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Coph., 1956. 4to. Oboards. 598 pp. Richly illustr.

Chicago, 1911-14. 4to. Vols 5-6 bound in one hcloth, vols. 7-12 bound in 3 contemp. hcalf., spines gilt. Each vol. ca. 325 pp. very richly illustrated.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896-97. Small 4to. 2 orig. hcloth. Uncut. Paperlabels on backs torn. XII,129;XII,218 pp. and 6 plates.

Paris, L'Imrimerie Royale, 1827. 8vo. Bound with the original blank blue front wrapper in later half cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Stamps to front wrapper and title-page. Author underlined in red pencil. 81 pp.

Kjøbenhavn, Seidelin, 1821-22. 2 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte skindtitler på rygge. En papirsetiket nederst på rygge. Lidt slid på en kapitæl. Stempel på titelblade. Litograferede titelblade. LVIII,650;(4),432 pp., 12 litograferede foldede tabeller og plancher. Originaludgaven af et hovedværk i dansk pædagogik, som indførte den såkaldte "indbyrdes undervisning". Denne metode blev optaget som et hovedfag på seminarierne, og seminariernes forstandere og lærere blev indkaldt til normalskolen for at lære metoden. Lærere, præster og provster fik skarpe tilsigelser om at kontrollere gennemførelsen af den i almueskolen. Selv rejste A. rundt og inspicerede skolevæsenet, og i hans rapporter til kongen gav han i stærke vendinger karakter til de præster og lærere som ikke føjede sig efter hans direktiver. På denne måde indførtes i 1820'erne indbyrdes undervisning i ca. 80 pct. af landets almue- og borgerskoler. Modstanden mod den mekaniske indlæring ved metoden og mod den næsten diktatoriske magt A. besad voksede støt.

Paris, Klincksieck, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1977 & 1980. 4to. All five volumes in the original printed wrappers. Volume II with waterstain to front wrapper and first few leaves, otherwise a fine and clean set. First printing of Chantraine's, one of the most renowned authorities on Ancient Greek philology of his generation, greek dictionary.

Kjøbenhavn, 1842-1849. 3 nydelige, samt. ensartede hldrbd med tidstypisk, rig rygforgyldning. Hjørner stødte. Første del med lille revne ved bageste øvre samt forreste nedre fals. Titelbladet til tredie del lidt brunplettet, ellers et særdeles rent og friskt ekspl. Originaludgaven med første del i den oprindelige ikke-reviderede udgave, som udkom i et lille oplag og er sjælden.

