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J.G. Ritter. Wien 1839. xviiii+(1 Blatt)+271+(1) S. s. Erstausgabe. Sehr gutes Halblederband der Zeit, Deckeln mit Leinen überzogen. Inhalt rein. Hauptwerk des berühmten Wiener Klinikarztes.

Vinegia 1583. (8)+104 leaves s. Bound in later green calf spine over boards. Inner hinges weak, broken at rear. Old inscription to foot of title page. Book plate: Fumach

London, James Edwards, no year (1789 or 1794). Old marbled calf, boards with gilt frames, rebacked. Spotting to contents. Frontispiece portrait of Hans Holbein, 30 plates engraved by Hollar after Holbein and 1 double page engraving for the Dance of Macaber, pages (2)+81; second part with unnumbered pages is printed in gothic type.

Kjøbenhavn, Møller, 1776. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extremities, a few scratches to boards and parts of gilting worn off. Internally very nice and clean, printed on good paper. (2), XCVI, 496 pp. + 2 folded plates and 1 folded map (of Bornholm). Title-page with a vignette depicting a woman, a personification of the Agricultural Society. Rare first edition of the “Det Kongelige Danske Landhusholdningsselskabs skrifter (i.e. “Royal Danish Agricultural Society”) containing six prize winning thesis on various subjects. Biblioteca Danica II, 1007.

Halle, Sumtibus Orphotrophei, 1724-29. 8 volum. bound in 4 bands.360 + 28 + 447 + 619 + (38) + 20 + 411 + 10 + (2) + 348 + 16 + 592 + 14 + 522 + 12 + 288 pp. Illustrated with vignets and some folded printed plates. Bound full vellum.. Afhentes på: Læderstræde 9, kld., 1210 København K Text in latin. Slight wear on boards and edges, but nice. Hinges strong. The last doubleband (9-10) is loosing. Joseph Bingham (1668-1723) came out with the first edition 1708-22.

Paris, Chez l'Auteur, 1760. 8vo-size. Printed as an 4to-oblong (textleaves folded and plates double size). Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Upper part of spine strenghtened with cloth. Some wear to edges. Stamps on front free endpaper. 30 pp., 55 engraved plates. Internally clean. Klaus Jordan,2168.

Grenoble, Joseph-Sulpice Grabit, 1771. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments,titlelabel with guilt lettering. A stamp on htitle and titlepage. XVI,575 pp. and 2 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean. Both covers with the royal coat-of-arms of the Danish king Christian 7. First French edition, translated from Robin's work "Mathematical Tracts... Vol. I. London 1761". It contains the authors New Principles of Gunnery together with some of his various mathematical tratises read before the Royal Society, his polemics on the "vis viva" etc. and Wilson's personal comments on the life and character of his old friend.

København (Copenhagen), Westermann, 1948. Orig. unstiched loose sheets in the orig. blue cardboard-folder w. paper-title, as issued. In the orig. blue cardboard-slipcase, also with printed paper-title. Spine and edges of slip-case a bit faded, otherwise an excellent, mint copy. No CXLVI of 235. First Danish edition of Eliot's monumental work, signed by Eliot and the two Danish translators. This modernist poem is one of the most celebrated and discussed poems of the 2oth century, and its modernist themes such as the decline of civilization and the lack of meaning of life greatly influenced modern literature and thought. There is no doubt that Eliot also greatly influenced modern Danish literature, and the Danish translator of "The Waste Land", Tom Kristensen, is one of the most acknowledged Danish writers of the 20th century. The work was originally published in 1922, and the Danish translation appeared in 1948, the same year that Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This first Danish translation was printed in a number of 650 regular copies, and 235 (Roman) numbered copies signed by the author and the two translators, of which this is number 146.

