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Hafniæ, Godiche, N. Möller, 1772-92. - (Registerbind), 1878. Folio. Bd. 1-2 i samtidige helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind. Med en del brugsspor. Bd. 3-7 samt registerbindet. i nyereensartede hshirtbd. Med 12 foldetabeller. Bd. 1-3 med de 19 kobberstukne plancher af håndskriftfaksimiler. Bd. 4-7 uden håndskriftfaksimiler. Spredt papirsbruning, men ellers ren, bortset fra et titelblad som er noget smudsigt. Supplementsbindet (kaldet VIII, som udkom 1834 er ikke tilstede). The largest collection of Danish medieval texts. In 1834 - 30 years later - a supplementary volume was published (called Vol. VIII), this is not present here. With the Index-volume (in 2 parts) published more than 100 years after the first volume. - From vol. IV P.F. Suhm was editor, after the death of Langebek. "I dtte værk der indeholder de vigtigste kilder til dansk middelalder, og som står mål med tilsvarende udenlandske værker i samtiden, finder man resultatet af mange års grundige studier." (DBL).

Leipzig, B.G.Teubner, 1871 u. 1873. Bound in 2 later full cloth. Small stamp on foot of titlepages.In. "Mathematische Annalen. In Verbindung mit C. Neumann begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch", IV. und VI. Band. (4),637 pp. a. (4),642 pp., 6 plates. Klein's papers: pp. 573-625 a. pp. 112-145. Both volumes offered. First edition of these 2 papers which unifies the Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometries, by reducing the differences to expressions of the "distance function", and introducing the concepts "parabolic", "elliptic" and "hyperbolic" for the geometries of Euclid, Riemann and of Lobatschewski, Gauss and Bolyai. He further eliminates Euclid's parallel-axiom from projective geometry, as he shows that the quality of being parallel, is not invariant under projections.Klein build his work on Cayley's "distant measure" saying, that "Metrical properties are not properties of the figure per se but of the figure in relation to the absolute." This is Cayley's idea of the general projective determination of metrics. The place of the metric concept in projective geometry and the greater generality of the latter were described by Cayley as "Metrical geometry is part of projective geometry." Cayley's idea was taken over by Felix Klein....It seemed to him to be possible to subsume the non-Euclidean geometries, hyperbolic and double elliptic geometry, under projective geometry by exploring Cayley's idea. He gave a sketch of his thoughts in a paper of 1871, and then developed them in two papers (the papers offered here).Klein was the first to recognize that we do not need surfaces to obtain models of non-Euclidean geometries....The import which gradually emerged from Klein's contributions was that projective geometry is really logically independent of Euclidean geometry....By making apparent the basic role of projective geometry Klein paved the way for an axiomatic development which could start with projective geometry and derive the several metric geometries from it."(Morris Kline).The offred volumes cntains other importen mathematical papers by f.i. by Klebsch, Lipschitz, Neumann, Noether, Thomae, Gordan, Lie, Du Bois-Raymond, Cantor (Über trigonometrische Reihen),etc.(Sommerville: Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry p. 45 a. 49.)

8vo. Bound in 3 fine uniform polished full calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments, titlelabels in red and green. All edges gilt, gilt line-borders on covers, inner gilt borders (Bound by Riviere & Sons). 2 hinges slightly weakening, but not loose. Very slight wear to top of spines. Internally fine and clean with occassinally very faint offsettings from plates. With all 3 leaves of directions to Binder. With all 78 handcoloured aquatint plates (including 3 frontispieces), 2 handcoloured titles. Last "cul-de-lampe" also handcoloured. In the text woodengravings. A fine set of all three Tours with the famous plates after the drawings by T. Rawlandson. - Tooley 427-29.

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.