London, 1774. 8vo. 2 volumes uniformly bound in contemporary half calf with gilt ornamentation to spine. Spines with wear of boards miscoloured. Internally fine and clean. (16) 397 pp.; (4), 500, (3) pp. Wanting the frontispiece. Later edition, published four years after the original, comprising "The System of Nature" - one of the most important works of natural philosophy ever written and the work that is considered the main work of materialism - and "The Social System", being d'Holbach's seminal "social" and political continuation of that groundbreaking work. D'Holbach (1723-1789), who was raised by a wealthy uncle, whom he inherited, together with his title of Baron, in 1753, maintained one of the most famous salons in Paris. This salon became the social and intellectual centre for the Encyclopédie, which was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, whom he became closely connected with. D'Holbach himself also contributed decisively to the Encyclopédie, with at least 400 signed contributions, and probably as many unsigned, between 1752 and 1765. The "Côterie holbachique" or "the café of Europe", as the salon was known, attracted the most brilliant scientists, philosophers, writers and artists of the time (e.g. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire, Hume, Sterne etc, etc.), and it became one of the most important gathering-places for the exchange of philosophical, scientific and political views under the "ancient régime". Apart from developing several foundational theories of seminal scientific and philosophical value, D'Holbach became known as one of the most skilled propagators and popularizers of scientific and philosophical ideas, promoting scientific progress and spreading philosophical ideas in a new and highly effective manner. As the theories of d'Holbach's two systematic works were at least as anticlerical and unaccepted as those of his smaller tracts, and on top of that so well presented and so convincing, it would have been dangerous for him to print any of them under his own name, and even under the name of the city or printer. Thus, "Systême de la Nature" appeared pseudonomously under the name of the secretary of the Académie Francaise, J.B. Mirabaud, who had died 10 years earlier, and under a fictive place of printing, namely London instead of Amsterdam. "He could not publish safely under his own name, but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus, in 1770, his most famous book, "The System of Nature", appeared under the name Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud" (PMM 215), and so the next "System" also appeared in the same manner three years later. D'Holbach was himself the most audacious philosophe of this circle. During the 1760's he caused numerous anticlerical tracts (written in large, but not entirely, by himself) to be clandestinely printed abroad and illegally circulated in France. His philosophical masterpiece, the "Système de la nature, ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral", a methodological and intransigent affirmation of materialism and atheism, appeared anonymously in 1770" (D.S.B. VI:468), as did the social and political follow-up of it, the famous "Systême social" in 1773. That is to say, Mirabeau whom he had used as the author on the "System of Nature" in 1770 is not mentioned in the "Social System", on the title-page of which is merely stated "By the Author of "Systême de la Nature". In his main work, the monumental "Système de la Nature", d'Holbach presented that which was to become one of the most influential philosophical theories of the time, combined with and based on a complex of advanced scientific thought. He postulated materialism, and that on the basis of science and empiricism, on the basis of his elaborate picture of the universe as a self-created and self-creating entity that is constituted by material elements that each possess specific energies. He concludes, on the basis of empiricism and the positive truths that the science of his time had attained, that ideas such as God, immortality, creation etc. must be either contradictory or futile, and as such, his materialism naturally also propounded atheism; his theory of the universe showed that nature is the product of matter (eternally in motion and arranged in accordance with mechanical laws), and that reality is nothing but nature. Thus, having in his "Systême de la Nature" presented philosophical materialism in an actual system for the first time and having created a work that dared unite the essence of all the essential material of the English and French Enlightenment and incorporate it into a closed materialistic system, d'Holbach had provided the modern world with a moral and ethic philosophy, the effects of which were tremendous. It is this materialism and atheism that he continues three years later in his next systematic work "Systême social", through which politics, morality, and sociology are also incorporated into his system and take the place of the Christianity that he had so fiercely attacked earlier on. In this great work he extends his ethical views to the state and continues the description of human interest from "Systême de la Nature" by developing a notion of the just state (by d'Holbach called "ethocracy") that is to secure general welfare. "Système social (1773; "Social System") placed morality and politics in a utilitarian framework wherein duty became prudent self-interest." (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). "Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: "Man is of all beings the most necessary to man" (Sysème social, 76; cf. Spinoza's Ethics IVP35C1, C2, and S). Society, when it is just, unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare, and society contracts with government for this purpose." (SEP). Both works had a sensational impact. For the first time, philosophical materialism is presented in an actual system, and with the second of them, this system also comprised politics and sociology, a fact which became essential to the influence and spreading of this atheistic scientific-philosophical strand. The effects of the works were tremendous, and the consequences of their success were immeasurable, thus, already in the years of publication, both works were confiscated. The "Système de la Nature" was condemned to burning by the Parisian parliament in the year of its publication; the "Système social" was on the list of books to be confiscated already in 1773, and it was placed on the Index of the Church in August 1775. Both works are thus scarce. In spite of their condemnation, and in spite of the reluctance of contemporary writers to acknowledge the works as dangerous (as Goethe said in "Dichtung und Wahrheit": "Wir begriffen nicht, wie ein solches Buch gefährlich sein könnte. Es kam uns so grau, so todtenhaft vor"), the "Systems" and d'Holbach's materialism continued its influence on philosophic, political and scientific thought. In fact, it was this materialism that for Marx became the social basis of communism. "In the "Système" Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. He derived the moral and intellectual faculties from man's sensibility to impressions made by the external world, and saw human actions as entirely determined by pleasure and pain. He continued his direct attack on religion by attempting to show that it derived entirely from habit and custom. But the Systeme was not a negative or destructive book: Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a more desirable alternative. "(Printing and the Mind of Man, 215). "In keeping with such a naturalistic conception of tings, d'Holbach outlined an anticreationalist cosmology and a nondiluvian geology. He proposed a transformistic hypothesis regarding the origins of the animal species, including man, and described the successive changes, or new emergences, of organic beings as a function of ecology, that is, of the geological transformation of the earth itself and of its life-sustaining environment. While all this remained admittedly on the level of vague conjecture, the relative originality and long-term promise of such a hypothesis -which had previously been broached only by maillet, Maupertuis, and Diderot- were of genuine importance to the history of science. Furthermore, inasmuch as the principles of d'Holbach's mechanistic philosophy ruled out any fundamental distinction between living an nonliving aggregates of matter, his biology took basic issue with both the animism and the vitalism current among his contemporaries...This closely knit scheme of theories and hypotheses served not merely to liberate eighteenth-century science from various theological and metaphysical empediments, but it also anticipated several of the major directions in which more than one science was later to evolve. Notwithstanding suchprecursors as Hobbes, La Mttrie, and Diderot, d'Holbach was perhaps the first to argue unequivocally and uncompromisingly that the only philosophical attitude consistent with modern science must be at once naturalistic and antisupernatural." (D.S.B. VI:469).

Kjöbenhavn, Fr. Brummer, 1799-1800. Indbundet i et, nær samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt rygtitel. Papirsetiket påsat ryg. Stempler på foden af titelbladet. XVI,24,382,264 pp. Stort, rent eksemplar trykt på velin.

Kiel (Hamburg und Dessau), Kosten des Verfassers, (1781-) 84. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Paperlabels pasted on spines. Stamps on title-pages. (14),X,(8),548,(24);XXXII,518,(42) pp. Internally clean.

