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Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer d. Jüng., 1802-13. 12mo. Bound in 16 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels with gilt lettering. Some wear to spines, corners and edges. Spine ends frayed and some volumes with small nicks to spine ends. Traces of use. Stamps on titles. Around 5000 pp. With 170 (of 175) mostly folded engraved plates and 11 large folded maps. Some scattered brownspots and browning throughout.

Bremen, Hermann Jäger, 1730. 4to. Samt. velbevaret helpergamentsbd. Titelblad trykt i rød/sort. (32),454,200,(16) pp. samt 35 kobberstukne plancher, heraf det store Danmarkskort og grundtegningen af København. Kortene med et par smårifter, uden tab. Stort godt eksemplar. Originaludgaven af forløberen for "Danske Atlas" indeholder en udførlig beskrivelse af kongeriget og Slesvig i topografisk, historisk og politisk henseende.

Paris, L'imprimerie Royale, 1824. 4to a. large Folio (56 x 45 cm.). Textvolume bound in contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine, slightly rubbed. Wear to corners. Atlas bound in contemp. modest hcloth with some nicks, gilt titlelabel on frontcover. (4),290,(2) pp. Atlas: Title-page and 17 lithographed plates (1 in double-folio). Text clean, printed on good paper, a few minor brownspots. Plates spotted, mainly the first plates and title-page. First edition of this pioneer-study of the first generation of marine engines.

London, Hodgson & Son, 1935. Royal 8vo. Volume 39 + 40 of "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series" bound together in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Binding tight, and in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-papers and to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-papers. [Vol. 39:] pp. 249-271. [Entire volume: (Vol. 39:) (4), 546 pp. + (Vol. 40:) (4), 558 pp]. First publication of Hodge's seminal work on harmonic integrals.In the article Hodge showed that most of the elementary properties of harmonic functions could be extended to harmonic functional."Hodge is famous for his theory of harmonic integrals (or forms), which was described by Weyl as "one of the landmarks of twentieth century mathematics." [...] Hodge's work straddles the area between algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and complex analysis. It can be seen as a natural outgrowth of the theory of Riemann surfaces and the work of Lefschetz on the topology of algebraic varieties. It put the algebraic geometry on a modern analytic footing and prepared the ground for the spectacular breakthroughs of the postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s." (Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, 2008).Hodge himself states in the introduction to the present work: "In two papers I have defined integrals, which I have called harmonic integrals, which are associated with an analytic variety to which a metric is attached, and have established an existence theorem for them. More recently I have applied the theory of these integrals to the Riemannian manifold of an algebraic surface with the topological invariants of the Manifold. There is reason to believe that this method of considering the Abelian integrals attached to an algebraic variety will prove a powerful one, and I have thought it advisable to set out in the following pages an account of the principles on which the method is based." In 1941 Hodge published the book "The theory and applications of harmonic integrals" which expanded and elaborated the ideas presented in the present article.

(Rostock, Stephan Mölleman, 1592) 4to. In contemporary limp vellum. Extremities with light soiling and miscolouring. Front free end-paper annotated in contemporary hand. Three leaves (T-Tiii) with repairs with loss of text and woodcut. Title-page and colophone supplied in facsimilie. Internally with light occassional browning but in general good condition. 272 ff (f. 272 erroneously printed as f. 273) with 44 woodcut illustrations in text. Later Rostock edition of the famous epic. Circulating from the 12th-century and derived in part from Aesop, Reynard the Fox is one of the most popular and enduring beast-epics. Reynard the Fox is a collection of fables that originated in medieval Europe, and the exact authorship is unknown. The stories were likely passed down orally before being written down in various versions over the centuries. The fables, with the wily fox as a central character, lent themselves to satire and it became a vehicle used by the Protestant reformers and others. The Low-German version first appeared at Lubeck in 1498 and the Rostock editions which followed from 1517 facilitated the spread of the epic towards the east. The woodcuts had previously illustrated the 1539 Rostock edition, of which 36 are attributed to Erhard Altdorfer. Stylistically they depend on the first Lubeck and Rostock editions.

