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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].

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.

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.

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.

Aargang 2-9 i 4 bind. (Christian) Iversen, Odense 1781-1788. 4to. Trykt i 2 spalter pr. side. Med enkelte træsnit. Kobberstukket foldet planche med Montgolfiers ballon indsat i nr. 104, december 1783. Samtidige uniforme halvbind af brunt kalveskind med rig rygforgyldning. Rygtitelfelterne på bind 1 mangler. De øvrige rygtitelfelter slidt. Gl. stempel (Aalborg Stifts Bibliothek) på fællestitelbladet i hvert bind. Gl. håndskrevet inventarnummer på indersiden af forpermen i hvert bind. De første sider i bind 2 med brandeskadede margener (uden teksttab). * 8 sammenhængende tidlige årgange, fra anden årgang og frem, af den såkaldte Iversens Avis, udgivet af den driftige Odense-bogtrykker Christian Iversen (1748-1827). Danske Provinstryk 1482-1830 Od 259. Første årgang fra 1780 havde anden form (Danske Provinstryk 1482-1830 Od 249). Avisen giver et levende billede af, hvad den læsende offentlighed i kongeriget Danmarks næststørste by diverteredes med i Christian VII's senere regeringsår. Her er nyt fra ind-og udland, lokale fynske nyheder først, samt avertissementer og navnestof. Regeringsskiftet i april 1784 omtales ganske udramatisk og selvsagt uden kommentarer. En enkelt stor nyhed i slutningen af året 1783 ofres der ekstra på: Iversens læsere har længtes efter 'at see Montgolfiers berømte aerostatiske Machine, hvorom saa meget i denne Tid tales og skrives. (..) Her paa vedstaaende Side sees den efter en i Paris forfærdiget Tegning, saaledes som den paa 1ste December i Paris i Thuilleriets Hauge gik i Luften med de Herrer Robert og Charles. Dens Størrelse og Indretning vide Læserne af Avisen. Iversen'. Volia! Nyheden om de første mennesker i luften når til Odense med historien om Montgolfier-brødrenes ballon-færd. *** Sent i livet, i 1819, blev bogtrykker Iversen en konstruktiv velynder for den nykonfirmerede H.C. Andersen, der drog fra Odense til København med en anbefalelsesskrivelse fra den store fynske publicist.

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.

No printer or place (Berlin?) 1761. 8vo. 24 pages. Later clothbacked boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Slight foxing to endpapers. * Very scarce. First German edition of La religion naturelle from 1756.

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.

3 parts in 6 volumes. Verlage des Geographischen Instituts & Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1816-1846. 8vo. XX+236 + 366 + XVI+519+(1) + XII+637+(1) + X+464 + XII+658+(2) pages. 2 +2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 large engraved folding maps, the first 4 printed on blue-toned paper. Uniform contemporary brown half-calf bindings with richly gilt decorations on spine. Slight foxing throughout. Hinges broken at upper spine-end on volume 1, 2 and 3. Wear and bumps to some edges and corners. * All published. Friedrich August Ukert (1780-1851) was born in Eutin, Holstein, and served as librarian in Gotha.

3 bind. 1: Imprimerie Adolphe Reiff, Paris 1893. (4)+362 sider. 2: (Imprimerie Adolphe Reiff, Paris (1902). (4)+337+(2) sider. 3: (Imprimerie Adolphe Reiff, Paris (1902). (4)+337+(2) sider. Indbundet ubeskåret med orig. foromslag i 3 kønne samtidige halvbind af rødbrunt skind med rygforgyldning. Ryggene falmet. Gl. navn øverst på foromslaget i hvert bind. * De to sidste bind nummereret (hver bog udkom i 250 eksemplarer). De tre bøger blev forbudt og efter myndighedernes formåen beslaglagt i Danmark, Norge og Sverige på grund af deres utugtige indhold.

