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Kief, F. A. Johanson, 1882. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and spine lacking 1 cm of upper part of spine. Title-page with 8 numbers written in contemporary hand. Pasted down back end-paper with two small stamps, otherwise internally fine. VII, 433 pp. Rare first Russian translation of Darwin's "The Power of Movement in Plants" published two years after the Original English. "This [the present work] was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanisms hold good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book...". (Freeman).It appeared in French, German and Russian by 1882, and in Italian and Romanian later. Freeman 1349

Au Monomatapa (Paris, 1748) 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to spines, some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. (8), 370 pp. + 5 plates; (4), 420 pp. + 2 plates (complete). The rare first edition of Diderot’s first novel, published anonymously, being an allegory portraying Louis XV of France as Mangogul, Sultan of Congo, who owns a magic ring that makes women's vaginas talk. For unspecified reasons Diderot did not venture further into this subject, however, he did make sure to portray Madame de Pompadour, the mistress Louis XV, in a flattering light, most likely to ensure her support for his Encyclopedie – a support he received and in 1751 he, together with D'Alembert, published their seminal ‘Encyclopédie’. Tchemerzine IV, 430

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926-27. 8vo. Bound in one nice hcalf with gilt borders and gilt lettering to spine. All three papers published in "Zeitschrift für Physik". 1. Title-page for volume 37, pp. 863-67. - 2. Title-page for volume 38, pp.. 803-27. - 3. Title-page for volume 40, pp.167-192. Title-pages with stamp. Clean and fine. First editions of all three papers, which together constitute Born's main contributions to Quantum Mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954. In his famous series of papers on wave mechanics Schrödinger stated his equation describing the behavior of the wave function. However, Schrödinger did not himself arrive at a proper physical interpretation of the wave function itself - this is due to Born. Just a few days after Schrödinger's fourth and final paper was published, Born successfully interpreted the wave function as probability amplitude. His relatively brief paper (the first offered here) was originally meant to be published in the weekly magazine "Die Naturwissenschaften" but due to lack of space in this journal it was forwarded to the 'Zeitschrift'. The next paper offered, with the same title, is an elaboration of the first. In the third paper Born used the adiabatic principle to further support his statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Kiøbenhaffn, Matz Vinggaard, 1577. Folio. Samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. 2 messinbeslag efter 2 lukkestroppe. Ryg med ophøjede bind. Ryg fornyet i ældre tid. Kapitælslid. De rigt blindtrykte permsider kun delvist bevarede, panelleret med rullestempler. Hjørner restaurerede. En nyere, på permens inderside, indklæbet beskrivelse, hævder, at bindet er udført af P. Knufflack.(14),171,155,114 blade. 4 blade i faksimile (A1-2 og B4-5). En del blade kantflossede. Nogle skjolder, brugsspor. Enkelte blade defekte med lidt tab af bogstaver. Spredte kantreparationer og mindre revner i marginer. De to deltitelblade med bred træskåren ramme. Gennemillustreret med store bibelske træsnit som er kopier af Hans Brosamers illustrationer til en tysk bibel, trykt i Frankfurt 1548-49. Folio. Contemporary full calf binding over wooden boards with old rebacking. Two brass clasps, no ties. Raised bands to spine. Capitals worn. The richly blindstamped boards have only partly been preserved. Corners restored. A newer decription pasted into the inside of front board claims that the binding was made by P. Knufflack. Several leaves worn at edges. Some damp staining and wear. A few leaves defective with loss of a few letters. Scattered edge repairs and small tears to margins. The two half-titles with wide woodcut border. Illustrated throughout with large biblical woodcuts that are copies of Hans Brosamer's illustrations for a German bible printed in Frankfurt 1548-49. 4 leaves in facsimile (A1-2 and B4-5). (14), 171, 155, 114 ff. The exceedingly scarce re-issue of the first Danish edition of Luther's "Huuspostille", which was printed by Lorenz Benedicht in 1564. Thesurus states that only two copies of this incredibly rare book has been on the market since World War II. Only very few copies on private hands. Det yderst sjældne re-issue af førsteudgaven der blev trykt af Lorentz Benedicht i 1564. Thesaurus anfører, at der kun har været to eksemplarer på markedet siden 2. Verdenskrig.Thesaurus I, 104. - Birkelund, 24 (1564-udgaven) - Lauritz Nielsen, 1085.

