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(London, 1772). 4to. Bound in a fine recent brown hmorocco in old style, gilt back. In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society pp. 147-264 (vol. 62) and 1 folded engraved plate (P.Basire Sc.). A fine large copy, broad margins, printed on good paper, clean and fine throughout. First edition of this important tract, which marked an epoch in the history of chemistry. As it is Priestley's first extensive work on Gases, it foreshadowed his identification of Oxygen."The paper here, for which the Royal Society awarded Priestley the Copley medal announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide and the use of the latter in measuring the purity of air, which led through the work of Cavendish, Fontana and others to exact eudiometry. Priestley also observed that plants consume carbon dioxide and gave out oxygen, thereby purifying air which has been vitiated by combustion, respiration and putrefaction, and that this action takes place only under daylight." (Printing and the Mind of Man No. 217)."In this paper he also announced two new gases that he had obtained - nitrous oxide and carbonic oxide; these won him the Royal Society's Copley medal. Two years later his experiments in heating red oxide of mercury produced "dephlogisticated air" which was announced in 1775 and identified by Lavoisier as oxygen." (Dibner Heralds of Science No. 40).The work contains a proposal to saturate water with carbonic acid under either atmospheric or increased pressure, which led to the creation of the mineral-water industry.The Centenary of the discovery of oxygen was celebrated at Priestley's American home at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and was followed in 1876 by the foundation of the American Chemical Society. (PMM). Honeyman No. 2535 - The Barchas Collection No 1718.

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841 (submitted 1826). 4to. (257x197mm). Extract from: 'Mém. Acad. d. Sciences de Paris', 1841, pp.176-264. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine lettering. Spine with a little wear. Some light brown spotting throughout. Otherwise fine and clean. Very scarce first edition of Abel's main paper, in which he first presented his theorem for elliptic integrals - Abel's theorem. "After studying at Christiania and Copenhagen, Abel received a scholarship that permitted him to travel. In Paris he was presented to Legendre, Laplace, Cauchy, and Lacroix, but they ignored him. ... Abel knew the work of Euler, Lagrange, and Legendre on elliptic integrals and may have gotten suggestions for the work he undertook from remarks made by Gauss, especially in his 'Disquisitiones Arithmeticae'. He himself started to write papers in 1825. He presented his major paper on integrals to the Academy of Sciences in Paris on October 30, 1926, for publication in its journal. This paper, [the offered item], contained Abel's great theorem. Fourier, the secretary of the Academy at the time, read the introduction to the paper and then referred the paper to Legendre and Cauchy for evaluation, the latter being chiefly responsible. The paper was long and difficult, only because it contained many new ideas. Cauchy laid it aside to favor his own work. Legendre forgot about it. After Abel's death, when his fame was established, the Academy searched for the paper, found it, and published it in 1841. ... Because Abel's main paper of 1826 was not published until 1841, other authors, learning the more limited theorems published in between these dates, obtained independently many of Abel's 1826 results." (Kline: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, pp.644-55). Sotheran: Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematics, Third Supplement, describes this paper as "very scarce".

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1679. Small8vo. (15x9 cm.). Contemp. full sprinckled calf., raisedbands, richly gilt spine. Top of spine a bit worn. Edges of covers gilt. (12),86,(1) pp. Last page "Extrait du Privilege du Roy". 34 fine full-page engravings (25 copper-engraved a. 9 in woodcut). A paperflw at foot of titlepage neathly repaired, no loss of paper or letters. Internally clean and fine, printed on thick, good paper. Extremely scarce first edition of Leclerc's important work on binocular vision in which he finds that one of the eyes has a dominant status, thus announcing the discovery of the "Master-eye" - a discovery of outmost importance in the theory of shooting and elsewhere. With use of diagrams he shows that "things that can be seen clearly are seen with but one single eye.". He records and depicts a large series of experiments with binocular vision and shows geometrically the relation to the science of perspective, and points out the importance of understanding the physiology of binocular vision for perspective painting in general.Sebastien Leclerc was originally an engraver who studied physics and geometry in relation to perspective theory, a field of which he became famous. In 1672 he was appointed to "l'Academie de Peinture" as professor in perspective. He was also engraver to Louis XIV and was appointed professor at "l'Ecole des Gobelins".

