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Basel, (Iohnnes Oporinus, 1548 - on colophon). 8vo. Contemporary full limp vellum. A bit of soiling and light brownspotting to title-page, otherwise very nice and clean. The printer's name has been removed from the colophon, causing two small holes, which have been neatly repaired from verso. Two small holes corresonding to these to the second-last leaf, causing loss of a couple of letters. All in all a very nice copy. Woodcut initials. (16), 297, (6 - Life of Aristotle) pp. The scarce first edition of leading French Humanist Catholic Gentian Hervet's important translation of Alexander's hugely influential "Quaestiones", presumably with this fourth part (which is not the "De Fato" as in other Renaissance editions) for the first time in print. Hervet's edition of Alexander's "Questiones" came to have a profound influence on the development of Renaissance Aristotelianism. The "Questiones" had appeared earlier, e.g. in 1541, and were by no means unknown to Renaissance thinkers at the time, but Hervet was an authority of a certain character, which meant that his edition was both read in a certain light and preferred by a great deal of thinkers. Furthermore, it seems that the 4th part, being 30 answers to the traditional 69 questions, here appears for the first time in print, making this a very important edition. In addition to the first three parts, it became customary to add a fourth part to Alexander's "Questiones", but that traditional fourth part was his "De Fato", and not as here the 30 solutions. It is worth noting that Hervet had in fact already translated Alexander's "De Fato", which he published in 1544. Alexander's, also known as simply as "The Commentator", impact upon the development of philosophy can hardly be overestimated, and his various "Problems and Questions", all aimed at establishing the views of Aristotle, came to influence all reading of Aristotle in the Renaissance. "He was read in the classroom of Plotinus, who probably drew on him to a greater extent than we will ever be able to tell; and when later Platonists show themselves critical of Aristotle's arguments, they can often be shown to attack Alexander's interpretation of Aristotle rather than Aristotle himself. The physician Galen, whose logic, epistemology and physics bear a distinctive Peripatetic stamp, chose to disagree with Alexander on, for instance, issues of dynamics and psychology." (p. 244).Although his "Questions" were aimed at understanding the views of Aristotle, he established the views of the Stagirite in a version updated to take account of Stoic and other alternatives, as the best and most defensible current (i.e. 2nd-3rd cent.) ideas on their subjects. "For Alexander, the inspired genius of Aristotle's writings was a sufficient basis, if they were properly interpreted, explicated, and fleshed out, to resolve with complete satisfaction all the questions debated among philosophers of varying schools in his own time." (Cambr. Comp.). In his seminal "Questiones", he quarrelled with both Platonism and Stoicism in his attempts to develop Peripatetic answers to questions Aristotle had not dealt with in any detail.It is a curious but generally accepted conception that with the rise of the Renaissance came the fall of Aristotle. Weather this is actually true can be disputed, but it is a fact that with the recovery of many lost works of ancient literature, the widening of the range of classical studies and the renewed interest in Plato, Aristotle was no longer the sole authority on a huge number of fields. That this should mean a total ignorance of the teachings of Aristotle must be considered somewhat of a myth (though a very frequently repeated one), and in fact with the grand humanists of the late 15th and early 16th century, the study of Aristotle fits perfectly with the broader comprehension of scholarship. The great humanists like Ficino, Pico and Pomponazzi had not forgotten about Aristotle, and the revival of learning did not mean the neglect of the prince of philosophers. On the contrary, with the appreciation of the knowledge of Greek and the invention of the printing, works were being translated and printed like never before, which meant that the greatest of the humanists, many of whom did not themselves know Greek, could be acquainted with the Greek texts of Aristotle and the Greek commentaries of "The Commentator", Alexander of Aphrodisias, in Latin translation. "Equally important for the continued growth of the Peripatetic synthesis was the recovery and diffusion of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle. These treatises, about ten times longer than the works they discuss, were written by pagans and Christians, Platonists and Peripatetics in late antiquity, between the second and seventh centuries in the Greek world of the Eastern Mediterranean, and then again in twelfth-century Byzantium. The most important of the two dozen commentators were Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ammonius, Simplicius, Themistius and John Philoponus. Of these five, only Alexander and Themistius were Aristotelians..." (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 68).One of the most important of these Renaissance Humanists, who with his translations helped spread the knowledge and understanding of Aristotle and his commentators, was Gentian Hervet, who came to play a dominant role in the course of 16th century thought. "Gentian Hervet (d. 1584) was a committed churchman, who after studies in the universities of Orleans and Paris lived in the household of Reginald Pole, later to become Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal, at first in England then - as Pole had, because of the Reformation, to leave England - in Padua, Venice and Rome. Hervet took part with Marcello Cervini (later Pope Marcellus II) in the first sessions of the Council of Trent. He returned to France in 1555 as vicar general to the bishop of Noyon and wrote pamphlets against the Huguenots. In 1561 he entered the service of the Cardinal of Lorraine, Charles de Guise, whom he accompanied to the third period of the Council of Trent (1562-3). In 1564 he took part as canon of the cathedral in the provincial council of Rheims, in which the cardinal published the decrees of the Council of Trent. About the time of his activity in the Council of Trent the focal point of Hervet's translations shifted. He translated not only the Greek Fathers of the Church, but in addition, under the influence of academic scepticism as represented also by Reginal Pole, Sextus Empiricus' "Adversus Mathematicos" (Paris, 1569). He had long been active as translator of works connected with the Aristotelian philosophy. During an earlier sojurn in Rome, he published a number of philosophical texts which concerned the controversies surrounding Pietro Pomponazzi. In 1544 he translated into Latin Aristotle's "De anima", together with the commentary of Johannes Philoponus. There followed translations of Alexander of Aphrodisias's "De fato" (1544) and "Quaestiones naturales et morales" (1548) and of Zacharias Scholasticus's "Ammonius: Dialogus quod mundus non sit Deo coaeternus" (1546). In these works Hervet described those who denied the immortality of the soul as atheists and as opponents of Aristotle and his commentators." (Lohr, p. 36). "Since the Renaissance had to discover or rediscover the tools of philology and history needed for such detective work, the pioneering labours of obscure humanist scholars - Gentian Hervet, who translated sextus, or William Canter, who first published a Greek text of the "Eclogae" of Stobaeus - certainly deserve our memory and admiration. It was they who first edited, organized, translated, printed, and disseminated the philosophical remains of antiquity that succeeding centuries have come to take for granted. If Thales and his successors were the fathers of Western philosophy, the humanist scholars of the Renaissance were the midwives of its rebirth in a classical form." (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 18). Adams A:678; Graesse: I:69.

