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Paris, Cellot, 1782-90. 4to. Bound in 4 uniform contemporary full sprinkled calf. Tome-and title-labels in leather on spines. Five raised bands and richly gilt compartments. Wear to 2 spine ends. Corners a bit bumped. Some minor scratches to covers. Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved title-vignettes. (8), XII, (4), 412; (6), XIV, (2), 423,XXVIII;(8), 412,XXXII; VIII, 480, XXXVI pp. and 215 (44+55+56+60) folded engraved plates. Engraved chapter-vignettes. A few scattered brownspots, but clean, with broad margins and printed on good paper. Scarce variant-issue of the first edition. A pioneering work, a classic of engineering, which constitutes practically the first scientific text-books on engineering and the first to apply integral calculus to technical and practical problems. It became the international standard-work for nearly 100 years and proved invaluable to architects, builders and engineers as it covers engineering mechanics, civil construction, mills and waterwheels, pumps, harbours and sea work etc. According to Rosenthal (Litt. d. Technologie, p. 209) the work was reprinted 12 times and thus with the best impressions of the plates (the first edition) - "Un tresor de recherches et de machines que l'Histoire de l'Hydraulique doit toujours annonce et célébrer." (Montucla). - Poggendorff I:138 - Brunet I:740.

London, Printed for the Author by H. Hughs, 1791. Large folio. Later clothbacked marbled boards. Large engraved titlevignette. XIV,198 pp., 23 engraved plates of which 4 are maps/charts. Some dampstaining to upper part of title-page. The first 5 leaves with marginal brownspots. A few plates with light toning. Plates with scattered brownspots. First edition. The building of the Edystone lighthouse represents a new design in lighthouses.The tower was largely dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, Devon, where it stands today. - Poggendorff II,943.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, (1830) 1831. 4to. Orig. clothbacked boards. Red titlelabel in paper with gilt lettering on spine. Spine faded and with small nicks to titlelabel and spine. Light wear to spine ends. (4),XXIV,258 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Htitle a bit browned. A few scattred brownspots. A wide-margined copy. Scarce first edition (with the reprinted titlepage 1831 instead of 1830).Fourier's "Analyse des equations determines" constitutes a highly important work on the theory of equations, a work which occupied Fourier throughout his life and the last thing that he wrote. The work contains numerous theories that had not previously been published, e.g. his method of solution and applications of linear qualities, due to which he actually anticipated linear programming.The work was of great importance to Fourier himself, who had attempted to publish some of his important results on the subject as early as 1789 and who later ended up in a priority-dispute due to the much delayed publication of one of these results (the Fourier-Budan theorem). His final opus constitutes his final preparation of the Fourier-theorem as well as many other important theories and results connected to his theory of equations, and it thus presents us with his final views on this important science. "[H]e had almost finished only the first two of its seven "livres". His friend Navier edited it for publication in 1831, inserting an introduction to establish from attested documents (including the delayed 1789 paper) Fourier's priority on results which had by then become famous. Perhaps Fourier was aware that he would not live to finish the work, for he wrote a synopsis of the complete book which also appeared in this edition. The synopsis indicated his wide interests in the subject, of which the most important not yet mentioned were various means of distinguishing between real and imaginary roots, refinements of the Newton-Raphson method of approximating to the root of an equation, extensions to Daniel Bernoulli's rule for the limiting value of the ratio of successive terms of a recurrent series, and the method of solution and applications of linear inequalities. Fourier's remarkable understanding of the last subject makes him the great anticipator of linear programming." (D.S.B., V:98). - Honeyman IV:1361.

