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Sorøe, Jonas Lindgren, 1763 - 1764. 4to. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands. "Söe Cadet Accadem:" embossed to front boards. Wear to extremities, head of spines chipped and parts of the gilting worn off. A few annotations to front free end-paper in both volumes. Small stamp to upper outer corner on title-page in both volumes. Internally very nice and clean. (28), 656, (4) pp. + 14 folded engraved plate; (16),1000 pp. + 47 folded engraved plates. First edition of the most significant Danish physics work of the 18th century, being the first systematic exposition of Newtonian physics and mathematics in Denmark. Here he provides a systematic presentation of Newtonian physics and calculus. "Kraft’s best-known work is a textbook on theoretical and technical mechanics (1763-1764). The book, written in an easy and fluent style, contains a series of lectures baied on Newtonian principle. Each lecture is provided with a supplement giving a more advanced mathematical exposition of the subject matter. In Denmark this work gave theoretical physics a firm basis as an academic subject, while its large section on machines stimulated the expansion of industry. The book was favorably received abroad and was trans. lated into Latin and German." (DSB) Jens Kraft (1720–1765) was a Dano-Norwegian mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Frederikshald in Norway.While still a student in Copenhagen, he was influenced by Christian Wolff, having attended one of Wolff’s lectures during a visit to Halle. Later he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Sorø Academy, where he responded to Baumgarten’s Metaphysica with his own work, Metaphysik. Both philosophers structured their works into four divisions: Cosmologie, Ontologie, Psykologie, and Naturlig Theologie. Kraft distinguished between time and eternity asserting that “the finite can never attain eternity, but it can attain infinite time (Aevum), a time with a beginning but without an end.” In contrast, the infinite possesses true permanence. Biblioteca Danica II, 53.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926-27. 8vo. Bound in one nice hcalf with gilt borders and gilt lettering to spine. All three papers published in "Zeitschrift für Physik". 1. Title-page for volume 37, pp. 863-67. - 2. Title-page for volume 38, pp.. 803-27. - 3. Title-page for volume 40, pp.167-192. Title-pages with stamp. Clean and fine. First editions of all three papers, which together constitute Born's main contributions to Quantum Mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954. In his famous series of papers on wave mechanics Schrödinger stated his equation describing the behavior of the wave function. However, Schrödinger did not himself arrive at a proper physical interpretation of the wave function itself - this is due to Born. Just a few days after Schrödinger's fourth and final paper was published, Born successfully interpreted the wave function as probability amplitude. His relatively brief paper (the first offered here) was originally meant to be published in the weekly magazine "Die Naturwissenschaften" but due to lack of space in this journal it was forwarded to the 'Zeitschrift'. The next paper offered, with the same title, is an elaboration of the first. In the third paper Born used the adiabatic principle to further support his statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

London, John Pine, 1733-37. Royal 8vo. Bound in 2 cont. uniform red full morocco. 5 raised bands on backs, backs richly gilt, boards richly gilt, inner gilt borders on boards, all edges of boards gilt, all edges gilt. Vol. 1 neatly rebacked, vol. 2 w. a bit worn hinges. Corners bumped. Internally mint condition. Front- and end-papers in silk, printed on fine, thick paper, broad margins. Copper-engr. throughout, plates and vignettes as well as text. First editon, first issue ("post est Caesar" in sted of "potest Caesar" on medal p. 108, vol II) with the first impressions. This beautiful work, said to be the finest illustrated English book of the 18th century, became a main inspiration for the art of bookillustration. "This edition is much esteemed by the curious. The text is ENGRAVED as well as the numerous and beautiful vignettes which accompany it: of these vignettes, the copies which contain the FIRST IMPRESSIONS are valuable and much sought after." (Dibdin II: 108).Inserted a HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED NOTE BY PINE, dated "November 5 - 1743." The note is a receipt, stating that Pine received one pound sixteen shilling for a set of Horace.

Copenhague, Nicolas Möller, 1778. 4to. Bound in a fine (20th Century) full calf. Raised bands. Gilt lineborders on spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved title-vignette. XLIII,(3),372 pp., folded table, 1 large folded map (Terræ Yemen) and 24 engraved plates (of which 6 are charts, many large folding). The large map with some browning and foxing. Otherwise clean and fine, wide-margined, printed on good paper. First French edition of Niebuhr's famous classical account of his Arabian travel, being the first scientific expedition to Arabia Felix. With the famous map of Yemen (35x55 cm.) and the large folded map of the Arab Gulf (Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus), which is the first map at all to mention Kuwait."Niebuhr was one of the best scientific travellers that ever lived... His works have long been classical, and even now must be consulted by any who desires to have the most trustworthy accounts,.." (Enc. Brit. 9th ed.).

