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Amsterdam, Hendrik en de Weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1681, 1664 & 1665. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A bit of wear to extremities. Back-boards with a few worm-tracts. Internally with a few worm-tracts in last part, overall a nice and clean copy. (4), 37, (3), 188, (4), 188, (4), 195, (5), 187, (5), 186, (6), 185, (11) pp. + portrait and 21 plates (out of 25). Rare dutch translation of Dalle Valle’s famous travel-account to Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Iraq, Persia and India, being one of the earliest printed sources for the early history of the United Arab Emirates. Della Valle's writings and collections have made significant contributions to the understanding of the cultures and societies he encountered during his journeys and his account of his travels is today regarded as being of seminal importance not only for the history of the Middle East but of travel-literature in general.“His perceptive and detailed letters, enriched by the romance and poignancy of his devotion to his wife, together create one of the finest works of travel literature” (Howgego).The present copy being the second Dutch edition of part 1 (1681) and last 5 parts (1664 & 1665) all being first Dutch translations. Pietro della Valle embarked on his travels in 1614, departing from Venice, Italy. Over the course of his journey he visited numerous countries and regions, including the Middle East, India, and Persia. Della Valle's initial travels took him to the Middle East, where he visited places such as Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), Aleppo, Baghdad, and Jerusalem. He explored various cultural and historical sites documenting his experiences in letters and journals. After returning to Italy, Della Valle set out on a second journey in 1623, this time traveling to India. He visited cities such as Goa, Surat, and Agra, where he met with local rulers and learned about the culture and customs of the region. Della Valle also visited the court of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and witnessed the construction of the Taj Mahal. Following his time in India, Della Valle traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran). He visited cities such as Isfahan, Shiraz, and Persepolis, where he studied Persian language and culture. Della Valle's travels in Persia provided him with insights into the Safavid Empire and its society. Della Valle returned to Italy in 1628, bringing back with him a vast collection of artifacts, manuscripts, and cultural items. He spent the remaining years of his life in Italy, where he continued to write about his travels and share his experiences with scholars and intellectuals. Throughout his travels, Pietro della Valle documented his experiences through letters, journals, and other writings, which have provided valuable insights into the regions he visited during the 17th century. His accounts have since become important historical sources for scholars studying the cultures, societies, and geopolitics of the Middle East, India and Persia during that time period.

Geneve, Barrilot & Fils, 1748. 8vo. Contemporary full calf binding with gilt crowned monogram to centre of boards. Five raised bands and gilt title-label to richly gilt spine. All edges of boards gilt. A bit of wear to extremities. Very light browning to the first leaves and to the plates, the edges of which are also a bit bent, otherwise fine. Printed on good paper. A very nice copy indeed. XII,304 pp., 1 folded table and 3 folded engraved plates. First edition of this groundbreaking work, which describes for the first time the use of electricity for treatment of paralysis, laying the foundation for the use of electricity in medicine and for what was later to be known as electroconvulsive therapy. By applying electroshocks with a Leyden jar, Jallabert discovered that he could stimulate muscle regeneration and blood increase in a paralyzed limb, describing this breakthrough discovery for the first time in the present work. "After a succint account of what is known about electricity, Jallabert describes his observatuions on how electricity can stimulate muscles and reverse paralysis. Together with Guiot, a leading surgeon, he examines a locksmith called Nogues, and finds him paralysed on the right side as a result of an accidental blow to the head fourteen years before. The man could not move his arm, he had no sensation in it and he had no control over the fingers in his hand. Holding a Leiden jar in his healthy hand and touching it with his paralysed hand, Noguesd was treated with electric shocks for over an hour every day. Within two weeks an astonishing improvement in his condition was noted and three months later the patient had regained full use of his arm." (Gedeon, Science and technology in Medicine, No. 19)."This comprehensive work embraces the knowledge of the time on electric phenomena and theory; it has been frequently quoted. The author considers electricity to be a subtile, elastic fluid." (Wheeler Gift No 349). Wellcome IV:342 (but only having the second edition, 1749); Gedeon:19.

Utrecht, Waesberge, 1648,1655, 1659 & 1669. 4to. Uniformly bound in four contemporary full vellum binding with yapp edges and author in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Bindings with light soiling and a few dots and marks. Two stamps to each title-page. Vol. 1 and 5 internally fine and clean. Vol. 2 and 3 with dampstain to upper half of first and last leaves. (46), 1172, (56) pp. + frontispiece. ; (8), 1278, (26) pp. + 3 folded plates; (12), 1418, (24) pp.; (8), 763, (5), 243, (53) pp. First edition of Voetius’s extensive and principal work (here without vol. 4) on dogmatic with comprise his academic work, primarily theological debates, over a period of more than 20 years. Gisbertus Voetius was born in Heusden, North Brabant, Netherlands. He studied theology at Leiden and served as a Reformed minister in Vlijmen and Heusden from 1610 to 1634. Voetius was instrumental in founding Utrecht University, where he held the position of professor of Semitic languages and theology from 1634 until 1676. His involvement with mission issues began at the Synod of Dordrecht, where he addressed the question of whether children from non-Christian backgrounds living with Dutch families in the East Indies could be baptized. “Voetius emphasized that missions are grounded in both the hidden and revealed will of God. Only apostles and assemblies such as synods have the right to establish missions; it is not the right of the pope, nor princes and magistrates, nor companies to do so. The goals of mission are the conversion of non-believers, heretics, and schismatics; the planting, gathering, and establishing of churches; and the glorification and manifestation of divine grace. Mission churches, he maintained, should not be subordinated to the sending churches in Europe”. (Boston University, School of Theology, History of Missiology)

