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‎"SABINE, EDWARD. - THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.‎

‎An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the Pendulum in different Latitudes. Read March 8, 1821.‎

‎(London, W.Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 164-190 a. 5 folded tables.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Sabine relates his discoveries with the pendulum on his 2 voyages, the first on John Ross' expedition in 1818 - relating observations from Island of Brassa, Shetland, Hare Island, London - and from the second voyage with William Parry on the arctic expedition - relating observations from Melville Island. From these observations he estimated the figure of the earth.""An artillery officer, Sabine was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. While retaining his commission - Sabine eventually reached the rank of general - the started scientific work at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. On the recommendation of the Royal Society, he accompanied John Ross on an expedition to seek the Northwest Passage in 1818 and was with William Edward Parry on his 1819-1820 Arctic expedition. From the latter voyage. he said, came the idea of a great ship-borne expedition of “physical discovery” to the southern hemisphere.""(DSB).‎

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‎"SABINE, EDWARD. - MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE ANTARCTIC.‎

‎Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism.- No. VI.: Observations made on Board Her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror, from June 1841 to August 1842, in the Arctic Expedition under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1844). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 87-224 and 5 engraved plates, including the 3 importent large folded maps of the South Seas. Some lvs. of text with a small worntract, 2 lvs. a bit soiled. Repairs to verso of one map with a tear.‎

‎A pioneer work in antarctic science.‎

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‎"SAUSSURE, HORACE-BÉNÉDICT DE. - ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CUVIER)‎

‎Essais sur L'Hygrometrie. I-IV. (I. Description d'un nouvel Hygrometre comparable. II. Théorie de l'hygrométrie. III. Théorie de l'évaporation. IV. Application des théories précédentes à quelques phénomenes de la météorologie.).‎

‎Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf, raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV,367 pp., 2 engraved plates (1 folded). The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy.‎

‎First edition of a fundamental work in Meteorology in which Saussure describes how to construct a hygrometer from human hair that can measure the relative humidity, and discussing the principles behind it. Cuvier regarded this book as one of the greatest contributions to science of the eighteenth century.""A milestone work in chemistry, physics, and meteorology, which established hygrometry as an exact science. Primarely a geologist who explored and published on the Alps, Saussure (1740-1788) was the first to prove that air expands and becomes less dense the more humidity it contains. In these Essais (the work offered) he describes his experiments with the hair hygrometer of his invention and his theory of the evaporation and hygrometry with their applications to meteorology. he also enunciates his theory of the evaporation of water in hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and other gases.""(Neville II, p. 427 a).""In his essay on the theoretical principles of hygrometry (which he conceives as ""the art of measuring the absolute quantity of water suspended in the air""), De Saussure distinguishes three classes of methods of determining humidity, which respectively utilize (i) observations of changes in the weight, dimensions, or shape, of a hygroscopic body" (ii) observations of the capacity of the air for taking up water" and (iii) observations of the quantity of water condensing from the air under given conditions on a cold surface, or of the degree of cold necessary to start such an condensation...""(Wolf ""A History of Science , Technology, & Philosophy in the 18th Century"" I, p. 326 ff.).Partington III, 763. - Partington ""Breakthroughs"" 1783 M - Poggendorff II, 755-56.‎

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‎"SAVART, FELIX. - THE RATIONALIZED VIOLIN AND THE PHYSICS OF THE VIOLIN.‎

‎Sur la Communication des mouvemens vibratoires entre les corps solides.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1820. Uncut with orig. printed wrappers (Juin-issue). In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"" Tome XIV, Juin issue, pp. 113-222. (Entire issue in orig. wrappers). Savart's paper: pp. 113-172 and 3 folded engraved plates.‎

