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Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Waldkirch (og andre ?), 1613-33. 4to. Velbevaret samtidigt dansk hellæderbind over træ i renæssancestil og med 2 originale spænder i bronce. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Permer med blindtrykte rammer i streger og ruller samt i midterfelterne pladetrykte portrætter (Justitia ?). Lidt slid ved øverste kapitæl.(52);(20);(38) pp. samt 115 forordninger. Ialt ca. 600 pp. Bagerst i bindet 26 sider med samtidige tilføjelser, notater m.v. Yderst velbevaret. Alle i originaltrykkene - de 3 første med angivelse af trykker: Henrich Waldkirch, Forordningerne uden angivelse af trykker. - Forordningerne vedrører alle sider af samfundslivet, handel, næring, sundhedsvæsenet, myntvæsenet, vejvæsenet, retsvæsenet, skolevæsenet etc. etc. for Danmark-Norge. - Bibl. Danica I: 635 ff.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1907. Contep. hcloth. Both hinges with a tear at upper part. "Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge. Band 23. Herausgegeben von W.Wien und M. Planck", VIII,1000 pp. and 4 plates. Einstein's papers pp. 197-98 a. 206-209 a. 371-384. Internally fine and clean. The whole volume offered. All 3 papers in first edition. - The first paper "New possibility of testing the relativity principle" deals with the shift of canal rays in the Dobbler effect as a possible confirmation of the Principle of Relativity - the confirmation became actual only in 1938 when new improved instrumentation made it possible. - The second paper "remarks concerning Paul Ehrenfest's note: 'Translation of the deformable electron and the momentum law', Einstein gives his answer by relating it to his Theory of Relativity. - The third paper "The inertia of energy, as demanded by the principle of relativity", which is a importen paper as it i is the first to state E=mc2 in its general form. general form. This new relation which was adumbrated already in his paper of 1906 (Das prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung), brings about the complete unification of mass and energy into a single concept. In natural units, which make c=1, we have E=m, i.e. mass and energy are one and the same quantity. Every form of energy also has a mass value, just as every mass represents a definite amount of energy. - Weil Nos 17,18 a. 19

London, William Mackenzie, (1879). Small folio. Bound in 2 fine original pictorial full brown cloth. Richly gilt backs and front covers. Excellent condition. 2 half-titles, 2 title-pages. XXVI, 204 pp. and all 41 chromolithographic plates, all with tissue-guards, 64 woodengravings in the text. First edition of this beautifully illustrated work on English fresh-water fishes, with both plates and text in fine clean condition. All fishes depicted within detailled settings and backgrounds. Nissen ZBI: 2009.

Kiöbenh(avn), Uden trykker, 1663. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titelfelt. Skindet krakeleret ved forreste fals således, at bogen er lidt løs, men forpermen sidder stadig fast. Kobberstukket titelblad, der foruden titlen har 11 felter med forskellige fyndord. (10), 200 pp. Titelkobberet med et hul i titellfeltet med tab af nogle bogstaver. Lille hul i de første 2 blade med tab af få bogstaver. De 4 sidste blade med reparation af øverste højre hjørner. De 2 sidste blade med større brunplet. Nogle få spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven af det første danske forsøg på en sammmenlignende sprogvidenskab.The very rare first edition of the first Danish work of comparative linguistics and the first Danish work on comparative history of literature. The work is of seminal importance to the development of the Danish language as the accepted official and written language of Denmark.Bibl. Danica IV,60. - Thesaurus II,677.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, profusely gilt spine. Light wear along edges. XXXII,622 pp. In: "Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre 1845. Dargestellt von der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin". I. Jahrgang. Redigirt von G. Karsten. XXXII,622 pp. A stamp on titlepage. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 346-355. Clean and fine. First appearance of this milestone paper which represents the first, and most importent, step towards his great work laid down in "Über die Erhaltung der Kraft", 1847. This is Helmholtz' FIRST PAPER ON THE CONSERVATION OF FORCE"At the beginning of October, 1846, Helnmholtz sent a 'Report on Work done on the Theory of Animal Heat for 1845', at du Bois' request, to the "Fortschritte der Physik", issued by the Physical Society. (the paper offered). This was merely an abstract from the article in the Encyclopaedic Dictionary.....BUT IT ANTICIPATES MORE DEFINITELY THE CONDCLUSIONS OF HIS GREAT WORK. He states without hesitation that the material theory of heat is no longer tenable, and that a kinetic theory must be substituted for it, since heat originates in mechanical forces, either directly by friction, or indirectly from an electrical current produced by themotion of magnets. This conception of heat as a motion involves the conclusion that mechanical, electrical and chemical forces must always be the definite equivalent of one and the same energy, whatever the mode by which one force is transformed into another. The empirical confirmation of this law must be the imperative duty of physicists and physiologists."(Leo Koenigsberger in "Hermann von Helmholtz", pp. 34-35)."In the "Fortschritte der Physik" for 1845, which appeared in 1847, Helmholtz published a report on theories of physiological heat which he later acknowledged as belonging to his work on the conversation of force."(Jungnickel & McCormach "Intellectual Masteryof Nature, Vol. 1, p. 157).