Lausanne & Paris, 1916. Lex 8vo. Uncut in the orig. printed wrappers. Minor wear w. minor loss to capitals and corner of front wrapper, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy. A few pages w. underlining. Text-illustrations. 336, (1, -errata) pp. The first edition of Saussure's seminal main work, which marks a turning point in the history of linguistics and had a monumental impact on related fields such as philosophy, logic, sociology, literary theory, etc. Because of this work, Saussure is considered the father of 20th century linguistics, and the influence of his ideas on the development of linguistic theory in the first half of the 20th century can hardly be overstated.After having published his "Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes" in 1878, Saussure did not publish another full-length work in his life-time, and his "Course in General Linguistics" is a summary of the three lecture-courses he gave on linguistics at the University of Geneva in 1906-07, 1908-09 and 1910-11. The work was published posthumously by two of his former students and based on lecture notes. In this monumental work, based on his lectures, Saussure sets out to examine the relationship between language (langue) and speaking (parole), both as the relation of a social phenomenon to an individual phenomenon, and as the relation of a system to the concrete use of this system. He determines that there is a structured system of common signs between the users of a language, and that language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements. These elements are signs, signs that again can be divided into expression (signifiant) and content (signifié). This theory of language has deeply influenced all later theories of language.With this work, Ferdinand Saussure (1857-1913) thus came to occupy a seminal place in the history of language theory. In this work he is strongly focused on creating a science of language, free of its former embedment in archaeology, psychology, and also -or perhaps especially- the history of language. And he succeeds. Before his work, linguistics had had been dominated by a historical, though also partly structural, understanding of language, but now, Saussure introduced and determined the purpose and meaning of linguistics, the universal science of language. With Sausurre, linguistics now became, not only the study of the history of languages and of the influences that determine the development of it, but also, and primarily, the study of language and the study of the manifestations of human speech, of what makes human speech possible.Thus, there is no doubt as to the monumental impact of this groundbreaking work, and almost all language theoreticians ever since have been deeply influenced by it. In Europe, the Prague School with e.g. Roman Jakobson and the Copenhagen School with e.g. Louis Hjelmslev, and in America, Leonard Bloomfield and his followers (later Noam Chomsky), were all influenced by Saussure's theories and based their formings of structural linguistics on his basic notions.Saussure's work reached much farther, though, and the principles of structuralism came to deeply influence thinkers such as Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss etc., etc.

Rome, minted in 82 BC. 20mm. 3.74 g. Avery nice specimen, with clear imprint and light rubbing. Obverse: Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing winged petasos; caduceus and control letter behind. Reverse: Ulysses standing right, holding staff in left hand and extending right hand to Argus; C•MAMIL to left, LIMETAN to right. Crawford 362/1; BMCRR Rome 2725; RSC Mamilia 6. A denarius of the Roman Republic featuring one of the very few references to Homer's Odyssey in ancient coinage. On the obverse is Mercury, a god very much propitious to Odysseus, easily recognizable by the winged petasos and the caduceus. The reverse depicts one of the most moving passages in literature, hardly matched to this day. In book XVII (290-327) Odysseus returns to Ithaca disguised as a beggar. His faithful dog, Argos, has been waiting for his return for 20 years. Ignored, abandoned by everyone, the dog is ridden with ticks and fleas, lying in a pile of manure. Odysseus is accompanied to the palace by Eumaeus the shepherd, who is unaware of the beggar's true identity. Odysseus recognizes his dog and is forced to hide a single tear that rolls down his cheek. He cannot greet the dog, as that would give away his identidy. Argos, after all those years, recognizes his master as well, but if he were to run to him it would most certainly cause his death by the suitors. Here Homer cannot do anything other than to end the life of Argos, otherwise the entire Odyssey would have been for naught. So Argos dies upon the vision of his master having fulfilled his life purpose: to await his return. It is also the moment that marks the end of the twenty year cycle since Odysseus left for the Trojan War, thus announcing the imminent closing of the Trojan Cycle itself. The denarius' reverse depicts the idealized moment of the scene where master and dog would be just about to meet and greet each other, but as we have seen, the reunion cannot happen. "There lay the hound Argos, full of vermin; yet even now, when he marked Odysseus standing near, he wagged his tail and dropped both his ears, but nearer to his master he had no longer strength to move. Then Odysseus looked aside and wiped away a tear. [...] But as for Argos, the fate of black death seized him straightway when he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year." Mamilius Limetanus is one of the three moneyers for the year 82 BC. The moneyers, selected every year, were magistrates in charge of the production of coinage, and they were at liberty to determine the design of the coins, which were often deities and characters associated with their personal family history. Like most Roman Patricians, Limetanus claimed to be a descendant of a Homeric character, in this case, Odysseus—Julius Caesar's family, for example, thought themselves to be descendants of Aeneas. A wonderful specimen of this magnificent Roman denarius.

Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Remboldt, 1508, March 8. (Colophon). 4to-format (recte 8vo). Later nice full calf binding (ab. 1900) with richly gilt spine and gilt borders to boards. Scratches to front board. Title-page repaired at margin (with very minor loss to ab. two letters on both recto and verso). Folio VIII and first leaf of index repaired at margin with early 16th century printed paper (no loss). Title-page and index-leaf with fairly heavy dampstaining, otherwise mostly faint dampstaining. Large beautiful woodcut printer's device and many beautiful woodcut initials throughout (the first depicting Adam and Eve). The very scarce second edition of Suberti's (or Subertus') Manual of pastoral visitation, also called the "de visitatine episcopali", an important tool for Renaissance priests.The work originally appeared in 1504, also printed by Remboldt and Gerin, but the present second edition of 1508 is of special interest, as it constitutes the very final collaboration of the two great printers. Ulrich Gerin, who is famous for being the first printer in Paris and the founder of the first printing office in France, began a partnership with the excellent famous printer Bertold Remboldt during the last decade of the the 15th century. Out of this collaboration appeared some excellent works (that are now sought after), and the partnership lasted till Gerin's death (ab. 1509). The last work that they did together was the second edition of Suberti's visitation manual, which appeared on the 8th of March 1508. After the death of Gerin, Remboldt continued on his own.Another edition of the work appeared in 1514. All three editions are scarce.Adams, S:2018.

Haye, Scheurleer, 1728 - 1754. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 22 fulll vellum bindings with gilt lettering (except vol. 1 & 4) to spine. Spines with small paper label to upper part (or traces of it) indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front boards. Light wear to extremities, internally very fine and clean. X, 473, (18); (2), 495, (3); (2), 499, (19); (16), 510; (12), 324, CXLIV; (16), 480; (8), 484; (14), 480; (8), 518 + 1 folded plate; XII, 528 + 1 folded plate; (16), 560, (12) pp.; (16), 528; (8), 537, (31) pp.; (8), 403, VIII, 328; XVI, (8), 484, (18); (2), 546, (4); (12), 527; (8), 486, (2); (12), 522, (6), (10), 495, (5); (10), 482, (4); (10), 495, (5); (8), 100, 286 pp. A fine set, with an interesting provenance, of Rousset's large collection of state papers and treatises which stands as a crucial resource for understanding European diplomacy spanning the period after the Treaty of Utrecht until the early 1740s. The compilation includes numerous documents related to American and East Indian affairs, with a focus on overseas trading companies, notably those of the Netherlands, England, and Sweden. Jean Rousset de Missy (1686–1762) was a French Huguenot historian and journalist. He was born in Nîmes, France, and later became a prominent figure in the intellectual and cultural circles of his time. Rousset de Missy was known for his historical writings and contributions to periodicals, and he played a role in documenting and analyzing significant events in European history. Provenance: Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle.