‎First printing of a pioneer paper on the acoustics of the violin and on the construction of the Trapezoidal Fiddle.""In his earliest work Savart gave the first explanation of the function of certain parts of the violin. To learn how vibrations are transmitted from the strings to the rest of the instrument, he induced vibrations in a free wood plate by passing a vibrating string over a bridge at its center" he also used Chladni’s sand-pattern technique to observe the resulting nodal lines. Savart showed that the bridge transmits the string’s vibrations that the plate can be made to vibrate at any frequency" and that the corresponding mode is a modification of an unforced mode. He demonstrated that the sound post also serves to transmit vibrations, and he explained that it therefore should not be placed under a nodal line. Thinking that symmetry and regularity would produce the best tone, Savart built a trapezoidal violin with rectangular sound holes. When the instrument was played before a committee that included Biot, the Composer Cherubini, and other members of the Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, its tone was judged as extremely clear and even, but somewhat subdued.""(DSB).The issue also contains Eilhard Mitscherlich' famous paper in the first French version ""Sur la Relation qui existe entre la forme cristalline et les proportions chimiques"", pp. 172-190.‎

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‎"SCHWANN, THEODOR. - THE DISCOVERY OF PEPSIN, THE FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME.‎

‎Ueber das Wesen des Verdauungsprocesses. (On the essence of digestion).‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1836). Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Band 38, No. 6 (= Zweyte Stück). Titlepage to Vol. 38. Pp. 241-450 a. 3 engraved plates.(Entire issue offered, Heft No. 6, Bd. 38). Schwann's paper: pp. 358-364. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in the history of biology, in which Schwann describes his discovery and isolation of pepsin, the substance in the stomach that aids digestion of eggwhite. It is the FIRST KNOWN ANIMAL ENZYME. The paper appeared at the same time in ""Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und Wissenschaftliches Medicin""Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) was a great German physiologist, pathologist, and experimenter. One of the founders of the cell doctrine and of the idea of the living nature of yeast. Born at Neuss, near Düsseldorff. A catholic, educated in the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne. Intended for the church but took to medicine. He was a pupil of Johannes Müller and a collegueand lifelong friend of J. Henle, the anatomist. In Berlin Schwann was Johannes Müller's assistent for five years, and it was then that he discovered pepsin in 1836 (the paper offered).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1836 B.The issue contains other importent papers by Seebeck, Matteucci, Marchand, G. Magnus ""Ueber die Wirkung des Ankers auf Elektromagnete und Stahlmagnete"", Schönbein, J. Müller ""Ueber die Structur und die chemischen Eigenschaften der thierischen Bestandtheile der Knorpel und Knochen"" + Nachtrag., Forchhammer ""Der kopaische See und seine unterirdischen Abzugskanäle.."" with a map.‎

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‎"SCHLEGEL, FRIEDRICH. - COINING THE TERM ""COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR"".‎

‎Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Alterthumskunde. nebst metrischen Uebesetzüngen indischer Gedichte.‎

‎Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1808. Contemp pink boards. Gilt titlelabels on spine. Lacks a bit of coverpaper on top of spine. Wear to spine ends and along edges. XVI,324 pp. Faint scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Schlegel's work on the grammatical connections between Sanskrit and the Indo-European languages. It represents an important moment in the development of the study of comparative grammar, a term which Schlegel himself coined in the text.‎

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‎"SERTÜRNER, FRIEDRICH. - THE ISOLATION OF MORPHINE AND COINING THE WORD 'MORPHINE'.‎

‎Analyse de l'Opium. De la Morphine et de l'Acide méconique, considérés comme parties essentielles de l'Opium.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1817. No wrappers. Extract from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 5, Cahier 1. With titlepage and htitle to vol. 5. Pp. 21-42.‎