London, Watts, 1752. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. light wear at spine-ends. Covers with gilt lineborders. Titlelabel gone. Title-page in red and black. A repair to upper part of title-page with some reconstruction of the letters in "Voyages". (10),336 pp., 2 woodengraved vignettes. "Boyle's narrative is probably fictitious, but that of Castelman bears marks of authenticity. The latter's visit to Philadelphia took place in 1710. Boyle's voyages have often been reprinted; but Castelman's relation is only to be found in the early editions. The work has been attributed to Benj. Victor; also to Daniel Defoe." (Sabin).Sabin, 12553 (but not this edition which comprises Castelman's account with its own title-page).

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Band 38, No. 6 (= Zweyte Stück). Titlepage to Vol. 38. Pp. 241-450 a. 3 engraved plates.(Entire issue offered, Heft No. 6, Bd. 38). Schwann's paper: pp. 358-364. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in the history of biology, in which Schwann describes his discovery and isolation of pepsin, the substance in the stomach that aids digestion of eggwhite. It is the FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME. The paper appeared at the same time in "Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin"Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) was a great German physiologist, pathologist, and experimenter. One of the founders of the cell doctrine and of the idea of the living nature of yeast. Born at Neuss, near Düsseldorff. A catholic, educated in the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne. Intended for the church but took to medicine. He was a pupil of Johannes Müller and a collegueand lifelong friend of J. Henle, the anatomist. In Berlin Schwann was Johannes Müller's assistent for five years, and it was then that he discovered pepsin in 1836 (the paper offered).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1836 B.The issue contains other importent papers by Seebeck, Matteucci, Marchand, G. Magnus "Ueber die Wirkung des Ankers auf Elektromagnete und Stahlmagnete", Schönbein, J. Müller "Ueber die Structur und die chemischen Eigenschaften der thierischen Bestandtheile der Knorpel und Knochen" + Nachtrag., Forchhammer "Der kopaische See und seine unterirdischen Abzugskanäle.." with a map.

Copenhagen, Aschehoug & Munksgaard, 1927-72. 4to. All volumes with orig. printed wrappers. With ca. 1400 plates, partly in colour. The largest work ever published on Lichens.

Marseille, Trabaud, Buisson, 1793. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small repair to top of spine. Stamp on title-page. 420 pp. A later edition of his famous mediterranean-pilot. Henry Michelot is well known of his several influential cartographic works devoted to the Mediterranean.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 130, No 15 a. No 18. Pp. (962-) 1044 a. pp. (1145-) 1220. Entire issues offered. Villard's papers: pp. 1010-1012 a. 1178-1182, textillustrations. Clean and fine. First apperance of Villard's two papers in which he announced and described the discovery of a new type of radiation more powerfull and penetrating than alpha-and beta rays. The new type of rays was named by Rutherford as gammarays.

Wien, Joseph Kurtzböcken, 1773. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved frontispiece. 239 pp. and 24 large folded engraved plates. Intenally fine. Poggendorff I, 1174.

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1766. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine. IV,207,(23) pp. Without the map. Clean, faint marginal brownspots. The contemt of this volume (which is volume II of Gerhard F. Müller's. "Voyages et Découvertes faites par les Russes le long des Côtes de la Mer glaciale & sur l'Océan oriental...) is wholly devoted to the description of the Amur River and its borderlines as extracted and translated from Nicolaus Witsen's work "Sur la Tartarie Septentrionale & Orientale" (Noord en Oost Tartarye, Ofte Bondig Ontwerp Van eenig dier Landen en Volken..., Amsterdam 1692)."In the nineteenth century, Russian historians and ethnographers discovered that Witsen had used many Russian sources that had since been lost, and they praised Noord en Oost Tartarye ‘as the most remarkable book about Asiatic Russia ever written by a foreigner.’ During the Soviet period, Witsen was seen as scholar who had ‘opened up a new era in the study of Siberia.’ Nowadays, he is respectfully mentioned on many local Russian websites as the first to have reported on their town, province, nationality or language."(huygens.knaw.n.).

