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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First of this edition. First Authorized German edition, 1921. This copy has been bound, paper over boards black linen spine with title handwritten on a paper label. Former owner's name in pen on endpaper and pencil on title page C. W. Van der Merwe. Original wrappers, removed, Paper is fragile, tanned and darkened at edges. …

Quarter Leather. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, xii, [2], [13-207pp. Three quarter red morocco, red cloth boards. Title stamped in gilt over morocco label on the spine, decorative raised bands. Top edge gilt. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 57 numbered plates. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, in pencil. Rubbing to tips, wear at the head of the spine and back panel. Solid text block. The first edition of The Life of Martin Luther: The German Reformer by Gustav König, published in London in 1853. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo, 189pp, [3]. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, stamped in blind on cover. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln with tissue cover. (Sabin 30158) (Monaghan 543) (Monaghan 3780). The first edition consisted of 5000 copies. Other imprints include Cleveland by O.P. Ritter, Boston by B.B. Russell & Company, and Chicago by S.S. Boyden. The first edition of Abraham Lincoln, Sein Leben und Seine öffentlichen Dienste, translated into German in 1865. The original work, Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Service, was also published in 1865 and was the first biography published (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vii, [1], 232pp. Black cloth, title stamped in red print on the spine. The first printing, with no additional printings noted. Top edge dyed red. Previous owner's name in blue pen on the front pastedown. In the publisher's dust jacket, $4.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear, light sunning to the spine, a very good example. A collection of German legal and scholarly responses to the Nuremberg trials, with selected articles by German professors and lawyers translated into English. Published a decade after the trial of the Major German War Criminals, the work documents contemporary German criticism, defense arguments, and legal interpretations of the Allied war-crimes proceedings. The first edition of Nuremberg: German Views of the War Trials, edited by Wilbourn E. Benton and Georg Grimm. (illustrator).…

8°. Titel mit gestochener Vignette, IV, 294; 330 SS. Pappband d. Zt. "Erste deutsche Ausgabe des Werkes "Philosophical rhapsodies. Fragments of Akbur of Betis", das englisch ab 1784 erschien (vgl. Lowndes 2545). Es enthält die philosophischen und gesellschaftskritischen Bemerkungen eines (fiktiven) orientalischen Reisenden. Im ersten Band werden z.B. der Atheismus und die Philosophie Spinozas besprochen. Eine Betrachung bemerkt die grosse Ähnlichkeit zwischen dem Menschen und dem Oran Utang etc. " - Vorsatz mit älterem privatem Sammlerstempel. Papierbedingt gebräunt oder etwas stockig, berieben. …

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo, xxxi, 243pp, [3], 95pp, 104pp, [2], [viii]. Blue hardcover, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Complete with 54 maps and 171 illustrations. Light wear to spine, solid text block. Free of marks or notations. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. Stephen_, with the best greetings! Bob Zimmermann / Generalleutnant." General Bodo Zimmermann (1886-1963) was a German general during World War II and one of the few receipts of two German Crosses (Silver and Gold). During World War II, he commanded forces on the Western Front, first as Generalstabsoffizier of Army Group D, and was later promoted to lieutenant colonel (Oberstleutnant). In June of 1944, Zimmermann was the Operations Officer in charge of forces in the Western Sector when he received notification that Rommel's Fifteenth Army was on alert for an attack from Allied Forces. He failed to put the German Seventh Army, which was defending Normandy, on alert "because of the weather." Zimmermann was held in prison until 1947, and in retirement wrote two books on his military career. Inscribed by German General Bodo Zimmermann, the first edition of Book of Honor: The German Wehrmacht - The World War 1939-1945. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First German Edition. Octavo, 395pp. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "erste auflage 1946" on copyright page (first edition). Translated from the English edition by Harry Kahn, which was also released in 1946. Book appears unread, in near fine condition. In publisher's dust jacket, light toning to spine, tape repair to verso, repair tear to rear endpaper, chipping along edges. Signed by Montgomery on the front free endpaper. First German edition of Montgomery by Alan Moorehead, signed by Field Marshall Montgomery. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 219pp. Black cloth, title in silver on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. In the publisher's dust jacket, light shelf wear, chipping to top edge of rear panel, a very good example. Text in German. Includes two laid-in pamphlets, titled Die Atlantische Gemeinschaft (1955) and Regierungserklärung vom 20. Oktober 1953 by Bundeskanzler Adenauer (1953). This copy of Konrad Adenauer is signed by Helmut Kohl on the title page. Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) was the first chancellor of West Germany, from 1949-1963, leading the recovery of Germany from the ruins of World War II into a prosperous economic power. He remains the oldest-ever European head of government, resigning at the age of 87, but remaining active in German politics. This work by Helmut Kohl pays tribute to Adenauer's many years of public service and was issued on his 100th birthday. First edition of Konrad Adenauer 1876 / 1976, signed by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. (illustrator). Signed.…