‎First French edition (the German paper issued simutaneously in Gilbert's Annalen) of this groundbreaking paper claiming to be the first to announce the isolation of pure morphine from opium. This process marks an importent step in the beginnings of alkaloid chemistry, and the isolation of morphine is the first isolation of an alkali of vegetable origin. In his paper Sertuerner coined the word ""morphine"" after Morpheus (the Greek God of sleep).The isolation of morphine from opium, the first isolation of a natural product, was a seminal event in the development of pharmacology as an independent discipline. The purification kick-started natural product chemistry and quickly led to the isolation of a host of other alkaloids. Within a few years, in 1827, Heinrich Emanuel Merck of Darmstadt began selling morphine, resulting in the development of the eponymous company. Sertürner reported his first observations on Opium in 1805, which was mainly concerned with the constituent of meconic acid, but ""it was only in 1817...(in the paper offered) that he unequivocally reported the isolation of pure morphine. He prepared it by extracting opium with hot water and precipitating morphine with ammonia. he obtained colorless crystals, poorly soluble in water, but soluble in acids and alcohol. In order to establish that his crystals carried the pharmacological activity of raw opium, Sertuerner tested them on himself and three boys, ""none older than seventeen."". It was a near-catastrophe."" (Ryan J. Huxtable a. K.W. Schwarz).DEROSNE (1803) made claim of priority in the discovery of opium, but he only ""prepared a crude extract of opium with alcohol and water, and obtained by potassium carbonate preciipitation, what he called ""sel de Derosne"". Derosne's alkaloidal fraction lacked narcotic properties, and was probably largely narcotine (also known as noscapine), perhaps with meconic acid, both abundant in opium."" (Huxtable & Schwarz).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1817 C,The offered issue contains another importent paper by Alexander v. Humboldt: ""Sur les Lignes isothermes. (Extrait)"", pp. 102-111 and a large folded engraved plate. Here Humboldt introduced ""Isothermes"" in meteorology. This extract issued at the same time as the larger memoir which appeared in ""Mémoires de physique et de chimie de la Société d’Arcueil"" (1817).‎

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‎"SEFSTRÖM, N.-G. (NILS GABRIEL). - THE DISCOVERY OF VANADIUM.‎

‎Sur le Vanadium, métal nouveau, trouvé dans du fer en barres de Eckersholm. forge qui tire sa mine de Taberg, dans le Smaland.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1831). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 1. Pp. 5-112. (Entire issue offered). Sefström's paper: pp. 105-111.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Sefström announced his discovery of a new element in iron from the Taberg mine in Småland. He named it Vanadium from the goddess Vanadis.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1831 C.The discovery and isolation of Vanadium has a long story to tell. In reality it was found by del Rio in 1801, he named it Erythronium, but upon further study he decided that he was mistaken as his further studies showed that it was made up of a basic lead chromate.‎

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‎"Shakotan Boogie" Michiharu Kusunoki "BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL" Kazuhiro Kiuchi "My song is your song" Fumi Shibamon "In the night sky‎

‎Young Magazine No.16 August 19 1985‎

‎Not Available 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback‎

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‎"SIEDENTOPF, H. und R. (RICHARD) ZSIGMONDY. - THE INVENTION OF THE ULTRAMICROSCOPE.‎

‎Ueber Sichtbarmachung und Grössenbestimmung ultramikroskopischer Teilchen, mit besondrer Anwendung auf Goldrubingläser.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903). Without wrappers.. In ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Bd. 10. No 1. (Entire issue offred). With halftitle to vol. 10. 224 pp. and 1 folded plate. Seidentopf & Zsigmondy's paper: pp. 1-39 a. textillustrations. The issue punched in inner margin after cords. 3 small stamps in the text.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Zsigmondy describes his invention of the Ultramicroscope, by which is became possible to see the Brownian movements of molecules. His microscope is still of great importence in colloid studies, but in most fields where great magnification is required, it has been outdistanced by the electron microscope.""Zsigmondy was a figure of paramount importance on colloid chemistry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1925, for invention of the ultramicroscope and his work on colloids was the first time this fledgling science had been so honored. In 1926 work by J. B. Perrin and Theodor Svedberg that followed directly from Zsigmondy’s achievement was recognized by the Nobel Prizes in physics and in chemistry, respectively. No Nobel Prize since then has been awarded for work solely in colloid chemistry. (DSB).The offered issue contains another importent paper by MAX ABRAHAM ""Prinzipien der Dynamik des Elektrons. Pp. 105-179. In 1902 Abraham said ""It now becomes necessary to base the dynamics of the electrons from the outset on electromagnetic considerations"" In 1903 (the paper offered) he published his main detailed article on the rigid electron""(Pais in Subtle is the ord"" pp. 157 ff.""The ultramicroscope is form of microscope that reveals the presence of particles that cannot be seen with a normal optical microscope. Colloidal particles, smoke particles, etc., are suspended in a liquid or gas in a cell with a black background and illuminated by an intense cone of light that enters the cell from the side and has its apex in the field of view. The particles then produce diffraction-ring systems, appearing as bright specks on the dark background.‎

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‎"SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN. - WHY IS THE SKY BLUE ?‎