Lancaster, The Physical Review, 1923. Royal8vo. Contemp. full buckram. In:"The Physical Review", Series II, vol. 21. (4),736 pp., Plates and textillustr. (Entire volume offered). A perforated stamp in upper margin on a few leaves. Compton's paper: pp. (483-) 501. First printing of this milestone paper in quantum physics in which Compton verifies Planck's quantum postulate and found that some of the X-rays had, in scattering, lenghtened their wavelenght. This phenomena was called the "Compton Effect" in his honour. For this discovery Compton received the Nobel prize in physics in 1927."Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons." (Asimov)Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1923 P. - Sigmund Brandt "The Harvest of as Century", Episode 31.

Venezia, (1686). 8vo. (16,5x11 cm.). Contemp. full vellum. Halftitle-page. Engraved Title-page (the Lion of St. Mark). (8),237,1 blank,(2- Indice) pp. and 41 (of 42 ?) double-page folded engraved maps and plans (bird's-eye views or plans of fortified towns and places etc.). Internally fine and clean. Printed on good paper. A fine copy. Second edition (the first 8vo-edition), issued the same year as the first (in folio), describing the Venetian campaign for the reconquest of the Peloponnese or Morea, from which Venice had been almost completely excluded since the Turkish conquest of the Greek island in 1458."As is often the case with Coronelli's work, the contents may vary with each example as plates were added, subtracted or changed as the editor saw fit" (Rodney Shirley "Maps in the Atlases of the british Library", T.Coro-1a, - listing only 39 maps and views for this copy).Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, an Italian geographer and draughtsman, was born at Venice about 1650. From 1681-1683 he worked in Paris on a pair of 3.85 meter diameter globes for Louis XIV, which are now in the National Library in Paris. On his return to Venice he was made cosmographer of the Republic, and founded the Academy of Argonauts (the first Geographical Society). In 1702 he became general of his order.

Au Monomatapa (Paris, 1748) 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to spines, some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. (8), 370 pp. + 5 plates; (4), 420 pp. + 2 plates (complete). The rare first edition of Diderot’s first novel, published anonymously, being an allegory portraying Louis XV of France as Mangogul, Sultan of Congo, who owns a magic ring that makes women's vaginas talk. For unspecified reasons Diderot did not venture further into this subject, however, he did make sure to portray Madame de Pompadour, the mistress Louis XV, in a flattering light, most likely to ensure her support for his Encyclopedie – a support he received and in 1751 he, together with D'Alembert, published their seminal ‘Encyclopédie’. Tchemerzine IV, 430

Kbhvn. 1804-28, 1830, og 1834-35. Indbundet i 51 bind. Bd- 1-49 i samt. halvlæderbind, bd. 1-4 i 8vo, resten i 4to. Bd. 1 og 2 mangler øverste del af ryg, de sidste 2 bind i nyere halvmaroquin, alle med stempler på titelblade og etiketter på rygge. Bd. 16 mangler nr. 96 og 100. I Allernyeste, 1830 mangler spalte 1-4. Yderst sjælden række af dette omfattende kulturhistorisk/topografiske værk. "Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn" grundlages i 1803 af Johan Werfel, og eksisterede til 1837. Johan Werfel døbte bladet Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn til minde om sin ven samfundsrevseren Niels Ditlev Riegels, som var død året før. Riegels havde 1786-1790 udgivet det samfundskritiske blad Månedsskriftet Kjøbenhavns Skilderie, men efter Trykkefrihedsforordningen af 1799 var grænserne for, hvad man kunne skrive, væsentligt indskrænkede. Werfel forsøgte i nogle numre af sit blad at mindes Riegels ved at udgive nogle af hans efterladte skrifter, men måtte efter nogle numre stoppe forsøget. Boghandleren og forlæggeren Salomon Soldin blev snart ansat som redaktør, og efter at Werfel i 1808 forsvandt og foregav at være død for at undgå sine kreditorer, overtog Soldin også udgivelsen af bladet.I de første årgange var bladet et lille ugeblad, der udkom i kvartformat, men det udvidedes snart, så bladet i format og udgivelse kunne konkurrere med tidens andre populære blade såsom Berlingske Tidende og Adresseavisen.Soldin skrev selv en stor del af indholdet i bladet, men også flere af tidens betydelige personligheder som Rasmus Nyerup, Knud Lyne Rahbek, Christian Molbech og Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig bidrog ofte med indlæg.Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn var et særligt københavnsk blad, og det læstes fortrinsvis af de dannede borgere. Det var desuden i sin levetid et af de væsentligste blade, hvor bl.a. mange af de vigtigste litterære fejder stod.Allerede i 1825 afhændede Soldin redaktionen af bladet til Frederik Thaarup. Omgangskredsen frygtede for bladets skæbne, og selv sagde Soldin, at han ved overgivelsen til Thaarup havde sørget for, at de fik "kristelig Begravelse". Det var dog ikke Thaarup, der lagde det i graven, for efter 6 år på posten overlodes det til Hans Christian Wosemose, Claudius Rosenhoff og J. H. Stabell som omdøbte det til Allernyeste Skilderie. Det levede endnu 6 år, men i 1837, samme år som Soldin døde, gik bladet endeligt ind. - Bibl. Danica IV: 614.