Paris, chez H. J. Jansen, An VIII de la République françoise (1800). 8vo. 2 volumes uniformly bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and tome-number to spine. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XVI, 440 pp.: 332, 109, (3) pp. The first octavo edition, published the same year as the first quarto edition, of the famous account of the La Perouse-expedition to Australia and the surrounding islands. The La Pérouse expedition was a French naval expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. The primary objectives of the expedition was scientific exploration, mapping uncharted territories, and establishing trade relations. Unfortunately, the expedition met a tragic end when La Pérouse's ships disappeared, and the fate of the crew remained unknown for several years. The search for La Pérouse's expedition became one of the most significant maritime mysteries of the 18th century. Despite the tragic outcome, the knowledge and discoveries made during the expedition had a lasting impact on the understanding of the Pacific region and contributed to the broader scientific and exploratory efforts of the time. Provenance: From a Danish estate library. Sabin 38420 Brunet III, 711

Duisburg, Falk & Lange, 1866. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blindstamped borders to boards. Small tears to top capital and a small tear to the top of hinges. Otherwise very clean and fresh, aslo internally. VIII, 256 pp. Scarce first edition of Lange's highly influential work, which came to serve as a great source of inspiration to Karl Marx, who read it extensively. Especially Lange's theories on rent theory and soil exhaustion (chapter 4 in the present work) influenced Marx profoundly.Apart from his influence through Marx, Lange was seminal in the spreading of Darwinism in Germany. Nietzsche was introduced to Darwin via Lange, which became pivotal in his construction of his theory of the Übermensch. "[Lange], elucidates his critique against the Leibig school in the 1866 book [the present], the title which ironically mocks Dühring's book. Marx made some excerpts from this book in the beginning of 1868 and possessed a copy in his library. These excerpts are important because Marx focused on chapter 4 in which lange criticizes Carey's and Dühring's view on agriculture. Marx documented a passage in which Lange rejects Carey's idea of the harmonious development; especially the latter's treatment of a "protective tariff" as "panacea" which should automatically lead to the establishment of an autarchic. " (Karl Marx's Ecosocialism)."Thus in 1868 Marx began reading the work of authors who took a more critical stance toward Liebig's Agricultural Chemistry. He was already familiar with arguments such as Roscher's, which held that the robbery system should be criticized from the point of view of "natural science" but could be justified from an "economic" standpoint insofar as it was more profitable. According to Roscher, it was only necessary to stop the robbery just before it became too expensive to recover the original fertility of the soil-but market prices would take care of that. Adopting Roscher's arguments, Friedrich Albert Lange, a German philosopher, argued against Dühring's reception of Liebig and Carey in his J. St. Mill's Views of the Social Question [J. St. Mills Ansichten über die sociale Frage] published in 1866. Marx read Lange's book at the beginning of 1868, and it is no coincidence that his notebook focuses on its fourth chapter, where Lange discusses the problems of rent theory and soil exhaustion. Specifically, Marx noted Lange's observation that Carey and Dühring denounced "trade" with England as a cause of all evils and regarded a "protective tariff" as the ultimate "panacea," without Lange's recognizing that "industry" possesses a "centralizing tendency," which creates not only the division of town and country but also economic inequality. Similar to Roscher, Lange argued that "despite the natural scientific correctness of Liebig's theory," robbery cultivation can be justified from a "national economic" perspective."( Saito, Marx's Ecological Notebooks)Lange is a significant figure among the mid nineteenth century German intellectuals who were concerned to think through the impact of developments in natural science for philosophy, pedagogy, and politics."Lange was one of the originators of "physiological neo-Kantianism" and an important figure in the founding of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He played a significant role in the German labour movement and in the development of social democratic thought. He articulated a socialist Darwinism that was an alternative to early social Darwinism." (SEP)Die Bibliotheken von Marx und Engels (MEGA IV.32).

Bratislava, Vydalo Slovenské vydavatel'stvo politickej literatúry, 1955 - 1958. 8vo. 4 volumes, all in publisher's original full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines and front boards and Marx in profile blind-stamped to front boards. A very fine and clean set. 918, (2) pp + fontiespiece of Marx; 590, (2) pp; 515, (4) pp; 541, (4) pp. Rare first Slovakian translation of Marx’ landmark work ‘Das Kapital’. A Czech translation was made in 1913 which, due to similarities between the languages, for a while made a Slovakian translation superfluous. Because of the dominance from the Soviet a need for a Slovak translation rose and a complete transition of all three volumes were published between 1955 and 1958. In the Czech lands and Slovakia the study of economics developed later than in the West European countries. An urgent need for economic study arose only in the 19th century, when the disintegration of feudal relations and the development of capitalism, were accompanied by a national revival. Marxist economic theory was somewhat slow to gain a following in the Czech lands and Slovakia.

