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Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 66, 1930. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 289-310. [Entire volume: VIII, 863 pp.]. First appearance of Bothe and Becker's seminal paper in which they found that if the very energetic alpha particles emitted from polonium fell on certain light elements, an unusually penetrating radiation was produced. Two years later this led directly to Chadwick's discovery of the neutron. "In 1930 Bothe and Becker detected a highly penetrative radiation from beryllium bombarded by alpha particles, and they assumed that it was gamma radiation. Bothe estimated the photon energy from the degree of absorption of the secondary electrons. When physicists studied this "beryllium radiation," estimating its energy constituted a problem, for it varied greatly according to the substance used as absorber. Chadwick later suggested that the radiation was particulate and consisted of a new particle, the neutron."

Paris, Bachelier, 1821. Bound in 2 fine contemp. full calf, spines richly gilt and with tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Edges gilt and gilt borders on covers. A stamp on htitles. (4),510;(4),452,(2) pp. and 19 large folded engraved plates. A fain dampstain to marghins of the last 25 leaves and plates in volume 2.(more to the last 4 plates just reaching image). Haüy is well known for his importent works in mineralogy. Napoleon had nominated Haüy an honorary canon of Notre Dame, in 1803 he ordered him to write a textbook of physics for the newly instituted lycées. This book was outstanding for its clear, methodological expositionof physics, although mathemaical treatment of problems was lacking. His "Traite de Physique" brought him appointment to the Legion of Hoor in 1803.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1884. Bound in one contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A small chip to top of spine. XI,396;XII,380 pp., textillustrations in woodcut. Internally clean and fine. Scarce first edition.

Kjöbenhavn, Hartv. Frid. Popps Bogtrykkerie, 1829 4to. Indbundet i et senere halvshirt bind. Særtryk fra det Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Tidligere ejers signatur [Jonas Collin] øver på titelblad. Sporadiske brunepletter, ellers pænt eksemplar. 58, IV pp. + 12 kobberstukne plancher, heraf 6 udfoldelige, alle håndkolorerede. Særtryk af Herholdts anatomiske beskrivelse af menneskelige misfostre. Jonas Collin er især kendt for at være mæcen for nogle af Danmarks mest kendte guldalder-digtere, herunder H.C. Andersen,

Wien, Fr. Beck, 1840. Contemp. half calf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. XII,283,(1) pp., 10 large folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 1206.

Hamburg, Frickweiler, 1722. Folio (340 x 230 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and richly gilt spine. Binding with wear, upper and lower compartment on spine missing parts of leather. Parts of gilting to spine worn off. Boards with scratches. Edges of boards chipped with small parts of leather missing. First leaves chipped in margin and a few leaves (both text and plates) detached, but otherwise internally good and clean. (36), 1090, (142) pp. + frpntispiece and 23 full page engraved plates and 5 double page engraved plates. Second edition of this work on ancient Jewish practices, religious ceremonies and customs, specifically focusing on the Levitical priesthood.

London, T.Wilcox, 1760. Cont.full mottled calf. Gilt back. St.on halftitle. Engr.frontisp. XXI,403,141 pp.

Indb. ubeskåret m. orig. for- og bagomsl. i pænt samt. rødt hldrbd. m. sort skindtitelfelt på ryg. Omsl. rensede og reparerede og m. brugsspor, ellers et friskt ekspl. Originaludgaven, der jo udkom på tysk, og som foårsagede en trykkefrihedsanklage mod S. i Berlin. Zetterlund 58.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiches Arvinger - Schultz, 1780-84. 2 samtidige velbevarede hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte rygtiteler. Ophøjede bind på rygge. Lille revnedannelse i forreste fals på første bind. (20),147;(28),184 pp. Lettere brunplettede. Christian Molbechs eksemplar med hans navnetræk i begge bind dateret 1808. De sjældne originaltryk hvori adskillige folkeviser er trykt for første gang.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, small worm-tract to last leaves, not affecting text. A nice and clean copy. (4), 377, (3) pp. First Amsterdam edition, issued the same year as the first Paris-edition, of this early account by Choisy detailing his 1685-mission with Chevalier de Chaumont to Siam. He formed part of the official embassy from Louis XIV to the Siamese court that hoped, in vain, to convert the Siamese king to Christianity. Sabin 38485 Brunet III: 729

Cölln, Marteau, 1697. 4to. In contemporary (original?) marbled wrappers. Wear to extremities, spine missing. Title-page with tear. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. 84 ff. Second german edition, first pubished in 1695 of Molesworth notorious attack on Danish absolutism. He was an influential figure in the political sience at the period."Robert Molesworth, an ardent Whig, became a prominent figure in the new Williamite administration. Contemporaries acknowledged his opinions on politics and economy with considerable respect. From July 1689 to December 1692 he served as British Ambassador to the Court of Denmark, during which time he wrote a spirited attack on Danish absolutism in a treatise entitled An Account of Denmark as it was in the Year 1692." (Wikipedia).

(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 397-406. Clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper by Adams, - famous for his co-discovery with Le Verrier, of Neptune in 1846 - in which he introduces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, raising a sharp scientific controversy, and correcting Laplace's great memoir of 1788."He (Adams) was elected fellow of Pembroke College in 1853, and shortly afterwards he presented to the Royal Society a remarkable paper (the paper offered) on the secular accleration of the moon's mean motion. This quantity was thought to have been definitively investigated by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1788, but Adams showed that Laplace's solution was incorrect. In particular, Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the diffrential equations for the moon's motion a series of additional terms. Adams calculated the second term of series, on which the secular acceleartion depends....This paper caused a sharp scientific controversy, marked by angry chauvinism on the part of several French astronomers. Their attack stimulated a number of independent investigations of the subject, all of which confirmed Adams' results. The matter was definitely settles in his favor by 1861, but not without hard feelings."(DSB I, p. 54b).