Odense, Hempelske Boghandel, 1874. 8vo. Bound in the beautiful original green full cloth binding with gilt spine and gilt angel to front board. Blindstamped frames to boards. All edges gilt. Minor insignificant wear to extremeties. Inner hinges weak. Exlibris to pasted down front endpaper. Internally clean with a fully legible presentation-inscription to front free endpaper: "Dr. Professor E. Hornemann / en hjertelig Hilsen ved Udgangen / af Aaret 1874 fra hans / taknemlige Ven / H. C. Andersen. ("Dr. Professor E. Hornemann a heartfelt greeting by the end of the year 1874 from his grateful friend H. C. Andersen."). A lovely presentation-copy of the first printing of Andersen's poem Oldingen.The inscription is made for Andersen's doctor Claus Jacob Emil Hornemann (1810-90). On December 30, 1874 Andersen wrote in his diary: "Sendt til Dr Hornemann i smagfuld Indbinding de tre Bind Eventyr illustrerede af Frøhlich, dernæst en ligesaa rig Udgave af Odense: Julebog og endeligt O T paa Engelsk, amerika Udgaven. Netop da Bydrengen var gaaet med Bogpakken kom Dr Hornemann i Besøg." ("Sent Dr Hornemann a tasteful copy of the three volumes of fairy tales, illustrated by Frøhlich, then a likewise beautiful copy of Odense: Julebog and lastly, O T in English, the American edition. Just as the delivery boy had left with the books Dr Hornemann visited me.")BFN 1038.

Verlag v.H.Georg im Basel u. Genf, (um 1865). Folio-oblong. Orig.leather backed pictorial cloth. Engr. title, 45 steel-eng.plates after J.Ulrich and ab. 200 engr. views in the text. Title and mostof the plates with occasional faint brown-spottings, mostly in margins.

Lisboa, Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1803. Folio-oblong (365 x 255 mm). In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremies, upper part of spine with loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. With, primarily marginal, brownspotting throughout. Dampstain to inner margin and upper outer margin of last 10 ff. 32 ff. Rare first edition of the most celebrated Portuguese treatise on calligraphy. Joaquim José Ventura da Silva (1777–1849), regarded as one of Portugal’s finest calligraphers and teachers of writing, composed this methodological guide to handwriting in which he combines a historical survey of scripts used in Portugal with practical instruction for teaching and learning penmanship.Ventura da Silva is reffered to by Innocencio (Diccionario Bibliographico) as "one of the best Portuguese Calligraphers". A second edition was published in 1819, a third in 1841, and a facsimile was published in Porto in 1899.