Paris, J. Baudry, 1868 - 1877. Large 4to. In contemporary full blue cloth with two red title-labels to spines. Wear to extremities, corner's bumped, scratches to boards and parts of the title-label missing. Underlinings and marginal annotations in pencil. Plates brownspotted, primarily in margin, and dampstain to inner margin of plate 16-38. (8), 164 pp. + 38 plates. Second expanded edition of this landmark work on semitic inscriptions “In which he revealed, for the first time, the great richness of late antique architecture to be found in the interior of Syria” (Kennedy, Crusader Castles) - here with the added part of the "inscriptions sabéennes", found in the region south east of Damascus in Syria, not present in the first edition. The first part is identical to first edition from 1868 but here also with the must sought after "inscriptions sabéennes". It focuses on the central region of Syria and provides a comprehensive analysis and translation of the inscriptions found in this area. The author, Charles Jean Melchior de Vogüé, was a renowned scholar and archaeologist dedicated to the study of ancient Semitic languages and scripts. Vogüé's book offers valuable insights into the historical and cultural significance of the region through its meticulous translation and commentary on the inscriptions. "De Vogüé travelled with William Waddington in 1853 and 1854, exploring the area from Aleppo to Damascus, Palmyra and Basra. It was an important expedition and much new material was uncovered. The author became ambassador to the Porte in 1871" (Blackmer). Blackmer 174

Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Möller, 1779. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped. Previous owner's name to upper margin of front free end-paper. Occassionally leaves split between quires. A few leaves miscoloured. An overall very nice and clean copy. (20), 291, (24) + 34 engraved plates, several of them folded and 1 frontispiece. First edition of one of the very first detailed descriptions of North Africa and Morocco in particular, containing the earliest description of Moroccan-Arabic dialect in a European source by mentioning personal pronouns, some verbs and prepositions, genitive marker, present markers and euphemisms, together with comparisons between Moroccan and Classical Arabic. Containing detailed and accurate information about the history, geography, government, commerce, religion, culture and customs, it became one of the most important works for the study of Morocco in the eighteenth century, and it was quickly translated into German and French. Georg Hjersing Höst (1734-1794) was between 1760 and 1768 in Morocco, first in the service of the Danish-African Royal Company and later as vice consul of Denmark in Mogador (Essaouira).Schnurrer "Biblioheca Arabica", vide Nos. 125 a. 139.

Osaka, Kawachiya, 1845, fourth month (Kōka 2). 4to (255 x 180 mm). 6 volumes uniformly bound in orange contemporary stitched spineless Fukuro Toji bindings with white paper title label pasted on to front wrappers. Housed in a chitsu. Severly affected by wormholes. Heavily affected by wormholes throughout, otherwise clean. Chitsu-case with wear. 35; 39; 39, 36, 30; 28 pp. Beautiful work written by Yamada Isai with illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai consisting 55 episodes in the life of Shaka (Buddah). Hokusai has made 35 illustrations for 27 episodes, and 23 of those are new iconographies in Shaka’s biography, inspired by various pictorial resources, while other 12 scenes originate in the former or traditional ones of these subjects. With thirty-two monochrome illustrations and covers various events, starting from the court of King Suddhodana, the Buddha's father, before his birth in the Indian kingdom of Kapilavastu, and ending with the distribution of the Buddha's relics after his death. Throughout Asia, depictions of the Buddha's life have followed common narrative structures and artistic conventions for centuries. There is no single authoritative textual source for the Buddha's life story, so visual narratives have relied on well-known episodes, such as his birth as Prince Siddhartha, his renunciation of worldly life, his ascetic practice, attainment of enlightenment, and eventual death. These narratives have been adapted creatively to specific contexts, sometimes incorporating new episodes or extending the story beyond the Buddha's death. The Illustrated Record of the Life of Sukyamuni by Yamada Isai and Katsushika Hokusai can be compared to historical fiction rather than a strict historical account. Hokusai's illustrations, in particular, prioritize creative additions to the story over adhering strictly to canonical episodes. For example, the book does not depict the Buddha's death but focuses on other aspects such as familial conflicts, supernatural encounters, and scenes of hell. The included double-page illustration portrays a dramatic episode that concludes volume 1. The right-hand illustration shows the canonical episode of the Buddha's conception, where his mother, lady Maya, receives a dream indicating her pregnancy. However, the left-hand illustration deviates from the conventional depiction of Maya's sister, Gotami, as a benevolent aunt to the Buddha. Instead, she is portrayed as a jealous character transformed into a giant snake due to her envy. This aspect of the narrative draws inspiration not from the Buddha's life stories but from the tale of Lady Xi (468-499), a would-be empress during the Chinese Liang dynasty. (For more information see The Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese illustrated books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries).

