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Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Some wear to edges and spine. A stamp on title-page. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", vol. 53. The whole volume offered. VII,(1),889,(1) pp. Szilard's paper: pp. 840-856. First edition of the important paper in which Szilard solved the puzzle of Maxwell's demon and discovered a theoretical model that serves both as a heat engine and an information engine, establishing the connection between entropy and information.Szilard was the first to stress that any manipulator of molecules would have to rely on measurement and memory. If one assumed that the demon could perform such operations without causing any changes in the system, one would by that very assumption deny the second law of thermodynamics, which requires equivalent compensations for all decreases in entropy. Szilard therefore proposed that whatever negative entropy Maxwell's demon might be able to create should be considered as compensated by an equal entropy increase due to the measurements the demon had to make. In essence, Szilard made Maxwell's doorkeeper mortal - no longer granting this tiny intelligence the ability to 'see' molecules without actually seeing them, i.e., without the sensory exchanges of energy that all other existences require. Szilard took this step for the sake of a grander vision, the dream that the adoption of his principle would lead to the discovery of a more general law of entropy in which there would be a completely universal relation for all measurements. Information theory has brought that vision to reality.

Wien, J.B. Degenschen Buchhandlung, 1811. Small 8vo. Contemp. blue boards., titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small nick to top of spine. 118,(2) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. A few marginal brownspots, otherwise fine and clean. First German edition (the original French was published in 1810) of this highly influential book, in which the first modern process of preserving food is presented for the first time, years before Pasteur presents his method of pasteurization. Appert's method consisted in placing the food to be preserved in bottles closed with the best corks obtainable. The bottles were placed in boiling water for considerable periods. Appert claimed that the most perishable foodstuff could be preserved by this method and his claims were completely substantiated. Gay-Lussac believed that the keeping qualities of Appert's preserves were due to the expulsion of the air during the heating process. In this way fermentation and putrescence was avoided."La Maison Appert (English: The House of Appert), in the town of Massy, near Paris, became the first food bottling factory in the world, nearly 100 years before Louis Pasteur proved that heat killed bacteria. Appert patented his invention and established a business to preserve a variety of food in sealed bottles. Appert's method was to fill thick, large-mouthed glass bottles with produce of every description, ranging from beef, fowl, eggs, milk, and prepared dishes (according to sources). His greatest success for publicity was an entire sheep. He left air space at the top of the bottle, and the cork would then be sealed firmly in the jar by using a vise. The bottle was then wrapped in canvas to protect it, while it was dunked into boiling water and then boiled for as much time as Appert deemed appropriate for cooking the contents thoroughly.In honour of Appert, canning is sometimes called "appertisation", but should be distinguished from pasteurization. Appert's early attempts at food preservation by boiling involved cooking the food to a temperature far in excess of what is used in pasteurization (70 °C (158 °F)), and can destroy some of the flavour of the preserved food." (Wikipedia).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1810 C.

Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1769-79. Folio. Bound in one contemp. hcalf, 6 raised bands, gilt. Spineends professionally repaired. Part of title-label missing. Corners renewed. Large engraved title-vignette. (14),154;(2),88 pp., 2 half-page engraved vignettes. and 40 large folded (3/2-page) engraved plates, all finely handcoloured. Some fingermarks at lower right corners of the first leaves. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. A fourth part of volume 2 came out as late as 1810, having 14 plates and it is sometimes called volume 3. It is not present here. Scarce first edition of Schreber's classic work on grasses, which became of importance due to its very elaborate explanations of all aspects of the numerous grasses mentioned and depicted in the 40 plates, which are considered very well executed, both in regard to drawing, engraving, and colouring. Schreber (1739-1810) was a German physician and natural scientist. He became famous for his diverse knowledge and for his scientific works within botany and zoology. He studied medicine and natural science in Uppsala, Sweden, where he became doctor of medicine and made the acquaintance of Carl von Linné, whom he learned a lot from. In 1787 he became a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. In Germany he became professor of medicine, botany, natural history, and pharmacology at Erlangen, director of Erlangen botanical garden, and president of the Leopoldina. His work on grasses was considered fairly important, especially due to its very elaborate explanations of all parts of the particular grasses, its use, conditions, etc. etc. "Dr. Schreber, a pupil of the great Linnæus, and a son to one of the best writers on husbandry in Germany, is publishing in numbers a work on grasses: his plan we will communicate to the reader, as it bids fair to obviate the greater part of the enumerated difficulties, and greatly to promote the study of this useful branch of botany and husbandry. In an introductory discourse, Dr. Schreber describes all the different parts observable in grasses, their flowers and their fructification; so that this part may be considered as a "philosophia Agrostographia". He next observes the points which must be attended to in a good description of grass; and, lastly, he shews the extensive utility of this branch of botany. The first volume contains twenty-seven descriptions, and as many excellent drawings of grasses, on twenty coloured plates…" (a contemporary review of the work, from Smollett's "The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature, Vol. 32). Schreber was obviously inspired by Linné, as will be seen from the systematic account of the different grasses described and depicted in the present work, although he refused to group the grasses under certain genera. We are provided with the first name of each grass represented as well as with all its varieties, and names in almost all European languages, whereafter follows an extensive description of that particular grass, containing everything that is known about it - where it grows, under which circumstances, in which soil, its time of flowering, when it brings ripe seeds, etc. We are also provided with extensive information as to its cultivation, on the cattle which like it best, on the authors who have written about it, on the medicinal use of it, etc. "The plates are very well executed in regard to drawing, engraving, and colouring. The second part of this work, the first number of which is published, will soon appear. The defects of the work are, its high price, its too great diffuseness, and the too minute detail the author frequently enters into, the prospect that many years will pass away before the work can be finished, and that it is written in German, a language very little understood in this country." ("The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature, Vol. 32).Some of the excellent original drawings of the "Beschreibung der Gräser" are still to be found at Erlangen, where Scheber also had his private collection of numerous grasses(See Stafleu & Covan, V : p. 328 and No 11.127) Nissen: 1807. - Pritzel: 8395. - Not in Hunt.

Kolombo (Colombo, Sri Lanka), 1821. 8vo. Original blank blue wrappers. Insignificant wear to edges of wrappers. Light toning, but a fine copy. (2),16 pp. First (and only) edition of the first Singalese grammar in a Western language, Rask's highly importent work, in which he "identified Sinhalese as a speech belonging to the same class as Sanskrit and added that Tamil belonged to a different class. Since then the subject has been studied and discusses by various scholars, and it is established beyond doubt that Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language."Rasmus Rask is one of the absolutely most prominent and famous Danish philologers and is very well esteemed worldwide. He was the first to systematically study the ancient Nordic languages and is the discoverer of the relations between the consonants in the Indo-European languages. This discovery served as the foundation of the rules Jacob Grimm later formulated, underlying the Germanic and High-German soundshifts. In PMM, Rask is identified as "one of the founders of the modern science of language." (PMM 266).