‎Molekular-kinetische Theorie der Opaleszenz von Gasen im kritischer Zustande. sowie einiger verwandter Erscheinungen. (Kinetic Theory of Gas Opalescence at the Critical State). (Bearbeitet nach einer am 2. December 1907 der Krakauer Akademie vorgelegt...‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth), 1908 No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck."", Vierte Folge. Band 25, No 2. Pp. 185-376. The entire issue offered. Smoluchowski's paper: pp. 206-226The block is punched in inner margins after cords.‎

‎First German edition. ""His paper ""Teoria kinetyczna opalescencji gazów w stanie krytycznym"" (""kinetic Theory of Gas Opalescence at the Critical Stale"" 1907) - the paper offered in the German version - shows why the critical point plays such an important role and states that the opalescence of pure gas also should be observable under normal conditions: ""Each of us has observed it innumerable times when admiring the blue of the sky or the glow of the rising sun."" Smoluchowski combined the theory of fluctuations with the results of Lord Rayleigh’s researches on the blue of the sky" his finding (Einstein also took part in the discussion) was that the blueness of the sky was caused by fluctuations in the density of the air. Smoiuchowski’s laboratory production of sky blue closed the investigation to a certain extent.that pure air can opalesce in the laboratory under normal conditions.‎

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‎"SOUBEIRAN, EUGÈNE - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. - Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"" 36.7.‎

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‎"SOBRERO, ASCAGNE. - THE DISCOVERY OF NITROGLYCERIN.‎

‎Sur plusieur composés détonants produits avec l'acide nitrique et le sucre, la dextrine, la lactine, la mannite et la glycérine.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XXIV, No. 7. Pp. (209-) 252. (Entire issue offered). Sobrero's paper: pp. 247-248. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Sobrero announced his discovery of nitroglycerin.""When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerine explosions, and the terrible havoc that has been wreaked, which in all probability will continue to occur in the future, I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer."" (Sobrero)""Nitroglycerin was synthesized by the chemist Ascagne Sobrero in the middle of the nineteenth century. When he tasted it, as all good nineteenth century chemists did when they discovered a new compound, it gave him what he called a migraine, because of its vasodilatory effect, which was later harnessed in the treatment of angina by William Murrell (1879), following the experience of a distinguished British clinician, Lauder Brunton, using amyl nitrite (1867) Later in the nineteenth century, Alfred Nobel discovered how to stabilize nitroglycerin, using kieselguhr (diatomite) clay"" this led to highly successful industrial applications of dynamite and created the fortune that eventually funded the eponymous prizes. For medical purposes nitroglycerin was subsequently renamed glyceryl trinitrate, to hide the fact that it was literally dynamite as well as metaphorically.""‎

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‎"SOMMERFELD, A. - THE BOHR-SOMMERFELD MODEL OF THE ATOM.‎

‎Zur Quantentheorie der Spektrallinien. I-III. (I. Theorie der Balmerschen Serie. II. Die Feinstruktur der Wasserstoff- und der wasserstoffähnlichen Linien. III. Theorie der Röntgenspektren.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. VIII,888 a. 4 plates. (entire volume offered). Sommerfelds paper: pp. 1-94 a. pp. 125-167. A stamp on verso of titlepage. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Sommerfeld's elaborated version of the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, in which he was the first to show, that relativity theory gives a quantitative account of the fine structure, and thus creating a general theory of spectral lines based on the quantum concepts.""Sommerfeld's two papers...and a more elaborate version (the paper offered)...surely deserves a lenghty chapter in the history of the old quantum theory...""Pais, Bohr p. 186 ff).""This extraordinary extension, enrichment, and precision of Bohr’s theory by Sommerfed contributed decisively to its rapid and widespread acceptance. Only five years after Bohr’s first publication Sommerfeld, recognizing that the mathematical development of this quantum-theoretical atomic model had reached a conclusion of sorts, undertook a comprehensive exposition of the field. HisAtombau and Spektallinien, of which the first edition appeared late in 1919, immediately became the bible of atomic physics and its successive editions, appearing almost annually in the early 1920’s, chronicled the progress of this field up to the eve of the introduction of quantum mechanics.""(DSB). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1916 P.The volume contains other notable papers by Paul S. Epstein ""Zur Quantentheorie"", Stark, P. Ehrenfest ""Adiabatische Invarianten und Quantentheorie"" and A. Einstein ""Über Friedrich Kottlers Abhandlung ""Über Einsteins Áquivalenzhypothese und die Gravitation"" pp. 639-642.‎

