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Jena, Wilh. Ernest. Güth, 1751. 4to. Cont. full vellum. Backcover a little discoloured. Otherwise fine. Engr. portr. as frontisp. 804,(68) pp. and 8 fold. engr. plates. - First edition of the Jena-professor's main work (G.E. Hamberger 1697-1755).

Wien und Nürnberg, 1755. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Stamped in blind on spine. Titlelabel with lettering. The gilt monogram of King Frederi V on red background on both covers. Stamp on title-page. Engr.portr., (10),144,23,(1) pp. and 79 engravings (on 42 folded plates). Internally clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 3688.

Berlin, Robert Oppenheim, 1872. 8vo. Contemporary hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. VIII,666,VI pp. Text diagrams. Internally clean. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen having his name on top of front free enpaper. First German edition of Newton's groundbreaking "Principia". - Gray 39.

Lyon, Chouet, 1607. 4to. In contenmporary full vellum. Binding with wear, soiling and miscolouring. Back board with wormholes and corner and and head and foot of spine with loss of vellum. Title-page with light soiling and previous owner's name in contemporary hand. Small dampstain to upper margin, but internally generally nice and clean. (16), 1172, (22) pp. Rare first edition of Favre’s commentary on Roman jurist Papinian, one of the founding jurists at the school of law at Beirut in the second century. Here Favre attempts to present and analyse all the rules of Roman laws in a scientific and systematic way.

Bologna, Annesio Nobili, 1817-19. 4to. Bound uncut in 3 contemporary boards. Corners bumped and backstrips lacks. (4),407,XII;(4),403,X;(4),412,XV pp. and 55 partly folded engraved plates. Contains a large amount of papers by the professors at the University at Bologna in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, Medicine, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Mineralogy etc.

(Kiøbenhaffn, Hans Stockelmann og Andreas Gutterwitz, (Baltzer Kausis Bekaastning)), Kolophon, 1574). Lille 8vo. Senere hldrbd. i gl. stil med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rygfelter med blindtrykt stempel, forgyld titel. Med 153 (af 168) blade. Mangler bladene I-XII, XIIIa,XV,XVI. Lidt spredte brunpletter og lettere brugsspor. Eksemplaret har tilhørt Jonas Skougaard og har hans kollationering på bagerste friblad. Hans biblioteksnummer tilskrevet 9214. Skougaard anfører, at der kendes 7 komplette og 3 defekte eksemplarer, hvoraf der i Norge er 2 komplette og 1 defekt. Dette er tredie optryk af ordinansen - det første udkom 1553 - af den reviderede og endelige udgave af Danmark og Norges reformations-ordinans fra 1542. Den var gældende i Norge op til 1607 hvor Norge fik sin egen.Laur. Nielsen, 1218. - Thesaurus, 72.

Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1854-62. Bound in 17 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted to lower compartment. A few scratches and light wear to some edges. Upper compartment on last volume defective with a nick in leather. With Arago's engraved portrait in last volume. Some scattered brownspots, but in general clean and fine. First edition.

(Kbhvn., 1823-24 og 1826). 4to-oblong. Til samlingen udkom intet titelblad. Med 24 smukke akvatintetryk (19 x 22 cm.) samt tilhørende tekst. - Krohn anfører p.181 (nr. 1400), at der ialt udkom 26 blade (bl.a. med Pompeji og Roeskild, disse 2 er ikke her). Yderst sjælden.

Darmstadt, C.W.Leske, (1822). 12mo. Orig.blue boards, engraved. Binding intact but hinges weak. Backstrip with tears. Engr.frontisp.(portr.), VI,471 pp. and 34 fine engraved plates (views etc.). - First edition.

Basel, Genethianis, 1676. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. 2 small nicks to vellum at fronthinge. Engraved title-page and printed title-page. (70),336,(12) pp. The printed titlepage with engraved vignette. 2 full-page engravings (portrait of Erasmus by Holbein and Erasmus' Memorial Stone). With 78 textengravings by Hans Holbein (engraved by Casper Merian), some of which are tipped in and folded, some printed in the text. Lacks the 2 portraits of Holbein the Elder and Holbein the Younger. Some leaves in the middle with faint browning in lower part. 2 of the tipped-in engravings with a bit of repair. Printed on good paper. These are the most famous illustrations of The Praise of Folly.First edition of "ThePraise of Folly" with Hans Holbein's illustrations. The work is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. Its role stem from the foundation of critique which the essay laid against the practices of the Church and its political allies.Graesse II:495. - Brunet II:1037.