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1824. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", Bd. 2, Jahrgang 1824, Zwölftes Stück. Pp. 345-448 (entire issue offered). Fourier's paper: pp. 359-402. First German edition (in the same year as the French " Résumé théorique des Propriétés de la chaleur rayonnante") of this importent paper which gives an analytical account of surface-emissions and absorption based on the principle of equilibrium of temperature, forecasting the more elaborated theories which he published in his famous work "La Therorie analytique de la chaleur. 1822". His analytical mathematical method, that any continous function can be represented as a sum of sine and cosine curves, is here applied to physical problems f.i. his treatment of the warming (and cooling) of the earth and terrestrial temperatures. The theory of terrestrial temperatures played a central role in Fourier's mathematical physics.…

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1851 Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", 82. Bd., 3. issue ("Heft" No 3, 1851). Entire issue offered. Pp. 337-464. Foucault's paper: pp. 458-462. With titlepage to volume 82. First German edition of the famous paper in which Foucault presented his discovery of the proof of the rotation of the earth by the large pendulum, called FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. It was presented by Arago at the meeting of the Acadey of Scieces on February 3, 1851.Since Léon Foucault?s public demonstration of his pendulum experiment, it has played a prominent role in physics, physics education, and the history of science. The Foucault pendulum is a long pendulum suspended high above the ground and carefully set into planar motion. The phenomenon described by Foucault1 concerns the orientation of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum. "The experiment (with the pendulum) caused great exitement at the time. Heracleides had first suggested twenty-two centuries before that the earth was rotating and Copernicus had renewed the suggestion three centuries before. Since the time of Galileo two and a half centuries before, the world of scholarship had not doubted the matter. Nevertheless, all evidence as to that rotation had been indirect, and not until Foucault's experiment could the earth's rotation actually be said to have been demonstrated rather that deduced." (DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1851 E.…

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1809). Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 31, Zweites Stück. Pp. 113-224 a. 1 engraved plate.(The entire issue offered). Davy's paper: pp. 113-177. First German edition of this landmark paper in chemistry, in which Davy shows that electricity is capable of decomposing the most stable chemical combinations. He decomposes some alkalies, isolating two new substances and discovering potassium and sodium. Neville in his Historical Chemical Library vol. I, p.340, writes about this paper "ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY, in which Davy announced in this, his second Bakterian lecture, the isloation of metallic potassium and sodium by the electrolytic decomposition of their fused oxides."He (Davy) began his own electrical experiments.The results were spectacular. On October 6, 1807, the current passing through molten potash liberated a metal, which Davy called potassium. The little globules of shining metal tore the water molecule apart as it eagerly recombined with oxygen and the liberated hydrogen burst into lavender flame. Davy danced about in a delirium of joy. A week later he isolated sodium from soda."(Asimow). The paper offered here describes these discoveries."Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lecture to the Royal Society on November 20, 1806.(A Source Book in Chemistry p. 243). - Wheeler Gift: 2514.…