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1826-1830. Large 4to. (370 x 275 mm). 2 volumes, both untrimmed in the original printed yellow boards. Binder's printed label on inside of front boards (Bauzonnet Relieur). Extremities with wear and light miscolouring and vol. 2 missing upper 5 cm of spine. Vague dampstain affecting first 70 leaves of outer margin of vol. 1. XX,129; XXII,(130)-318 pp., and 62 engravings, of which 33 are text illustrations, 4 of these are coloured. An overall good copy. First edition 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). A French and German edition was published simultaneously. Brunet I,1273.

Kiöbenhavn, H.J. Graae, 1771. Samtidigt hldrbd. Permer med overtræk af klistermarmorpapir. 4 ophøjede bind på ryg. Den forgyldte rygtitel delvist bortslidt. Trykt på skrivepapir. Godt, velbevaret eksemplar. Den uhyre sjældne originaludgave af denne digtsamling, der anses for noget af det ypperligste skandinaviske lyrik på Holbergs tid, sat ind i sin poetiske samtid. 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, og denne posthume udgave, samlet af T.S. Heiberg, er det første, der er trykt af ham ud over dette ene digt. 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.

Yerevan, 1938 8vo. In the original embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board. The profile of Marx and Engels embossed onto front board. Extremities a bit rubbed a underligning in text throughout. 131, (5) pp. + 4 plates (respectively showing Marx, Engels, the title-page of the Original German edition and a letter). The exceedingly rare first Armenian translation of The Communist Manifesto printed in Armenia.

(Genova), Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1564. Folio. Later red full calf, rebacked, soft boards. Inner hinges reinforced. T-p. w. repaired loss to lower right corner, not affecting text. Upper part of first about 100 leaves w. decreasing waterstaining w. very minor affect to text. Cont. owner's name to t-p. ("Ex libris Rabillone"). T-p. in red and black, woodcut printer's device to t-p., woodcut initials and vignettes, first part w. beautiful Greek script. Overall good condition. (16), 297, (2), 216, (8) pp. First edition thus. First part in Greek, second part in Latin. "The Latin version is Valla's , which Stephan published separately in 1564, but which usually accompanies the Greek text." (Dibdin II:506). "The text was first printed by Aldus in 1502. The edition of Henri Estienne, a member of the famous French family of printers, who corresponded with scholars as an equal, first came out in 1564. The edition cited (the second edition, 1588) was improved by the addition of a translation into Latin by Lorenzo Valla..." (PMM 102). This edition also contains Valla's excellent and famous translation, being the second part of the work, separately paginated (pp. 1 - 216); in the second edition the translation is not printed separately, but in parallel columns on the same pages as the Greek text. "Édition plus belle" (Brunet, V:844). Stephanus (Estienne) worked in Paris and Dibdin mentions the work as being printed in Paris, whereas PMM states that it is printed in Genova. Brunet V:844, PMM 201, Dibdin II:506. Greasse, 7:149.

(Kazan, Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, 1841). 4to. In a contemporary modest half calf over marbled paper boards. Published in a supplement to "Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus dem Lehrbezirk der Kaiserlich. Russischen Universitaet Kasan". Heft 1, 1835–1836. 1841. Small stamp to upper outer corner of front free end-paper. A few leaves brownspotted. Book block split between pp. 4 and 5, otherwise a fine copy. 48 pp. Exceedingly rare first appearance of this work by Lobachevsky in which he returns to convergence of infinite series, on the foundations of calculus and real analysis, which he previous had dealt with in his 1834-textbook Algerbra and his 1834-paper ‘Ob ischezanii trigonometricheskikh strok’. Here, he expands and further develops the modern definition of the idea of a function in the works of Dirichlet, Poisson, and himself, adding and supplying more proofs. Primarily famous for his non-Euclidean geometry, Lobachevsky published a few papers on such nongeometrical subjects as algebra and the theoretical aspects of infinite series. The chief thrust of his scientific endeavor was, however, geometrical, and his later work was devoted exclusively to his new non-Euclidean geometry, the present work being one of his last on algebra and infinite series.

Cambridge, 1722. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Boards with a few scratches, missing small parts of the leather. corners bumped. Upper endbands showing. Upper outer corner with dampstain, primarily affecting first leaves, otherwise a good copy. Printed on good paper. (20), 249, (3), 125, (1) pp. + 1 folded plate. First edition of Cotes’ important posthumously published work. Roger Cotes (1682-1716) published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, and the present work thus constitutes the earliest and main record of his mathematical achievements. According to Augustus de Morgan, this is 'the earliest work in which decisiveness progress was made in the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle of the calculus of fluents'; it includes the first version of the Newton-Cotes formulas, the first introduction of Euler's formula, and the 'Cotes' theorum' of trigonometry. Furthermore, it contains the “Earliest attempt to frame a theory of errors.” (Jungnickel, Cavendish: The Experimental Life, p. 150). Roger Cotes (1682–1716), much respected in his own right, is also known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He became the first Plumian Professor at Cambridge University from 1707 until his death. When Cotes died Cambridge in 1716 at the early age of 33 Isaac Newton famously remarked, "If he had lived we would have known something." Tomash & Williams C184 Norman 519 Wallis 246 Babson (Supplement) 29