Amsterdam, Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1729-30. + Supplement: Amsterdam, Chatelain et Fils, 1753. 4to. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Blindtooling to compartments. Titlelabels with lettering. Broad gilt border on covers. With the monogram of King Frederik V in gold on red background on all covers. Light wear to spine-ends on the first volume. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece to Suppl.vol., 131 engraved plates, mostly folding (of which 2 are supplied in Zerox-copy), 3 folded engraved maps, many large engraved vignettes. Internally clean and fine. This second French edition is here supplied with a 7th volume, first published to the edition of 1753. - Brunet IV, 791 - Graesse V,396-97.

Paris, Chez Benoit Dandré, 1796. 4to. Bound in two nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with black tome and title-labels to spines. Spine with gilt ornamentation. Gilt borders to boards and gilt lines to edges of boards. Light overall wear to extremities, especially to capitals. Top of front hindge on vol. 1 cracked. Very light occassional brownspotting throughout. An overall very nice set. (6), (I)-XLII, (1), 501, (2) pp. + 6 plates (including frontiespiece); (6), (I)-VIII, (1)-544 pp. + 23 plates. A fine copy of the first quarto edition in the French Language of Thunberg's important 'Resa' (1788-93). The work contains material of great ethnographic interest and Thunberg is often referred to as the "the Japanese Linnaeus". Thunberg left Holland in 1771 and returned in 1778, spending three years at the Cape and five in Japan he became the first Western Scientist to investigate Japan's botany:"After his stay in Paris Thunberg returned to Amsterdam and was offered the opportunity to go to Japan in the service of Dutch merchants (Poll, Deutz and Hoven), to collect plants for the Amsterdam botanical garden and for their own collections. In order to be admitted in Japan, Thunberg had to pass as a Dutchman; he therefore spent 3 years in the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, becoming acquainted with the Dutch language and collecting plant material. After that he spent half a year on Java, and in August 1775 he arrived in Japan (Nagasaki). After his return from Japan, in November 1776, he spent another half year on Java...." (Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 154).Cordier 447 Gay 3151 Nipponalia 1972 Brunet 5:850