Erlangen, Andreas Deichert, 1872. 8vo. (233x152mm). Uncut with the original printed front-wrapper (loose) - back-wrapper missing. Fine and clean throughout. 48 pp. First edition of the "Erlanger Programm". For over two millennia geometry had been the study of theorems which could be proved from Euclid's axioms. However, in the beginning of the 19th century it was proved that there exist other geometries than that of Euclid. Motivated by the emergence of the new geometries of Bolyai, Lobachevsky, and Riemann, Klein proposed to define a geometry, not by a set of axioms, but instead in terms of the transformations that leave it invariant; according to Klein, a geometric structure consists of a space together with a particular group of transformations of the space. A valid theorem in that particular geometry is one that holds under this group of transformations. This controversial idea did not only give a more systematic way of classifying the different geometries, but also gave birth to new geometric structures such as manifolds. The Erlanger Programm was translated into six languages in the following two decades, and it has had an immense influence on geometry up to and throughout the 20th century. Scarce. Landmark Writtings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, p.544-52.

Istanbul, Nietzsche Hayatý ve Felsefesi, 1329 [1913]. 8vo. In later embossed full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Last 10 leaves with a brown spot. Frontiespiece repaired with tape, otherwise a fine and clean copy. 127, (1) pp. + portrait of Darwin. Rare first edition of the first book on Darwinism, printed in Istanbul. The work in Ottoman language is a translation of "Wahrheit und Irrthum im Darwinismus" (The Truths and Mistakes of Darwinism) by Eduard von Hartmann (1842 - 1906), first published in 1875. The translator Memduh Süleyman, who also commented the book, considered the natural evolution the biggest mistake of the Darwinism. Memduh Süleyman (1889?-1920) was an important author and translator of the last years of the Ottoman Empire. His most famous work is a book on Nietzsche, "Nietzsche Hayat? ve Felsefesi", from 1912, which he co-wrote in together with Ahmet Nebil-Baha Tevfik-Memduh.The book was published amidst the Ottoman debate on the Darwinism. The first mentioning of the term was made in 1863 in a magazine Mecmua-i Fünun by Münif Pasha, who was at the time serving as a minister of education and did not believe, that the development of science would or should affect the religion. In the time of the publication of the present work, Darwin's works were not yet translated into Ottoman. The first translation of On the Origin of Species in the Muslim world, was only issued in Arabic in 1918 in Cairo. Translated were only the first six chapters. For more chapters were subsequently added in 1928.OCLC list three institutional examples (Leiden University Library, Library of Congress, Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Botanical Gardens).

1) Inringning. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1958). Ubesk. i orig. omsl. Rent og friskt eksemplar af T.s debut. Omsl. af Håkan Engström.2) Två vindar. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1960). Ubeskåret og uopskåret i orig. omsl. Helt frisk. Omsl. af Lennart Iverus.3) Karantän. Roman. (Sthlm., 1961). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Omsl. m. en anelse brugsspor, men ellers et rent eksemplar af T.s første roman. Omsl. af Lars Wellton.4) Nymålat. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1962). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Foromsl. m. små rifter for oven. Omsl. af Lena Cronquist.5) Maskrosbollen. Roman. (Sthlm., 1962). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Ren og pæn. Omsl. af Stig Claesson.6) Familjeliv. En berättelse från Tobobac. (Sthlm., 1964). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. m. det orig. sorte smudsomsl. m. kighullerne til omsl. Kighullet på forsiden af smudsomsl. m. små rifter, ellers rent og friskt, delvist uopskåret ekspl.7) Om förtröstan. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1965). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Helt frisk. Omsl. af Lena Cronquist.8) De andra de till hälften synliga. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1966). Ubeskåret og uopskåret i orig. omsl. Aldeles frisk. Omsl. af Lena Cronquist.9) Hallonfallet (kanske en deckare). Sthlm., (1967). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Omsl. m. en smule brugsspor. Roman skrevet under T.s pseudonym Paul Badura Mörk. Omsl. af Bernt Johansson.10) Samtal med marken. Sthlm., (1969). Ubeskåret og uopskåret i orig. omsl. Helt frisk. "Förhandsexemplar". Omsl. af Lena Cronquist.11) De heliga geograferna. Roman. (Lund, 1973). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Omsl. m. lidt brugsspor, ellers ren og pæn. Omsl. af Tage Åsén.12) Stormunnans bön. Teckningar av Lena Cronqvist. (Uddevalla, 1974). Orig. omsl. Lille stempel på foromsl: "För benägan anmälan". Omsl. af Lena Cronqvist.13) Svartsjukans sånger. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1975). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Foromsl. m. lidt brugsspor i højre margin, ellers ren og pæn. "Recensionsexemplar från Albert Bonniers Förlag". Omslagsvignet af Lena Cronqvist.14) Guddottrarna. (Sthlm., 1975). Ubeskåret og uopskåret i orig. omsl. Helt friskt ekspl. Omsl. af Tge Åsén.15) Sandro Botticellis Dikter.(Sthlm., 1976) Ubeskåret og uopskåret i orig. omsl. Frisk. Omslagsvignet et Lena Cronqvist.16) Prästungen. Berättelse. (Sthlm., 1976). Orig. brunt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. En anelse stødt v. kapitæler og hjørner, ellers ren og frisk. Illustrationer af Lena Cronqvist. Omslagsfoto af Nisse Peterson.17) Dikter till Lena. I urval av författeren. Förord av Lars Grahn. Sthlm., (1978). Orig. rødt papbd. En smule brugsspor v. kapitæler, ellers pæn og ren.18) Ökenbrevet. (Sthlm., 1978). Orig. lysebrunt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Omsl. m. en smule brugsspor v. hjørner og kanter, ellers ren og pæn. Omsl. malet af Lena Cronqvist. M. egenhændig DEDIKATION fra "Göran" Tunstrøm til "Margareta", dat "febr 79". Indlagt ORIG. BLYANTSTEGNING forestillende Tunström, udført af Margareta?19) Sorgesånger. Dikter. (Sthlm., 1980). Ubeskåret i orig. omsl. Foromsl. m. en anelse brugsspor, ellers ren og pæn. Omslagsvignet af Lena Cronqvist.20) Juloratoriet. Roman. (Ungern, 1983). Orig. rødt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Aldeles friskt og rent ekspl. af romanen, for hvilken T. fik Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 1 1984. Omslagsmaleri af Lena Cronqvist, omsl. af Jan Biberg.21) Indien - en vinterresa. Teckningar Lena Cronqvist. (Uddevalla, 1984). Orig. hvidt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Omsl. m. lidt rifter for oven, ellers pæn og ren.22) Tjuven. Roman. (WSOY, Finland, 1986). Orig. mørkerødt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Særdeles friskt ekspl. Omsl. Jan Biberg.23) Chang Eng ett skådespel. (Sthlm., 1987). Orig. gult helshirtbd., orig. gult smudsomsl. Foromsl. m. revne i højre hjørne, ellers ren og frisk. Omsl. Jan Biberg.24) Det sanna livet. (Wettergrens Bokhandel AB Göteborg har utgivit Göran Tunströms Det sanna livet som julhälsning 1987). Orig. blankt omsl., orig. smudsomsl. Ren og pæn. Omsl Lena Cronqvist. Udkom ikke i boghandelen.25) Under tiden. (WSOY, Finland, 1993). Orig. grå-grønligt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Helt frisk. Signeret af Göran Tunström på smudstitelbladet. Omsl. Jan Biberg. "Tjugoförsta-tjugosjunde tusendet".26) Skimmer. Roman. (Smedjebacken, 1996). Orig. rødt helshirtbd., orig. smudsomsl. Helt frisk. Omslagsmaleri af Linus Tunström.27) Berömda män som varit i Sunne. Roman. (Falun, 1998). Orig. rødt papbd, orig. smudsomsl. Aldeles friskt ekspl. af det sidste værk, der udkom i T.s levetid. Omsl. af Johan Petterson. For første gang til salg et komplet sæt af Tunströms bogværker i originaludgaver. Tunström er en af Sveriges mest læste og elskede forfattere. Han døde i 2000 og har uden tvivl sat sig dybe spor i litteraturen. Hans værker er oversat til flere sprog, og han har modtaget adskillige priser for sin fremragende litteratur, bl.a. Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris i 1984.