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1808). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 28, Erstes u. Zweites Stück. Pp. 1-160 a. 1 folded engraved map. + pp. 161-256 a. 1 engraved plate.The entire issues offered. Davy's paper: pp. 1-43. a. pp. 161-202. First German edition of ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTENT CONTRIBUTIONS EVER MADE TO CHEMICAL SCIENCE, as Davy here outlined a theory of mass action, forcast the use of electricity in atomic disintegration and announced the isolation by electrolytic methods of two new elements, sodium and potassium. He used the most powerful electric battery of the time, a voltaic pile, invented 1800 by Volta."Humphrey Davy.was among the first to investigate the decomposition of water. In 1806 he delivered a Bakerian Lecture (the paper offered here in the German version) before the Royal Society of London "On some chemical agencies of electricity" (1807), which pointed out several fallacies in the theory of electrolysis. Davy's experiments on the chemical effects of electrical currents on substances, causing their decomposition, led to his discovery of several new elements: potassium (1807), sodium (1807), barium (1808), calcium (1808), and boron (1808)" (Milestone of Science No. 52) - Davy's first Bakerian Lecture won a Prize from Napoleon, even though France and England were at War. - Partington vol. IV pp. 42 ff. - PMM No 255 (note). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1807 C.The issue contains also Heron de Villefosse: "Nivellement des Harzgebirges mit dem Barometer", pp. 49-114 a. 1 engraved folded map.Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century. …

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1822. Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 71. Titlepage to vol. 71, pp. 124-171 a. pp. 172-176 and 1 folded engraved plate showing experimental apparatus. Clean and fine. First German edition of Faraday's famous paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism. By Michael Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. (1821)", recording one of the most influential discoveries in physics in the 19th Century, as Faraday here, as the very first, showed how to CONVERT THE ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC FORCES INTO CONTINUAL MECHANICAL MOVEMENT, thus creating the first electric motor, using the principle of electromagnetic rotation. In the first paper he introduced for the first time the concept of "LINE OF FORCE" and hereby deliniating "a picture of the universe as consisting of fields of various types, one that was more subtle, flexible, and useful than the purely mechanical picture of Galileo and Newton. The FIELD UNIVERSE was to be recognized with Maxwell half a century later and with Einstein, after an interval of another halfcentury."(Asimov)."Ever since Hans Christian oersted's announcement of the discovery of electromagnetism in the summer of 1820, editors of scientific journals had been inundated with articles on the phenomenon. Theories to explain it had multiplied, and the net effect was confusion. Were all the effects reported real ? Did the theories fit the facts ? It was to answer these questions that Phillips turned to Faraday and asked him to review the experiments and theories of the past months and separate truth from fiction.Faraday agreed to to undertake a short historical survey.His entusiasm was aroused in September 1821, when he turned to the investigation of the peculiar nature of the magnetic force created by an electrical current. Oersted had spoken of the "electrical conflict" surrounding the wiree and had noted that "this conflict performs circles".Yet as he experimented he saw precisely what was happening. Using a small magnetic needle to map the pattern of magnetic force, he noted that oneof the poles of the needle turned in a circle as it was carried around the wire. He immediately realized that a single magnetic pole would rotate unceasingly around a current-carrying wire so long as the current flowed. He then set about devising an instrument to illustrate this effect. His paper "On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism" appeared in the 21 October 1821 issue of the "Quarterly Journal of Science" (The paper offered in the first German edition). It records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contained the first notion of the line of force."(DSB IV, pp. 533).…

(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1808). Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 28, Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 4). Titlepage to vol. 28 (small stamps on verso). Pp. 377-496 a. 3 engraved plates. Dalton's paper: pp. 397-416 a. 1 engraved plate showing apparatus. First appearence i German of Dalton's epoch-making paper in which is contained THE FIRST CLEAR STATEMENT OF MODERN ATOMIC THEORY and having the FIRST LIST OF ATOMIC WEIGHTS "Verhältniss der Gewichte der kleinsten Theilschen von gasförmigen und andern Körpern." (Table of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies). The paper offered is a free translation of Dalton's paper "On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids", published 1805 in "Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester"."The paper was read to the Manchester Philosophical Society by Dalton in 1803 and printed in 1805. The appended table in this paper is the first list of atomic weights. Dalton, in this publication, took the law which William henry had recently enunciated (that the amount of of gas absorbed by a liquid is proportional to the pressure) and extended it to apply to mixtures of gases, using his own law of partial pressures." (Leicester & Klicktein "A Source Book in Chemistry", p. 258).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1803 C.- Smyth No. 38. …