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Two volumes. Plantin, Antwerp 1566. 16mo. 474+ [847+(1) pages. Bound in two contemporary half calf bindings. Slight wear to outer hinges and the extremities of the spines. Volume one with a small hole to the first four pages with a minimum of text loss to one word. Delicate notes in contemporary hand to some pages in the first volume. Nice, tight copy. * Early edition of Plautus' plays.

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2008. Large 4to. 275 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. cardboard cover with a decorated title by Tal R. In orig. slipcase. Slipcase with very minor wear. Otherwise near fine+/ near fine+. * Nr. 42 of a 100 copies signed by Tal R, and with original signed etching (42/100) included.

Anders Zetterberg & Kongl. Privilegierade Not Tryckeriet, Stockholm 1791. Kobberstukket titelblad (J.F. Martin efter Sergel) med profilportræt af Bellman. (4)+163+(5) sider + 86 sider med kobberstukne noder. Samt. halvbind af brunt kalveskind med enkel rygforgyldning. Samtidigt træskåret exlibris (P.V. von Wilshman). Samt. navn (von Welskman) nederst på det stukne titelblad og på sidste blad i tekstdelen. Bindet med slitage på hjørner og kanter. Noget gulplettet. Node-delen lidt løs, men intakt. * Første udgave af Fredmans Sånger med de tilhørende melodier. Fredmans Epistlar var udkommet i 1790. Indeholder elskede klassikere som Gubben Noach og den fantastiske Fjäriln vingad syns på Haga. Aldrig var der muntrere i Stockholm end i de gyldne, løsslupne tider under Gustav III - Gustavs Dagar.

Officina Elzeviriana, Leiden (Lugdunum Batavorum) 1626. Second edition. Small 4to. Engraved titlepage (inserted in photocopy). Engraved portrait. (12)+235 pages. 74 engraved emblems (3 blank (68, 69 & 70) by Crispin van de Passe Junior. 19th century full brown calf binding with blindtooled line ornamentation in 17th century style. The binding a bit rubbed. The 3 blank vignettes with handwritten description in English. Some pages with closed marginal tears, not affecting text or images. * Willems 261. Second edition, by Elzevier, of this fine emblemata collection, composed by Florens Schoonhoven (1594-1648). Published first time in Schoonhoven's native town Gouda 1618. Later editions from Amsterdam 1635 and 1648.

Chapman and Hall, London 1837. 8vo. Subtitlepage + frontespiece + engraved titleleaf + titleleaf + 2 p. of dedication to Talfourd + 3 p. (preface)+ 1 blank + 4 p. + 1p directions to the binder with errate (6 lines) on the verso + 609+ 1 blank. Contemporary brown half morocco binding (spine title stating only Pickwick Papers with marbled sidepaper. Endpapers renewed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Old name removed from subtitlepage. Text pages nice and clean, plates with a touch of browning. A well-preserved copy. * This early copy has the footnote on p. 9 and 50 lines pr. page, and the two original Buss-plates present (p.69 + 74), that was later replaced by Phizz-plates.

Paa Forfatterens Forlag, København 1831. (6)+134+(4) sider, inklusiv smudstitelblad. Heftet ubeskåret med orig. bogtrykt og litograferet omslag. Gl. navn (Müller) på indersiden af foromslaget. Indlagt i en smuk bogæske med rygstykke af grønt gedeskind med tidstypisk rygforgyldning (Anker Kysters Eftf./Hagel Olsen). Guldtrykte ejer-initialer (HHP = Hans Henrik Poulsen) på æskens forside. * BFN 109. Udsøgt eksemplar. Indeholder en lang række digte i førstetryk. ** Bogen har tilhørt antikvaren og numismatikeren Ludvig Müller (1809-91), der i begyndelsen af 1830'rne var meget nær ven med Andersen, som han oven i købet var dus med.

Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, New York 1934. 420 pages. Orig. red halfcloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt title decoration to the front board. Untrimmed. With worn dust wrappers. * Henriksen 7. True first edition of the author's first book. Fine association copy: Inscribed on front endpaper by Mary B(ess) Westenholz, Folehave, in Danish: When Isak Dinesen gave me this book in April 1934, she (corrected from he) said: This is the first (underlined) copy that I give away!. Mary Westenholz was Karen Blixen's maternal unmarried aunt, who lived next to Rungstedlund, at the manor Folehave.