[No place], Editura Partidului Comunist Roman, 1947. Royal8vo. In publisher's half cloth Binding with waterstain, affecting both front and back board. Hindges weak Internally with a few marginal annotations, othwise interanlly fine and clean. 780, (1) pp + frontispiece. First Romanian translation of 'Das Kapital', Marx' landmark work, constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. It is the first translation of the many translation from the post-war decades in countries with communist government. It even predates the translation into any of the USSR-languages. As World War II ended, Romania, a former Axis member, was occupied by the Soviet Union, the sole representative of the Allies. On 6 March 1945, after mass demonstrations by communist sympathizers and political pressure from the Soviet representative of the Allied Control Commission, a new pro-Soviet government that included members of the previously outlawed Romanian Workers' Party was installed. Gradually, more members of the Communist Party and communist-aligned parties gained control of the administration and pre-war political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life. In December 1947, King Michael was coerced to abdicate and the People's Republic of Romania was declared. The present translation was paid for by the Romanian Communist Party.

Cologne, Fran. Byrckman (Birckmann), 1527. Folio (310 x 210 mm). In a lovely contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and blindtooled boards and spine. Paper title-label pasted on to spine. Outer margin of boards with traces from clasps. Author and title in contemporary hand to fore-edge. Title-page with Birckmann's two-part printer's mark showing his initials in the right medallion with the motto "Fortuna cum blanditur tunc vel maxime metuenda est" (When Fortuna flatters, she is the most to be feared") and in the left medallion showing a hen and chicks, which was also on Birckmann's House in Cologne. Annotation in neat contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper, title-page, and occasionally in margins. Leaf N3 with small loss of paper in margin, not affecting text. Vague dampstain in upper margin and lower outer margin of last leaves, but generally a very nice and clean copy. (2 blanks), (5), CCXLII, (3 blanks) ff. Leaf B4 erroneously paginated as VII instead of X. Complete. Editio princeps of Rupert of Deutz' commentaries on the Book of the Twelve Prophets edited by the influential Luther opposer Johannes Cochlaeus (1479-1552). “Rupert of Deutz (ca. 1075-1129) is widely recognised as one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages. Along with other Church Fathers such as Augustine of Hippo, his work occupies more than three volumes of the Patrologia Latina. During his lifetime, he devoted more than twenty years to tireless commentary on the Scriptures and was involved in many theological debates. His writings touched almost all of the genres of religious literature for that period: numerous biblical commentaries (on all the historical books in the Old Testament, on the twelve Prophets, on the Gospels of Mathew and John, and on the Apocalypse), commentaries on the Rule of St. Benedict, two Lives of Saints and more apologetic works. The fact that his works are preserved in more than 250 manuscripts is a testament to his popularity, especially across the German Empire (and more specifically, the ecclesiastical provinces of Cologne and Salzburg). More than half of these manuscripts date from the middle of the twelfth century, and thereafter his influence appears to have dwindled dramatically. This noticeable phenomenon witnesses the vicissitudes of traditional Benedictine monasticism during the transformative period of the first half of the twelfth century.” (Teng Li, The Holy Spirit in Twelfth-Century Thoughts: Rupert of Deutz (ca 1075-1129) and Anselm of Havelberg (ca 1095-1158). Johannes Cochlaeus, a Deacon of the Church of the Blessed Virgin in Frankfurt, lived in exile in Cologne where he became acquainted with the Abbot of Deutz through his host George Lauer. Cochlaeus learned that certain works of Rupert were to be published by Lutherans in Nuremberg. He strongly opposed and tried to obstruct this effort because the Lutherans had previously struggled to find medieval authors who supported Luther's doctrines. When a book by Rupert was discovered and favored by Lutherans, they sought more of his works. Osiander, a married priest and preacher, added Lutheran ideas to Rupert's writings before their publication. Cochlaeus persuaded publishers Peter Quentell and Arnold Birckmann to print Rupert's works and promised to oversee the edition. As demand grew, Cochlaeus and the Abbot of Deutz gathered more volumes of Rupert's writings from various sources. Rupert of Deutz influenced theologians and thinkers in the medieval period and particularly within the Benedictine tradition. His writings were widely read and respected during his time and in the centuries that followed. Adams R-935.Graesse VI, 193.BM STC German, 1455-1600, P. 762.

