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1 Science List no. 1 (January 14 th, 2015) No. 86. Newton Dieter Schierenberg bv
2 Subject index Astronomy 7,18,26,37,41,51,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,83,105,107, 113. Biology, Genetics, Evolution 9,11,19,23,36,67,89,104,107,110,114,115,117,119. Chemistry 3,11,17,19,25,26,27,43,44,45,46,65,66,74,75,76,77, 89,95,96,97,101,104,106,114,115,119,120. Computing, Arithmetic 1,30,81,111. Electromagnetism 4,50. Geometry, Geography 18,32,41,47,81,92,111,112,113. Mathematics 1,2,5,6,12,13,14,15,16,30,48,49,53,61,63,64,68,69, 70,71,72,109,111. Medicine, Physiology 8,9,17,24,29,35,40,42,64,67,74,89,90,91,98,100,106, 107,110. Meteorology, Climatology 4,26,28,36,38,64,107,112,113. Microscopy 29,82,100,110. Navigation 18,47. Optics, Photography 20,21,22,24,26,29,40,78,82,100,107,118,121. Philosophy 8,88,113,123. Physics 4,10,11,25,26,31,33,34,35,39,40,43,44,45,46,50, 51,52,62,64,73,74,75,77,78,79,84,85,86,87,93,94, 98,99,102,103,107,108,109,116,121. Probability, Statistics, Game Theory 30,111. Technology, Mechanics, Machinery 20,21,22,28,32,35,42,56,58,96,107,116,118,122. Listed in PMM 22,33,60,68,88,81,93,95,99,113,114 Nobel Prize winning authors 11,19,33,34,35,43,44,45,46,52,62,73,74,87,90,91, 93,98,99,102,103,108,114,115,119,121.
3 [1] Babbage, C. Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and the other branches of analysis. London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. 20 pp. Disbound. 220 = One of the seminal works by the British polymath, and inventor, theoretically, of the computer, Charles Babbage ( ). It is "a continuation of Babbage's work on the calculus of functions, demonstrating 'some of his thought processes and inspiration for his creativity in the calculus of functions" (Dubbey, Origin of Cyberspace, 1978, 76)." This paper was published on pp of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXVII. Part II, and read before the Society on April 17th, A very good, wide-margined copy. [2] Barnard, F. A. P. Theory of magic squares and of magic cubes. Washington, DC, National Academy of Sciences, to. 62 pp., 55 text figures. Disbound. 200 = This is the "everything you always wanted to know..." about magic squares, cubes, and even magic spheres. Published in vol. IV (5) of the Memoirs (Miscellaneous documents of the Senate of the United States). A clean copy of this early, rare treatise. [3] Beguin, J. Les elemens de chymie de M. Iean Beguin aumosnier du roy. Reueuz, notez, expliquez, & augmentez, par I. L. D. R. B. IC. E. M. En cette derniere edition ont esté adiouttées plusieurs explications obmises aux precedentes impressions, & plusieurs preparations de remedes tirés de la derniere edition Latine. Lyon, Claude Chancey, Small 8vo. Title page with wood engraving, [xiv], 384, [xxiv] pp. Three wood engravings in the text. 20th century full calf. Spine with five gilt-lined raised bands; compartments with small gilt floral vignettes and morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. 480 = Rare early treatise on chemistry in two parts. Includes the wood engraved printers device on the titlepage (with a repair at the lower right corner), an interesting list of "les operations de Chymie" and a list of the main minerals being: plomb (Saturne), estain (Jupiter), le fer (Mars), l'or (Sol), cuivre (Venus) and argent (Mercure and lune). This is probably the third edition ("cette derniere edition ont esté adiouttées plusieurs explications obmises aux precedentes impressions"); the first printing was published in The three engravings depict two primitive furnaces and one with several bottles especially made for chemical experiments. The pictorial bookplate of the chemical library of Roland Voegeli on the front pastedown. The binding is modern but well-done in period style. Some text in an old hand on the blank verso of the last page, and on the list of minerals. A few pages cut short, and a faint waterstain on the bottom of the first pages; otherwise a good, complete copy. [4] Bequerel, [A. C.] Recherches sur les causes de l'électricité atmosphérique et terrestre. Paris, Firmin Didot frères, to. cxx, 294 pp. Contemporary marbled boards with printed label on the spine. 250 = The Bequerel-paper occupies 140 pages of the Mémoires de l'académie des Sciences de l'institut de France, volume 27(2), and includes two engraved plates (one larger, folded). This is the complete volume, with a few unrelated papers. The most important, perhaps is Flourens' "official" obituary and bibliography of de Blainville. Flourens also wrote the eulogy of George Cuvier. Uncut. Top of spine-cover perished, small chip to front board top edge corner, preliminary (blank) leaves with a fold, otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. [5] Bernoulli, J. Analysis magni problematis isoperimetrici. Leipzig, J. Gross, T. Fritsch & F. Groschuf, Small 4to. 16 pp. [numbered ]. Contemporary full blind vellum. Red edges = The first correct solution of the isoperimetric problem, already formulated by the ancient Greeks, which had bothered the foremost mathematicians, such as Leibniz, and Johann and Jacob Bernoulli for years. Jacob Bernouilli ( ) was the first of three brothers who were all mathematicians "Jacob was the first to develop the calculus beyond the point at which it was left by Newton" (PMM, p. 107). The solution to the isoperimetric problem (which curve, if any, maximizes or minimizes the area of its enclosed region?) forms the basis of a new branch of mathematics: the calculus of variations. This first correct solution, by Jacob Bernouilli, was published in the leading scientific periodical of its days, the Nova Actorum Eruditorum. "After showing that a third-degree equation is required (1701), Jakob was able to furnish the proof, which Johann and Leibniz had been seeking in vain..." (DSB). This is in fact the entire 583 pp. volume for 1701, which also deals with other scientific subjects, such as: another contribution to the isoperimetric problem, by the Swiss mathematician and friend of Isaac Newton, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ( ), Excerpta ex responsione Dn. Nic. Fatii Duillierii ad excerpta ex literis Dn. Joh. Bernouillii (pp , and a plate); and three other papers by Jacob's brother, Johann Bernouilli: a work on lenses, Disquisitio catoptrico-dioptrica exhibens reflexionis & refractionis naturam, nova & 1
4 genuine ratione ex aequilibrii fundamento deductam (pp , and share of a plate); Nova ratio promte construendi radios osculi seu curvaturae in Curvis quibusvis sive algebraicis in sive transcendentibus. Item methodus eosdem analytice determinandi in curvis algebraicis per vulgarem differentialium calculum eruta, on pp ; and Multisectio anguli vel arcus, duplici aequatione universali exhibita inserviens generali determination omnium zonarum quadrabilium cycloideis on pp In 1718, Jacob s younger brother Johann found another solution to this problem. That one was published in the leading French scientific periodical, the "Mémoires" of the French Royal Society. Slight damage to spine cover, internally a very good, clean copy. DSB II, p. 48. [6] Bernoulli, J. Remarques sur ce qu'on a donné jusqu'ici de solutions des problêmes sur les isoperimetres, avec une nouvelle methode courte & facile de les resoudre sans calcul, laquelle s'étend aussi à d'autres problêmes qui ont rapport à ceux-là. [pp in: Histoire de l'academie royale des Sciences. Année MDCCXVIII Avec les mémoires de marthematique & de phisique pour la même année]. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1719 (first edition). 4to. 328 pp. [The Bernoulli paper on pp , with a foldout plate]. With numerous illustrations and a nice frontispiece. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands with gilt borders and two burgundy morocco labels with gilt title. Edges red = The isoperimetric problem was proposed by the mathematician Jakob Bernoulli (or Bernouilli) (Basel, ) in In short the question is: How to determine a plane figure of the largest possible area whose boundary has a specified length? Years later and well after Jakob's death his brother Johann Bernouilli (Basel, ) produced an elegant solution that was to form a foundation for the calculus of variations. Johann studied physics and medicine; however, like his brother, his primary interest was mathematics. He studied mathematics privately with his brother, Jakob, who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Basel. In later years they became bitter academic rivals. This important paper was first published in the 1718 volume of the "Mémoires" of the French academy of science. Our copy in original leather binding. Rather rubbed, some loss to the leather cover of the boards. Some dampstaining, mainly to the fore-edge of the first and last leaves, not visible in the Bernoulli part, and not reaching the text. Otherwise a good copy of the first edition. A second was published in See DSB II, pp. 48 and [7] Bessel, F. W. Astronomische Untersuchungen. Erster Band [AND] Zweiter Band. (Complete). Königsberg in Preussen, Gebrüder Bornträger, Two volumes in one. 4to. viii, 314; iv, 308 pp. Contemporary style marbled boards. Red morocco label with gilt title on the spine. 950 = Important and rare scientific contributions by the German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( ), published not long before his untimely death. Bessel, who was director of the Königsberg Observatory, determined the position of 50,000 stars, producing a catalogue that became the standard for many years. He was the first to use a star's parallax to determine its distance (61 Cygni, at a distance of nearly 10 light years). This may be regarded as the starting point of understanding the depth of space. As a mathematician, Bessel is best known for developing the so-called Bessel functions, which are important for the solution of equations used in both classical physics and quantum physics. Without formal training in science, Bessel became a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society. This work, published in two parts, contains 14 different contributions, some original and not published before (e.g. a paper on the weight of Jupiter), while others have been reworked from Bessel s earlier studies. He wrote the prefaces to both parts and it is clear that he regarded these contributions as the most important he made, especially from a practical point of view. "From 1840 on, Bessel's health deteriorated...after two years of great suffering, Bessel died" (DSB). This work therefore, is in a way Bessel's scientific testament. A very good, complete copy. Rare, with no auction records for the last 35 years. DSB II, p. 98; Houzeau & Lancaster, 3569; Not in Cat. BM(NH). [8] Boerhave, H. De usu ratiocinii mechanici in medicinâ. Oratio habita in auditorio magno XXIV. Septembris. Cum tertii suae stationis anni labores auspicaretur. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Johannes Verbessel, Small 4to. [ii], 44 pp. Later blind half-vellum over marbled boards = The rare original edition Herman Boerhaave's academic oration at Leiden University, held in the university's auditorium in September At that point in time, Boerhaave ( ), arguably the most renowned Dutch scientist, working both in medicine and botany, was waiting to fill the next available vacancy at the most prestigious university in the Netherlands (and his Alma Mater) rejecting an offer by Groningen University in the same year. In 1714, he became rector of the university. While in Leiden, Peter the Great of Russia, Voltaire, and Linnaeus were among his visitors. OCLC records less than ten copies. A fine, clean copy, in a nice binding. Bayle & Thillaye II, p