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‎"STARK, J. (JOHANNES). - DISCOVERING THE ""STARK-EFFECT""‎

‎Beobachtungen über den Effekt des elektrischen Feldes auf Spektrallinien. I-VI. (I. Quereffekt. II. Längseffekt (together with G. Wendt). III. Abhängigkeit von der Feldstärke (together with H. Kirschbaum). IV.Linienarten, Verbreitung (together with H....‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1914 u. 1915. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck."", Bd. 43., No 7,1914. Pp. 965-1116 a. 4 plates (entire issue offered) and. Bd. 48, No. 18. Pp. 145-272 a. 2 plates (entire issue offered).The blocks are punched in inner margins after cords. Stark's papers I-IV: pp. 965-1047 (Bd. 43) and V-VI: pp. 193-235 (Bd. 48). Both issues clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these 5 important papers in which Stark describes his researches on the effects of the electrical field on the spectral lines of hydrogen, thus discovering the splitting of the spectral lines, THE STARK-EFFECT. This effect was incorporated into quantum mexhanics by Paul Epstein in 1916, and it was shown to be consistent with wave mechanics by Schrödinger in 1926. In 1919 Stark was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and of the splitting of spectral lines inan electric field (the papers offered). ""At the beginning of July 1913, several months before Stark’s discovery, Niels Bohr published his concept of a quantum-mechanical model of the atom. This provided, in principle, the possibility of understanding the reason for the Stark effect, which the classical theory was powerless to explain. Stark therefore had an opportunity to be doubly gratified, having also been one of the first, after Max Planck and Einstein, to stress the “fundamental significance” of Planck’s elementary law (since 1907). which he had championed in many polemical discussions. Yet, almost incomprehensibly, Stark denied himself the satisfaction of seeing his own experiments confirm a theory for which he had helped prepare the way conceptually, even if he had not directly participated in its creation. Apparently he always had to oppose the accepted point of view. Thus, as Bohr’s theory continued to gain adherents in 1914-1916."" (DSB)‎

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‎"STEENSTRUP, JOHANNES JAPETUS SMITH. - THE DISCOVERY OF ""ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS''.‎

‎Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker, en særegen Form for Opfostringen i de lavere Dyrklasser. [On Reproduction and Development through Alternation of Generations, a Special Form of Propagation in Lower Animals]. (+)Undersög...‎

‎Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1842 a. 1845. 4to. Bound in one contemp. halfcalf, spine gilt. A small tear to backhinge at lower compartment of spine. IV,76 pp. and 3 double-page, folded lithographed plates with many figs. + XIV,88 pp. and 2 double-apge lithographed plates with many figs. Light browning to the last leaves of the second work.‎

‎The scarce first edition of the work in which Steenstrup describes his discovery of the principle of 'ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS'', sexual and asexual in plants and animals. ""(Steenstrup) showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return in form and nature to their grandparents or more distant ancestors."" (Garrison & Morton No 217). A German translation was published the same year, and an English in 1845. Norman 2009 (German translation). ""The second major publication - (the first dealing with geology) - of 1842 was ""Om Forplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generationsrækker..."", (the work offered), Steenstrup's comprehensive presentation of the form of reproduction that he called 'alternation of generations', that is, the alternation of asexual and sexual reproduction, or metagenesis. This phenomenon had previously been described by Chamisso, but Steenstrup included a greater number of observations, based on a significantly wider range of subjects, and provided an importent chapter on its meaning. Steenstrup's growing reputation, won him an appointment as professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen, where he tought from 1846 until 1885.""(DSB XII, p. 9).‎

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‎"STIELTJES, (THOMAS). - THE ""STIELTJES INTEGRAL"" INTRODUCED.‎

‎Recherches sur les fractions continues.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1894. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 118, No 25. Pp. (1371-) 1442. (Entire issue offered). Le Chatelier's paper: pp. 1401-1411.‎