Kiøbenhaffn, Matz Vinggaard, 1577. Folio. Samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. 2 messinbeslag efter 2 lukkestroppe. Ryg med ophøjede bind. Ryg fornyet i ældre tid. Kapitælslid. De rigt blindtrykte permsider kun delvist bevarede, panelleret med rullestempler. Hjørner restaurerede. En nyere, på permens inderside, indklæbet beskrivelse, hævder, at bindet er udført af P. Knufflack.(14),171,155,114 blade. 4 blade i faksimile (A1-2 og B4-5). En del blade kantflossede. Nogle skjolder, brugsspor. Enkelte blade defekte med lidt tab af bogstaver. Spredte kantreparationer og mindre revner i marginer. De to deltitelblade med bred træskåren ramme. Gennemillustreret med store bibelske træsnit som er kopier af Hans Brosamers illustrationer til en tysk bibel, trykt i Frankfurt 1548-49. Folio. Contemporary full calf binding over wooden boards with old rebacking. Two brass clasps, no ties. Raised bands to spine. Capitals worn. The richly blindstamped boards have only partly been preserved. Corners restored. A newer decription pasted into the inside of front board claims that the binding was made by P. Knufflack. Several leaves worn at edges. Some damp staining and wear. A few leaves defective with loss of a few letters. Scattered edge repairs and small tears to margins. The two half-titles with wide woodcut border. Illustrated throughout with large biblical woodcuts that are copies of Hans Brosamer's illustrations for a German bible printed in Frankfurt 1548-49. 4 leaves in facsimile (A1-2 and B4-5). (14), 171, 155, 114 ff. The exceedingly scarce re-issue of the first Danish edition of Luther's "Huuspostille", which was printed by Lorenz Benedicht in 1564. Thesurus states that only two copies of this incredibly rare book has been on the market since World War II. Only very few copies on private hands. Det yderst sjældne re-issue af førsteudgaven der blev trykt af Lorentz Benedicht i 1564. Thesaurus anfører, at der kun har været to eksemplarer på markedet siden 2. Verdenskrig.Thesaurus I, 104. - Birkelund, 24 (1564-udgaven) - Lauritz Nielsen, 1085.

Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Möller, 1779. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities and capitals with repairs. Ex-libris pasted on to front free end-paper. Small vague dampstain to lower outer corner, affecting a few leaves. An overall very nice and clean copy. (20), 291, (24) + 34 engraved plates, several of them folded, and 1 frontispiece. First edition of one of the very first detailed descriptions of North Africa and Morocco in particular, containing the earliest description of Moroccan-Arabic dialect in a European source by mentioning personal pronouns, some verbs and prepositions, genitive marker, present markers and euphemisms, together with comparisons between Moroccan and Classical Arabic. Containing detailed and accurate information about the history, geography, government, commerce, religion, culture and customs, it became one of the most important works for the study of Morocco in the eighteenth century, and it was quickly translated into German and French. Georg Hjersing Höst (1734-1794) was between 1760 and 1768 in Morocco, first in the service of the Danish-African Royal Company and later as vice consul of Denmark in Mogador (Essaouira).Schnurrer "Biblioheca Arabica", vide Nos. 125 a. 139.

Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt spine, slightly rubbed, light wear to spine ends. "Annales de Chimie: ou Recueil de Mémoires Concernant la Chimie et les Arts qui en Dépendent. Par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Monge, Berthollet, De Fourcroy, le Baron de Dietrich, Hassenfratz & Adet." Tome Premier. (2),312,(2) pp. The entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. A small wormtract to upper margin of ab. 20 leaves, no loss of letters. First edition of the first volume of this very important journal, founded by Lavoisier and his friends, collaborating in establishing THE NEW SCIENCE of Anti-Phlogistic theory in chemistry. Crosland (in "The two French Revolutions" and "The Imperial Despotism of Oxygen") claims that for a clear understanding of the CHEMICAL REVOLUTION, THE NEW JOURNAL of ANNALES DE CHIMIE can be rightly considered as FUNDAMENTAL as the "Traite élementaire de Chimie"."A third and most important instrument was the establishment of a new scientific journal, edited - and dominated - by the votaries of the "new chemistry". The first number of this journal of the Annales de chimie appeared in 1789, the year of the Revolution. Its editors were besides Lavoisier, his early disciples - Guyton, Berthollet, Fourcroy, and Monge - with the addition of three new recruits: the Strassbourf metallurgist the Baron de Dietrich, Jean-henri Hssenfratz and Pierre Auguste Adet."(DSB VIII, p.81).LAVOISIER'S paper on COMBUSTION (pp. 19-30) contains his important interpretation of the phenomena of combustion in air, making the fundamental distinction between burning and combustion. By this "Lavoisier gave to the study of chemistry a new life, a new direction and a wider outlook." (Alexander Findley)."The Lavoisierian memoir on combustion of iron stood out among the large number of interesting papers discussed in the first volume of the "Annales". In his account Lavoisier sustained that in nature, combustion without flames did occur. Thus, he clarified the distinction between ordinary burning and combustion: an issue on which the majority of traditional chemists were confused. The need for accuracy and precision in laboratory practices was emphasised in his study, as it was a means to determine quantities rather than assuming them."(Angela Bandinelli in "Scientific Communication During a Major Change ...Empirical Research: Annales de chimie vs Obs. sur la physique/ Journal de physique (1789-1803)).The volume furthermore contains important papers by: Adet, Fourcroy (3 papers), Berthollet (3 papers), Chaptal, Hassenfratz (5 papers), Baron de Dietrich (2 papers), Klaproth (2 papers), Girtanner, Dollfuss, Bonz de Ettingen, Crell, De Morveau.

Kiøbenhaffn, Hendrick Gøde, 1661. 4to. Nyere halvpergamentsbd. Trykt rygtitel i sort. marmoreret sidepapir. Lille stempel på titelbladet. (65),277,(20) pp. Lidt tæt beskåret foroven og forneden. Papiret er af ret dårlig kvalitet hvorfor bladene gennemgående er noget gulnede. Lidt spredte brunpletter. Et blad med et hul i ydre margin, uden teksttab. Titelbladet let forstærket i indre margin. Har tidligere tilhørt sprogforskeren Peter Skautrup og bærer hans navn på fribladet. Den meget sjældne originaludgave af senrenaissancens digteriske hovedværk i Danmark og Norge, forfattet i rimede hexametere. Værket udkom først efter forfatterens død og blev besørget af hans søn Christian Anderssøn Arrebo. Det er en fri ombearbejdelse af Salluste du Bartas digt "La prémiere Semaine" (ugen, Skabelsens seks dage) hvis omarbejdelse til de europæiske hovedsprog blev et nationalt anliggende for disse lande. I Danmark var initiativtageren kansler Christian Friis til Kragerup.Bibl. Dan. I,342. - Thesaurus II,320. - Christian IV og Europa, 1589.

