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Kiøbenhaffn (Copenhagen), (Henrich Waldkirch), 1598. 4to. In contemporary vellum with yapp edges. Soiling and a few stains and marks to extremities. With four-line annotation in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper: "Denne bog hórer mig till / Bertill Bernhill oc haver/ jeg kiöbt hendom af Niels / bogförer i Helsingør 1598". (i.e. English: "This book belongs to me / bought from Niels bookseller in Elsinore 1598")Occassional marginal dampstains throughout, otherwise internally nice and clean. 106 ff. First Danish edition (it was first published in German the previous year) of the first official description of the coronation of King Christian IV. August Erich himself attended the coronation festivities, so it contains firsthand descriptions of the ceremony, the processions with decorations and costumes, fireworks, musical instruments, jousting, etc. The first official coronation description, published in 1597, was written in German by the king's secretary in the German Chancellery, August Erich, who identified himself as an eyewitness to the events. This description was primarily aimed at the northern German regions where Christian IV had or sought influence, and it can be seen as a follow-up to the previous tour of northern German towns that the un-crowned Christian undertook in 1595. Erich's coronation description was translated into Danish in 1598 (The present work) by court chaplain Andreas Benedict Dallin, who added more detailed information. Dallin's coronation description was clearly intended for a Danish audience, with the aim of strengthening and justifying Christian IV's domestic position in relation to the nobility as well as the citizens and common people. Thesaurus I, 230Lauritz Nielsen 574

London, Miles Flesher, 1649. Folio (285 x 195 mm). In contemporary full with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, especially back board with numerous scratches and a few holes in leather, making the wooden boards visible. Lower part of back hinge split. A few annotation in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Internally with marginal browning and a few worm-tracts. (26), 173 [i.e. 179], (9), 90, (9), 221, (6) pp. Fourth edition of Byfield’s commentary of The Epistle to the Colossians being the twelfth book of the New Testament written by Paul, the first edition being from 1615. “The present Commentary is a fine specimen of Puritan exposition, indicating an extensive and intensive knowledge of the Word of God, and great soundness of judgment, and great faithfulness in dealing with the hearts and consciences of men. There is no eloquence in it, but a serious, earnest desire is manifest to keep back nothing of the counsel of God ; and we are much mistaken if ministers do not find it profitable, as suggestive of many hints which may enrich their own expositions of this Epistle.” (From the introduction to the 1849 reprint).

(Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1968). 4to. Bound with the original pictorial wrappers - printed in pink, yellow, orange, and green, after Warhol's "Flowers" - in an excellent contemporary Swedish modernist half leather binding with purple mottled cloth boards and a black morocco spine with "ANDY WARHOL" lettered in silver. Wrappers with very light wear to corners and a tiny stain to the bottom of the front wrapper. In overall excellent condition. First 8 leaves with text, the remaining more than 300 leaves full of black-and-white full-page illustrations. First edition, first printing, of the famous Warhol Stockholm-catalogue, which, a part from its obvious artistic value, played a main part in the "Brillo Box-scandal". It is also in this catalogue that the seminal photographs of the Factory, by Stephen Shore and Billy Name, appear for the first time, along with at least one of his most famous quotations (perhaps THE most famous and most frequently quoted): "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes".The exhibition in Stockholm was Warhol's first international retrospective exhibition and as such one of his most important ever."This book was published on the occasion of the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm February-March 1968. Editing: Andy Warhol, Kasper König, Pontus Huntén, Olle Granath. Typograhy and production: John Melin, Gösta Svensson, Stig Arbman AB, Malmö. Blocks and print: Sydsvenska Dagbladets AB, Malmö, December 1967 - January 1968." (verso of title-page). Photographs by Stephen Shore and Paul Schiff, documenting Warhol's early work.

Cassellis (Kassel), 1827. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Titlelabel in leather on back. Top of spine worn and with a few tears. XIV,492 pp. Printed on good paper, internally clean. First edition of the Hessian pharmacopoea. - Not in Wellcome.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water."The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation, so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat, another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is, 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer, however, nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water; and as a result, when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris, they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points, 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1730 P.

Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 26, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 178-81. [Entire volume: IV, 401 pp.]. First appearance of Bose's seminal paper in which he succeeded in deriving the Planck blackbody radiation law without reference to classical electrodynamics. Einstein was extremely impressed by Bose's paper and translated it into German himself. Shortly after Einstein made a generalization of Bose's method which led to the first of two systems of quantum statistical mechanics, known as the Bose-Einstein statistics. Paul Dirac coined the term "boson" for particles that obey these statistics and later physics historian Abraham Dirac described it as a "confused masterpiece", (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283). "With their work Bose and Einstein established the field of quantum statistics one year before the appearance of quantum mechanics" (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century, P. 139)."In July 1924 he sent a short manuscript entitled "Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese" to Albert Einstein for criticism and possible publication. Einstein himself translated the paper into German and had it published in the Zeitschrift für Physik later that year. He added a note that stated: "In my opinion Boses derivation of the Planck formula signifies an important advance. The method used also yields the quantum theory of the ideal gas as I will work out in detail elsewhere." (DSB)."2 July 1924. Satyendra Nath Bose introduces a new coarse-grained statistical counting procedure which leads to Planck's radioation law. [...] Bose's discovery of a new statistics for photons and Einstein's extension to material gases - including the phenomenon of BE condensation - were made well before anyone had ever heard of a Schroedinger wave function. Bose's derivation of Planck's law is a confused masterpiece. His reasoning is correct but, as he himself once said, he had no idea that it was novel. The Paper also contains the discovery of BE condensation, an effect without application at that time." (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283-4).The present volume contains the following papers of interest:Fermi: Über die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Quantenzustände.Hahn & Meitner: Über die Rollen der beta-strahlen beim Atomzerfall.Heisenberg: Über den Einfluss der Deformierbarkeit der Ionen auf optische und chemische Konstanten. II.Heisenberg: Über eine Abänderung der formalen Regeln der Quantentheorie beim Problem der anomalen Zeemaneffekte.Born: Über Quantenmechanik.

Amsterdam, Westenius, 1676. 12mo. Bound in one contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten titles on spine. Engraved frontispiece a. engraved titlevignette. (14),114,(14),40 pp. and many textillustr. (woodcuts and engraved) and 1 large folded plate (Cornu aureum). - Engraved titlevignette. (16),148,17,(8) pp., textengravings (woodcut and engraved) - Engraved titlevignette. (28),179,(5) pp., engraved textillustr. and 3 folded engraved plates. Internally fine. De Armillis...Bibl. Danica II:446 (third edition). - Inavribus...Bibl. Danica II:446 (second edition). - Antiquitatum...Bibl. Danica II:445 (third edition).

Franckfurt & Leipzig, Zeitler, 1698. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raise bands. Boards with scratches and a few stains. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Previous owner's name to title-page. Dampstain to first and last leaves. (18), 288, 388 pp. + engraved half-title. Exceedingly rare German translation of this devotional work containing 100 significant passages from the Bible, which are interpreted and used for moral, theological and spiritual reflections.We have not been able to trace a single copy in the trade and OCLC list no copies.

(Lübeck & Rostock, Aswerus Krøgers Arfvinger & Laurentz Albrecht, 1598-99). Lille 8vo. Senere hellædrbind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Permerne med påsat mønstret gyldenlæder fra resterneaf et tidligere bind. Fællestitelbladet i rødt/sort med stregramme. 2 andre deltitelblade. Afd. I: (8),243,(3) blade. - Afd. II: 76,(4),68,(5),19,(8),34,(1) blade - Afd. III: (4),165,(5) blade. De sidste 6 blade i faksimile (= sidste tekstblad samt registerblade). Afdeling III har lidt svage skjolder, ellers ganske velbevaret. Det sjældne første optryk af Smiths berømte lægebog fra 1577. Der findes 2 varianttryk af denne udgave - dette tryk er tryk A, som bl.a. kendes på titelbladets stregramme i stedet for en røskenramme. - Lauritz Nielsen Nr. 1509. - Thesaurus Nr. 269. - Bibliotheca Danica I:799.