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1805. With titlepage to Phil. Transactions Part I. Pp. 186-197. Having also the titlepage to the volume (Part II, 1805). A few scattered brownspots and very faint browning to outer margins, otherwise fine and wide-margined. A small stamp to verso of titlepage. First printing of, probably the first work, to discover, and correct for the errors of the compass caused by the iron in ships, by the first circumnavigator of Australia."Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."(Wikepedia)

Kbhvn., 1940. Hvert ark måler 28 x 23 cm.. 5 af akvarellerne med alternativ udgave på bagsiden. Alle signerede. Vedlagt "Bogen om Lasse og Dyrene" af Detleff Boolsen. Kbhvn. 1941. Knud Kyhn, 1880-1969, dansk maler og keramisk billedhugger, uddannet 1900-04 på Kunstakademiet og Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler. Kyhn hører til 1900-t.s betydeligste danske dyreskildrere. Han fortsatte traditionen fra Fynboerne, ikke mindst Johannes Larsen, og koncentrerede sig om dyrenes bevægelser og lysets spil i malerier, akvareller, tegninger og keramiske arbejder. Gennem samarbejde fra 1904 med Den Kgl. Porcelainsfabrik, Bing & Grøndahl og Herman A. Kähler nåede hans dyrefigurer, overvejende i glaseret stentøj, ud til et stort publikum. Han illustrerede bl.a. værker af Achton Friis. Fra 1908 udstillede Kyhn med Den Frie Udstilling (afbrudt 1915-17 af Grønningen). Hans bopæl og værksted (fra 1934) i Farum åbnedes 1993 for offentligheden. (Store Danske). På akvarellerne er motiverne forårspløjning, rådyr, harer, ræve, egern, grævling, storke, råger og lappedykkere.

Sorøe, Jonas Lindgren, 1760. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryggen med blindtrykte dekorationer. Rygtitlen slidt. Hjørner lidt stødte. (8),383,(1) pp. samt 2 kobberstukne plancher. Spredte brunpletter og lettere brugsspor.Contemp. hcalf. Blindtooled decorations on spine. Titlelabel worn. Corners a bit bumped. Scattered brownspots and light traces of use. Scarce first edition of this pioneering work, by leading historians of ethnology, considered the true beginning of scientific ethnology and anthropology.

Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1814. 4to. Without wrappers, as issued. 8 pp and three folded tables (Litra A-C) + Reglement: 8 pp. 4to. Uden omslag som udkommet. 8 pp. samt 3 foldeskemaer (Litra A-C) + Reglement: 8 pp. First printing of the two decrees that constitute the seminal "Letter of Liberty for the Jews", establishing Jewish emancipation in Denmark as one of the first countries in the world. With this groundbreaking decree of 1814, the Danish Jews were basically given the same rights and duties as other Danish citizens; at the end of the 19th century, many Danish Jews belonged to upper society, and almost all Jews were well integrated into Danish society.The first Jews in Denmark settled in Altona (then a Danish city, until 1864) in 1584. In 1641 the first shul was built, and at about the same time, the first Jew, Dr Jonah Charizi, moved to Copenhagen, he died in 1626. In 1684 Israel David and Meyer Goldschmidt received royal permission to have Minyanim (services) in their homes. The growth of the community was quite slow, and by 1726 there were 65 Jewish families (331 persons). In 1787 there were about 250 families (some 1,200 people). In 1813 there was an attempt to have anti Jewish laws established, but to no avail, and finally, on March 29 1814, a royal decree was issued giving Jews Equal Rights. Jewish emancipation in Europe occurred gradually between the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 20th century. Jewish emancipation followed the Age of Enlightenment, after which various nations repealed or superseded previous discriminatory laws applied specifically against Jews where they resided. Before the emancipation, most Jews were isolated in residential areas from the rest of the society, and many European Jews worked to achieve integration in the societies and broader education. Jewish involvement in gentile society began during the Age of Enlightenment. Haskalah, the Jewish movement supporting the adoption of enlightenment values, advocated an expansion of Jewish rights within European society. Haskalah followers advocated "coming out of the ghetto", not just physically but also mentally and spiritually. In 1790, in the United States, President George Washington wrote a letter establishing that Jews in America share the same full equal rights, including the right to practice their religion, with all other Americans. On September 28, 1791, revolutionary France became the second country in Europe, after Poland 500 years earlier, to emancipate its Jewish population, and in 1814 Denmark finally had its decree "Letter of Liberty for the Jews", becoming the first country after America, Poland and France to give equal rights to Jews. Belgium and Greece were the neext countries to follow suit, 16 years after Denmark. _______________________________________________________________________________ Originaltrykkene af de danske Jøders frihedsbrev. Med denne kongelige anordning fra den 29. marts 1814 blev de danske jøders fremtidige retsstilling vedtaget ved lov. Alle jøder, der enten var født i Danmark eller havde erhvervet sig kongeligt lejdebrev (datidens opholdstilladelse), fik nu lige adgang til erhvervsudøvelse. Til gengæld forlangte regeringen, at jøderne underkastede sig den eksisterende borgerlige lovgivning inden for bl.a. arveforhold, civilret og skolegang.