London, R. Dodsley, 1742-44 (Night 1-6), G.Hawkins, 1744-45 (Night 7-9). 4to. Contemp. Full calf. Rebacked. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Wear to covers and edges. Corners bumped. Engraved frontispiece. First title-page with some soiling and browning. Some parts with light browning and offsettings, a few scattered brownspots. Part 2 & 3 seems to lack the Prefaces (the text begins on p. 5). No halftitles. First edition of part 2-9, as part 1 is "The Second Edition", being the first in 4to (first published in folio). The text has 4 corrections which is nearly without doubt in the author's own hand (ink). The conclusion is confirmed by a note laid in from an antiquarian bookseller Elkin Mathews Ltd. (dated 2nd, february, 1948), which reads "The corrections are four in number and are certainly such as would be made only by the author. On page 129, the second word in the fourth line is heavely blocked out in ink and the word 'thoughts' is written in its place; on page 144, the third word in the line three from the bottom is similarly blocked out and the name 'Holles' is written in. The other corrections are of less interest and importence but are also undoubtly author's corrections." (Signed PHM/DC - Percy ?).The above stement is backed up, reaching the same result, by the well-known book-collector Bent Juul-Jensen, New College Oxford, referring to the handwriting in the Young MSS.After part 9 is bound ROBERT BLAIR: The Grave. A Poem. London, M. Cooper, 1743. First edition.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso and on titlepage. A tear to right margin of titlepage repaired. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Poggendorff Bd. 4. (10),476 pp., 4 large folded tables, 6 engraved plates, some folding. Small stamp on verso of plates. Ohm's paper: pp.79-88. Internally fine and clean. First appearance of a paper of outmost importence in the history of electricity, - it is Ohm's first scientific paper, and it contains the report on the different original experiments (sending a current through a variety of test wires) that was the foundation for his famous law, Ohm's Law. The paper contains the original research material that was to immortalize his name, for the mathematical formulation of the law two years later in the well-known work "Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet" (1827). - This paper was at the same time published in Schweiggers Journal."Ohm's first scientific paper was "Vorläufige Anzeige des Gesetzes..." (the paper offered). In it he sought a functional relationship between the decrease in the electromagnetic force excerted by a current-carrying wire and the lenght of the wire...Fromthe zinc and copper poles of a voltaic pile he ran two wires, A and B, the free ends of which terminated in small mercury-filled cups, M and N; between M and another cup, O, he ran a third wire, C. Together A,B, and C formed what he called the "invariable conductor", to distinguish it from one of the seven wires of different lenghts that, when placed in a circuit between O and N, constituted the "variable conductor". Among the latter was one "veru thick" wire, four inches long, and six thinner ones, 0.3 line (.025") in diameter, ranging in lenght from one foot to seventy-five feet. Finally, over wire C hung the magnetic needle of a Coulomb torsion balance, which served to measure the electromagnetic force exerted when one of the variable conductors completed the circuit....(He then found that) the loss in force was equal to the difference between the normal force and the lesser force occasioned by one of the other wires, divided by the normal force. Tabulating these value against the lenghts of the wires, he found that his data were well represented by the formula v=0.41 log (1+x), where v is the loss in force and x is the lenght of the wire in feet...."(DSB X, p.187). - This expression is the preliminary formula for his famous relations between voltage, amperage and resistance, R=V/I.Parkinson "Breakthrough" 1825 P. - Ronald's Library p. 376.The volume contains other importent papers in the history of chemistry and physics, Berzelius, F. Wöhler, F.E. Neumann, Heinrich Rose, Chr. Hansteen, Fresnel etc.

Bruxelles, Fr. Foppens, 1699. Small 8vo (12mo). Bound in a beautiful later full calf (ca. 1800) w. five raised bands on back. Gilt back and blindstamped ornamental borders on boards. All edges of boards gilt, and gilt borders on inside of boards. Hinges cracked and boards loosening, inner hinges crudely repaired. A bit of brownspotting, but internally a very nice copy. The very rare Bruxelles-edition, published same year as the first edition (Paris, Barbin). Fénelon's main work, written when he was a tutor to the Duke of Burgundy in order to hold up Ulysses as an example for the young prince. Fénelon was a leader of the Quetism heresy, and in 1699, the year Télemaque appeared, Pope Innocent XII condemned his writings. The true first edition of Fénélon's Télemaque appeared in one volume in 1699 under the title "Suite du quatrième livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère, ou les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse", and containing only half of what we consider Télémaque today. According to Brunet, the first edition was suppressed, and Moetjens printed a pirate-edition (called the second edition) in Haag with the same year and date (June), and a bit later the same year, the second part appeared. Several editions appeared the same year, and Brunet mentions one without printer or Place (but Paris), and the Liége- and Bruxelles-editions. "Dans les différentes éditions que nous venons de décrire dans lesquelles il le soit sont celles de LIÉGE, 1699, et de BRUXELLES, FR. FOPPENS, même date, l'une et l'autre impr. en France, en 2 vol. in-12, et en dix livres." (Brunet II:1212). Foppens also printed an edition in Bruxelles 1700, but that is divided into 16 books. All early editions of this work are scarce, and the first edition is almost impossible to get a hold of. This main work of French literature has been printed numerous times after the author's death (1715), and editions printed before his death, are a great rarity. The later editions were corrected and divided into numerous books, not intended in the original manuscript."Une autre circonstance allait aggrever la situation de l'archevêque de Cambray. Peu de temps après sa condemnation, parut le livre qui l'a rendu le plus populaire et qui, après la "Bible" et l'"Imitation de Jésus-Christ", est un de ceux qui ont eu plus d'éditions: "Les Aventures de Télémaque". (N.B.G. 17:328). The controversial but highly popular work was, among other things, accused of satirically portraying Louis XIV, and thereby publicly humiliating him, -this was probably not the intention, but there is no doubt that the work was critical towards the reigning regime, and put forth many ideas not previously heard of. In true utopian political manner, Fénélon warns against overgrowth of the metropolis and preaches groundbreaking doctrines like free trade, international arbitration etc. He actually foresees the French Revolution as a result of the flourishing despotism so visible in France at the time. Lamartine (in his "Life of Fénélon") describes the saintly poet as the first Radical and the first communist of his century, though not to his own knowledge, and he directly traces the Utopias which produced the revolutions of 1793 and 1848 to his groundbreaking work, "The Adventures of Telemachus". Especially the part "Voyage en Salente" is considered very important for the study of utopian literature, but the entire work is characterized by the attempt to represent people as they might have behaved and might still be, were they governed by sages and saints and according to the laws of God. The work represents a religious ideal where God is always higher than man; it is greatly political, greatly influenced by the appreciation of ancient Greek life, and is designed to evoke the feeling of honour, responsibility and religion in the young prince. See Brunet II: 1210-1212. Graesse 2:563-64 (Paris- and La Haye-editions).