Kbhvn., Steens Forlag, (1822-) 25. Indbundet i 3 samt. hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning. Rygge noget slidte og permer løse. Indbundet med 9 bogtrykte hefteomslag (3 hefter til hvert bind idet værket udkom i 9 hefter). Indeholder alle 141 smukke håndkolorerede kobberstukne plancher. Til hver planche beskrivende tekst. Med variende brunpletning til både tekstblade og plancher. Originaludgaven. Første danske værk som afbilder de i de fleste tilfælde anerkendte medicinske planter som kan findes vildtvoksende i kongeriget. De smukke håndkolorerede tavler er mestendels tegnet efter "Flora Danica" of Palmstruchs "Svensk Botanik". Teksten er hovedsagelig efter Hornemann Oeconomiske Plantelære 3. Udgave. - Carl Christensen II:pp. 188-89 - Nissen BBI:836 (but with wrong numbering of plates - 141 plates is correct).

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.

Barby, Chr. F. Laux, 1777. Bound in one cont. hcalf. (16),1068 pp. + Register and 3 large folded engraved maps, 4 engraved folded views (one of these a little stained). Very slightly brownspotted. First edition. Describing the religion, manners, natural history, culture etc. of these islands. - Sabin: 57152.

Berlin u. Hamburg, 1937-79. Lex8vo. Vol 1-8 in hcloth, 9-24 in stiched boards, rest in parts. With "Generalregister 1-25 (1937-68)" Lacks last issue of vol. 22. In this periodical Lorenz together with Koehler laid the scientific foundations for animal ethology. Many contributions by Lorenz, Koehler, Nico Tinbergen and others.

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

Paris, no printer, 1778. + Paris, l'Imprimerie de Moutard, 1781. Folio. (43 x 30,5 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, compartments gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to spine-ends. Spine rubbed. (2),82 pp. and 9 fine engraved plates (numb. 1-7 a. A-B) + (2),68 pp. and 8 fine engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. Both works first edition and dealing with rigging, sails and sailmaking on large ships.Poggendorff II,684.

Paris, 1679. 4to. Cont.hvellum. Engr.frontisp. (26),448,(66),88 pp. and 43 fine engravings in the text. Tear in one leaf rep., no loss. - Houzeau & Lancaster 1037. A good large copy with a few pencilnotes.

Hafniæ, Munksgaard, 1943-46. Folio. Bound in 7 publishers fine hvellum. Indholder: Vol. I. Lex Communis Regni Sueciae Vetustior. 1943. - II. Processus seu Negocium Canonizacionis B. Katerine de Vadsenis. 1943. - III. Vita et Miracula Sancti Enrici Regis Sueciæ. 1944. - IV. Lex Municipalis Regni Sueciæ. 1944. - V. Lex Gotlandiæ. Svetice et Germanice. 1945. - VI. Lex Vestro-Gothia Recentior - Lex Urbica Antiquior. 1946. - VII. Liber de Miraculis Beate Brigide de Suecia Roma 1378. 1946.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. 8vo. Contem. hcloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Vol. 53. VII,(1),889,(1) pp. The whole volume offered. Szilard's paper: pp. 840-856. Ex-lirbrary stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise no stamps or other markings. A fine copy. First edition of the important paper in which Szilard solved the puzzle of Maxwell's demon and discover a theoretical model that serves both as a heat engine and an information engine, eatablishing the connection between entropy and information. Szilard was the first to stress that any manipulator of molecules would have to rely on measurement and memory. If one assumed that the demon could perform such operations without causing any changes in the system, one would by that very assumption deny the second law of thermodynamics, which requires equivalent compensations for all decreases in entropy. Szilard therefore proposed that whatever negative entropy Maxwell's demon might be able to create should be considered as compensated by an equal entropy increase due to the measurements the demon had to make. In essence, Szilard made Maxwell's doorkeeper mortal-no longer granting this tiny intelligence the ability to 'see' molecules without actually seeing them, i.e., without the sensory exchanges of energy that all other existences require. Szilard took this step for the sake of a grander vision, the dream that the adoption of his principle would lead to the discovery of a more general law of entropy in which there would be a completely universal relation for all measurements. Information theory has brought that vision to reality.