Köbenhavn [Copenhagen], Einar Munksgaard, 1948. Royal8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in a nice contempoaray half cloth with gil lettering to spine. In "Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica", Vol. 4. Entire volume offered. A very fine and clean copy, near mint. Pp. 285-96. [Entire volume: (2), X, 400, (2), 189 pp.]. First printing of Hald's seminal paper in which he first introduced antabuse in the treatment of alcoholism. Antabuse (also known as disulfiram) was the first drug to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of alcohol dependence. Today it is the most widely used drug to prevent alcoholism and it is estimated that some 120,000 persons throughout the world take antabuse each year."In 1945 Danish researchers observed that the substance caused very unpleasant physiological effects in persons who had consumed alcohol. A few years later this chance observation was turned into a profitable production of pills used to combat alcoholism (antabuse = anti-abuse)." (Kragh, From Disulfiram to Antabuse: the Invention of a Drug). The discovery of Antabuse was essentially an accident since it was intended to provide a remedy for parasitic infestations: "Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethylthiuram- disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound, and he had trouble getting his breath." (Time, December 6, 1948)"Antabuse [trade name for disulfiram], a chemical which prevents the body from fully processing alcohol. It does this by blocking the action of aldehyde dehydrogenase, a key enzyme in the metabolic pathway of ethanol, and thereby causing a build-up of the toxic by-product acetaldehyde, with extremely unpleasant consequences for patients. People with active disulfiram in their bodies experience flushing, nausea and high blood pressure soon after drinking." (Raikhel, Images from the history of disulfiram treatment) "The most important journal for the dissemination of knowledge concerning the actions of antabuse in the organism was the Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica, an international journal founded in 1945 and edited by Scandinavian scientists. The fact that it was published in Copenhagen and that Jacobsen was among the editors made it an ideal journal for publishing new research related to antabuse. For example, Vol. 4 of 1948 included two substantial papers by Hald and Jacobsen on the formation and action of acetaldehyde; and their collaborator Erik Rasmussen, a pharmacologist associated with Medicinalco, reported his investigations of the action of the antabuse-alcohol reaction on the blood circulation and respiration. (Kragh, From Disulfiram to Antabuse: the Invention of a Drug). Garrison & Morton no. 2091.