5 [9] Bolk, L. Collected works Various places and publishers, With 189 papers in ten volumes. Mostly 8vo, or small 4to. About 5,000 pp., 15 original manuscript letters and numerous illustrations. Near uniform contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles = The collected works of Lodewijk 'Louis' Bolk ( ), gathered by himself and custom-bound including hand-written annotations, and corrections by the author, as well as reactions (letters) from colleagues, bound or tipped in next to the original papers. Bolk was a Dutch anatomist and embryologist who created the fetalization theory about the human body. It states that when a human being is born, it is still a fetus, as is indicated by its (proportionally) big head, its uncoordinated motility or its absolute helplessness, for instance. Bolk's theory generally holds that man has evolved into a sexually mature fetal ape. In response to certain characteristics such as reduced pigmentation, the position of the foramen magnum, the jaw length, and our poorly developed body hair, Bolk concluded that the ape-like ancestor of humans may have delayed or halted much of its development during its evolution. Therefore, in comparison to the other great apes, the adult human shows many fetal characteristics. Bolk postulated that the cause at the base of this (lack of) development is hormonal, and that this trait is specifically human. The influential British evolutionary embryologist Gavin de Beer ( ) and the famous American palaeontologist, Darwinist, and malacologist Stephen Jay Gould ( ) wrote about him and further developed this theory, which is now usually known as neoteny, and widely regarded as scientifically correct. This set contains all Bolk's papers, with the possible exception of some published around the time or after his rather sudden death. Papers were published in Folio Neuro-Biologica, British Dental Journal, The American Journal of Anatomy, Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, The Lancet, Journal of Anatomy, Anatomische Anzeiger, Petrus Camper, Morphologisches Jahrbuch, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, Psychiatyrische en Neurologische Bladen, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d Anthropologie de Paris, Verhandlungen der Anatomischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Verslagen van de gewone vergadering der Wis- en Natuurkundige Afdeeling, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte, etc., etc. A library stamp in the beginning of each volume indicates that the set was part of the Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen, but was discarded, probably because the society's library already contained all the periodicals in which Bolk's work was published. The presence of handwritten and/or signed letters by the Scottish anatomist Arthur Keith, and Bolk s publisher, Gustav Fischer, are especially noteworthy. Apart from being a noted scientist, Bolk also was the founder of the Anatomical Laboratory of the University of Amsterdam. Later he became its Rector Magnificus. A research institute for international advice and research on sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health care is named after him. Bolk was a pioneer in establishing a relationship between nutrition, health, and height in humans. With the small, elegant bookplate of the author. Tiny hole in one spine cover, otherwise a fine, unique set. A collation (number of papers, and letters with authors and dates, per volume) is available upon request. [10] Bordier, H. Les actualtés médicales. Les rayons N et les rayons N1. Paris, J. B. Baillière, Small 8vo. 95 pp., several text engravings. Printed boards. 150 = After the discovery of X rays by the German physicist Röntgen, and their eminent use in medical, chemical, and physical sciences, the search for "new rays" accelerated. Soon, the French scientist Blondlot discovered the N rays, this to the great joy of the French nationalists who saw Röntgen's discovery as German victory, and wanted to get even. "In 1903, Blondlot, a distinguished physicist who was one of eight physicists who were corresponding members of the French Academy of Science, announced his discovery while working at the University of Nancy and attempting to polarize X-rays. He had perceived changes in the brightness of an electric spark in a spark gap placed in an X-ray beam which he photographed, and he later attributed to the novel form of radiation, naming this the N-rays for the University of Nancy. Blondlot, Augustin Charpentier, Arsène d'arsonval and approximately 120 other scientists in 300 published articles claimed to be able to detect N-rays emanating from most substances, including the human body with the peculiar exceptions that they were not emitted by green wood and by some treated metals. Most researchers of the subject at the time used the perceived light of a dim phosphorescent surface as "detectors", although work in the period clearly showed the change in brightness to be a physiological phenomenon rather than some actual change in the level of illumination. Physicists Gustave le Bon and P. Audollet and spiritualist Carl Huter even claimed the discovery as their own, leading to a commission of the Académie des Sciences to decide priority. The "discovery" excited international interest and many physicists worked to replicate the effects. However, the notable physicists Lord Kelvin, William Crookes, Otto Lummer, and Heinrich Rubens failed to do so. Following his own failure, self-described as "wasting a whole morning", the American physicist Robert W. Wood, who had a reputation as a popular "debunker" of nonsense during the period, was prevailed upon by the British journal Nature to travel to Blondlot's laboratory in France to investigate further. Wood suggested that Rubens should go since he had been the most embarrassed when Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany asked him to repeat the French experiments, and then after two weeks Rubens had to report his failure to do so. Rubens, however, felt it would look better if Wood went, since Blondlot had been most polite in answering his many questions. In the darkened room, Wood secretly removed an essential prism from the experimental apparatus, yet the experimenters still said that they observed N-rays. Wood also secretly replaced a large file that was supposed to be giving off N-rays with an inert piece of wood, yet the N-rays were still "observed". His report on these investigations were published in Nature, and they suggested that the N-rays were a purely subjective phenomenon, with the scientists involved having recorded data that matched their expectations. By 1905, no one outside of Nancy believed in N-rays, but Blondlot himself is reported to have still been convinced of 3
6 their existence in 1926" (from Wikipedia). The present work, completed June 1904 but not published before 1905, is in fact one of the last stands of Blondlot. On the other hand, it may also be seen as the starting point of a new quack science so dearly wanted by many patients and (pseudo-) physicians. Stamp on front board, front flyleaf and page 31, spine chipped, some dampstaining to the lower margin of front and back boards, otherwise a good complete copy. Very rare. [11] Bosscha, J. (ed.) Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles publiées par la Société Hollandaise des Sciences à Harlem et rédigées par J. Bosscha. Série II (I-XII). [Complete]. La Haye, Martinus Nijhoff, volumes in 12. 8vo. Over 6,000 pages, numerous plates. Uniform contemporary full vellum. Gilt title and ornaments on the spines, top edges with red, black, and gilt "Indo-Jugendstil" patterns = A very rare complete set of the second series of this journal, published during the second Dutch (and in fact European) scientific renaissance, with many papers by Nobel-Prize winning scientists suchs as Hendrik Lorentz (Physics, 1902), Willem Einthoven (Medicine 1924), Pieter Zeeman (Physics, 1902), J. D. Van der Waals (Physics, 1910), Max Planck (Physics, 1918), William Ramsay (Chemistry, 1904), Svante Arrhenius (Chemistry, 1903), Lord Rayleigh (Physics, 1904), J. J. Thomson (Physics, 1906) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Physics, 1913), as well as other renowned scientists such as Willem Keesom, the first scientist to create solid helium, Ludwig Bolzmann, Henri Poincaré, Eugène Dubois (who discovered Homo erectus), Lord Kelvin, and the geneticist Hugo de Vries (who rediscovered Mendel's law). Most authors published multiple papers in this series, several of which actually formed the basis of their Nobel Prizes. Several sections lightly toned, or slightly spotted, mainly in the margins. Otherwise a fine complete set in an unusually attractive binding. [12] Buée, [A. Q.] (AND) Gompertz, B. Two papers on imaginary numbers: "Mémoire sur les quantités imaginaires" [AND] "The application of a method of differences to the species of series whose sums are obtained by Mr. Landen, by the help of impossible quantities". London, The Royal Society, Two papers in one. Large 4to. 114 [66, 48] pp. Original blind blue wrappers. 250 = These two papers on imaginary numbers were both published in the same issue of "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society of London. The first, by the French mathematician, mineralogist and theologian Adrien- Quentin Buée ( ), who lived in exile in England, the second by the British mathematician Bejamin Gompertz ( ), communicated by the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. Gompertz is best known for his "Law of Human Mortality" (published 1825), a demographic model used by actuaries and insurance companies. Buée fled France in 1792, during the Reign of Terror, and devoted his time to mathematical crystallography and to pure mathematics. According to Wikipedia "Ce n'est qu'à partir du xixe siècle que se développe l'aspect géométrique des nombres complexes, vus comme des éléments ou des transformations du plan, sous l'impulsion de l'abbé Buée et de Jean-Robert Argand (plan d'argand), puis avec les travaux de Gauss et de Cauchy". This is the entire "Phil. Trans." for the year 1806, part I, and includes the "Errata in the memoir on imaginary quantities" [on p. vi]. Another important contribution published in this part is William Herschel's "On the quantity and velocity of the solar motion" [pp ; six plates]. Uncut. Spine soiled, internally mostly clean, though plates a bit unevenly toned. Unmarked. Rare in this state. [13] Cabura, C. E. Теорія функцій комплнсаго перемћннаго. (Teori funktjii komplesago peremtshennago) St. Petersburg, Akademia Nauk, vo. 205 pp., 43 text figures. Original printed wrappers. 150 = Interesting treatise on complex functions, with illustrations, by a little known Russian mathematician. Uncut. A very good clean copy. [14] Catalan, E. [C.] Remarques sur la théorie des moindres carrés. Bruxelles, Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Folio, 42 pp., no wrappers. 320 = Important paper by the French-Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan ( ). "He worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. He gave his name to a unique surface (periodic minimal surface in the space ) that he discovered in Before that, he had stated the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was published in 1844 and was eventually proved in 2002, by the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. He introduced the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem" (Wikipedia). Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page to a colleague at the University of Liège, which, by coincidence, recently celebrated the 200th birthday of its most famous mathematician. Rare offprint (not an excerpt) from the academy's Mémoires. INCLUDED: four loose leaves with hand-written mathematical notes, related to this work. Margins a bit soiled, binding weak, otherwise a very good copy. 4
