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London, Printed for H. Lownes, 1614. Folio (280 x 195 mm). In a contemporary Cambridge mirror-style binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. "LA" in gilt lettering to both front and back board. Previous owner's name, John Barratt (1693) in contemporary hand to verso of front board. Wear to extremities, with scratches and a few holes to to boards. Head of spine chipped with some loss of leather, upper part of front hinge split. Worm tract to lower margin of first leaves and a few marginal dampstains throughout, first and last leaves browned and and loss of paper in margin. Wanting the engraved title-page and possibly a frontispiece, all separate title-pages present. (12), 1111 pp. Rare folio-edition of Hall's works. Joseph Hall (1574–1656) was a prominent English bishop and satirist. He was especially known for his devotional writings, of which this present work is a fine example.

Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1789 - 1790. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. All edges coloured in red. Light wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. WIth light occassional brownspotting, otherwise a nice and clean set. (4), 572 pp. + 1 plate; (4), 616 pp. + 3 plates; (4), 512 pp. First edition of the first three volumes of this compilation of travelogues containing detailed accounts of various countries and peoples, covering topics such as: Religion, government and political structures, trade and commerce, customs and traditions and natural history. Biblioteca Danica III, 400.

Hambourg, Hoffmann, 1795. 8vo. Uncut in the original blank wrappers. Wrappers slightly miscoloured. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Title-page slightly browned, otherwise internally nice and clean. 48 pp Exceedingly rare first edition of this critical analysis of the declaration made by Louis XVIII during his exile in which he affirmed his claim to the throne of France and laying out his vision for restoring the monarchy after the revolution. The declaration was intended to reassure royalist supporters and outline his approach to governancevemphasizing continuity, tradition and the restoration of order following the chaos of the Revolution. Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez was a French military officer, minister of Foreign Affairs, minister of War in a Girondin cabinet and army general during the French Revolutionary War. Dumouriez is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3.

[Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1871]. 4to. Uncut, unopened. As extracted without wrappers. Very fine and clean. 64 pp. The rare first printing of the Swedish-Japanese Treaty of 1868; the very first treaty Meiji Government made with a foreign state.The Meiji government was the early government of the Empire of Japan and in April 1868, the Charter Oath was promulgated, in which Emperor Meiji set out the broad general outlines for Japan's development and modernization. A central governmental structure, or Daij?kan, was established which included a department of foreign affairs. The present Swedish-Japanese treaty was the very first of a long line of treatise.

Rostock, Ferber, 1623 (+) Rostock, Hallervordio, 1623 (+) Rostock, Hallervordio, 1623 (+) Rostock, Pedani, 1623 (+) Rostock, Pedani, 1623 (+) Rostock, Pedani, 1625 (+) Rostock, Pedani, 1624. 4to. In contemporary full vellum. Soiling and wear to extremities. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Previous owner's name to front free end paper: "Joh. Wilh. Schröderi / Hamb: 1694" (See below for more information). A few leaves with marginal repairs otherwise internally nice and clean. (6), 172, (10); 72, (8), 99, (5); 99, (5); (8), 77, (7); (8), 394, (18); 100, (8) pp. Rare first edition of Tornov’s works on the minor prophets from the Old Testament Johann Tarnow (1586–1629) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor. He studied theology in Rostock and other universities becoming a theology professor in Rostock in 1614 and earning his doctorate in 1619. Tarnow’s work focused on the Old Testament, producing several commentaries, of which this present volume is a fine example.

Hamburg, Hoffmann, 1792. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice sprinkled half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine. A nice set. XL (including the frontispiece), 392 pp.; IV, 341, (3) pp. First edition of this rare work on containing an account of the life of Linné and biographical notes of his son. Further more it contain a catalog of his Writings, their Editions, Translations, Extracts and Commentaries.

Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1746. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary sprinkled half calf with gilt title label and gilt fillets on spine. Five raised bands. With 8 woodcuts in the text. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner's signature on title page. One leaf (K1) with loss in margin (approx. 2.5 cm). Some browning, otherwise a clean and well-preserved copy. (8), 304, 14, (2) pp. Under the guidance of Linnaeus, Kalm completed his studies at the University of Uppsala. At the initiative of Count Bielke, he undertook botanical expeditions to southern Sweden and Finland. The defining event of his life, however, was his journey to North America and Canada, undertaken to discover useful plants capable of withstanding the Scandinavian climate (DSB VII, p. 210).

København., Rosinante, 1994-2000. Lex8vo. 9 orig. helshirtbd. Med smudsomslag. Helt frisk eksemplar af den nyeste "Weilbach", som er afsluttet med bd. 9 og forlængst udsolgt.