Washington, The Smithsonian Institution, 1936. 8vo. In recent red full cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Published as part of "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 95, Number 3, Publication 3381". A fine and clean copy. (2), 10 pp. + 11 photographic plates. First edition of Goddard's paper on liquid-fueled rocket development. Goddard is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket and is often referred to as the man who ushered in the Space Age (Pendray, Rocket Development). By temperament and training Goddard was not a team worker, yet he laid the foundation from which team workers could launch men to the moon" (DSB). Goddard was secretive about his research and only published two papers; "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" (1919) and the present. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket on 16 March 1926 near Auburn, Mass. The ten-foot rocket, nicknamed "Nell" reached an altitude of 41 feet, traveled a distance of 184 feet and landed 2.5 seconds after lift-off in a cabbage patch. "Although his list of firsts in rocketry was distuguished, Goddard was eventually surpassed by teams of rocket research and development experts elsewhere, particularly in Germany." (DSB)."Like the Russian hero Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the German pioneer Hermann Oberth, Goddard worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently [...] Having explored the mathematical practicality of rocketry since 1906 and the experimental workability of reaction engines in laboratory vacuum tests since 1912, Goddard began to accumulate ideas for probing beyond the Earth's stratosphere. His first two patents in 1914, for a liquid-fuel gun rocket and a multistage step rocket, let to some modest recognition and financial support from the Smithsonian Institution [...] With an eye toward patentability of demonstrated systems and with the aid of no more than a handful of technicians, Goddard achieved a series of workable liquid-fuel flights starting in 1926. Through the patronage of Charles A. Lindbergh, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, and the Carnegie and Smithsonian institutions, the Goddards and their small staff were able to move near Roswell, New Mexico. There, during most of the 1930s, Goddard demonstrated, despite many failures in his systematic static and flight tests, progressively more sophisticated experimental boosters and payloads, reaching speeds of 700 miles per hour and altitudes above 8000 feet in several test flights" (DSB).

Paris, Baptiste Loyson, 1662 (+) Paris, Coube, 1657 (+) Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1687. 8vo. In contemporary ful calf with four raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Super ex-libris to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, parts of gilting on spine worn off. Internally lightly browned and closely trimmed, occassionally touching letters. (10), 82, (12), 94, (4), 52 pp. Three early French plays, all first editions, from what is widely regarded as being the golden age of French playwriting. All are of the utmost scarcity and we have only been able to trace one auction-record, namely that of “Le Riche Mecontent” (Sold at “Early English Literature and Americana duplicates and selections from the Library of Henry E. Huntington”, 1920 - described as "Very scarce"). These plays are all examples of French comedy from the 17th century, a period marked by the flourishing of theater in France, particularly in Paris. This era witnessed the development of a distinct French theatrical tradition with an emphasis on comedic works. These plays incorporate satire, using humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize and mock societal norms, behaviors or specific social groups “Le Riche Mecontent” was written for Hôtel de Bourgogne, a theatre, built in 1548 for the first authorized theatre troupe in Paris, the Confrérie de la Passion. It was considered the most important French theatre until the 1630s, it continued to be used until 1783. Nicolas de Péchantré (1638 – 1708), author of 'Les Engagement' and 'Les Yvrongnes' obtained three times the laurel at the Academy of Floral Games, and acquired great popularity by his tragedy of Greta. Georges Vicaire, French bibliophile and bibliographer, attributed “Les Yvrongnes” to Péchantré. Brunet 1, 1800 (Le Riche Mecontent). Not in Graesse, Barbier or Tchemerzine.

Stockholm, Lars salvius, 1751. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine forming 6 compartments. Ex-libris (Thorild Wulff) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Leather on spine and hinges a bit brittle, lower 4 cm of front hinge split, otherwise a fine copy. (10), XIV, 434, (34) pp. + 1 folded map and 6 plates. First edition, second issue, with “Gödselen” on p. 26 (indicating the second issue). “Linnaeus’ research work during his mature years began with trips to various Swedish provinces. By order of the parliament, which wanted an inventory of all the natural resources of the country, during three summers in the 1740’s Linnaeus traveled through selected areas to describe them and to search for dyestuffs, minerals, clay, and other economically useful substances. His reports of these expeditions were published as Ölandska och gothländska resa (1745), Västgöta resa (1747), and Skånska resa (1751), all written in Swedish. Nothing escaped his attention on his travels on horseback—plants and insects, runic stones and other ancient remnants, farmers working in the fields and meadows, the changes in the weather. His prose style was simple and strong, sometimes rising to lyrical outbursts or spiced with effective similes.” (DSB)"Baron C. Hårleman, who had borne the expenses of Linnaeus's expedition to Skåne, had the chance to see the proofs to at least the beginning of the SKÅNSKA RESA. There he read (on p. 26) with indignation that Linnaeus gave his blessing to the old Swedish custom of cleaning the ground by setting fire to the stubble ("svedjande" - a practice that he himself had condemned in print). Linnaeus decided to have a new version printed in which the offended passage would be replaced by some innocuos observation on manure ("Gödselen"). A fold was therefore printed as part of the final sheet of the book with an article on "Gödselen" instead of the article on "Svedjor". The binder was supposed to cancel the fold with the article on "Svedjor" and replace it with the inner fold from the final sheet. In very few copies this was not done." (Björck & Börjesson Cat. 512). Hulth P. 81.Soulsby 210

[Lancaster], American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Entire volume of "The Physical Review", Volume 56, Second Series, July 1 - December 15, 1939. "Development Department" in small gilt lettering to lower part of spine. A very fine and clean copy. [Feynman:] Pp. 340-43. [Bohr & Wheeler:] Pp. 426-50. [Oppenheimer & Snyder:] Pp. 455-59. [Entire volume: X, 1264 pp.]. First printing of three landmark papers, all of seminal importance in history of physics: Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, the intricacies of the fission process, the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs and the forgotten birth of black holes: The first theoretical description of a black hole, the production of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses.First printing of "FORCES IN MOLECULES" - know known as Feynman-Hellmann theorem - is Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, published when he was just twenty-one, which helped to establish his name in the world of physics. "This work treated the problem of molecular forces from a thoroughly quantum-mechanical point of view, arriving at a simple means of calculating the energy of a molecular system that continues to guide quantum chemists." (DSB). "As Feynman conceived the structure of molecules, forces were the natural ingredients. He saw springlike bonds with varying stiffness, atoms attracting and repelling one another. The usual energy-accounting methods seemed secondhand and euphemistic: [He demonstrated that] the force on an atom's nucleus is no more or less than the electrical force from the surrounding field of charged electrons-the electrostatic force. Once the distribution of charge has been calculated quantum mechanically, then from that point forward quantum mechanics disappears from the picture. The problem becomes classical; the nuclei can be treated as static points of mass and charge. Feynman's approach applies to all chemical bonds" (Gleick, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, P. 54).Oppenheimer and Snyder's "ON CONTINUED GRAVITATIONAL CONTRACTION" constitute the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. "Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form." (American Physical Society). The paper has by several physics historians been described as the forgotten birth of black holes. "Oppenheimer and his graduate student George Volkoff presented the first analysis of the formation of a neutron star in a 1939 Physical Review paper titled, "On Massive Neutron Stars". Oppenheimer wondered what would happen to a very massive neutron star. The Schwartzschild analysis of General Relativity has a theoretical limit, called the "Schwartzschild limit", when the ratio of mass-to-radius of a star is 236,000 times greater than the ratio for our sun. When this limit is exceeded, the Schwartzschild analysis does not yield a solution. Oppenheimer believed that a neutron star could have sufficient mass to exceed this limit. What would happen to it? Oppenheimer and his graduate student Hartland Snyder applied General Relativity theory to a star with sufficient mass and density to exceed the Schwartzschild limit. The Schwartzschild analysis assumed that the size of the star stays constant with time. Oppenheimer and Snyder found that they could achieve a real solution from General Relativity when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded by assuming that the diameter of the star decreases with time. They presented their analysis in a 1939 Physical Review paper, titled, "On Continual Gravitational Contraction," which concluded with: "When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted, a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely." This analysis concluded that when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded, the star must collapse indefinitely until it reaches a singularity having an infinite density of matter" (Bjornson, Singularity Predictions of General Relativity, P. 4).The Chandrasekhar / Eddington controvery in the mid 30ies did discuss the fate of neutron stars but the first thoroughly theoretical desciption was first published here. "THE MECHANISM OF NUCLEAR FISSION" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission, which laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs."Wheeler's technical mastery of physics is best seen in the classic paper of Bohr and Wheeler. Bohr and Wheeler wrote the paper in Princeton, where Bohr was visiting in the spring of 1939, a few months after the discovery of fission. The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics. Seen from the classical point of view, it is a liquid drop composed of a positively charged fluid. The electrostatic force that is trying to split it apart is balanced by the nuclear surface tension that is holding it together. The energy supplied by the captured neutron causes the drop to oscillate in various normal modes that can be calculated classically. Seen from the quantum point of view, the nucleus is a superposition of a variety of quantum states leading to different final outcomes. The final outcome may be a uranium 235 nucleus with a re-emitted neutron, or a uranium 236 nucleus with an emitted gamma-ray, or a pair of fission-fragment nuclei with one or more free neutrons. Bohr and Wheeler calculate the cross-section for fission of uranium 235 by a slow neutron and get the right answer within a factor of two. Their calculation is a marvelous demonstration of the power of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics working together. By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated" (John Archibald Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154 (2010)).

