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R.M. Bacon, No. 12, Cockey Lane, Norwich. Norwich no year (ca. 1805). illustration: 3 vignettes, similar to the work of Bewick. 32+Subscriber's names(1) pp s. Small 4to. Bound in a nice, modern brandy-coloured quarter goat. Label to front board, John Morley, and frame gilt. Contents clean and bright. Rare, apparently First Edition. British Library quotes only the second and third edition.

Apud Ioannem Carolum Tetzschnerum. Erlangen, Leipzig 1755-1757. illustration: Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. > 2500 pp s. 4to. Vol. I [26]+1180+[52]pp Vol. II [6]+1288+Index [72]pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Raised bands. A very good set, vol. 1: spine with tear (2 cm), trace of worming to front panel, vol 3 head of spine worn, hinge splitting from top (5 cm). Contents with slight browning (no more than expected). Small former owner's stamp verso decorated flyleaves: Rützou. A nice set. Hugonis Grotii Annotationes in Novum Testamentum: Tomus I. Quatuor Evangelia et explicationem decalogi continens, 1755. Tom. II. Pars I. Acta Apostolorum, et Paulli Epistolas ad Romanos, Corinthios, Galatas, Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses complectens, 1756 Tom. II. Pars II. Epistolas Paulli ad Thessalonicenses, Timotheum, Titum, Philemonem, Hebraeos, Porro Epistolas Iacobi, Petri, Ioannis, Iudae, et Ioannis Apocalypsin complectens, 1757. Originally published in Amsterdam and Paris between 1641 and 1650.

Sauret. Monte Carlo 1963. illustration: Avec 12 lithographies originales. 210 pp s. In-4. 32.5 x 25 cm, toile embossé, avec jaquette et couvre-livre transparent supplémentaire. Avec 12 lithographies originales, dont 5 en noir et 7 en couleur (une sur la jaquette)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1937. 8vo. In the original green full cloth with the original dust wrapper. Dust wrapper with wear, lacking 5 mm to top and bottom of spine and the upper right part of the back. Apart from the dust-jacket, a very fine and clean copy. XIX, (1), 151 pp. Economist Simon Kuznets's copy of the first edition of Bowley's conclusive work on wages and income in United Kingdom. Bowley produced a stream of studies on British economic statistics, beginning in the 1890s with works on trade and on wages and income, and proceeding to studies of national income in the 1920s and -30s. The present, although rather short, work became highly influential, as it introduced much of Bowley's more technical work to a broader public.Simon Smith Kuznets (1901 - 1985) Russian American economist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for "his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".Kuznets revolutionized econometrics with the important book "National Income and Its Composition, 1919-1938. Published in 1941 which eventually formed the famous Kuznets Curve. This work relied to a large extent on Bowley's work on national income.

London, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1885. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Contained in the April issue of Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, pp.167-197, with 8 plates. The whole issue offered here. Custom cloth box with gilt leather title on spine. First edition. Maxim's first announcement of his invention of the automatic machine-gun; using the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one, Maxim came up with the single-man operated machine-gun. Earlier types of machine-guns, as the Gatling and Gardner, consisted of multiple barrels and were powered by the manual turning of a crank, which made them very heavy and caused them to require several men in order to operate them. The invention of the Maxim-mechanism allowed for a single-barrel construction, and the new machine-gun could potentially be operated by just one man, which thus led to the modern automatic machine-gun. Scarce.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1767. 4to. Contemp. hvellum. Handwritten titlwe on spine. (8),206,579 pp., 15 partly folded engraved plates, 1 table. Internally clean and fine. With original memoirs by: Buache, le Monnier, Haller, d'Alembert (Nouvelle Recherches sur les Verres optiques.. pp. 75-146), de Séjour, Tillet, Morand le fils, Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Pingré, Bailly, le Cardinal du Luynes & Bailly, Bezout (Recherches sur le degré des Équations résultantes de l'évanouissement des inconnues, & sur les moyens qu'il convient d'employer pour trouver ces Équations (now called the Bezoutiant), Cassini de Thury, Chappe d'Auteroche, Tenon, l'Abbe Nollet (Memoire sur les effets du Tonnerre, comparés à ceux de l'Électricité... pp. 408-453), Deparcieux, le Monnier, Guettard (Troisieme Memoir sur la Mineralogie des environs de Paris, & de Corps marins qui s'y trouvent. Pp. 492-526), du Hamel, de la Lande, Daubenton, Montet.