7 [15] Catalan, E. [C.] Notes sur la théorie des fractions continues et sur certaines séries. Bruxelles, Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Folio. 82 pp. Contemporary blind wrappers. 500 = Important paper by the French-Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan ( ). "He worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. He gave his name to a unique surface (periodic minimal surface in the space) that he discovered in Before that, he had stated the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was published in 1844 and was eventually proved in 2002, by the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. He introduced the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem" (see Wikipedia). Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, to "mon cher ancièn élève Deruyts" (i.e. the Belgian mathematician François Deruyts, who wrote a thesis titled: "Génération d'une surface du troisième ordre; sur quelques transformations géométriques"). Offprint from the academy's "Mémoires". Wrappers only slightly chipped, otherwise a fine copy. [16] Cauchy, A.L. Mémoire sur les intégrales définies [AND] Mémoire sur la theorie de la propagation des ondes a la surface d'un fluide pesant... Paris, Mémoires des Savans Étrangers, Academie des Sciences, to. In a fine contemporary full calf binding. Spine with five raised bands, red and black morocco title vignettes and gilt floral patterns; boards with dentelles; lightly red-speckled edges = Two large and very important papers by Cauchy, contained in the first volume of the Mémoires. The most important paper is Cauchy's cornerstone essay on definite integrals. It is essential in the history of mathematics, partly laying the basis for the Cauchy-Riemann equations. "In 1814 he submitted to the French Academy the treatise on definite integrals that was to become the basis of the theory of complex functions. In 1816 he won a prize contest of the French Academy on the propagation of waves at the surface of a liquid; his results are now classics in hydrodynamics." (DSB) Cauchy's method was significant because of his departure from the traditional use of geometry to treat the definite integral. The theory was read to the Academy by Cauchy in 1814, but only published in 1827 in this volume on pp and includes the rapport, introduction, parts 1 and 2, and two supplements. The second paper, on the "propagation des ondes a la surface" is on pp This volume also contains a memoir on the "theorie de la lune" by Damoiseau. Provenance: Bookplate of the Radcliffe Observatory (the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934) on the front pastedown. Some small, skilful repairs, doing justice to an unusually fine and elegant contemporary binding. DSB III, pp [17] Chamayou, J. De l'or et de ses composés, usités en médecine. Montpellier, Jean Martel le Jeune, vo. 53 pp. Original printed wrappers. In protective transparent sleeve. 220 = Thesis of this "Pharmacien à Montpellier" on the medical use of gold. Dedicated to "son Maître" J. Figuier, and citing, on the front wrapper, the influential French chemist, Joseph Louis Proust ( ) "Rien de capricieux comme l'or dans ses combinaisons". Uncut. Wrappers a bit spotted, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. [18] Cook, J. An observation of an eclipse of the sun at the island of New-found-land, August 5, 1766, by Mr. James Cook, with the longitude of the place of observation deduced from it: communicated by J. Bevis. London, The Royal Society, to. 2 pp. Disbound. 350 = Rare account of an astronomical observation made by James Cook, and in fact his first published paper. It was communicated by J. Brevis, and published in the Society's Philosophical Transactions, volume 57, paper 24. "Mr. Cook, a good mathematician, and very expert in his business...took with him a very good apparatus of instruments" (from the intruduction by British chemist and geologist John Bevis). Some light, marginal spotting, otherwise a good, clean copy. [19] Crick, F. H. C. and L. Barnett and S. Brenner and R. J. Watts-Tobin General nature of the genetic code for proteins. London, Macmillan, to. 6 pp. [ ], six text figures, three tables. Contemporary burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine. Speckled edges. 500 = The discovery of the genetic functions of DNA was published in "Nature" vol. 171 (1953), but it took several more years to clarify and understand how, exactly, the code was read. In this work it was postulated that a group of three bases codes for one amino-acid and that the code is of a non-overlapping type. The fundamental issues that Crick, Gamow, Watson and Brenner had embarked upon in the summer of 1954 were now resolved. We offer the complete vol. 192 of "Nature" ( , 1322, cvii pp.). A year later, in December of 1962, Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins went to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Brenner received a Nobel Prize in A very good clean copy, without library marks. Garrison-Morton,
8 [20] Daguerre, I. J. M. (and D. F. J. Arago) Arago annonce que M. Daguerre vient de trouver le moyen d'abréger considérablement le temps nécaissaire pour produire une image photographique et M. Arago annonce que M. Daguerre en faisant intervenir l'électricité dans les procédés de la photographie... (Vol. XII, No. 1, p.23 and No. 26, pp ) and several other comments on and additions to the invention of practical photography. Paris, Académie des Sciences, Thick 4to. "Comptes Rendus de l'académie des Sciences". Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco labels with gilt title. 500 = First edition of several important papers following the first public announcement of the basic process of photography by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( ). The pronouncements on Daguerre's invention were made in 1839 by the French physicist and astronomer Dominique François Jean Arago ( ) and mark the beginning of the triumphant process of photography. The first communication by Arago in this volume deals with the announcement by Daguerre that he had been able to produce good images with a shutter speed of just 1 to 2 seconds, whereas in 1839 the exposure time was counted in minutes. We offer the complete volume 12, which, as indicated in the index, contains no less than twenty papers on photography. Library stamp on the half title and title page, otherwise in very good condition. [21] Daguerre, I. J. M. (and D. F. J. Arago) Le Daguerréotype (Comptes Rendus vol. IX, no. 8, pp ) [AND] Fixation des images qui se forment au foyer d'une chambre obscure. (vol. VIII, no. 1, pp. 4-7), and many other comments on and additions to the invention of practical photography. Paris, Académie des Sciences, Two volumes from the "Comptes Rendus de l'académie des Sciences". Contemporary uniform black half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with red gilt labels = First edition. Two famous papers of the first public announcement of the basic process of photography by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( ). The pronouncements on Daguerre's invention were made in 1839 by the French physicist and astronomer Dominique François Jean Arago ( ) and mark the beginning of the triumphant process of photography. Several more articles on photography by Talbot, Biot, Niépce, et al. are included. We offer the complete volumes 8 and 9. A few spots on the first and last pages, but mostly clean and unmarked. In all a very good set. [22] Daguerre, [L. J. M.] Historique et description des procédés du Daguerréotype et du diorama, par Daguerre, peintre, inventeur du diorama, officier de la Légion-d'Hommeur, membre de plusieurs Académies, etc. etc. [AND] Historique et description des procédés du Daguerréotype et du diorama, par Daguerre, peintre, inventeur du diorama, officier de la Légion-d'Hommeur, membre de plusieurs Académies, etc. etc. Nouvelle edition, corrigée, et augmentée du portrait de l'auteur. Paris, Susse Frères [AND] Alphonse Giroux et Cie, Two editions in one. 8vo. Half title, title page, 79 pp., six plates [AND] (ii), frontispiece portrait, (ii), 76 pp., six plates. Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Spine embossed with floral pattern = The very rare first edition, first issue, second imprint, and the second edition, first issue (also rare) of Daguerre's exposition of the photographic process invented and developed by him. Both bound together in a contemporary binding with additional, contemporary notes also bound in. According to Beaumont Newhall, there are four imprints of the first issue, differing only in the title page and added adverts. Chronologically this is the second (Susse) imprint, which appeared very shortly after the first (Giroux) imprint of which only three copies are known to exist. Bound next to it, is the "nouvelle" (i.e. second) edition, with the text reset, corrected and improved, and a portrait of the author added (not issued in the first edition, 1st issue), as well as an additional 7th image on plate 1. Only two weeks (!) separated both publications, demonstrating the huge success of this publication. In fact the second edition, first imprint (Newhall 8) precedes Newhall 5 and 7 (and, perhaps, 6). This is the variant mentioned by Newhall, with "inclusion of the printer's colophon on p. 76". "In 1829, Daguerre partnered with Nicéphore Niépce, an inventor who had produced the world's first heliograph in 1822 and the first permanent camera photograph four years later. Niépce died suddenly in 1833, but Daguerre continued experimenting, and evolved the process which would subsequently be known as the Daguerreotype. It has recently been discovered that Daguerre may have misled Niépce's son about the value of the invention in order to better claim any profits from it individually. After efforts to interest private investors proved fruitless, Daguerre went public with his invention in At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on 7 January of that year, the invention was announced and described in general terms, but all specific details were withheld. Under assurances of strict confidentiality, Daguerre explained and demonstrated the process only to the Academy's perpetual secretary François Arago, who proved to be an invaluable advocate. Members of the Academy and other select individuals were allowed to examine specimens at Daguerre's studio. The images were enthusiastically praised as nearly 6
9 miraculous, and news of the Daguerreotype quickly spread. Arrangements were made for Daguerre's rights to be acquired by the French Government in exchange for lifetime pensions for himself and Niépce's son Isidore; then, on 19 August 1839, the French Government presented the invention as a gift from France 'free to the world', and complete working instructions were published. In 1939, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician." (Wikipedia). Included in this "double copy" are additional sheet with carefully handwritten notes on the production process. One is titled "Notes sur les nouvelles boites à Iode", being additional to the description of the second step of the production process. In another hand, this note is copied and inserted at the same point in the second edition. The third note, in the second hand, deals with additional notes on the production process, apparently invented or communicated by the Viennese scientist Johann Joseph von Prechtl ( ), founder of the Vienna Polytechnic Institute. In the rear of the first work, there is a two-page advertisement, "Catalogue des sculptures éditées par MM. Susse Frères", and a one-page advert for "l'exposition, journal de l'industrie et des arts utiles". Boards a bit worn; occasional slight spotting, a tear in the margin of the first title; fore edge of the first inserted note frayed, otherwise very good. Dibner, 183; Horblit, 21a; Newhall 2, and 8 (variety); Norman Library III, 569; PMM 318b. [23] Darwin, C. [R.] and A. R. Wallace Three papers on the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. London, J. van Voorst, vo. 16 pp. Contemporary embossed red cloth with gilt title on the spine = Contained in: The Zoologist, volume 16. These three papers, published shortly before "The origin of species", actually introduce the notion of speciation and natural selection independently discovered by Darwin and by Wallace. Darwin had already conceived of his theory in 1839, but because of its expected strong effects upon biological sciences, as well as on ethics, religion and morality, publication was greatly delayed, mainly because Darwin thought it absolutely necessary to collect as much supporting evidence as possible. However, in June 1858, Darwin received a letter by Wallace containing a clear and concise rendering of the concept of natural selection. Darwin, who was not quite ready yet, had to publish his ideas, and Wallace, who still was out collecting birds and beetles in the Malay Archipelago, had to be given credits due. Darwin discussed the matter with Charles Lyell and John Hooker, and it was decided that three papers, one by Wallace, being his letter, and two by Darwin (a letter to Asa Gay, and an abstract of Darwin's manuscript), were to be read at the meeting of the Linnean Society of London on June 2, and to be printed in the Journal of the Proceedings of the society (Volume 3, pp , dated August 30, 1858). The reading hardly made a stir. However, the editors of the more popular and much wider-read The Zoologist magazine sensed its importance and published it too (this copy) in the 16th volume, pp We offer the entire volume 16, bound in contemporary embossed full cloth. Some wear to spine ends and lower rear joint, armorial college bookplate on the front pastedown, small private owner's stamp on the half title (F. F. Freeman, a relative of Darwin's bibliographer?), and a vague stamp on the title page verso. Otherwise fine, with clean pages. A really nice copy in very good condition. Freeman, 349. [24] Darwin, R. W. New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours. London, The Royal Society, to. 36 pp., one large folded plate. Disbound. 