København, (1888-1889). 4to (bd. 1-2) + 8vo (bd. 3). Indbundet i tre samtidige, ensartede, nydelige grønne halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Slitage ved kapitæler og ved false. Hjørner stødt. Indvendig pæn og ren. I 2det Bind af dette tidsskrift findes originaltrykket af den først publicerede del af en af den moderne litteraturs hovedværker, Hamsuns "Sult". Heri trykkes for første gang de berømte linier "Det var i den Tid, da jeg gik omkring og sultede i København", indledningen til den roman, der gjorde Hamsun berømt og til det værk, der indvarslede en ny litterær epoke i Europa. "Sult" kom først i bogform to år senere, i 1890, og det er med publikationen af denne del, at Hamsuns ry som en forfatter i verdensklasse bliver slået fast."Knut Hamsuns debutroman fra 1890 er en af de bøger, der har sat skel. Den har virket med til at forme et nyt menneskesyn og en ny skrivemåde. Hamsun hentede stoffet fra sine egne trængselsår, da han uden slægt og venner gik arbejdsløs i Kristiania og kæmpede mod skuffelser, nederlag og sult." (Johannes V. Jensen).Som 27-årig i 1886 blev Hamsun for anden gang reddet fra en sultende tilværelse og sendt til Amerika, denne gang til Chicago, hvor han bl.a. arbejdede som sporvognskonduktør. Da han blev fyret fra dette job og vennerne havde skilliget sammen til en billet hjem, tog Hamsun i forsommeren 1888 tilbage mod Norden, -men han stod ikke af i Kristiania, han tog skibet videre til København. Da han stod og så skibet sejle fra Kristiania, tænkte han på sine nederlag i denne by, og en af den nyere litteraturs vigtigste sætninger indfandt sig i hans hoved: "Det var i den tid, da jeg gik rundt og sultede i Kristiania", -kimen til et af det 20. århundredes litterære hovedværker var lagt, og Hamsun satte sig med det samme på den nærmeste skibskiste og begyndte at skrive. Påvirket af Nietzsche og Dostojevski sad Hamsun i sit loftsværelse på Nørrebro og arbejdede døgnet rundt på sit første mesterværk. Efteråret 1888 stod den første del af monumentalromanen "Sult" færdig, men da Hamsun ikke turde risikere en afvisning fra Danmarks førende kulturperson, Georg Brandes, opsøgte han dennes bror, Edvard, som var chefredaktør på "Politiken". Edvard Brandes fik således æren af at være den første, der anerkendte Hamsuns talent. Til den stærkt forhutlede forfatter sagde han som den første: "Der venter Dem en meget stor Fremtid!" og om det manuskript, han præsenterede ham for: "det var ikke bare talentfuldt som så meget andet, det var mere, noget, der rystede mig." Edvard Brandes var ikke i tvivl om, at dette manuskript skulle trykkes, og da det var for langt til at stå i "Politiken", blev det trykt i tidsskriftet "Ny Jord", og med ét kunne alle, der tidligere havde afvist Hamsun og hans tidlige litterære forsøg, se, hvor stor en forfatter, de havde at gøre med. De tre bind af "Ny Jord" giver et fantastisk indblik i den Nordiske tidsånd i slutningen af det 19. århundrede. Vi finder hér, ud over både førstetrykket af "Sult" og Hamsuns "Kristoffer Janson" ligeledes den første del af den første danske oversættelse af Nietzsches "Saaledes talte Zarathustra", diskussioner og oversættelser af Darwin, bidrag af Strindberg , Høffdings "Om vor Tid og dens Ungdom" etc, etc.