(1825). 2 sider 8vo. 8 vers m. 6 linier i hvert. Mange tegnsætningsvariationer og rettelser samt flere variationer fra den trykte tekst: "Lyst" i stedet for "Røst", "Helligt Ord" i stedet for "Trøstensord", "Hiertets Seier" i stedet for "Siælens Seier". Vedlagt originaltrykket af digtet i marmoreret omslag. Uden år og trykkested, men (9. november, 1825). På verso af det sidste blad trykt: "Concertens Indhold" med indholdet af de to Afdelinger og til sidst "Musik af P. Harmann" tilskrevet i samtidig hånd. Optaget i Oehlenschlägers Poetiske Skrifter, XXI, 1860, pp. 59-60. Liebenberg I:125.

Berlin, Verlag Der Sturm, (1923). 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Light sunning to top of front wrapper. Upper part of spine with a small bump. Ex-libris (Alfred Liede) pasted on to verso of front wrapper. A fine and clean copy. 32 pp. Rare first printing of one of the earliest edition of Schwitter's famous Dadaist 'sound-poems' (i.e. Dada Klang-Gedichten) often seen interpreted as a parody of a love poem. It famously became the symbol for the Dadaist movement, of the chaos and madness of the roaring 1920ies, and it was seen as the birth of a new poetic language. The poem made Schwitters famous overnight and it was parodied in newspapers and magazines, and strongly polarized public opinion throughout the 1920ies. Whilst Schwitters was never an official member of Berlin Dada, he was closely linked to many members of the group, in particular Raoul Hausmann and Hans Arp, and the poem is written in a dadaist style, using multiple perspectives, fragments of found text, and absurdist elements to depict the narrator's emotional state in the throes of love, or of Germany's political, military and economic collapse after the First World War."Schwitter's developed his own version of Dada, which he called MERZ. Reportedly derived from truncating the name of the German bank Commerzbank, it uses not just ready-mades but also objects that had been thrown away. Merz differed in one crucial aspect from Dada: It was art, not anti-art. Best known are Schwitter's non-sense poems that make sense - just not in the usual sense, in the same way that Schwitters did not restrict himself to the usual five physical senses. His poem [the present] identifies Anna Blume as "the beloved of my twenty-seven senses. The poem takes the reader through an accordingly distorted reality with statements, such as "Blue is the color of your yellow hair, and an equally playful disregard of linguistic rules, while following a grammar of the heart, such as in the poem's last sentence: "Anna Blume, you trickle beast, I love your!". ""Despite his overtures, however, the Dadaists rejected Schwitters, burning his "Blume" pamphlet at the 1920 Berlin Dada Fair. Too iconoclastic for more conventional artistic movements, Schwitters was too painterly and sentimental for Dadaism. Denied entry by the club he desperately wanted to join, he slapped stickers that said "Anna Blume" wherever he went; he interrupted other artists' talks by barking like a dog. And yet he was as energetic in his artistic activities proper as he was in his provocations, alternating between painting, printmaking, collage, stage design, poetry"."Given Schwitter's drive towards multivalence, all of these interpretations (An Anna Blume as satire, An Anna Blume as both a critique and subsumption of modernity, An Anna Blume as an expressionistic exposure of the sense surrounding modern experience, and An Anna Blume as a deliberately fashioned alchemical parable) are all possible". (Gamard, Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, P. 57).

Amsterdam, Compagnie des Libraires, 1734. Folio (405 x 280 mm). Uniformly bound in five contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with six raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to boards. Edges of boards gilt. Wear to extremities. parts of gilting worn off, spine-ends chipped, some with loss of leather. Leather of spine cracked and hinges weak. Corners bumped. First few leaves in vol. 1 stained in upper margin, not affecting text. Internally with light occassional browning but generally internally nice and clean. (12), XVI, CXX, 857 pp. + 1 frontipiece; (4), 957, (4), 964-1004 pp.; (4), 857, (4), 868-904 pp.; (4), 985 pp.; (4), 896, 103, (1) pp. Fifth edition of Pierre Bayle’s landmark work, one of the most influential works of early modern thought: "for over half a century, until the publication of the [Diderot's] Encyclopédie, Bayle's Dictionnaire dominated enlightened thinking in every part of Europe" (PMM). More than an encyclopedia, it challenged religious dogma, promoted historical accuracy and laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment. It became a key reference for thinkers like Voltaire, Diderot, and Hume. ”Bayle’s six-million word Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697; 1702) was so often cited in the eighteenth century that Ernst Cassirer has called it the “Arsenal of the Enlightenment”. Inventories of private European libraries have established the Dictionary as one of the bestsellers of its age. David Hume was clearly influenced by it; he told his friend Michael Ramsay in a letter of 1737 that if he wished to understand his writings he should read Descartes, Malebranche, Berkeley, and “some of the more metaphysical Articles of Bailes Dictionary; such as [those of] Zeno and Spinoza” ” (SEP) In 1689, Bayle began making notes on errors and omissions in Louis Moreri's Grand Dictionaire historique (1674), previous encyclopedia, and these notes developed into his own Dictionnaire. Bayle used the dictionary to provide evidence of the irrationality of Christianity, to promote his views about religious tolerance and his anti-authoritarian views on the topic of faith. Bayle indended it to be an "anti-clerical counterblast to Moreri's [Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, 1674], in order, as he put it, 'to rectify Moreri's mistakes and fill the gaps'. Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against superstition" (PMM) Graesse I, 314. Brunet I 711PMM 155b.