2 volumes. Vilhelm Tryde, Copenhagen 1910. Large 4°. XXXII+264 + 365+(2) pages. Untrimmed in contemporary full vellum bindings with gilt top-edges. Lower spine-end of vol. II professionally and discreetly repaired. * Monumental edition, printed by Danish master-printer Christian Christensen in 350 numbered copies, of which the present is no. 59. Association copy: Inscribed by the Vilhelm Maar (1923) to Vilhelm Møller Christensen (Danish doctor and pioneer in the study of leprocy). ** Text in Latin, French and Italian. The authoritative edition of Steno's medical and scientific works with detailed notes in English. Besides being a pioneer in such diverse fields as medicine and geology (contained in these volumes), the Danish scientist Niels Stensen (1638-86) converted from his Lutheran faith and ended up being a Catholic bishop. Born in central Copenhagen, he ended up in Florence where re rests in a Roman sarcophagus in the San Lorenzo Church. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

C.A. Reitzels Forlag, København 1845. (8)+52 sider. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale bogtrykte omslag i smukt halvbind af rødbrunt maroquin med tidstypisk rygforgyldning (Knud Erik Larsen). I smuk kassette af marmoreret papir. Exlibris (advokat Harald Pedersen). * BFN 454. Udkom ved juletid 1844. Førstetryk af Grantræet og Sneedronningen.

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).

Printed photograph, 14.5 x 10 cm. Slight edgewear. Signed with filt tip pen to the front, with date 20.1.74 in Dönitz' hand. * The card is from the days of The Third Reich and shows Dönitz in full naval uniform as Grossadmiral, head of the Kriegsmarine. A stubborn follower of his Führer, Hitler appointed him to be his successor shortly before his suicide in Berlin on April 30 1945. Dönitz functioned as German head-of-state until his arrest in Flensburg on May 23 1945. At the Allied War Tribunal in Nuremberg, he was sentenced to ten years in prison as war criminal. After his release, he lived in Hamburg, regretting nothing.

Trykt hos Ludolph Henrich Lillies Enke, København 1760. 8vo. (32)+348+(2) sider. Med kobberstukket portræt af Rømer, et foldet kobberstukket kort samt 2 foldede kobberstukne prospekter af slavefortet Christiansborg (Nr. 2) samt det mindre danske slavefort Fredensborg (Nr. 3). Mangler det ene prospekt af Christiansborg. Samtidigt halvbind af brunt kalveskind. Exlibris. Nederste kapitæl beskadiget. Gennemgående noget gulplettet. Navnetræk på fribladet. * Bibl. Dan. II,559. Meget sjælden. En hovedkilde til den danske slavehandels historie. Ludewig Ferdinand Rømer (1714-76) stammede fra Nordtyskland og skabte sig en indbringende karriere ved den lille danske handelsstation på Guldkysten (i det nuværende Ghana). Rømer skriver ganske ligefremt og oplysende om, hvad der foregår på den første station i den atlantiske trekanthandel. Bogen er forsynet med et langt forord af biskop Erik Pontoppidan (1698-1764), hvori det hævdes, at handel med og slavegørelse af afrikanere ikke er uforeneligt med kristendommen. Rømers bog er en helt afgørende kilde til Thorkild Hansens Slavernes Kyst.

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.

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.

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.

2 volumes. Verlag von Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1845 & 1846. 8vo. (4)+282 +(4)+140 pages. With 8 engraved plates (volume 1) and 6 tinted litographs in volume 2 by Otto Speckter. Publisher's boards, volume 1 with the original printed front wrapper preserved; volume 2 with both front and back cover preserved. Volume 1 somewhat worn, inside, however, fine. Volume 2 well-preserved. Name (Erik Dal) on verso of front pastedown. * Möller-Christensen 89 & 123. Volume 2 with the first German translation of some of Andersen's most famous fairy tales, among others The Snow Queen.

6 volumes. C.W.K. Gleerup, Lund 1953-1973. 163 + 327 + 487 + 634 + 407 + 211 pages. Illustrations in b/w and colour, partly as plates. Uniform brown half-cloth bindings. Well-preserved set. * Complete set. Inscribed by the author in the two last volumes to the Danish professor Jens Erik Skydsgaard. I: Stratigraphical Researches in the Forum Romanum and along the Scala Via. II: The Tombs. III: Fortifications, Domestic Architecture, Sanctuaries, Stratigraphic Excavations; IV,1 & IV,2: Synthesis of Archaeological Evidence. V: The Written Sources. VI: Historical Survey. ** Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom. 4°, XVII, 1-6. / Acta Instituti Romani Regni Sueciae. Series in 4°, XVII, 1-6..

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.

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.

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.