London, Bourne, 1636. Folio (285 x 200 mm). In contemporary full calf with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Two compartments with leather split in hinge. Light occassional marginal miscolouring, otherwise a fine copy. (20), 907 pp. The rare first printing of Featley's 21 of the sermons preached by him in the English ambassador's chapel in Paris. The work also contain a fine example of 'ars memorativa': "Perhaps the most instructive, because most explicit case of the arsmemorativa functioning both as a topic of discussion and structuring principle for homiletic discourse is Daniel Featley's Clavis Mystica (1636). Featley served as chaplain to Charles I. Although his sermons are by no means the apogee of the genre, his work exemplifies the commonplace attitude toward the interplay of mnemonic emblems and admonitory sermons in the seventeenth century" (www . biblicalcyclopedia . com) "Daniel Featley was educated as a chorister of Magdalen College. He was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College 13 Dec. 1594, and probationer fellow 20 Sept. 1602. having taken his B.A. degree 13 Feb. 1601. He proceeded M.A. 17 April 1606, and became noted as a disputant and preacher. In 1607 he delivered an oration at the funeral of John Rainolds, president of Corpus, his godfather and benefactor. In 1610 and the two following years he was in attendance as chaplain upon Sir Thomas Edmondes [q. v.], the English ambassador at Paris, and was noticed for his fearless attacks upon the Roman Catholic doctrines and his disputations with the Jesuits." (DNB)

London, Printed for J. Knox, 1767 8vo. Bound in 7 nice uniform contemp. full calf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. A small stamp on title-page. With 14 (of 15) folded engraved maps and plans, 29 (34) engraved plates, some folding. A few scattered brownspots. printed on good paper "A capital Compendium. Contains well-digested narratives of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus, Ulloa, Dampier, Kolben, Rogers, Drake, Pocock, Nieuhof, etc." (Sabin, 38163).

London, Weaver Bickerton, 1732. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine and gilt boarders to boards. Traces from small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light miscolouring and a few scratches to boards. Previous owner's name to title-page in contemporary hand. IV, 5-171, (7), 54, (8) pp. Rare second expanded edition of Ellis’ work providing advice and guidance on various aspects of farming and husbandry, with a particular focus on the practices in Hertfordshire in England. The book covers topics such as crop cultivation, livestock management and general agricultural techniques. It is considered a valuable historical resource for understanding agricultural practices in 18th-century England. It went through five editions, the last edition published in 1759 – all editions are rare. (Kress S: 1757 - first edition).

Kiøbinghaffn, (Niels Michelssøn), 1610. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helpergamentsbind med blindtrykte rammer og blomsterstempler i hjørner på permerne. En oval medaillon i blindtryk på begge permer. Stiliserede blomsterstempler på ryggen. Med brugsspor. Forsatse fornyede. Rødt snit. Titelbladet trykt rødt og sort inden for en træskåren ramme. (28),142 blade. En del gl. understregninger i blæk og en del understregninger i rødt sammen med røde markeringer uden for tekstens rammer. På bagsiden af titelbladet rigsvåbnet i træsnit. Første danske udgave af Savonarolas prædikener hvis indhold var så anstødelige for de pavelige udsendinge, at han blev bandlyst af Paven i 1497, og idet han fortsatte, blev han dømt til pinebænken, - året efter blev han hængt og brændt. Udgaven har et langt forord af Hans Poulsen Resen, som redegør for Savonarolas betydning for Reformationen.Bibl. Dan.I,185. - Ikke i Thesaurus II.