Napoli, Domenico and Antonio Morano, 1869. 8vo. Bound uncut and unopened with the original blue printed wrappers in a recent green full cloth binding with gilt leather title-label to spine. Back wrapper with worm holes, lack of lower corner, and tears.Some minor brownspotting due to the paper quality. CXXIII, (1), 72 pp. The very rare first edition, first printing, of five of Vico's early orations (Oration I, III, IV, V, VI, and the beginning of II), which founded the first basis for his seminal "Scienza Nuova". The publication of the orations is based on manuscript XIII B 53 in the National Library of Naples. Although Vico's orations are of the greatest importance to the understanding of the philosophical and intellectual development of this seminal and vastly influential thinker, Vico himself only promoted the immediate publication of the last of them, namely the "De nostri Temporis Studiorum Ratione", which was printed in 1708, based on the argument that it summed up much of that which was included in his earlier orations. Thus, had it not been for Galasso, the invaluable five early orations, being all of the unpublished early texts, might not have been preserved for posterity. Besides this invaluable contribution to Vico scolarship, Galasso here also provides us with a very elaborate study on the seminal importance of the present orations. (Part of the second oration was published by Villarosa in 1823).GIAMBATTISTA VICO (1668 - 1744) was appointed professor of Latin Eloqence at the University of Naples in 1699 and possessed this chair till 1708. In this capacity Vico had to each year give an inaugural oration, and it is five of these that are printed here for the first time. Vico's orations were based on classic humanistic grounds, with great inspiration found in e.g. Pico della Mirandola, and he tried to urge his students to develop both as human beings and as scholars, inspiring them to use their education to become better persons, as well as inspiring them to keep educating themselves and persuading them that they have the capacity to become wise, telling them that they are "born for wisdom". As such, Vico's early orations display the greatest examples of his ideas of paideia and and humanitas as well as his inspiration from Greek and Latin sources and especially from the Renaissance humanists; they contain the very first sketches of his theories on humanity and history, which later came to provide the basis for his revolutionary "Scienza Nuova".

28. August, 1623. Folio (310 x 470 mm). 1 leaf, ink on vellum. 33 lines of text in Danish. Signed by Erik Juel (in his own hand), Mogens Kaas (In his own hand) and an indistinct signature. Attached with the three signers' original wax seals in wooden capsules. Original handwritten deed of conveyance stating Erik Juel of Hundsbæk Manor sells a farm at Hindsholm to Niels Krag of Agerkrog Manor. Erik Juel of Hundsbæk Manor (1591–1657) was the father of Admiral Jens Juel (1629–1697), who acquired Valdemar's Castle in 1678. Provenance: Valdemar's Castle, Tåsinge.

Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1884. 8vo. (224x145 mm). Offprint in origianal printed wrappers. Exlibrary stamps and sticker on front wrapper. (Journal version printed in 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. 63,(1);89,(1) pp. and 1 lithographed plate. Fine and clean. Uncut and unopened. A fine copy. First edition, offprint issue of Arrhenius' famous dissertation, in which he first presented his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation". A German translation was published in 'Ostwald's Klassiker'. See Dictionary of Scientific Biography, I:p.296-302 and Partington, IV:p.672-81.

