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Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1905. No wrappers. Issued in "Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elekronik", 2. Bd., Heft 3. Hahn's paper: pp. 233-264. Enntire issue: pp. 233-262 (= entire "Heft 3"). Fine and clean. First printing of this paper, which is Hahn's Habilitation paper, announcung his discovery of a new element in residues from a Ceylon mineral called Thorianite. He later showed that it is an intermediate disintegration product."Because the sample (thorianite) was small, Ramsay proposed that Hahn confirm Marie Curie's determination of the atomic weight of radium by preparing it in some organic compounds (thereby greatly increasing the total amount being examined) and calculating the atomic weight from the measured molecular weights. Chance sometimes favors the unprepared mind, and Hahn, who familiarized himself with only the basic of radioactivity, followed the prescribed separationss technique and found himself the discovere of a new radioelement: radiothorium. The explanation was that the material given him came from an ore which contained a large percentage of thorium in addition to the radium. Thus, upon completion of the chemical procedure, not all the activity was confined in the radium-containg fraction; indeed the nes subsyance in the remainder was several hundred thousand times more active than thorium and ultimately yielded the characteristic one.minute halflife of thorium emanation."(DSB VI, p. 15). - Weeks, Discovery of the Elements,p. 308 ff.).

Berlin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1773. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back, gilt titlelabel. 2 small paperlabels pasted on backs. Stamps on title. Occasional some brownspots and yellowing to leaves. XLIII,462 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. First German edition.

Bound in 4 cont. boards, gilt backs. Backs somewhat torn. Stamp on titles. 367,435,613,786 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Slightly brownspotted. The author of vol. 1 is General Sarrazin. Of vol. 2: E. Labaume.

Edinburgh: Printed For Archibald Constable And Co., & Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, London, 1826. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners worn, but all in all a nice copy. [xvi], 315; [ii], 332; [ii], 370 pp. Old names on flyleaf. First edition.

Amsterdam, Jacob van Royen, 1700. Small8vo. Contemp. full vellum. handwritten title to spine. Engraved titlepage and printed. (16),224,(16) pp., 1 folded engraved map (Belgium vet. oudt Nederland en desselfs Bevolkinge), 14 engraved plates and 7 large engravings in the text. Some of the plates a bit shaved in right margins. Light traces of use. The work offered here is the fourth edition of his "The Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten", published from 1613 onwards, and is an adaptation of his "Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities", published in Antwerpen 1605 and considered his main work. From 1617 to about 1630 Verstegan was a prolific writer in Dutch, producing epigrams, characters, jestbooks, polemics etc. The work is remarkable as perhaps the first endeavour to persuade Englishmen that they should regard with special predilection the remains of Anglo-Saxon in their language, customs, and laws a matter in which (despite obvious faults) he was far in advance of his age, when the influence of Latin was so predominant.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. XII,200 pp. A few scattered brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, fortgesetzt von T.F. Ehrmann, 28. Bd.: 2. Theil).

K., 1654. 4to. Beskedent samt.hldrbd. Ryg slidt. Eksemplaret har nogle fugtskjolder og mangler den træskårne frontisp. (14), 687, (5) pp. Stadig værdifuld i historisk-topografisk henseende.

Ratzeburg, H. Linsen, 1857. Fine cont. full cloth, gilt back. A small stamp on title and verso of. (2),886 pp. Fine and clean.

Lpz., 1827. 12 cont.hcalf, backs worn,but repaired.

London, John Murray, 1817. 8vo. Bound in three nice uniform contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spines with wear. Front board and spine detached from book-block on volume 1. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all three volumes. A fine set. The fifth edition of this political and economic classic, which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work, because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace.This present fifth edition contain several important additions (price of grain) and the third chapter of Book III was completely rewritten. The book, then as now, is considered highly controversial, and it has influenced all demographers ever since, as well as being of immense importance to the study of economic theory and genetic inheritance. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe.... "Parson" Malthus, as Cobbett dubbed him, was for many, a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted.... But his influence on social policy, whether for good or evil, was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." (PMM 251).Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), called the "enfant terrible" of the economists, was an English demographer, statistician and political economist, who is best known for his groundbreaking views on population growth, presented in his "Essays on the Principle of Population", which is based on his own prediction that population would outrun food supply, causing poverty and starvation. Among other things this caused the legislation, which lowered the population of the poor in England. Malthus actually turned political, economic and social thought upside down with this work, which has caused him to be considered one of the 100 most influential persons in history (Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential Persons in History, 1978). Of course, he was condemned by Marx and Engels, and opposed by the socialists universally, but the work was of immense impact on not only politics, economics, social sciences etc, but also on natural sciences. "Later in the "Origin of Species" he [Darwin] wrote that the struggle for existence "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage" [p. 63]. Alfred Russel Wallace, who arrived at a worked-out formulation of the theory of evolution at almost precisely the same time as Darwin, acknowledged that "perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's "Principles of Population" (My Life, p. 232). Although there were four decennial censuses before Malthus' death, he did not himself analyze the data, although he did influence Lambert Quetelet and Pierre Verhulst, who made precise statistical studies on growth of populations in developed countries and showed how the early exponential growth changed to an S curve." (DSB, IX, p. 69). As Malthus realized that his theories were not satisfactorily presented or sufficiently demonstrated in the first edition from 1798, he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics, and then published the second edition in 1803. Among other places he travelled through Northern Germany, and his detailed diaries of these journeys provided him with some of the evidence necessary for the development of his theory on population growth. The observational information that he gathered on his travels in Europe were crucial to the development of his theories, which also means that the work is of great interest for other European countries, and not only Britain. "In 1819 the Royal Society elected Malthus to a fellowship. He was also a member of the French Institute and the Berlin Academy, and a founding member of the Statistical Society (1834)." (DSB, IX, p. 67). Printing and the Mind of Man 251 (first edition). Einaudi 3670Mattioli 2210Goldsmith 21761Kress B6974