København & Leipzig, Jacob Preuss, 1741. Med kobberstukket titelblad og frontispice, foldet kobberstukket kort over den underjordiske verden samt to helsides kobberstik. Let bruneret eksemplar, indbundet i samtidigt spejlbind af skind med rig rygforgyldning. Lille navn på friblad. Falsene smukt restaureret. 380, (4 blank) pp. Originaludgaven af et af Holbergs allerberømteste og hyppigst trykte og oversatte værker – en satirisk, imaginær rejsebeskrivelse. Bogen gjorde Holberg berømt i hele Europa og blev hurtigt oversat til flere sprog. Ehrencron-Müller III, 213. Paul Johansen 21, 1. Bibl. Danica IV, 441. First edition. "Niels Klim is written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. The fantastic voyage underground takes Klim through adventures which afford Holberg ample opportunity to criticize contemporary society. Through exaggeration and acid paradox, Holberg satirizes religion, academia, and other institutions. The book was for many years Holberg's most popular work and has been translated into many languages." – Houghton, Danish Litt., 41.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, Brönner, 1776. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Upper part of spine missing small part of leather and a small paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Internally fine and clean. (18),490,(6) pp. + frontispiece and 24 folded engraved plates. First edition. Klaus Jordan 367 Poggendorff I,222.

Frankfurt & Leipzig, A. Boëtius, 1696. 4to. Bound in two cont. full blindstamped pigskin. 4 raised bands on backs. On both front covers in gold: "P.D." and "1697". The vol. w. the Old Testament also has the shared half-title leaf: "Edvardi Leigh. Critica Sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti." This same vol. w. engr. portrait and title page in red and black. Both volumes interleaved, on these extra leaves notes in cont. hand (P.D.?). On verso of front board the price of the bindings is written in cont. hand: "Materia totius Opus..." etc. (38), 496, (38) + (22), 748, (52) pp. "Succeding lexicographers of the Old and New Testament have been greatly indebted to Leigh." (Lowndess).

Halle, Max Niemeyer, 1913. 4to. Contemporary or a bit later blue half cloth with a gilt red leather title-label to spine. Remains of glue to edges of the inside of boards (from a protective cover that has not left marks anywhere else). Old owner's signatures to title-page, one erased. Some light pencil-annotations. A nice and clean copy. VIII, 323, (1) pp. The scarce first edition, off-print, of Husserl's second main work, his seminal "Ideas", which constitutes the founding text of Constitutive Phenomenology and the work, in which Husserl introduces his groundbreaking notion of "epoché". It was due to this work that he was able to secure himself the position as Professor in Freiburg (from 1916-1928).Although the work is called "Ideen I", there is no doubt as to its status as a separate work. Husserl did not publish his Ideen II and III in his lifetime, and they were only published posthumously, both in 1952. They have had none of the impact that the "Ideen I" had, and they are considered to be works in their own right too, although much less interesting.When Husserl published his "Logical Investigations" in 1900-1901, he changed the face of philosophy and founded the new philosophy of the 20th century: Phenomenology. In the Logical Investigations, Husserl began by attacking Psychologism and then went on to introduce his new philosophical method, which only then saw the light of day, and which only becomes fully developed later on. In 1900-01 he asks the question of the essence of the matter of perception as opposed to the form of perception. In his "Ideen", he extends his scope to include philosophy of the natural sciences, and he reflects thoroughly on the method of transcendental phenomenological epohé and reduction. He thus takes a new turn on conscious life and the pre-given status of it. This can no longer be accepted as something that exists in the world as the final guarantee for the world and the positive sciences of it. We must distinguish between the act of consciousness and the phenomena at which it is directed, in order to study the very structure of consciousness. All assumptions about the existence of the external world must be suspended, in order to achieve knowledge of the essences. It is this procedure that Husserl calls "epoché", and the constitutive phenomenology, which is founded in this work, is something that comes to characterize the rest of Husserl's works.Husserl is now famous as the father of phenomenology, and he decisively influenced the likes of Heidegger, Sartre, Carnap, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida etc. etc.

