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ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm (1799-1875). Untersuchungen uber die Bahn des Grossen Cometen.ARGELANDER, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875).  Untersuchungen über die Bahn des grossen Cometen vom Jahre 1811. Konigsberg: Im Verlage der Gebrüder Bornsträger, 1823. 4to (234 x 190mm). Lithographed plate of the 'Great Comet', tables (title and plate browned, spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards (extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible library stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this work in which the author, known for his calculations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances, established the 'Great Comet's' orbital period as being 2,840 years. In 1837 he published his greatest work, Weber die eigene Bewegung des Sonnensystems (St. Petersburg), in which he proved the truth of Herschel's theory concerning the independent movement of the solar system.

BARRES, Fernard (1881-1962), Eugene BREMARD (dates unknown), Adolphe SCHOELLER (1862-1944), and others. Les Transformateurs d' Energie ... Avec les plus Recentes Applications a la Navigation Aerienne.BARRES, Fernand (1881-1962), Eugène BRÉMARD (dates unknown), Adolphe SCHOELLER (1862-1944), and others.  Les Transformateurs d’ Énergie. Générateurs. Accumulateurs. Moteurs. Avec les plus Récentes Applications a la Navigation Aérienne. Paris: Aristide Quillet, 1910. 2 volumes, 4to (292 x 207mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, 13 coloured lithographed plates printed on thick card with flaps. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. The subjects of the plates, which reveal the inner workings of various machines by means of liftable flaps, include “La Locomotive Compound”, “La Motorcyclette”, “L’Automobile type Daimler”, “Les Aéronats” [airship], “L’ Aéroplane Wright”, “L’ Aéroplane Voisin” and “La Télégraphie sans fil”. (2) 

BECQUEREL, Henry Antoine (1852-1908). Recherches sur une Propriete Nouvelle de la Matiere. Activite Radiante Spontanee ou Radioactivite de la Matiere.BECQUEREL, Henri Antoine (1852-1908).  Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière. [Comprising the whole volume of:  Mémoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Tome Quarante-Sixième]. Paris: Typographie de Firmin-Didot, 1903. 4to (285 x 230mm). Half title, 13 monochrome photographed plates, diagrams and tables, errata leaf. Original pale green printed wrappers (backstrip a little faded, some minor chipping). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of the author's definitive work on radioactivity. Dibner Heralds 163; Norman 158; PMM 393: "[In 1903] he also published the above massive volume [i.e. Recherches ...] of some three hundred and sixty pages ... which is his definitive work, containing a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography of two hundred and fourteen treatises on radio-activity, dating from his own first paper in 1896."

BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99). Gasometrische Methoden.BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99).   Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. 8vo (208 x 135mm). Half title, 60 wood-engraved illustrations, tables, errata leaf, with the publisher’s yellow printed slip [often lacking] announcing the availability of copies on heavier paper for laboratory use (occasional light spotting and staining). [?]Original publisher’s cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed, slight wear to lower joints). Provenance: “Chem. Institut der Universitaet Graz” (stamps on half title and title); a further unidentified stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of a work into which the author "... compiled his research on the phenomena of gases into his only book ... This work brought gas analysis to a level of accuracy and simplicity reached earlier by gravimetric and titrimetric techniques. Dividing the book into six parts, Bunsen presented methods of collecting, preserving, and measuring gases; techniques of eudiometric analysis; new process for determining the specific gravities of gases; results of investigations on the absorption of gases in water and alcohol using an 'absorptiometer' he himself devised; and results of experiments on gaseous diffusion and combustion" (DSB). Norman 373; Partington IV, p.286; Sparrow Milestones of Science 33 (citing the first English edition published in the same year as the present copy). 

CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la Correlation des Figures de Geometrie.CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823).  De la Corrélation des Figures de Géométrie. Paris: Chez Duprat, 1801. 8vo (235 x 152mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, 4-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the end (some light mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Modern leatherette-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, new endpapers. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. “Carnot's main geometric writings were motivated largely by the attempt to make reasonable the employment of unreasonable quantity in analysis, although with the focus on negative rather than infinitesimal quantity ... De la Corrélation des Figures de Géométrie of 1801 and its extension, the Géométrie de Position of 1803, constituted his most significant clarification of the procedures of mathematics. Carnot found absurd the notion that a quantity itself could be less than zero … He insisted in Corrélation des Figures on distinguishing between a quantity properly speaking and the algebraic value of a function. It was equally unacceptable to interpret the minus sign as meaning simply that a quantity was to be taken in a direction opposite to a positive one … By correlative systems Carnot meant all those that could be considered as different states of a single variable system undergoing gradual transformation. It was not necessary that all correlative systems should actually have been evolved out of the primitive system. It sufficed that they might be assimilated to it by changes involving no discontinuous mutations. The whole topic may be taken as the geometric operation of Carnot's favourite reasoning device - a comparison of systems between which the nexus of change is a continuum ..." (DSB). Honeyman II, 596; Poggendorf I, 381.

CHARCOT, Jean-Martin (1825-93). De La Pneumonie Chronique.CHARCOT, Jean-Martin (1825-93).  De la Pneumonie Chronique. Thèse Présentée au Concours pour l’ Agrégation (Section de Médecine et de Médecine Légale) et Soutenue a la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1860. 8vo (222 x 141mm). Lithographed plate at the end (some staining and spotting). Original green printed wrappers. Provenance: old unidentified ink [?]monogram on title and upper wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this thesis on pneumonia by one of the founders of modern neurology. He is perhaps chiefly remembered now for his controversial association with Louise Augustine Gleizes (b. 1861), a “hysteria” patient at the Salpâtrière Hospital in Paris who, in 1880, escaped from her confinement disguised as a man, never to be seen again.

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). De l' Origine des Especes.DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  De l’ Origine des Espèces ou des Lois du Progrès chez lestres Organisés … Traduit en français sur la Troisième Édition avec l’ autorisation de l’ Auteur par Mlle. Clémence-Auguste Royer avec une Préface et des Notes du Traducteur. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie … Victor Masson et Fils, 1862. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title, folding lithographed plate (first gathering detached, variable nut mainly light and marginal spotting and staining, plate lightly browned at margins). Original pale green printed wrappers, uncut (very lightly spotted, some very minor fraying, upper wrapper and backstrip creased), modern protective book box. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Dibner Heralds 199: “The most important single work in science”; Freeman 655 (French edition, not mentioning the plate): “Certainly the most important biological book ever written”; Garrison-Morton 220; Heirs of Hippocrates 1724; Norman 593; PMM 344(b); Waller 10786. (Most references citing the first (English) edition of 1859.) “The outstanding difficulty was to discover the means by which the infinite variety of living organisms could have been produced within the limits of geological time. In accomplishing this Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things” (PMM). The translation of this first French edition was made by Clémence-Auguste Royer (1830-1902), who also wrote the 59-page preface and provided numerous footnotes. Her input was controversial, and not just because of her gender, which, in the view of some contemporary male critics, alone disqualified her from being able to fully digest Darwin’s complex ideas. Darwin, who appears not to have heard of Royer before her translation appeared, was more ambivalent on the matter. In a letter to the American botanist, Asa Gray, he wrote: “I received 2 or 3 days ago a French translation of the Origin by a Madelle. Royer, who must be one of the cleverest and oddest women in Europe: is an ardent deist and hates Christianity, and declares that natural selection and the struggle for life will explain all morality, the nature of man, politicks, etc. etc.!! She makes very curious and good hits, and says she shall publish a book on these subjects, and a strange production it will be.” The ‘strange production’ turned out to be Royer’s L’ Origine de l’ Homme et des Sociétés published in 1870 which anticipated some of the ideas Darwin expressed in his own The Descent of Man published a year later.