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1828. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 14, Zweites Stück. (=Jahrgang 1828, zehntes Stück). Pp. 191-306 a. 3 engraved plates. (the entire issue offered (Heft 2) together with the titlepage to 14. Band). Brown's paper: pp. 294-313. Clean and fine. Small stamp on verso of titlepage. First appearance in German of this monumental paper in atomic theory and kinematics, as it was the first evidence for atomism that was an observation rather than a deduction from abstract principles."In 1827 as he was viewing a suspension of pollen in Water under the microscope, he noted that the individual grains were moving about irregularly. This, he thought, was the result of the life hidden within the pollen grains. However, when he studied dye particles (indubitably nin-livin) suspended in water, he found the same erratic motion. This has been called "Brownian motion" ever since and Brown could merely report on the observation. He had no explanation for it. Nor had anyone else until the development of the kinetic theory of gases by men such as Maxwell a generation later. It seemed plain. after Maxwell and especially after the work of Einstein and Perrin a half century after Maxwell, that the Brownian Motion was actually a visible effect of the fact that water was composed of particles. It was the first evidence for atomism that was an observation rather than a deduction." (Asimov).The issue contains other importent papers by C.. Naumann, G. Magnus, Th. Saussure "Kohlensäuregas in der Atmosphäre" andothers.PMM: 290 (the English paper from 1828) - Sparrow, Milestones of Science No 31. - Magie "A Source Book in Physics p. 251-255. - Dibner, Heralds of Science No 156.

Kiøbenhavn, Trykt med August Friderich Steins Skrifter,1765. Nydeligt og velbevaret samtidigt hldrbind med rygforgyldning og i felterne et agernstempel i blindtryk. En anelse slid ved øverste kapitæl. Kobberst. titelvign. (2), 140, (4) pp. Den uhyre sjældne originaludgave, som først udkom efter Brorson's død. Indeholder 70 salmer fra B's sidste leveår, her i blandt "Her vil ties, her vil bies" og "Naar mit Øje, træt af Møje" samt talrige andre af Brorsons elskede salmer.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1926. 8vo. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in contemp. hcloth. Spine gilt with gilt lettering. A small part of lower spine with a bit of discolouring after a papelabel. A punched stamp on top of title-page. Light wear along edges of boards.VI,133,(1) pp. and (2) pp. of announcements. Textfigs. Internally clean. First edition. In this work De Broglie set forth the idea that electrons, as was previously regarded as particles, also have wave-quaracters, as well as light has. The idea was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer the year after in 1927. Also Schrödinger took up the idea and formulated his wave-equation, explaning the stationary states of the electron of Niels Bohr, by applying De Broglie's concept of electrons as waves to the hydrogen atom. "Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but imcompatible with one another." (PMM: 417).

Kopenhagen, Nicolaus Möller, 1774. 4to. Near contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Mild cracking along front joint, but holding (inner joints strenghtened). Engraved titlevignette. XVI,504,(1) pp.,1 large folded map, outlinecoloured "Tabula Iteneraria... Terrae Yemen... 1763." and 72 engraved maps, plans, plates, several folding. (Plate LXXI is inserted between pp.304 and 305). 5 leaves in the middle with a faint dampstain in right margin. A few marginal brownspots. Internally clean, printed on good paper. The first volume of the scarce first edition of Niebuhr's great travel account of Arabia. Like his "Beschribung von Arabien", his "Reisebeschreibung von Arabien" "provided a mass of new geographical, regional, and historical information... Among is many exact maps and plans, the map of the Red Sea and of Yemen served as the most reliable information for more than 50 years."