Kbhvn. 1804-28, 1830, og 1834-35. Indbundet i 51 bind. Bd- 1-49 i samt. halvlæderbind, bd. 1-4 i 8vo, resten i 4to. Bd. 1 og 2 mangler øverste del af ryg, de sidste 2 bind i nyere halvmaroquin, alle med stempler på titelblade og etiketter på rygge. Bd. 16 mangler nr. 96 og 100. I Allernyeste, 1830 mangler spalte 1-4. Yderst sjælden række af dette omfattende kulturhistorisk/topografiske værk. "Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn" grundlages i 1803 af Johan Werfel, og eksisterede til 1837. Johan Werfel døbte bladet Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn til minde om sin ven samfundsrevseren Niels Ditlev Riegels, som var død året før. Riegels havde 1786-1790 udgivet det samfundskritiske blad Månedsskriftet Kjøbenhavns Skilderie, men efter Trykkefrihedsforordningen af 1799 var grænserne for, hvad man kunne skrive, væsentligt indskrænkede. Werfel forsøgte i nogle numre af sit blad at mindes Riegels ved at udgive nogle af hans efterladte skrifter, men måtte efter nogle numre stoppe forsøget. Boghandleren og forlæggeren Salomon Soldin blev snart ansat som redaktør, og efter at Werfel i 1808 forsvandt og foregav at være død for at undgå sine kreditorer, overtog Soldin også udgivelsen af bladet.I de første årgange var bladet et lille ugeblad, der udkom i kvartformat, men det udvidedes snart, så bladet i format og udgivelse kunne konkurrere med tidens andre populære blade såsom Berlingske Tidende og Adresseavisen.Soldin skrev selv en stor del af indholdet i bladet, men også flere af tidens betydelige personligheder som Rasmus Nyerup, Knud Lyne Rahbek, Christian Molbech og Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig bidrog ofte med indlæg.Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn var et særligt københavnsk blad, og det læstes fortrinsvis af de dannede borgere. Det var desuden i sin levetid et af de væsentligste blade, hvor bl.a. mange af de vigtigste litterære fejder stod.Allerede i 1825 afhændede Soldin redaktionen af bladet til Frederik Thaarup. Omgangskredsen frygtede for bladets skæbne, og selv sagde Soldin, at han ved overgivelsen til Thaarup havde sørget for, at de fik "kristelig Begravelse". Det var dog ikke Thaarup, der lagde det i graven, for efter 6 år på posten overlodes det til Hans Christian Wosemose, Claudius Rosenhoff og J. H. Stabell som omdøbte det til Allernyeste Skilderie. Det levede endnu 6 år, men i 1837, samme år som Soldin døde, gik bladet endeligt ind. - Bibl. Danica IV: 614.