Venetiis (Venice), Paulum Manutium (Aldus), 1555. Folio (342 x 230 mm). In later half calf with five raised bands with gilt lettering to spine. Head of spine with repair, hindges bit weak and some scratches to boards. Ex-libris (H. P. Rohde, librarian at the Royal Danish Library) pasted on to verso of front board. Annotated by Rohde in pencil on front free end-paper. Title-page with a few dots and marks and light miscolouring to margins. First five leaves with small nick to upper margin, far from affrcting text. Damage to upper part of foreedge causing small hole to Pp. 30-130 in upper outer margin, far from affecting text. Very few sporadic dots throughout, overall internally very fine and clean. (4), 478 ff. (Wanting the 98 ff. of part II). First edition of this monumental and landmark Livy-edition edited by Carlo Signonio, introducing critical methods for reconstructing the past which revolutionized the study of ancient Roman history and the Italian Middle Ages. This edition was the first systematically to apply critical method to the rendition of the text and to the chronology of Roman history, marking the beginning of a new approach in the study of Roman history. This edition ‘made Sigonio’s European reputation ... In the Aldine folio of 1555 the miscellaneous fragments of the various annotators were swept away, and readers were offered a revised text of Livy, majestically printed, and the imposing Scholia of Sigonio alone, scholia which in sheer mass, acumen, and acerbity, far outstripped the combined efforts of all his predecessors’ (W. McCuaig). ”This is one of the many editions which were published with the annotations of Sigonhjs—"quae quidem," says Harles, "nonnullorum bilem moverunt." Renouard says it is an elegantly printed book, but is rarely to be found in good condition. At Mr. Bridges's sale a superb copy of this edition, on laege paper, was sold for the extraordinary sum of 3bl. 10s. M. Renouard has also a copy on large paper, containing many notes in the hand-writing of De Thou.” (Dibdin) "Belle édition bien imprimée, sur bon papier, et peut-être de toutes celles de cet historien, la plus amie de l'oeil et la plus facile à lire" (Renouard, 166.15). Ahmanson-Murphy 477 Renouard 166:15 Brunet III:1106 Adams L1342; Dibdin II 166

(Cape Town, 1967). 4to. The entire issue, in the original green/white and illustrated wrappers, bound in very nice full burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to front board. A bit of brownspotting to a couple of leaves, due to the paper quality, but overall an excellent, clean and bright copy of this richly illustreted issue, which is devoted entirely to the groundbreaking medical performance that was Barnard's human heart transplant. LX pp. + pp. 1257-1278 (the pagination includes the wrappers). First printing in this scarce issue, in which Barnard's milestone paper of modern medicine appeared, describing for the first time one of the most important medical performances in the course of history - "the most publicised event in world medical history", namely the first human heart transplant. This medical breakthrough introduced to the world a way to prolong life that would become of seminal importance to modern man.The entire issue of the "South African Medical Journal" is devoted to Barnard's astonishing performance (done only three weeks prior to the publication) and is very interesting in itself, constituting a magnificent historical document. Apart from the first appearance of Barnard's paper, it also contains tributes to Barnard and his team by other leading physicians, ethical discussions about tranplantations, a description of the honourary degree bestowed upon Barnard due to the operation, discussions about donors for heart transplantations, papers on legal requirements, pre-operative assessment, tissue typing tests anestesia, and, of course, the great operation itself. To that also comes the highly interesting "Provisional Report on the Autopsy of L.W. (the patient, Louis Washkansky) as well as numerous advertisements and several heartfelt congratulations to Barnard (and his team) upon the operation (e.g. a half-page "add" saying "UPJOHN and their S. African Subsidiary/ TUCO (PTY LTD./ heartily congratulate/ all concerned/ in the historic/ HEART TRANSPLANTATION/ carried out at Groote Schuur Hospital" and many others like it), reflecting the astonishing effect that this historic event immidiately had upon contemporary society. "Christiaan (Chris) Barnard was born in 1922 and qualified in medicine at the University of Cape Town in 1946. Following surgical training in South Africa and the USA, Barnard established a successful open-heart surgery programme at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town in 1958. In 1967, he led the team that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant. The article describing this remarkable achievement was published in the South African Medical Journal just three weeks after the event and is one of the most cited articles in the cardiovascular field. In the lay media as well, this first transplant remains the most publicised event in world medical history. Although the first heart transplant patient survived only 18 days, four of Groote Schuur Hospital's first 10 patients survived for more than one year, two living for 13 and 23 years, respectively. This relative success amid many failures worldwide did much to generate guarded optimism that heart transplantation would eventually become a viable therapeutic option. This first heart transplant and subsequent ongoing research in cardiac transplantation at the University of Cape Town and in a few other dedicated centres over the subsequent 15 years laid the foundation for heart transplantation to become a well-established form of therapy for end-stage cardiac disease. During this period from 1968 to 1983, Chris Barnard and his team continued to make major contributions to organ transplantation, notably the development of the heterotopic ( 'piggy-back') heart transplants; advancing the concept of brain death, organ donation and other related ethical issues; better preservation and protection of the donor heart (including hypothermic perfusion storage of the heart; studies on the haemodynamic and metabolic effects of brain death; and even early attempts at xenotransplantation." (Cardiovasc J Afr. 2009 Jan-Feb; 20(1):31-5.)Garrison&Morton: 3047.12 ("First cardiac homotransplant in man.").