London, Printed for W.B. and J. Churchill, 1706. 8vo. Nice contemporary brown full calf, very neatly rebacked. Title-page and second leaf strengthened at fore-margin. A bit of brownspotting to last quire, otherwise very nice. (4), 336 pp. First edition of this influential collection of Locke's posthumous works, in which we find the first printing of his highly important "On the Conduct of Understanding" (takes up the larger part of the volume, namely pp. (1) - 137), which he himself considered of the utmost importance. He had actually intended it to be the final and largest chapter of his "Essay", his seminal magnum opus which constitutes "the first modern attempt to analyze [human knowledge]" (PMM 164), but he did not completely finish it before his death (1704) and it thus didn't make it into the fourth edition of the "Essay", where Locke had planned to make it the greatest part and the concluding chapter. "In 1697, Locke had written to Molyneux: "I have lately got a little leisure to think of some additions to my book [the Essay], against the next edition, and within these few days have fallen upon a subject that I know not how far it will lead me. I have written several pages on it, but the matter, the farther I go, opens the more upon me, and I cannot yet get sight of any end of it. The title of the chapter will be Of the Conduct of the Understanding, which, if I shall pursue, as far as I imagine it will reach, and as it deserves, will, I conclude, make the largest chapter of my Essay." [Locke #847, vol. 6:87] The new chapter was intended as a new final chapter to be added to the 4th edition (1700) [Locke #231], but Locke did not complete it. It was published in 1706 by King and Collins and has often been reprinted, independently, with other works by Locke or with Bacon's Essays." (Attig, Locke Bibliography, Pennsylvania State University).Before his death, Locke had left instructions for his literary executors, Anthony Collins and Peter King. These instructions mentioned four works which did not see publication in his life-time, but which he felt deserved publication, among these were "On the Conduct of the understanding," "Seeing all things in God," and "A Discourse on Miracles", which were all published for the first time in the present collection of "Posthumous Works". As will be seen from the title-page, the collection also contained the unfinished "Fourth letter for toleration", some notes for a biography of the first Earl of Shaftesbury, and an English translation of "Méthode nouvelle de dresser un recueil". All these posthumous works were included in the collected edition of Locke's "Works" from 1714 as well as in all subsequent editions. The work of the greatest consequence included in this collection is no doubt "Of the Conduct of Understanding" which takes up more than a third of the volume. It became one of Locke's most read and popular works; during the 18th century alone, it was printed no less than 8 times and is now, as it were, considered a most important part of Locke's writings and an essential part of all collections of Locke's works. It was first published separately in 1754.

Cambridge, 1880. 4to, entire issue present (Vol. III, no. 1). With the original printed wrappers. Uncut. Wrappers detached and with tears and loss to extremities. Backtrip gone. Stitching a bit loose. Internally nice and clean. Pp. (15)-57. [Entire issue 96 pp. + 2 plates] The scarce first printing of Peirce's important paper "On the Algebra of Logic", in which he broke with the Aristotelian semantics of classes and introduced modern semantics, allowing a class symbol to be empty (as well as to be the universe), and stated the truth values of the categorical propositions that we use today."This article holds a place of some importance in the history of formal logic and mathematics. In what is published here from the first chapter Peirce discusses that relationship between thinking and cerebration (or logic and physiology)." (The Essential Peirce: 1867-1893 v. 1: Selected Philosophical Writings, Indiana University Press, 1992, 200 pp.

Frankfurt, G. Schönwetter, 1652. Folio (335 x 203 mm). Three volumes bound in one contemporary full vellum bindings with title in contemporary hand to spine. Binding with some miscolouring and a bit of wear. Title-page with a few dots and light soiling, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 141, (7), (4), 183, (7), 176, (3) pp. 151 engraved plates included in the pagination. Pp. 171-172 in vol. 2 copied in contemporary hand. Later edition of Typot’s famous and beautifully illustrated work on emblems. The designs of the emblems were compiled by Ottavio Strada, antiquarian to Emperor Rudolf III, and were reproduced by the engraver Aegidius Sadeler - Typot wrote the Latin commentaries. The extensive work covers a broad array of subjects such as popes, emperors, kings and The Santa Eucharista.

Wien, 1808. Folio. Contemporary boards. Corners bumped and hinges slightly worn. St.o.t. Internally clean and on good paper. (4),169 pp. and 25 mostly double-page engr. maps a.plans, all handcoloured.