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). La Descendence de l' Homme. [etc.]DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  La Descendance de l’ Homme et la Selection Sexuelle … Traduit de l’ Anglais, par J. J. Moulinié. Préface par Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie., 1872. 2 volumes, large 8vo (230 x 140mm). Half titles, wood-engraved illustrations, 24-page publisher’s catalogue dated February 1872 at the end of the first vol. (occasional mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, uncut (skilfully rebacked preserving original spines, lightly rubbed, minor erosion to head and feet of spines). Provenance: some pencil annotation mainly to the beginning of the first vol. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Freeman 1058; Garrison-Morton 513. With 2 other continental editions by the same author, namely L’ Origine des Espèces au Moyen de la Sélection Naturelle ou la Lutte pour l’ Existence dans la Nature … Traduit sur l’ Invitation et avec l’ Aurtorisation de l’ Auteur sur les Cinquième et Sixième Éditions Anglaises. Augmentées d’ un Nouveau Chapitre et de Nombreuses Notes et Addtions de l’ Auteur par J. J. Moulinié (Paris, 1873, folding plate, original green cloth gilt) and Insectenfressende Pflanzen … Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von J. Victor Carus (Stuttgart, 1876, attractively bound in contemporary green half Morocco gilt). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (4)

DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841). Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique, ou Exposition des Principes de la Classification Naturelle. [etc]DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841).  Théorie Élémentaire de la Botanique, ou Exposition des Principes de la Classicification Naturelle et de l’ Art de Décrire et d’ Etudier les Végétaux. Paris: Chez Déterville, 1813. 8vo (200 x 122mm). Half title, table (half title and title repaired at fore-margins without loss of letters, some light spotting and browning, but generally very clean internally). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION of the author’s most important work which introduced a new system of plant classification, now known as the “De Candolle System”, and first introduced the word “taxonomie”, the title of the first chapter. The author’s concept of nature being at war with itself, which went on to influence Darwin’s key notion of “the struggle for existence”, is evident in the following remarkable passage taken from Candolle’s Essai Élémentaire de Geographie Botanique (1820, not included in the lot): “Toutes les plantes d’un pays, toutes celles d’un lieu donné, sont dans un état de guerre les unes relativement aux autres. Toutes sont douées de moyens de réproductions et de nutrition plus ou moins efficacies. Les premières qui s’établissent par hasard dans une localité donnée, tendent, par cela même qu’elles occupant l’espace, à en exclure les autres espèces: les plus grandes étouffent les plus petites; les plus vivaces remplacent celles don’t la durée est plus courte; les plus fécondes s’emparent graduellement de l’espace que pourraient occuper celles qui se multiplient plus difficiliement” (p.26). Stafleu and Cowan (citing English ed. of 1821): 992. With the same author’s Organographie Végétale, ou Description Raisonée des Organes des Plantes (Paris, 1827, 2 vols., 60 engraved plates, some fairly heavy spotting, contemporary roan-backed boards, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (3)

EHLRICH, Paul (1854-1915). Gesammelte Arbeitem zur Immunitatsforschung.EHRLICH, Paul (1854-1915).  Gesammelte Arbeiten zur Immunitätsforschung. Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1904. Large 8vo (242 x 160mm). Illustrations and tables (light stain to lower corners, light marginal browning). Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards (rubbed, hinges reinforced, some wear caused by removal of label). Provenance: Paul Ehrlich Institut Bibliothek Frankfurt a. Main (library stamps to endpapers and title); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 2559; Heirs of Hippocrates 2158: "The present volume contains most of the work on immunity published by Ehrlich and his co-workers between 1899 and 1904. Five of the thirty-eight reports were written by Ehrlich and many of the remainder were written in collaboration with Julius Morgenroth (1871-1924) and Hans Sachs (1877-1945), two of his key assistants. Included are important contributions on the theory of lysin action, studies on hemolysins and researches into the mechanism of hemolytic reactions, as well as immunological studies of toxins and antitoxins. Ehrlich shared the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine with Elie Mechnikov ... in 1908 for their work on immunity."

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) & Marcel GROSSMAN (1878-1936). Entwurf einer Verallgemeinerten Relativitstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation.EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) and Marcel GROSSMAN (1878-1936).  [Entwurf einer Verallgemeinerten Relativitstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. 1. Physikalischer Teil von Albert Einstein ... II. Mathematischer Teil von Marcel Grossman. Leipzig and Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1913]. Large 8vo (241 x 160mm). Offprint, pp. 3-38 (lacks all before p.3). Later half cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, original lower wrapper with printed advertisements bound in at the end (lacking the upper wrapper with printed title and imprint). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune.  FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of the "Entwurf" paper, an offprint from "Zeitschrift fuer Mathematik und Physik", vol. 62. Einstein's contribution runs from p.3-22; Grossman's from p.23-38. Norman 693: "One of the turning-points in the development of relativity theory"; Weil 59a.

[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1966)] - Felix EBERTY (1812-84). Die Gestime und die Weitgeschichte ... Mit einer Einleitung von Albert Einstein.[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)] – Felix EBERTY (1812-84).  Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte. Gedanken Uberzeit Raum und Ewigkeit. Neu Herausgegeben von Gregorius Itelson. Mit einer Einleitung von Albert Einstein. Berlin: Verlag von Gregor Rogoff, 1923. Small 4to (190 x 129mm). (Some very light mainly marginal spotting.) Original wrappers printed in red and green (lightly stained). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION THUS. It was probably something of a coup for the publishers to secure an introduction by Albert Einstein for their reprint of Felix Eberty’s speculative work which was first published, under a pseudonym, in 1846. The title in English reads: “Stars and World History. Thoughts about Time, Space and Eternity” and it is known that Einstein had read the book and been influenced by it as a young man. His 8-line introduction, translated from the original German, and which, in this edition, makes its first appearance, reads as follows: “There is no lack of current interest in this little book, written by an original, witty person. For it shows, on the one hand, a mind that is critical toward the obsolete concept of time; on the other hand, it shows the peculiar consequences from which the theory of relativity, which so often is being charged precisely for the bizarre nature of its consequences, saves us.” RARE.

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). Experimental Researches in Electricity. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867).  Experimental Researches in Electricity. London: [Vols. one & 2:] Richard and John Edward Taylor; [Vol. III:] Richard Taylor and William Francis, [1839]-44-55. 3 volumes, large 8vo (222 x 142mm). 17 engraved plates, most folding, diagrams and tables, 8-pages of publisher’s advertisements dated May 13, 1839 at the end of vol. one (heavy stain to one plate in vol. III, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, some leaves lightly browned). Original near-uniform green publisher’s cloth, spines lettered in gilt (corners bumped, some light staining). Provenance: J. B. [?]Gill (old signature on title of first vol.); F. Buddle Atkinson (armorial bookplate in vol. II). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the twenty-nine series of papers published by Faraday in Philosophical Transactions between 1832 and 1852. Dibner Heralds 64; Horblit 29; Jeffreys 297; Norman 762; PMM 308: “… Although [Faraday’s] discovery of the electric motor and the dynamo was almost entirely incidental to his theoretical discoveries, it laid the foundation of the modern electrical industry – electric light and power, telephony, wireless telegraphy, television, etc. by providing for the production of continuous mechanical motion from an electrical source, and vice versa … [He] coined a whole new terminology – electrolyte, electrolyze, cathode, anode and ion. Helmholtz, in the Faraday Lecture for 1881, pointed out that Faraday had trembled on the brink of discovering the electron theory of matter”; Wheeler Gift 959. With the same author’s Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (London, 1859, original cloth, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (4)