Kjøbenhavn, J.J. Høpffner, 1732 - 35. 4to. Indbundet i 3 ensratede samtidige helpergamentsbd. Lettere brugsspor, permer lidt skrabede, men fuldt intakte. Med O.H. Lodes kobberstukne portræt af Holberg efter Roselius maleri, som idag findes på Sorø Akademi. Dette portræt hører egentlig til anden udgaven. Indvendig velbevaret. Originaludgaven af Danmarkshistorien. "Danmarkshistorien fremkom kort efter at Holberg var avanceret til professor i historie. Han anså denne bog for sit hovedværk..." (Johansen 14). - Ehr-M. I, 146.

Magdeburg, Woltersdorff, 1709. 8vo. In a modest half calf binding. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. (2), 93 pp. Rare first edition of Woltersdorf’s work on the benefits and effect of Rhine-wine and how to make it.

Kjøbenhavn, A. Goldin, 1816-1828. 8vo. 27 uniform volumes bound in contemporary cardboard bindings with red titel label with gilt lettering to spines. Four volumes with parts of spines missing. Otherwise a fine and clean set. First printing of the first Danish encyclopedia, being a translation - but with numerous additions and alterations - of Brockhaus's third (and partly forth and fifth) edition of 'Lexicon'. It became immensely popular not only in Denmark but in Sweden and Norway as well and remained the most important and thorough encyclopedic reference work in Scandinavia untill the end of the 19th century.

Bln., Bei Johann Friedrich Unger, 1792 - 95. 8vo. Four cont. uniform hcalfs w. gilt backs and green tome-labels, worn title-labels. Backs and corners somewhat worn. Internally some brownspotting. One folded egr. plate, four folded musical notes. Volume one containing the first printing of "Der Grosse-Cophta", "Des Joseph Balsamo, genannt Cagliostro, Stammbaum."Volume two containing the first printing of "Reineke Fuchs".Volume four containing the first printing of "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Drittes - Viertes Buch."Volume five containing the first printing of "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Fünftes - Sechstes Buch."Hagen 14: 1, 2, 4 and 5.Probably due to the book-description on the half-titles of Wilhelm Meister (Drittes Buch etc.), the title-pages of volume four and five have been confused with those of volume five and three, thus volume four is with the title-page of volume five, and volume five with that of volume three.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges. Stamps on title-page. 780 pp., 38 lithographed plates (tinted lithography and chromolithography), 3 folded maps. Internally clean and fine. With printet presentation slip on inside frontcover.

Stockholm, Pierre Hesselberg, 1781. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment of spine. Stamps on title-page. (8),XIV,424,(2) pp. and 14 folded engraved plates. Wide-margined, clean and printed on good paper. First edition. - Klaus Jordan, 3982.

(Kbhvn.), 1827-1829. 4to. 3 næsten samt.hldrbd. Yderst sjælden Københavner-avis, som udkom hver 14. dag. Det kan ikke afgøres om avisen ophørte med 3.årgangs nr.13,da det Kgl.Bibliotek kun har ialt 17 numre af avisen (jvf.Bibl.Dan. IV:639).

La Haye, P. de Hondt, 1756. 4to. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally fine and clean, a nice copy. VI, (2), 500, (4) pp. + 33 folded maps and plates (complete). Finely illustrated 14th volume of Prevost’s extensive work on various travel accounts which cover numerous travel narratives to different parts of the world, documenting the discoveries, explorations, and adventures of travelers. This present 14th volume contain description of numerous travels to the Yemen, The Middle East and Japan. This present Hondt-edition is “Mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions, especially in the later volumes. The maps and plates were finely engraved by J. van der Schley.” (Sabin 65404). According to Tchemerzine this the best edition. The first edition was published in Paris in seven volumes between 1744 and 1747. This present edition was published in 25 volumes between 1747 and 1780. Sabin 65404 Tchemerzine IX, 233: ("C´est la meilleure édition de ce recueil")

30 - 5 - 1907 1 page, 8vo. "Kjære Hr Harder! / Det er mig desværre ikke muligt at / modtage Dem imorgen. Hvis De vil / gaa videre selv og skrive saameget De / kan til paa Lørdag samme Tid, skal / jeg være til Tjeneste. Hilsen / Deres / Carl Nielsen". Original handwritten letter from the most prominent Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), addressed to his friend and colleague Knud Harder (1885-1967). Letters from Nielsen's hand are of utmost rarity.