London, T. Bensley for Longman Hurst, Bees, and Orme, 1807. Large 4to. Contemp. full calf, panelled and profusely gilt and blindtooled. Broad gilt and blindtooled borders on covers, inner panel with gilt inside-and outside cornerpieces. Spine divided in 6 compartments by 5 raised bands. Compartments richly gilt. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Inner hinge in leather. Hinges neatly repaired from ouside. Broad inner gilt borders. All edges gilt. Edges on boards gilt. Engraved frontispiece. (4),236 pp. and with 15 fine engravings (5 half-titles, 5 1/2-page headpieces, 5 full-page). Printed on fine, thick paper. Clean and fine.

Carksruhe, J. Veith, (1862). Folio-oblong. (51,5 x 71 cm.). Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Stamp on foot of printed title-page. Spine slightly rubbed. With 60 lithographed folio-plates.

Giessen, G.F. Heyer, 1828-29. Bound in 2 fine cont. hcalf, richly gilt backs. Corners on volume one lightly bumped. 3 titlepages (incl. the general title and the 2 separate). XVI,603,(1);VI,607,(1) pp. A few scattered brownspots. A fine copy. First edition of one of the main works by Feuerbach, founder of modern Criminal Science and Penal Law. His so-called "psychological-coersive or intimidation theory" occupies a prominent place in the history of the criminal sciences, as it focuses on the central problems connected to the application og psychological considerations to cases of crime.

München und Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1918. Lex 8vo. Uncut in the orig. dark grey-brown wrappers, printed in gold on front wrapper and spine. Spine and lettering thereupon faded. Some smaller nicks, creases and loss of paper to extremities. Minor loss to capitals and two smaller holes w. a bit of loss to hinges. Overall an excellent copy in the fragile wrappers, rarely seen in such fine condition. Internally some minor brownspotting throughout, due to the paper-quality. With the ownership signature of J.B. Dumont deted "Sept. '21" to title-page and his stamp on half-title. 445 pp. The rare first edition of Bloch's first major work, "The Spirit of Utopia", an expressionalist main work, which attempts to unite Marxism with Jewish-Christian messianism.The hugely influential German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was born as the son of Jewish parents in Ludwigshafen. He studied philosophy, physics, German and music in Munich and Würzburg and later became a main figure in Neomarxism. His first book, "Geist der Utopie" was written while Bloch was in exile in Switzerland during the First World War, and in this seminal work we find the cornerstones of his later so influential philosophy. In the "Spirit of Utopia", Bloch unites Marxism Jewish-Christian messianism by the common utopian element of both views: Hope, and faith in the fact that the world will and can become a better place. Bloch here set out to defend the attempts of humankind throughout history to create a humane world order, against the determinist socialism that viewed socialism as the inevitable result of history. With Marx and with the love and morality of religion, Bloch places man (that thinks of the common good) at the centre of his thinking as well as the metaphysical ideas of that which is not yet, but which can become. And thus he creates the spirit of utopia, due to which man can make the world a better place. This massive work of art begins with the powerful words: "What now? It is enough. Now we have to begin. Life has been put in our hands. In itself it has already become empty long ago. It staggers senselessly around, but we stand firm, and thus we want to be its Faustus and its ends." ("Wie nun? Es ist genug. Nun haben wir zu beginnen. In unsere Hände ist das Leben gegeben. Für sich selber ist es längst schon leer geworden. Es taumelt sinnlos hin und her, aber wir stehen fest, und so wollen wir ihm seine Faust und seine Ziele werden.") (P.9).The work was viewed as attacking the traditional Marxism of the time, and thus it was very controversial but also became hugely influential in the development of social liberation. Bloch is now considered one of the most undogmatic Marxists of the past century, and he influenced later political and philosophical thinkers enormously. Adorno himself cited this text of Bloch as having been transformative for his intellectual life, and as stated on the wrapper of the English translation, "When this work was first published, it had a profound effect on major thinkers and artists in Weimar Germany. A poetical philosophical treatise with unusual insights into culture and political commentary, Bloch' s book laid the groundwork for thinkers like Adorno and Benjamin." (Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota).This rare highly expressionist work consists of 445 pages of non-dogmatic strongly expressionistic and very influential recipes on and analyses of how man does and should behave in the humane world. "But in return, we paint like savages again, in the best sense, in the sense of the primordial, the restless, unconcerned, concerned. For this is more or less how the dancing-mask was carved. This is more or less how primitive man shaped his fetishes, if only the simple need to express oneself should again be the same" ("Aber dafür malen wir auch wieder wie die Wilden, im besten Sinn des Frühen, Unruhigen und Barbarischen genommen. So ungefähr wurde auch die Tanzmaske geschnitzt, so ungefähr baute sich der primitive Mensch seinen Fetisch zurecht, sollte auch nichts als die Not des Aussprechenmüssens wieder dieselbe geworden sein."). (P. 19).The work was much re-written, and the first editions differs from all later editions.