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemistry History of a Candle. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867).  A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: to which is Added a Lecture on Platinum. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861. 8vo (165 x 108mm). Half title, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, some staining to endpapers). Provenance: Pope Valley School District, Public School Library, State of California (label, and stamps). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. cf. Howe and Holtz’s Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group (Washington, 1919), p. 112 (citing Faraday's separately published lecture on platinum). With the same author’s Histoire d’ une Chandelle … Troisième édition (Paris, [n.d.], original cloth). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (2)

FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). De duodecim caeli domiciliis, & horis inaequalibus.FINE, Oronce (1494-1555).  De duodecim cæli domiciliis, et horis inæqualibus, libellus non aspernandus. Una cum ipsarum domorum, atque inæqualium horarum instrument, ad latitudinem Parisiensem, hactenus ignota ratione delineato. Paris: “Apud Michaëlem Vascosanum, uia Iacobæa ad insigne Fontis,” 1553. 4to (232 x 155mm). Initials, woodcut diagrams and tables (some light mainly marginal staining). Attractively bound in modern mottled sheep gilt. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this rare treatise chiefly on astrology by one of the most influential mathematical teachers of his time, who was also known for his work as a cartographer and a designer and maker of mathematical instruments. Not in Brunet; International Bibliography of Gnomonica (1997) p. 105; Lalande Bibliographie Astronomique p.76.

FLEMMING, Walther 1843-1905). Zellsubstanz, Kem und Zelltheilung.FLEMMING, Walther (1843-1905).  Zellsubstanz, Kern und Zelltheilung. Leipzig: Verlag von F. C. W. Vogel, 1882. Large 8vo (235 x 160mm). 8 tinted lithographed plates, one folding, some double-page, illustrations (title stained, occasional light spotting). Contemporary black half roan and marbled boards (extremities rubbed, remnants of old manuscript label on spine). Provenance: Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten (old stamp on title); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this seminal work on cytogenetics which first established, and named, the process of ‘mitosis’. In the present work, the author also coins the terms ‘prophase’, ‘metaphase’ and ‘anaphase’ and establishes that all cell nuclei come from another predecessor nucleus. The author was the first to observe and describe systematically the behaviour of chromosomes in the cell nucleus during normal cell division. The book also includes the first illustration of human chromosomes, made possible by the use of aniline dyes.

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939). Die Wahn und die Traume in W. Jensens "Gradiva". [etc.]FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939).  Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens “Gradiva”. Vienna and Leipzig: Hugo Heller, 1907. Large 8vo (219 x 148mm). 82-pages. Contemporary black paper boards, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: illegible signature on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of Freud’s first published analysis of a work of literature, and one of his earliest psycho-analytic works of any kind. Jung had brought Freud’s attention to Wilhelm Jensen’s novel “Gradiva” (Vienna, 1902) and Freud is supposed to have written his analysis of it partly to impress him. Their ensuing correspondence initiated a long friendship and correspondence. With the same author’s Hemmung, Symptom und Angst (Leipzig, 1926, original yellow cloth, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (2)

GUTLE, Johann Conrad (1747-1827). Beschreibung eines mathematisch-physikalischen Maschinen= und=Instrumentum=Kabinets.GÜTLE, Johann Conrad (1747-1827).  Beschreibung eines mathematisch-physikalischen Maschinen= und Instrumentum=Kabinets. Leipzig and Nuremberg: In der Udam Gottlieb Schneiderischen, 1790-94. 2 volumes bound in one, 8vo (175 x 103mm). Wood-engraved illustration on title, 23 folding engraved plates, folding table (2 text leaves detached from the first vol., variable spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with blue morocco lettering-piece (some erosion to lettering-piece, foot of spine a little worn, rubbed). Provenance: some later annotation to front free endpaper. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Poggendorff I, 973.

HACHETTE, Jean Nicolas Pierre (1769-1834). Programme du Cours Elementaire des Machines.HACHETTE, Jean Nicolas Pierre (1769-1834).  Programme du Cours Elémentaire des Machines, pour l' An 1808 ... [On the same title:] José Maria LANZ (1764-1839) and Agustin de BETANCOURT (1758-1824).  Essai sur la Composition des Machines. Paris: De l' Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 4to (247 x 190mm). Half title, 12 folding engraved plates (some mainly marginal spotting and waterstaining). Contemporary limp vellum (stained, wrinkled, some wear to spine). Provenance:  "5e. Régt. De Curassiers" (old stamp on title and on verso of final plate); "Bibliotheque A. Montcaurant, Strasbourg" (stamp on title); author’s names written in pencil on half title; some old annotation on verso of half title and title. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of Lanz and Betancourt's fundamental system of mechanical classification. Bibliotheca Mechanica 153; not in Brunet.

HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre con den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage fur die Theorie der Musik.HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94).  Die Lehre con den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1863. Large 8vo (214 x 140mm). Half title, diagrams, illustrations and tables (occasional very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (some splitting to joints, rubbed). Provenance: Stadtmuseum, Bautzen (cancelled stamps and label on upper cover); illegible old inscription on front free endpaper; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 1562: “[Contains] Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides being a great physicist and physician, an accomplished musician”; Honeyman 1643; Horblit 49a; Poggendorff III, 611; Sparrow Milestones of Science 41. 

[HEPPE, Johann Christoph (1745-1806)]. Kurze Beschreibung der Barometer und Thermometer auch andern zur Meteorologie gehorigen Instrumentum nebst einer Unweisung.[?HEPPE, Johann Christoph (1745-1806)].  Kurze Beschreibung der Barometer und Thermometer auch andern zur Meteorologie gehorigen Instrumenten nebst einer Unweisung. Nuremburg: Joh. Joseph Fleischmann, 1768. 8vo (170 x 100mm). Woodcut typographical decorations, ornament, tables, folding engraved plate (hole in title not affecting letters, some staining and spotting). Contemporary boards (spine worn with lower section lacking, stained). Provenance: old illegible inscription on title (resulting in hole); "A váczi kegyes-tanitórendi ház Könyvtára" (library label); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. RARE.

HERMANN, Josef (1817-1902). Ueber die Wurkung des Quecksilbers auf den Menschlichen Organismus.HERMANN, Josef (1817-1902).  Ueber die Wurkung des Quecksilbers auf den Menschlichen Organismus. Teschen: Druck und Verlag von Karl Prochaska, 1873. 4to (357 x 270mm). Half title, 5 coloured lithographed plates (some mainly marginal staining and spotting to plates). Contemporary [?or original] cloth (a few stains, corners bowed). Provenance: small library label on upper cover. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. RARE. The plates graphically depict the effects of mercury poisoning on human physiognomy. Not in Howe and Holtz’s Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group (Washington, 1919). 

HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft.HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94).  Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Illustrations and diagrams (title very lightly browned). Contemporary [?or original publisher’s] black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue foliate endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Hertz’s important series of papers on electromagnetic waves, which includes his proof that they travel at the speed of light, and that they can be created and sent through space by means of wireless telegraphy; they have been of profound importance to 20th-century technology. "Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis that electric waves can be projected through space ... was begun in 1887, eight years after Maxwell's death. The two main requirements were (a) a method of producing the waves, supposing that they existed, and (b) a method of detecting them once they were produced. Hertz found the first problem easy to solve. He used the oscillatory discharge of a condenser. Detection was much more difficult, because there then existed no means of detecting currents alternating at the high speed of these waves. Hertz in fact used an effect as old as the discovery of electricity itself - the electric spark. By inducing the waves to produce an electric spark at a distance, with no apparent connexion between the oscillator and spark gap, and by moving the sparking apparatus so that the length of the spark varied, he proved beyond question the passage of electric waves through space" (PMM). Honeyman 1669; Norman 1061; PMM 377; Sparrow Milestones of Science 101; Waller 1137.

HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt (1824-77). Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Enfaltung und Fruchtbildung Hoherer Kryptogamen.HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt (1824-77).  Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung Höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen. Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Hofmeister [colophon:] Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig, 1851. 4to (267 x 220mm). 33 engraved plates (spotted throughout, some light browning and staining). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten (old stamp on title); old, partly defaced, label on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of this milestone in the history of biology in which the author comes to the “revolutionary conclusion that all green land plants undergo a regular alternation of dissimilar generations in their complete life histories” (Norman) and which significantly contributed to the growth of phylogenetic and evolutionary ideas. "The amount of new information presented is immense; the errors are minor and do not affect the overall picture ... With this single publication, the core of botany passed from its Middle Ages to the modern period" (DSB). The American Journal of Botany stated that the author “stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel.” Dibner Heralds 34 (citing only the English edition of 1862); Nissen BBI 902; Norman 1083; Waller 11538.

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung.HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859).  Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. [Vols. I – IV:] Stuttgart and Tübingen [Vol. V:] Stuttgart: Cotta, 1845-62. 5 text volumes, 4to (215 x 135mm). (Occasional light mainly marginal spotting.) Contemporary black half morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Without the “atlas” volume, as often, but with the posthumously published fifth text volume. PMM 320 (calling for “4 vols. text, and atlas”): “Alexander von Humboldt produced in his ‘Cosmos’ one of the last really comprehensive physical surveys ever to be attempted … [It] was Kosmos – ‘The Cosmos, Outline of a Description of the Physical World’ – based on lectures delivered at the Berlin Singakademie in 1828-9, which Humboldt really considered as his life work. The last of the five volumes was published posthumously from his notes. In his own words it was meant ‘to represent in one work the whole material world, everything we know today of the phenomena in the celestial spaces and of life on earth, from the nebulae to the geography of mosses on granite rock … it is meant to describe a chapter in the intellectual development of mankind (the knowledge of nature). The book contains a complete survey of the physical sciences and their relation to each other.” (5)

ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945). Isotopes. [etc.]ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945).  Isotopes. London: Edward Arnold, 1922. 8vo (215 x 140mm). 4 half tone plates, illustrations and diagrams (some very light spotting). Original blue cloth gilt (extremities rubbed, without a dust-jacket [?as issued]). Provenance: A. B. [?]Gillett, 1922 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, published in the same year that the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule" (DSB). Norman 77; PMM 412: "Once Aston had shown that the true atomic weight of an element is arrived at by averaging the mass of its constituent parts, and that there are seven isotopes of mercury and nine of xenon, the possibility that the atomic weights of elements would generally be whole numbers was finally abandoned. The reconstruction of the table of atomic weights by Aston's methods showed that they are only in exceptional cases whole numbers when considered as multiples of the weight of a hydrogen atom. The ultimate consequences of these discrepancies are far-reaching. The ratio between hydrogen and oxygen is not 4:1, as it 'should be', but rather less; which means that when four atoms of hydrogen are transformed into one helium atom some matter is annihilated. In fact this is an example of the interchangeability between mass and energy which is postulated in Einstein's 'General Theory of Relativity'." With the first German edition of the same work (Leipzig, 1923, [?]original cloth-backed boards) and Marie Curie's L' Isotope et les Elémens Isotopes (Paris, 1924, original cloth). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (3)

JOHANSSEN, Wilhelm (1857-87). Elemente der Exakten Erblichkeitslehre.JOHANSSEN,Wilhelm (1857-1927).  Elemente derExakten Erblichkeitslehre. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1909. Large 8vo(230 x 160mm). Tables and diagrams. Contemporary half roan and marbled boardsgilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibl. Col. Max. Ignat. Valkenb.(stamp on title); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND MOSTINFLUENTIAL TEXTBOOK ON GENETICS, whose author coined the word ‘gene’ in thepresent work to describe the Mendelian units of heredity in addition to theterms ‘phenotype’ (to mean the outward appearance of an individual) and‘genotype’ (to mean its genetic traits). "Johannsen was one of thefounders of the science of genetics. His view of the unit of heredity, to whichhe first gave the name 'gene' (1909), has survived the changes brought about bythe discovery of the physical basis of heredity, first in the chromosomes andthen more precisely in the structure of the nucleic acids" (DSB, VII, pp113-115).

LAUE, Max von (1876-1963). Das Relativitatsprinzip.LAUE,Max von (1876-1963).  DasRelativitätsprinzip. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg  und Sohn, 1911. 8vo (209 x 135mm). Tables and diagrams. [?]Original greencloth gilt, green patterned endpapers. Provenance: [?]Kirchheyer (signatureon front free endpaper); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune.FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on relativity, in an apparently unrecordedcloth binding. The author won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914. 

LEHMANN, Otto (1855-1922). Molekularphysik mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung Mikroskopischer Untersuchungen.LEHMANN, Otto (1855-1922).  Molekularphysik mit BesondererBerücksichtigung Mikroskopischer Untersuchungen und Anleitung zu Solchen sowieeinem Anhang über Mikroskopische Analyse. Leipzig: Verlag von WilhelmEngelmann, 1888-89. 2 volumes, large 8vo (227 x 155mm). 10 lithographed plates,of which 7 printed in colours, illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary halfroan and marbled boards, spines gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance:“SDL Bücherei” (stamps on front free endpapers); from the Collection of Peter andMargarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION ofthe author’s first major work. “Lehmann discovered liquid crystals … [His]early scientific interest and experimentation were concerned with electric dischargesin rarified gases, but he soon turned his attention to the study of the finestructure of matter as revealed under the microscope. His first major workdescribing his studies was ‘Molekularphysik’ …” (DSB). Poggendorff III, 792.(2) 

LIEBIG, Jestus (1803-73). Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. [etc.]LIEBIG, Justus (1803-73).  Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendungauf Physiologie und Pathologie. Braunschweig: Verlag von Friedrich Viewigund Sohn, 1842. 8vo (204 x 130mm). Errata leaf at the end (without the halftitle, occasional light spotting). Contemporary green cloth-backed marbledboards (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the follow-up to the author’s Dieorganische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie (1840)whose ‘twin constellation’ Berzelius claimed represented “the dawn of a new dayin vegetable [i.e. organic] chemistry.” “In 1842 [Liebig] carried his chemicalinvestigations into the realm of animal physiology. He showed, like Lavoisier,that animal heat is not innate, but the result of combustion; introduced theconcept of metabolism (Stoffwechsel); and classified animal foodstuffsas fats, carbohydrates and proteins according to their function. He thus becamethe founder of the modern science of nutrition” (PMM 310(b)). With 5 otherworks by the same author, namely Chemische Briefe (Heidelberg, 1844,spotted, original cloth), Untersuchungen über einige Ursachen der Säftebewegungim thierischen Organismus (Braunschweig, 1848, stain to foot of title,contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, “… a rare work which contains acareful study of osmosis and the permeability of membranes …” (Partington)), Annalender Chemie und Pharmacie. Herausgegeben von Friedrich Wöhler und Justus Liebig.Band XLII [only] (Heidelberg, 1842, modern marbled boards), Traité deChimie Organique (Brussels, 1843, modern leatherette-backed boards) and DieGrundsätz der Agricultur=Chemie (Braunschweig, 1855, contemporarycloth-backed boards). Provenance: from the Collectionof Peter and Margarethe Braune. (6)

LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegkunst.LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegkunst. Ein Beitrag zurSystematik der Flugtechnik. Auf Grund zahlreicher von O. und G. Lilienthal ausgefuhrter Versuche. Berlin: R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1889.Large 8vo (229 x 155mm). Coloured lithographed frontispiece of storks in flight, 8 folding plates,illustrations and diagrams (one plate soiled at fore-edge with 2 short tearswithout loss, some very light mainly marginal browning). Original brown decoratedcloth gilt (corners lightly bumped). Provenance: some localised pencilannotation and marginalia; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the first textbook of mechanicalflight. "Lilienthal's book [became] one of the chief bibles for theaeronautical world after he demonstrated that his theories could be put intopractice … It was the basis on which the Wrights first started building theiraerodynamic work, and they were always high in praise of its pioneering value,even when they were led to modify Lilienthal's findings"(Gibbs-Smith, TheInvention of the Aeroplane 1799-1909 (London, 1965)). "The Wrights themselves, and virtually all their biographers, date the beginning of their serious adult consideration of the flying problem from their reading of the work" (McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, London, 1953). Brockett Bibliography of Aeronautics p. 520; Norman 1353.