Nu Nylige Prentet. Lorentz Albrecht/ Asweri Krøgers Arvinger, Lybeck [1599]. 8vo. 256 blade, med en del fejlpaginering [komplet]. titelbladet trykt i rødt og sort. Lidt senere spejlbind af kalveskind. Titelbladet lidt nusset og med en gammel ejersignatur nederst. Lidt slitage ved permernes nederste kanter. Ryggen professionelt restaureret. Ormeangreb i den nederste margin, uden teksttab. * Det lybske eftertryk af 1577-udgaven, her i den første variant [se Lauritz Nielsen, 'Dansk Bibliografi 1550-1600' s. 553.Helt fint eksemplar af Smith's populære lægebog, der var i brug langt op i 1800-tallet.

3 bind. P. Hauberg, København 1888-89 (Januar-December 1888 + Januar-Juni 1889 (det udkomne). 588 + 572 + 572 sider. Kønne samtidige uniforme halvbind af brunt kalveskind med tidstypisk rygforgyldning. Bindene afviger i format (årgng 1889 blev sat ned i størrelse). Let slid på hjørner og kanter. * Kønt sæt af dette væsentlige litterære tidsskrift. Indeholder førstetryk af en meget bred vifte af tidens vigtige forfattere, bl.a. Johannes Jørgensen, Sophus Claussen, Gustav Wied, August Strindberg (fem bidrag, bl.a. det fantastiske Kvinnosaken enligt Evolutionsteorin), Knut Hamsun, Amalie Skram og Herman Bang. I bind 2 findes også - over 30 sider - det første afsnit af Hamsuns Sult.

Punica, sive Carthaginiensis, Syriaca, Parthica, Mithridatica, Iberica, Annibalica, Celtica & Illiryca fragmenta quaedam. Item, de bellis ciuilibus libri V. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, [Geneva] 1592. Folio. (12)+767+(1 blank) + 72+(34) +(2 blanks). Contemporary full limp vellum binding. Handwritten title to spine. Some soiling to the boards. Small chip to the top of the spine. Slight dampstaining to the upper margins. Some chipping to the vellum along the edges. Wormholes to the lower corner of the index, with slight textloss. A bit of soiling and foxing here and there. Three old names to the title leaf. Armourial bookplate inserted. * Second (and last) edition of Stephanus' Appian edition, enlarged from the original 1557 edition, as more fragments of the text had been discovered [Iberica and Hannibalica] as well 72 pages of notes had been added.

London, Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651. 4to. [6]+318 pages. Lacking the engraved portrait (replaced in photocopy). Contempoary brown calf binding. Spine renewed (and blank). Spine faded. Stain (drawing?) to the back board. Boards bowing a bit. Endpapers browned along edges. Slight wear to front edge of titlepage.

A Paris, Chez Panckoucke, Libraire, Hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins. A Liège, chez Plomteux, Imprimeur des États, 1787. Small folio. VIII+179+(1) pages + 32 plates, of which 3 are singlepaged, 28 doublepaged, while plate 21 is a large folding sheet. 20th century binding with spines and front edges of brown calf. Some marginal soiling. Plates tightly trimmed at lower side. * The Heraldry part of the great French encyclopedia.

Det Kongelige Vaisenhuses Bogtrykkerie, København (1788). 8vo. På skrivepapir. (12)+284 sider. Med et kobberstukket portræt (udført af J.F. Clemens efter tegning af Jens Juel) og 3 kobberstukne illustrationer (2 eskimoer, et skib ud for Grønlands kyst omgivet af søuhyrer, og Wiedewelts mindesten over Hans Egede og Gertrud Rask i mindeparken i Jægerspris. Et udfoldeligt kobberstukket kort (Kort over Grönland, den østre Side efter Torfæus, den vestre Side...forbedret af Paul Egede). Samtidigt halvlæderbind af kalveskind med rig rygforgyldning. Øverste kapitæl lidt slidt. * Bibliographia Groenlandica s. 38, nr. 70. ** Den oprindelige udgave af Paul Egedes bog. Han var, som sin far, missionær på Grønland og en pionær inden for udforskningen af det grønlandske sprog.