300 = A noteworthy ophthalmologic contribution by the father of Charles Darwin, the British medical doctor Robert Waring Darwin ( ) communicated to the prestigeous Royal Society by his (grand) father, Erasmus Darwin. In this study, "Robert Darwin provided the first empirical evidence that small eye movements are made even when people attempt to keep them fixed. This he found during his studies of the afterimages of colored stimuli in which he noticed that while a person tried to fixate a colored circle, a lucid edge appeared on the adjacent white-paper background. He concluded "as by the unsteadiness of the eye a part of the fatigued retina falls on the white paper" (Wikipedia). Published in the Philopsophical Transactions, volume 76. Small old stamp not touching figures on the plate, some light, marginal spotting, otherwise a very good wide-margined copy. Rare. [25] Davy, H. The Bakerian lecture, on some chemical agencies of electricity. London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. 56 pp., one engraved plate. Original blind blue wrappers. 500 = Important work by the British poet, chemist, and inventor Sir Humphry Davy ( ). The great Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius called this work "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry. "Humphry Davy followed [Volta's experiments] up with electrolytic experiments of his own on which he published his first paper in Nicholson's Journal in September This was the forerunner of a brilliant series of papers to the Royal Institution and the Royal Society culminating in the Bakerian lectures in 1806 and 1807, in which Davy outlined a theory of mass action, forecast the use of electricity in atomic disintegration and announced the isolation by electrolytic methods of two new elements, sodium and potassium" (PMM, p. 155). Davy was also the discoverer of the element iodine, although slightly later than Bernard Courtois, and the inventor of the Davy lamp, a safety lamp used in coalmines. This copy forms part of the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society of London for the year 1807, Part I. Rare uncut copy in original wrappers. Number on front wrapper, vague staining to the plate, edges soiled, otherwise a very good copy. PMM 255 (See Volta - The Electric Current). 7
10 [26] De Marivetz, [É. C.] le Baron & [L. J.] Goussier Physique du Monde, dédiée au Roi. Tomes I-IV. Paris, Quillau, De Conti & Lafosse, Four parts in four. 4to. Over 2,200 pages, 20 large, folded, and partly hand-coloured plates. Original uniform full mottled calf. Spines with five raised bands, gilt vignettes and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges red = Very rare and well-illustrated cosmological work, dealing with the study of celestial bodies, in particular Earth, and, consequently, of light, colours, and chemistry. The large folded maps by Louis Jacques Goussier are excellent. Goussier ( ) also worked for Diderot's Encyclopédie. "Some call Goussier the third encyclopedist, after Diderot and d'alembert." (Wikipedia). Indeed this work is in the style of the Ecyclopédie and one might wonder why it is not a part of it, except perhaps for being far more elaborate, in particular in the execution of the plates. Baron de Marivetz ( ) "...was the son of an extremely wealthy ice manufacturer in Dijon but later in his life he made poor investments where he lost much of his fortune. Early on he became interested in astronomy and physics, moving to Paris where he studied the sciences with great determination. A few months after the success of the Montgolfier brothers, he carried out his own aerostatic experiments. From 1784 he lived in Langres, and when the Revolution reached the town, Marivetz was sent back to Paris, where he was guillotined" (Curtis Shuh's bibliography of mineralogy). According to Shuh, this work is "...Rare. This is the only and unfinished edition of an ambitious project that ultimately bankrupted the author. Prepared in collaboration with Louis Jacques Goussier..., there are 20 partly hand-colored plates in folio that includes very good renderings of a microscope, a camera obscura, a telescope, and astronomical systems. The work's scope was to provide a description and general theory of physical geography by developing the theory from principals of celestial physics. Thus in this cosmogony Marivetz would attempt to explain the earth's and particularly France's geography and physical history and attempt through the framework of their theory to forecast future events. Hoefer calls the work very rare because the unsold copies were confiscated during the Revolution and destroyed after Marivetz's execution. The work was never completed and ended with the publication of the second part of volume five." The work contains three separate sections: a descriptive part; a dictionary/glossary of the key words used in this work; and (sometimes very elaborate) explanations to the large and detailed plates. At the end of the fourth volume a letter is printed: "lettre de M. le baron de Marivetz a M. Bailly, de l'académie des Sciences, sur un paragraphe du troisieme volume de l'histoire de l'astronomie moderne", which starts with the ominous observation "L'histoire est le dépôt des erreurs des Hommes". We have the first four volumes, the extremely rare fifth, "Sur le feu", published in 1787, is wanting. Some rubbing to the boards, pencilled annotations in one text section of volume III, otherwise a very good clean set. Poggendorf 2, p. 55. Not in Houzeau & Lancaster. [27] De Morveau [L. B. G.], [A.] Lavoisier, et al. Annales de Chimie; ou recueil de mémoires concernant la chimie et les arts qui en dépendent. Volumes I-XI. Paris, Hôtel Serpente, Eleven volumes in 11. Over 3,000 pp., several engraved plates and tables. Uniform original boards with multi-colour stamped paper spines and labels with handwritten titles = An exceptionally rare and attractive set of the first French chemical periodical, founded by the leading chemists of this period, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau ( ), Antoine Laurent Lavoisier ( ), Claude- Louis Berthollet ( ), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy ( ), and several other important chemists. These men also collaborated on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work aimed at standardizing chemical nomenclature. Among the authors in these early volumes we also find, for instance, the famous French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( ), and the "father of modern crystallography", Abbé René Just Haüy ( Some occassional light spotting, but in general a very good, unmarked set. [28] De Saussure, H. Essais sur l'hygrométrie. Ier. Essai. Description d'un nouvel hygromètre comparable; II. Essai. Théorie de l'hygrométrie; III. Essai. Théorie de l'évoporation. IV. Essai. Application des théories précédentes à quelques phénomenes de la méteorologie. Neuchatal, Samuel Fauche Père et Fils, to. xxiv, 367 pp. Half title, title with woodcut vignette, first essay with a nice, large engraved text vignette; two plates, of which one larger, folded. Contemporary full morocco. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with gilt floral patterns and gilt title on tan morocco label. Edges red = A classic work on hygrometry containing the description of the modern hygrometer which was invented by De Saussure, the same author of the famous "Voyages dans les Alpes". The Swiss scientist Horace Bénedict de Saussure ( ) is widely regarded as the father of Alpinism. He had a deep interest in botany, geology and meteorology, hence his endeavours in hygrometry. Not surprising, one chapter in the fourth essay is titled "Observations météorologiques faites en voyageant dans les Alpes". With "Donné par le célèbre auteur. C. Bonnet" written in an old hand on the title. This is most likely the Swiss entomologist, botanist and philosopher Charles Bonnet ( ), uncle of De Saussure and author of "Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes" (1754). Bonnet was also the first to describe a type of halucination now known as Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS). Small bookplate of Andreas Gedeon on the front pastedown. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Norman,
11 [29] Dean, J. The gray substance of the Medulla Oblongata and Trapezium. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1864 (issued 1870). 4to., 75 pp., nine photolithographed plates and seven lithographed plates. 20th century marbled boards with paper title label to front board. 280 = This work contains the first photographic illustrations in neuroanatomy and are among the first medical books using photography (the first was in 1863). The photolithographs were produced by L. Bradford from photographs by Dean. John Dean ( ) was a pioneer in the microscopic study of the structure of the central nervous system. A classic in neuroanatomy. This is Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 173. The photographic plates are a bit shorter than the other plates. A very good copy in a recent, but elegant and strong binding. [30] Desmarest, E. Théorie des nombres. Traité de l'analyse indéterminée du second degré a deux inconnues. Suivi de l'application de cette analyse a la recherche des racines primitives avec une table de ces racines pour tous les nombres premiers compris entre 1 et Paris, L. Hachette, to. x, 312 pp. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. spine with gilt title. 250 = The best-known work by the French pharmacist and mathematician Eugène Desmarest ( ). It deals with number theories, in particular elaborating on works by the great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss ( ). Another work published by him is the "Traite eĺe mentaire de chimie avec les applications de cette science aux art et aux manufactures" (1843). Desmarest should not be confused with the zoologist and entomologist Eugène Desmarest ( ), son of the zoologist, Anselme Desmarest. A very good clean copy in a nice contemporary binding. [31] Doppler, C. Versuch einer auf rein mechanische Principien sich stützenden Erklärung der galvanoelektrischen und magnetischen Polaritätserscheinungen. Wien, Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Folio (38.5 x 27.8 cm). 20 pp. Disbound. 300 = Important paper by Christian Doppler ( ), the discoverer of the scientifically very important "Dopplereffect" which finds its practical way in physics, in particular astrophysics. This paper, published in the academy's Denkschriften, deals principally with electro-magnetism. A very good clean copy. Bibliotheca Mathematica, p [32] Dupin, C. Applications de géométrie et de méchanique, a la marine, aux ponts et chaussées, etc., pour faire suite aux développements de géométrie. Paris, Bachelier, Large 4to (27.0 x 21.5 cm). xxxv, 330, [iv] pp., 17 large, folded, engraved plates. Contemporary marbled limp boards. 