Bln., Voss, 1767. Two nice, cont., uniform full calf w. five raised bands on backs, coloured title- and tome-labels and richly gilt backs. Traces of use, especially to the bands. Some gilding and part of title-label on vol. one worn off. Internally a bit of soiling, but a good copy on good paper. Old owner's name on t-p. (M. Harboe). Woodcut title-pages and vignettes. First edition of Lessing's first collection of "Lustspiele", containing the first printing of "Minna von Barnhelm".Lessing (1729-1781) is the most important literary writer of the Age of German Enlightenment; with him this period is fulfilled as well as overcome."Minna von Barnhelm" is one of Lessing's most important and successfull works and is considered one of the absolute best of his plays. "Es war die erste deutsche Dramatische Dichtung, welche nicht gemacht, sondern erlebt war." (Hettner, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im 18. Jahrh., II: 310). Lessing himself wrote in a letter that should "Minna of Barnhelm" not turn out to be the very best of his plays, he would be very disappointed, and never have anything to do with the theatre again. " "Minna von Barnhelm" ist unbedingt die vollendeste dichterische Leistung Lessings." (Hettner, II: 310). Goethe also considered this work a masterpiece; he found it the most sincere thing to have come out of the Seven Years War and a work of immense importance and impact. With this work we find the genres of drama and comedy fulfilled."Nach ein paar Wanderjahren kehrte er nach Berlin zurück, wo 1766 un 1767 zwei seiner Meisterwerke erschienen: der "Laokoon" und das Lustspiel "Minna von Barnhelm". (Bücher die die Welt verändern, # 213). See PMM 213.Has belonged to Th.E. Petersen and M. Harboe.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1688. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands on back, back richly gilt, all edges of boards gilt. Lacking leather at capitals, front-hinge cracked, so cords are showing. Second or third printing of the original edition. The title-page states "seconde edition", but it is probably the third, printed in the same year as the first and second, being a page-by-page re-impression of the second, except for the fact that corrections have been made and the errata-leaf is thus not printed in the third. Both the second and third original editions are from the same year and by the same printer as the first. "La seconde édition, également impr. en 1688 n'offre que quelques légers changements..., et la troisième, sous la même date, ne qu'une simple réimpression de la seconde." (Brunet III:720). This work includes the first French translation of Theophrast's Characters (and probably the first translation into any modern language?). "Theophraste a eu le grand honneur, comme on sait, d'être ttraduit au XVIIe siècle par La Bruyère: et c'est pourquoi, en France plus que dans tout autre pays, en dehors même du cercle des érudits, son nom et son opuscule sont populaires." (navarre, Budé-edition of "Caractères", Paris, 1920).Jean de la Bruyère (1639/1644 - 1996) was a very famous French moralist and writer. "C'est au commencement de 1688 que parut la premiere édition des "Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec, ou les Mæurs de ce siècle." L'auteur mettait ses propres observations sur la société moderne sous le patronage d'un ancien." (N.B.G. p. 427). The "Characters" gave La Bruyère quite a few enemies and created furor in the learned world. In Denmark Holberg calls him "trivial and simple" (Epistle 404). "Mais si en effet la malignité contemporaine, applaudissant aux traits satiriques de l'ouvrage, a peu contribuer à sa vogue, le jugement de la postérité l'a consacré comme un des meilleurs livres de notre langue." (N.B.G. p. 427). This work is thus still considered to be one of the greatest French books. Voltaire writes in "Siecle de Louis XIV, c. XXXII": "On peut compter parmi les productions d'un genre unique les "Caractères" de La Bruyère. Un style rigide, concis, nerveaux, des expressions pittoresques, un usage tout nouveau de la langue, mais qui n'en bless pas les règles, frappèrent le public". Bruyère's work with the translation really did cause astonishment and had an immense impact on late 17th century Europe and onwards; it created a new literary genre in Europe, and the age of Enlightenment was delighted with the short, precise characterizations of people and their customs. For an analysis of the contents and the impact on the time of La Bruyère see Nouvelle Biographie Generelle (N.B.G. pp. 426-39). Brunet V:798 + III:721, Graesse 4:61.

Leide, Pierre van de Aa, 1706. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Internally with a few small worm-tracts but generally a good copy.Vol. 1: (16), 275 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved half-title and 43 plates (out of 45)Vol. 2: 277-554 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 49 plates (out of 55).Vol. 3: 555-718, (62), 9, (1) pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 46 plates (out of 50). First edition of this rare and important travel guide to Italy - the first in what became a travel guide series in small format. Despite its popularity and the numerous editions in which the work was published not much is know about Alexandre de Rogissart Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch publisher, cartographer, and bookseller. Van der Aa is best known for his cartographic works and atlases, which were highly regarded for their accuracy and detail. Brunet IV, 1354Graesse VI, 147.

Berlin, J. Springer, 1932-33. 8vo. Bound together in recent attractive marbled boards. Leather title-label with gilt lettering on front board. Title-pages from the three volumes withbound (small rubberstamp). (11),(9),(12) pp. First edition of Heisenberg's neutron-proton model. Shortly after Chadwick discoverd the neutron in 1932, Heisenberg developed a theory suggesting that atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, -this introduced the concept of the nuclear exchange force and isotopic spin. (DSB 17: p.398).