‎First printing of the milestone paper in which Stieltjes introduced the ""Stieltjes Integral"". He is often called ""the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions"" for his work in this area. ""On 18 June 1894 he published Recherches sur les fractions continues in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. A fuller version of this work appeared in the Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse."" The integral which he introduced here while solving the moment problem, that is, given the moments of all orders of a body, find the distribution of its mass."".... a mathematical milestone. The work represents the first general treatment of continued fractions as part of complex analytic function theory"" previously, only special cases had been considered."" (Encyclopaedia Britannica).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1894 M.‎

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‎"STROMEYER (STROHMEYER), FRIEDRICH. - THE DISCOVERY OF CADMIUM.‎

‎Ueber das Kadmium. (Eine Darstellung der Resultate des ersten Theils seiner Untersuchungen über dieses, vo ihm in dem Zink und den Zinkoxyden entdeckte, neue Metall.).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 60 Heft 2 (= Jahrgang 1818, zehntes Stück). Pp. 113-218 a. 1 engraved plate (map). The entire issue offered (Heft 2). Stromeyer's paper pp. 193-210. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Strohmeyer's account of his discovery of Cadmium. The history of its discovery was very complicated as some other laid claim to its discovery.Stromeyer was inspector general of apothecaries in Hannover. ""In 1817, fulfilling the duties of his office, he came across an apothecary's shop in which a bottle labeled zinc oxide contained zinc carbonate. Following this up, Stromeyer found himself interested in zinc carbonate, which turned yellow on strong heating as though it contained iron as an impurity, yet it contained no iron. He traced the yellow to an oxide not of zinc but of a hitherto unknown metal rather like it chemically. He named it cadmium for a zinc ore in which it is usually found accompanying the zinc.""(Asimov).Weeks ""Discovery of the Elements"", pp. 135-39.‎

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‎"SUPERVIELLE, JULES. - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.‎

‎Saisir avec un portrait de l'auteur par Borés gravé sur bois par georges Aubert.‎

‎Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1928. Original printed wrappers. Frontwrapper with a small closed tear. Lower right corner strenghtened on verso. A few spots to wrappers. No XXV of CXX copies ""hors commerce"". Inscribed by the author ""Jules Supervielle"" to ""A Monsieur Henri George...""‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"SWINDEN, (JAN HENDRIK) VAN. - THE PRIZE-WINNING MEMOIR ON MAGNETISM AND THE COMPASS.‎

‎Recherches sur les Aiguilles Aimantées, et sur leurs Variations régulières, qui ont portagé le Prix proposé pour L'Année 1777.‎

‎Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf with 5 raised bands on spine. Richly gilt compartments, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome VIII. XXIV,624 pp., 8 engraved plates a. 52 folded tables. (Entire volume offered). Van Swinden's work: pp. 1-576, 3 folded engraved plates and 52 folded tables.‎

‎First edition of Van Swinden's large work on magnetism and the function of the compass and the variability of magnetic needles. It also explained the diurnal variation of the earth's magnetic force.In 1767 van Swinden obtained the chair of philosophy, logic, and metaphysics at Franekar University. He studied all the popular scientific topics of the period, especially magnetism, electricity, meteorolgy, and chemistry, and corresponded with many leading scientists, including Bonnet, Euler, Deluc, J. C. Wilcke, Bertholon, and Lalande. His Tentamen de magnete (1772) dealt with his mathematical theory of magnetism, and in 1777 he and Coulomb shared the gold medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences for a very detailed prize essay on magnetism, Recherches sur les aiguilles aimantées. (the essay offered).Poggendorff II, 1057‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 44929

‎"SÉDILLOT, C. (CHARLES EMMANUEL). - THE FIRST GASTROTOMY PERFORMED.‎

‎De la gastrotomie fistuleuse.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1846. 4to. No wrappers. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 23, No 4. Pp. (171-) 232. (Entire issue offered). Sédillot's paper: pp. 222-227.‎

‎First appearance of the paper which records the first gastrotomy performed on a human. The operation was unsuccessfull and the patient died later.Garrison & Morton No 2451.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 47227

‎"Te Manuwiri" [Davidson, Albert Edward [1842?-1918]‎

‎Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand and its Phases of Contact with the Maori Race‎

