobberstukne tekstillustrationer og store vignetter samt 31 kobberstukne plancher: kort, prospekter, planer, kædedragter m.v (mange heraf udfoldelige) samt 1 dobbeltsidet tabel. På skrivepapir. Enkelte marginale brunpletter. Stort frisk eksemplar med brede marginer. Originaludgaven af dette hovedværk om Bornholms og Christiansøes historie og topografi.

Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1840. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Bookseller label pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Light wear to extremities, primarily to hindges, otherwise a fine a copy. VI, (2), 274, (2) pp. First edition of Henle's landmark work in which he "laid down postulates on the aetiological relation of microbes to disease which became fundamentals of bacteriology and which did much to check the reckless speculation which had arisen regarding micro-organism. Koch later developed these postulates" (Garrison-Morton 2533). Henle became one of the greatest histologist and one of the finest anatomists of any area. "His importance to the development of histology is comparable to that of the Renaissance master Andreas Vesalius on gross anatomy." (Encyclopedia Britannica) "The significance of Henle's book lies in its long opening essay 'Von den Miasmen und Contagien,' in which Henle formulated, on the basis of deductive reasoning, his conviction that living organisms were the cause of contagious and infectious diseases. Drawing upon a wide body of work performed by other researchers on the origin of infectious diseases, such as Bassi's recent demonstration of the parasitical nature of muscardine disease of silkworms, Henle argued that infectious agents had to be organic in nature, since they appeared to multiply from the moment of entering the body (a statement supported by the fact that a certain period of incubation usually precedes the outbreak of disease), and only organic life has the property of growth. The fact that infectious agents could be destroyed by heat and disinfectants also suggested their animate nature. Henle assumed that each infectious disease had its own etiology, but realized that such views would be difficult to prove; he therefore proposed that an agent constantly found in association with a particular disease be isolated and tested in its isolated state to see whether it could produce the disease. 'This approach to the proof of the germ theory Henle communicated to his pupil Robert Koch and was, forty years later, to become one of the cornerstones of classical bacteriology under the name of "Koch's postulates" ' Foster "He laid down postulates on the aetiological relation of microbes to disease which became fundamentals of bacteriology." (Norman) Garrison-Morton 2533 Osler 2944 Waller 4336 Norman 1051

Hamburg, Johann Nan(u)mann, und Stockholm, Gottfried Liebezeit, 1678 u. 1676. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with small tears, gilt lettering. Top of spine neatly repaired. Light wear to foot of spine. Slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-page. (8),236,(64) pp., 1 engraved map (Northpole). Some copies have a map of Nova Zembla in woodcut - it is not in this copy. Catalog der Commerz-Bibliothek in Hamburg mentions only 1 map, likewise Sabin, as here. A bit of lower right corner of title-page, gone. Title-page repaired for a few small holes on verso, loosing a few letters. Light browning, some scattered brownspots. Second edition of Capel's "Vorstellungen des Norden, oder Bericht von einigen Nordländern...", 1675. It deals with - among other things and previous voyages - the possibility of reaching the East Indies by a north passage.Lauridsen II,43 - Sabin, 10736.

Leipzig und Bresslau, Michael Hubert, 1715. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather. Top of spine repaired. Lightly rubbed. Corners a bit bumped. Titlepage in red/black. 862 pp and some woodcut illustrations in the text. Leaves with browning, due to the rather poor paperquality. Scarce German edition of this collection of Glaubers main works in chemistry, alchymy etc. He was certainly one of the most remarkable chemists of the seventeenth century. "Glaubers interest in the transmutation of metals and in industrial chemistry (e.g. his Glauber-salt) distinguished him from Paracelsus and other iatrochemists, who were more narrowly concerned with the preparation of chemical medicine. In the most general sense Glauber sought to perfect nature for the enchancement of human life - to render useless things useful through the release of their hidden virtues. Such changes were effected in his laboratory primarely through the "ripening" powers of salt...Glauber prepared his "Most secret salt" by combining ammonia and salpeter, made from excrements and urine" (DSB). - Ferguson I:p. 328.

Paris, January 1927. 8vo. Entire issue present, in the original printed wrappers, uncut. Wrappers a bit soiled, and first leaves of the entire issue with a few tears, far from affecting text, and a brown spot to first few leaves. Otherwise internally fine. Inner hinge weak. Pp. 26 - 39. [Entire volume: 70, (8), (1, -colophon) pp.]. The extremely scarce first printing, in German, of Sartre's third publication, "The Theory of State in modern French Thought". The work appeared simultaneously in German, French, and English, and all three publications are of the greatest scarcity. Contat and Rybalka were unable to find the French edition for the bibliography of Sartre's works and had to do with the English version. They state that the "Revue universitaire internationale" is not to be found anywhere, in no French libraries: "Il nous a été impossible de retrouver l'édition francaise de cette revue qui était publiée à Paris par la Fédération universitaire internationale simultanément en francais, anglais et allemand. Le titre de l'édition francaise est: "Revue universitaire internationale". Elle ne figure au catalogue d'aucune bibliothèque de France." (Contat & Rybalka).The present article is a brilliant and well founded essay of state theory by the 22 year old Sartre, published 16 years before his philosophical breakthrough, "L'Etre et le Néant" from 1943. Sartre was urged by his fellow opinionator Daniel Lagache to write the article. Lagache was the editor of the "Revue Universitaire Internationale", in which the article appeared. "Il s'agit d'une étude brillante et solidement documentée où Sartre, déployant la virtuosité intellectuelle d'un normalien bien entraîné, examine le philosophie du droit de quelques théoriciens francais du droit international, en particulier de Hauriou, de Davy et de Léon Duguit." (Contat & Rybalka).Contat & Rybalka 27/3.

Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Walkirch, 1600. Folio. I et samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. Ryg med fire ophøjede bind. Bind restaureret, men størstedelen af det oprindelige læder er bevaret på ryg og permer. Talrige ormehuller på permer. Verso af forperm tæt annotteret i samtidig hånd. Rester af to læderspænder. Første fire blade samt kolofon suppleret i faksimile. Otte blade i begyndelsen (sidste to af fortalen, samt Formanning til...) samt fyrre blade sidst (pp. 335-398 samt register) suppleret fra andet eksemplar. Bladene fra det indsatte eksemplar er beskåret ca 2 cm mere på alle marginer end det oprindelige eksemplar. Flere blade med reperationer i margin. (24), 362, 398, (18) pp. Med talrige monumentale halvsides træsnit i teksten illustrerende Jesu levnedsløb, hvis kunstner indtil for nylig var uidentificeret. (Se noten nedenfor). Postillen udkom først på Latin i 1561 og blev fortsat med ialt 16 Latinske udgaver, alle kan man vist sige, af største sjældenhed. Carl S. Petersen kalder Niels Hemmingsen "den største teologiske Videnskabsmand, der har levet i vor Fædreland", og som elev af Melancton må han nok betegnes som den mest betydelige tænker i Reformationstidens Danmark og Norge. Hans Postil er ikke egentlige prædikener, "men dispositioner til saadanne, udarbejdede med det formål at tvinge præsten til alvorlig gennemtænkning af den hellige Text". Samtiden tildelte ham navnet "Danmarks almindelige Lærer".ANG. ILLUSTRATIONERNE: En dansk bogsamler og ekspert på danske 1500-tals tryk (Jørgen Jark) har fornylig bidraget til opklaringen af de monumentale illustrationers ophav. Han anfører, at signaturen CE (i Thesaurus fejllæst som CF) - ifølge Nagler "Die Monogramisten" - sandsynligvis står for kunstneren, mester Endele. Han var af Wittenbergskolen, og denne serie af billeder var tidligere anvendt i en tysk udgave af Luthers Postil. Et par af billederne er mærket med årstallene 1561 og 1562. Efter lånet til Danmark må de være returneret, da de ikke optræder senere i noget andet dansk tryk. Træskæreren har markeret sig med en træskærerkniv og et 4tals-agtigt tegn, der er et i tiden og tidligere ofte anvendt laugsmærke. Et par af billederne tilhører en helt anden serie, f.eks. bind I, blad 71b. De tilskrives Hans Brosamer og hele denne serie blev brugt af Matz Vingaard i hans LutherpostilLauritz Nielsen: 887 Thesaurus I, 100.

[Circa 1870-1880]. A series of 17 unsigned photographs of ancient Greek monuments, temples and artworks, most measuring 25 x 17 cm, some slightly smaller, some slightly larger, all mounted on leaves measuring 30x42 cm. and bound in an exquisite near contemporary (ab. 1900) oblong black half morocco binding with four raised bands, gilt spines, boards with elaborately gilt corners, gilt border and to the middle of front board a gilt vignette, gilt title ("Grekland" i.e. Norwegian for Greece). Housed in an equally elegant half morocco boxes with with gilt spines, marbled edges, and with middle of boards corresponding to those of the binding. The box are also from ab. 1900. The box have a few traces of wear, but all in all, the set is in splendid condition. A fine collection of photographs from Greek, fortraying Greek monuments, temples and artworks.