Paris, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684. Folio. (44 x 30 cm.). Contemp. full calf. 6 raised bands. Compartments with blindtooling. remains of titlelabel with lettering. Spine-ends worn. Some cracking of leather on hinges at upper and lower compartments. Still holding. Corners bumped. Some wear to edges. A stamp on topmargin of frontispiece and on top of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. (16),354,(16) pp., profusely textillustrated with textfigs., textillustrations, engraved vignettes, 68 plates in the text (numb. I-LXV + 3 extra), mostly full-page, sometimes double-page. Wide-margined, clean and printed on good paper. Second Perrault-edition. - Brunet V,1329.

Kbhvn. 1941. Folio. Orig.papbd.m.shirtryg. i Kassette. Kassetten lettere slidt. Fremstillet i 25 eksemplarer - hvoraf dette er No 19. Litograf.titelblad, raderet indholdsfortegnelse. 11 raderinger samt 8 litograferede blade.Orig. clothbacked cased boards in slipcase. Limited to 25 copies, of which this is no. 19. Lithographed titlepage, etched contents page. 11 etchings and 8 lithographs. Beautiful and very scarce book on the garden of Rungstedlund. Before her death, Karen Blixen established the Rungstedlund Foundation, which owns the property and its 16-hectare (40-acre) garden and bird sanctuary. The gardens have long been open to the public, but in 1991 the foundation invited Queen Margrethe to open the museum.

Amsterdam, G.J. Valckenier, 1659. 12mo. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine and small paper-label pasted on to top of spine indicating the inventory number in an estate-library. Previous owner's name to title-page. Light wear to extremities, spine miscoloured. Internally fine. (24 (Including the engraved half-title/frontispiece)), 660, (62) pp. + 23 engraved folded plates (including the map). The rare Dutch translation of "Itinerarium Hispaniae" (Ulm, 1637), Zeiller's account of Spain and Portugal. This present Dutch translation has been extended with "(…) een korte Reys-beschryvinghe aller Landen, buyten Spanjen geleegen, en onder deese groote Monarchie behoorende". This part of the book (pp. 492-641) deals with the Spanish possessions in America (not present in the original German or Latin translation that appeared with the same publisher in 1656). Martin Zeiler (1589-1661), a German geographer and prolific author, is best know for his contributions to Matthaeus Merian's Topographia Germaniae. Sabin 106296

(Paris, 1953). Uncut in the original printed wrappers, worn. Several tears to front wrapper and to spine. First edition, presentation-copy, of one of Beckett's main works, with a signed four-line presentation-inscription in French to half-title, dated July, 1953.

Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens Boktryckeriet, 1828. 8vo and large 8vo-oblong. 8vo: In a nice contemporary half calf binding with gilt ornamentation and lettering to spine, forming six compartments. Previous owner's name and stamp to front front free end-paper and title-page. (6), 218, 27, (1) pp. + 2 folded tables.Atlas: In contemporary half calf with red leather title-label to spine. Complete with all 26 plates (1 handcoloured). A fine set. First edition of Ekström's important work on the Mörkö parish in Södermanland in Sweden, constituting the first significant local insect fauna in Sweden. He was given the title of Provost and became a member of the Academy of Sciences due to the publication of the present work."Ett första stort uppdrag för greve Bonde fick Ekström med att författa en beskrivning över Mörkö socken. Allt skulle beskrivas, berg mätas och klipphålor granskas. Beskrifning öfver Mörkö socken utkom 1828 och är originell såtillvida att beskrivningen av öns naturalhistoria upptar två tredjedelar av volymen. Den omfattande beskrivningen av öns insekter är vår första betydande lokala insektsfauna". (Björn Dal, "Sveriges zoologiska litteratur")

Hafniae (Copenhagen), Melchior Marzan, 1647. Small 8vo. Later brown half calf from ab. 1800 with blindstamped lettering to spine. Spine worn at capitals and hinges. A bit of browning and brownspotting. Contemporary owner's inscription to title-page, dated "1648" and signed Justus Bertram. Marginal notes in the same hand to a couple of pages. Woodcut vignettes and initials. Six woodcut illustrations in the text, one full-page. (16), 128 pp. The very rare first edition of Bartholin's first non-scientific publication, his important work on Nordic bracelets, which helped form the basis for the study of Scandinavian jewelry. The work also contains Worm's 16 pp. long response to Licetus' 1645 interpretation of the Golden Horn of Gallehus. Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm were two of the leading physicians of their time, both splendid and gifted polymaths, whose knowledge and interests reached far beyond their original field. The present work represents a unique combination of their personal interests combined with their scientific knowledge, through which they present us with a valuable approach to the golden artifacts of their heritage. The first edition of the work is of great scarcity. It became highly popular and influential, and in 1676, a new edition appeared, in Amsterdam, followed by a title-issue in 1676. Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the leading physicians of his time, now remembered, among many other things, as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. He "was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe". (Kronick, p. 81). He is considered "a typical representative of the "Curiosi naturae" of the 17th century with all their learning, diligence and insatiable spirit of curiosity... He belonged with all his heart to the learned period, and yet he made an anatomical-physiological discovery of high mark when he found, and demonstrated, a hitherto entirely unknown vascular system in animals, and later in man - the lymphatic." (Meisen, p. 25). He was a hugely influential and extremely productive man. Apart from his seminal discovery of the lymphatic system, he wrote a number of highly influential treatises, published a series of very influential anatomical papers, published his vast correspondence with other scientists, which has the character of a scientific archive at a time when there were not yet periodicals of natural science, provided us with the most extensive information about medicine in Denmark and about the conditions of the physicians, called attention to the significance of pathological anatomy, etc., etc.,Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius) (1588-1655) was a famous Danish polymath, who was widely travelled and who had studied at a range of different European universities. Like many of the great intellectuals of the Early Modern era, Worm's primary occupation was as a physician, for which he gained wide renown. He later became court doctor to King Christian IV of Denmark. In 1621, Worm had become professor of physics, but already the year before, in 1620, had he begun the famous collection that would become one of the greatest cabinets of curiosites in Europe (and one of the first museums) and which would earn him the position as the first great systematic collector (within natural history) in Scandinavia. It was his then newly begun collection that enabled him, as professor of physics, to introduce demonstrative subject teaching at the university, as something completely new. He continued building and adding to his magnificent collection, now known as "Museum Wormianum", throughout the rest of his life. Worm's fascination for antiquarian subjects not only resulted in his famous "Museum Wormianum", but also in a deep fascination with early Scandinavian and runic literature and the history and meaning of runestones. These monuments found throughout Scandinavia, were carved with runic inscriptions and set in place from about the fourth to the twelfth centuries. In most cases, they are burial headstones, presumably for heroes and warriors.Worm published works on the runic calendar, translations of runic texts and explications of folklore associated with the runestone histories and he wrote the most important treatises ever published on the Golden Horn. For Danes, the Golden Horns, discovered on 1639 and 1734 respectively, with their amazing, complicated, and tragic story, constitute the Scandinavian equivalent to the Egyptian pyramids and have been the object of the same kind of fascination here in the North, causing a wealth of fantastical interpretations, both historical, literary, mystical, linguistic, and artistic. Thesaurus: 353.

Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1695. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. A small stamp on titlepage and pasted library label to pasted down front free end-paper. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCV". (2), 560, (52) pp. + 10 plates. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. The entire volume offered. Leibniz's papers: pp. 145-57; 184-185; 310-316; 369-372; 493-495. Jacob Bernoulli's paper: pp. 537-553 + one folding table; 65-66. Johann Bernoulli's: pp. 59-65; 374-376. First printing of a series of influential papers by Leibniz, Jacob Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli.First publication of Jakob Bernoulli's famous and influential "Bernoulli Equation". In "Notatiuncula Constructiones Lineae" Bernoulli proposed a solution to non linear equations which today is one of the most common used solutions of the general fluid. Bernoulli equations are significant because they are nonlinear differential equations with known exact solutions. In the "Specimen dynamicum" Leibniz presents a conception of body and force which distinct between primitive and derivative forces and between active and passive forces. This article is regarded as being the clearest exposition of Leibniz' dynamics. (DSB VII, 151b)."The first attempt at a detailed account of the dynamics was a long dialogue, the "Phoranomus seu de potentia et legibus naturae," written in July 1689 while Leibniz was in Rome. This was quickly followed be the composition of the massive Dynamica de potential et legibus naturae corporeae (1689-90) [...]. Though it was written with the intention of publication, and though Leibniz work at publishing it, he never considered it entirely finished and it remained unpublished during his lifetime.The later [...] he finally revealed some of the metaphysical foundations of the project in an essay [the present paper]." (Garber, Daniel. Leibniz: body, substance, monad. 2009. 132 p.)"Its title suggests a summary of or a selection from the earlier work [...]. However, it actually contains something in a way rather more interesting: a careful exposition of the metaphysical foundations of the new science, something that is hard to find in the old Dynamica or any of the more Technical pieces." (Garber, Daniel. Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad. 2009. 133 p.)

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1871. Royal8vo. In publisher's original red embossed cloth. In "Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", Vol. 3, November 1870 - April 1871. Stamp to title-page and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Binding with considerable wear; spine partly disintegrated and front board bended vertically, but bookblock firmly attached. Internally fine and clean. Darwin's paper: Pp. 502-503. [Entire volume: XII, 520 pp]. First appearance of Darwin’s defense of his Pangenesis-theory. The Pangenesis theory was hypothetical mechanism for heredity, in which he proposed that each part of the body continually emitted its own type of small organic particles called gemmules that aggregated in the gonads, contributing heritable information to the gametes. He presented this 'provisional hypothesis' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, intending it to fill what he perceived as a major gap in evolutionary theory at the time. Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton spent much time conducting wide-ranging inquiries into heredity which led him to refute Charles Darwin's hypothetical theory of pangenesis. In consultation with Darwin, he set out to see if gemmules were transported in the blood. Galton was troubled because he began the work in good faith, intending to prove Darwin right, and having praised pangenesis in Hereditary Genius in 1869. Cautiously, he criticized his cousin's theory, although qualifying his remarks by saying that Darwin's gemmules, which he called "pangenes", might be temporary inhabitants of the blood that his experiments had failed to pick up. In the present paper Darwin challenged the validity of Galton's experiment, giving his reasons in an article published in Nature where he wrote. “Now, in the chapter on Pangenesis in my Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, I have not said one word about the blood, or about any fluid proper to any circulating system. It is, indeed, obvious that the presence of gemmules in the blood can form no necessary part of my hypothesis; for I refer in illustration of it to the lowest animals, such as the Protozoa, which do not possess blood or any vessels; and I refer to plants in which the fluid, when present in the vessels, cannot be considered as true blood." He goes on to admit: "Nevertheless, when I first heard of Mr. Galton's experiments, I did not sufficiently reflect on the subject, and saw not the difficulty of believing in the presence of gemmules in the blood.” (From the present paper) The hypothesis was finally refuted in the 1900ies after Gregor Mendel's theory of the particulate nature of inheritance was accepted. The Pangenesis-theory, however, may be considered an eclectic mix of DNA, RNA, proteins and prions, and can be regarded as being one of the earliest steps toward the modern mechanism for heredity, namely DNA and RNA. Freeman 1751