Chicago, 1953. Lex 8vo. Entire volume present. Contemporary brown half cloth with type-written paper title-label to spine. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 317-324. [Entire volume: VI, 10, (2), 819, (1) pp]. Seminal first printing of the groundbreaking paper that founded the field of antidepressant medicine, being the paper that reported for the first time the first discovery in the antidepressant field, namely the first specific antidepressant drug. It is with the report of the present paper that isoniazide becomes the first antidepressant in clinical history, thus founding a field that the modern world could hardly be imagined without, sparking a kind of treatment that is now presumably the most frequently prescribed in the Western world. "As far as can be ascertained, the present study is the first in which isoniazid has been employed in the treatment of anxiety states and psychoneurotic, agitated, and manic-depressive depressions." (Present paper, p. 318).In 1951 a series of hydrazide derivatives was introduced for the treatment of tuberculosis, the best known of them being isoniazid and iproniazid. Isoniazid was not a newly discovered drug, having been synthesized in 1912, but its recognized success against tuberculosis was. The impact of the drug was truly remarkable and stories of the effect on patients came from various places, most dramatically from New York's Sea View Hospital. These reports captured the attention of the media; e.g. "Life" magazine ran an article showing patients dancing in the wards. "These articles caught the attention of many psychiatrists. Phyychiatrists throughout the United States were tempted to prescribe these compounds for mental health purposes, given the effects of these drugs to boost appetite, cause weight gain, increase vitality, and improve sleep. The conventional wisdom is that no indications emerged from any of these efforts.Stimulated by the reports of improved sleep and appetite by Robitzek et al. (1952) and probably the feature in "Life", Max Lurie and Harry Salzer made the first discovery in the antidepressant field in 1952. following the suggestions that isoniazid appeared to treat tuberculosis and enhance the sense of well-being of the patients receiving the drug, Lurie, like Jackson Smith thought isoniazid might be a useful agent to help depressed patients... Lurie was probably the person who coined the term "antidepressant" in 1952." (Weissman: Treatment of Depression. Bridging the 21st Century, pp. 10-11)."On June 4, 1953, a paper was read before the section on nervous and mental diseases at the 102nd annual session of the American Medical Association in New York detailing the effects of isoniazid in forty-one patients suffering from anxiety and depression. Two-thirds of those to whom it was given improved, and among those improving were a number who had previously only responded to ECT. Improvement took up to three weeks to appear. The authors were Harry Slzer, an assistant professor of neurology at the Cincinatti College of Medicine, and Max Lurie, an instrutor in psychiatry at the same university. Both were attending psychiatrists at the Cincinatti General Hospital." (Healy: The Antidepressant Era, p. 72). Salzer and Lurie thus became the first to recognize, test, and describe the effects of an actual, clinical, antidepressant drug (i.e. in the present paper). "This report deals with the early results noted in a group of 41 patients, most of whom were suffering from depressive states of the psychoneurotic, agitated, or manic-depressive types, and one of whom had a pure anxiety state. They were given isoniazid, and the effect on their mental status, as well as on their various symptoms, was studied." (Present paper, p. 318).The discovery of antidepressants must count as one of the most important discoveries for modern man. According to a government study, antidepressants have now become the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States. They're prescribed more than drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, or headaches. In its study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were for antidepressants. The same tendency occurs througout the rest of the Western World.

Uppsala, Magnus Swederus, 1777. 8vo. In a nice contemporary half calf binding with richly gilt spine. Light occassional marginal miscolouring. Plates closely trimmed but generally a very nice copy. (2), (24), 376, (4) pp. + 12 plates and 2 folded maps. First edition of von Troil’s seminal work on Iceland's geology, flora, fauna, climate, and geography, contributing to the broader scientific understanding of the region during the 18th century. Von Troil's writings about his travels in Iceland helped popularize the island as a destination for European travelers and intellectuals. His account was influential in shaping perceptions of Iceland in the broader European consciousness. “One aim of the Enlightenment period was “to observe everything” on a journey, and Uno von Troil was one of many young scholars who followed these ideas. He seems to have had a general interest in natural history, humanitarian matters and local traditions as well as specialist knowledge in languages, history, philosophy and theology. His initial period abroad – 1770 to 1772 – included visits and regular attendance on lectures at several universities as well as network-building with learned men, particularly in Göttingen. At the arrival in France, he came in contact with the Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Denis Diderot (1713-1784) among others in Paris. The glimpse into the world of these well-known men – more than thirty years his senior – may have influenced him in many ways. To have met Diderot for instance, at the time for his ongoing editing of the Encyclopédie must have been an inspiration for a young man like von Troil, who in the coming year got the possibility to amass facts from a wide range of subjects on the Iceland journey – including weaving, local clothes as well as trade in wool and eiderdown. In the smaller format, it almost became like an encyclopaedia of Icelandic traditions. It is noticeable too, that von Troil had no prior knowledge of the planned Iceland journey when arriving in London 1772, for the reason that Joseph Banks (1743-1820) had changed his travelling arrangements in short notice. James Cook (1728-1779) actually departed without him and found other botanists to explore the flora and fauna on his second voyage, which set sail in July 1772 – that is to say in the same month as the Iceland journey. Uno von Troil came to accompany the twelve-man crew – primarily invited due to his interest in the Icelandic language – on an expedition led by the naturalist Joseph Banks.” (Linda Hall Library) The present work was shortly after publication translated into several other languages: German (1779); English (Letters on Iceland, 1780-83); French (1781) and Dutch (1784). Fiske 608