Londres, Pierre J. Duplain, 1788. 8vo, Two nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Some loss of leather to back hinge and lower capital of volume one and minor loos of leather to spine of volume two, all due to worming. Worming is not bad and does not affect anything but outer layer of small parts of the bindings. Apart from the worming a very nice, fresh and clean copy indeed. (8), IV, 503; (4), 496 pp. With both half-titles, the advertisment, both prefaces and the table of contents. Rare early French translation of Adam Smith's political and economic classic, the "Wealth of Nations". Translated by Blavet. The present edition constitutes the third reprint of the second French translation. The second French translation was done by Blavet and is the first translation into French of which the translator and publisher are known. "The reprint of Blavet's version appeared at Yverdon in 1781 in 6 volumes 12mo, and at Paris in the same year in 3 volumes 12mo, and again at London and Paris in 1788 in 2 volumes 8vo [the present edition], and revised and corrected, with Blavet's name as translator, at Paris An, ix (1800-01) in 4 volumes 8vo.He [Blavet] had no intention of publishing it until his friend M. Ameilhon happened to complain of scarcity of interesting articles for his Journal de l'Agriculture, du Commerce, des Arts et des Finances, which had just come under the control of the Mercantilist. It struck him that he might offer it to him which he did, with the explanation that it was far from perfect. It was accepted, and appeared in the issues of the Journal between January, 1779, and December 1780. He did not anticipate that it would go further. The edition of 1788 likewise appeared without his knowledge or consent, and was still more marred by errors than that of Yverdon". (Lai, Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations, Clarendon Press, UK, 2000). Hailed as the "first and greatest classic of modern thought" (PMM 221), Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics, and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith (1723-1790) is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain, mainly due to his groundbreaking work, the "Wealth of Nations" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to, and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well, and the first edition, the number of which is unknown, sold out within six months, which came as a surprise to the publisher, and probably also to Smith himself, partly because the work "requires much thought and reflection (qualities that do not abound among modern readers) to peruse to any purpose." (Letter from David Hume, In: Rae, Life of Adam Smith, 1895, p. 286), partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this, it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world, and Buckle's words that the work is "in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written", and that it has "done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account" (History of Civilisation, 1869, I:214) well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Considering the groundbreaking views presented in "Wealth of Nations", it comes as no surprise that the work was considered part of the revolutionary cultural development in France. As Adam Smith's friend, the Marquis of Lansdowne, said after quoting Smith's work: "With respect to French principles, as they had been denominated, those principles had been exported from us to France, and could not be said to have originated among the population of the latter country." (Quoted in: Rae, p. 291). The ideas of Adam Smith were often considered so dangerously closely connected with French ideas at the time that the term "political economy" almost became synonymous with questions concerning the constitution of governments. "The French Revolution seems to have checked for a time the growing vogue of Smith's book and the advance of his principles in this country, just as it checked the progress of parliamentary and social reform, because it filled men's mind with a fear of change, with a suspicion of all novelty, with an unreasoning dislike of anything in the nature of general principle." (Rae, p. 293). There can be no question that this seminal work greatly influenced French opinion at the time.

Stockholm, Norstedt & Sönner, 1839-46. Small 8vo. Bound in three nice contemporary uniform half calf bindings with gilt and blindstamped spines. A bit of wear to extremities. Old owner's name to first front free end-paper and a Swedish book.plate to inside of front boards. Apart from a damp stain to a few leaves of the third part, and a bit of occasional brownspotting, a nice and clean copy. (4), 284; (4), 276; (4), 295; XIV, 277; (4), 255; (4), 246 pp. Scarce first edition of the first Swedish translation of Tocqueville's monumental "De la démocratie en Amerique", one of the most important texts in the history of political thought.The original French edition of the work appeared in 1835-1840, and the present Swedish edition is thus very early, the first volume appearing before the last volume of the original edition had appeared. The work greatly influenced liberal thought and politics in Sweden.OCLC locates merely 5 copies: 4 in America and 1 in Sweden

Paris, A. Calavas, n.date (presumably 1914). Folio. Cont. full calf. Richly gilt back. Fine. 15 pp. and 112 fine plates of which 20 are coloured.

Lisboa, Imprensa Nocional, 1865. Folio. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 58, (2) pp. + 7 plates. First appearance of Da Costa's pioneering study which constitutes the first Portuguese monograph of prehistoric anthropology and archaeology, also being one of the earliest Portuguese publication to, however, indirect, apply Darwin's theories on the evolution of man.

4to. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands and richly gilt compartments. Faint scratches on covers. Corners and edges a little rubbed. 2 small holes in leather at sides of upper compartment. (26),548 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Engraved vignette. On good paper. First edition of the well-known French philosopher and mathematician's main mathematical work. Fontenelle, author of "The Plurality of Worlds", claims here, that Geometry is entirely intellectual and independent of the actual decription and existence of figures, following more the conceptions of Descartes than those of Newton.