Kiøbenhavn, J.D. Qvist, 1852. 8vo. In recent blue full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With occassionally brownspotting. (4), 384 pp. Originaltrykket. Yderst sjældent. Her foreligger de 18 første hefter af dette tidsskrift, som næsten udelukkende blev forfattet af Dreier selv og hvis formål var at være talerør for "den frie, forfriskende, reformbringende kritik, for hvilken arbejdets frigørelse fra pengemagtens åg er en hovedopgave". Hermed bliver værket det første socialistiske tidsskrift i Danmark, og Dreier er senere karakteriseret som Danmarks første socialist.Dreier blev syg i slutningen af 1852, og herfefter optog han først udgivelsen i februar 1853, hvor der yderligere blev udgivet numrene 9-12 (af 2. Kvartal)"Samfundets Reform udkom som ugeblad med 22 numre fra april 1852 til 28.2.1853 med afbrydelser grundet på D.s militærtjeneste juni 1852 og sygdom. Han skrev selv hele indholdet og behandlede spørgsmål som kapital og arbejde, "kommunalsvineriet" (kort efter udbrød koleraepidemien), lavsvæsenets ophævelse, valgrettens udvidelse, programmet for et selvstændigt arbejderparti, oprettelse af frie fagforeninger og af kooperative foretagender med offentlig støtte o. m.a.." (DBL).

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1808). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 28, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Titlepage to vol. 28 (small stamps on verso). Pp. 377-496 a. 3 engraved plates. Dalton's paper: pp. 397-416 a. 1 engraved plate showing apparatus. First appearence i German of Dalton's epoch-making paper in which is contained THE FIRST CLEAR STATEMENT OF MODERN ATOMIC THEORY and having the FIRST LIST OF ATOMIC WEIGHTS "Verhältniss der Gewichte der kleinsten Theilschen von gasförmigen und andern Körpern." (Table of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies). The paper offered is a free translation of Dalton's paper "On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids", published 1805 in "Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester"."The paper was read to the Manchester Philosophical Society by Dalton in 1803 and printed in 1805. The appended table in this paper is the first list of atomic weights. Dalton, in this publication, took the law which William henry had recently enunciated (that the amount of of gas absorbed by a liquid is proportional to the pressure) and extended it to apply to mixtures of gases, using his own law of partial pressures." (Leicester & Klicktein "A Source Book in Chemistry", p. 258).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1803 C.- Smyth No. 38.

Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700-01. 4to. (29,5 x 23,5 cm.). Bound in 3 contemp. full vellum, raised bands, blindtooled covers. (Publisher's original bindings ?). Large wide-margined copy. 3 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved portrait., 27 engraved plates and more than 250 textengravings. Internally clean and fine.

(Franckfurt am Main), Daniel & Dauid. Aubriorum, 1619. Folio. Contemp. full vellum. Some miscolouring to covers. Ms title on spine. Title-page printed red/black with printers wooccut device.(60),1080,(32),151 pp. Light yellowing to the first leaves. A few scattered brownspots. Greek and Latin Text. Second Casaubon edition. Brunet IV:789, Graesse V:394, Dibdin II, p. 350: "A most excellent edition; the merits of which have been long known to the literary world. The preface, in the opinion of the late Dr. Joseph Warton, "is one of the finest ever written... "

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840 a. 1842. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2me Series - Tome 75 a. 3e Series - Tome 4.. With titlepage to Tome 75 and orig. printed wrappers to the issue (Septembre issue). Pp. 1-112 a. 1 engraved plate (entire issue offered). With titlepage to Tome 4. Pp. 129-256 (entire Fevrier issue) and pp. 257-384 (entire Mars issue). Hess' papers: pp. 80-103 (tome 75), pp. 211-229 (tome 4), pp. 290-316 (tome 4). First appearance in France of Hess' two fundamental laws in thermodynamic 1: "the law of heat formation" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the "LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that "the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages"and 2: "the law of thermoneutrality" (1842), stating, that when neutral salts exchange acids and bases in solution, the heat of the reaction is zero. - These papers were published at the same time in France and in Russia. Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia)."Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps. This generalization, known now as "Hess's Law", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable."(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329."The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329.

London, Printed for the Palæontographical Society, 1850-72. 4to. Bound in 2 later solid full cloth, title-and tomelabels gilt in leather on backs. LXXXV,322;III,66,26,46,24,73,12 pp. and 121 fine lithographed plates (each with many figs. and each with an unpaginated description-leaf). Only very few brownspots. First edition of these 2 works, in reality separate with their own titles, but Duncans work considered as a succession of the first. - Nissen ZBI: 2841 for the first work, Duncan's not in Nissen.