2 volumes. The Brethren's Society, London 1767. 8vo. LIX+405 + 497+(1) pages. 2 folding maps + 7 engraved folding plates with views and costumes. Modern pastiche full brown calf bindings. Spines in six compartments with gilt and blindtooled decoration preserving original red title labels.. Small tear to flyleaf facing titlepage. Small closed tear (2,5cm) to page33/34 i vol. II. * First English edition of this detailed account on the Greenland mission by the German Herrnhuth Brethren Society, following the establishment of a Danish-Norvegian settlement and mission in 1721. Even today, German names are quite common among the Greenlandic political establishment.

2 bind. Gyldendal, København 1893. 367 + 425 sider. Med portræt (gengivelse af radering af Axel Helsted) på frontispice. Et eksemplar af den originale radering er indsat på forsatsen i bind 2. Orig. gråbrune komponerede helshirtingsbind. Tilskrift signeret H.H. til Pylle Horst (1894) på fribladet i begge bind. Lidt senere tilskrift på bagsiden af forsatsbladet i begge bind: Tilhører Nina Rye, f. Thaulow. * Unikt sæt af dette værk. På indersiden af forpermen i bind 1 indsat originalt foto af J.P. Jacobsen med tilskrift under: Foræret Pylle Horst af J.P. Jacobsen. På forsatsbladet i bind 1 indsat et lille papirark med 2 egenhændige vers af Jacobsen fra Sangen om Irmelin - Irmelin Alt, hvad der var dejligt. Tilskrift under arket: Skrevet af J.P. Jacobsen - givet til Pylle Horst. På forreste friblad indsat egenhændigt og signeret brev fra J.P. Jacobsen, dateret Humlebæk 9. august 1883, til Kjære Frk. Thaulow. Der er tilsyneladende tale om et følgebrev til fotografiet: Vær ikke vred over, at dette Billede kommer saa sent, og hav saa mange Tak fordi De var saa god at lade mig faa Deres; men frem for Alting bliv endelig snart helt rask. Sandsynligvis er Pylle Horst identisk med frøken Thaulow, så brev og billede formentlig er vidnesbyrd om samvær i forbindelse med et fælles sanatorieophold: Irmelin Alt, hvad der var dejligt.

Lithografiereade och utgifne af M. Körner, Lund 1839-46. Litographic titleleaf + 16 + (2) + [17-] 24 pages [including the dedication leaf to Gyllenkrok] + 62 handcoloured plates of birds [complete]. Bound in a nice, modern half morocco binding with bird stamps to the spine. The title- and textleaves soiled and dampstained; the plates clean, with only occasional thumbing and smudging. * Nice and rather scarce book on Scandinavian birds.

Verlag von Wiedemann. Teubner, Leipzig 1850. VI+(2)+239+(1) pages. Untrimmed copy with the original printed and illustrated soft cover. Well-preserved copy. * The first issue of the German edition of Andersen's stories, with 75 woodcut illustrations by Danish artist and naval officer Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-1859). Pedersen did the 112 + 13 illustrations to the Leipzig editions of Gesammelte Märchen (1849 & 1850). The illustrations were produced on the common initiative of Andersen himself and his German publisher Carl B. Lorck in Leipzig. Vilhelm Pedersen was hired to make drawings, which were sent to Leipzig to be cut into wood before printed and published. Lorck had the woodblocks cast in zink, that were sent back to Denmark. Though the Danish illustrated edition of 'Historier' (1855) preceded the German edition from 1856, the latter is printed with the original woodblocks.

[Johann Knoblauach, Cologne 1518]. 4to [13.3 x 19.2 cm]. Titleleaf+145+(7) leaves. Lacking most of the last leaf of the index, as well as the last blank leaf. Bound in a modern red full morocco binding, spine in five compartments. Some annotations in contemporary hand to the margin, some trimmed by later book binder. The first initial (on leaf I) has not been added in hand, but the intial 'S' on page VI is present. * Early edition by Raymund of Penyafort [c.1175-1275], compiler and editor of canonical law.

16 volumes in 19. Verlag J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart & Weimar 1996-2003. 4to. Illustrations in b/w. Publisher's cloth bindings with dust wrappers. Fine/fine. * Heavy item. Extra postage costs may apply.

