Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Herman H. J. Lynge & Son

1728. Amsterdam, Rod. & jacob. Westenios & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. Bound in a fine well-preserved full contemp. calf, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt letering, blindtooled and with "mirror" on covers (Cambridge-binding). Danish bound. Engraved frontispiece. Title-page printed in red/black. (22),717,239 pp. 1 large engraved vignette. Printers device engraved on title-page. Internally clean and fine, wide-margined and printed on good paper.

1937. (Wisconsin), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1937. Lex8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In "The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 3, 1938." Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Quine:] Pp. 37-40; Pp. 125-39. [Entire issue: IV, 212 pp.]. First printing of these papers which include Kleene's milestone paper in which Kleene's O (Ordial numbers), a recursive function, is introduced. In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations."In the seventeenth century, Leibniz envisaged a universal language that would allow one to reduce mathematical proofs to simple computations. Then, during the nineteenth century, llgicians such as Charles Babbage, Boole, Frege and Peano tried to formalize mathematical reasoning by an "algebraization" of logic. Finally, [...] Gödel, Church and Stephen Kleene introduced the notion of recursive functions. (The Princeston Companion to Mathematics. P. 111).

1713. Bat.(Leyden), 1713. 8vo. Cont.full vellum. Back repaired with part of old back preserved. Engr.frontisp.,12 engr.plts., 3 fold. engr.maps. (14),862 pp. + Index a 224 pp.

1713. Ludduni Batavorum, Apud Vid. C. Boutesteyn & S. Luchtmans, Delpis, Apud Adrianum Beman, 1713. 8vo. Cont. full vellum. Double gilt line-borders on boards, gilt oramentations in each corner and a larger one in centre of boards (looks like a Grrek "g", ex-libris?). Leather title-and tome-labels on back. Back worn and rebacked, showing the new vellum (not same colour as the original) at about 1/3 of the back. Bdg. a bit soiled, but tight. Engr. frontispiece, 3 folded maps, 12 engr. plates, of which 5 are folded, a few smaller woodcut illustrations and woodcut vignettes. Dibdin p. 361.

1639. Rostock, Johann Hallervord, 1639. 4to. In contemporary full vellum. Title in contentemporary hand to spine. Gilt ornamentation to spine and gilt frames to boards. All edges gilt. Extremities with light soiling and a few dots and marks. Two previous owner's names in near contemporary hand to title-page. Three small worm-tracts affecting first few leaves, otherwise internally very nice and clean. (16), 80, 184, 19, (17), (32), (16) pp. Exceedingly rare first edition of Paulli’s first substantial botanical work - and the first botanical university textbook in Denmark - which laid the foundation for his magnum opus, the greatest illustrated work in Danish book-production, and the largest Flora ever produced, namely that of Flora Danica. The present work deals with the medicinal properties of various substances and is considered one of Paulli's most important contributions to the field of medicine. In the preface to Flora Danica, Simon Paulli writes that the plant descriptions are drawn from… Read More

1607. Paris, P. Chevalier, 1607. Folio. Newer full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt leather title-label to spine. First title-page a bit "dusty" and the first few quires with a damp stain to upper right corner. Some leaves with light underlinings. Internally mostly very nice and clean. First title-page in red and black and with large engraved portrait; second title-page with woodcut vignette. Woodcut initials and vignettes. 8, (4), 974, (46, -Indices), 116 pp + (12), 284, 98, (32, -indices), (2, - colophon) pp. The 1607-edition (with the additional notes of Lipsius) of this highly important edition of the works of Seneca the Younger (the philosopher) and Seneca the Elder (the rhetorian), having the excellent and important notes by some of the most noted scholars, e.g. Muretus and Erasmus. The work first appeared in 1602, but that did not contain the notes of Lipsius, which first appeared in the 1607-edition (i.e. the present). The work was very popular and new editions kept appearing… Read More

1822. London, Young, 1822-27. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 9 contemporary full longgrained morocco. Extremities slightly rubbed. Around 5000 pp. Brunet II:589.

1548. Basel, (Iohnnes Oporinus, 1548 - on colophon). 8vo. Contemporary full limp vellum. A bit of soiling and light brownspotting to title-page, otherwise very nice and clean. The printer's name has been removed from the colophon, causing two small holes, which have been neatly repaired from verso. Two small holes corresonding to these to the second-last leaf, causing loss of a couple of letters. All in all a very nice copy. Woodcut initials. (16), 297, (6 - Life of Aristotle) pp. The scarce first edition of leading French Humanist Catholic Gentian Hervet's important translation of Alexander's hugely influential "Quaestiones", presumably with this fourth part (which is not the "De Fato" as in other Renaissance editions) for the first time in print. Hervet's edition of Alexander's "Questiones" came to have a profound influence on the development of Renaissance Aristotelianism. The "Questiones" had appeared earlier, e.g. in 1541, and were by no means unknown to Renaissance thinkers at the time, but… Read More