Paris, Vrin, 1949. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. A few pencil-underlinings in the text. With discreete stamp to title-page: "Michel Adam". A very fine and clean copy. 107, (5) pp. The uncommon first edition of this collection of early essays, constituting the first appearance in book form of two highly important articles by one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. The two articles were originally published in Revue Philosophique in 1932 and 1940, but only really with their appearance in book form did they exercise their great influence in France. The essays by Levinas on the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger served to introduce this strain of philosophy in France where it would go on to dominate academic philosophy until the middle of the 1970s. As such, these essays are crucial documents to anybody with an interest in the development of 20th century continental philosophy.However, this volume has the added attraction of providing us with an insight into the genesis of Levinas' own thought. The experience of the Second World War, which Levinas spent as a prisoner of war in Germany, led him to question the ethical foundations of phenomenology and to reconsider his earlier uncritical attachment to Heidegger. It is thus by engaging critically with the conception of philosophy that is manifested in his own pre-war works that Levinas shall elaborate such masterpieces of philosophy as Totalité and Infini and Autrement qu'être.

Breslau und Leipzig, Korn, 1755. 4to. In Contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands. Richly gilt spine and boards with gilt ornamentation. Fine hand coloured end papers. Small blind stamp to upper part of title-page. Wear to extremities, otherwise a fine copy. 262 pp. + 41 plates. First German edition, translated G.D. von Gröben.

Jenae, Ludovici Neuenhanii, 1657. 4to. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremitiers, boards with scratches and spine slightly cracked. Internally very nice and clean. (22), 1634, (44) pp. + engraved half-title. Rare first edition of Gerhard’s publication of his farther’s commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Torah. “In his years as professor of theology Gerhard continued to publish his father’s work. This was in fact a central preoccupation for the rest of his life. Thus, Sengenwald published the extensive collection of Johann Gerhard’s disputations in the year of Gerhard’s theological appointment, and the year before, on the sixteenth anniversary of his father’s death (17 August 1654), Gerhard signed the dedicatory epistle to a revised edition of his father’s Genesis commentary. In 1657 he published his father’s commentary on Deuteronomy.” (Asaph Ben-Tov, Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World). Johann Gerhard was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent figure in the Lutheran tradition during the post-Reformation period. Gerhard served as a professor of theology at the University of Jena and later at the University of Helmstedt.

Paris, Crochard, 1817. No wrappers. Extract from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 5, Cahier 1. With titlepage and htitle to vol. 5. Pp. 21-42. First French edition (the German paper issued simutaneously in Gilbert's Annalen) of this groundbreaking paper claiming to be the first to announce the isolation of pure morphine from opium. This process marks an importent step in the beginnings of alkaloid chemistry, and the isolation of morphine is the first isolation of an alkali of vegetable origin. In his paper Sertuerner coined the word "morphine" after Morpheus (the Greek God of sleep).The isolation of morphine from opium, the first isolation of a natural product, was a seminal event in the development of pharmacology as an independent discipline. The purification kick-started natural product chemistry and quickly led to the isolation of a host of other alkaloids. Within a few years, in 1827, Heinrich Emanuel Merck of Darmstadt began selling morphine, resulting in the development of the eponymous company. Sertürner reported his first observations on Opium in 1805, which was mainly concerned with the constituent of meconic acid, but "it was only in 1817...(in the paper offered) that he unequivocally reported the isolation of pure morphine. He prepared it by extracting opium with hot water and precipitating morphine with ammonia. he obtained colorless crystals, poorly soluble in water, but soluble in acids and alcohol. In order to establish that his crystals carried the pharmacological activity of raw opium, Sertuerner tested them on himself and three boys, "none older than seventeen.". It was a near-catastrophe." (Ryan J. Huxtable a. K.W. Schwarz).DEROSNE (1803) made claim of priority in the discovery of opium, but he only "prepared a crude extract of opium with alcohol and water, and obtained by potassium carbonate preciipitation, what he called "sel de Derosne". Derosne's alkaloidal fraction lacked narcotic properties, and was probably largely narcotine (also known as noscapine), perhaps with meconic acid, both abundant in opium." (Huxtable & Schwarz).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1817 C,The offered issue contains another importent paper by Alexander v. Humboldt: "Sur les Lignes isothermes. (Extrait)", pp. 102-111 and a large folded engraved plate. Here Humboldt introduced "Isothermes" in meteorology. This extract issued at the same time as the larger memoir which appeared in "Mémoires de physique et de chimie de la Société d’Arcueil" (1817).