Lüneburg, Joh. Fried. Wilh. Lemke, 1787. 8vo. In contemporary (original?) printed boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Title-page with note in margin in contemporary hand. (2), IV, (3)-132 pp. Rare first German translation of chapter 34 and 35 of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Before the first complete German translation was published several smaller part were translated, the present being among some of the earliest.

Paris, A.and W. Galignani, 1827. Small 8vo. Bound in 9 contemporary hcalf. Gilt backs. Backs a little rubbed. Stamp on titles. Faint dampstains to the first 10 leaves of volume one. Scattered brownspots. This Paris-edition is published the same year as the original from Edinburgh.

London, Bulmer et Soc., apud White et Miller, 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. (4),130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning, further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name.

London, Bell & Dadly, 1865. Lex8vo. Newer half morocco with gilt skin title on the back. XIII,442 pp. with 6 wood engraved plates and 45 wood engraved tail pieces of engraved gems. First edition.

Kiøbenhavn, Berling, 1746. (Optrykt Thaning & Appel 1966). Folio. Orig. grønt hmaroquin. Indeholder 120 plancher, som er håndkoloreret. Her foreligger alene bind 1 af optrykket af Vitruvius (3 bd.), men alle 120 plancher er koloreret med lette vandfarver af T.F. Lenbaron Bille Brahe i 2003-04 (signeret på titelbladet).

(Montpellier), 1840. Small folio. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Orig. lithographed frontwrapper pasted on upper board. (2),104 pp., many textillustrations, 10 folded lithographed plates. Textleaves autographed (zincographed).

(København), 1772. 57x69 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Sydvestsjælland med Store Bælt, Nordlangeland og Østfyn i samtidig håndkolorereing (kystlinjerne og signaturerne). Det første videnskabelige kort over Sydvestsjælland, som en del af Wessels berømte Sjællands-kvartet. Da kortet udkom var det den mest præcise kortprojektion overhovedet, idet Wessel anvendte sin opdagelse vedrørende de komplekse tal. Sjælden i koloreret stand.

Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1756-57. Small 8vo. 3 contemporary full mottled calf. Richly gilt spines. Gilt borders on covers. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. (4),270;(4),243;(4),412 pp. and 14 large folded engraved maps and plans. Fine and clean, printed on good paper.

Washington, George W. Bowman, 1861. 4to. Contemp. full solid calf. Some scratches, som spots to covers. Stamps on printed title-page. Lithographed title in colou and printed title-page. XXIV,277 pp. Profusely textillustrated, and profusely illustrated with large folded maps, lithographed plates, lithographed plates in colour. Textleaves with scattered brownspots and occassionally some foxing. A few maps with closed tears, some strenghtened on verso. Published as 36th Congress, 2d Session - House of Representatives. - Ex. Doc.

København, Schultz, 1828. Ubeskåret med originale blå blanke omslag. 16,139,(1) pp., 1 kobberstukket foldekort (Kårt over Paradis og omliggende Lande). Lette spredte brunpletter. Originaludgaven. - Rask Bibliografi I,130.

København, A. C. Riemenschneiders Forlag, 1883. 8vo. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et nydeligt millimeterbind af sort maroquin. Forgyldt rygtitel. Fladstrøgne kapitæler. (Juul-Lassen). En smule ubetydeligt slid på permer. Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang på fribladet: "Kære Fru Behrend - / et venligt Minde om / Deres Ven / Herman Bang. / 25.4.1910." Særdeles rent eksemplar. 146,(2) pp. Nydeligt dedikationseksemplar af originaludgaven.

Kbhvn., 1905-33. Lex8vo. 9 hshirtbd. Ialt ca 6.000 pp.

Sorøe, (Jonas Lindgren), 1769. 4to. I samtidigt hellæderbind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. False svage og permer med slitage. Titelblad med annotation i højre hjørne i senere hånd, ellers indvendig pæn. (14), 318, 96, (1) pp.

Nyere blåt blankt omsl. Lidt brunplettet. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 121.

Washingt., 1890. 4to. Orig.full cloth. First inner hinge weak. X,665 pp.