LOBATSCHEWSKY, Nicolai Ivanovich (1792-1856) & Jules HOUEL (1823-86). Etudes Geometriques sur la Theorie des Paralleles.LOBATSCHEWSKY, Nicolai Ivanovich (1792-1856) and Jules HOÜEL (1823-86).  ÉtudesGéométriques sur la Théorie des Parallèles … Traduit de l’ Allemand par J.Hoüel … suivi d’ un Extrait de la Correspondance de Gauss et de Schumacher.Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1866. Large 8vo (232 x 150mm). Diagrams (some mainlymarginal staining and spotting). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards,spine gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Dr. Paul Stäckel (bookplateon verso of title); copious neat early German technical annotation to front pastedownand endpapers;from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. First separate French edition of this work which heralds thediscovery of non-Euclidean geometry. Hoüel’s translation is important. “The cause of Lobachevskian geometry was,however, furthered by Hoüel, one of its earliest proponents, who in 1866brought out a French translation of Geometrische Untersuchungen, withappended extracts from the Gauss-Schumacher correspondence" (DSB VIII,p.433).

MAREY, Etienne-Jules (1830-1904). La Methode Graphique dans les Sciences Experimentales et Principalement en Physiologie et en Medecine. [etc.]MAREY,Étienne-Jules (1830-1904).  La MéthodeGraphique dans les Sciences Expérimentales et Principalement en Physiologie eten Médecine … Deuxième Tirage Augmenté d’ un Supplément sur la Développement dela Méthode Graphique par la Photographie. Avec 383 figures dans le texte.Paris: G. Masson, 1885. 4to (244 x 160mm). Half title, illustrations, tables(variable, mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary brownmorocco-backed marbled boards gilt (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance:“École Nationale Veterinaire. 3e Année d’ Études. 2d. Prix” (morocco label).The author was a French engineer, physiologist and ‘chronophotographer’ whodevised a number of pioneering photographic and graphical techniques for theinterpretation of physiological movements and other data. Like EdweardMuybridge (1830-1904), his exact contemporary in England, he is also celebratedas a precursor of cinematography. See Marta Braun’s Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, pp.890-891. With the same author’s La Machine Animale. Locomotion Terrestre etAérienne (Paris, Librairie Germer Baillière, 1873, 8vo, illustrations anddiagrams, stained, original cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION of this work in which theauthor describes his first experiments in ‘chronophotography’, and whichincludes the first discussion of the principle of moving pictures). Provenance:from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (2) 

[MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). Venus Physique. [With 3 other works bound in.][MAUPERTUIS,Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)].  VenusPhysique. [No place: no publisher, 1745. 2 parts [although paginationcontinuous]. Typographical ornament at the head of each part [bound after:]  Hyacinth Théodor BARON (1707-87).  Ritus usus et laudeabiles facultatismedicinæ Parisiensis consuetudines. Paris: Typis G. F. Quillau, 1751 [andthe same author’s:]  Statuta facultatismedicinæ Parisiensis. Paris: Typis G. F. Quillau, 1751. Woodcut devices ontitles, headpieces and initials (some light spotting and browning, a few darkerspots). Together 3 works in one volume, small 8vo (142 x 80mm). Contemporarymottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (spine repaired with lossof one lettering-piece, rubbed). Provenance: modern inscriptions tofront free endpaper; some pencil annotation; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of the first-named work."Maupertuis's remarkable work on embryology and genetics. It is dividedinto two parts: 'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Hommes et des Animaux' and'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Noirs'. The first part was originallypublished a year earlier under the title 'Dissertation Physique à l' Occasiondu Nègre Blanc' and was written after an albino Negro appeared in Paris. Ascientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of histime in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. Hisarguments against the then-prevailing theory of pre-formation and forepigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner ofDarwin and Mendel. His theories and observations are contained in this work,which he may have had published anonymously to avoid repercussions from Churchauthorities" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Barbier IV, 922; Bib.Osleriana 3350; Garrison-Morton 215.2; Heirs of Hippocrates 536; cf.Waller 6354 (references for first-named work only).

MOHL, Hugo von (1805-72). Vermischte Schriften botanishen Inhalts.MOHL, Hugo von (1805-72).  Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts. Tübingen: bei Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1845. 4to (268 x 215mm). 13 lithographed plates, 5 of which with some hand-colouring (variable, mostly marginal, spotting and staining). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards (rubbed and scuffed, head of spine torn). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Chapter XXVII (titled “Ueber die Vermehrung der Pflanzen durch Theilung”) reprints the author’s dissertation of 1835 which contains the first description of the division of a cell. Stafleu and Cowan 6187.

NEEDHAM, John Turberville (1713-81). Nouvelle Observations Microscopiques.NEEDHAM,John Turberville (1713-81).  NouvellesObservations Microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur laComposition & la Décomposition des Corps organisés, translated by LouisAnne Lavirotte. Paris: Chez Louis-Etienne Ganeau, 1750. 12mo (164 x 100mm).Woodcut device on title, 8 folding engraved plates at the end (wormtracks toupper margin of many text leaves and to upper edge of all plates, resulting inslight loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporarypanelled calf gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: unidentifiedcrowned monogram stamped on verso of title. Provenance: from theCollection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of a work bythe first Catholic priest to be elected to the Royal Society of London.

PAVLOV, Ivan (1849-1936). Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrusen.PAVLOV,Ivan (1849-1936).  Die Arbeit derVerdauungsdrüsen ... Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Dr A.Walther. Wiesbaden: Verlag von J. F. Bergmann, 1898. Large 8vo (236 x165mm). Half title, illustrations, diagrams and tables. Contemporarymorocco-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed). Provenance:Bibliothek des Med.Klin. Instituts, München (later library stamps on frontpastedown, half title, title and at a few margins; from the Collection of Peterand Margarethe Braune. First German edition of a work that was first publishedin St. Petersburg in 1897, and the first edition to appear outside Russia. Cf.Dibner Heralds 135; Garrison-Morton 1022 (citing the first Russianedition of 1897): "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to ourknowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method ofproducing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of hisexperiments"; Horblit 83; PMM 385; Waller 7257.

PONCELET, Jean Victor (1810-78). Traite des Proprietes des Figures.PONCELET.Jean Victor (1788-1867).  Traité desPropriétés Projectives des Figures; Ouvrage Utile a ceuz qui s’ Occupant desApplications de la Géométrie Descriptive et d’ Opérations Géométriques sur leTerrain. Paris: Bachelier, 1822. 4to (263 x 210mm). Half title, 12 foldingengraved plates (stain at head of title, variable spotting, staining andbrowning). Later half buckram and marbled boards (scuffed). Provenance:L. Givebin (modern signature on half title and title); from the Collection ofPeter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of the first book on projectivegeometry. Not in Brunet; Gascoigne 214.