Kbh., 1843-45. Et nydeligt samtidigt hshirtbd. m. stregforgyldn. på ryg. Brunplettet. M. alle deltitelblade samt det fælles titelbl. (4), 52, 62, 84, 59, 70, 111 pp.Nice contemporary half cloth with single gilt lines to spine. Fully complete with all half titles and the joint title-page. Originaludgave. Himmelstrup 85.First edition of Kierkegaard's important eighteen upbuilding discourses, which comprise his two, three, and four upbuilding discourses from the years 1843-45, with the joint title-page of all eighteen. The work constitutes Kierkegaard's religious works, which supplement his theological and philosophical ones.The first upbuilding discourses were published the same year as Either-Or, and it is interesting to note that in opposition to his major philosophical works, the religious upbuilding discourses actually bear the name of the author on the title-page, - a fact that was by no means incidental. While the pseudonymous works could make one doubt the religiousness of the author, the parallelly written religious discourses stress the fact that we are dealing with an author, who was religious from the very beginning, -a fact that Kierkegaard also wished to establish himself; in his journals he clearly states that the religious discourses bear as much significance for his work as a whole as do the larger pseudonymous works, "I began with "Either-Or" and two upbuilding discourses..." he says, and explains that he intended the upbuilding, the religious, to advance, and that he wanted to show "that the writer was not an esthetic author who in the course of time grew older and for that reason became religious" (Journals, IX A 227).The importance of the upbuilding discourses and the close relationship they have with the major works and Kierkegaard's philosophical development also becomes evident with the fact that every pseudonymous work was accompanied by a little collection of "upbuilding discourses" until "Concluding Postscript" appeared.Himmelstrup 85.

HIldesburghausen, 1858-61. Lex8vo. 10 hcloth, without titles on backs. A few plates loose, sometimes slightly brownspotted. With 1o engr. titles and 412 fine steel-engr.plates.

Washington, Jno. T. Towers, 1851. 4to. In publishers original full pictoral green cloth. Front and back board with embossed title and ornamentation, showing an eagle holding a banner and anchor beneath whom Columbia sits holding the shield of California with a bear asleep at her feet. Front board in gold. Lower front board with gilt stamp. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page. Light wear to extremities and internally with light occassional miscolouring. 44. pp. + 11 lithographic plates including frontispiece and 6 folding maps. Rare first edition of Commander Ringgold's charts, views, and sailing directions, for the entrance to San Francisco Bay and the inland waterways; the most accurate charts up until that time of the areas covered.According to his introduction, Ringgold was persuaded by the citizens of San Francisco to undertake the task of accurately surveying the seaward approaches to the coast and the interior because of the vast amount of ship traffic that the area endured because of the Gold Rush and because, more ominously, of the "thousands of human beings...anxiously flocking thither, often in open boats, ill suited to the exposed navigation leading to the interior" (p. [5]). The survey began in August 1849, with Ringgold commanding the chartered brig Colonel Fremont. His surveys resulted in the present publication in 1851 which quickly became exceedingly popular. It was published in a total of five editions in 1851-52.A 12mo-edition with text only was published prior to this publication, but this is the first edition to include the maps and charts (and the important comments to these) which essentially made this the most important and used survey of the San Francisco Bay area in the 1850ies. Sabin 71425 (Sabin only calls for 8 plates).

Hamburg, Jacob Wolff, 1592. - Hamburg, Jacob Wolff, 1591. 4to. Samtidigt helpergamentsbd. Kalligraferet rygtitel. På forpermen er trykt P B H og nederst 1603. Bindet er helt intakt, men lidt snavset. Spor efter lukkestroppe. De Holsatia: Titlen trykt i rødt og sort. 88 (sidste blankt) blade. af (93 ?), 2 helsides træstukne portrætter og 107 adelige våben, alle i træsnit og nogle helsides. - Commentarii Rerum: (16),168,(13) pp., kobberstukket portræt på verso af titelbladet, Rantzaus træstukne våben og 3 træstukne tekstillustrationer. Nogle samtidige understregninger i teksten. Svag skjold i nogle få marginer, få spredte brunpletter. Lettere brunet p.g.a. papirkvaliteten. Her foreligger to yderst sjældne genealogiske værker. Den første (De Holsatia, 1592) beskriver den Holstenske adelsgenealogi og er forsynet med 107 gengivelser af disse slægters våbenskjolde. Eksemplarerne i flere tyske biblioteker anfører bladantallet til 88 (således eksemplaret i Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Nogle få andre anfører 93 blade. - Bibl. Danica III:936 - Ikke i Adams.Lindebergs værk er en forherligelse af Rantzau-slægten og Henrik Rantzau, som af Fr. II blev udnævnt til statholder i Schleswig og Holsten. Lindeberg var understøttet af Ranzau og han har givetvist samarbejdet med Rantzau ved dennes udgivelser. Adams L 730. - Ikke i Bibl.Danica.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcloth, A small nick to boards on frontcover. Light wear to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to verso of title-page. In Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean and fine. 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).