Paris, Librairie Rue Visconti, n.d., around 1850. Folio. (48x32 cm.). Orig. full cloth. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering to frontcover and gilt Napoleonic arms. Wear to spine ends. A crack to hinge at backboard. With 60 plates, including Portrait of Napoleon, Frontispiece (title in red black), Table des Planches, 5 plates (With 100 portraits) and 52 battlescenes in fine detailled etchings (l'eau forte). Internally clean with a few marginal minor brownspots.

Berlin, 1929. 8vo. Entire volumes 215 and 216 of Biochemische Zeitschrift, bound in one half cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine.Library stamp to first 4 leaves. Traces after paper label to upper part of front board. Hindges a bit weak. Internally fine and clean. Pp. (475)-492. [Entire volumes: V,(1), 500 pp. + IV, 500 pp]. First printing of the documentation of the discovery of the dietary anti-haemorrhiagic factor, Vitamin K. The Danish biochemist and physiologist Henrik Dam (1895-1976) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dam's key experiment involved feeding a cholesterol-free diet to chickens. It was thus that he in 1929 investigated the role of cholesterol, by feeding the chickens a cholesterol-depleted diet. After several weeks, the animals developed hemorrhages and started bleeding uncontrollably. The bleeding could not be stopped with purified cholesterol alone - a second compound had to be added to the food. Dam isolated this dietary substance needed for blood clotting, namely that which is now known as the coagulation vitamin or vitamin K. The new vitamin received the letter K because the initial discoveries were reported (here) in the German journal Biochemische Zeitschrift, in which it was designated as Koagulationsvitamin (Vitamin of Coagulation).G&M: 1062.

Amsterdam, Ioannes van Keulen, Ca. 1684. 51x58,5 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Storebælt og Lillebælt samt Øresund og den vestlige del af Østersøen med den nordlige del af Tyskland. Østjylland og alle øerne, Sjælland, Fyn, Lolland, Falster, Samsø, Langeland, Amager, Hven m.v. Kompasrose og skib i søen. Det smukt komponerede søkort blev udgivet i Van Keulen's "Zeeatlas" hvis førsteudgave udkom 1680."Af de gamle søkorter van Keulens vel de eneste, der, på grund af deres enorme udbredelse, ses nogenlunde hyppigt i handelen, men de er alligevel sjældnere end alle samtlige landkort" (Bo Bramsen p. 109).Nørlund: 86.