(N.Y., Wiley & Sons), 1960). 8vo. Orig. olive green full cloth w. gilt and black lettering and blindstamped seal to front board, and in orig. d.-j. Binding w. a bit of sunning and soiling to spine, and minor bumping to capitals and corners, otherwise nice and clean. With the rare original dust-jacket, in excellent condition, w. a tear to upper front hinge, no loss, and a few other small nicks and tears w. almost no loss. Some underlinings and marginalia in pencil. XV, (1), 294 pp. First edition, presentation-copy, of Quine's main work, in which he introduces the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. This is the most philosophical of all of Quine's works, and it has greatly affected the development of logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, and analytic philosophy in general.The presentation-inscription to front free end-paper reads as thus: "To Rod Firth/ with best regards./ Van". Roderick Firth was Quine's colleague as professor of philosophy at Harvard. He was chairman of the philosophy department at Harvard from 1957 until 1963. He earned a doctorate at Harvard in 1943, joined the faculty in 1953 and became Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in 1962.It is in his "Word and Object" that Quine propounds his "indeterminacy of translation"-thesis, which became central in the development of philosophy of language. "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend on intersubjectively available cues such as to what to say and when. Hence there is no justification for collating linguistic meanings, unless in terms of men's dispositions to respond overtly to socially observable stimulations." (Preface p. IX).Quine bases his main thesis on his consideration of the linguist, who attempts to translate a hitherto unknown language. There are different methods that the linguist could apply as to the breaking down of sentences and distribution of function among the words. Quine reaches the conclusion that if any hypothesis of translation needs to be defended, this can only be by appeal to context, by determining what other sentences the language user would utter in the language that is unknown to the linguist. But even here the indeterminacy of translation sets in, because, according to Quine, any hypothesis can be defended, if only enough other hypotheses of other parts of the language are adopted. This indeterminacy of language also applies to the known languages, and even one's own, and thus Quine implies that there are no such entities as "meanings" of right and wrong. Quine thus denies any absolute standards in translating one language into another, but he admits that there are good and bad translation, -this is just not philosophically or logically relevant. Translation can be inconsistent with behavioral evidence, however and thus Quine propounds his pragmatic view of translation. "Neurath has likened science to a boat, which, if we are to rebuild it, we must rebuild plank by plank while staying afloat in it. The philosopher and the scientist are in the same boat. If we improve our understanding of ordinary talk of physical things, it will not be by reducing that talk to a more familiar idiom; there is none. It will be by clarifying the connections, causal or otherwise, between ordinary talk of physical things and various further matters which in turn we grasp with the help of ordinary talk of physical things." (P. 3 - § 9).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1853, 1856, 1858, 1859. Without wrappers in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Dritte und Vierte Reihe, Bd. 89 No. 6 u. 7, Bd. 98 No 5, Bd. 103 No 1, Bd. 106 No. 3. The 5 entire issues offered. Hittorf's papers pp. 177-211 (Bd. 89), pp. 1-33 (Bd.98), pp. 1-56 (Bd.103), pp.337-411 a. 513-586 (Bd. 106). In all 7 engraved plates. All issues fine and clean. First printing of all 4 fundamental papers on electrochemistry, where Hittorf states his concepts of ionic migration and transport numbers, concepts that should be the foundation stones of the later evolved theory of ionization, culminating in Svante Arrhenius's famous discovery of electrolytic dissociation."After Faraday's experimental investigations in 1834, it was accepted that the electricity passing through an electrolytic cell was carried by the movement of charged ions produced from the decomposition of the compounds making up the solution. Daniell had extended these ideas in 1839 and showed that salts were compounds not of acid anhydrides and metallic oxides as had been thought, but of metallic cations and elemental or compound acid anions. Believing that the conductivity of solutions was due to these ions, he began a study of their transference. In 1853 Hittorf took up the problem. He extended the ideas of Daneill by reasoning inthe following manner: Cations and anions exist in solutions and migrate under the influence of current through the solution. The migration of the cation toward the cathode and away from the anode, and the deposition of the anode on the positive electrode, together result in a decrease of teh salt in the neighborhood of the anode. A similar analysis shows that there is also a decrease in the concemtration of the salt in the neighborhood of the cathode. If the motion of the two dissimilar ions were the same, the decrease in the concentration of the salt would be the same at the two electrodes.....Hwe concluded that the speeds of migration...were different and he characterized this fact by defining "transport numbers", which specified the portion of the transport of electricity carried by each ion. (DSB VI, p. 439). - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry", p. 400-406.In the 2 issues of 1853 are contained 2 papers by Helmholtz of fundamental cjharacter, both in physiology and on the theory on the conservation of energy. HERMAN HELMHOLTZ: "Ueber einige Gesetze der Vertheilung elektrischer Ströme in körperlichen Leitern mit Anwendung auf die thierisch-elektrischen Versuche (+) Ueber einige Gesetze....(Schluss). 2 papers. 1853. (Bd. 89 No.6 a. 7). Pp. 211-233 a. pp. 353-377."In this work (the papers offered) Helmholtz for the first time enters the field of mathematical physics and physiology, with the full equipment of the higher mathematical analysis, of which he was the only master in its application to the latter science.....This very interesting and fundamental work on the distribution of electrical currents in material conductors is purely mathematical in character, owing to Helmholtz's method of proving the theorems, which are intelligible enough from the physical point of view, It is essentially connected with the treatise on the CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, since helmholtz merely substitutes for the expression 'free tension' there employed, the identical concept of Gauss's potentia, or Green's potential function."(Koenigsberger in "Hermann von helmholtz", p. 99-103.).