(Berlin, 1924). Original printed wrappers. A bit of browning to wrappers and a bit loose at the inner hinges. But overall in very nice condition. 59pp. First edition, in the extremely scarce separate off-print, of this seminal essay, which appeared in October 1924 as the preface to the third volume of Trotsky's collected works. The essay now counts as a work in its own and was subsequently reprinted numerous times on its own, by the Trotskyist movement. This seminal essay came to play a defining role in the development of post-Lenin politics in Russia. It was extremely critical of the purported revolutionary failings of two key members of the collective leadership that ruled Soviet Russia in the months after Lenin's death, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, and Trotsky was seen as main threat to the accession of power. The publication of his foundational essay on the October Revolution was used as a pretext for the Soviet leadership to isolate and attack Trotsky. It now constitutes a cornerstone of post-Revolutionaly Russian politics. "When Lenin was stricken with his first cerebral hemorrhage in May 1922, the question of eventual succession to the leadership of Russia became urgent. Trotsky, owing to his record and his charismatic qualities, was the obvious candidate in the eyes of the party rank and file, but jealousy among his colleagues on the Politburo prompted them to combine against him. As an alternative, the Politburo supported the informal leadership of the troika composed of Grigory Zinovyev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin.In the winter of 1922-23 Lenin recovered partially and turned to Trotsky for assistance in correcting the errors of the troika, particularly in foreign trade policy, the handling of the national minorities, and reform of the bureaucracy. In December 1922, warning in his then secret "Testament" of the danger of a split between Trotsky and Stalin, Lenin characterized Trotsky as a man of "exceptional abilities" but "too far-reaching self-confidence and a disposition to be too much attracted by the purely administrative side of affairs." Just before he was silenced by a final stroke in March 1923, Lenin invited Trotsky to open an attack on Stalin, but Trotsky chose to bide his time, possibly contemplating an alliance against Zinovyev. Stalin moved rapidly to consolidate his hold on the Central Committee at the 12th Party Congress in April 1923.By fall, alarmed by inroads of the secret police among party members and efforts to weaken his control of the war commissariat, Trotsky decided to strike out against the party leadership. In October he addressed a wide-ranging critique to the Central Committee, stressing especially the violation of democracy in the party and the failure to develop adequate economic planning. Reforms were promised, and Trotsky responded with an open letter detailing the direction they should take. This, however, served only as the signal for a massive propaganda counterattack against Trotsky and his supporters on grounds of factionalism and opportunism. At this critical moment Trotsky fell ill of an undiagnosed fever and could take no personal part in the struggle. Because of Stalin's organizational controls, the party leadership easily won, and the "New Course" controversy was terminated at the 13th Party Conference in January 1924 (the first substantially stage-managed party assembly) with the condemnation of the Trotskyist opposition as a Menshevik-like illegal factional deviation. Lenin's death a week later only confirmed Trotsky's isolation. Convalescing on the Black Sea coast, Trotsky was deceived about the date of the funeral, failed to return to Moscow, and left the scene to Stalin. His eulogy for the late party leader was, in effect, delivered in a biography of Lenin that Trotsky wrote for the 13th edition (1926) of the Encyclopædia Britannica.Attacks on Trotsky did not cease. When the 13th Party Congress, in May 1924, repeated the denunciations of his violations of party discipline, Trotsky vainly professed his belief in the omnipotence of the party. The following fall he took a different tack in his essay "The Lessons of October 1917", linking the opposition of Zinovyev and Kamenev to the October Revolution with the failure of the Soviet-inspired German communist uprising in 1923. The party leadership replied with a wave of denunciation, counterposing Trotskyism to Leninism, denigrating Trotsky's role in the Revolution, and denouncing the theory of permanent revolution as a Menshevik heresy. In January 1925 Trotsky was removed from the war commissariat." (Encycl. Britt.).

London, Iohn Windet, 1608. 12mo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, corners bumped. Edges of boards with loss of leather. Previous owner's names to front and back end paper ("Robert Wilson" & "Edvard Wilson, anno domini 1666"). Internally with a few light dampstains. (20), 328, 328-499, (4) pp. The exceedingly rare second edition (the first being from 1586) of Roger’s somewhat free translation of ‘Papist’ Diego de Estalla’s work “Libro de la vanidad del mundo (Toledo, 1562). Roger’s admit that he had no access to the original but had to use the Itanlian and Spanish translations. This present English translation, however, is of significant interest since recent research suggests it was a source and inspiration for Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’: At the opening of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, the vow to renounce worldly pleasure has barely been announced before one of Navarre’s book-men declares his success: “Dumaine is mortified” (I.i.28). This ‘mortified’ is not a word Shakespeare would use often. It appears here in the sense of ‘having the appetites and passions in subjection’ and insensible or impervious to (the world and its pleasures), the latter informing Dumaine’s gloss: ‘To love, to wealth, to pomp. I pine and die’. The fact that this is the earliest use of ‘mortified’ in the Shakespearean canon is the first clue that one of the sources for Love’s Labour’s Lost was Thomas Roger’s A Methode unto Mortification, published in London in 1586 and again in 1608. Shakespeare’s pleasure in frustrating the ambitions of this book went some way to shaping his play”. (Kingsley-Smith, A Method unto Mortification: A New Source for Love’s Labour’s Lost). "Love's Labour's Lost" is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s. The play revolves around the King of Navarre and three of his noble companions who make a pact to swear off women and focus on scholarly pursuits for three years. However, their resolve is tested when the Princess of France and her entourage arrive on a diplomatic mission. Each of the men falls in love with one of the women, leading to a series of comedic misunderstandings, romantic entanglements, and wordplay. “It is also possible that some facts about the original author sparked Shakespeare’s interest. Diego de Estella was born in Navarre, and spent time the court of Philip II of Spain before incurring disapproval for his criticism of court life and being forced into a Franciscan monastery. Armado, the braggart and clown of Love’s Labour’s Lost, is the first Spaniard to appear in Shakespeare”. (Kingsley-Smith, A Method unto Mortification: A New Source for Love’s Labour’s Lost).