(Vinegia), 1538. Colophon: In Vinegia Nicolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino M.D.XXXVIII. Small8vo. Fine full vellum with handwritten title on back (ca. 1850). Woodcut portrait of Ariosto on title copied after the woodcut to the edition of "Orlando Furioso" from 1532, which was done after Tizian by F. de Nanto. Ff. 32 (=64 pp.). Good margins, fine and clean. Extremely scarce early edition (first published 1532) of the Seven Satires, modeled after the Sermons (satires) of Horats by the "Divino Lodovico". - Not in Adams (the earliest edition here is from 1545 ?).

Hannover, Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1804-14. Bound in 3 nice cont. hcalf. Spines richly gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on titlepages. XXIV,397,XX,608,XXIV,403 pp., 234 partly folded Tables and 37 folded engraved plates. First edition.

London, Jacques Dixwell, 1781. 4to. Fine contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved English title as frontispiece. (4),XVII,(2),371,(20) pp., 20 fine engraved and handcoloured plates and 2 large folded uncoloured engraved plates. English and French text in two columns. Fine and clean with protective tissue guards. On good paper. First edition. - Nissen ZBI, 220.

Bln., 1909-84. 4to. Vol. l-38 bound in hcloth, rest in parts (lacks l issue: Bd. 53:No.1).

Paris, J.B. Delaval, (1796/97). Folio-oblong. (40 x 55 cm.). Contemp. modest hcalf. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Marbled paper on covers. A stamp on title-page. Engraved title-page and engraved Tableau (dated AN V). With 67 engraved maps (incl. Tableau, numb. (1)-65 + 53 bis and 58 bis). On title-page the name P.G. Chanlaire is erased. Engraved title-page slightly soiled, Tableau, the first and last map a bit brownspotted and last map with a closed marginal tear, otherwise clean. The atlas is based on the survey carried out by Count Joseph Ferraris in the late 1760s. On the "Tableau d'Assemblage" the last map concerning Belgium is no. 65 (Luxembourg) and also the last map here, not in accordance with the mentioning of 69 on the title-page.According to Shirley "Maps in the Atlases of the British Library" (T.CAP-1a) the atlas should include 4 sheets covering Belgium on a smaller scale (numb. 66-69), they are not present here, but having all the regional maps.

Kjøbenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1845-48 + 1852-53. Indbundet i et samtidigt, lidt beskedent hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Ryg med lette brugsspor. Alle samlinger foreligger her med ALLE indholdsfortegnelser, smudstitelblade, dedikationsblade samt fællestitelblade til første og andet bind. Første Samling af Nye Eventyr er i "Tredie Oplag" med årstallet 1847. Alle 7 dele foreligger her i ganske usædvanligt rene og velbevarede ekemplarer, trykt på velin-agtigt papir. På bagsiden af første fællestitelblad et lille stempel "CAR", således antageligt fra udgiveren, C.A. Reitzels arkiv.Bound in one cont., a bit modest, half calf binding w. gilt back. Back w. a bit of wear. All collections with ALL contents-leaves, half-titles, dedication-leaves and the joint title-pages of the first and second volume. First collection of "New Fairy Tales" is in the third issue, w. the year 1847. All seven parts are unusually clean and well preserved, printed on vellum-like paper. On the verso of the first joint title-page is a discrete stamp "CAR", indicating that the copy comes from the archive of the published, C.A. Reitzel. Originaludgaverne af Andersens anden og tredie samling af æventyr foreligger her i usædvanligt rene eksemplarer og ligeså usædvanligt, med alle titelblade og dedikationsblade. Heri førstetrykkene af adskillige af Andersens mest kendte og elskede æventyr, bl.a. "Grantræet", "Sneedronningen", "Elverhøi", "De røde Skoe", "Hyrdinden og Skorstensfeieren", "Holger Danske", "Skyggen", "Historien om en Moder" etc. - BFN: 428,454,467,516,529,606,616.First edition of Andersen's second and third Fairy Tale Collection (one of the 7 parts in 3. issue), containing the Fairy Tales which brought him international fame. These collections contain several of his most famous and cherished Fairy Tales. Very scarce with all general titles, indexes, halftitles and dedication-leaves.

Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1839. Orig. printed yellow wrappers (no backstrip). In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e series, Volume 71, Juillet- issue, pp. 225-352 (entire July-issue offered with orig. wrappers and titlepage to vol. 71). Arago's paper: pp. 313-340. First printing of probably the first (the Juillet issue of Annales) official announcement of Daguerre's invention of the photographic process. The paper offered here preceeded the official report in Comptes Rendues which was published at the end of 1839 (in the July-December issue). The first report of on the discovery was presented to the Royal Academy on January 7, 1839 and delivered in full on August 19, 1839 (and printed in the July-Dec. issue of Comptes Rendues). The paper also preceeded Daguerre's own publication of 1839 "Historique et description du daguerréotypie..."In 1839 Arago took a personal interest in announcing and popularizing the inventions of Niepce and Daguerre, who were awarded government pensions as a result of Arago’s recognition of their inventions’ potential significance."In 1829 Daguerre went into partnership with Niepce, who had managed to produce images by the action of light some three years earlier but had failed to make the process really practical. Daguerre carried on and began to use copper plates on which silver salts were deposited. ight was made to focus upon that and an image was formed. The light portions of the image darkened the salts, while the shadowy portions left them unaffected. The unchanged salt was dissolved away by sodium thiosulfate (a process that had been suggested by John Herschel and a permanent image of sorts was left behind."(Asimov).Together with JEAN CHARLES PELTIER "Mémoire sur la Formation des Tables des Rapports qu'il y entre la Force d'un Courant électrique et la Déviation des aiguilles des multiplicateurs; suivi de Recherches sur la Causes de Pertubation des couples thermo-électriques...", pp. 225-313.

(København, 1862). Folio. (52,5 x 36,5 cm.). Samtidigt hldrbd. Ryg slidt og revner i skindet ved kapitæler. Indeholder 16 Sectioner med ialt 65 kortplaner i dobbelt-folio, enkelte endnu større, alle litograferede og med sektionstitler. De fleste med signaturer i farver og kolorerede efter signaturerne, som omfatter linieføring, veje, broer, amts-sogne-by etc. - skel, veje, broer, niveauer, viadukter etc. etc. og med indtegning og angivelse af samtlige berørte matrikler, skove, vandløb, søer etc.Sectionerne har overskrifterne "Jydske Jernbane 1ste - 10 + (11.-16.) Section": 1. Aarhus-Randers. - 2. Langaa-Viborg. - 3. Viborg-Skive-Struer. - 3A. Viborg-Skive-Struer II. - 4. Struer-Holstebro. - 5. Nyborg-Odense-Lille Belt. - 5A. Nyborg-Odense-Lille Belt II. - 6. Vamdrup-Kolding-Fredericia. - 7. Fredericia-Veile. - 8. Veile-Horsens-Aarhus. - 8A. veile-Horsens-Aarhus II. - 9. Randers-Hobro. - 10. Hobro-Aalborg. - 11. Skanderborg-Silkeborg. - 12. Nörre-Sundby-Hjörring. - 13. Hjörring-Frederikshavn. - 14. Esbjerg-Lunderskov. - 15. Bramminge-Ribe. - 16. Randers-Grenaa. Givetvis kun litograferet i et meget begrænset antal, antageligt til brug for tilbudsgivere og som angivelse af indholdet af det omfang m.h.t. til linieføringen som beskrevet i anlægsloven af 1861. Arbejderne blev udført 1862-69.Kort efter vedtagelse af 1861-loven sendte staten to mand fra hærens ingeniørkorps til området mellem Vejle og Århus samt Midtjylland for at undersøge terrænet. Ingeniør Niels Henrik Holst (senere driftsbestyrer for de jysk-fynske statsbaner) og Anton Hoffmann undersøgte otte mulige linier, heraf gik de seks gennem Horsens, mens de to sidste løb længere mod vest med en sidebane til Horsens. Flere af de foreslåede linier gik vest om Mossø og via Ry, da man herved opnåede to ting. Dels undgik man det vanskelig terræn nær den jyske østkyst, og dels fik banen forbindelse til Silkeborgsøerne og Gudenåen. Holst og Hoffmann understregede dog i deres rapport, at banen burde føres gennem Horsens, og forbindelsen til Gudenåen kunne i stedet skabes ved trafik med dampskibe ad en vandvej, dvs. en kombination af gravede kanaler og søerne, fra Skanderborg sø eller Fuldbro Mølle (nær Tåning) ved Mossø, 6 km vest for Skanderborg. En linieføring vest om Mossø samt sidebanen til Horsens blev opgivet, da man ønskede en kortere linie Vejle-Århus. Loven om strækningen Vejle-Horsens-Fuldbro Mølle-Stilling-Århus blev vedtaget i januar 1863.