180 = First edition of the first work on nonspherical surfaces with circular curvature. The author, Charles Dupin ( ) was a French naval engineer and mathematician (both professions reflected in the title of this work) after whom the Dupin cyclide (discussed in this work) and Dupin indicatrix are named. "In the Applications we find an elaboration of Monge's theory of deblais et remblais -- and, hence, of congruences of straight lines, with applications to geometrical optics. Here Dupin, improving on a theorem of Malus's (1807), stated that a normal congruence remains normal after reflection and refraction. He also gave a more complete theory of the cyclids as the envelopes of the spheres tangent to three given spheres and discussed floating bodies" (DSB). The last four pages are a publisher's catalogue, dated April 1822). Uncut, broad-margined copy. The spine cover has perished and the boards are worn and detached, the outer margin of a few pages with a small dampstain, otherwise a very good, clean copy. DSB 4, p [33] Einstein, A. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, vo (23.2 x 15.8 cm). 64 pp. Contemporary quarter crimson calf over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in = The first description of Einstein's "general theory of relativity"and the first dealing with gravity, not to be confused with his 1905 introduction of the more limited "special relativity". This is the official "Sonderdruck" (offprint) from the "Annalen der Physik", Band 49, printed by Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig, with their number 314 on the title page verso (i.e. the true first edition with the pages numbered [1]-64). It includes a preface and an index that are not present in the Annalen-version. According to Weil, "This separate edition is printed on good, strong paper, the wrappers are of strong material too (163 x 243 mm) and it is described now as "t h e o r i g i n a l e d i t i o n" of this classic paper.... There are several anastatic reprints of it". The rear wrapper lists seven other Barth publications, nearly all on physics and written by Wien, Planck, and Wiener, ending with Wiener, 1909, and Ziehen, There is also a little known later (1919) reprint, not listed in Weil, which is also dated "1916". However, in that edition the rear wrapper publication list ends with Lorentz (1919), 9
12 and Wien (1919)! A clean copy, very slightly trimmed, otherwise unaltered. It is rare to see a copy with the contents and wrappers in such a good state. Horblit, 26c; Weil, 80a; PMM, 408. [34] Einstein, A. Über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Prüfung des Relativitätsprinzips (AND) Bemerkungen zu der Notiz von Hrn. Paul Ehrenfest: "Die Translation deformierbarer Elektronen und der Flächensatz" (AND) Über die vom Relativitätsprinzip geforderte Trägheit der Energie. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, vo. pp , , , in: Annalen der Physik, 4e Folge, Band 23(6-7), viii, 1,000 pp., several plates. Later black half cloth over marbled boards, spine with handwritten paper label = In 1905 Einstein shook the scientific world with three papers that would change the basis of modern physics. These were soon followed by more papers, either expansions of his idea of Relativity towards new fields and applications, or reactions to comments by other physicists. This volume of the "Annalen der Physik" contains three such papers; the two most important, perhaps, being one on another method to test his relativity theory (this is science at its best; it needs to be open to falsification) and one containing the notion of "tardiness of energy", which sounds like an oxymoron but is perfectly understandable from a relativistic point of view. We offer the complete volume 23 (6-10) edited by Wilhelm Wien and Max Planck, and including papers by Paul Ehrenfest, Jakob Laub who cooperated with Einstein on the subject of special relativity, Nobel Prize winners Max von Laue and Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals, and others. A very good copy. Weil, [35] Einthoven, W. Über einige Anwendungen des Saitengalvanometers. [AND] Über eine neue Methode zur Dämpfung oszillierender Galvanometerausschläge" [AND] Weiter Mitteilungen über das Saitengalvanometer. Analyse der saitengalvanometrischen Kurven. Masse und Spannung des Quarzfadens und Widerstand gegen die Fadenbewegung. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Berth, Three papers in three. 8vo. 11 pp., one text figure. Original uniform printed wrappers = The Dutch medical doctor, physicist, and Nobel Prize winner Willem Einthoven ( ) invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) by creating a string galvanometer in In 1924 he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this invention. The present papers are the very rare offprints, "Überreicht vom Verfasser", of his reports on the structure and use of his string galvanometer, and form the basis of his Nobel Prize. Einthoven was only 26 when he was appointed professor of physiology at Leiden University. He coined the word electrocardiogram, and then invented the string-galvanometer with the sole purpose to measure, accurately and meaningfully, the electrical activity of the heart over time. "In 1903 he defined the standard measure for general use - one centimeter movement of the ordinate for one millivolt tension difference and a shutter speed of twentyfive millimeters per second" (DSB). The work was published in the famous "Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 14, 16, and 21" which was the leading scientific journal of its day, and in which many Nobel Prize winners, including Einstein, published their most important scientific discoveries. Very good, clean copies. Very rare. DSB IV, pp [36] Ellis, D. Farther inquiries into the changes induced on atmospheric air, by the germination of seeds, the vegetation of plants, and the respiration of animals. Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and J. Murray, vo. ix, 375 pp. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with blind embossed vignettes and black morocco label with gilt title. 150 = Essential sequel to the author's "An Inquiry into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air, by the Germination of Seeds, the Vegetation of Plants, and the Respiration of Animals", published in Rare, but not an elegant copy: boards much rubbed, spine head and foot cover perished, old stamps on title page, pages age-toned at edges, otherwise good, complete. [37] Flamsteed, J. A letter from Mr. Flamsteed concerning the eclipses of Saturns satellit's [sic = Jupiter] for the year following 1684, with a catalogue of them, and informations concerning its use. London, Philosophical Transactions, December Extract from the original December 1683 issue of the Philosophical Transactions, pp , including a three page catalogue of the visible eclipses. Loose pages, unbound. 290 = A rare paper by Flamsteed on the eclipses of Jupiter (the name Saturn is an editor's or printer's error). Galilei was the first who observed the moons of Jupiter. From the dance of its planetary moons, Galilei worked out a longitude solution. Eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, he claimed, occurred one thousand times annually - and so predictably that one could set a watch by them. He used his observations to create tables of each satellite's expected disappearances and reappearances over the course of several months. When Galilei died in 1642, 10
13 interest in the satellites of Jupiter lived on. Flamsteed - the first Royal astronomer of Britain - was one of those that took up the torch. Very good copy, loose pages but these are clean and with just an occasional tiny spot. Houzeau & Lancaster, p [38] Flinders, M. Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and By Matthew Flinders, Esq. Commander of his Majesty's Ship Investigator, in a letter to the right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. &c. &c. &c. London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. iv, 235 [numbered ] [viii] pp. Original blind blue wrappers = The birth of "Australia". In this work, written in French captivity by the British explorer, cartographer and scientist Matthew Flinders ( ), the name Australia, in the modern sense, thus for the continent, was used in print for the first time (p. 240). Flinders actually discovered Australia as a continent as he was the first to circumnavigate it, and he advocated the use of the name Australia, instead of "Terra australis", and the new name was officially adopted in 1824 by the British Admiralty. The Flinders' paper is the first in this volume, on pp Uncut. Plate margins a bit foxed (none belonging to the Flinders article). Volume number written on the front wrapper, outer edges a little dust-soiled otherwise a very good, clean and uncut copy. Very rare in this condition. Ferguson, addenda, 474a. [39] Fomm, L. Die Wellenlänge der Röntgen-Strahlen. München, F. Straub, vo. 4 pp., original printed wrappers. 125 = Early paper on the wavelength of Röntgen rays, written by the German physicist Ludwig Fomm ( ), known also from his 1890 thesis, "Phosphoro-Photographie des Sonnenspectrums", and other papers, e.g. in the Annalen der Physik. Rare offprint from the Sitzungsberichten der mathematisch-physikalischen Classe der k. bayer. Akad. d. Wiss. XXVI(2). Some light pencil notes on the front wrapper, otherwise a near mint copy. [40] Friedrich Haller & Söhne Atélier und Laboratorium mit Röntgen'schen Strahlen [X-Rays] Very early applied radiology [Röntgen photographs, X-rays] including the first use of X-rays in authentication of fine art (i.e. painting by Albrecht Dürer). Munich, Friedrich Haller & Söhne, Atélier und Laboratorium mit Röntgen'schen Strahlen, Loose in folio album. Set of nine extremely early, mint conditioned X-Ray-photographs mounted on six presentation cardboards (three with two photographs each) and with manuscript descriptions; the photographs measuring between 6.6 x 5.6 cm, and 34.4 x 23.6 cm, all housed in contemporary gilt cloth portfolio titled "Album" = A set of very early Röntgen photos; in all, seven anatomical and two art-historical X-rays, as follows: (1) the large-scaled (34.4 x 23.6 cm) negative of a painting ascribed to Albrecht Dürer, named "Der segnende Heiland" (Christ with a crown of thorns). The painting, once owned by Mr. Friedrich Burger, who ran an art gallery in Munich, had first been extensively described by Dr. Oscar Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach in a paper in 1894, where Hüttenbach clearly states that the painting should be attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Apparently Mr. Burger still had trouble selling the painting, because in January 1897, he let Friedrich Haller & Söhne try a completely new method of authenticating his painting; by means of X-ray. According to a newspaper article clipped from the "Allgemeine Zeitung", mounted on the backside of the card board, and dated in a contemporary hand "26/I 97" (= January 26 th 1897) this X-ray indeed proved that this was a true Dürer, marking the photographs for sale as the first known attempt to verify a painting's authorship by this revolutionary method. The story was considered so important, it was repeated at length in the New York Daily Tribune of 11 April 1897: A new test for old paintings. The genuineness of an Albrecht Duerer proven by X-Rays. The practical value of Röntgen s famous discovery lies in its revelations of the unseen. While the applications of this instrument of research have hitherto been confined almost entirely to surgical diagnosis, yet there are other important uses to which it can be put... The X-rays reveal the date 1524, whereas previously the work was thought to date from 1521, and a previously unknown Gothic text. This is the oldest known verification of a piece of fine art by the means of X-rays revealing information about an old masters paintings' history hidden behind layers of paint, varnish, and dirt. The present whereabouts of this painting are unknown. We presume it was lost during WWII, or (less likely) it is hidden away somewhere in a private collection. It was not until the 1920's that X-rays were regularly used in the analysis of old paintings. From the newspaper article we learn something interesting about the rarity of these particular X-ray photographs, too; as it states that only a few copies were sent to a handfull of distinguished people in Europe. "The Queen Regent of Spain having been thus complimented, she sent her specimen to one of the academies of art in Spain, and it was the subject of favorable comment there." (2) the somewhat smaller scaled positive of the former number (21.5 x 15 cm), here the painting is depicted much more clearly with better contrast; (3) a 42-year-old woman's skull; (4) a man's hand, signed in the photographic plate "Armin Flümthal - similar to the first X-Ray in history, depicting either Röntgen's or his wife's hand"; (5) the lower part of the body of a 13-year-old female with malformed legs; (6) a man's foot with a crocked grown fracture; (7) the pelvis of a 17-year-old woman with a 11
