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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.

H. Floury, Paris 1919. Nouvelle Édition. 4to. 154 pages + 14 prints in b/w and 4 original prints (complete; a woodcut by Pisarro, an etching by Guillaumin, and two etchings by Renoir). Stamp (Holte Gymnasium Bibliotek) on page 17. Bound with the original wrappers restored in a nice half morocco binding. * Théodore Duret (1838-1927) was one of the first art critics to advocate for the impressionists. The first edition was printed in 1906.

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.

Johann Sebastian Riechel, Kiel 1696. 4to. (12)+574+(26)+64 sider. Samtidigt pergamentbind. Bindet meget slidt, men intakt. Stempel (Herlufsholms Bibliothek) på titelbladet. Tilskrift på latin på titelbladet (Leiden 1708) af Johann Arends fra Tønder. Med exlibris (Otto Thott 177?). * Fra Otto Thotts bibliotek. Dublet skænket til biblioteket på Herlufsholm, hvor Thott var skoleherre.

4 dele i 1 bind (komplet). Trykt i Kiøbenhavn paa Authoris Bekostning, København 1747. 4°. 64+(20)+401+(1)+332+300+(28) sider. Del 4 (64 sider med hyldestdigte om Tordenskiold) indsat efter fællestitelbladet. Med kobberstukne vignetter. Med kobberstukkket portræt og 5 (af 6) kobberstukne plancher, heraf flere foldede. Sidste planche (angrebet på Göteborg 1719) mangler. Samtidigt helbind af brunt kalveskind med rig rygforgyldning og spejldekoration på permerne. Kobberstukket dansk exlibris (kunsthistoriker Victor P. Christensen). Navn ((A)ndreas de Saint-Aubain = Carl Bagger) bag på portrættet. Grevekronet samtidigt monogramstempel nederst på titelbladet. Bogblokken gennemgående noget plettet. Titelbladet plettet og med gl. reparation. 2 foldede plancher med udbedrede revner. Side 275/276 og 277/278 i del 2 beskåret forneden med lille teksttab. Forreste udvendige fals restaureret. Bageste udvendige fals svag og med ansats til revne forneden. * Hæderligt eksemplar af den meget sjældne førsteudgave af Rothes biografi om Tordenskiold, den første egentlige levnedsskildring af søhelten. Rothe var lidt af en journalist, der kunne trække på en række levende kilder, ikke mindst Tordenskiolds bror. Dertil kommer, at han benytter og citerer aktstykker, der siden er forsvundet. Værket er kilden til alle de gode historier om Peter Wessel - historier, som en kildekritisk eftertid har haft sit hyr med.

Melchior Winckler, København 1650. 8°. 172 blade (344 sider). Titelbladet tryk med rødt og sort. Træskåret vignet på titelbladet Indbundet i et elegant helbind af marmoreret og poleret maroquin med rig rygforgyldning, ud- og indvendige guldbordurer og marmoreret snit (Gustaf Hedberg). I matchende marmoreret kassette. Exlibris. Forreste fals og kassettens ene kant skrammet. Titelbladet restaureret. * Bibl. Dan. I, 1088. Niels Heldvads (1564-1634) formularbog udkom første gang i 1625.

Compagnie Industrielle de Materiel de Transport CIMT Lorraine, Neuilly-sur-Seine. No year [at the earliest 1963, latest 1966]. Oblong 4to. Not paginated. Illustrated with technical drawings in b/w as well as photos in b/w and colour. Original cloth covered boards with hidden spiral spine. Cloth with some soiling and staining. Spine darkened. One corner worn and fraying. Plastic spiral spine partly detached from boards. Light foxing to inner boards. Name and date on inner front board (renowned Danish architect Georg Rotne). Pages with clear traces of use, bent corners and creases. Good. * Catalogue of the range of industrial products and elements which were produced to Jean Prouvé's design. CIMT and Prouvé formed a joint company in 1957 (after the architect had lost his life's work - the workshop and all his rights and patents - to aluminium manufacturer STUDAL in 1955). One of the facade panels can be seen at The Museum Of Modern Art in New York (object no. 229.2003). **Includes a handwritten letter from M[adeleine] Prouvé (née Schott) addressed to renowned Danish architect Georg Rotne, dated 29 March 1972. The letter discusses a date for a visit by Rotne, to which her husband and she looks forward. ***A trained metal-worker, Prouvé used his skills and talent to unite industrial production with design in several scales: architecture, building elements and furniture. His work embodies the hope, innovation, creativity and love for the human being and the potential of industrial production which defined the avant garde of architecture and design in the early decades of the 20th century. Among much else he is known for his contributions to Maison du Peuple in Clichy (architects Marcel Lods and Eugène Beaudouin), his own house in Nancy (now a museum), the Maisons Tropicales, for working with Le Corbusier and for his influence in choosing Renzo Piano's proposal for the Centre Pompidou in Paris (it's facade inspired by Prouvé's facade for Palais de la Foire in Lille (architect Paul Herbé).