Wisingsborg, J. Kankel, 1674. 4to. Nyere hpergamentsbd. (4),304 pp. Gl. ejernavne på titelbladet. Øverste højre hjørne af titelbladet fornyet, intet tab af tekst. Titelbladet med brunpletter og nogle blælpletter. Nogle blde med gl. understregninger. Spredte brunpletter og brugsspor. Anden udgaven af denne berømte svenske rejsebog med originalberetninger fra rejser i Asien, Afrika, Ostindien og Japan, China. - Både denne og førsteudgaven er trykt i Wisingborg af Johann Kankel.Collijn 1600-talet, 457.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 4to. Original pre-publication typescript, hectographt print, printed on rectos only. In original red printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Paley Johanson's copy, with his owner's name and inscription to top of front wrapper: Paley Johnson/ Dept. of Colloid Science/ Free School Lane/ Cambridge". A few smaller nicks and creases to front wrapper, otherwise a fine clean copy. (2), 135 ff. Scarce pre-publication typescript, with an excellent provenance, of Schrödinger's important attempt at developing a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics, developed in his seminar lectures of the Dublin institute for advanced studies in January - March 1944. A very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies [offered item]. In 1952 the first public printing, differing a bit from the hectograph printing, of the lectures appeared - in a book of the same title. That highly popular book was printed in large numbers. "The idea of this seminar is to develop briefly one simple, unified standard method, capable of dealing, without changing the fundamental attitude, with ALL cases (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.) and with every new problem that may turn up. The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. Not a first introduction for new-comers to the subject is intended, rather a 'repetitorium'. The wording is extremely shortened about well-known stories to be found in every one of a hundred text-books, but more extended on some vital points, usually passed over in all but large monographs (as Fowler's and Tolman's)There is, essentially, only one problem in statistical thermodynamics: the distribution of a given amount of energy E over N identical systems..." (From the General Introduction by Schrödinger, f. 1).It is in the course of the present lectures that Schrödinger explains why he thought the Boltzmann counting method not be appropriate. Furthermore, Schrödinger here distinguishes himself from his 1925-6 publications on the same subject by presenting (1) the complete relinquishment of the concept of wave packets, and (2) the exclusive stress put on the field quantization formalism which, for all statistical purposes, is equivalent to Schrödinger's initial quantized matter wave model. "A very small edition of these lectures was published in hectograph by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It is hoped that the present edition, for which the text has been slightly revised, may reach a wider circle of readers. (Initiating Note in the second edition of the book). PALEY JOHNSON (1917-2011) was a famous colloid scientist, in the field of which he became a world authority, focusing on the physical properties of biological macromolecules in solution. Having won a place at Trinity College Cambridge and gone on to make a PhD there, he went on to the Royal Institution in London, where, along with Albert Alexander, he produced a comprehensive two-volume Oxford University Press monograph on Colloid Science, which, for nearly half a century, remained the authoritative text in the field, and is still a valuable reference source, even today. Primarily in recognition of this, along with other achievements, the University subsequently awarded Paley the distinction of an ScD degree. In 1950, he returned to Free School Lane to take up an academic post at the Colloid Science Laboratory."Paley was first and foremost an experimentalist, one of the best, and his attention turned to physical techniques for solving biological problems - to two techniques in particular, of which he became the master and a world authority. One was the analytical Utracentrifuge. [...] Paley found a completely new application for this technique in the characterization of gels, gelatin and other jelly-like materials. One of the present world leaders in colloid science, Professor Helmut Colfen at the University of Konstanz in Germany, comments on this work on gel analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge: "Paley did the first systematic analyses of gel systems in the centrifuge which was highly pioneering work since up to then, only solutions or dispersions of particles had been investigated. He found that the behaviour of a gel in the centrifuge was fundamentally different from a solution or dispersion and established the theory describing this. He was thus the first one to accurately describe the behaviour of gels in the centrifugal field and laid the foundations for the analysis and understanding of the important class of materials known as hydrogels, crucial for their application in food and biopharmaceuticals."The other technique which became Paley's trademark was light scattering of macromolecular dispersions - a technique requiring meticulous attention to detail. Without that attention, as Paley would say, "experiments were not useful". In his own research and publications, he did a lot to establish good practice, giving detailed procedures for achieving this, and was very critical of other studies where this attention to detail was not followed or shortcuts had been taken. [...] Colloid science at Cambridge and Paley Johnson were almost synonymous." (Steve Harding, Obituary in The Biochemical society, december 2011).Colloid Science, with its study of large molecules, is a bridge building subject lying at the boundary of a number of disciplines, physical chemistry, biology and mathematics. It's results are important and beneficiel in a large number of fields. During the War Paley worked in the colloid laboratory collaborating with others on various projects: the development of incendiary mixtures and the use of cellulose nitrate in making cordite for rockets; the use of detergents in lubrication; the use of synthetic polymers in warfare. He also had a wartime research Fellowship sponsored by ICI looking at an interest, which remained a serious study, the use of the protein in peanut butter.

London, 1895-96. Uncut in 18 excellent, uniform, blue half morocco bindings with richly gilt spines in maritime theme. Capitals and top edge gilt. Minor bumping to some corners and occasional edge wear. Two spines (vols. 9 and 10) faded and vol. 7 with a small nick to the top compartment of spine. Overall en excellent set. Internally overall very nice, clean, and fresh. Old label removed to inside of front boards, which all also have the book plate of Frances Evely Countess of Warwick. Bookplates with a later library placement stamp and title-pages with a crowned stamp (royal marine library). Beautiful engraved frontispiece to each volume, except for vol. 17, which has a double-page printed map in stead. Illustrated with engraved plates throughout. An excellent set of this magnificent illustrated edition, all volumes nr. 6 of 25 copies on hand-made paper, "for England". Wonderfully illustrated with engraved plates by Downing and Nooth.