14 deformed pin to fix a fracture; (8) the pelvis of a 12-year-old boy - all of which so far are negative proofs; (9) the large-scaled (life-sized?) positive of #4 above, stating the time of exposure of three minutes (!) All photos in an exceptionally mint condition. All with the atelier's label mounted to the back side. Provenance: the medical doctor, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria ( ), who founded the Augenklinik Herzog Carl Theodor (the Duke Charles Theodore Eye Clinic) in Munich in [41] Gill, D. A history and description of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, Folio (36.5 x 27.5 cm). cxc, 136 pp. Frontispiece with two photos, 58 [11, 16, 23, 5, 3] plates (line drawings and photos; sometimes several "plates" on one sheet), 19 text figures. Folded two-colour sheet of the plan of the observatory, and large folded diagram (i.e. map) of the geodetic triangulation of South Africa and adjacent countries. Original blue embossed cloth. Spine with gilt title = A sumptuous volume compiled by the Scottish astronomer Sir David Gill ( ) with detailed descriptions of various telescopes, and survey projects. Gill was "Her Majesty's Astronomer" and director of the observatory from 1879 to In 1874, Gill joined the expedition to Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus. Three years later he went to Ascension Island to observe a near approach of Mars and to calculate its distance. While carrying out these laborious calculations, he was notified of his appointment to the Cape Observatory, which, over the following 27 years he was to refurbish completely, turning it into a first-rate institution. Gill was a meticulous observer and had a flair for getting the best out of his instruments. His solar parallax observations with a heliometer and his calculations of distances to the nearer stars, are testimony to his outstanding work. (Wikipedia). The two frontispiece photos show the staff in 1879, at Gill's arrival, and, with many more people, including women and non-caucasians, in That year, Gill returned to Great Britain. The work was finished and published shortly before his death. Printed errata leaf tipped in. Small old stamp on the title page, skilful repair to the top fore-edge of the front board, otherwise a very good clean copy. Rare. [42] Haertel, H. Verzeichniss (mit ungefähr 4000 Abbildungen) von Chirurgischen Instrumenten, Bandagen und Artikeln zur Krankenpflege aus der Fabrik von Hermann Haertel (Inhaber Hermann Haertel und Georg Haertel) Lieferant der Königlichen Kliniken der Universität Breslau der Krankenhäuser der Barmherzigen Brüder in Schlesien der Breslauer und vieler anderer städtlicher, Provinzial-, Knappschafts- etc. Krankenhäuser. Breslau, Hermann Haertel, to. xvi, 232 pp., over 4,000 steel engravings grouped in unnumbered plates and scattered over the text pages. Separate 68 pp. price list in rear pocket. Original printed cloth. 900 = A wonderful catalogue of thousands of surgical instruments and other medical tools, including the separately published price-list. This book illustrates the "state of the art" medical equipment of the year 1887, made by one of the foremost factories. Therefore, it was likely to be used extensively, and it is exceptional to see a copy in such pristine condition. Founded in 1819, the factory probably did not survive WWII. Inscribed by both Hermann and his brother and companion Georg Haertel on the front free endpaper, a dedication to the medical doctor, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria ( ), who in 1895 founded the Augenklinik Herzog Carl Theodor (the Duke Charles Theodore Eye Clinic) in Munich. The clinic in the Nymphenburger Strasse remains one of the most respected eye clinics in Bavaria to date. Between 1895 and 1909 Carl Theodor personally carried out more than 5,000 cataract operations as well as treating countless other eye disorders (Wikipedia). Spine foot slightly bumped, otherwise a fine clean copy. [43] Hahn, O. and F. Strassmann Die chemische Abscheidung der bei der Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten (allgemeiner Teil). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, to. 14 pp., text illustration. Original printed wrappers. 80 = Rare "Einzelausgabe" (offprint). On the German researches on uranium fission by the leading atom physicists who remained in Nazi Germany. Otto Hahn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission. He is regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all time and especially as "the father of nuclear chemistry" (Wikipedia). Poggendorf VIIa/2 #355. [44] Hahn, O. and L. Meitner Über die künstliche Umwandlung des Urans durch Neutronen (II Mitteilung). Leipzig, Arnold Berliner, to. 2 pp. Printed wrappers. 150 = One of the papers eventually leading towards the use of atomic energy and the atomic bomb. This is the entire issue of "Die Naturwissenschaften", volume 23(14), with pages , and with some ephemeral printed items loosely inserted. The paper by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner is on pp Lower wrapper edge a bit creased, short tear along wrapper spine fold, otherwise a very good, clean copy. 12
15 [45] Hahn, O. and L. Meitner and F. Strassmann Einige weitere Bemerkungen über die künstlichen Umwandlungsprodukte beim Uran. Leipzig, Arnold Berliner, to. 2 pp. Printed wrappers. 150 = One of the papers eventually leading towards the use of atomic energy and the atomic bomb. This is the entire issue of "Die Naturwissenschaften", volume 23(31), with pages , and with some ephemeral printed items loosely inserted. The paper by Hahn et al. is on pp A few short tears to wrapper edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy. [46] Hahn, O. and L. Meitner and F. Strassmann Twelve contributions to the fission of uranium including "Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdal-Kalimetalle (5 pp.); and "Ueber die künstliche Umwandlung des Urans durch Neutronen" (4 pp.); Künstliche Umwandlung des Thoriums durch Neutronen (1 p.); Weitere Bemerkungen über die künstlichen Umwandlungsprodukte beim Uran (2 pp.); Neues langlebiges Umwandlungsprodukt in den Trans-Uranreihen (1 p.); die Entstehung von Radiumisotopen aus Uran durch Bestrahlen mit schnellen und verlangsamten Neutronen (2 pp.); Nachweis der Entstehung aktiver Bariumisotope aus Uran und Thorium durch Neutronenbestrahlung (7 pp.); Ueber die Bruchstücke beim Zerplatzen des Urans (2 pp.); Zur Frage nach der Existenz der Trans-Urane (3 pp.); Weitere Spaltprodukte... (6 pp.); Ueber einige Bruchstücke beim Zerplatzen des Thoriums (4 pp.). Berlin, Springer, to. 37 pp. Later marbled wrappers = This set contains the essential papers on the discovery that uranium could be split into several lighter elements, or nuclear fission. These are the complete, original issues of "Die Naturwissenschaften" [volumes 23, 26, 27 ( )] in which these 12 papers appeared. Coincidentally, the first paper of Hahn and Meitner is preceded by that of Gregor Wentzel on his discovery (slightly later than Meitner's) of the instability of the neutron. A very good set. [47] Halley, E. A proposal of a method for finding the longitude at sea within a degree, or twenty leagues. With an account of the progress he hath made therein, by a continued series of accurate observations of the moon, taken by himself at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. London, The Royal Society, to. 38 pp., Title page, two fine folded engraved plates. Contemporary (original?) blind blue wrappers. 275 = Establishing longitude at sea has been most problematic for many centuries. Edmond Halley's stab at it, here presented, was certainly theoretically sound, but faced many practical problems. Contained in the Society's "Philosophical Transactions", no. 421, for the months October-December, which also contains other contributions by J. Scheuchzer, on "A botanical invitation to forward a History of the Plants of Switserland send to Sir Hans Sloane to be communicated to the Royal Society and translated by Mr. Zollman", with two large folded plates of Dorstenia; C. Sarmiento, "Concerning diamonds lately found in Brasil", and on a work by Breynius: "Historia Nat. Cocci Radicum Tinctorii" (1731), etc. Uncut. Some age-toning to the text, otherwise very good. [48] [Halphen, G. H.] Jordan, C. and H. Poincaré and É. Picard (eds.) Oeuvres de G.-H. Halphen. I-III. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, Three parts (of four). Large 8vo. I (1916) xliii, 570 pp.; II (1918) frontispice portrait of Halphen (heliogravure), xii, 560 pp.; III (1921) xii, 518 pp. Uniform printed wrappers. 250 = George Henri Halphen ( ) was a French mathematician who worked and studied at École Polytechnique (1862). He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry. He also worked on invariant theory and projective differential geometry. This collection of his work was prepared by several leading mathematicians including the great French philosopher and mathematician Henri Poincaré ( ) who, however, did not live to see the work published. The other editors were Camile Jordan ( ), Charles Émile Picard ( ), and Ernest Vessiot ( ). According to the wrapper of part III, a fourth part was in preparation. It was published in 1924 and not included. Uncut, unopened. Wrappers a bit soiled, front wrapper of volume two detached, otherwise a very good set. 13
16 [49] Haton de la Goupillière, [J. N.] Oscillations des bennes non guidées. Paris, H. Dunod et E. Pinat, vo. 51 pp. Original printed wrappers. 120 = Important paper by the French mathematician Julien Napoléon Haton de la Goupillière ( ) who was specialized in mechanics. Offprint from the Annales des Mines. Vague stamp on the front wrapper, a few light spots, otherwise a very good clean copy. [50] Haüy, R. [J.] Exposition raisonnée de la théorie de l'électricité et du magnétisme, d'apres les principes de M. Aepinus, des Académies de Petersbourg, de Turin, etc. Paris, la veuve Desaint, Small 8vo. xxvii, [v], 238 pp., four folded engraved plates. Contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lines and red morroco label with gilt title. Speckled edges. 480 = Early and influential monograph on (pyro)electricity and magnetism by the mineralogist and "father of modern crystallography" René Just Haüy ( ). This is one of his principal works. Motterlay, Bibl. History of Electricity: "He also made the most extensive and accurate observations known upon the development of electricity in minerals by friction...". Some tiny wormholes in the lower margin of the first pages and some light waterstaining at the bottom, otherwise a very good copy in an attractive contemporary binding. [51] Hawking. S. W. and G. F. R. Ellis The large scale structure of space-time. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973 [1976]. 8vo. xi, 391 pp. Printed softcover. 