Bound uncut with all orig. wrappers in full calf, gilt back, richly gilt covers (René Kieffer). no 307 of 1050 "sur vélin de Rives", a total of 1150 copies.

Jena, Johann Felix Bielcken, 1732. Bound in 2 contemp. full vellum. Gilt lettering on spines. Engraved frontispiece. (10),720;(2),808,(28) pp. Clean and fine.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1867. Uncut in original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. (4),17 pp. With some faint marginal dampstains. On top of htitle the signature of "Max Laue/ 22.1.1897" in pencil. First edition. Clausius established the second law of thermodynamics in papers fra 1850 and 1854, and coined the concept of "entropy" in 1865. In this paper he explains the consequences of entropy - "Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu" (p. 17).

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),207,414 pp., 12 partly folded engraved plates, 1 table. Clean and fine. With original papers by: du Hamel, de la Caille, Daubenton, de Parcieux, l'Abbé Nollet, le Chevalier d'Arcy, Morand, Maraldi, Rouelle, le Monnier, l'Abbé de la Caille, Guettard, de Thury, de Fouchy, d'Ons-en-Bray, de Thury & Maraldi, Malouin, Boguer, le Monnier le fils, de L'Isle, Montet.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Papirsetiket øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. (2),LXVI,(6),553,(1) pp. samt 10 store foldede kobberstukne plancher. Nogle få blade i forordet lidt brunplettede, ellers ren. Første danske udgave, her med Ørsteds kommentarer og anmærkninger.- Bibl. Danica II,148.

Leipzig, Gleditschen, 1708. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Light miscolouring to extremities. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Internally with light occassional foxing, otherwise nice and clean. (22), 600, (10), 501, (1), (12), 536 pp. + 2 frontispieces. The rare first German translation of Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde "Réflexions sur le ridicule" in which he reflects on the behaviors, attitudes and social customs of the that make people subject to ridicule or contempt.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 47, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 407-16 + one folded table. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 914 pp.]. First printing of Beck's important paper in which he anticipates the discovery of the neutron by four years, a seminal contribution to the discovery of the nuclear shell model. In 1914, Moseley introduced the periodic table and in 1925, Pauli explained the periodicity by enumerating the electrons fitting in shells surrounding the atomic nucleus."It became apparent that there are, in general, several different isotopes per element. [...] This was a problem of nuclear physics since isotopes of the same element differ only by their isotopes. A first attempt was made in late 1927 by Beck [the present paper] in Vienna, who compiled a comprehensive table of known isotopes [...] The paper written more than four years before the discovery of the neutron, is remarkable not so much for its results but for two nearly prophetic statements:" (Brandt. The Harvest of a Century, p. 317). The prophetic statements in the present paper are: 1. "Die einfachste Annahme, die man diesbezüglich machen kann, ist, dass man sich die Kerne, analog wie die Elektronenhülle der Atome, schalenförmig aufgebaut denkt." (i.e. The simplest assumption one can make in this respect it to imagine nuclei, in analogy to the electron hull of atoms, to be built up of shell).2. "Die Gesetzmässligkeiten der Tabellen lassen aber hoffer, dass das Pauliprinzipund der Spin sich auch auf dem Gebiet der Kerne als Wegweiser bewähren werden." (i.e. The regularities [observed in the table of isotopes] allow to hope that the Pauli principle and the spin will prove of value as guideposts also in the field of nuclei.).

(København, 1754). 4to. In recently blue paper covered card board binding with white paper-label title-label to front board. Previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper. Annotations to front free end-paper. Without wrappers as issued in "Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter", nice and clean copy. Pp. 189-216. First edition of Kraft’s paper on contradictions in traditional theories of matter and composite substances. Kraft argues that the traditional physics and metaphysics is filled with contradictions, particularly regarding the divisibility of matter, the nature of space and time and the structure of reality. He suggests that Leibniz’s theory of monads or a similar concept of fundamental indivisible units provides a more consistent framework for understanding the physical world. The present paper is a fine example of 18th-century Enlightenment debates on the nature of matter, space and time,

Freyberg, Barthelschen Schriften, 1784. 4to. Cont. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt titlelabel. Upper compartment of back repaired. (24),316,(4) pp. and 6 folded engraved plates. The plate "Plan des verschantzten Lagers von Colberg measuring 43,5x88 cm present and showing the camp and coastline with many ships in the sea. First edition, forming V. Stück (vol. 5) of Tielcke's "Beyträge zur Kriegs=Kunst und Geschichte des Krieges von 1756 bis 1763. - Also having the general titlepage with engraved vignette.

Amsterdam, 1753. 8vo. 2 nice later full calf, raised bands. Engr.frontisp. (10),640,320,385,72,80 pp,

Berlin, Asher & Co., 1891-90. Lex8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-pages. VII,243,120;VII,574 pp. 43 plates and 4 maps. Clean and fine.

London, Richard Taylor, 1836. 4to. Contemp. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (2),pp.289-341 and 3 large folded maps, 1 folded plate. Offprint with own title-page from "Philosophical Transactions, Part II. for 1836." Inscribed by Whewell on top of title-page "The Minister of Marine, denmark/ from/ The Author." First edition. The paper summarises Whewell's importent observations on the tides,

München, Lehmanns Verlag, 1911-12. 2 orig. full pictorial cloth. Spines slightly faded and slightly rubbed. Stamps on title-page. XVI,507;XVI,685 pp., 43 tables, 46 plates (some folding), profusely textillustrated. Internally clean.