London, Longman, Brown, Green, And Longman, 1856, 8vo. In the original full embossed red cloth, rebacked, preserving most of the original spine. Map with 10 cm long tear. Wear to extremities and 1 quire lose. Otherwise internally fine. (I)-XV, 300, (1)-4, 24 pp. + 1 folded map. The exceedingly rare first edition of Captain Bernard Whittingham's notes on his voyage from Hong Kong aboard HMS Sibylle to the Russian settlements in Eastern Siberia. Here he recounts in detail the movements and actions of HMS Sybille, including the period of the capture of the Diana's crew (under the command Nikolai Baron Schilling) and their transfer in Hong Kong to other Royal Navy ships. Whittingham had volunteered to join an Allied squadron attempting 'to discover the progress of Russian aggrandisement in North-eastern Asia, and to ascertain how far the reports of her successful encroachment on the sea frontiers of China and Japan were true'. In the context of the Crimean War's Pacific theatre, he was also keen to see avenged the Royal Navy's defeat by the Russians at Petropavlovsk the previous year."Between March and May, the British Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Bruce, assembled his fleet in preparation for a renewed attack on Petropavlovsk to be carried out in May. On March 26 (7), the frigate HMS Sybille (Commodore the Hon. Charles Elliot), steam corvette HMS Hornet and brig HMS Bittern left Hong Kong under instructions from Rear Admiral Sir James Stirling, Commander-in-Chief on the China station. By April 2 (14) the Screw Steam Ship HMS Encounter (Captain George William Douglas O'Callagan) and the Paddle Wheel Steam Sloop HMS Barracouta (Commander Frederick Henry Stirling), both vessels detached for the purpose from the East India station by Rear Admiral Stirling, were in position at the rendezvous position patrolling some distance off Petropavlovsk. Accuracy in the accounts of the events involving HMS Sybille and HMS Barracouta is greatly enhanced by the existence of contemporary journals written by Captain Bernard Whittingham, Royal Engineers, travelling as an observer on HMS Sybille, and by Assistant Surgeon John M Tronson, of HMS Barracouta." (Girad, "Setting the Scene").The present publication consists of the authors partially unedited notes: "The following rough notes were originally pencilled at intervals of a few days, to refresh the recollections of their writer, and they have subsequently been copied amidst the bustle of the saloons of crowded Oriental steamers; and as the duties of the writer's profession preclude any attempt to remould or amplify them, they are offered in their present unpolished form, in the hope that the slight and meagre information they afford of lands comparatively unknown - the Japan Islands, and the shores of Tartary and Eastern Siberia - may interest the public." (from the preface).

London, J. Brotherton, 1735. 12mo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with four raised bands and red title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Single gilt line-border to boards, inside which a lovely blindstamped ornamental border to one side. All edges of boards with blindstamped ornamentations. P. 1 has a contemporary neat inscription reading: "Exam.d Morris" - in the author's own hand? Macclesfield copy, with the armorial bookplate of Earls of Macclesfield to pasted down front end-paper and Shirburn Castle (seat of the Earls of Macclesfield) armorial blindstamp to first four leaves Ex-libris. A lovely, clean, and crisp copy. IV, 48 + (2), 92 pp. Exceedingly scarce first edition of Morris' book of tables for renewing and purchasing leases in relation to age, being the most accurate and comprehensive list of tables published at the time. The work was considered controversial due to the proposed fall in rent in relation to age, which was seen as a discrimination against young people; a concept which today has been implemented in virtually all aspects of banking and insurance. "As late as 1735, Gael Morris, a writer of commercial manuals on annuities and leases, explained that annuities could frequently be purchased cheaper on lives aged between 30 and 40 than on lives under 25 because 'the Hazards of Persons between 15 and 25 are so many' - a conclusion making some intuitive sense but strictly at odds with the lessons taught by Halley's table. There seems to have existed, in short, a deep reluctance to embrace the discovery that the value of annuities and land leases made for the duration of a life (or lives) varied predictably with the age(s) of the lessee(s)." (Clark, Betting On Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775, p. 116).Gael Morris worked as a mathematician and astronomer and was the assistant of British astronomer James Bradley for several years, where he helped to compute tables of planetary orbits.The work is of the utmost scarcity, with only five copies listed on OCLC (two in the US) and merely one copy listed at auction within the last 40 years (being this copy). Goldsmith: 7269.Hanson: 4767Macclesfield: 1455