‎Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. A nice copy of this title. ; No date 1907. viii 194 pages slip "Printed from Plates supplied to the Publishers". Page dimensions: 191 x 128mm. Illustrated brown cloth boards "Throughout the following pages will be found it is hoped a collection of short and interesting Sketches of Early Colonist Life in New Zealand being a country singularly prolific of many thrilling scenes there enected sic during years gone by which are written in a racy and catchy style peculiar of the soil. " - from the author's preface. Contents: A Reverie; Preface; Hoolahan and the Gin-Bottle; A Thrilling Maori Episode; An Exciting Pig Hunt; Lost in the Forest; A Bovine Adventure; A Savage Equine Battle; The Great Bush Fire; A Hazardous Enterprise; A Maori Duchess and the Tug-of-War; A Peculiar Maori Wager; A Maori Wedding; A Northern Excursion; The Tattooed Warrior. Reference: Bagnall D125 - "Semi-fictionalised incidents in author's experience in Auckland and farming in Northland." . Whitcombe and Tombs hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 26075

‎"THE PENINSULA WAR 1807-1814. -‎

‎Collection of 15 large lithographed maps relating to the battles during the Peninsula war. The maps are lithographed from the original Drawing(s) in the Qr Mr Genls Office, at the Top.l Dept of the War Office (by) H. James.‎

‎(London, War Office, 1860-70). All of the large maps are lithographed (one signed ""lith. James Ferguson"") with positions in colour. The measures given are paper sizes, comprising: 1. Movements of the two Armies after the Repulse of Marshal Massena's Attack upon the Position of Busaco. (68 x 82 cm.).- 2. Battle of Talevera de la Reyna fought on the 27th & 28th July 1809. (113 x 68 cm.). - 3. Battle of Busaco. General Position of the French and allied Armies on the 26th September 1810. (68 x 100 cm.). - 4-6. Battle of Fuentes D'Onoro, Fought on the 3rd and 5th May 1811. Map 1-3., each (68 x 100 cm.). - 7-15. all with the heading title Massena's Retreat No. 1-3 and 5-10 each around (51 x 67 cm.). At end one untitled map. Some foldings strenghtened with tape.‎

‎We have been unable to decide whether these maps are a part of a series or just published separately.The Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and Bourbon Spain, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, previously its ally. The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814, and is regarded as one of the first wars of national liberation, significant for the emergence of large-scale guerrilla warfare.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 58334

‎"THE HOTVILL'S AND THE GOLDDIGGERS ""SQUARE"" BAND"‎

‎DISQUE VINYLE 33T DIXIE LAND - ARKANSAS TRAVELLER, OH SUZANNAH, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, DEGUELLO, GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER, SHANE, YANKEE DOODLE - TURKEY IN THE STRAW, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, JOHNY GUITAR, HOW THE WEST WAS WON, VERA CRUZ.‎

‎DISQUES VOGUE. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs, biographie et photo en noir et blanc à l'intérieur de la pochette. Western Story.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

‎Disque n° CLVLX.388 Classification : 410-33 Tours‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : R130007300

‎"THE ""DANISH LAW"" OF 1683.‎

‎Königs Christians Des Fünften Dänsches Gesetz. Aus dem Dänschen ins Teutsche übersetzet. - [FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION OF KING CHRISTIAN V'S ""DANISH LAW""]‎

‎Copenhagen, Joachim Schmedtgen, 1699. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine and two clasps. With King Christian V's monogram in gold to upper part of spine. Edges of boards gilt. All edges gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. A few wormholes to back board, leather on spine cracked, cornes bumped. A few small worm-tracts to last leaves. Last two blanks with annotations in contemporary hand. Internally generally nice and clean. (22), 104, 112, 142, 110, 84, (4) pp. (Including three blanks in the front and back).‎

‎First German translation of ""Danish Law"" which became a prototype and inspiration for other European codexes. The English envoy to Denmark at the time, Robert Molesworth, praises the Danish Code in his otherwise highly negative text: ""An account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692"". He states that in justice, brevity and clarity, the Code surpasses all other legal texts he knows of. It is so clear and simple to understand, that any literate person can understand his case and is able to represent himself in Court if he so wishes. Thesaurus II: 431.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 61164