Aarhus, Prentet udi Autoris Tryckeri, 1650. 4to. I samtidigt helpergamentsbind. Bind misfarvet og med en smule slitage. Indvendige false en smule svage. Alle blade i bred røskenramme. Indskriptioner fra 1650 til 1924 på indersiden af begge permer. Første ejers (1650) navnetræk på titelbladet. Ex-libris (Sigurd & Gudrun Wandel) på sidste blanke blad. 332 ff. Originaludgaven af bogtrykker Hans Hansen Skonnings mest originale værk, det første originale danske (ti år før udgivelsen af Anders Arrebos skabelsesdigt), der er formet som en selvstændig dyreallegori over Rævebogen.Som alt andet i hans produktion fremstillet på hans eget trykkeri og sandsynligvis på papir af egen fabrikation fra hans papirmølle syd for Aarhus.Skonning virkede forudsom som forfatter og bogtrykker også som klokker ved Domkirken i Århus. Da biskop Morten Madsen i 1641 afsatte ham som klokker, tog han havn med denne satire, rettet mod forholdene i Århus. Ifølge Jens Worm er den fyldt med "Gusten galde og sort blækspruttesnavs". Skonning sendte øjensynligt breve om, hvad han så fra kirketårnet, både til Jacob Madsen, svoger til Ole Worm og til Ole Worm selv. Eksemplaret udmærker sig ved, at samtlige ejere fra 1650 til 1923 har sat en inskription på indersiden af begge permer. De nyeste dokumenterede ejere omfatter Herman Lynge og Sigurd Wandel. Den første ejer anfører på indersiden af bagpermen, at han den 9. juli 1650 har købt bogen af Hans Hanssen Skaaning i Aarhus.Bibl. Dan. IV,246. Thesaurus 644.

London, J. Peele, 1727. 8vo. Without wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 72 pp. Scarce first edition of Gould's influential treatise in which he declared that the interest on government securities should be kept near "the natural interest of money," as defined by Locke. Gould's essay is the very first work commenting on England's massive debt burden in the 18th century and it anticipates the major economic debate on the role of national debt and The Sinking Fund by 50 years. Gould documented that since 1716 the national debt had been greatly reduced and he argued that in time, by the application of the principle of compound interest, the sinking fund would pay off all of the national debt. To support this argument he showed that one million pounds, accumulating at four percent compound interest, would amount in 105 years to 1575 millions. "The English public was in fact so nervous [by the massive national debt] that the Pitt government in 1786 resumed, on a larger scale and more seriously, the policy of paying an annual sum into a Sinking Fund. The plan adopted is usually attributed to the suggestion of Richard Price, [1772]. Sir Nathaniel Gould had published similar views before [in the present publication]. (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 327)."Gould appears, in fact, to have been the first person to have employed those arguments on behalf of the policy of simultaneously borrowing and repaying which subsequently became an accepted element in financial theory. [...] Gould had complete confidence in the permanence of and the efficacy of the sinking fund". (Wormell, National Debt in Britain. P. 41)Kress 3695Goldsmith 6548Hanson 3737Hollander 932Houkes: p. 405(Not in Einaudi, but lists it. See Einaudi Vol. p. 400)

[Dublin, Printed by and for Geo. Grierson, in Essex-Street, and for George Ewing, in Dames-Street, 1 8vo. Nice 19th century half calf with richly gilt spine. A bit of occasional brownspotting, but overall very nice. Half-title with three old owner's entries - that of Jens Baggesen (1802), another one dated 1860, and finally that of esteemed book collector Paul V. Rubow, statitng that this is Pope's edition. Another old owner's signature (Brammer) to title-page. 424, (48 - Index), (6 - table of editions of Shakespeare's Plays), (2 - advertisements) pp. - lacking the title-page for the volume, but with all half-titles for the separate plays present. Six large allegorical woodcut head-pieces, woodcut initials, and woodcut ornamentations. Volume 7 - containing Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello - of the extremely rare first Irish edition of Shakespeare's works, which appeared in 8 volumes in all, the 8th being a supplementary volume by Dr. Sewell. This 7th volume is arguably the most sought-after of the volumes, as it includes not only Hamlet, but also Romeo and Juliet as well as Othello and will thus also have been saleable and collectable on its own. This copy of vol. 7 was bought by the great Danish Golden Age author Jens Baggesen (1764-1626) on his travel to London in 1802 and bears his inscription "London, April 13th" and signature to the front free end-paper. "Jens Baggesen, in full Jens Immanuel Baggesen, leading Danish literary figure in the transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.In 1782 Baggesen went to Copenhagen to study theology. Three years later, at age 21, he had an unprecedented success in Denmark with his first collection of poems, Comiske fortællinger (1785; "Comical Tales"). Later, after his libretto to the first major Danish opera, Holger Danske (1789; "Ogier the Dane," music by Friedrich Kunzen), received adverse criticism (mainly because of its supposed lack of nationalism), Baggesen traveled through Germany, Switzerland, and France. The journey became the basis of his most important book, the imaginative prose work Labyrinten (1792-93; "The Labyrinth"), a "sentimental journey" reminiscent of the work of the 18th-century English novelist Laurence Sterne. Baggesen was variously a Germanophile, a great admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, a disciple of Immanuel Kant, and a Romanticist and early admirer of Denmark's foremost Romantic poet, Adam Oehlenschläger. Later in life he vigorously opposed Romanticism, carrying on a seven-year feud with Oehlenschläger.A perennial traveler, attracted to existential harmony but always torn between material and spiritual values, Baggesen found himself at home everywhere and nowhere. His restless existence was tempered only by his sense of humour and absurdity. He has been called a European spirit who "held a passport to the whole world except his own heart"." (Encycl. Britt.). It was in December 1800 that Baggesen moved from Denmark and settled down in Paris. He was not happy and he was not healthy. In late March 1802, he went to London, where he wrote the famous line ""Dover! Shakespear! Oh Ocean! Oh Mountains! I am thrilled!" ("Dover! Shakespear! O Hav! O Bjerge! Jeg er henrykt!")- and it was here, on April 13th, that he acquired the present volume of Shakespeare's works, containing the greatest of the author's plays.The eight volumes of this first Irish edition of Shakespeare's works was published by George Grierson and George Ewing and constitutes a piracy reprint of Pope's 6-volume 4to edition of 1725, including also the Index of the Characters, Sentiments, Speeches and Descriptions, which is present here in volume 7. The edition is very scarce and only few libraries world-wide have a copy in their holdings.Not in Lowndes

