6 Mid-19th Century Handwritten German Student Notebooks

Marbled boards. Very Good. Here offered are six handwritten notebooks of O. Olshausen, an advanced student at both the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg from 1859-1861.The notebooks span the 1859-1860 winter and summer semesters in Berlin through the Heidelberg summer semester of 1861. Olshausen confidently took meticulous notes in ink as a student of physics, differential calculus, organic chemistry, analytical geometry, and analytical mechanics. He studied with noted scholars of science and mathematics, including Professor Heinrich Gustav Magnus (an experimental physicist renowned for his research and teaching lab at the University of Berlin) and Professor Ernst Kummer (a mathematician who specialized in ballistics). The notebooks are in German, with hundreds of diagrams and formulas in Olshausen's hand. The 6 notebooks, all uniform octavos, are sturdy and very presentable. Tight and VG in their marbled boards over spines lightly worn to varying degrees. Still though, the notebooks are very well-preserved, especially given their age -- and, internally, are all-but-pristine, with clear, remarkable penmanship on display throughout. Other professors to whom Olshausen devoted an entire notebook include: Dr. Arndt (Differential Calculus and Analytical Geometry) and Dr. Schneider (Organic Chemistry).