Stuttgart, 1953. 8vo. Entire issue. Orig. printed wrappers. Back wrapper and last few leaves w. slightly bent corners and a few nicks, but otherwise very nice and clean. Pp. 226-258. (Entire volume: Pp. (201) - 300 + 1 leaf advertisement]. First edition of Heidegger's important exposition of the poet Georg Trakl. The essay has had great impact on modern interpretation of poetry, and in fact it was this essay which prompted the entire Geschlecht series of Derrida, which he himself often reiterated. The essay was later printed in "Unterwegs zur Sprache", 1959.In this essay Heidegger searches for the poem of the poem of Georg Trakl, in order to therethrough determine the true essence of the entire poetical production of the poet. "Jeder grosse Dichter dichtet nur aus einem einzigen Gedicht Die Grösse bemisst sich daraus, inwieweit er diesem Einzigen so anvertraut wird, das ser es vermag, sein Dichtends Sagen rein darin zu halten." (p. 226). And so, Heidegger can work towards finding the poem of Trakl's poems, which unites the diversity of the poems into one essence, a being which transcends the single different poems, and which is the unity of the poet with that which is deceased.

Carlsruhe, Malsch und Vogel, 1856. Folio-oblong (24 x 33,5 cm.). Original clothbacked printed boards. 33 lithographed plates.

Amsterd., G.& I. Blaev, 1638. Folio. Samt.hldrbd.m. oph.bd. på ryg. Ryg og false slidte. 2 første blade med skjold. (4), 118, (6), 134 pp.

Indb. ubeskåret m. orig. for- og bagomsl. i pænt samt. rødt hldrbd. m. sort skindtitelfelt på ryg. Omsl. m. diskrete reparationer, ellers ren. Originaludgave. Zetterlund 34.

Venedig, Picotti, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. In lower compartment the Royal Danish Coat of Arms, gilt. Stamp on title-page. 128 pp., 15 large folded engraved plates. Title-page slightly brownspotted, otherwise clean and fine.

London, Lewis and Hamblin, 1808. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering to upper board. Stamp on title-page. (4),95 pp., textillustrations. Title-pagebrowned and mounted. Loss to corners of title-page, no loss of letters. Some scattered brownspots.

Kbhvn., 1824. Samt. hldrbd. Ryg lidt slidt og øverste del repareret. 226 pp. Som altid lettere brunplettet.

Nürnberg, Homannianos Heredes, 1773. 48,5x53,5 cm. Engraved and original hancoloured map of Poland and neighbouring areas. A tear in upper margin just touching the coloured image area. A very small hole in lower part of map in the folding.

Reprint from ab. 1950. Small folio. 5 orig. hcloth. One joint with a tear. Richly illustrated with maps, views.

Göttingen, Rosenbusch, 1797-1800. Bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Spines with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine on vol. 1. Stamps on title-pages. XVI,XVIII,554,XVII-XX,44,(1);(2),1222,(2) pp. Internally clean.

K., 1943. Folio. Orig.hshirtbd. 77 pp. samt 104 kortgengivelser i dobbelfolio.

Paris, 1961. 4to. Orig.pict.cloth. 580 pp. Very richly illustr. with tipped-in colourplates, cataloque of paintings depicting 971 works in oil.

Paris, H. Agasse, AN VII (1799) a. An V (1797). 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small stamp on first title-page. VIII,212 pp. + VIII,172 pp. Only the textvolumes. A few textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1898) No wrappers. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.", Vol.63, Nos. 399-400 (both issues offered).. Pp. 373-480 a. 5 plates. Ransay & Travers' paper: pp. 405-408. First appearance of the paper in which Ramsay and Travers announced their discovery of a new element which they named "krypton" (meaning hidden)."Dr. William Hampson presented them (Ransay & Travers) with about a liter of liquid air, which they used, not for liquefying the argon, but for obstaining sufficient skill in manipulation so that they would not risk loosing their precious fifteen liter of argon......The residue left after most of the liquid air had boliled away consisted largly of oxygen and nitrogen, which Ramsay and Travers temoved with red-hot copper and magnesium. ....(they) then examined the twenty-five cibic centimeters of residual gas, and when they found it to be inerst, they immediately placedit in a Pl'ucker tube connected to and induction coil and observed its spectrum. There was a bright yelælow line with a greener tint than that of the helium line and a brilliant green line that did nor coincide with any line of argon, helium, mercury, or hydrogen. They discoverede this gas on 30 May, 1898, and named it 'krypton'....they found that it belonged between bromine and rubidium in the periodic table, and so great was their excitement that the younger chemist almost forgot about his examination for doctor of sciwence which had been schedules for the next day."(Weeks, p. 267).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1898 C.

Upps., 1872. (vo. Orig.gulddekor.helshirtbd. m. blindtryk). Ryg falmet, indre false svage. (6),176 pp. samt 4 smukke farvelitograferede tavler, 11 grønlandske træsnit,heraf de 7 helsides på plancher. Svag rand i øvre margin.