In Two Volumes. Containing the Description and Use of the Sector; the Laws of Spheric Geometry; the Projection of the Sphere Orthographically and Stereographically upon the Planes of the Meridian, Ecliptic and Horizon; the Doctrine of the Sphere; and the Eclipses of the SUn and Moon for Thirty seven Years. Together with All the Precepts of Calculation. Also New Tables of the Motions of the Planets, fix'd Stars, and the First Satellite of Jupiter; of Richt and Oblique Ascensions, and of Logistical Logarithms. J. Wilcox, London 1728. (20)+448; (4)+400 pages. With numerous geometrical engravings in the text. Contemporary full panelled calf bindings. Hinges a bit weak. Slight fraying to the top of the spine of volume one. Title pages printed in red and black (and with old hearaldic library stamps). one leaf with a tiny burnhole to the margin, well outside text. Loverly heraldic bookplates. * Everything an up-and-coming astronomer needed to know in the early enlightenment.

Curante atque edente Petro Scriverio. Jacob Martin, Lyon 1619. 8vo. (64)+302 pages, including a beautiful engraving of the author. Contemporary vellum binding with black spine title in leather. Titleleaf somewhat soiled. A few pages with dampstaining. Still a sound copy. * Scarce. First collected works of Jean Second [1511-36], containing elegies, odes, epigrammer and of course his most renowned work Liber Basiorum [Book of Kisses].

Per Ianum Cornarium Medicum Physicum Latina lingua conscripta. Eiusdem Iani Cornarii eclogae decem, breuiter et sententiarum et genuinae verborum lectionis, locos selectos complecentes. Additis Marsilii Ficini Argumentis et Commentariis in singulos dialogos:cum indice rerum memorabilium elaboratissimo. Froben, Basel 1561. Quarto in sixes [22 x 32 cm]. (24)+1047+57 pages of index + cvolophone with printer's device to the verso. Contemporary half vellum binding, edges and extremities a bit worn. Corners bumped and worn, especually the lower corner to the back board. Cut-out to the flyleaf. Small portrait of Plato tipped unto titleleaf. Lower corners lacking to the last few leaves, well outside text. Crude modern inscription in Swedish to the inner board. The text leaves themselves are tight and clean, though. * Nice Froben-edition with a bit battered binding.

Apud Iolitos, Venetiis1585. 8vo. (12 [including an engraved title leaf]+286+(2) pages. Bound in a modern pastiche full vellum binding with title ('Ignatii Vitae') on the spine. Contemporary name and a bit newer name (dated 1652) to the title leaf. With a couple of small, contemporary marginal notes. 80 pages in the middle of the book with an old worm attack to the upper margin, not affecting text. * The Venetian first edition of this first biography on Loyola [1491-1556], the founder of the Jesuit order [with Saint Peter Faber and Saint Francis Xavier]. Note that the biography was written before his beatification [1609] and canonization [1622].

3 parts in 1 volume. Francesco Brogiollo, Venezia/Venice 1655. Folio. Engraved titlepage. Lacks engraved author's portrait. [6 of 8] leaves including chapter index + 83+[1]+83+[1]+128 pages. 45 of 48 engraved plates (including several double-page) by Odoardo Fialetti (signature, dated 1624, in cartouche of no. 1). Contemporary marbled calf with richly gilt spine. Waterstaining to the first pages and to top corner of the last pages. Spine-ends bumped. * Usable copy of this illustrated work on fortification by the Italian military engineer Francesco Tensini (c.1580-1630).

Meget dekorativt kobberstukket søkort over Østersøen mellem Skaanes og Blekinges kyst og nordkysten af Pommern med Rügen. Amsterdam 1707. 42 x 52 cm. Arkmål: 54 x 67 cm. Meget smuk samtidig håndkolorering. Med 2 kompasroser. Velbevaret eksemplar. * Smukt eksemplar af Jacob Theuniszoons store søkort over den danske ende af Østersøen, fra østspidsen af Møn, over Falsterbo, Christianstad og Christianopel til Ölands sydlige odde. Det er den maritime slagmark fra Store Nordiske Krig, der ses her med Bornholm som centrum i billedet.