Paris, Chez J. Klostermann fils, 1811-12. Bound in 6 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines, slightly rubbed. Wear to top of spines. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 78, 79, 80, 81, 82 and 83. (Entire volumes offered). The 14 parts: (Tome 78:) pp. 5-37, 105-132, 217-242. - (Tome 79:) pp. 113-142, 233-264. - (Tome 80:) pp. 5-37, 225-258. - (Tome 81:) pp. 5-36, 278-303. - (Tome 82:) pp. 5-33, 113-125, 225-72. (Tome 83:) pp. 5-35 a. pp. 117-127. With in all 3 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. The papers represents one of the first announcements of Berzelius' discovery of the fixed chemical proportions, determining the weights and valencies of the various constituent elements in inorganic compounds. The papers were published at the same time in Swedish, German (both here in Annalen and in Schweiger's Journal), and in French. By running many hundreds of analysis of chemical compounds he gave so many examples of the law of definite proportions that the world of chemistry could no longer doubt its validity, and in so doing he gave experimental evidence to the atomic theory. He hereby laid a solid fundation for the further development of chemistry. A reprint is found in Ostwald's Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften, No. 35.According to Söderbaum (Jac. Berzelius, 2, p.12) "It was a giant work, one of the most importent in the history of chemistry, which was here presented. One is even more impressed when one remembers that it was a pioneer undertaking in every sense of the term. Analytic and synthetic methods existed before Berzelius' time, to be sure, but there were no precise methods of the sort which he required. They all had to be elaborated at the cost of time and labour."(J. Erik Jorpes "Jac. Berzelius", p.45)."In general Berzelius's efforts were directed toward the consolidation and extension of the atomic theory. He improved chemical analysis and determined the composition of a large number of compounds, thus verifying the laws of constant and multiple proportions and furnishing the most accurate equivalent weights then available. By ingenious methods he arrived at the correct atomic composition of most common substances, and thus was enabled to draw up (in 1826) a table of atomic weights very nearly identical with the modern one."(Leicester & Klicktein "A Source Book in Chemistry", p. 258).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1810-20 C.

Kbhvn., Chr.Rothe, 1748. Samt. helldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning, som dog er delvist bortslidt. Kobberst.frontisp., (36), 574 pp. Kobberst.titelvign., foldekort og 4 kobberst. plancher, nogle plancher rep. i kanter og foldning. Titelblad rep.i højre margin. Første danske udgave hvori der som et slags tillæg er medtrykt Peder Högströms "Beskrivelse over de under Sverriges Krone liggende Lapmarker...K., 1748." - Denne oversættelse af Andersons værk er af Barthold J. Lodde og indeholder tilføjelser om Island samt et Appendix: "Tilgift som videre Efterretning og Notice om Island" pp. 297-356.Fiske p.10.

Giessen, Kriegerischen Buchhandlung, 1777-95. Bound in 12 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. 12 engraved titlevignettes. With 56 large folded engraved plates, folded tables. Poggendorff I,222. - Jordan, 2279.

1944-45. Folio. Indbundet i 4 ensartede hshirtbd. Alt i maskinskrevet gennemslagskopi (svensk stencil-udgave) og som derfor kun udkom i et ganske lille oplag. ""Information" er besættelsestidens største og betydeligste illegale pressebureau, der forsynede både de illegale blade og udlandet med ucensuredede nyheder fra det besatte Danmark. Mens det for de illegale blade gjaldt om at udkomme i så store oplag som muligt, gjaldt det for "Information" om af hensyn til sikkerheden at begrænse oplaget mest muligt. Da krigen sluttede havde man rundet de 1000 eksemplarer pr. udgave, men længe var oplaget under det halve, og i den første lange periode var der tale om så få eksemplarer, at de kunne skrives med gennemslag i én eller få arbejdsgange. "Information" hører til de i det ydre mest ydmyge illegale publikationer, men så meget større var virkningen og betydningen." (KB)