(Vendome), Presses Universitaires de France, (1957). 8vo. In the original stapled printed wrappers. Offprint from "Les Études Philosophiques", October-December, 1956. Has been bended vertically and has some minor miscolouring to extremities, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 567-584. Scarce first edition, off-print in the original wrappers, of Lacan's famous work on psychoanalysis, in which he revived Freudian psychoanalysis. The present publication marks a major turning point in Lacanian and French psychoanalysis in general with the split between Lacan and The International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA) and the later founding of Lacan's own 'SCHOOL' in 1964.Lacan's famous "return to Freud" emphasizes a renewed attention to the original texts of Freud, and included a radical critique of Ego psychology. Lacan has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud" mainly because of his (selective) revival of Freud and his quarrel with the IPA - the present publication not only marks the revival of Freud, it also initiates the split with the IPA.The main reason for the split between between the IPA and Lacan was Lacan's use of sessions of variable duration which the IPA did not advocate:"After (Lacan's) resigning from the IPA-affiliated Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) in 1953, to join the newly founded Société Francaise de Psychoanalyse (SFP), Lacan was informed by letter that this also meant that he was no longer a member of the IPA. From that moment on Lacan until his dead Lacan and the IPA were at loggerheads. Lacan criticized both the institutional structure and the dominant theoretical tendencies of the IPA. [...]. Lacan argued that Freud had organized the IPA in such a way because that was the only way to assuring that his theories, misunderstood by all his first followers, remain intact for someone else (Lacan) to disinter and resuscitate later on. The IPA was, in other words, like a tomb whose only function was to preserve Freud's doctrine despite the ignorance of the members of the association, the implication being that once Lacan had breathed new life into the doctrine [which he did with the present publication], the IPA no longer had any valid function at all. (Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis).

Koppenhagen, (Colophon: Mads Vingaard - zu kauff bey Heinrich Waldkirch), 1597. 4to. Indbundet i et 1700-tals helbind i masrmoreret kalveskind. 5 ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rig forgyldning i rygfelterne. Forgyldt titeletiket. Lidt slid langs kanter. marmorerede forsatse. Titelbladet trykt i rødt og sort. Rigsvåbnet i træsnit på A3 verso.(104) unnummererede blade. Lettere bladgulning i starten, spredte brunpletter, nogle blade i midten med svage marginalskjolder. Øverst på et af de forreste friblade signeret "Oldenburg" (Frederik Oldenburg, assessor i Højesteret, historiker og kendt bogsamler). Originaludgaven af August Erichs kendte førstehåndsberetning om Christian IV's kroning. Året efter blev værket udgivet på dansk."August Erich calls himself "German Secretary to his Royal Majesty". He was present at the ceremonious coronation of King Christian IV August 29, 1596, and describes the various processions, festivities and tournaments. He also records the names of the persons taking part in the coronation and how they were dressed." (Thesaurus I, 230).Lauritz Nielsen, 573. - Bibl. Dan.III,70. - Thesaurus I,230.

(Princeton, NJ.), Annals of Mathematics, 1938 a. 1940. Both papers in orig. printed wrappers. Offprints from "Annals of Mathematics", Vol. 39, No. 1, january, 1938 and Vol. 41, No. 2, April, 1940. Pp. 65-100 and pp. 455-464. Both clean and fine. This copy has belonged to Abraham Pais (1918-2000) - the famous Einstein scholar, theoretical physicist and Einsteins collegue at Princeton - and having his name on top of both frontwrappers "A Pais". First editions, in the scarce offprint versions, of Einstein's last and highly important contributions to General relativity, and in which is shown that the equation of motion follows directly from the field equation that defined the geometry."Einstein's last importent contribution to general relativity deals again with the problem of motion. It is the work done with Leopold Infeld and Banash Hoffmann on the N-body problem of motion. In these papers, the gravitational field is no longer treated as external. Instead, it and the motion of its (singular) sources are treated simultaneously. Anew approximationscheme is introduced in which the fields are no longer necessarily weak but in which the source velocities are small compared with the light velocity .... The equations obtained have found use in situations where Newtonian interaction must be included. '(These equations) are widely used in analyses of planetary orbits in the solarsystem. For example, the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses them, in modified form, to calculate ephmerides for high-precision tracking of planets and spacecraft."(Pais "Subtle is the Lord", p. 290-91)."The problem of the equation of motion of bodies is the following. The 1916 theory had a classical structure in the sense that there were both field equations (the curvature of space-time is determined by the mass and motion of bodies in space-time) and equations of motion of bodies (the world line of small mass is a geodesic). Are these two statements really separate? If the field equations were linear, they indeed would be. They are not linear, however, and Einstein showed (in the papers offered) that if matter is represented by a point singularity of the metric field, these singularities are located on world lines that are geodesics of space-time, provided its metric satisfies the equation of general relativity."(DSB).Weil: 202 a. 295 (both with an asterix denoting a major paper). - Boni: 236 a. 236.1.

