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Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1863. Contemporary full cloth. Slight discolouring to boards.(6), 253 pp. 305 textual woodcuts. Scattered brownspots. First edition of this classic work dealing with calculation of forces involved in building-constructions

Dublin, Hodges, Foster, and Co., 1876. Cont. full blindtooled cloth. Hinges broken, back somewhat discoloured. Top a. bottom of back somewhat worn. Internally clean and fine. Untrimmed. Lithogr. frontisp.,XXIV,194 pp. The scarce first edition and the first announcement in bookform of the author's "Theory of Screws". "The Theory presented in the following paper was first sketched by the author in a Paper..to the Royal Irish Academy (1871). The entire theory has been re-written and systematically arranged, in the present volume." Through the next 30 years Ball elaborated his theory based on Non-Euclidean conceptions. He dealt with a four-dimensional space in the biased language of Euclidean geometry, the "content" of space was elliptic.

Paris, Crochard, 1834. Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 57, 2e Series. Cahier 1. 112 pp. (entire issue offered with titlepage to vol. 57). Gauss' paper: p. 5-69. Some brownspots. First French edition of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" (1833), Gauss' first work on magnwetism, in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units, distance, mass, time to measure nonmechanical quantity (magnetism and electricity). - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" (Magie, A Source Book in Physics, p. 519).G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver Cat.: 867 (Latin ed.).

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1711". Pp. 210-234 and 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First edition. In this paper Geoffroy supported the views of Grew and others as to the sexes of plants and he here produced the first illustrations of pollen grains in the literature (the engraved plate). He states that the germ is never to be seen in the seed till the apices (anthers) shed their dust; and that if the stamina be cut out before the apices open, the seed will either not ripen, or be barren if it ripens. He mentions two experiments made by him to prove this one by cut ting off the staminal flowers in Maize, and the other by rearing the female plant of Mercurialis apart from the male. In these instances most of the flowers were abortive, but a few were fertile, which he attributes to the dust of the apices having been wafted by the wind from other plants.

København, Det Schubotheske Forlag, 1903. 8vo. Indbundet i et nydeligt og særdeles velholdt senere halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. (Harry Larsen). Med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang på fribladet: "Nini / med Tak / fra / Herman. / 13.11.1903." Ualmindelig rent eksemplar. (8),399,(1) pp. Nydeligt eksemplar af andenudgaven med egenhændig dedikation fra Bang til hans storesøster Nini Holst, f. Bang (1853-1922). Eksemplaret har tilhørt forfatter Rune T. Kidde og bærer hans navnetræk bagerst i bogen.

Ca. 1920. 24 x 20 cm. Not signed. Pencil on heavy paper. Sketch of a naked couple with a stool. Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1814 - Part I. Pp. 1-22 and 1 engraved plate. Last textleaf slightly browned, otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper in which Wollaston introduces the "chemical slide rule"."In 1814 he draw up "A Synoptic Table of Chemical Equivalents", wherein many "equivalents" (a term apparently first used in the chemical sense by him) were arranged in a logarithmic scale. Chemists found this device of great practical assistance, and it survives today in the form of the chemical slide rule." (A Source Book in Chemistry p. 221)."The design of the scale here proposed by the author (Wollaston) is to save chemists the labour of many troublesome computations in estimating the ingredients of neutral salts, and the reagents and precipitates by whic these ingredients might be ascertained." (Abstract).

London, Chapman and Hall, 1863. Small 8vo. 2 nice solid recent full cloth. XVI,428;VIII,404 pp. and 1 folded map. verso of titlepages with stamp. Fine and clean throughout. First edition.

(København), A.H. Godiche, 1766. 46,5 x 55,5 cm. Kobberstukket kort over Fyn og omgivende vande med Tåsinge og en del af Langeland. Stor fin rokokkokartouche. Nederste del af venstre margin lidt tæt beskåret, dog uden tab af billede. Ren og frisk, på svært skrivepapir. Generalkoret over Fyn fra Pontoppidans Danske Atlas, stukket af J. Haas.

Carlsruhe u. Freiburg, Herder'schen Kunst= und Buchhandlung, 1831. 4to. a. folio-oblong (29 x 48 cm.). 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Spines a bit rubbed. Stamp on title-page. (8),XVI,218 pp. Atlas with lithographed title-page and 34 lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots. Klaus Jordan,2441.