København, C.G. Glasing, 1747. 8vo. Samtidigt helldrbd. med spejl, blindtrykte rammer og yderste ramme i guld af rullestempel, men guldet næsten bortslid. Rig rygforgyldning (svag), forgyldt titelfelt. Skindet på øverste og nederste rygfelt med tab. Træskåret frontispiece. Titelblad trykt i rødt/sort. (36),585,(21) pp. Indvendig med spredte brugsspor og lettere brunplettet. Med træskårne vignetter og talrige træskårne halv-sides illustrationer. Eneste illustrerede udgave af "Rævebogen" fra Det 18. århundrede. Til denne udgivelse har Glasing selv skåret illustrationerne efter de originale. - Bibl. Dan. IV,267.

Folio. Probably publishers full blindtooled vellum. Rebacked with most of the orig. vellumback preserved. Title in greek a. latin, red and black letters with a woodcut. Engraved portr., 2 textengravings. (10),376,(6) pp. Ocassionally light browning to leaves. Greek and latin paralelltext. Brunet I,497.

München, Piper & Co, (1958). Lex 8vo. Original blue full cloth binding with original dust-jacket in red and black with white and grey lettering. Dust-jacket with nicks and tears to extremities. A few underlinings to the first leaves. With the bookplate of the famous American educator Paul Arthur Schilpp. 506, (6, -advertisements). Inscribed by the author to front free end-paper: "Herrn College Schilpp/ in alter Dankbarkeit/ Karl Jaspers". And with the inscription "Basel, den 7. August 1958" underneath. First edition, presentation-copy, of Jasper's main work in political philosophy, "The Atom Bomb and the Future of Man", in which Jaspers outlines his humanist doctrine. It is in this work that we find most explicitly expressed his ideas on the importance of the social and collective conditions of human integrity. The work became greatly influential. The German philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Theodor Jaspers (1883-1969) was one of the main exponents of existentialism in Germany and he had an enormous impact on theology, psychiatry and philosophy of his time. Later on, his works in political philosophy came to exersize an even greater influence upon 20th century thought. "Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) began his academic career working as a psychiatrist and, after a period of transition, he converted to philosophy in the early 1920s. Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century he exercised considerable influence on a number of areas of philosophical inquiry: especially on epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and political theory. His philosophy has its foundation in a subjective-experiential transformation of Kantian philosophy, which reconstructs Kantian transcendentalism as a doctrine of particular experience and spontaneous freedom, and emphasizes the constitutive importance of lived existence for authentic knowledge. Jaspers obtained his widest influence, not through his philosophy, but through his writings on governmental conditions in Germany, and after the collapse of National Socialist regime he emerged as a powerful spokesperson for moral-democratic education and reorientation in the Federal Republic of Germany." (SEP).Paul Arthur Schilpp (1897 - 1993) was famous an American educator. He was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States prior to World War I. Schilpp taught at Northwestern University, University of the Pacific and spent the last years of his professional career teaching undergraduate philosophy courses at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He was considered a serious and driven teacher of moral decision and thought, often controversial. He was known for his passionate teaching methods and highly energetic delivery. For many years he was the editor of the Library of Living Philosophers. As editor he was able to convince people like Albert Einstein to contribute to the library.