Paris, 1885-86. Folio. Bound in one cont. hcalf. pp. 99-192 and pp. 1-192. Having many wood-cut illustr. with designs etc in the text and 64 beautifull large chromolithographed plates (19 double-page, 4 uncoloured).

Kiøbenhafn, Peder Hake - Jørgen Holst, 1656. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ægte bind på ryggen. Lidt tab af skind i nederste rygfelt udbedret. nederste hjørne på forpermen stødt. Rygtitlen i gl. håndskrift. Kobberstukket titelblad og bogtrykt titelblad. (20),359,652 pp. samt upaginerede registre (48 pp.) incl. de 4 titelblade (ialt 1116 pp.). Side 323/24 i stort format og foldet (oversigt over Norges inddeling, med en revne, uden tab). Det kobberstukne titelblad lidt tæt beskåret forneden og med et par smårifter i ydre margin. Det bogtrykte titelblad med et indhak i nederste højre hjørne, uden teksttab. Trykt med varierende papirkvalitet, nogle læg lidt brunede og med brunpletter, dog mest marginalt. Originaludgaven. Værket udkom med trykkeårene 1650, 1651 og 1652 og med fællestitelbladet dateret 1656. Titelkobberet af Simon de Pas med forskellige landskaber og fæstningen Varberg samt forfatterens portræt og våben. Værket er et vægtigt kildeskrift idet forfatteren selv berejste store dele af Danmark og Norge.Bibl. Danica I:9. - Birkelund nr. 41 - Thesaurus II: 376.

Portland, Jenks & Shirley, 1804. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and hindges a bit weak. Previous owners names to front free end-paper. Title-page missing missing lower outer corner, not affecting text. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. (2 blank leaves), 148, (2), (3 blank leaves) pp. Rare first edition of Turner's work on double-entry bookkeeping constituting one of the earliest work on bookkeeping printed in America (The earliest being from 1789)"It is singular that this little work should have been suffered to sink into oblivion. It contains much new and useful information; it is written with clearness and precision, and better adapted to the purposs of instruction than any similar work which have appeared in the United States since 1800. The modern practice of double entry is clearly exemplified by Turner, and a very trifling revision would render [the present work] one of best elementary treatises on merchants accounts extant" (Foster, The Origin and Progress of Book-keeping).

Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1843. Folio. Cont. hcalf. Back very worn and with tears to leather. Inner hinge broken. IV pp. and 103 mostly lithographed plates, a few engraved. Most of the plates in impressive colouring. The 4 textleaves brownspotted and soiled, some plates with brownspots and some with dampstains to corners and margins. First edition of this monumental pathological atlas, without the textvolume. Very scarce, and not in Waller and Wellcome.