Geneve, Barrillot & Fils, 1747. 4to. Contemporary full vellum with gilt title-label to spine. Binding a bit soiled, but overall nice and tight. Title-page a bit toned, but otherwise very nice and clean. XXIV, 352 pp. The uncommon first edition of Burlamaqui's groundbreaking main work - the only work that he himself published - which, with its vision of constitutionalism, constituted a major influence upon the American Founding Fathers. It is in the present work that the quest for happiness as a natural human right is articulated for the first time, a principle that Thomas Jefferson, directly influenced by the present work, later restated in the Declaration of Independence. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748) was very well respected as an eminent legal and political theorist. He was born in Geneva, and at the age of 25, he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university there. Before taking up the appointment, he travelled through France and England, where he made the acquaintance of the most eminent writers of the period. Upon his return, he began lecturing and soon gained a wide reputation for his eloquence and for the precision of his views. In his introduction, Nugent (in his 1748 translation of the work into English) said of Burlamaqui: "His singular beauty consists in the alliance he so carefully points out between ethics and jurisprudence, religion and politics, after the example of Plato and Tully, and the other illustrious masters of antiquity."Burlamaqui's lectures drew many foreign students to Geneva, and his natural law treatise, the only work that he published in his life-time, was translated into English, Latin, Dutch, Danish, Italian, and Spanish and was republished in more than sixty different editions. The English translation became a standard textbook both at Cambridge and at the foremost American colleges. Burlamaqui's work was well known by the Founding Fathers, and his writings exerted considerable influence on the American constitutional system. Burlamaqui's work also exercised considerable influence upon the likes of Rousseau and Diderot.

Kjøbenhavn, (ca. 1861-62). Lille folio. 27,5x18 cm. I orig. rosa helshirmappe med blindtryk og forgyldt bogstavering på forperm. Den sarte shirtmappe usædvanlig velbevaret bortset fra at den er lettere falmet. Med Litograferet titelblad, 1 blad med trykt indholdsfortegnelse samt alle 30 pragtfulde farvelitograferede plancher. Sandsynlivis med supplerende håndkolorering. Eksemplaret her stammer fra H.I. Andersen bibliotek. Den sjældne originaludgave. I Rosenkilde og Baggers beskrivelse af værket fra H.I. Andersens salgskatalog anføres, at førsteudgaven af Lund's billedværk er håndkoloreret af kunstneren selv. Givet er det, at farvelitografiet har fået en supplerende farvelægning.

Brünn, 1867. 8vo. Entire volume present. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. A few tears and lacks of paper to extremities. Paper spine (entirely present) kept together by tape. Internally completely fresh. Pp. (160) - 172. [Entire volume: XXII, (2), 87, (1), 236, (2) pp.]. Extremely scarce first edition of the fifth meteorological publication (from the same periodical in which "Über Pflanzen-Hybriden" was published the year before) by the founder of genetics, Gregor Mendel. The paper represents an important contribution to the emergence of exact weather-forecasting and helped found Mendel's reputation as the leading meteorologist of Moravia.Apart from plant growing and seeding, Gregor Mendel's main interest lay in the field of meteorology, to which he contributed substantially throughout many years of his life. Mendel was a farmer's son and grew up with farm growing. His great interest in the science of meteorology may be partly explained by his background, as he was very much aware of the tremendous influence of the weather on the productivity and harvesting of crops. The idea behind his precise meteorological observations, the first official one of which he made in 1848, was for him to become able to make reliable weather predictions - a thing which would be of great value to farmers especially. From 1848 to 1862 Mendel and Dr. Pavel Olexik recorded a series of observations, which they presented at the first meeting of the newly established Brünn Natural Science Society. After that Mendel began supplying the Vienna Meteorological Institute with the data of his daily observations in Brünn. It was due to Mendel and other experts on the subject that the institute began publishing daily weather reports and forecasts in the 1870'ies, as they had been persuaded of the value of such reports and forecasts to farmers. "Mendel began his meteorological studies in 1856 and was soon recognized as the only authority on this subject in Moravia. In his first meteorological paper, published in 1863, he summarized graphically the results of observations at Brno, using the statistical principle to compare the data for a given year with the average conditions of the previous fifteen years. Between 1863 and 1869, the paper was followed by five similar communications concerned with the whole of Moravia... In 1877, with his support, weather forecasts for farmers in Moravia were issued, the first in central Europe... These studies [i.e. the meteorological ones]... have much in common methodologically with his studies of hybridization. They grew out of his habit of scrupulously collecting and recording data, thinking in quantitative terms, and subjecting observational data to statistical treatment " (D.S.B. IX:279)."Note that his meteorological work was well known and highly regarded during his lifetime, but is now almost forgotten. By contrast, his work with peas, to which he devoted only eight years, was ignored during his lifetime, but is now highly regarded." (Corcos & Monaghan, Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids, 1966, p. 32). According to Dictionary of Scientific Biography, "The "Verhandlungen" was distributed to 134 scientific institutions in various countries, including those in New York, Chicago, and Washington." It is generally accepted that no more than 200 copies of the "Verhandlungen" were published, and the surviving volumes are of great scarcity.