Amsterdam, Gallet, Huguetanorum, 1701. Folio. Contemporary full calf with 6 raised bands to richly gilt spine. Hinges and capitals a bit worn, but still tight. Corners bumped. Apart from a few browned leaves, a fine and clean copy. Title-page printed in red and black and with a large engraved allegorical vignette. Large allegorical vignette to dedication. 102 lovely engravings of coins in the text. (20), 218 pp. Engraved book-plate to inside of front board: "Sir Francis L.H. Goodricke Bart." (19th cent.) and to inside of back board: Andrew M. Sherling" as well as gift-inscription (from Edmund Caldwell, to St. Michaelis Convent) to front free end-paper: "Monasteris St. Michaelis/ D.D./ Don. Edmundus Caldwell O.S.B./ a.d. 1871". Early inscription to title-page. Scarce first edition of this standard work, one of the most important histories of the Egyptian Kingdom of the Ptolemies (323 B.C. to 30 B.C.), considered one of the most influential works on this complicated and perplexed part of ancient history. The work quickly became the main reference-work on the subject. It is especially noteworthy in its inclusion of Ptolemaeic coinage and is one of the first modern histories of the Ptolemies to not merely treat the subject chronologically; it is the first to explain this period by help of coins. The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom in Egypt. It was ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty that Ptolemy I Soter founded after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC-which ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC. The Ptolemies were the Greek Rulers in Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great.The vast empire that Alexander the Great had conquered, was too big for one successor. One general was entrusted with Macedonia, another Thrace, and a third Syria. Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander's favorite generals, was made governor of Egypt. Alexandria, the capital city, quickly became a center of Greek culture and trade. For more than 350 years the Ptolemies ruled Egypt. Ptolemy's son Ptolemy Philadelpus ruled after Alexander's general. It was Ptolemy Phladelphus who made the library at Alexandria the best in the world. With the death of Cleopatra, probably the most famous of the Ptolemies, the dynasty of the Ptolemies came to an end and Egypt became part of the Roman Empire.

Ljubljana, 1950. 8vo. In publisher's original full cloth binding with printed board. Soiling to extremities and hindges weak. Internally with some offsetting, otherwise clean. 459, (1) pp. First and only Slovenian translation of Darwin's Journal of Researches.Freeman 248.OCLC only locates one copy outside Slovenian (Italy).

Paris, Firmin Didot. 1826-30. Large 4to. (37 x 27 cm.). 2 volumes, both in the original printed yellow boards. Spines rebacked and with wear amd missing some of the paper. Upper part of back hinge on vol. 2 partly detached. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Marginal brownspotting throughout. XX,129,XXII,(130)-318 pp., and 62 engravings, of which 33 are text illustrations (3 of these coloured and 1 in two colours). Printed on thick, fine paper. First edition (the French and the German edition published simultaneously) of Bröndsted's magnum opus, his pioneering "Travels and Archaeological Researches in Greece". The work is based on Bröndsted's extensive travels in Greece, and especially the second part, which contains a major study of the Parthenon, is of great significance. "Bröndsted was trained in Denmark as an archaeologist and philologist. After travelling in France and Italy for some years he left Italy in 1810 on the company of Haller van Hallerstein, Linckh and Stackelberg with the intention of exploring Greece and Asia Minor. This group was involved in the excavations at Aegina, and together with Cockerell and Foster they also excavated at Bassae." (Blackmer, 214). Graesse I,546. Brunet I,1273.

Savoy (London), Nutt and R. Gosling, 1718. 8vo. In a contemporary modest full calf binding. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Leather to lower part of back board with tear and partly detached, showing the wooden boards underneath. Previous owner's name to title-page, but internally fine and clean. (13), 237, (3) pp. Scarce first edition of this legal guidebook, generally accepted to be the first work of its kind in English. It was later reprinted in Bristol. Goldsmiths 5424.2 Kress 3063.

Leipzig, Thomam Fritsch, 1696. Folio. A fine full vellum with richly gilt back. Both covers very richly gilt with 2 tectangular gilt borders inside each other and inside which a large amorial centerpiece (with a crown), repeated in smaller and larger size in corners of the rectangels. Slight wear to the gilding. Red and green titlelabels (wthese with a few tears). First hinges lower part cracking, but binding intact and nor loose. Title in red/black with engraved vignette. (26),943,(75) pp. A little browning to Index. Greek and latin text. A fine edition and an estimated translation of Pausanias main work. The work is yielded as the very best Pausanias-edition and is renowned for its elegance and usefulness. "Édition estimée" (Brunet IV,455). "This is emphatically and justly called "edit. opt." of Pausanias. It is a very elegant and useful work, containing the most valuable parts of preceding editions, and having the advantage of being divided into chapters, with the arguments prefixed to each book, and the notes of Xylander and Sylburgius accompanying each page; it also contains the preface of the Hanover and Franckfort editions: the Greek text is given with great purity by Kühnius, to which are added his valuable and learned notes... The work is becoming scarce, and copies sell at a high price." (Dibdin II:272-73).