Paa Forfatterens Forlag trykt hos J.M. Elmenhoff, Randers 1840. 12°. 80+(2) sider. Ubeskåret eksemplar i det originale, bogtrykte, blommefarvede omslag. Lagt i en smuk, marmoreret bogæske med ryg af rødt maroquin [udført af Henning Jensen]. Ryggen med slitage, så foromslaget hænger lidt løst. Lidt gulplettet til de første sider og i marginen. Dedikation med blæk på verso af titelbladet, som er smittet lidt igennem papiret. Uopskåret eksemplar. * Bertelsen 26. Førsteudgave. Sjælden med det originale omslag bevaret og i uopskåret stand.** Med dedikation fra Blicher: 'Carl Ploug/ med højagtelse og Broderskab fra S.S. Blicher'. Forfatterkollegaen og journalisten Carl Ploug [1813-94] var nationalliberal og skandinavist, hvilket jo gik fint i spænd med Blicher og med bogens svenske emne. Men Ploug har tilsyneladende ikke gidet at læse den ældre kollegas bog, da siderne ikke er skåret op. Blicher blev aldrig rigtigt accepteret i det litterære establishment i København.

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.

Printed by J.H. for William Lee, London 1631. Small folio (28 x 19 cm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved titlepage + printed titlepage with woodcut printer's device. (8)+258+(8) pages. Bound with: (BACON, FRANCIS): New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished. (4)+46+mispaginated leaf, paginated 43-44. Later brown calf binding with gilt 17th century style decorations on spine.

Gottlob Christian Hilschern, Dresden & Leipzig 1744. 8vo. (24)+896+(96) pages. Double titlepage. Double frontispiece plate. Richly illustrated with woodcut images om plants and flowers. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Binding worn. Endpapers soiled and with tears. Waterstaining to lower front corner almost throughout. * First published c. 1700. Pocket-herbal with about 500 woodcuts.

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.

Ludwig & Daniel Elzevier, Amsterdam 1659. 4to. Titlepage in red and black and with woodcut printer's device. (16)+48 pages. marbled paperbinding with morocco titlelabel on front board. Old name (1720) on verso of titlepage. * Bibl. Dan. II, 40. Second edition, now under Rasmus Bartholin's (1625-98) own name, of his introduction to the geometrical method of René Descartes. Sequel to Franz van Schooten's and Bartholin's work from Leiden 1651, Francisci à Schooten Principia matheseos universalis, seu Introductio ad geometriæ methodum Renati des Cartes, edita ab Er. Bartholino, Casp. Fil.. In 1649, Bartholin assisted Descartes with his Geometria, solving a specific mathematical problem. In 1657, he became professor in mathemathics at the Copenhagen University and a key figure in the reception of Descartes and Cartesianism in Denmark.

Chez Charles Angot, Paris 1657. Small 4to [17 x 22.5 cm]. (30 [lacking the blank leaf o4])+663+(1) pages. A few wood cut illustrations in the text. Bound in a contemporary full calf binding. Spine title somewhat crackled. Names in ink to the inner board and the not-pasted down front pastedown [Robert Briston and Knowsley Library]. Still, a very nice, tight copy. * Scarce. First edition of the first part of the letters of philosopher and scientist René Descartes [1596-1650]. His correspondance in this part (in 119 letters) is a.o. with Queen Christina of Sweden [whom the book is dedicated to by the publisher] and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia. Two further volumes were published later (in 1659 and 1667) with focus on other parts of his examinations.

Fully Illustrated by Eminent Artists. American Publishing Company, Hartford Conn., 1872. Two engraved frontespices (with the tissue guard present)+XVIII+[19-]591+ 1 leaf of ads. Bound in a lovely half red morocco binding with the old spine title preserved. Very nice copy indeed. * First edition, first state, missing the 'his' on line 21 of page 242; page 156 has a capital T for 'Trees 'and 'thirteenth' instead of 'sixteenth'; page 330 line 23 has 'Eastern' that was corrected to 'eastern'; and the advertisement is present on page 592.

Wormianum, Højbjerg 1982. 4°. 52 sider. Illustreret i s/h. Orig. hellærredsbind. * Med stor dedikation i form af et 4-linjet kalligraferet vers til Lodbrogs Runerister (rektor Jørgen Stegelmann) signeret MargretheR. Dronningen er en habil versemager og hentyder til sit og Stegelmanns fælles projekt med en illustreret udgave af Regnar Lodbrogs saga. ** Udsendt som jubilæumsbog i anledning af tidsskriftet Skalks 25 års jubilæum.

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.

2 volumes. Johannes Steinman, Leipzig 1577. 4to. 789 + 268+(16)+191 pages. Contemporary brown half-calf bindings. Name on titlepage in both volumes. Bindings with traces of age, however intact. Some marginal water stains. * Parallel text in Greek and Latin.

9 dele. Andr. Fred. Høst, København 1851-52. Med 4 litograferede plancher (i bind 3). Samtidige halvlæderbind med rig rygforgyldning. Sirlige inskriptioner fra Forchhammer-familien på fribladene. Ryggene let skrammede. * En af dansk naturvidenskab og åndshistories største skikkelser i fuldt udtræk. Værket begyndte at udkomme før Ørsteds død, men udgivelsen nåede at blive definitiv undervejs. Indeholder førstetrykket af Aanden i Naturen.** Dejligt associationseksemplar: Med indklæbet dedikation fra H.C. Ørsted til Johan Georg Forchhammer. Den 17 år yngre Forchhammer blev som student H.C. Ørsteds protegé og medhjælper på en geologisk undersøgelse af Bornholm, og herfra tog hans karriere fart: Han blev professor i Mineralogi ved Københavns Universitetet i 1829, senere direktør for Polyteknisk Læreanstalt og til sidst rektor for universitetet.

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.

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.

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].

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.