Brünn, 1867. 8vo. Entire volume present. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. A few tears and lacks of paper to extremities. Paper spine (entirely present) kept together by tape. Internally completely fresh. Pp. (160) - 172. [Entire volume: XXII, (2), 87, (1), 236, (2) pp.]. Extremely scarce first edition of the fifth meteorological publication (from the same periodical in which "Über Pflanzen-Hybriden" was published the year before) by the founder of genetics, Gregor Mendel. The paper represents an important contribution to the emergence of exact weather-forecasting and helped found Mendel's reputation as the leading meteorologist of Moravia.Apart from plant growing and seeding, Gregor Mendel's main interest lay in the field of meteorology, to which he contributed substantially throughout many years of his life. Mendel was a farmer's son and grew up with farm growing. His great interest in the science of meteorology may be partly explained by his background, as he was very much aware of the tremendous influence of the weather on the productivity and harvesting of crops. The idea behind his precise meteorological observations, the first official one of which he made in 1848, was for him to become able to make reliable weather predictions - a thing which would be of great value to farmers especially. From 1848 to 1862 Mendel and Dr. Pavel Olexik recorded a series of observations, which they presented at the first meeting of the newly established Brünn Natural Science Society. After that Mendel began supplying the Vienna Meteorological Institute with the data of his daily observations in Brünn. It was due to Mendel and other experts on the subject that the institute began publishing daily weather reports and forecasts in the 1870'ies, as they had been persuaded of the value of such reports and forecasts to farmers. "Mendel began his meteorological studies in 1856 and was soon recognized as the only authority on this subject in Moravia. In his first meteorological paper, published in 1863, he summarized graphically the results of observations at Brno, using the statistical principle to compare the data for a given year with the average conditions of the previous fifteen years. Between 1863 and 1869, the paper was followed by five similar communications concerned with the whole of Moravia... In 1877, with his support, weather forecasts for farmers in Moravia were issued, the first in central Europe... These studies [i.e. the meteorological ones]... have much in common methodologically with his studies of hybridization. They grew out of his habit of scrupulously collecting and recording data, thinking in quantitative terms, and subjecting observational data to statistical treatment " (D.S.B. IX:279)."Note that his meteorological work was well known and highly regarded during his lifetime, but is now almost forgotten. By contrast, his work with peas, to which he devoted only eight years, was ignored during his lifetime, but is now highly regarded." (Corcos & Monaghan, Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids, 1966, p. 32). According to Dictionary of Scientific Biography, "The "Verhandlungen" was distributed to 134 scientific institutions in various countries, including those in New York, Chicago, and Washington." It is generally accepted that no more than 200 copies of the "Verhandlungen" were published, and the surviving volumes are of great scarcity.

Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Möller, 1779. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped. Previous owner's name to upper margin of front free end-paper. Occassionally leaves split between quires. A few leaves miscoloured. An overall very nice and clean copy. (20), 291, (24) + 34 engraved plates, several of them folded and 1 frontispiece. First edition of one of the very first detailed descriptions of North Africa and Morocco in particular, containing the earliest description of Moroccan-Arabic dialect in a European source by mentioning personal pronouns, some verbs and prepositions, genitive marker, present markers and euphemisms, together with comparisons between Moroccan and Classical Arabic. Containing detailed and accurate information about the history, geography, government, commerce, religion, culture and customs, it became one of the most important works for the study of Morocco in the eighteenth century, and it was quickly translated into German and French. Georg Hjersing Höst (1734-1794) was between 1760 and 1768 in Morocco, first in the service of the Danish-African Royal Company and later as vice consul of Denmark in Mogador (Essaouira).Schnurrer "Biblioheca Arabica", vide Nos. 125 a. 139.

Basel, Io. Bebelium, 1534. Folio. Smukt nyere helldrbd. i flammet kalv, ophøjede bind på ryg udført i gl. stil. (16),189 blade. Titelbladet opsat med lidt skjolder og reparationer. Fra fol 127 starter en svag skjold i indre margin som gennem siderne breder sig i teksten. Fol 187-89 repareret med tab af lidt tekst i nederste hjørner. Lidt brunpletter og svage skjolder, mest i marginer. Første tekstside med bred træskåren ramme efter forlæg af Hans Holbein. Iøvrigt en del træskårne initialer.Folio. Beautiful recent full mottled calf binding in old style w. raised bands on back. Title-page mounted w. a few restorations and a bit of waterstaining. From f. 127 and throughout weak foxing to inner margin, which further on streches out into the text. Ff. 187-189 repaired w. a bit of loss of text to lower corners. A few brownspots and weak waterstaining, mostly marginal. First leaf of text w. a broad woodcut frame, made after Holbein. Many woodcut initials. (16), 189 ff. The rare Basel-edition of Saxo. It is the second Saxo-edition, but it is rarer than the first. Ther present work constitute the first full history of Denmark for posterity and to this day the most important of all Danish historical publications. This magnificent work contains the first known written narrative of the legend of Hamlet and served as the basis for Shakespeare's play. Denne såkaldte Basel-udgave er anden trykte Saxo-udgave og regnes for den mest sjældne.Adams S,631. - Lauritz Nielsen, 241.