Tokyo, Nihon Bijutsu Hanga Kenkyu Kai, 1941, March 10th. Folio (355 x 260 mm). In the original silkcovered sevn boards binding with blue title-label pasted on to front board. 50 woodblock reproduction of Ukiyo-e art all with printed tissueguards describing (in both English and Japanese) the artist and artwork. A very fine copy. A fine work showing the rich tradition Ukiyo-e art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term 'ukiyo-e' translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century, particularly the landscapes of Hokusai and Hiroshige. From the 1870s onwards, Japonisme became a prominent trend and had a strong influence on the early Impressionists such as Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, as well as having an impact on Post-Impressionists such as Vincent van Gogh, and Art Nouveau artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Paris, Vincent, 1763 (- 64). 8vo. Bound in their original state, 2 orig. red boards. Some wear and fading to spines. Some cracks to hinges on part one. Wear to spine ends. Handwritten titlelabels on spines. (4),CCCXXV,190;(2),640 pp., 1 large folded engraved plate. Internally clean, printed on good paper. Scarce first edition of this taxonomic classic in which Adanson established a natural system of plants and challenged the validity of some opinions by Linnaeus and the whole theoretical position expressed by him"In 1761 Adanson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1763-1764 he published Familles des plantes. In this book he proclaimed his contempt for "systems" and proposed a natural classification based upon all characters rather than upon a few arbitrarily selected ones, an attempt that brought him into conflict with Linnaeus. Recent historical studies have shown that Adanson’s views were shared by many Parisian botanists and that he was responsible for the maintenance of Joseph Tournefort’s system at the Jardin du Roi until 1774, when A. L.de Jussieu’s system was adopted. Adanson owed much to Bernard de Jussieu’s plant families as they were developed in his manuscript plan for the Trianon garden in which he arranged the plants in beds in an order corresponding to his system of classification. He soon recognized that his Familles des plantes was only an outline of his general conception, and in 1769 he prepared a new edition that was never published." (DSB).Stafleu & Cowan; 26. - Hunt; 577.

Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow, 1908. Contemporary half calf with gilding to spine. Spine with a bit of wear. A bit of light occasional brownspotting, and a marginal marking in red crayon on one page, but overall very nice. First separate edition - appearing almost simultaneously with the version in the "Znaniye"-compilation - of Gorki's highly influential novel "The Confession"/"A Confession", which created quite a stir when it appeared and caused great distress to both the Russian Orthodox Church, to Leo Tolstoy and to Vladimir Lenin, who mentioned the work specifically on the many occasions when he criticized the attempts to unite Socialism and Christianity. "The Confession" tells the story of Matvei - based upon the real life story of a religious sectarian in Nizhny Novgorod - who becomes a wanderer through Russia seeking a philosophy to live by. The work is of great historical importance, as it embodies the philosophy of the "God-building" movement that arose in the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. The novel expresses Gorky's belief in humanity, when strong individuals are connected to each other, and it reflects Gorky's disgust with injustice, hypocrisy, and conditions that degrade human dignity as well as his faith in human potential. Of the work, Gorki himself said: "I am an atheist. In "A Confession" the idea was to show the means by which man could progress from individualism to the collectivist understanding of the world. The main character sees 'God-building' as an attempt to reconstruct social life according to the spirit of collectivism, the spirit of uniting the people on their way to one common goal: liberating man from slavery, within and without."