REIS, Johann Philipp (1834-74). Heber Telephonie durch den galvanishen Strom.enREIS,Johann Philipp (1834-74).  Heber Telephoniedurch den galvanischen Strom. [In: Jahres-Bricht des physikalischenBereins zu Frankfurt am Main für das Rechnungsjahr 1860-1861]. [Frankfurt:G. Naumann's Druckerei, 1861]. 8vo ((204 x 139mm). 6 folding plates, the lastprinted in red, blue and black. Pink paper-backed original printed wrappers, inmodern protective cloth book box. Provenance: from the Collection ofPeter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Reis's article, announcing, defacto, the theoretical invention of the telephone, starts on p. 57 of thisscientific periodical. Darmstaedter 612; Wheeler Gift 1532; cf. PMM 365 (citingAlexander Graham Bell's Researches in Telephony of 1877):"Telephones were already in existence. Philip Reis perfected the first ofthem in 1861, but it remained little more than a toy. He failed, in fact, inthe primary object, which was to produce intelligible speech at the receivingend. This seems to have been due to his use of an interrupted transmissioncurrent which seriously affected the quality of reception."

ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne de (1602-75). Aristarchi Sami. De mundi systemate.ROBERVAL,Gilles Personne de (1602-75).  AristarchiSamii. De mundi systemate, partibus, & motibus eiusdem, libellus.Paris: Sumptibus vir. Amplissim. Væneunt apud Antonium Bertier, 1644 [dedicationdated 1643]. Small 8vo in 4s (141 x 80mm). Headpieces andinitials, 2 folding engraved plates (one plate detached, title lightly browned,holes in aii affecting letters, some mainly marginal spotting and staining, afew darker spots). Contemporary vellum (heavily stained). Provenance:later French inscription on verso of title which discloses that the presentwork is a forgery: "...  il futcomposé par Roberval qui voulait ... défendre le systeme de Copernic";from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of thistreatise in which the author, under the cover of a forgery, proposes aheliocentric view of the universe. "Roberval's positivism appears in aparticularly nuanced form in the book De mundi systemate of 1644, wherehe claimed to have translated an Arabic manuscript of Aristarchus, to which hehad added his own notes, all of them favourable to the author. Yet he did notadhere to the system of Aristarchus to the exclusion of those of Ptolemy andTycho Brahe. In the dedication of the work, Roberval wrote: 'Perhaps all threeof these systems are false and the true one unknown. Still, that of Aristarchusseemed to me to be the simplest and the best adapted to the laws of nature.' Itis with this reservation that Roberval expressed his opinion on the greatsystem of the world (the solar system), the minor systems (planetary), themotions of the sun and the planets, the declination of the moon, the apogeesand perigees, the agitation of the oceans, the precession of the equinoxes, andthe comets. Despite this reservation, Roberval appeared convinced of theexistence of universal attraction, which - under the inspiration of Kepler - heput forth as the foundation of his entire astronomy: "In all this worldlymatter [the fluid of which the world is composed, according to our author], andin each of its parts, resides a certain property, or accident, by force ofwhich this matter contracts into a single continuous body" (DSB).

SCHLEIDEN, Mathias Jacob (1804-81). Beitrage zur Botanik.SCHLEIDEN,Mathias Jacob (1804-81).  Beiträge zurBotanik ... Gesammelte Aufsatze. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilh. Engelmann, 1844. Volume one [allpublished], 8vo (218 x 135mm). Half title, 9 lithographed plates (variable staining,spotting and browning). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spinegilt (corners bumped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: from theCollection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 112; cf.PMM 307(a) (both references citing Schleiden’s Beiträge zur Phytogenesis(1838)): “[Schleiden] insisted on the independence of the cell and presentedfor the first time the notion that a plant, for example, is a community ofcells.” 

SECCHI, Pietro Angeli (1818-78). Le Soleil.SECCHI,Pietro Angeli (1818-78).  Le Soleil.Exposé des Principales Découvertes Modernes sur la Structure de cet Astre, sonInfluence dans l’ Univers et ses Relations avec les Autres Corpes Célestes.Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1870. Large 8vo (204 x 135mm). Half title,illustrations, diagrams and tables, 3 folding plates at the end, including 2 ofcoloured spectrums (some spotting and staining, more pronounced to the firstfew leaves and plates). Contemporary leatherette-backed marbled paper boards(rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and MargaretheBraune. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important 19th-centurytreatises on the sun. The author, an Italian Catholic priest, was a pioneer inastronomical spectroscopy and was one of the first scientists to stateauthoritatively that the Sun is a star. Poggendorff II, 884-885; Sommervogel-DeBacker VI, 993-1039.   

SLABY, Adolf Karl Heinrich (1849-1913). Die Funkentelegraphie.SLABY,Adolf Karl Heinrich (1849-1913). Die Funkentelegraphie. Berlin: Verlagvon Leonhard Simion, 1897. Large 8vo (231 x 155mm). Plate, 2 folding maps,including one of the Bristol Channel, illustrations and diagrams (some lightmainly marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary half roan and marbledboards, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: from theCollection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. The plate shows thesignals transmitted from Lavernock Point to the island of Flat Holm over adistance of 5 kilometres and from Rangsdorf to Schöneberg over a distance of 21kilometres. “As a result of his personal friendshipwith the head of the English telegraph administration, Sir William HenryPreece, Slaby participated with the help of his assistant Georg Graf von Arcofrom 1897 in Marconi’s experiments with wireless telegraphy across theEnglish Channel [sic, actually the Bristol Channel]. He recognized immediatelythe significance of this invention, and repeated the experiments in Berlin,leading to the development of essential kinetic and technical concepts. TheEmperor and the military authorities were very interested by the result. Thewireless telegraphy trials took place first at the Technical University ofBerlin and then between the Church of the Redeemer, Sacrow, and the marinestation Kongsnaes in Potsdam. On 7 October 1897, he established a 21-kilometerradio link between Schöneberg and Rangsdorf, a world record at the time. Thefollowing summer, he established a link between Berlin and Jüterbog withthe end-points being over 60 km apart. Crucial improvements led to thesuccess, not of spark gap transmission antennas as used by Marconi, butinductive antennas” (Wikipedia [edited]). 

SPRENGEL, Christian Konrad (1750-1816). Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen.SPRENGEL,Christian Konrad (1750-1816).  Dasentdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen.Berlin: bei Friedrich Vieweg dem æltern, 1793. 4to (249 x 210mm). Engravedtitle with decorative pictorial border, 24 later facsimile plates, unbound and secured at the end by a card band, at the end (textlightly browned and stained, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf-backedmarbled boards, spine with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightlyrubbed). Provenance: typed description tipped-onto front pastedown;pencil annotation; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST STUDY ONPOLLINATION. Sprengel’s work discusses the relationship between pollination andthe insect fertilization of flowers and, although it was generally neglected inhis lifetime, it influenced several of Darwin's works. Dibner Heralds 30; Junk Rara S63; Nissen BBI 1883; Norman 1990; cf. PMM 165 (note); Pritzel8856; Sparrow Milestones of Science 184;Stafleu and Cowan TL2 12672.