Paris, De L'Imprimerie de la République, An V (1797). 4to. Uncut and partially unopened. Contemporary manuscript-binding. Provenance: With the exlibris of Stillman Drake - one of the most renown Galileo scholars. Some light brown spotting through out. Otherwise a very good copy. (4),VIII,276 pp. First edition, first printing. Several bibliographies mention that there are two issues of the first edition, with no priority established - one with 277 numbered pages and another with 276 numbered pages which compromises Vol. III of the ninth cahier of the 'Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique' (see Norman 1258 for example). However, the second mentioned printing was first published in 1801 (See Prof. Craig G. Fraser's article in "Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940", pp. 258-276).Lagrange is the great formulizer of his time. In his masterpiece 'Méchanique Analytique' from 1788 he freed Newtonian mechanics from synthetic and geometrical reasoning by reducing the theory of mechanics and the art of solving problems in that field to the mere solution of general formulas. In this work, the 'Théorie des fonctions analytiques', Lagrange attempted to give calculus an algebraic foundation and avoid the employment of infinitely small quantities. In this work Lagrange developed a systematic foundation of the calculus. Throughout the eighteenth century a critical attitude had developed both within mathematics and within general scientific culture. Bishop George Berkeley had already in 1734 in his work 'The Analyst' called attention to what he perceived as logical weaknesses in the reasonings of the calculus arising from the employment of infinitely small quantities. And by the end of the century a growing interest in the foundations of analysis was reflected in the decisions of the academies of Berluin and Saint Petersburg to devote prize competitions to the metaphysics of the calculus and the nature of the infinite. In Original contributions: Lagrange's conception of theorem-proving in analysis; his derivation of what is today called the Lagrange remainder in the Taylor expansion of a function; his formulation of the multipiler rule in the calculus of variations; and his account of sufficiency questions in the calculus of variations.Barchas 1198. Riccardi I (2), 3. Norman 1258. Honeyman 1881, Stanitz ,

Frankfurt am Main, Wolffgang Hoffmann, 1635. Folio (340 x 220 mm). In contemporary vellum with blind tooled frames to boards and yapp edges. Small white paper label to upper part of spine, indicating the number in an estate library. A fine copy. (46), 962, 969-1316 pp. + 37 engraved plates, the majority being double-page. Wanting the frontispiece. First edition, rarely found in such nice condition as here, of this monumental and beautifully illustrated work, often regarded as being one of the best documentations on the era of the Thirty Years’ War, that of Louis XIV and early modern Europe in general. The work continued to be published by various authors and editors up till 1728 and ended with 21 volumes. Wüthrich III, S.121.

Kief, F. A. Johanson, 1882. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and spine lacking 1 cm of upper part of spine. Title-page with 8 numbers written in contemporary hand. Pasted down back end-paper with two small stamps, otherwise internally fine. VII, 433 pp. Rare first Russian translation of Darwin's "The Power of Movement in Plants" published two years after the Original English. "This [the present work] was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanisms hold good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book...". (Freeman).It appeared in French, German and Russian by 1882, and in Italian and Romanian later. Freeman 1349

Koppenhagen, (Colophon: Mads Vingaard - zu kauff bey Heinrich Waldkirch), 1597. 4to. Indbundet i et 1700-tals helbind i masrmoreret kalveskind. 5 ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig forgyldning i rygfelterne. Forgyldt titeletiket. Lidt slid langs kanter. marmorerede forsatse. Titelbladet trykt i rødt og sort. Rigsvåbnet i træsnit på A3 verso.(104) unnummererede blade. Lettere bladgulning i starten, spredte brunpletter, nogle blade i midten med svage marginalskjolder. Øverst på et af de forreste friblade signeret "Oldenburg" (Frederik Oldenburg, assessor i Højesteret, historiker og kendt bogsamler). Originaludgaven af August Erichs kendte førstehåndsberetning om Christian IV's kroning. Året efter blev værket udgivet på dansk."August Erich calls himself "German Secretary to his Royal Majesty". He was present at the ceremonious coronation of King Christian IV August 29, 1596, and describes the various processions, festivities and tournaments. He also records the names of the persons taking part in the coronation and how they were dressed." (Thesaurus I, 230).Lauritz Nielsen, 573. - Bibl. Dan.III,70. - Thesaurus I,230.

Cambridge, 1722. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Boards with a few scratches, missing small parts of the leather. corners bumped. Upper endbands showing. Upper outer corner with dampstain, primarily affecting first leaves, otherwise a good copy. Printed on good paper. (20), 249, (3), 125, (1) pp. + 1 folded plate. First edition of Cotes’ important posthumously published work. Roger Cotes (1682-1716) published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, and the present work thus constitutes the earliest and main record of his mathematical achievements. According to Augustus de Morgan, this is 'the earliest work in which decisiveness progress was made in the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle of the calculus of fluents'; it includes the first version of the Newton-Cotes formulas, the first introduction of Euler's formula, and the 'Cotes' theorum' of trigonometry. Furthermore, it contains the “Earliest attempt to frame a theory of errors.” (Jungnickel, Cavendish: The Experimental Life, p. 150). Roger Cotes (1682–1716), much respected in his own right, is also known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He became the first Plumian Professor at Cambridge University from 1707 until his death. When Cotes died Cambridge in 1716 at the early age of 33 Isaac Newton famously remarked, "If he had lived we would have known something." Tomash & Williams C184 Norman 519 Wallis 246 Babson (Supplement) 29