Boston, etc., Houghton Mifflin, 1950. 4to. Original reddish-brown full cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. A bit of wear to extremities. Several pencil-underlinings in the text (presuambly Postman's). XII, (2), 235, (1), (6, -index) pp. Richly illustrated throughout. With presentation-insription to front free end-paper, as well as Leo Postman's ownership signature. Excellent presentation-copy of the first edition of the most important work on perception since Helmholtz, Gibson's seminal classic, in which he rejected the theory of behaviorism and pioneered the idea that animals "sampled" information from the "ambient" outside world. Inscribed to Gibson's close friend, professor of psychology Leo Postman, one of the most dominant theoreticians of human memory: "To Leo Postman/ You know all this already/ Jim Gibson". American psychologist James Jerome Gibson (1904 -1979) is considered one of the most important 20th century psychologists in the field of visual perception. His classic work from 1950, "The Perception of the Visual World", Revolutionized the way of understanding visual perception and was responsible for the turn away from the otherwise dominating behaviorism. It is in this, his pioneering main work, that he presents his revolutionizing idea of animals "sampling" information from the outside world that surrounds them.Gibson is also famous for coining the term "affordance", which is the quality of an object or an environment that allows for an individual to perform an action (- a for the time unusually Aristotelian way of viewing objects, an example would be a tie which "affords" tying, or a knob that "affords" twisting). As Gibson's theories in psychology in general, the concept of "affordance" has been extremely influential in a large variety of fields: perceptual psychology, cognitive psychology, environmental psychology, industrial design, human-computer interaction (HCI), interaction design, instructional design and artificial intelligence."The principal subject of this book is the visual perception of space. The essential question to be asked is this: How do we see the world around us? The question is at once a theoretical one, a factual one, and a practical one. The theories to be considered have to do with the history of philosophy and psychology. The applications extend to art, aviation, photography, and mountain-climbing. This book, however, is not a historical survey of the problem, nor a record of existing facts, nor a discussion of the applications. The intention is to formulate a consistent approach to the problem - a way of getting new facts and making new applications. [...] The writer has elected to study psychophysics rather than psychophysiologybecause he believes that it offers the more promising approach in the present state of our knowledge. [...] A psychophysics may sound to some readers like a contradiction in terms. This book undertakes, however, to justify and make possible such a science. " (Gibson, in the Preface, pp. (vii)-viii). As is seen from Gibson's own preface, he himself viewed the work as revolutionary, which Hochberg also notes in is piece on Gibson: "I believe [the] book was the most important work on perception since that of Helmholtz's volume three of Physiological Optics, approximately a century earlier. It was a comprehensive approach to the perception of surfaces, things, and movement through the environment, promarily the outcome of his observations and thoughts about the visual task involved in flying and landing aircraft. [...] The book was clearly intended to initiate a revolutionary moment. I believe that intention has, just as clearly, been successful. Some forty years after its publication, the book is still widely cited and controversial, the direct source of substantial current experimental research, and the starting point for more extreme departures from what had been the established way of thinking about perception." (Julian Hochberg, "James Jerome Gibson", in: National Academy of Sciences Biographical memoirs 63, 1994, pp. 155-6). "LEO JOSEPH POSTMAN, professor emeritus of psychology and a dominant figure in the study of human memory, died on April 22, 2004, of heart failure at his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was 85.Postman was "a major theoretician in the development of the theory of forgetting," said friend and colleague Donald Riley, professor emeritus of psychology. "His contributions were monumental." Postman was listed in a 2002 article in the Review of General Psychology as one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the last century. "Within the field of human memory, the range of his contributions has been vast," wrote one of his former students, Geoffrey Keppel, professor emeritus of psychology, in recommending Postman for the Berkeley Citation. Postman received the award, the highest honor given to University of California, Berkeley faculty and staff, upon his retirement in 1987.In 1961, Postman founded the Institute of Human Learning at Berkeley, which lives on today as the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, a center devoted to an interdisciplinary study of the mind and the brain.Postman primarily studied perception, learning, and memory. He participated in the beginnings of the "new look" school of perception that emphasized the role of cognitive factors such as emotions and expectations in determining what people perceive.His main interest, however, was forgetting. Based on studies he began in 1958, he became known as the principal spokesman for and architect of modern interference theory, the only comprehensive account of forgetting that exists today. The theory, Keppel wrote, holds that forgetting is the result of interference from a variety of sources, including past memories, various aspects of the current memory, and new memories acquired subsequently-that is, a dynamic interaction of the entire memory system, past and present. Postman was sensitive to the weaknesses of the theory, and spent the last part of his career investigating the mechanisms that conserve memory in the face of interference. Much of this research was conducted at the institute he founded and directed until 1977.Postman, who served as chair of the Department of Psychology for several years in the late 1950s, had a reputation for excellence in teaching, emphasizing clarity and organization.Born June 7, 1918, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Postman moved at an early age to New York City, obtaining his B.S. from the College of the City of New York in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1946. He taught at Harvard from 1946 until 1950, interrupted by one year at Indiana University, and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1950.In his first years at Berkeley, Postman was recognized nationally as a major figure in the field of perception and the role of motivation in perception. His research shifted, however, and he embarked on a long series of studies on learning with and without the intent to learn (the latter being what is referred to as incidental learning). He later switched to the study of forgetting, which he pursued until his retirement.A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association, he also served in 1968 as president of the Western Psychological Association, and in 1974 received the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists for outstanding achievement in experimental psychology." (Robert Sanders, "In Memoriam. Leo Postman").