Lemgo, Meyerischen Buchhandlung, 1766. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Some cracks in leather along joints. Wear to spine ends. Spine rubbed.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XVI,344 pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 5 engraved plates. Plate I and II having each two illustrations are divided, and the illustrations are inserted at the places where they are treated in the text. Internally clean and fine. First German edition of one of the fundamental texts of Siberian scholarship. With detailled accounts of the zoology, geography and botany of the region as well as on the language and culture of the Itelmen and Koryak peoples.

Versailles, Dept. de la Marine, 1768/1773. 4to. Contemp. boards, later backed with calf. Spine with gilt lettering. Title-page with stamps on foot. Engraved title-page dated 1768. Printed title-page dated 1773. (8),152 pp., large engraved vignette, 34 engraved maps mostly folded, numb. I-XXXIV (XXXIV bound opposite p.111). A faint dampstain at upper part of 2 plates. A few scattered brownspots at end. Otherwise fine. First edition. Collates as in Sabin, 4552 with the 2 title-pages, where Bellin's name only occurs on the engraved title.

Leide, Pierre van de Aa, 1706. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Internally with a few small worm-tracts but generally a good copy.Vol. 1: (16), 275 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved half-title and 43 plates (out of 45)Vol. 2: 277-554 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 49 plates (out of 55).Vol. 3: 555-718, (62), 9, (1) pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 46 plates (out of 50). First edition of this rare and important travel guide to Italy - the first in what became a travel guide series in small format. Despite its popularity and the numerous editions in which the work was published not much is know about Alexandre de Rogissart Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch publisher, cartographer, and bookseller. Van der Aa is best known for his cartographic works and atlases, which were highly regarded for their accuracy and detail. Brunet IV, 1354Graesse VI, 147.

Stockholm, P.A. Nordstedt & Söner, 1858). Folio. Indbundet ubeskåret i et nyere helldrbd. af blåfarvet chagrin. Alle sider er kobberstukket (J. Gillberg, sculpsit). Titelblad + Forord + Förteckning (3 blade) samt 86 kobbertukne blade hver med flere illustrationer af medaljerne som blev slået under Gustaf III. Aldeles rent eksemplar og ubeskåret. En planche repareret i nederste højre hjørne, uden tab af tryk. Med exlibris, Coyet, Torup. Originaltrykket. Af forordet fremgår, at Gustav III i 1779 befalede, at der skulle præges medaljer over alle hændelser i hans regeringstid, og at der samtidigt skulle udgives et plancheværk afbildende disse medaljer, et værk efter det franske forbillede fra kongerne Ludvig XIV's og Ludvig XV's tid. Der blev anvendt betydelige omkostninger på dette foretagende, som ikke blev realiseret før Kongl. Witterhets Akademien overtog udgivelsen i 1840. Den planlagte tekst blev ikke udgivet, og plancherne, som her, udkom i et ganske lille oplag.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Vol. 53, 1929. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 840-856. [Entire volume: VII,(1),889,(1) pp.] First edition of the landmark paper in which Szilard solved the puzzle of Maxwell's demon and discovered a theoretical model that serves both as a heat engine and information engine, establishing the connection between entropy and information. "This work is now considered to be the earliest known paper in what became the field of "information theory". (Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb). In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment created by Maxwell to show that the Second Law of Thermodynamics has only a statistical certainty. "Maxwell's demon was first mentioned in a letter written to Tait in 1867. Maxwell was one amongst a number of researchers in the developing field of thermodynamics who was interested in seeking an understanding of thermal phenomena in terms of an underlying atomic physics. However, unlike Boltzmann and Clausius, who were attempting to prove the law of entropy increase from such atomic physics, Maxwell had realised that if thermodynamics was ultimately grounded in atomic theory, then the second law of thermodynamics could have only a statistical validity." (SEP). Szilard (In the present paper) attempted to investigate this special case of intelligently operated devices by considering a box containing only a single molecule. He argued that in order to achieve the entropy reduction, the intelligent being must acquire knowledge of which fluctuation occurs and so must perform a measurement. The second law would not be threatened provided there was a compensating cost to performing this measurement, regardless of the character of the intelligent being."Claude E. Shannon, who spelled out detailed relationship between information and entropy in the 1950s, also later acknowledged that Szilard's paper had proposed the basis for his new field study." (Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb).