Versailles, Dept. de la Marine, 1768/1773. 4to. Contemp. boards, later backed with calf. Spine with gilt lettering. Title-page with stamps on foot. Engraved title-page dated 1768. Printed title-page dated 1773. (8),152 pp., large engraved vignette, 34 engraved maps mostly folded, numb. I-XXXIV (XXXIV bound opposite p.111). A faint dampstain at upper part of 2 plates. A few scattered brownspots at end. Otherwise fine. First edition. Collates as in Sabin, 4552 with the 2 title-pages, where Bellin's name only occurs on the engraved title.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1902. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Top of spine worn down. Lower spine end with a small crack. A collation remark on title-page. A bookmark on inside frontcover, stating that the volume was bound 10/9/02 for City of Manchester. Municipal Technical School. "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. 69. VII,501 pp. a. 6 plates. Bayliss & Starling's announcement: pp. 352-353. Internally clean. This is the first printing, annoucing a milestone discovery which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the discoverers named "Secretin". A few years later Sterling coined the word 'hormone' from the Greek 'hormon', meaning to exite or set into motion. Until know it was though that the control of the glands, here the pancreas, was controlled by the nerves (Pavlow and others), but Bayliss and Sterling showed that they have found that the intestine was signalling the pancreas by some COMPLETELY NEW MECHANISM involving a new kind of body or substance functioning as a chemical messenger. "If nerves are the sprinters of biology, Bayliss & Starling had discovered the marathon runners. In doing so, they also founded the science of hormones, called endocrinology" (Alan Lightman "The Discoveries", p. 34 ff). The announcement, as offered here, was later the same year followed by their larger paper "The Mechanism of Pancreatic Secretion" which they published in "Journal of Physiology (1902)"."With the discovery of hormones, Bayliss & Starling had found the internal command and control centers - and in this, their discovery was much larger than a new communication system. The mechanism of response and control was chemical: atoms and molecules. Now, with hormones, there was a mechanism for a living thing to regulate itself. Furthermore with hormones, an organism could not only be studied but also controlled from the outside... Never had the living body come closer to a machine, a self-regulating machine governed not only by physics but also chemistry. An not only a machine, but a machine that we human could willfully control. At the start of the new century, we still have not come to terms with the implications of this idea."(Alan Lightman).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1902 B.

Frankfurt am Main, And. Wechel, 1576. Folio. Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards with the two original brass clasps. Hinges with grey coloured repair. Lower part of spine with traces after having been coloured red and blue. A very fine and clean copy. [Saxo:] (8), 342, (24) pp + 1 blank leaf + [Germanicarum Rerum Quatuor... :] (10), 224, (10) ff.]. 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.GERMANICARUM RERUM QUATUOR...Bound with Saxo is German Simon Schard's (1535-1573), History of Germany from the time Augustus till Henry IV.Adams G 488

A Paris, (but Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier), 1693. 58x88 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Øresund med den Skånsk/Hallandske kystline og den Sjællandske fra Møn i syd til Hesselø i nord. I pragtfuld fuld håndkolorering. Øverst i midten er indsat Amager og Saltholm i større målestok. Kortet "ligger ned", er orienteret øst/vest. Med kompasrose og vindretninger angivet. Det berømte søkort over Sundet fra Jaillot's "Neptune Francois", men i P. Mortier's samtidige udgivelse heraf fra Amsterdam med tilføjelsen "Levée et Gravée" i kartouchen. Jaillot's to søkort over Danmark gav anledning til en kritik af Jens Sørensens opmåling idet Admiralitete forelagde ham de franske og påtalte, at Sørensens kort næppe kunne være korrekte. Det var de imidlertid. Her er for første gang trykt det mere korrekte Amagerkort, der foranlediger at øen på næsten alle senere kort gengives stor og rund.

A Paris, (1812). Folio. Fine Later hcalf in old style with raised bands. - Consisting of 42 engr.plates, of which 30 are in fine handcolouring (Numb. 1-42). Some plates dampstained in upper part, mostly effecting upper margins.