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, (1837-) 1844. 2 nice cont. hcalf with gilt backs. XV,360;(4),361-888 pp. and Atlas with 50 handcoloured lithographed plates, 683 textillustr. (Atlas bound with part 1, after preface). printed on fine paper, very clean and fine copy. First edition. Pritzel 5707. - Nissen 1172.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926. Without wrappers as extracted from "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", Bd. 39, pp. 499-518. With the titlepage to the whole volume. First edition of this importent paper in which Heisenberg - after inventing Quantum Mechanics the year before (1925) - investigates some of the fundamental aspects of the new theory. Heisenberg recognizes the invariance of the wave equation with respect to various transformations. "It is clear that such invariance exists with respect to an interchange of the coordinates of identical particles, e.g. of two electrons in an atom of two nuclei of the same kind in a molecule. As a consequence, the wave function of a non-degenerate stationary state must either remain unchanged or may only change sign when the transformation is applied to it....Indeed, in this way Pauli's exclusion principle for electrons found a formulation in terms of wave mechanics."(K. Kronik in Memorial Volume to Wolfgang Pauli).

Paris, Crochard, 1826. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago", tome 32. 448 pp., 3 folded engraved plates. Balard's paper: pp. 337-84. Entire volume offered with original memoirs by Savart, Berzelius, Humboldt, Arago, Poisson, Liebig, Dumas et al. First printing of Balard's famous memoire in which he records his discovery of the new element Bromine (le brôme). While he was studying the flora of a salt marsh, he notized a deposit of sodium saulfate which had crystallized out in a pan containing mother liquer from common salts. "In an attempt to find a use for the waste liquers he performed a number of experiments, and notized that when certain reagents were added, the mother liquer bacame brown. His investigation of this phenomenon,...ked to the remarkable discovery....(Weeks p. 264). "The discovery of a new chemical element by a young and obscure provincial pharmacist caused a sensation in Paris. Balard's achievemnt was recognized by the Academie des Sciences and he was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London."(DSB I, p. 416). "The discovery of bromine is a very importent acquisition to chemistry, and gives M. Balrad honorable rank inthe career of the sciences. We are of the opinion that this young chemist is every way worthy of the encouragement of the Academy, and we have the honour to propose that his memoir shall be printed in the "Recueil des Savants Étrangers" (The report from the French Academy, signed by Vaugelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac).

Paris, Magimel, Anselin et Pochard, 1819. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf., gilt spines, title - and tomelabels in leather with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. (4),CLIV,540;54-1288 pp., The 2 folded plates in xerox-copy. A few scattered brownspots. Stamp on titlepages.

København & Kristiania, 1906, 1907 & 1917. Royal 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in three similar but not entirely matching half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spine. Front wrapper of vol. 3 with author's presentation inscription: "Hr. Dr. Torsten Lagerberg / med Hilsen of Tak / fra Forfatteren / 5.10.17". Bindings with light wear, internally very nice and clean. VI, (2), 325 pp.; (8), 376 pp.; (10), 635 pp Rare complete first edition of Wwarming’s extensive work on phytoecology which still today is an important work on the subject in northwestern Europe. Volume three was given by Warming to Karl Erik Torsten Lagerberg (1882–1964), Swedish botanist and forestry professor. He taught at the Royal Forestry School (1918–1947) and studied forest tree diseases and fungi. He co-published Skogens skadesvampar and edited Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift from 1918. Lagerberg was elected to two national academies. Johannes Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), commonly known as Eugen Warming, was a pioneering Danish botanist widely recognized as one of the founding figures of modern ecology. He authored the first textbook on plant ecology in 1895, introduced the first university course in the subject, and helped define the scope and content of ecological science. In 1975, ecologist R. J. Goodland asserted: “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence” ("The Tropical Origin of Ecology: Eugen Warming's Jubilee"). Warming wrote a number of textbooks on botany, plant geography and ecology, which were translated to several languages and were immensely influential at their time and later. Most important were “Plantesamfund and Haandbog i den systematiske Botanik”.

Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1978). 8vo. Orig. full cloth in orig. dust jacket w. minor taning to top. In fine condition, internally mint. XIII,396 pp. First edition of the first presentation of multiple-conclusion logic.The authors, D. J. Shoesmith and T. J. Smiley, "in surveying the multiple consequences of taking multiple consequence seriously, have taken a huge first step in founding a new branch of the subject (i.e. logic). Their book provides a solid conceptual foundation and a wealth of results whose breadth and dept has hardly any equal" (Phil. Qual. Vol. 30, Nr. 121, p. 379).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. Offprint from 'Mathematische Zeitschrift' volume 30, pp. 3-42. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. First edition offprint issue.

Paris, Levrault, An X (1802). 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear and stains to spine. Hinges weak. Annotations in pencil to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very nice and clean. LXVIII, 424 pp. First French translation, from the library of Jonas Skougaard, of Johan Christian Fabricius’ account of his travels in Norway in summer of 1778. This journey was supported by a government grant and was a part of his extensive travels throughout Europe, during which he made significant contributions to the field of entomology. Biblioteca Norwegica II, 2864. Skougaard III, p. 259.

A Paris, Saillant, 1772. Cont. full mottled calf. Back worn as the golddecoration is nearly gone. Engraved frontisp. XXIV,342,(2) pp. A few lvs. slightly browned, otherwise internally fine. Scarce first French edition.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XVIII, Année 1762. Pp. 195-225 and 1 folded engraved plate. + Pp. 226-248. First printing of two importent Euler-papers on the mathematical theory of dioptrics, and how to avoid the confusions of lenses. - Eneström E 379 a. 380.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 60 Heft 2 (= Jahrgang 1818, zehntes Stück). Pp. 113-218 a. 1 engraved plate (map). The entire issue offered (Heft 2). Stromeyer's paper pp. 193-210. Clean and fine. First appearance of Strohmeyer's account of his discovery of Cadmium. The history of its discovery was very complicated as some other laid claim to its discovery.Stromeyer was inspector general of apothecaries in Hannover. "In 1817, fulfilling the duties of his office, he came across an apothecary's shop in which a bottle labeled zinc oxide contained zinc carbonate. Following this up, Stromeyer found himself interested in zinc carbonate, which turned yellow on strong heating as though it contained iron as an impurity, yet it contained no iron. He traced the yellow to an oxide not of zinc but of a hitherto unknown metal rather like it chemically. He named it cadmium for a zinc ore in which it is usually found accompanying the zinc."(Asimov).Weeks "Discovery of the Elements", pp. 135-39.

(Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840). 8vo. Without wrappers. Extracted from 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e Series, tome 73. Pp. 73-103 (incl. Note de Liebig pp. 100-103) and pp. 113-166. Some scattered brownspots. This paper, which was published at the same year in "Comptes Rendues" (3 Fevrier), is the most importent on the theory of structural types and the nomenclature of organic compounds, refuting the electrochemical theory of Berzelius. "The development of this idea (type organique) into what is sometimes called the "Older Type Theory", as distinguished from Gerhardt's Type heory, is contained in Dumas' importent memoir on the substitution and the theory of types, presented on 3 febriary 1840."(Partington IV, p. 365). In the second paper Stas and Dumas record the first use of 'potash-lime', the precursor of soda-lime, an invaluable reagent in organic chemistry."Jean Baptiste Dumas advances a theory that the chemical properties of an organic compound are determined by its structure and not, as seems to be the case with inorganic compounds, by its electrical properties. he illustrates the concept with the example that the basic qualitative properties of acetic acid are retained even after replacing three fourths of the hydrogen by chlorine. As a consequence, he calls for a revision of chemical nomenclature for organic compounds, basing terms on common features, not on elemental composition."(Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1840 C).

Fiorenza, (Florece), Apresso di Giunti, 1574. 4to. No wrappers. (26) pp. Large printers woodcut device at end. 3 large woodcut initials, portrait of Cosimo in woodcut. " leaves with brownspot to margin, otherwise fine. First edition of Betti's funeral sermon on Cosimo Medici (1519-1574). - Adams B:845.

Leipsic, 1802. Small 8vo. One cont. half calf. Back with traces of use. 71 full-page engr. pl. with 3 illustr. on each. 202, 142, 253 pp.

Leipzig, Joh. Friedrich Braun, 1716. 2 contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A small nick to top of spine on volume 1. Stamp on title-pages. Engraved frontispiece (portrait). First title-page in red and black. (14),1376;1184,(82) pp. Occassional light browning, but clean. First German edition.