Frankfurt, Schrey und Hartmann, 1707. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper label pasted on to upper part of spine inducating the inventory number in an estate library. Light wear to extremities. Leaves closely trimmed, a nice and clean copy. (28), 205, (3), 397, (3), 422, (2), 187, (7), 16, 21, (1), 17-86 pp. + 132 plates and 1 frontispiece (out of 136?) Rare first edition of one of the earliest German-language mathematics textbook for students. Sturm was one of the leading architectural theorists of his time and the present compendium covers general mathematics, arithmetic, architecture and mechanics, astronomy and geography, sundials and optics. “Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669—1719) German mathematician and architect. He published a treatise on Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (1694) in which he endeavoured to prove the building's Divinely inspired dimensions and proportions were the basis for Classical architecture (a notion that resurfaces every so often). He designed parts of the Lustschloss (Pleasure Palace) of Salzdahlum (1694–1702), with its celebrated picture-gallery. Later, he completed the Church of St Nikolai auf dem Schelfe, Schwerin, from 1708, after which he published Architektonisches Bedenken von der protestantischen Klein Kirchen Figur und Einrichtung (Architectural Reflections on the Form and Arrangement of Protestant Churches—1712 and 1718). His main importance lies in his theoretical writings, of which there are many.” (Oxford Reference). Poggendorff II, 1044.

Kiøbenhaffn, Peter Hake for Jørgen Holst, 1657. 4to. I et nyere halvlæderbind med hvidt titieletikette på ryg. Titelblad opklæbet og første fem blade med reperation i øverste margin. Med svage gennemgående vandskjolder. (4), 93, (21) pp. Den ikke almindelige første norske kirkeordinans. Indtil da havde den danske kirkeordinans fra 1537 været gældende i Norge. Thesaurus 425.

Stockholm, G. Kiesewetter, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Extremities with wear. Boards with scratches with loss of the marbled paper. Capitals chipped and leather on spine cracked. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Occassional browning throughout. (6), 362 pp. + frontispiece and 11 plates. The portrait (frontispiece), present here, was only added to a few copies. Complete copies with portrait and all 11 plates are uncommon. First edition of this first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin. It also contains Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature. ‘Philosophia Botanica marks a developmental stage in Linnaeus's botanical philosophy, expanding upon concepts initially presented in his ‘Fundamenta Botanica’ (1736) and ‘Critica Botanica’ (1737). The book also establishes a basic botanical terminology. “Continuing his study on the classification of plants, Linnaeus published [the present work]. In this he attempted to organize a natural system based on structure, but this work was never completed” (Sparrow 135) “Linnaeus’ main mission was to complete his reform of botany. In the work produced during his stay in Holland he had established the principles, maintained more or less unchanged for the rest of his life, but they still had to be developed and put into practice. In 1751 he published Philosophies botanica, his most influential work but actually only an expanded version of Fundamenta botanica. In it Linnaeus dealt with the theory of botany, the laws and rules that the botanist must follow in order to describe and name the plants correctly and to combine them into higher systematic categories. At the same time he struggled with the enormous undertaking of cataloging all of the world’s plant and animal species and giving each its correct place in the system.” (DSB) Sparrow 135 Soulsby 437 Hulth p. 78.

Paris, Bachelier, 1822-25. 4to. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt backs. (4),4,VII,496;(4),4,II,503;(4),6,482 pp. 4 plates to textvolumes and Plate-volume with 60 double-page engraved plates. (Total of 64 plates, all). Printed on good paper, broad margins, a few marginal brownspots internally clean and fine. First edition of this scarce early work on industrial engineering by the director of the "Conservatoire Royal des Art et Métiers" in Paris. He made importent improvements to steam-engines; "Gerard Joseph Christian unterscheidet in seinem "Traité de méchanique industrielle" scharf zwischen der Expansion in einem Zylinder und der in mehreren und beschreibt die mehrfach-Expansionsmachine vom allgemeinen Geschichtspunkt in richtiger Weise." (Darmstaedter 1823). - Poggendorff I: p. 441. - Brunet I: 1854.

Frankfurt ad Moenum, Andreæ Wecheli, 1580. Folio. Later (20th century) full cloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. Partly uncut. Printers woodcut device on title-page and verso of last leaf. (12),123,(6) pp., 1 folded table. Some leaves with a faint dampstain in lower right corners. Some leaves with some browning to edges of margins. In general clean. Scarce first edition of Dithmar von Merseburg's "Chronicle", the relations of the German and Polish wars around the year 1000.Adams D695. - Brunet II,763.