London, The Macmillan Company, 1899. 8vo. In the original full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Traces after removel of label on lower part of spine. Library labels pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Embossed library stamp to titbel page (not affecting text). Otherwise a fine copy. XXVIII, (2), 445, (3) pp. The scarce first edition of Clark's seminal work - a cornerstone of neoclassical micro-economics -, which is considered "by any reasonable test, a landmark treatise in the development of economics". (New Palgrave). Clark "is regarded in some quarters as the one great American economist of the calibre of Smith and Mill". (Cohen, American Thought: A Critical Sketch, p. 117).Clark here presented his famous theorem: Given competition and homogeneous factors of production labor and capital, the repartition of the social product will be according to the productivity of the last physical input of units of labor and capital. This theorem is one of the pillars of neoclassical micro-economics and was popularly formulated by Clark himself: "[W]hat a social class gets is, under natural law, what it contributes to the general output of industry.""Very early in his career Clark began to work on the problem of factor shares (possibly because of his interest in Henry Georg) and concluded that the treatment of land rent as a surplus whose size is not determined by marginal productivity was gross error. The most complete statement of his views on distribution is in [The present work]. [...] Despite its flaws (which include the universal measure of value) 'the Distribution' is a remarkable book and, by any reasonable test, a landmark treatise in the development of economics.The 'Distribution represents an advance on the prior art in two important respects. It offers a discussion of the relation of statics to dynamics - the terms was introduced into economics by Clark - superior to that of previous treatments. And it offers, for the first time, a complete and lucid exposition of the neo-classical theory of distribution." (The New Palgrave)"One of the classics on the subject. "Aims "to show that the distribution of the income of society is controlled by a natural law, and that this law if it worked without friction, would give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which the agent creates." (A Select Bibliography of Modern Economic Theory, 1870-1929, P. 69). John Bates Clark (1847 - 1938), American neoclassical economist, was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University.Mattioli 687Einaudi 1114Katalog der Karl Menger-Bibliothek 431

Prentet udi Aarhus, i Autoris Tryckeri 1650. Velholdt eksemplar indbundet i samtidigt helpergament med kalligraferet titel på ryggen. Samtlige sider indrammet af bred røskenbort. Med dedikation fra bogens tidligere ejer fra 1650 og fremefter. 322 pp. Hans Hansen Skonning (1579–1651) var forfatter, bogtrykker og klokker ved Domkirken i Aarhus. Efter at være blevet afsat som klokker af biskop Morten Madsen i 1641 hævnede han sig med denne satire, der retter sig mod forholdene i Aarhus. Skonning oprettede sit eget bogtrykkeri i byen omkring 1630 og fik i 1635 bevilling til at drive en papirmølle. Foruden sit virke som trykker var han en flittig forfatter. Hans mest omtalte værk i samtiden var 'Kattens Rettergang med Hundene', en dyreallegori i stil med Reineke Fuchs. Værket er en bredt satirisk fremstilling i knittelvers, hvor Skonning indædt hævder, at sandhed og retfærdighed er hjemløse i en verden, hvor lasten triumferer. Thesaurus 644. Bibl. Danica IV, 246. Houghton no. 15: "A contemporary of Arrebo, Skonning is today an obscure figure. In his lifetime, however, he was well known as a poet and a printer. This first edition, an allegorical verse epic with prose commentary, is a relatively rare seventeenth-century Aarhus imprint, published at the author's own printing house. Each page of text is printed within a border of type ornaments."

Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bandes and richly gilt spine. Small paper label pasted on to upper part of spine indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Lower part of front hindge split. Small worm-tract affecting first two leaves, but otherwise a nice copy. (8), 198, (2) pp. The uncommon first edition of this famous account of the expedition undertaken by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade to assist the Venetian rulers of Heraklion, Crete (Candia), against the siege undertaken by Ottomans in the final year of the Cretan Wars (1645-1669) De la Feuillade, who had previously engaged Ottoman forces at the Battle of St. Gothard in 1664, willingly volunteered for this mission. With support from Pope Clement IX, he personally funded and organized a contingent of 500 men. The journal, composed as a letter by a volunteer on the expedition, not only provides a detailed account of the Cretan war but also offers valuable insights into the Greek Orthodox Church. Interestingly, the manuscript fell into the possession of a certain Thioly, who, despite having the text, disavowed any knowledge of the author. Subsequently two more editions were published in Grenoble in the same year, followed by another in 1670. Additionally, an English translation was published in 1670.Blackmer 859

Kiöbenhavn, H.J. Graae, 1771. Marmoreret papbd. fra 1800-tallet med senere håndskevet papirtitelfelt på forperm og ryg. Nydeligt eksemplar på skrivepapir, med kun enkelte letter brunplettede blade. Tidligere ejernavn på forsatsen. Den uhyre sjældne originaludgave af denne digtsamling, der anses for noget af det ypperligste skandinaviske lyrik på Holbergs tid. Den lyriske gigant, Ambrosius Stub (1725-1758), som frembyder særsynet af "(e)n anakreontisk Lyriker midt i Paryktiden, en vagabonderende Digterskikkelse i Embedsfilisteriets Dage -" (P. Hansen. Illustr. dansk Litteraturhist, II: 189) fik kun trykt ét eneste digt i sin levetid. Man ved ikke meget om denne forunderlige forfatter til digte som "Den kiedsom Vinter gik sin Gang" (trykt hér første gang), og det er kun en del af hans digtning, der er bevaret for eftertiden. "Stubs Sange vare i Alles Munde og vandrede fra Haand til Haand i Afskrifter; nogen fuldstændig Samling af dem besad han vel neppe engang selv, ialtfald har han i sin Beskedenhed aldrig tænkt paa nogen trykt Udgave af dem." (Illustr. dansk Litteraturhist, II: 193). Først i århundredet efter Stubs død blev interessen for ham for alvor genvakt, og allerede dengang var originaludgaven af største sjældenhed.Stubs poesi rager højt op over sin samtids lyriske digtning, og hans digte udviser en individualitet og naturlighed, der er et forunderligt særsyn i denne periode.