Belgrado (Beograd), 1936. 8vo. Pp. 77-176. The entire volume one of Philosophia present, uncut and in the original printed wrappers. A bit of tear and wear to extremities and spine of the fragile wrappers, but overall well-preserved. First two leaves of the entire volume (not the Krisis-article) with light brown patches. [Entire volume: 442 pp.]. The very rare first printing of the first appearance of the first printed part (the only part to appear within his life-time) of Husserl's seminal work in which he develops his path-breaking project of linking the basic notions of science back to their conceptual roots in the pre-scientific parts of the "life-world". The work constitutes the last great work of the most important philosopher of the 20th century, the principal founder of phenomenology. In "Krisis", Husserl considers the pervasive sense of crisis in European culture, while attempting to give the last in a long line of introductions by him to the method of phenomenological research which he had founded. "Krisis" develops themes which are found in earlier works by Husserl, most importantly, the question of the constitution of intersubjectivity in the Cartesian Meditations (1929). However, a great interest of the work lies in its inflexion of the phenomenological methodology. Husserl, a mathematician by education, had articulated phenomenology as a rigorous science, on the ideals of 19th century rationalism. This understanding of the role of science and of philosophy permeates his earlier research which, while also treating social and historical phenomena, always does so from the vantage point of individual consciousness. In "Krisis", Husserl cuts the umbilical cord to individual consciousness. We find him engaged in what he describes as a "teleological-historical reflection upon the origins of our critical scientific and philosophical situation". This reflection revolves around the concept of "life-world" (Lebenswelt) which Husserl introduces as the designation of the pre-theoretical and unreflected element, out of which scientific thought arises. Husserl attributes the alienation of man in Europe to the fact that the sciences have forgotten that they are rooted in the "life-world". The concept has since played a pivotal role in the theory of communicative action of Jürgen Habermas. Krisis is the last work of the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. As such, it is an essential for anybody with an interest in phenomenology, the dominant non-analytic strain of philosophical reflection in the 20th century. At the same time, it represents something as exceptional as the radicalization of an entire life's work which opens up to entire new perspectives. It translates Husserl's sense of the growing malaise and restlessness in European culture, of which he himself was a victim since the Nazi take-over of power in Germany in 1933. But it is also a reply to the then increasingly successful existentialist philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, in whose work Husserl saw a travesty of his own philosophy and a threat to the foundation of European culture. In this sense, it is the last element in what is one of the most fruitful direct dialogues in the history of philosophy, the dialogue between Husserl and his former assistant Heidegger. The last of "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" only appeared posthumously, in 1954.

London, Ackermann & Co., 1841. Folio. Fine later hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. With extra lithographed title-page. 15,(1) pp. and 31 lithographed illustrations of which 16 are handcoloured on 15 plates. A fine clean copy. First edition. "Ilustrated description of sporting adventures on the "Bontebok Flats" in Kaffraria, near the Kat River Settlement' (Mendelssohn). "An interesting book, combining lithographed linedrawings with more elaborate coloured lithographs."(Abbey No 336). - Tooley, 126.

(London, Taylor & Francis, 1869) Large 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.", Vol. 158. Maxwell's paper: pp. 643-657. Clean and fine, wide margins. First appearance of this major paper on electromagnetic dynamics, in which Maxwell improves the groundbreaking equations he had set forth in his famous paper of 1865, the "A dynamical Theory of Electro-Magnetic Fields". In the paper offered here, he for the first time proposed to base the electromagnetic theory of light solely on 2 equations. The paper is one of Maxwell's 5 most importent contributions to electromagnetism."Formulas for the forces between moving charged bodies may indeed de derived from Maxwell's equations, but the action is not along the line joining them and can be reconciled with a dynamical principle only by taking into account the exchange of momentum with the field. Maxwell remarked that the equations might be condensed, but "to eliminate a quantity which expresses a useful idea would be rather a loss than a gain in this stage of our enquiry." he had in fact simplified the equations in his fifth major paper, the short, but importent "Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light." (1868), writing them in an integral form without the function A, based on four postulates derived from electrical experiments. This may be called the electrical formulation of the theory, in contrast with the original dynamical formulation." (C.W.F. Everitt in DSB).