Oxford, Lichfield, 1653. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards and corners edges of boards with loss of leather. Inner hinges split. Leaf ¶8 with stain, otherwise internally nice and clean. (32), 308, (2) pp. Rare first edition of Ashwell’s ‘Fides Apostolica’, his first publication. Ashwell was an “Anglo-catholic controversialist, born in the parish of St. Martin Ludgate, 8 Nov. 1612, was the son of Robert Ashwell, of Harrow. He was a scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, 1627; graduated B.A. 4 Dec. 1632, M.A. 1635, and became fellow of his college. He was tutor in the family of Thomas Leigh, a nonconformist, but his own sympathies were of another sort. He was the friend of Heylin, who wrote, at his suggestion, on 'Parliament's Power in Laws for Religion,' which was published in 1645. He was made B.D. on 23 June 1646, and became chaplain to Sir Anthony Cope, lord of the manor of Hanwell, Oxfordshire. On the death of Dr. Robert Harris, 1658, he succeeded him in the rectory of Hanwell, where he died on 8 Feb. 1694-5.” (DNB).

Venetia, Giorgio Angelieri, 1574. Small4to. Bound in 17th century full vellum. Printed paper titlelabel on spine. Small nicks at foot of spine. Printers woodcut device on title-page, repeated twice. Some wood-cut initials. Ff (36),16,488. Light browning to a few leaves, a few scattered brownspots. Ealy edition of Guiccardini's famous and influential history of Italy, "The basis of all later works on the beginnings of modern history" called by Ranke. This edition comprises 16 Books, later expanded into 20. The first edition of 1561 had 10 Books.Guiccardini was a friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, and he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. The History of Italy paved the way for a new style in historiography with its use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.PMM, 85 (for the 1.ed.) - Adams, 1514 (1583-ed.).

Hafniæ (Copenhagen), Godiche,1666. Small8vo. Old boards. handwritten titlelabel on spine. Spine with some scratches and wear along edges. Title in red a. black. (16),528 pp. A few underlinings. First edition of one of Bartholins principal works. "In this book on medicine in Denmark Bartholin has opened a rich source to the study of the history of science and general Culture in 17th Century Denmark" (Garboe). Bound with. BARTHOLIN, TH. Domus Anatomica Hafniensis brevissime descripta. Hafniæ, H. Gøde, 1662. 62,(1) pp. and 1 engraved plate showing "Domus Anatomica" and "Theatrum Anatomicum".

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandling, 1844. Lex8vo. Smukt samtidigt rødt hellæderbind med forgyldte og blinstrykte rammer påbindsider. Rygfelterne med brede forgyldte rammer. Forgyldt titelfelt. Helt guldsnit og indvendige forgyldte bordurer. Med 96 kobberstukne plancher, hvoraf de 94 er håndkolorerede. Der er tekstblade til hver planche, disse er upaginerede. Ualmindeligt rent og velbevaret eksemplar. Bogen er indbundet for Dronning Alexandra af England og bærer hendes kronede monogram "A" i guld på forpermen.

Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Møller, 1791. Folio. (49x32 cm.). Indbundet helt ubeskåret i et velbevaret halvlæderbind (pastichebind) i brunt kalveskind med forgyldt rygtitel og ophøjede bændelbind på ryg. Halvtitel og titelblad med stor kobberstukket vignet. LXIV, 819, (4) pp. Med stor kobberstukket indledningsvignet og 1 mindre slutvignet. De første blade med svag brunskjold i indre margin ellers aldeles ren, trykt på svært skrivepapir. Skønt bindet er senere, er det dog tekstbindets første indbinding. Dette monumentalværk - dansk numismatisk hovedværk - blev trykt af Nic. Møller med antikva og med 2 store kobberst. vignetter af F.L. Bradt. Her forligger kun tekstbindet.Birkelund nr. 185. - Bibl. Danica II:587.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Female and male in natural habitat with nest in which two baby birds surrounded by flowers etc. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

Paris, aux dépens des Libraires associés pour les Usages du Diocèse, 1738. 8vo. (170x100x35 mm.). Contemp. full green morocco. Profusely tooled in gold. Large crowned and gilt monogram surrounded by broad gilt dentelles on upper and lower covers. Dentelles with stamps of shells and flovers. Spine likewise richly gilt in 6 compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Inner gilt borders. Edges of covers gilt. All edges gilt. Pink silk doublures. Upper joint at lower compartment with a tiny crack. In a custom made slipcase, front edges in brown morocco. (2),(22),XL,811 pp.

Darmstadt, C.W.Leske, (1822). 12mo. Orig.blue boards, engraved. Binding intact but hinges weak. Backstrip with tears. Engr.frontisp.(portr.), VI,471 pp. and 34 fine engraved plates (views etc.). - First edition.