Dated "Kopenhagen d. 13. Septbr. 1828." 1 1/2 p. 4to. In German. In the letter Rask expresses great gratitude for having been announced "Ehrenmitglied [= honorary member] des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde Westphalens"; the membership is effectuated from the 7th of August 1827, and Rask has received the diploma the same day as the letter is written. He describes what a great honor it is for him, and thanks the society many times, expressing his wish to be of use to them. He tells about his love for Scandinavian literature and his membership of the "nordischen Ges." and "isländischen liter. Gesellschaft." He wishes to live up to the responsibility this diploma gives him, "[u]m aber etwas für die germanische Literatur oder Alterthums-/ kunde leisten zu können, bedarf ich viel mehr Hilfe von andern/ als ich solche zu geben im Stande bin." He is currently working on an "altsächsische Grammatik", very much similar to his angelsachsische and friesische, but to be able to finish it properly, he is in want of an "Abschrift des bekannten Bamberger Codex von/ der Evangelienharmonie, der gerade des beträchtlichste Stück von diesem Dialekt ist." He has, however without luck, tried to get a hold of one and is now asking the society if they can be helpful. With address and paper-seal on verso. Rasmus Rask is one of the absolutely most prominent and famous Danish philologers and is very well esteemed worldwide. He was the first to systematically study the ancient Nordic languages and is the discoverer of the relations between the consonants in the Indo-European languages. This discovery served as the foundation of the rules Jacob Grimm later formulated, underlying the Germanic and High-German soundshifts. In PMM Rask is yielded as "one of the founders of the modern science of language." (PMM 266).Letters from Rask are of the greatest rarity.

Leipzig & Frankfurt, Caspar Lunitz, 1681. 8vo. In contemporary vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Traces from old paper-label to spine. Soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Frontispiece closely trimmed in upper margin with minor loss, otherwise internally nice and clean. (14), 735 pp. First edition of this rare compendium on poetry, rhetoric and oratory including a dictionary with rhyme-pairs. Of all the works on rhetoric and eloquence published in the period this present is considered one of the best. Riemer (1648-1714) studied theology and rhetoric in Jena and taught eloquence and poetry as the successor to Christian Weise at the Gymnasium of Weissenfels. Krause 427Harold Jantz collection, no. 2115Not in Goedeke

Weimar, Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, 1777. Small 8vo. A bit later marbled boards. Spine gone. (22),437,(3) pp. Light toning to text and some scattered brownspots. Scarce first edition of Wiegleb's most importent work and one of the most importent historical criticism of the alchymistic theories of transmutations. "Wiegleb’s critical attitude in assessing scientific questions earned him high esteem in learned circles. After several years of work he published Historisch-kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie (1777), which went through a second edition. In this work he stated: "The best accounts from the period when the name alchemy is encountered, . . . are examined, and it is thereby demonstrated that they are, taken together, incapable of confirming the reality of alchemy. Then, the strongest proof is adduced to show that the entire imaginary art of alchemy is impossible according to all known, certain natural laws of human art: thus [it is shown] that it has never truly been practiced by anyone." Wiegleb carefully examined famous reports of the transformation of metals and pointed out their deficiencies: in a short time his work became widely known. His motto was "To doubt is the beginning of knowledge," so it is all the more as tonishing that Wiegleb was a convinced proponent of Stal’s phlogiston theory throughout his life." (DSB).Ferguson II, 546. - Duveen, 620.

Shanghai, A.S. Watson, 1922. Folio (390 x 300 mm). In the original blue silke covered binding with gilt lettering and decoration to front board. Spine slightly faded. Internally fine and clean, an overall very nice copy. (8), 40 pp. + 66 photogravures tipped into recto of each page with caption on verso. Third edition of this fine work with sixty-six fine photogravure plates documenting the twilight of imperial China. It is the most iconic of Donald Mennie's early photobooks and a cornerstone of Western visual records of early 20th-century Beijing Although born and raised in Golspie, Scotland, Donald Mennie (1875–1944) spent the majority of his life in China, arriving around 1899. Trained as a chemist he rose to become Managing Director of the Shanghai branch of A.S. Watson & Co., a firm that by the 1930s was also a dealer in photographic materials. His photographic work, inspired by the Pictorialist style, emphasized mood and composition over mere documentation, making his books highly desirable as both artistic and historical records. From 1914 Mennie traveled widely across China, producing popular photo-books that include "China by Land and Water", "Picturesque China", and his magnum opus, The Grandeur of the Gorges (1926). The Pageant of Peking remains one of his most sought-after works for its focus on Beijing at a pivotal historical moment - before the empire gave way to modern transformation. This edition is accompanied by an introduction by Putnam Weale (B.L. Simpson) and descriptive notes by S. Couling Tragically Mennie’s life ended in Japanese captivity during WWII, dying in a Shanghai internment center in 1944.