Kiøbenhavn, Godiche,1763-74. 4to. Indbundet i 7 (idet bind 5 er indbundet i 2) ensartede hldrbd. fra omkr. 1850 med rygforgyldning og skidntitel i guld. Stempler på titelblade. De tre første bind på trykpapir, de sidste på skrivepapir og større i formatet. Med 224 (af 231) kobberstukne plancher, kort, prospekter, grundtegninger m.v. (de 7 manglende plancher er fortrinsvis kortbilag). Enkelte plancher med mindre reparationer, enkelte med brunpletter, flere af de større kort med brugsspor og forstærkninger på bagsiden. Originaltrykket af Danmarks topografiske hovedværk. I 1781 udkom bind 7 som omhandler Slesvig. Dette bind er ikke tilsted her.

Rouen, Chez Jean-Baptiste Machuel, rue Etoupee, 1723. 12mo. In five uniformly sprinkled full calf bindings with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spines. Richly gilt ornamentation to spines. Gilt stamp on front board of all five volumes. Small white label pasted on to fop left corner of pasted down front free end-papers and small stamp to title-pages. A fine set. Vol. I: (12), 408, (24, last blank) pp.; vol. II: (4), 396, (10) pp; vol. III: (8), 393, (11) pp.; vol. IV: (8), 9-20; (2), 3-381, (15, last blank) pp.; vol. V: (4), 363, (25), pp. + 3 engraved frontispieces, 15 maps and numerous plates. The not common second printing of the French translation of William Dampier famous "A New Voyage Round the World". After impressing the Admiralty with his book 'A New Voyage Round the World' (First published in 1697), Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in Western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe."Dampier was the best known of the famous group of English bucanneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. (...) It was on one of [his] trips that the first landing was made by the English on the Australian mainland, at the entrance of King Sound on the northwest coast, in 1688 " (Hill)Sabin, 18383Hill pp 77-78.

Haarlem, Bohn, (1889-) 1900. Large4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear. Spine miscoloured and edges of boards with scratches. Previous owner's (Dr. Gunnar Hagens) stamp to front free end-paper. The few first and last leaves a bit creased. Slightly evently browned in outer margin throughout, otherwise internally nice and clean. Inner hindge split after plate no. LIX. (8), 6, [1 plate], 6, 6, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 2, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 11, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 10, [1 plate], 18, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 14, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4 [1 plate]. Complete with 93 photos (94 counting plate 41 as two, since two photos are fused into one) on 60 plates. First and only edition of Noman’s semial work on dermatology being one of the very earliest to use photography to improve the study of dermatology and to help doctors and students in recognizing the various types of skin diseases. “Dirk van Haren Noman (1854-1896) succeeded Chanfleury in 1886. He accepted his position with a lecture entitled “The concept of disease in the doctrine of Dermatology”. He had a comprehensive knowledge of histopathology and bacteriology and dedicated his laboratory to their study. Developments in the relatively new medium of photography allowed him to publish a collection of dermatological images in 1889 that ultimately resulted in a standard work “Casuistique et diagnose photographique des maladies de la peau” (The present) - French still being the European language of science at the time. By this period, dermatology had increasingly become a discipline of external etiological factors and external therapeutic modalities. This is an important co-factor in explaining the rather eccentric position of dermatology, resulting in a certain distance from other medical specialisms still felt to this day. After Van Haren Noman’s death in 1896 the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases was temporarily transferred to the Wilhelmina Gasthuis due to a lack of space at the Binnengasthuis.” (Menke, Dutch contributions to dermatology). Not in Garrison & Morton.

Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1740. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tomus VII ad Annos 1734 & 1735. The whole section of "Historica"offered. Title-page to Tome VII (with engraved vignette), halftitle (to the section) a. pp. 345-426, 6 engraved plates. Bayer's paper: pp. 362-426 and 5 engraved plates with numerous chinese characters. Clean and broad-margined. First printing (in part) of the first Western translation of any part of Confusius' influential Chun Cieu, being the fourth volume of his works. "The title Chun Cieu (Chunqiu) signifies the Spring and Autumn. He discourses like an historian of the expditions of diversr princes, of their Virtues and Vices, of the fatigues they underwent... The title is an emblematic title, because that states flourish when their Princes are endowed wit Virtue and Wisdom, which is represented by the Spring, and that on the contrary they fall like the leaves and are utterly destroyed when their Princes are dispirated, or are wicked, which is represented by the Autumn."(James Legge).The section also comprises Bayer. Elementa Calmucia. (1) pp. and 1 engraved plate (numerous characters) and Bayer. De Venedis, et Eridano Fluvvio. Pp. 346-361.

Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1982 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities, spine with a few light stains. A nice and clean copy. 412 pp. The genealogical tree included in the pagionation on pp. 124-125. First Catalan translation of Darwin's landmark "Origin of Species". Translated by Santiago Alberti and Constança Alberti. Edition by Joan Senent-Josa and Montserrat Vallmitjana; prologue by Thomas Glick. Published on the centennial year of Darwin's death. The same year is the 20th anniversary of thefoundation of the publisher, Edicions 62, whose foundational mission was to publish texts in Catalan, both original and in translation—and not rarely on controversial subjects. This was seenas a political affirmation of the Catalan identity, purposedly crushed by the Franco regime sincethe Civil War. Edicions 62 decided to publish this translation of Darwin's Origin as the very first title of theirseries "Clàssics del Pensament Modern" (Classics of Modern Thought). The Series would go onto include translations of Adam Smith, Diderot, Karl Marx, Montesquieu, Freud, Tocqueville,Einstein, Lacan, and dozens more from the previous three centuries, which had never been translated to Catalán. Previously a 1980-edition (Barcelona, Bruguera, 1980, Blanco & Llorca 63) has been referred to as the first Catalan translation. This, however, is a bibliographical error since the copy referred to is in Spanish. Freeman F2447.Blanco & Llorca 68.

Kjøbenhavn, 1867. Lidt senere hldrbd. m. rygforgyldning. Indre false forstærkede. Stadig lidt svag i falsen.De første blade forstærkede i inde fals. Materien pæn og ren. The scarce first edition of Ibsen's magnum opus, one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays of all time. Primarily due to the present work, which was originally performed, to the music of Edvard Grieg, in 1876, Ibsen is widely regarded as "the father of realism" and as one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.On November 14, 1867, the first edition of a print run of 1.250 copies appeared. This first edition sold out quickly, and two weeks later, a second issue, of 2.000 copies, appeared.

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, (1909). 4to. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in fine later hmorocco. (Bound by Anker Kyster Eftf. 1968). Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering on frontcover. Offprint (Sonderabdruck) from "Physikalische Zeitschrift", 10. Jahrgang. No. 3. Seite 104-111, here paginated as offprint pp. 1-8 and with textfigs. Clean and fine. First edition - in the scarce offprint-issue - of this milestone paper where Minkowski was the first to conceive that the relativity principle formulated by Lorentz and Einstein led to the abandonment of the concept of space and time as separate entities and to their replacement by a fourdimensional "space-time", THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. In the opening passage Minkowski declared: "Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fadeaway in the shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."The work was simultaneously published in "Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung". Leipzig 1909, in "Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte". Leipzig, 1909 (a shorter version) and as here.The paper was read 20th of September 1908 at a Conference in Cologne only a few months before his death. Here "he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum.... Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception; thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature." (PMM No. 401).