London, Printed by J. Macock for Luke Favvne, 1651. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Wear to extremities. Pp. 541-606 with worm-tract in inner margin, not affecting text. Last leaves with marginal miscolouring, but generally a good copy. (18), 624 pp. First edition of Manton’s commentary on James which not only is regarded as being his finest work but also as being “one of the best expositions ever written on James”. (Beeke, Meet the Puritans). Thomas Manton, born on March 31, 1620, in Lydeard St. Lawrence. Thomas received his early education at the free school in Tiverton, Devon. At the age of sixteen, he enrolled at Wadham College, Oxford, where he pursued his studies. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1639, followed by a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1654, and finally, a Doctorate of Divinity degree in 1660, all from Oxford University. Ordained to the diaconate at the age of twenty in 1640 by Joseph Hall, Manton served as a lecturer at the parish church of Sowton near Exeter, Devonshire, for three years. Manton quickly rose to prominence as a leading Presbyterian figure in London, leveraging his influence to advocate for the establishment of Presbyterian church governance and to promote public peace during turbulent periods. He played a significant role in the Westminster Assembly, where he was appointed one of three clerks, and delivered numerous sermons before Parliament during the Commonwealth era. “Manton was remembered at his funeral as “the king of preachers.” Bates said that he never heard him deliver a poor sermon and commended his ability to “represent the inseparable connection between Christian duties and privileges.” Archbishop James Ussher described Manton as “a voluminous preacher” and “one of the best in England.” That is certainly evident from Manton’s many writings, most of which are sermons.” (Beeke, Meet the Puritans).

(København, Tyge Nielsen), 1638 + Kiøbenhafn, Tyge Nielssøn, 1639. Lille 8vo. Indbundet sammen i et samtidigt helpergamentsbind. Permer med enkel blindtrykt rammedekoration. Bindet gulnet og kanter ved false med krakeleringer og sprækker. I: Her MANGLER fællestitelbladet. De 5 deltitelblade tilstede med trykåret 1638. (22),323,(9) pp. 8 blade omkantede. Nogle skjolder, brunpletter og brugsspor. - II: 221 pp. Sidste læg med rod i pagineringen. Sidste 8 blade omkantede. En del blade lettere kantflossede. Brugsspor. Lægebogen foreligger her i komplet stand undtagen fællestitelbladet. Den må betegnes som 3. udgaven, men er et nøjagtigt optryk af af udgaven fra 1635. - Bibl. Danica I,800. - Thesaurus II,741.Husholdningskalenderen foreligger her i komplet stand og er her stærkt forøget i forhold til udgaven fra 1633. Yderst sjælden i komplet stand. (Originaludgaven fra 1622 er gået tabt, der kendes kun et eksemplar af 2. udgaven fra 1631). Værket betegnes som den første vejledning i havebrug og landbrug af en dansk forfatter. - Bibl. Danica II,257. - Thesaurus II,739.Tyge Nielsen blev Norges første bogtrykker idet han 1643 flyttede trykkeriet til Christiania.

London, Robert Young, 1633. Folio. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Wear to extremities. Boards with scratches and a few wormholes, corners bumped and capitals chipped. Missing small part of leather on lower compartment. Vague dampstaining throughout and a few worm-tracts. Engraved title-page. (30), 345, (1), 351-416, 415-657, (1) + frontispiece. ‎Rare later English translation of Du Bartas exceptionally popular "La Semaine" and "Seconde semaine" and several miner poems. La Semaine became immensely popular and was quickly translated into most European languages. Du Bartas was extremely popular in early modern England, and was still being read widely in the later seventeenth century even as his reputation in France began to decline. La Semaine was first translated into English in 1598 (“No perfect copy know” Lowndes) and the present folio-edition which include several of his lesser popular work, was first published in 1605 and was reprinted six times up until 1641. All editions are scarce and are rarely found in the trade. “No other poem (besides those in the Bible itself) was read as widely as the Semaines were across early modern English and Scottish society. Based on references to Sylvester in print, Snyder believed that ‘Clearly everyone in pre-Restoration England who had received a literary education read the ‘Weekes’ ande almost all…. Admired it’. According to Gordon Braden, it was ‘probably the most popular vernacular poem in translation in early modern England’.” (Auger, Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland). Lowndes II, p. 679