Cambridge, ex officina Johan. Hayes [...], 1694. Folio. In a nice a bit later full vellum binding over wooden boards with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. With blindstamped ornamentation to boards. Title-page with a few dots and marks to upper margin. Pp. 1-30 in part 2 with brownspotting. Very light occassional marginal discolouration throughout, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. With parallel-text in Greek and Latin. (8), LVI, 330; (2), 529, (43) pp. + two engraved portraits depicting respectively Joshua Barnes and Euripides First edition of Joshua Barnes’ famous Euripides-edition. "The merits of all preceding editions are eclipsed by this celebrated one of Joshua Barnes. Fabricius observes that 'the text is accurately revised and printed, the metrical rules of Canter diligently corrected, and the entire ancient scholia on the first seven plays subjoined and enriched by excerpta from a manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The notes of various learned men, and those of Barnes accompany the scholia; the fragments of Euripides are carefully collected and displayed, with Greek and Latin notes as far as verse 2068; lastly, there are some epistles, attributed to Euripides.'"(Dibdin). “In 1694, Joshua Barnes, the eccentric British scholar (and poet) of Greek who the next year would become Regius Professor at the University of Cambridge, published his long-awaited Euripidis quae extant omnia. This was an enormous edition of Euripides’ works which contained every scrap of Euripidean material—dramatic, fragmentary, and biographical —that Barnes had managed to unearth.” (Hanink, The Life of the Author in the Letters of “Euripides”)

Vidin, Pechatnitsa na Diukmedzhiev, 1905. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, in the original printed wrappers. The present volume includes includes "Autobiography" and first half of the "Origin". The second half was published shortly after. Spine lacking upper 5 cm and front wrapper with several nicks. Internally very fine and clean. (Autobiography:) 67, (2), [Origin of Speicies:] 236 pp. + frontiespiece of Darwin. Genealogical tree included in the pagination on p. 133. Exceedingly rare first Bulgarian translation of Darwin's Origin of Species prefixed by his Autobiography, translated from the sixth London edition by M. Fiampova and I. H. A Timiryazova. Freeman lists the first Bulgarian translation of Origin of Species to be published in 1946. Darwin-Online states that: "I have found very little information on this translation or the associated names. It is a rare book, with no copies located in OCLC, KVK, or EL; however NALIS finds two, at the Bulgarian Central Medical Library and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.". Notice, however, OCLC list two copies. The present publication was published in two separate publications, the first being offered here. OCLC list two copies: The Thomas Fisher Library, Toronto and University Library of Oklahoma.

Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950. 15 volumes (170 x 130 mm), all in the original lithographed wrappers by Alechinsky, Appel, Atlan, Ejler Bille, Constant, Corneille, Doucet, Sonja Ferlov, Stephen Gilbert, Gudnason, Heerup, Egill Jacobsen, Asger Jorn and Carl henning Pedersen. Housed in the original cassette illustrated by Asger Jorn. The cassette is split open but otherwise a fine and clean set. Fine set constituting one of the final collected works by the Cobra art group which dissolved in 1951.The Cobra art movement was a significant avant-garde art movement that emerged in the years immediately following World War II. The term "Cobra" is derived from the names of the three major cities involved: Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The Cobra movement is also known as CoBrA, with each letter representing one of the cities. Cobra was founded in 1948 by a group of artists who wanted to create a new kind of art that was spontaneous, experimental, and often characterized by vibrant colors, expressive brushwork, and a childlike quality. The movement emphasized freedom of expression, collaboration, and a rejection of traditional artistic conventions. Cobra had a profound impact on modern art, influencing subsequent movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Art Brut. Its emphasis on spontaneity and intuitive creativity helped shape the direction of art in the mid-20th century Asger Jorn played a central role in the formation of Cobra. He advocated for a return to primal artistic instincts and embraced elements of folk art, mythology, and symbolism. “Jorn traveled to France where in the autumn of 1948 he, together with Christian Dotremont and Constant, founded COBRA (a European avant-garde art movement), and edited monographs of the Bibliothèque Cobra. However by 1949 Jorn had started a relationship with Matie van Domselaer, the daughter of the composer Jakob van Domselaer. This caused tension in the COBRA group with the Dutch artists boycotting a conference held at Bregnerød later that year. Matie and Jorn were married in 1950 and the group dissolved in 1951.” ("Asger Jorn" museumjorn.dk)