75 = This is Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics I; a classical work, co-authored by Stephen Hawking (b. 1942), the only living scientist who is iconic in pop culture. Hawking is known from his studies on black holes, and from Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Dexter's Lab, etc., etc.. Of this work there is a 1975 revised edition, but, peculiarly, this is the 1976 reprint of the 1974 first paperback edition, which seems to be rare. Vage stamp on the glossy front cover, otherwise a very good clean copy. [52] [Heisenberg, W.] Blum, W., and H. P. Dürr and H. Rechenberg (eds.) Heisenberg. Gesammelte Werke. Collected papers. Series AI-AIII. Original scientific papers. Wissenschaftliche Originalarbeiten, B. Scientific review papers, talks, and books. Wissenschaftliche Übersichtartikel, Vorträge und Bücher. Berlin, Springer, Four volumes in four. Large 8vo. 3,028 pp. [AI (1985) xi, 633; AII (1989) x, 717; AIII (1993) x, 700; B (1984) x, 937] pp.. Uniform blue buckram with gilt titles on the spines and front boards, near uniform pictorial dust jackets 750 = These four volumes (series A and B) contain the complete scientific writings of Werner Heisenberg ( ). A third series (C) by the same editors, dealing only with Heisenberg's non-scientific publications, and works directed at a general audience, is not included. The papers are mostly in facsimile, as published. The prefaces, with notes on Heisenberg's life and times, are in English. Library stamp on the title pages; otherwise a very good, clean set. In contrast with the series C (which contains "popular" papers), series A and B (which contain scientific papers) are rare. [53] [Hermite, C.] Picard, É. (ed.) Oeuvres de Charles Hermite. I-IV. (complete). Paris, Gauthier-Villars, Four parts in four. Large 8vo. I (1905) frontispiece portrait of Hermite (lithograph), xl, 498 pp.; II (1908) frontispice portait of Hermite (lithograph), [i], 520 pp.; III (1912) frontispiece portrait of Hermite (heliogravure), [i], 522 pp.; IV (1917) vi, 594 pp. Uniform original printed wrappers. 200 = Charles Hermite ( ) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. Hermite polynomials, Hermite interpolation, Hermite normal form, Hermitian operators, and cubic Hermite splines are named in his honor. One of his students was Henri Poincaré. Hermite was the first to prove that e, the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. His methods were later used by Ferdinand von Lindemann to prove that π is transcendental too. The three frontispice portraits show Hermite as a young man, a middle aged man, and in his later days. The two photographic frontispice illustration show two sides of a commemorative medal made in his honour at the occasion of his 70th birthday in The quality, especially of the frontispieces, is better than in the Cambridge University Press modern reprint. Uncut, unopened. Wrappers very lightly soiled, the first two a bit chipped at the lower edge due to the paper quality. Otherwise a very good, clean set. 14
17 [54] Herschel, W. Catalogue of 500 new nebulae, nebulous stars, planetary nebulae, and clusters of stars with remarks on the construction of the heavens. London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. 52 pp. [numbered ] Disbound. 500 = William Herschel was the first to survey the skies in a truly rigid and systematic manner. He divided the nonstellar objects into eight classes, and for each object he provided a locality and short description along with the dates and numbers of observations. The present results were obtained with Herschel's 20-foot-long refractor; the most powerful telescope of the period. This is the third catalogue, supplemental to the first two which appeared in 1786 and 1789, also published in the "Philopsophical Transactions" of the Royal Society of London. This is an extracted part without wrappers or the rest of the issue. A wide-margined, uncut copy. The edges a bit soiled and frayed, one lightly pencilled annotation, otherwise good and clean. Rare. Houzeau & Lancaster, p [55] Herschel, W. Catalogue of double stars. Read December 9, London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. Engraved title page, vii, 212 pp. Original grey front wrapper = After discovering moons around Saturn and Uranus, Herschel turned his attention from the planets to the stars, and drew up two catalogues of double stars that he demonstrated were orbiting pairs. This is Herschel's important second catalogue, listing 434 double stars discovered since the delivery of his first catalogue. Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume LXXV part 1. This is the section from the preliminaries up to page 212, with the Herschel paper on pp , plus a foldout plate. This volume contains several other imporant articles, mainly astronomical, such as: Pigott, "observations of a new variable star"; Cavallo, "Astronomical observations of M. de Zach"; Goodricke, "Observations of a new variable star", but also other important scientific contributions such as: Erasmus Darwin, "An account of an artificial spring of water", Lightfoot, "An account of an English bird of the Genus Motacilla"; Anderson, "An account of Morne Garou, a Mountain in the Island of St. Vincent, with a description of the Volcano on its summit. Uncut. No spine cover, but binding present, though weak. Contents clean, unmarked. In all, a very good copy. Not in Houzeau & Lancaster. [56] Herschel, W. Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope. London, The Royal Society of London, pp , plus 19 folding plates showing a total of 47 figures, including the famous huge foldout plate of the enormous telescope. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards = The forty-foot reflector telescope that William Herschel ( ) built at Slough (near Windsor) in the late 1780's was at that time the largest in the world. It was compared in the popular press to the Colossus of Rhodos and other wonders of the world. The telescope is even mentioned on the Ordnance Survey map. The construction was supported by King George III, and built by Herschel, his assistant and sister Caroline. In this paper, Herschel gives detailed insight into the construction and functionality of the telescope. The article is illustrated with 19 plates, including the famous enormous foldout view of the telescope, and was published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year MDCCXCV (1795), Part II. This is the original edition, not the abridged one, with just one plate included in the Herschel paper. Additional papers of interest include the massive paper titled "An account of the trigonometrical survey carried on in the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, by order of his grace the Duke of Richmond..." presented by the Duke. This includes a very large folded map of southern England from Dorchester to Hastings, and including the Isle of Wight. This edition also includes the illustration of a new transit instrument, and a rare early paper on marsupial ontogeny titled "Some observations on the mode of generation of the Kanguroo, with particular description of the organs themselves", by Everard Home, with fine illustrations. Boards rubbed and detached, spine cover mostly perished. Most plates, but not the very large telescope plate, a bit toned, especially in the margins. Otherwise a very good clean and unmarked copy. DSB VI, p. 329; Houzeau & Lancaster, p [57] Herschel, W. On the nature and construction of the Sun and fixed stars. London, The Royal Society, Large 4to. Title page, pp Disbound. 200 = This paper is of interest as it contains the remark, quoted, abridged, in Gaither's Dictionary of scientific quotations, "The sun is the celestial body which should first attract our notice, not only on its own account but since the fixed stars are, by the strictest analogy, similar bodies". An original section, taken from the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1795 (so not from the later abridged edition). Disbound, but complete with the title page, the list of contents to the volume, part I, and one other contribution. Uncut. A very good copy. Gaither, p Houzeau & Lancaster, p
18 [58] Herschel, W. On the power of penetrating into space by telescopes; with a comparative determination of the extent of that power in natural vision, and in telescopes of various sizes and constructions; illustrated by select observations. London, The Royal Society, to. 46 pp. Disbound. 250 = Early publication on the magnifying power of telescopes and their consequences. For instance, Herschel calculated that it would take 598 years to completely sweep the sky with his 20-feet telescope. Published in the Society's "Transactions", volume 91. Uncut, with very wide margins. Tear in on leaf, just reaching a few letters in the text, otherwise very good, clean. Rare. Houzeau & Lancaster, p [59] Herschel, W. On the ring of Saturn, and the rotation of the fifth satellite upon its axis. Article read December 15, London, The Royal Society, vo. viii, 196, 26 pp., three folding engraved plates (including 22 pp. and one folding engraved plate to Herschel's paper). Original blind grey wrappers. 500 = Early publication (and possibly the first) about his discovery of the rings being divided, drawn from the discovery of quick rotation. Also included is a 10 pp. study, partly based on observations by Cassini, on the rotation period of the fifth moon of Saturn, Rhea. This is the Society's "Philosophical Transactions" volume 82 part I. This volume also contains: "Miscellaneous Observations" (5 pp.) by Herschel, which includes an account of a comet (December 22, 1791), and remarks on variable stars, viz. on one disappearing in Hercules, and on the red giant, Alpha Ceti. Other papers in this volume are by Thomas Wedgwood ("Experiments and observations on the production of light from different bodies, by heat and attrition"), Benjamin Thompson ("Experiments upon heat"), and others. Uncut. Rear wrapper detached, wrappers, and first few leaves lightly dampstained, the Herschel papers only so in the lower, untrimmed bottom margin. In all a good copy. Houzeau & Lacaster, p [60] Hooke, R. [and] G. Cassini [and] R. Boyle An account of a new kind of baroscope..., [AND] The particulars of those observations of the planet Mars...made at London..., [AND] Observations made in Italy...fixing the period of the revolution of Mars, [AND] Some observations...concerning the planet Jupiter, [AND] A late observation about Saturn (etc.). London, The Royal Society, to. The original issue 14 of the first year of publication of the Philosophical Transactions. The complete issue, consisting of pp plus one foldout plate. Unbound = Very rare, since the earliest issues of the Transactions were privately financed by the Society's secretary, Henry Oldenburg, and thus printed only in a small number. Starts with a paper by Robert Boyle on his "new kind of Baroscope" (p ). This is a very early account of the instrument now known as the barometer. Robert Boyle is often mentioned as the first person to predict weather by using the barometer. This is followed by a series of important early astronomical articles by Robert Hooke. Hooke is best known for his research in microscopy and mechanics, but his range was very wide and he could be listed under a number of other sciences as well. He made many important astronomical observations and was the first to infer the rotation of Jupiter. Pages contain the articles about his astronomical observations on the planets Saturn and Jupiter (including the discovery of the famous Great Red Spot, a super anticyclone that is still active today), and on the day length of the planet Mars (correctly determined and communicated by Giovani Domenico Cassini, as 24 hours and 40 minutes) Cassini also discovered four of Saturn's moons, and the major gap in Saturn's ring. A spacecraft has been named after him. This is followed by Hooke's discovery of the alleged shadow of Saturn's ring. The foldout illustration relates to these articles, and contains the very first images of the surface of Mars, and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Also included is a review of Thomas Hobbes' "De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum", noting that "It seems, that this Author is angry with all Geometricians, but himself". A very good copy, disbound, with a wide outer margin. Faintly dampstained, mostly marginal, throughout, but not very distracting. The folding plate nice and clean. Houzeau & Lancaster, p. 1328; 1419 (Hooke); 1329 (Cassini); 1386 (Boyle, Hooke, and Cassini); Keynes, 27 (p. 56; Hooke); PMM, 148. [61] Jacobi, C. G. J. Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum. Königsberg, Gebrüder Bornträger, Large 4to (26.1 x 21.3 cm). vi, 191 pp., one large folded chart. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. 600 = This work contains the foundation of the theory of elliptic functions by the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ( ), widely considered to be the most inspiring teacher of his time and one of the greatest mathematicians of his generation (Wikipedia). Scattered, mostly light, foxing throughout (due to the quality of the paper, as is often the case); otherwise a very good copy in a nice binding. DSB VII, pp