Paris, Les Éditions de la Roseraie, 1926. 4to. Uncut and unopened in the original wrappers. Slight fading to spine and minor, very light soiling to wrappers. Otherwise very fine. With the ex libris of "Henri Barthélemy" to front free end-paper. Laid in two leaves of the author's manuscript. No 7 of 12 copies "sur japon imperial" (prémier papier), out of a total of 250 copies. This magnificent copy includes 11 original lithographs in colour, 1 suite of lithographs on "japon" in colours, 1 suite on "japon imperial" in black, 4 plates showing 4 states of one plate, 2 plates showing 2 states of one plate. Furthermore is laid in 2 pp. in 4to., closely written, of the author's manuscript (numbered in his hand pp. 38-39), in his own hand, with additons and corrections. These 2 pages constitute the original manuscript for the last 4 pages of the printed book, i.e. chapter X. The manuscript leaves are signed at the end "Raymond Hesse".One of the 12 fabulous copies with the extra suites of what is considered Vertès best work. Marcel Vertès (1895 -1961) was a magnificent and very versatile artist. He was a costume designer, portraitist, muralist, satirist, ceramicist, author and illustrator, perhaps most generally known as the academy award winning costume designer for John Huston's "Moulin Rouge" from 1952 and for his classic murals at the Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. Vertès was Born in Budapest in 1895. After serving his country in World War I, he abandoned plans to study law and made his way to Paris to become an artist. In 1940 he left Paris for New York where he set up a studio on West 57th Street. In the late 1950'ies, he returned to Paris, where he died in 1961, having served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival.

Kjøbenhavn, Chr. Mackeprang, (1893?). Folio. Samt. hldr. med ophøjet ryg og rig rygforgyldning. Den løse ryg er dekoreret i rokkoko-stil med rig forgyldning. Titelblad meget brunplettet og med lille revne. 61+ 35 + 8 tavler + 2 unumm.. Alle håndkolorerede. Nummereret I-LV (LIV-LV mrk. supplementtavle), + 2 unumm. + 1.ste.suppl. 1-35, + 2det.suppl. 1-8. Ialt 106 tavler. Enkelte tavler med brune pletter, men i øvrigt pæne og smukt dekorerede. Anker 252 (kollationering som Anker 250).

London, Harrison and Sons, 1902. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Top of spine worn down. Lower spine end with a small crack. A collation remark on title-page. A bookmark on inside frontcover, stating that the volume was bound 10/9/02 for City of Manchester. Municipal Technical School. "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. 69. VII,501 pp. a. 6 plates. Bayliss & Starling's announcement: pp. 352-353. Internally clean. This is the first printing, annoucing a milestone discovery which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the discoverers named "Secretin". A few years later Sterling coined the word 'hormone' from the Greek 'hormon', meaning to exite or set into motion. Until know it was though that the control of the glands, here the pancreas, was controlled by the nerves (Pavlow and others), but Bayliss and Sterling showed that they have found that the intestine was signalling the pancreas by some COMPLETELY NEW MECHANISM involving a new kind of body or substance functioning as a chemical messenger. "If nerves are the sprinters of biology, Bayliss & Starling had discovered the marathon runners. In doing so, they also founded the science of hormones, called endocrinology" (Alan Lightman "The Discoveries", p. 34 ff). The announcement, as offered here, was later the same year followed by their larger paper "The Mechanism of Pancreatic Secretion" which they published in "Journal of Physiology (1902)"."With the discovery of hormones, Bayliss & Starling had found the internal command and control centers - and in this, their discovery was much larger than a new communication system. The mechanism of response and control was chemical: atoms and molecules. Now, with hormones, there was a mechanism for a living thing to regulate itself. Furthermore with hormones, an organism could not only be studied but also controlled from the outside... Never had the living body come closer to a machine, a self-regulating machine governed not only by physics but also chemistry. An not only a machine, but a machine that we human could willfully control. At the start of the new century, we still have not come to terms with the implications of this idea."(Alan Lightman).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1902 B.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine and corners bumped and with wear. Some scratching to boards.Stamps to titlepage and one leaf. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie", Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. (Entire volume offered). Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean. First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from "Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as "Dritte Mittheilung" appears here."Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen." (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).