London, Macmillian and Co, 1968. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth with title to spine. In "Nature", Vol. 217, 1968. Library stamp to upper right corner of title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 709-13. [Entier volume: XL, 1298 pp.]. First printing of the discovery of pulsars. Hewish was in 1974 awarded the Nobel Prize in physics "for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars"."Their discovery, reported in 1968, came as a complete surprise, and astonishingly their radio signals behave like the ticks of a super-accurate clock. The unique characteristics of pulsars have since been used to explore the behaviour of gravity, the nature of nuclear matter, the late evolutionary stages of massive stars, and the character of the interstellar medium". (A Century of Nature). "Antony Hewish had played a central role in the development of aperture synthesis and in 1964 began the study of the twinkling, or scintillation, of radio sources due to irregularities in the outflow of material from the Sun, what is known as the solar wind. A remarkable by-product of these studies was the discovery of pulsating radio sources, subsequently called pulsars, by Hewish and his graduate student, Jocelyn Bell. These objects were soon convincingly identified as rapidly rotating, magnetized neutrons stars, which had been predicted to exist on theoretical grounds. Their serendipitous discovery at long radio wavelengths was a crucial event for all astronomy." (DSB).

Carlsruhe u.Freib., 1831. 4to. Nice cont.hcalf.,gilt back a.atlas in folio-oblong bound in cont. hcloth. (8),XVI,218,XII,194,(2) pp.Text somewhat brownspotted. St.on titles. Atlas in folio with 34 + 24 litogr. plates(2 litogr.titles).

Carlscrona, Kongl. Amiralitets Tryckeriet, 1787. Lille 4to. Indbundet med de originale marmorerede papomslag i et nyere hshirtbd. Stempel på titelbladet. (4),90 pp. Trykt på svært papir. Enkelte spredte brunpletter. Enkelte samtidige håndskrevne rettelser i teksten.

Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264. Fist printing of this importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the "Sine-law" and the "Tangent-law".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. "Ce Mémoire, qu'on ecroyait égaré, vient d'étre retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Fourier. Comme il n'est connu que par des extraits tout-è-fait insuffisand (voyez Ann.. t. XXIX, p. 175), nous nous empressons d'en enrichir les Annales."(Editor's footnote).In the memoir "He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media; and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave."(Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" I, p.123).

Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Kruse paa Henrich Waldkirchs Arffvingers Bekostning, 1634. 4to. In a contemporary full vellum binding. With wear to extremities, binding soiled and miscoloured, with loss of vellum to upper part of boards and spine showing the wooden boards underneath. First three leaves chipped in margins, with loss of the engraved frame, text intact. Last 10 ff. with loss of paper in upper outer corner, with loss of text. Title-page printed in red and black within a typographical border, four sub-titles with woodcut borders.(14), 320, (72) ff. With 120 half-page woodcut illustrations included in the text. A worn but complete copy of Heldvad's most extensive work comprising 4 parts, richly illustrated with scenes from biblical history. This collection of sacred stories includes the Life of Jesus according to the Gospels, the history of the apostles, the church history of Denmark, and accounts of martyrs. Biblioteca Danica I,28. Thesaurus II,479. Birkelund 42.

Kiøbenhavn, Höeckes Enke, 1802-06. 8vo. I et lidt senere halvlæderbind med forgyldt titel på ryg. Første og sidste blade en smule brunplettet, ellers pænt eksemplar. Kort over Læsø som kobberstukket vignet på titelbladet. (14), 282; 18 pp. + 2 kobberstukne foldeplancher. Originaludgaven af den første beskrivelse af Læsø og som her omfatter det sjældne tillæg, som først udkom 1806. Bibl. Danica II:712.