London, Christopher Meredith, 1647. 4to. In contemporary full calf. Wear and soiling to extremities. Dampstain throughout. (8), 380, (2), 127 pp. Rare second edition of Elton’s work containing a compendium of moral teaching based on the Ten Commandments. Elton was a conforming clergyman within the English Church: “Even so, the book was condemned because it was “not conformable to the discipline of the Church of England”. We know more about its licensing history than we do of most books because its authorizer, Daniel Featly, who was called before the King for licensing it once the book was condemned, wrote about it a few years later in Cygnea Cantio. According to Featly, he helped Elton edit and revise the book while he was alive but once the author died, he “the off intermeddling in such a work wherein I could not suffer all things to passe as they were in that copy… yet the booke tooke the libertie to flie out of the Presse without license” (Clegg, Press Censorship in Jacobean England). Edward Elton (1569–1624) was an English Puritan, and a pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Bermondsey.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandel (F. Hegel), 1872. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spine rubbed. A few light brownspots throughout. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. (10), XIII, 605, (1) + 1 plate. The Scarce first Danish edition (translated from the 5. edition) of Darwin's monumental "On the Origin of Species". "In 1872 the book was translated into Danish by the young botanist J. P. Jacobsen. He was soon to become a celebrated novelist famous for Marie Grubbe - A Lady of the Seventeenth Century (1876) and Niels Lyhne (1880). In the early 1870's, however, he was still dedicated to science. In 1873 he received the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal for his work on desmids, single-celled green freshwater algae. The Descent of Man was also translated by Jacobsen and appeared in 1874-75. "In the early 1870s [With the Danish translation] the literary critic Georg Brandes started promoting Darwin's ideas as part of his liberal ideology and soon Darwinism became the mark of a new generation of intellectuals. Both the Steenstrup circle and the Brandes circle held Darwin in high esteem, but made completely different attributions to his theory. Consequently they both decided to raise money separately for the same Darwin. Darwin had borrowed the collection of barnacles from the Zoology Museum in Copenhagen with the help of Steenstrup. As a compliment Darwin sent him a signed copy of the Origin. Steenstrup acknowledged Darwin as an important fellow naturalist, but like many of his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen he never accepted evolutionary theory. The initial scientific reaction to Darwin's work on evolution by means of natural selection was respectful, but made few converts. memorial in 1882. Independently, Darwinism transformed as it became part of popular culture. "(Kjærsgaard, Darwinism comes to Denmark)Freeman: 643. (PMM 344 - first edition)

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1850. Contemp. hcalf, profusely gilt spine. XXXII,622 pp. In: "Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre 1847. Dargestellt von der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin". III. Jahrgang. Redigirt von G. Karsten. XLIV,703 pp. Stamp on titlepage. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 232-245. Clean and fine. First printing of Helmholtz's own report on the meeting of the 23rd of July 1847 in the Physical Society of Berlin. In the meeting he presented with great success his groundbreaking paper "Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft". In the paper printed in the "Fortschritte", Helmholtz summarizes the main mathematical and historical features of his Conservation of Energy-principle as it was laid down in "Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft"."On July 21 he (Helmholtz) announced to du Bois-Reymond that he would bring forward his 'Conservation of Energy' on the 23rd at the Physical Society. The meeting was one of the most memorable in the annals of the Society; as du Bois tells us, Helmholtz revealed himself at one bound, to the surprise of all his friends, as a master of mathematical physics. The members of the Physical Society were acquainted with the Law of the Conservation of Energy when it was still unknown to all the rest of the world."(Leo Koenigsberger in "Hermann von Helmholtz", pp. 38).In his groundbreking work Helmholtz announced the first comprehensive statement of the first law of thermodynamics: All modes of energy, heat, light, electricity, and all chemical phenomena, are capable of transformation from one to the other but are indestructible and cannot be created. Helmholtz offered his paper to Poggendorf's 'Annalen', but the editor declined to publish so dangerous a speculation. Helmholtz had it printed at his own expense in a small number in 1847.

Berlin, G. Eichler, 1836. In "Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin Herausgegeben von Johannes Müller". Jahrgang 1836. Pp. 66-89 a. pp. 90-139. The entire volume offered in its 6 parts (in 5), all 5 issues uncut with orig. printed warppers. (2),CCXXIV,390 pp. and 15 engraved plates. The 2 first issues with a faint dampstain to lower part of leaves and plates. 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 "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff".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. - Garrison & Morton no. 991.The first paper offered, written together with Johannes Müller records the preliminary investigaions leading to the discovery of Pepsin. - Garrison & Morton no. 990.The volume also contains another famous paper by ROBERT REMAK "Vorläufige Mittheilung microscopischer Beobachtungen über den innern Bau der Cerebrospinalnerven und über die Entwicklung ihrer Formenelemente. (Hierzu Tafel IV). Pp. 145-161. This paper contains the first announcement of his DISCOVERY OF "FIBRES OF REMAK", the non-medullated nerve-fibres. (Garrison & Morton no. 1260.