H-L. takker H.C.A. for et tilsendt eksemplar af "Phantasier og Skizzer", som er den første bog, han har modtaget i år, og som han vil nyde sammen med sine omgivelser. Med segl og H.C. Andersens adresse på bagsiden. Phantasier og Skizzer udkom til Nytår 1831. Så tidlige breve til H.C. Andersen er af største sjældenhed.Handwritten and signed letter for "Herr H.C. Andersen". Dated 11th of January 1831. 1/2 page 4to. H.C. Andersen is thanked for a copy of "Phantasier og Skizzer". The mentioned work appeared around New Year 1831. As early letters as this one for H.C. Andersen is of the greatest rarity.

Kiøbenhavn, Trykt med August Friderich Steins Skrifter,1765. Nydeligt og velbevaret samtidigt hldrbind med rygforgyldning og i felterne et agernstempel i blindtryk. En anelse slid ved øverste kapitæl. Kobberst. titelvign. (2), 140, (4) pp. Den uhyre sjældne originaludgave, som først udkom efter Brorson's død. Indeholder 70 salmer fra B's sidste leveår, her i blandt "Her vil ties, her vil bies" og "Naar mit Øje, træt af Møje" samt talrige andre af Brorsons elskede salmer.

Venetiis, (Colophon: Per Alovysium De Tortis), 1538. 16mo. Contemp. full flexible vellum with flaps. Lacks ties. Faint remains of handwritten title on spine. Binding somewhat rubbed. (31),304,(2 blank) a. (8),64 leaves. Endpapers a bit torn. Contemp. owners name on titlepage. Internally clean. Some 90 leaves have a wormtract in inner margin, occasionally shaving and loosing some letters. An extremely scarce early edition of the "Aphorisms". Not in Choulant, not in Waller and Wellcome and not in British Museum Short-Title (Italy).Hippocratic medicine was very successfull, "The proof of their success may be found in thtat for two millenia no better work was accomplished, and often worse was done. Hippocratis medicine traversed the centuries somewhat like Aristotelian Logic,; and if, since the nineteenth century, the errors of the physician have been seen to be more profound than those of the logician, it is because the domaine that he explored was much the more complex."(DSB VI, p.429).The Hippocratic Oath has been taken in spirit if not in precise form by medical students for more than two thousand years. The Aphorisms, the best known work of the Hippocratic Collection, are probably genuinely Hippocratic, at least in part. They are here presented with the commentaries of Galen, both of which are in Latin translation. The well-known aphorism "Vita brevis, ars vero longa" (Life is short, but art is long) opens the book. (Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1).

London, John Murray, 1828. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Cover-edges gilt. Joints weakening, but holding. XXIV,572,xLIII,(5) pp., 9 maps (the large folded mounted on linen) and 13 (2 handcoloured) engraved plates (the larged folded mounted on linen). Some of the plates with browning. Text clean and fine, a wide-margined copy. With Errata-slip. First edition. - Abbey Travel, 305.

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Very light wear to top of spines with a small repair. 2 engraved frontispieces. XV,(1),434;VIII,420 pp., Errat-slip bound in. 3 engraved plates and 4 large folded engraved maps. Plates with some marginal brownspots, otherwise clean and fine. First edition. "Owen mapped the entire east African coast from the Cape to the Horn of Africa between 1821 and 1826 in the sloop Leven and in company with the brig Barracouta. During this period, Owen established a one-man protectorate of Mombasa with the aim of disrupting the 'hellish trade' in slaves; but Owen was forced to shut down under orders from the Crown after only three years. When he returned in 1826, with 300 new charts, covering some 30,000 miles of coastline, over half of his original crew had been killed by tropical diseases."