1837. Regimontii Prussorum, 1837. Modest contemp. hcloth. Stamp on titlepage. VIII,(4),339 pp. Internally clean.

2016. København, 2016. I de originale omslag. 339 pp.

1927. New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In "The Bell System Technical Journal", Volume VI, October, Number 4, 1927. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 722-735. [Entire issue: 551-752 pp.]. First appearance of Shewhart's seminal second publication on Quality control which gave birth to the entire field of statistical quality control thus created the basis for the control chart by experiments that are now an integrated part of all statistical control. "Shewhart successfully brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics and became known as the father of modern quality control. Shewhart was concerned that statistical theory serve the needs of industry. He exhibited the restlessness of one looking for a better way. A man of science who patiently developed and tested his ideas and the ideas of others, he was an astute observer of developments in the world of… Read More

1926. New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1926. Lex8vo. Volume V, October, No. 4, 1926 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. Light sunning to spine. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 593-603. [Entire issue: Pp. 529-661 + 2 folded plates + "Tables for the Article By E.T. Hoch: pp. 572a - 572c]. First appearance of Shewhart's seminal first publication on Quality control charts. Shewhart, the father of statistical quality control, created the basis for the control chart by experiments that are now an integrated part of all statistical control. "Shewhart successfully brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics and became known as the father of modern quality control. Shewhart was concerned that statistical theory serve the needs of industry. He exhibited the restlessness of one looking for a better way. A man of science who patiently developed and tested his ideas and the ideas of others, he was an astute observer of… Read More

1984. London, Royal Society, 1984. Royal8vo. Full buckram, gilt lettering to spine.In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", Series A, vol. 392. IV,478 pp. (Entire volume offered). Berry's paper: pp. 45-57. Clean and fine. First printing of the paper in which Berry describes his discovery of the "Berry phase", a unifying concept in quantum mechanics."In 1983, Berry made the surprising discovery that a quantum system adiabatically transported round a closed circuit in the space of external parameters acquires, besides the familiar dynamical phase, a non-integrable phase depending only on the geometry of the circuit. This Berry phase, which had been overlooked for more than half a century, provides us a very deep insight on the geometric structure of quantum mechanics and gives rise to various observable effects. The concept of the Berry phase has now become a central unifying concept in quantum mechanics, with applications in fields ranging from chemistry to condensed matter physics. In… Read More

1930. Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 62, 1930. Entire volume offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 188-200. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp]. First printing of this important paper containing the first appearance of the Landau-Peierls wave function. "Landau and Peierls argued that field measurements could not be performed unambiguously and hence that current quantum electrodynamics was inconsistent. The Landau-Peierls criticism caused concern until 1933, when Bohr and Rosenfeld showed that the consequences of quantrum electrodynamics were consistent with the best possible measurements of electromagnetic field quantities. (Kragh, Quantum Generations).

1930. Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 62, 1930. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 188-200. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp]. First printing of this important paper containing the first appearance of the Landau-Peierls wave function. "Landau and Peierls argued that field measurements could not be performed unambiguously and hence that current quantum electrodynamics was inconsistent. The Landau-Peierls criticism caused concern until 1933, when Bohr and Rosenfeld showed that the consequences of quantrum electrodynamics were consistent with the best possible measurements of electromagnetic field quantities. (Kragh, Quantum Generations).

1928. Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 46, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 1-46. [Entire volume: VII, 902 pp]. First printing of the paper in which Weyl developed the concept of continous groups by using matrix representations in dealing with the mathematical formalism of quantum theory.

1927. Berlin, Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 42, 1927. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 375-389. [Entire volume: VIII, 917 pp.]. First printing of London's early paper on Gauge Theories and Weak Interactions in which London anticipated many of Weyl and Pauli's ideas on the same subject."In the face of such elementary experimental evidence, it must have been an unusually strong metaphysical conviction that prevented Weyl from abandoning the idea that Nature would have to make use of the beautiful geometrical possibility that was o?ered. He stuck to his conviction and evaded discussion of the above-mentioned contradictions through a rather unclear re-interpretation of the concept of "real state", which, however, robbed his theory of its immediate physical meaning and attraction." (From the present paper).

1927. Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Fhysik", vol. 46. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page. Pp. 1-46. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 902 pp.]. First printing of Weyl's exceedingly important paper which initially did not attract much attention but "its repercussion turned out to be remarkably strong in the long range". (Scholz, Weyl Entering the ’New’ Quantum Mechanics Discourse , p. 14). In it Weyl put forth an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics."Weyl's (1927) paper, referred to by Yang above, is entitled Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie (Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory). In it, Weyl provides an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics and he emphasizes the fundamental role Lie groups play in that theory. Weyl begins the paper by raising two questions: (1) how do I arrive at the self-adjoint operators, which represent a given quantity of a physical system whose constitution is… Read More

1934. Leipzig, 1934. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip with tears. 68 pp. Offprint from "Handbuch der Radiologie" Bd. VI/2.

1928. Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 46. VII,902 pp. (Entire volume offered). Weyl's paper: pp. 1-46. Clean and fine. First printing of the paper in which Weyl developed the concept of continous groups by using matrix representations in dealing with the mathematical formalism of quantum theory.