London, John and Paul Knapton, 1750. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Spine worn and frontcover detached. Corners of binding worn. (12),420 pp., textdiagrams and textfigs. (12),420 pp. Browning to titlepage and repairs to verso of. A bit of inner lower corner of titlepage gone, loosing 3 letters in "Printed for" Some brownspots to outer margins. Some traces of use. Internally generally clean and printed on good paper. The first edition was published 1707 and it was regularly printed throughout the eighteenth century. All issues are scarce. Dougharty (1677-1755) was an Irisman who ran a writing and arithmetic school in Worchester (Macclesfield No 657 (1707)).

Venetia, Giorgio Angelieri, 1574. Small4to. Bound in 17th century full vellum. Printed paper titlelabel on spine. Small nicks at foot of spine. Printers woodcut device on title-page, repeated twice. Some wood-cut initials. Ff (36),16,488. Light browning to a few leaves, a few scattered brownspots. Ealy edition of Guiccardini's famous and influential history of Italy, "The basis of all later works on the beginnings of modern history" called by Ranke. This edition comprises 16 Books, later expanded into 20. The first edition of 1561 had 10 Books.Guiccardini was a friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, and he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. The History of Italy paved the way for a new style in historiography with its use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.PMM, 85 (for the 1.ed.) - Adams, 1514 (1583-ed.).

London, Richard Taylor, 1834-35. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1835 - Part I. Titlepages to the volume present. (2),95-144. Both papers clean and fine. First appearance of this groundbreaking paper in which Hamilton develops the whole of theoretical dynamics by the aid of one function only, his 'Characteristic' or 'Principal' Function. He applies his method to a case of planetary motion, using a system of canonical elements" (Introduction, The Mathematical Paper of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, xiii). Hamilton then argues that the "tool of the characteristic function could also be applied to reformulate the fundamental laws of dynamics; thus the actual motion of mass point in a field of forces, e.g., is found to be governed by equations that are the analogues of those determining the propagation of the rays of light. Hamilton's optical-mechanical analogy, not only provided a new and more powerful formulation of classical mechanics but also, came to form the foundation of the Schrödinger scheme of quantum mechanics, e.g., wave mechanics. " (Mehra The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)

Wien, Johann Paul Krauss, 1782. Cont. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on back. Some repairs to back and lightly rubbed. Stamp on title. LXVI,(2),415,(1) pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Broad margins. Internally fine and clean. Scarce first German edition of 17 tracts and memoirs by the discoverer of Photosynthesis. The tracts relates to plant-physiology, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine etc.

London, William Berry, (1689). Ca 58x88 cm. Frame and under plexiglass. Large engraved map of Denmark in contemp.outline colouring. Perhaps the largest engraved map of Denmark from the 17th century. Berry is sometimes called the English Sanson as he copied Sanson's maps and his followers Jaillot, Seller and Senex. This scarce map is a copy of Jaillot's map from 1674 in spite of the printed information "Described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry." The large map shows "Schonen, Blecking, Halland, Dukedom of Sleswick and the Diocess of Holstein." - Bramsen p. 11 (cartouschen) a. p. 120.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1759. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly blindtooled spine. Titlelabel. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved title-vignette. (6),186 pp., 1 large folded engraved plate with handcoloured signatures. On good paper. Light soiling to lower right corner of title-page, otherwise clean and fine. First edition.

4to. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands and richly gilt compartments. Faint scratches on covers. Corners and edges a little rubbed. 2 small holes in leather at sides of upper compartment. (26),548 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Engraved vignette. On good paper. First edition of the well-known French philosopher and mathematician's main mathematical work. Fontenelle, author of "The Plurality of Worlds", claims here, that Geometry is entirely intellectual and independent of the actual decription and existence of figures, following more the conceptions of Descartes than those of Newton.

Small 4to. Bound uncut with orig. wrappers in a fine green hmorocco, 5 raised bands, spine with 6 compartments, each richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Back slightly faded. No 225 of 350 copies "sur vergé de Rives", a total of 420. With 33 fine original engravings by Laboureur. The first volume of "Grande Collection".