Uden sted, bogtrykker og år (København, 1727 ?). Lille 8vo. Defekt papbd. fra slutningen af 1700-tallet med marmoreret pvertrækspapir. Forpermen løs og uden ryg. 270 pp. Tæt beskåret, særlig de første 5 blade. Nogle fangord berørt af beskæringen. Bred sammenstukket træskåren titelramme, tæt beskåret forneden. En svag skjold øverst på bladene, stærkt aftagende mod slutningen. Ellers lettere brugsspor. Komplet. Den yderst sjældne 2. udgave (først København 1651). Typografien, stavemåden og sprogbrugen er i denne udgave ændret i forhold til udgaven af 1651 - den er derfor ganske sikkert udgivet efter 1700. Bibl. Norvegica (II, 4893) anfører "1651 ?" og "utgivelsesåret er diskutabelt" - Bibl. Danica (III,843) anfører intet årstal. Kun Jonas Skougaard (Skougaard IV, p. 12) giver et bud på udgivelsesåret, 1727. - Thesaurus II, 726.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1696. 4to. Entire volume present. Nice contemporary full vellum. Small yellow paper label pasted to top of spine and library-label to front free end-papers. Internally some browning and brownspotting. Overall a nice and tight copy. [Bernoulli paper:] pp. 264-69. [Leibniz-paper:] pp. 45-47. [Entire volume: (2), 603, (1) pp. + plates]. First printing of the famous 1696-edition of Acta Eruditorum in which Johann Bernoulli published a challenge to the best mathematicians:"Let two points A and B be given in a vertical plane. To find the curve that a point M, moving on a path AMB , must follow such that, starting from A, it reaches B in the shortest time under its own gravity."Johann adds that this curve is not a straight line, but a curve well known to geometers, and that he will indicate that curve, if nobody would do so that year. Later that year Johann corresponded directly with Leibniz regarding his challenge. Leibniz solved the problem the same day he received notice of it, and almost correctly predicted a total of only five solutions: from the two Bernoullis, himself, L'Hospital, and Newton. Leibniz was convinced that the problem could only be solved by a mathematician who mastered the new field of calculus. (Galileo had formulated and given an incorrect solution to the problem in his Dialogo). But by the end of the year Johann had still not received any other solutions. However, Leibniz convinced Johann that he should extend the deadline to Easter and that he should republish the problem. Johann now had copies of the problem sent to Journal des sçavans, the Philosophical Transactions, and directly to Newton. Earlier that year Johann had accused Newton for having filched from Leibniz' papers. Manifestly, both Johann and Leibniz interpreted the silence from June to December as a demonstration that the problem had baffled Newton. They intended now to demonstrate their superiority publicly. But Newton sent a letter dated Jan. 30 1697 to Charles Montague, then president of the Royal Society, in which he gave his solution and mentioned that he had solved it the same day that he received it. Montague had Newton's solution published anonymously in the Philosophical Transactions. However, when Bernoulli saw this solution he realized from the authority which it displayed that it could only have come from Newton (Bernoulli later remarked that he 'recognized the lion by its claw'). The present volume contains the following articles of interest:Jakob Bernoulli: 1, Observatiuncula ad ea quaenupero mense novembri de Dimensionibus Curvarum leguntur.2, Constructio Generalis omnium Curvarum transcendentium ope simplicioris Tractoriae et Logarithmicae.3, Problema Beaunianum universalius conceptum.4, Complanatio Superficierum Conoidicarum et Sphaeroidicarum.Johann Bernoulli5, Demonstratio Analyticea et Syntetica fuae Constructionis Curvae Beaunianae.6, Tetragonismus universalis Figurarum Curvilinearum per Construitionem Geometricam continuo appropinquantem.Tschirnhaus7, Intimatio singularis novaeque emendationis Artis Vitriariae.8, Responsio ad Observationes Dnn. Bernoulliorum, quae in Act. Erud. Mense Junio continentur.9, Additio ad Intimationem de emendatione artis vitriariae.