19 [62] Kamerlingh Onnes, H. [AND J. D. van der Waals] Théorie générale de l'état fluide. Haarlem, Les héritiers Loosjes, vo. pp in: Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences exactes et naturelles. Tome XXX. 444 pp., 18 plates. Original printed wrappers. 350 = A near mint copy of volume 30 of the "Archives", with Nobel Prize winner (physics, 1914) Kamerlingh Onnes' important work on the theory of fluids, and three papers by another Nobel Prize winner, J. D. Van der Waals (physics, 1910), namely: "L'interprétation cinétique du potentiel thermodinamique" (pp ), "Sur les caractères qui décident de l'allure de la courbe de plissement dans le cas d'un mélange de deux substances" (pp ), and "Sur les conditions critiques, ou de plissement, d'un mélange" (pp ). Uncut, unopened. A few small spots on the rear wrapper, otherwise a mint copy. [63] l'hospital, G.F. Marquis de Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la resolution des equations dans les problêmes tant déterminez qu'indéterminez. Ouvrage posthume. Paris, Montalant, to. [vi], 459 pp., 34 folded engraved, mathematical plates; finely engraved pictorial text vignette and engraved letterpiece on the first page. Contemporary boards with 19th century vellum spine with handwritten title and date. 250 = Second, posthumous edition (first: 1707) of this mathematical and geometrical work by Guillaume-François Antoine de L'Hospital, Marquis de Sainte-Mesme, Comte d'entremont ( ). Another edition was published in l'hospital was a student of Johannes Bernoulli and correspondent of Leibniz, whose Abhandlung (1684) on this subject de L'Hospital had read (Kowalewski, Grosse Mathematiker, 115). l'hospital devoted his life entirely to mathematical sciences and also published the highly esteemed first textbook on differential calculus: "Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes" (1696). Pictorial bookplate (a globe) of Docteur R. Rickaert on the front pastedown top outer corner; the name d'arros in an old hand on the title page; small repair on the title page. Binding very modest, otherwise a very nice clean copy. DSB 8 pp ; Poggendorf I, [64] Lambert, J. H., D. Bernouilli, and others Acta Helvetica, Physico-Mathematico-Anatomico-Botanico-Medica, figuris aeneis illustrata & in usus publicos exarata. I-V. Basel, Johann Rudolph Im-Hof, Five volumes in two. with 57 folded engraved plates and two folded tabels. Uniform contemporary full calf. Spines with four raised bands, tan morocco labels with black titles. All edges red = Rare start of the first Swiss scientific journal, of which only nine volumes have been published ( ). It was only a few years after the foundation of the physical society in Zürich that chiefly through the initiative of the famous printer Imhof this journal came into being. The succes was immediate as several famous scientists contributed, viz.: Th. Haller, J. Sulzer, J. H. Lambert, J. Zwinger, Daniel Bernoulli, A. von Haller, etc.. It deals mainly with natural history, medicine, and physics. The publications by the famous mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert include the following: 1. Tentamen de vi caloris, que corpora dilatat ejusque dimensione The first publication of Lambert, prepared by many experiments and written up for the Acta Helveticae. It treats the expansion of fluids and bodies under heat. A logarithmic curve fitting the expansion is derived, but many questions are left unanswered. These will be taken up later in Lambert's work on hygrometry and pyrometry. 2. Observationes variae in mathesin puram Originally planned as a treatise on decimal periods (Dec. 1753), Lambert developed this theme over the year 1754, but in Aug decided to add his ideas on trinomials and their solution methods to the treatise. It was written in the clear 1757 and sent to the Acta Helvetica. Many topics developed in this paper, that contains some of the most important mathematical ideas Lambert ever conceived, were pursued in later years. 3. Observationes meteorologicae curiae Rhaetorum habitae, una cum variis in eas animadversionibus. This treatise contains Lambert's meteorological observations made in Chur during the years The measuring instruments employed are a barometer, a hygrometer and a thermometer. Lambert's meteorological interests, pursued throughout his scientific carreer, were originally stimulated by a correspondence with Daniel Bernoulli and most probably by reading Petrus van Musschenbroek's work. 4. Theoria staterum ex principiis mechanices universalis exposita. In this work a theory of balance is developed. 5. De variationibus altitudinum barometricarum a luna pendentibus This treatise bundles Lambert's barometric observations during the years It is shown that the moon has no apparant influence on the pressure of the atmosphere. Daniel Bernouilli ( ) is present with several works, inccluding the "Diverses reflexions sur la physique générale" (part I and II). Further there are early works on mycology by Schlotterbach (see Volbracht), malacological contributions by the same author, and botanical works by Gronovius. Small old stamp on titles, otherwise a very good, clean set. Johann Heinrich Lambert ( ) Collected Works - Sämtliche Werke Online ( Volbracht, [65] Lamy, [C.] A. De l'existence d'un nouveau métal, le Thallium. Lille, L. Danel, vo. 42 pp., one full colour plate. Original printed wrappers = The original publication, with a signed dedication by the author on the front wrapper, of the discovery of thallium being a metal. Claude Auguste Lamy ( ) discovered the element while observing pyrite but soon 17
20 found out that William Crookes had identified the new element too and generously - perhaps erroneously - gave Crookes the honour. However, Crookes' research was less thorough and he believed thallium to be related to the group of elements that includes sulphur, whereas Lamy who did not only detected the element but also isolated larger quantities was the first to show that it was a metal from the lead group and in fact a bit heavier than lead. His discovery was published in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, third series, volume 67, but this is the perhaps earlier, separately published account. The last two pages contain the proceedings of the Société impériale des Sciences, de l'agriculture et des Arts, de Lille, recording the meeting of 16 May 1862 in which Lamy announced his results and showed about 1.5 grams of the new element. Thallium became widely used as a ratpoison, being very toxic (one cannot resist thinking that Lamy's early death is somehow related to his working with thallium), but is now mostly used in electronics and optics. The plate shows the spectra in which the characteristic green line is indicated after which the element was named. Uncut copy. Some marginal fraying, old printed library label pasted on the title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. Very rare. [66] Lamy, [C.] A. Leçon sur le Thallium. Professée le 30 janvier devant la Société Chimique de Paris, sous la présidence de M. Dumas. Paris, C. Lahure, vo. 42 pp. Original printed wrappers. 425 = The original publication, with a signed dedication by the author on the front wrapper, of the history of the discovery of thallium. Claude Auguste Lamy ( ) discovered the element while observing pyrite but soon found out that William Crookes had identified the new element too and generously - perhaps erroneously - gave Crookes the honour. However, Crookes' research was less thorough and he believed thallium to be related to the group of elements that includes sulphur, whereas Lamy who not only detected the element but also isolated larger quantities was the first to show that it was a metal from the lead group and in fact a bit heavier than lead. In the present paper, an annotated lecture, Lamy presents an overview of the events related to the discovery and added new information on its properties. Thallium became widely used as a rat-poison, being very toxic (one cannot resist thinking that Lamy's early death is somehow related to his working with thallium), but is now mostly used in electronics and optics. Uncut copy. Some marginal fraying, old printed library label pasted on the title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. Very rare. [67] Leclerc, D. Historia naturalis et medica latorum lumbricorum, intra hominem & alia animalia, nascentium ex variis auctoribus & propriis observationibus. Accessit, horum occasione, de ceteris quoque hominum vermibus, tum de omnium origine, tandemque de remediis quibus pelli possint, Disquisitio. Cum variis figuris. Geneva, Fratres de Tournes, Small 4to.16, 456 pp., 14 folded engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with five raised bands, rich floral gilt compartments and red morocco label with gilt title on spine, marbled flyleaves, all edges red. 400 = One of the first books on intestinal parasitology, written by the Swiss physician Daniel Leclerc or Le Clerc ( ), author of several medical publications. This is his only work that also deals with zoology, especially with the tapeworm and other worms belonging to several classes. The illustrations are very precise. Old scratch on rear board, small old bookplate of Pierre Lambert, small annotation on front flyleaf verso "Ex libris Chauveau D. Md.". In all, a fine copy, in a nice contemporary binding and without the usual browning. Rare. Nissen ZBI, [68] Leibniz, G. [W.] Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus, quae nec fractas nec irrationales quantitates moratur et singulare pro illis calculi genus [AND] De geometria recondita et analysi indivisibilium atque infinitorum. Leipzig, Christopher Gunther for J. Grossium [and J. F. Gletitschium], In two volumes. Small 4to. [19,7 x 15,3 cm]. pp and one plate (Tab. XII) for the first paper; pp. 192 [recte 292]-300 for the second paper (Geometria recondita). Contemporary uniform half vellum over boards and full vellum with title written in contemporary hand on the spines = The most important original papers, on differential calculus, and on integral calculus, by one of the greatest mathematicians ever, Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz ( ). The 1684 volume with Leibniz's famous article on differential calculus is in an exceedingly rare, unrecorded state. Dibner: "First printing of this epochal work. (...) Fifteen years after Newton's first work in fluxions and nine after his own independent discovery, Leibnitz published the above, his first announcement of the differential calculus". It is known that two distinct issues exist, and this is an unrecorded third, but certainly not latest. In the Norman copy, page 467 is in an uncorrected setting (known now as the first state), with quite a few printing errors in the mathematical formula. In the copy described in Dibner's "Heralds of Science" (previously recognized as a first issue), the page is entirely reset, with corrections, but is obviously now recorded as the second 'state' or 'issue'. Our copy is similar to the Norman copy, with page 467 in an uncorrected state. However, in our copy the plate next to page 467 differs from both Norman and Dibner: the letters "M. Oct" are printed at the top of the sheet underneath the plate number. What we have here thus, is yet another issue of the work and it is still unclear which one is the true first. It is, however, not 18
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