WIENER, Christian (1826-1896) . “Erkldrwig des atomistischen Wesens des Jiussigen Korperzustandes und Bestatiguny desselben durch die sogennanten Molekularbetvegungen”, in the Annalen der Physik, 1863, volume 118, part 1, pg 79-94, offered in the entire volume of 644pp with 8 folding plates (1 plate split at the fold and detached). Ex-libris Deutsche Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung, then Wright Patterson Field Library (USAF), then Library of Congress.  Library markings:  small gilt-stamped “Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung”, page edges stamped “Wright Field Library/Dayton, Ohio” on top and bottom.. Contents quite nice.  $350

“The first name which calls for reference in this respect [regarding Brownian motion] is, perhaps, that of Wiener, who declared at the conclusion of his observations, that the movement could not be due to convection currents, that it was necessary to seek for the cause of it in the liquid itself, and who, finally, almost at the commencement of the development of the kinetic theory of heat, divined that molecular movements were able to give the explanation of the phenomenon” – Perrin, Jean. Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality, 1910, pg 3.

“…molecular -kinetic explanation of Brownian Motion (first qualitatively proposed by Christian Wiener in 1863)…”–“Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge”, Deborah G. Mayo, p 218.

“In his studies on molecular physics, Wiener demonstrated by extremely careful observations that Brownian movement is an “internal motion peculiar to the liquid state…”–“Wiener, Ludwig Christian.” Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 14. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008. 342-344.

“(Wiener was a) German mathematician who specialized in descriptive geometry. Wiener was also a physicist and philosopher. In 1863, he was the first person to identify qualitatively the internal molecular cause of Brownian motion.”–Wiki 

Also bound with: KIRCHHOFF, Gustav.  “Zur Geschichte der Spectral-Analyse under der Analyse der Sonnenatmosphaere”, same volume, pp 94-111.  Kirchhoff (1824-1887) was part of the Bunsen-Kirchhoff teams that developed the spectroscope in 1859 and then detected the first chemical elements in the spectrum of a star (1859 and 1860, respectively).  This article (“On the history of spectral analysis and the analysis of the solar atmosphere”) is interesting  given that it is relatively lengthy for such a short history, though it does reach back into the early 19th century for related developments.