Paris, Billaine, 1669. 12mo. Uniformly bound in 15 contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, parts og gilting worn off and a few of the bindings with minor loss of leather to spine-ends. Vague dampstain in vol. 6, otherwise internally fine and clean. Nice set of the collected works of François de La Mothe Le Vayer, a French writer and philosopher. He was known for his skepticism and criticism of dogmatism in various fields, including religion, philosophy, and science. Le Vayer served as the tutor to the future King Louis XIV of France. Brunet III, 800

Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. In "The Physical Review", Volume 56, Second Series, Number 5, September 1. With cloth back-strip. A quire, affecting both papers, detached but without any loss of paper. A few minor tear throughout, far from affecting text. [Bohr & Wheeler:] Pp. 426-50. [Oppenheimer & Snyder:] Pp. 455-59. [Entire volume: Pp. 387-486]. First printing of two landmark papers, all of seminal importance in history of physics: The intricacies of the fission process, the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs and the forgotten birth of black holes: The first theoretical description of a black hole, the production of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses.Oppenheimer and Snyder's "ON CONTINUED GRAVITATIONAL CONTRACTION" constitute the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. "Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form." (American Physical Society). The paper has by several physics historians been described as the forgotten birth of black holes. "Oppenheimer and his graduate student George Volkoff presented the first analysis of the formation of a neutron star in a 1939 Physical Review paper titled, "On Massive Neutron Stars". Oppenheimer wondered what would happen to a very massive neutron star. The Schwartzschild analysis of General Relativity has a theoretical limit, called the "Schwartzschild limit", when the ratio of mass-to-radius of a star is 236,000 times greater than the ratio for our sun. When this limit is exceeded, the Schwartzschild analysis does not yield a solution. Oppenheimer believed that a neutron star could have sufficient mass to exceed this limit. What would happen to it? Oppenheimer and his graduate student Hartland Snyder applied General Relativity theory to a star with sufficient mass and density to exceed the Schwartzschild limit. The Schwartzschild analysis assumed that the size of the star stays constant with time. Oppenheimer and Snyder found that they could achieve a real solution from General Relativity when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded by assuming that the diameter of the star decreases with time. They presented their analysis in a 1939 Physical Review paper, titled, "On Continual Gravitational Contraction," which concluded with: "When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted, a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely." This analysis concluded that when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded, the star must collapse indefinitely until it reaches a singularity having an infinite density of matter" (Bjornson, Singularity Predictions of General Relativity, P. 4).The Chandrasekhar / Eddington controvery in the mid 30ies did discuss the fate of neutron stars but the first thoroughly theoretical desciption was first published here. "THE MECHANISM OF NUCLEAR FISSION" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission, which laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs."Wheeler's technical mastery of physics is best seen in the classic paper of Bohr and Wheeler. Bohr and Wheeler wrote the paper in Princeton, where Bohr was visiting in the spring of 1939, a few months after the discovery of fission. The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics. Seen from the classical point of view, it is a liquid drop composed of a positively charged fluid. The electrostatic force that is trying to split it apart is balanced by the nuclear surface tension that is holding it together. The energy supplied by the captured neutron causes the drop to oscillate in various normal modes that can be calculated classically. Seen from the quantum point of view, the nucleus is a superposition of a variety of quantum states leading to different final outcomes. The final outcome may be a uranium 235 nucleus with a re-emitted neutron, or a uranium 236 nucleus with an emitted gamma-ray, or a pair of fission-fragment nuclei with one or more free neutrons. Bohr and Wheeler calculate the cross-section for fission of uranium 235 by a slow neutron and get the right answer within a factor of two. Their calculation is a marvelous demonstration of the power of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics working together. By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated" (John Archibald Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154 (2010)).

Copenhagen, 1935-40. Large 4to. Bound in one nice solid hcalf. Text to each volume and 200 superb chromolithographed plates. Index practically bound separately in hcloth with titlelabel. This copy has belonged to the main collaborator N.F. Buchwald, bearing his name and exlibris. First edition. One of the technically finest chromolithographed books ever produced. More than a thousand species are described. The descriptions are brief because most specific details can be seen, and the author even recommends that they should be examined with a lens. - "Flora agaricina Danica...are both scientifically invaluable and superb examples of modern printing" (G.C. Ainsworth) - Nissen BBI:1132.