A Paris, (but Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier), 1693. 58x88 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Øresund med den Skånsk/Hallandske kystline og den Sjællandske fra Møn i syd til Hesselø i nord. I pragtfuld fuld håndkolorering. Øverst i midten er indsat Amager og Saltholm i større målestok. Kortet "ligger ned", er orienteret øst/vest. Med kompasrose og vindretninger angivet. Det berømte søkort over Sundet fra Jaillot's "Neptune Francois", men i P. Mortier's samtidige udgivelse heraf fra Amsterdam med tilføjelsen "Levée et Gravée" i kartouchen. Jaillot's to søkort over Danmark gav anledning til en kritik af Jens Sørensens opmåling idet Admiralitete forelagde ham de franske og påtalte, at Sørensens kort næppe kunne være korrekte. Det var de imidlertid. Her er for første gang trykt det mere korrekte Amagerkort, der foranlediger at øen på næsten alle senere kort gengives stor og rund.

Frankfurt am Main, And. Wechel, 1576. Folio. Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards with the two original brass clasps. Hinges with grey coloured repair. Lower part of spine with traces after having been coloured red and blue. A very fine and clean copy. [Saxo:] (8), 342, (24) pp + 1 blank leaf + [Germanicarum Rerum Quatuor... :] (10), 224, (10) ff.]. Third and last 16th century Latin edition of Saxo's "History of Denmark", edited by Philip Loncier, rector of the Frankfurt Gymnasium.Saxo Grammaticus (ab. 1150-1220) was probably a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the great Danish churchman, statesman and warrior. Saxo is remembered today as the author of the first full history of Denmark, in which he modeled himself on the classical authors (e.g. Virgil, Plato, Cicero) in order to glorify his fatherland. The work dates from the end of the 12th century and was edited by Christiern Pedersen, a Canon of Lund, and printed by Jodocus Badius Ascendius in Paris in 1514 (the editio princeps) with 16th century re-issues following in 1534 (Basel) and 1576 (the present). Only with the first printing of this seminal work did the work become known throughout academic circles. The work soon received international fame and is to this day renowned as not only being immensely important historically, but also being extremely well written (Saxo is praised by Erasmus, for instance, for possessing great power of eloquence). The work consists of sixteen books that cover the time from the founders of the Danish people (Dan I of Denmark) till Saxo's own time, ending around 1185 (with the submission of Pomerania), when the last part is supposedly written. The work thus covers the entire history of Denmark until Saxo's own time, seen under a somewhat glorified perspective, from heathen times with tales of Odin and the gods of Valhalla to the times of Absalon, who probably directly influenced the sections on the history of his own time, working closely with Saxo himself. Apart from that, the work contains the first known written narration of the legend of Hamlet (Amleth, the son who took revenge for his murdered father). It is most likely this narrative of Saxo's, which he based on an oral tale, that forms the basis for Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which takes place in Helsinore in Denmark. There is fairly certain evidence that Shakespeare knew Saxo's work on the History of Denmark and thus, from that, the legend of Amleth.The editio princeps was printed in Paris in 1514, the second edition being printed in Basel in 1534.LN 1450Thesaurus 190.GERMANICARUM RERUM QUATUOR...Bound with Saxo is German Simon Schard's (1535-1573), History of Germany from the time Augustus till Henry IV.Adams G 488

Jena, Friedrich Mauke, 1843. Folio. Cont. hcalf. Back very worn and with tears to leather. Inner hinge broken. IV pp. and 103 mostly lithographed plates, a few engraved. Most of the plates in impressive colouring. The 4 textleaves brownspotted and soiled, some plates with brownspots and some with dampstains to corners and margins. First edition of this monumental pathological atlas, without the textvolume. Very scarce, and not in Waller and Wellcome.

Berlin, J. Springer, 1932-33. 8vo. Bound together in recent attractive marbled boards. Leather title-label with gilt lettering on front board. Title-pages from the three volumes withbound (small rubberstamp). (11),(9),(12) pp. First edition of Heisenberg's neutron-proton model. Shortly after Chadwick discoverd the neutron in 1932, Heisenberg developed a theory suggesting that atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, -this introduced the concept of the nuclear exchange force and isotopic spin. (DSB 17: p.398).

A Paris, (1812). Folio. Fine Later hcalf in old style with raised bands. - Consisting of 42 engr.plates, of which 30 are in fine handcolouring (Numb. 1-42). Some plates dampstained in upper part, mostly effecting upper margins.