TELEGRAPHS - Carl August von STEINHEIL (1801-70). Ueber Telegraphie. [etc.]TELEGRAPHS- Carl August von STEINHEIL (1801-70).  UeberTelegraphie, insbesondere durch galvanische Kräfte. Eine öffentliche Vorlesunggehalten in der festlichen Sitzung der Königl. Bayerischen Akademie derWissenschaften am 25. August 1838. Munich: Gedruckt bei Dr. Carl Wolf,[?1838]. 4to (273 x 215mm). 2 engraved plates, one of which folding (some inkspotting to title, some spotting, staining and browning throughout, althoughthe plates generally clean). Contemporary wrappers (frayed, stained). Provenance:illegible early inscription on upper wrapper. FIRST EDITION. With 5 other worksof related interest in 6 vols., namely Joseph Forsach’s Handbuch derelectrischen, galvanischen, magnetischen und electromagnetische Telegraphie(Vienna, 1854, 45 lithographed plates, original printed yellow wrappers), H.Schellen’s Der elektromagnetische Telegraph (Braunshweig, 1854, foldingplate, original yellow printed wrappers), Leander Ditscheiner's DieTelegraphen-Apparate (Vienna, 1874, 6 folding plates, wrappers), A. - L.Ternant's Les Télégraphes ... Deuzième Edition (Paris, 1884, 2 vols.,original pictorial cloth gilt) and Eug. van Mullem's Manuel de TélégraphieElectrique (Gand, 1877, 5 folding plates, contemporary half straight-grained morocco). Provenance:from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The lot sold not subject toreturn. (7)

TYNDALL, John (1820-93). Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection.TYNDALL,John (1820-93).  Essays on theFloating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection.London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. 8vo (196 x 125mm). Half title,wood-engraved illustrations, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end(very faint mainly marginal spotting and browning). Original plum clothdecorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: M. Atkinson Adam (stampon front free endpaper); R. Vallentin, 1881 (signature at head of title);library number stamped in gilt at foot of spine, with residue of library label; from the Collection ofPeter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 2495: "Tyndallinterested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments onsterilization by heat led him to the discovery in 1877 of fractionalsterilization (Tyndallization). His work on the subject is included in [Essayson the Floating-Matter] in which he also described the bactericidal effectsof moulds. The researches of Tyndall, even more than those of Pasteur, dealtthe final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation; they were fundamentalfor the progress of bacteriology." 

WUNDT, Wilhelm (1832-1920). Grundzuge der Physiologischen Psychologie.WUNDT,Wilhelm (1832-1920).  Grundzüge derPhysiologischen Psychologie. Leipzing: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1874.Large 8vo (222 x 155mm). Illustrations and diagrams, errata leaf (some spottingand browning to title, light marginal browning throughout). Contemporary [or?original] cloth-backed pebbled boards gilt (rebacked preserving originalspine, although with some loss, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Ernst[?]Francke, 1876 (signature on front free endpaper); from the Collection ofPeter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of a work which was "thefoundation of experimental psychology, [and] which uses quantitative methods tostudy psychological processes such as perception and the formation ofideas" (DSB). Garrison-Morton 4976: "[Wundt] is the founder ofexperimental psychology and his book remains the most important on thesubject"; Horblit 100a; Norman 2270.

PAALEN WOLFGANG: (1905-1959) Austrian-Mexican Painter, associated with the Surrealist movement from 1935-42 and again from 1951-54. An extremely rare A.L.S., Wolfgang (twice), four pages (separate leaves), 4to, Villa Obregon, Mexico, 25th October & 27th November 1945, to Gigi [Richter]. Paalen writes a lengthy, informative and interesting letter, on the occasion of Richter's return to England from America, beginning by sending a letter of introduction (no longer present) for Henry Moore and offering congratulations 'to your acquisitions of drawings of his - you are certainly right in your feelings for him, he is a most wonderful person', continuing to suggest an introduction to Roland Penrose ('but I am not certain what kind of a person he has become….'), recommending meeting Arthur Koestler and urging her to read Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar, remarking 'I do not know Koestler personally, but consider him as one of the most remarkable people; he started as a rather vulgar journalist (and his first book is lousy) but is now a brilliant writer'. Paalen further writes 'I suppose you found in Anais Nin a sisterly soul for complaining about a country which you definitely do not like…Charles Givors is my alter ego and I had some fun with this alias. The book in question will be a kind of “secret” book about Mexico, so deep, that it will be transparent and pass entirely unnoticed', and also informs Richter 'I have not seen Leonora Carrington for a while, she published a little piece in “Circle”; I heard her book is very good; do not know where it is going to be published (how carefully I answer all your questions!) Nierendorf: he is the only art-dealer I ever had to do with, who not only understands something about painting, but really cares for it and for whom money is not the end but only a means. I do not think he is only a man's man, it seems he has inspired violent passions to beautiful and celebrated women. I would suggest you should not remain on one unfavourable impression and try once more, he is really a most cultivated and charming person'. Paalen also agrees that a story about art restoration could be very original, and hopes that Richter will write it, and refers to the artist Sonja Sekula, and to his wife, Alice Rahon, 'I can not blame Sonja too much; Alice too, during her stay in New York, got the impression that you did not care for her very much'. The final page of the letter is dated 27th November and Paalen apologises for the delay as he had lost Henry Moore's address, also remarking that 'What I heard in the meantime about Roland Penrose, does not make me feel like writing to him'. In a substantial postscript, again signed Wolfgang, the artist thanks Richter for a beautiful book on prehistoric cave painting ('I enjoy it very much, no other book could give me a greater pleasure in my present mood') and also refers to a proposed edition of his art journal DYN, stating 'The next number, which is very much delayed, will be an important double-number and appear in connection with a series of exhibitions concerning the new concept of space in painting. I try to do my best, but have to stick to painting more than before'. A letter of extraordinarily fine content. VGIrmingard Emma Antonia Richter (1922-2020) German-born art restorer, better known as Gigi Richter. Described as 'the doyenne of picture restorers throughout the 1940s and 1950s' Richter attended art school in New York after leaving Europe at the outbreak of World War II. She then pursued art conservation studies at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. During this time she met Paalen, his wife Alice and the artist Sonja Sekula, before moving back to England at the end of 1945 (from which time the present letter dates). Paalen's letter of introduction to Henry Moore was evidently successful; Richter rented the artist's flat in London, previously occupied by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicolson, and the two continued to enjoy a close friendship. Richter was to pursue art restoration in London until changing career paths to become a botanist in 1960.Autograph letters by Paalen, who died aged 54, are extremely rare and American Book Prices Current record no other example as having previously appeared at auction. It is hard to imagine a letter in existence with superior content to the present example, not least for its references to the artists and writers Henry Moore, Roland Penrose, Arthur Koestler, Anais Nin, Leonora Carrington, Sonja Sekula as well as the art dealer Karl Nierendorf (1889-1947) who opened his eponymous gallery in New York in 1937. Paalen's mention of a double number of the art magazine DYN, which he founded, and which was published in Mexico City and distributed in New York, Paris and London, would appear not to have come to fruition. Only six issues of DYN were published, the last in 1944.

LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) English Writer. Book signed, being a softcover edition of Pansies, a collection of poems by Lawrence, First Edition privately printed for subscribers only by P. R. Stephenson, London, June 1929. Signed by Lawrence in blue fountain pen ink to the limitations page and numbered 227 in his hand. This limited edition of five hundred copies represents the first printing of Lawrence's final poetry book to include the fourteen poems excised from the Secker edition five months previously which was suppressed by Scotland Yard. In the original paper wrappers, printed in red and black, and housed in the original plain card slipcase. Some light, minor age wear, most noticeable to the spine and slipcase. About VG  

MILNE A. A.: (1882-1956) English Author, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Samuel Butler, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1931 (as No.25 of The Life and Letters Series). Signed and inscribed by Milne to the front free endpaper, 'For Moon, with love from Blue' and dated Christmas 1940 in his hand. An excellent association copy inscribed by Milne to his son, Christopher Robin, using their family names. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front cover, the spine and board edges a little faded and with some minor foxing to the front free endpaper. About VG Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996) English Author and Bookseller, the only child of A. A. Milne. As a child he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. At the time the present copy was inscribed Christopher Robin Milne had completed his first year at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awaiting his call-up papers with the expectation of beginning training in November 1940. Milne failed his medical examination; however his father used his influence to get Milne a position as a sapper with the second training battalion of the Royal Engineers. He received his commission in July 1942 and was posted to the Middle East and Italy. A. A. Milne had decided on the name Billy before his son was born, although without the intention of christening him William. Instead, each parent chose a name, hence the legal name Christopher Robin. He was referred to within the family as Billy Moon, a combination of his nickname and his childhood mispronunciation of Milne.

DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. An entertaining T.L.S., Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 2nd August 1963, to Meaburn [Staniland]. Du Maurier announces 'The full treatment, and in August of all months? Don't be silly' and continues 'Now look here, this photograph on the back of the American edition of Branwell is one of the best I have ever had taken, at least I think so, and its much more recent than the one you are running in the present Penguins. I'm pretty sure its my own copyright too, so it would cost nothing, but this can be discovered by checking with the old girl who took it, Miss Compton Collier. (Used to live in Maida Vale)', further explaining 'I used to keep copies of this photograph to send around when pestered (nothing personal intended) and Doubleday in New York must have had the last one. How about it?'. Du Maurier continues to write on the subject of publishers and their use of author's images, 'Actually, when you talk about The Loving Spirit, my first novel, which I wrote when I was 22 (1929) tho' it wasn't published until 1931, you really ought to have a picture of me as I was at that time. It always seems to me silly, when authors's (sic) first books are re-published, to have pictures of them years later; for instance, silly to publish Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, say, with a picture of him looking an old buffer as he is today. The young Waugh was so different. (Pause for reflection - Do I mean Decline and Fall, or was that someone else, No, I mean Vile Bodies.) Likewise of Human Bondage, you need the young Willie Maugham, not that ancient sinner of nearing 90'. In concluding Du Maurier adds that she has no more news, 'Have been swimming a lot, very tanned, look like Gandhi'. VG Meaburn Staniland (1914-1992) English Editor, Author and Antiquarian Bookseller who worked at Penguin books in the 1960s and 1970s.

HERRMANN BERNARD: (1911-1975) American Film Composer, Academy Award winner. Herrmann is remembered for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock on many films including Psycho, North by Northwest and Vertigo. Herrmann's other film scores include Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver. Book signed, being a hardback edition of A List of Books About Music in the English Language, compiled by Percy A. Scholes as an appendix to The Oxford Companion to Music, First Edition published by the Oxford University Press, 1940. With Herrmann's ownership signature ('Bernard Herrmann') in bold black fountain pen ink to the head of the front free endpaper. Also bearing numerous ink and pencil annotations and marks throughout indicating which books the composer owned or wished to acquire as well as a few brief details of additional titles. Bound in the original publisher's blue cloth and with a gilt title to the spine. No dust jacket. Rare. Some very light, extremely minimal age wear, VG

European Regalia [Lord Twining], pub B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1967 first edition, maroon cloth; various Batsford editions, subjects to include Lawn Tennis, Sailing and Cruising, English Spas, English Country Crafts, A History of Flying, English Fairs and Markets, British Mountaineering, First Through The Clouds, Hunting England etc:- One Box

Unknown Dorset [Donald Maxwell], County Series, pub by John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, first edition,1927, Unknown Surrey [Donald Maxwell], pub John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, first edition 1924, gilt tooled green cloth; further editions from the same series to include Unknown Somerset, first edition, 1927, Unknown Suffolk, first edition 1926, Unknown Kent, 1921, Unknown Norfolk, first edition 1925, dj, Unknown Sussex, first edition 1923 dj; five others by the same author - A Dweller in Mesopotania, The New Lights of London, first edition 1926, Excursions in Colour, first edition 1927, East of Suez (Rudyard Kipling, illus Donald Maxwell copyright edition and five editions of The County Coast series:- One Box

The Decorative Arts in England 1660 - 1780 [Herbert Hall Mulliner], pub B.T. Batsford, first edition, folio, in slipcase; Decoration in England 1660-1770 and Furniture in England [Francis Lenygon], pub B.T. Batsford.

D[onne] (J[ohn]) Poems...with Elegies on the Authors Death, third edition, lacking engraved portrait, woodcut initials, title lightly soiled, water-staining to first few leaves, cropped shaving one or two head-lines or side-notes, bookplate of Arnold Trinder, later calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old label (mistakenly stating "First Edition"), corners repaired, [Keynes 80; STC 7047], 8vo, M[iles] F[lesher] for John Marriot, 1639.⁂ First published in 1633, this is a reissue of the second edition with the errata corrected and some minor additions.

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, light spotting at beginning and end, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed with slight spotting or browning, a little creased and frayed at edges with chip to top corner of rear panel, some old sticky tape repairs to verso of spine ends, 8vo, 1932.

Osteology.- Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried) Icones ossium foetus humani. Accedit osteogeniæ brevis historia, first edition, 32 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar, title in red & black, Leiden, Verbeek, 1737; Index supellectillis anatomicae, Leiden, Mullhovium & Schuyl, 1725, together 2 works in 1, very light occasional spotting or browning, contemporary Dutch vellum, manuscript lettering to spine, light marking or spotting to covers, 4to.⁂ First edition of this classic work on osteology. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) was a German-born Dutch anatomist, particularly known for his descriptions of the bones, illustrated in the work with great detail. Bound together with Albinus' Index, a list of the anatomical instruments which the very learned Johannes Jacobus Rau bequeathed to the Batavian Academy at Leiden.

Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus) Opera Omnia Medico-Chemico-Chirurgica, tribus voluminibus comprehensa. Editio novissima et emendatissima ad Germanica & Latina exemplaria accuratissime collata, 3 vol. in 2, first Tournes edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and title vignette to vol.1, some light foxing, titles in red & black, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, and illustrations, contemporary Dutch vellum, blind-stamped centre-pieces, rubbed with some dark spots to boards, joint to vol.1 split but holding firm, [Caillet 8283; Heirs of Hippocrates 215; Wellcome IV, 293], folio, Geneva, for Joan. Antonii, & Samuel De Tournes, 1658.⁂ First Tournes published edition, 'the best and most complete edition of Paracelsus' collected works' (Neville), complete with the often-lacking portrait after Tintoretto. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (c.1493-1541), who wrote under the pen name Paracelsus, was a Renaissance pioneer of medicine, an astronomer and alchemist. As native of Switzerland, he was educated in Basel, Vienna, and Ferrara, and travelled extensively throughout Europe during his life as an itinerant physician. He is credited with establishing the role of chemistry in medicine, and is often referred to as the "father of toxicology." His most known legacy is his record of the first clinical descriptions of syphilis and epilepsy, and his advocation of the humane treatment of the mentally ill in an era when they were believed to be possessed by demons.

Photometry.- Bouguer (Pierre) Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumiere, first edition, 3 folding engraved plates, bookplate to pastedown, ex-libris sticker to p.77, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., extremities very lightly rubbed but overall an excellent copy, 8vo, Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729.⁂ First edition of the founding work on photometry. Bouguer's interest in the measurement of light dates from c.1721, when J. J. d'Ortous de Mairan proposed a problem that necessitated a knowledge of the relative amount of light from the sun at two altitudes. Bouguer succeeded in making such a measurement of the light from the full moon on 23 November 1725, by comparing it with that of a candle. His achievement was to see that the eye could be used, not as a meter but as a null indicator, i.e., to establish the equality of brightness of two adjacent surfaces.