Paris, 1930 + 1928. Two 8vo-volumes. In a nice custommade leather-backed cloth-box with gilt lettering to front: "Space Travel/ Robert Esnault-Pelterie". L'astronautique: Uncut and unopened in original red printed wrappers (mounted with thick paper on inside of wrappers), spine restored, no loss of lettering. (4), 248, (2) pp. (in between pages 4 and 8, which are both numbered are actually 2 leaves, i.e. 4 pp. that are unnumbered;one is only printed on recto and one only on verso (errata) + 9 large folded plated. L'exploration de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires: Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers (L'Astronomie, Revue mensuelle d'astronomie...). A few closed tears to spine and restoration to lower margin of front wrapper, far from affecting text. A fine copy. VII, (1), 96 pp. First edition, presentation-copy, of the first text-book on rocketry and space-craft, together with the first edition of the important text of Esnault-Pelterie's 1927-symposium on the possibility of interplanetary travel. L'Astronautique with signed presentation-inscription to page 9: "With compliments / Esnault / Oct 1932". "Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (1881 - 1957) was a pioneering French spaceflight theorist and aircraft designer. He combined a mixture of theoretical and practical work and is well known for being the inventor of the control stick of the aeroplane. He was furthermore the fourth man in France to obtain the pilot's license."L'Astronautique outlined the key steps involved in the launching of an Earth satellite, interplanetary travel and rockettrajectories. Esnault-Pelterie began building his own rocket engine early the following year [1931]. In 1932 a rocket engine experiment went horribly wrong when the tetranitromethane fuel with which he was working exploded and he lost four fingers." (Harvey, Brian. Europe's Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond, Springer, 2003, 3 pp.)Besides being remembered as a spaceflight-pioneer, Esnault-Pelteries has given name to the Esnault-Pelterie-crater on the Moon. "In the 1937 universal exhibition he stages an 'Astronautics Hall' and his moon rocket became the basis of Tin Tin's cartoon moon rocket." (Ibid., 4 pp.) L'Astronautique: Norman 715 ("Esnault-Pelterie's most important contribution to rocketry")"L'exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires" is based on a symposium given by Esnault-Pelterie to the french Astronautics Society on June 8, 1927. - issued as the "Supplément au Bulletin de Mars 1928" of "L'Astronomie. Revue mensuelle d'astronomie de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe et Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France.Richard Green 105.

Oslo, Fram Forlag, 1930 - 1931. 5 parts (all). 8vo. 5 part in publisher's original 3 full cloth bindings with title and author in black lettering to front boards and spines. Spines lightly miscoloured, otherwise fine and clean. 166 pp.;144 pp.; 237 pp. The uncommon first Norwegian translation of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ – only volume 1 was ever translated. The translation was commissioned by ‘Mot Dag’, a Norwegian political group active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and cultural activities. “Although always small in numbers and often regarded with suspicion by Labour and trade union leaders, the Mot Dag organization was nevertheless an important factor in providing the Norwegian workers’ movement with a cultural policy and attracting artists, writers and intellectuals to the socialist cause. Well-known and respected authors and artists figured prominently in the organisation’s ranks as members and as contributors to the journal of the same name. Mot Dag was also instrumental in establishing cultural and educational enterprises for Norwegian workers within the workers’ movement, most famously the Arbeidernes leksikon (The Workers’ Encyclopaedia), a gigantic and unique collective effort by specialists and writers who worked without remuneration. It set up a successful publishing house where Falk published his Norwegian translation of the first volume of Marx’s Das Kapital (Capital), an undertaking that actually turned out to be profitable. In many ways Mot Dag had a position in Norway comparable to that of The Partisan Review in the United States, as an organisation that, as Hugh Wilford puts it, had a “dual commitment to anti-Stalinist Marxism and cultural Modernism”” (Sørenssen, Olav Dalgard – Politics, Film, Theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the Interwar Years)