Dated "20.8.43". 2 pages 8vo. Written on blue paper w. the letterhead "Wedellsborg/ Ejby." The letter is a polite refusal to an invitation to give a lecture. It translates as thus: "I am very sorry/ that that you have not/ received an answer to your letter/ sooner. For about a month/ I have been travelling around Funen, and/ I have been staying numerous/ places, and unfortunately I have not/ received your letter, there/ has possibly been an incorrect re-addressing and thereby delay./ I am sorry that I can/ not accept your/ kind request to/ give a lecture at your place. -/ In the fall I will/ have so much to do that I can/ not accept any more/ engagements. -/ Kind regards/ Yours sincerely/ Karen Blixen-Finecke." The legendary Danish writer, Karen Blixen-Finecke (pseudonym: Isak Dinesen) (1885-1962), was a Danish baroness, who married her cousin, the Swedish Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. They soon moved to Africa, where they ran a coffee-farm near Nairobi, and the happiest years of Blixen's life were spent here (she used to say that "Africa made me"). The farm in the Ngong Hills is the centre of her world famous novel, "Out of Africa". She divorced her husband, who was cheating on her and gave her syphilis, in 1922, and in 1932 she moved back to Denmark after the farm had gone bankrupt and her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton, had died in a plane-crash. She spent the remaining 30 years of her life in Denmark, and died a legendary writer. She greatly influenced writers and cultural personas of the generations to come, and many authors recognize the direct impact she has had on their writings. Several of her novels have been filmatized, most famously "out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice, she was elected honorary member of "The American Academy of Arts and Letters" (1957), and her portrait is printed on the Danish 50 kr. notes. She is the absolutely most famous of all modern Danish writers, and the only one of international fame.

Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde, 1774. 4to. Cont. full mottled calf. Back worn and with loss of some leather. Corners bumped. XLIV,256,38 pp. The last 38 pp. are "Extrait de la description de L'Arabie par Carsten Niebuhr". Few marginal brownspots, otherwise a large, clean copy. Second French edition giving the suggestions for the observations to be undertaken by the Arabien expedition. Michaelis was appointed by the Danish King to select members for a scientific expediton to Arabia, and asked Carsten Niebuhr to participate. The suggestions for the expedition contains an extensive series of quite varied questions which covers history, natural science and philology, and also provides us with a splendid catalogue of what was known at the time about Arabia and Yemen.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1804 - Part I. Pp. 77-182 and 2 engraved plates (showing his experimental apparatus). First and last leaves with some faint browning and brownspots. The plates with some browspots, mainly to margins. Wide-margined. First appearance of Rumford's second large paper on the mechanical equivalent of heat, in which he owerthrows the caloric theory. Rumford's early papers were importent steps towards the conception of the principle of the "Conservation of Energy" and the thermodynamical laws."The importence of this investigation here entered into, - inasmuch as it applies to most of the operations of nature as well as art, - appears so manifest, that we shall not recapitulate what the author advances on the subject. before he proceeds to the details of his experiments for the purpose oof computing the emissions of heat from various bodies under a variety of circumstances, he finds it necessary to prmise a minute description of the principal part of the apparatus he contrived for the purpose..."(Abstract).In his famous paper of 1798 "An Inquiry Concerning the Source of Heat Which is Exicited by Friction" showed that heat is a form of motion and not a substance as it was seen in the 18th century."He had been lead to the hypothesis that friction is an inexhaustable source of heat while considering the boring of a canon at Munich's military arsenal and had proceeded to experiment with brass guns at the arsenal. The experiments confirm the hypothesis, justifying his conclusion that heat is not a material substance as others had believed. He goeson to equate heat to motion."(Parkinson in "Breakthroughs" 1798 P.)

Paris, Courcier, 1811 Clotbacked blue boards preserving the original printed title-labels. Stamps on title-pages. XXVIII,(2),507;XXVIII,(2),500 pp. and 7 folded engraved plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of 4 plates in volume I and to 3 in volume II. A dampstain to lower right corners on the first 8 leaves in volume II. A few brownspots. In general clean and printed on good paper. First edition of this classic work, written in the style of Laplace and Lagrange it was for a long time a standard work in analytical mechanics. Here he introduced many novelties such as an explicit usage of momenta.