Paris, Guillyn, 1751. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three very nice contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Vol. 1 missing top 5 mm. of spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spines, indicating the inventory number in an estate library. Small worm-tract in lower margin of vol. 3, far from affecting text. A very nice set. (12), 456, (24) pp. + 8 folded plates; (36), 365, (3) pp.; (8), 400 pp. + 4 folded plates. Rare second edition, first with all three volumes published simultaneously, of arguable one of the most important and influential 18th century book on gastronomy. Here Menon for the first time explicitly describes the recently invented “nouvelle cuisine: a tendency to put food and nutrition on a scientific basis, its functions in the body, reducing the number of varieties offered at a meal, lighter foods and bringing simpler presentations to the table. Menon embraced a comprehensive approach to the culinary customs of his era, extending beyond mere food preparation and presentation. His works highlighted the significance of action, strategy, and demeanor, emphasizing that these aspects were equally crucial. His books served not only as guides to gastronomic practices but also as manuals for proper conduct and manners. For instance, in this present work, he incorporated a diagram illustrating the meticulous organization of dishes discussed throughout the books. Menon had what we would today call a holistic approach to gastronomic practices of his day that went well beyond the preparation and presentation of food. Several of his titles make clear that action, strategy and deportment were just as important. His book were as much about ways of acting as they were about food itself, like style-guides for gastronomic mores and manners. For instance, in his Nouveau traite, there is a diagram showing the careful arrangement of dishes that are described in the course of the books. "François Menon was the most influential and prolific French cookbook author of the eighteenth century. During his time, today's familiar categories of French cooking were emerging, and Menon was a master of them all: nouvelle cuisine (a term that each generation redefines); haute or classical cuisine; and cuisine bourgeoise. He even wrote the first French cookbook devoted specifically to a woman cook (La cuisinìere bourgeoise)... Menon first described the new cuisine in detail in the third and final volume of Nouveau Traité de la cuisine (New Treatise on Cooking, 1742). In contrast to traditional cooking, he wrote, the key to nouvelle cuisine was delicacy. Sauces were lighter but at the same time more nourishing; seasonings aimed to enhance rather than mask lead ingredients... Menon not only wrote about the practicalities of nouvelle cuisine; he was also concerned with philosophy, linking his mission closely to that of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment: to advance and disseminate knowledge that allows humankind to live in a state of nature perfected." (Willan, The Cookbook Library, pp. 218-19). Vassallo, Catalogo dei libri esistenti nella pubblica biblioteca di Malta p. 118.

New York, Macmillan, 1924. 8vo. In the original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to extremities and hinges a bit weak, otherwise a very fine copy. (blank), X, (1), 394, (blank) pp. First edition of Commons' landmark work, in which he developed his 'theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change as a modifying force alleviating the major defects of capitalism' (New Palgrave). Together with Thorstein Veblen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, Commons was one of the three founders of American Institutionalism.'He sought to demonstrate the importance for economic theory of collective action in all its varieties. These included not only the state but also a host of voluntary associations, such as the corporation and the trade union; in fact, collective action conceptually embraced all institutions, since Commons defined an institution as "collective action in control of individual action"' (IESS)'Although Commons' institutionalism had different emphases from that of Thorstein Veblen, for example, in that Commons stressed reform of the capitalist framework, they shared a view of economics as political economy and of the economy as comprising more than the market' (The New Palgrave, vol.1, p.506).John Rogers Commons (1862-1945) was an institutional economist and labor historian who became a significant contributor to most pieces of social and labor legislation in the 20th century. He was the first American economist and social scientist to dedicate himself to improving labor conditions, believing that labor injustice not only impacted workers, but also the stability of society.

Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome IX. With titlepage to vol. IX. Pp. (2), (167-) 264 and 4 folded engraved plates. The memoir has also its own titlepage. Fine and clean. Wide-margined. First printing of this monumental memoir (the invention of the TORSION BALANCE) dealing with the best way to construct a magnetic compass. The paper contains the design of a torsion suspension declination compass and the demonstration that the forces of torsion is proportional to the angle of twist. Coulomb received the prize awarded by the Academy for this paper drafted by the Academy in 1777 (he shared the prize with Van Swinden). - "The importance of this memoir for Coulomb's career is that it CONTAINED ELEMENTS OF ALL HIS MAJOR PHYSICAL STUDIES: the quantitative study of magnetism, torsion and the torsion balance, friction and fluid resistance, and the germ of his theories of elasticity and magnetism."(DSB)."Coulomb’s first writings on torsion were presented in his Academy prize-winning memoir of 1777, "Recherches sur la meilleure maniere de fabriquer les aiguilles aimantées."......... his simple, elegant solution to the problem of torsion in cylinders and his use of the torsion balance in physical applications were important to numerous physicists in succeeding years. In chapter 3, Coulomb developed the theory of torsion in thin silk and hair threads. Here he was the first to show how the torsion suspension could provide physicists with a method of accurately measuring extremely small forces. He showed that within certain angular limits, torsional oscillation consisted of simple harmonic motion. He examined the parameters relating the angle of twist to the length, diameter, and elastic properties of the torsion thread. In the range of simple harmonic oscillation Coulomb demonstrated that the force of torsion was proportional to the angle of twist. He used this principle in measuring small magnetic forces and also called attention to its use in measuring other forces, notably those of fluids in motion. Eventually he was able to measure forces of less than 9 x 10-4 dynes.""Coulomb’s major memoirs in electricity and magnetism are his 1777 memoir on magnetic compasses, the famous series of seven electricity and magnetism memoirs read at the Academy from 1785 to 1791, and several magnetism memoirs prepared after the French Revolution. In his electrical studies Coulomb determined the quantitative force law, gave the notion of electrical mass, and studied charge leakage and the surface distribution of charge on conducting bodies. In magnetism he determined the quantitative force law, created a theory of magnetism based on molecular polarization, and introduced the idea of demagnetization (basically, that combinations of magnetic poles can "cancel" each other)."(DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs": 1777:P

Kiöbenhavn, uden ang. af trykker, 1755-80. 4to. 11 samt. ensartede hellæderbind af flammet kalv. Rig rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind på rygge. Tome-og titelfelter i skind. Forgyldte bordurer på permer. Kapitæler på nogle få bind bind lidt slidte, nogle hjørner lidt stødte. 10 kobberstukne titelblade og 1 bogtrykt. Trykt på svært skrivepapir. Indvendig ren og frisk. Pragteksemplar af "Fundationerne" som har tilhørt Adam Gottlob Moltke til Bregentved og til hvem flere af bindene er dediceret. På alle for-og bagpermer er Moltke's store forgyldte, kronede hjerteskjold. Komplet eksemplar af Hans de Hofmans store værk, som indeholder en del plancher i form af portrætter, kort og genealogiske tabeller, bl.a. portræt af Tycho Brahe, store vignetter m.m.

Madrid, 1788-93. 4to. Bound in 2 nice contemp. full sprinkled calf. Gilt borders on covers, 5 raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabels with gilt lettering. The Appendice slightly different bound, but matching. Fine marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait. (6),XVI,359 pp. and 4 folded tables, 4 large folded engraved maps. Appendix: (4),128 pp., 1 folded table and 1 folded engraved map. Clean and fine printed on thick paper. A small wormtract in top of the last 2 maps and the last few leaves (margins). First edition of two important expeditions by Antonio de Córdoba. The first voyage was made with the intention of surveying the Straits of Magellan to see if it was advisable for the Spaniards to continue to use it as a route to the Pacific. It also includes a history of the discovery of the strait, as well as of the expeditions of Cabot, Drake, Bougainville, Carmargo and others. The second voyage includes an interesting account by Cevallos of the first encounter with the natives.Sabin, 16765.

Bergen, Mons Litleré, 1889. Indbundet ubeskåret med de originale omslag i et særdeles nydeligt halvlæderbind af brun maroquin med forgyldt titel og blindtrykte streger på ryg. Forgyldte linie-bordurer på permer. Foromslag forstærket yderst i margin og med en professsionalt udbedret rift (uden teksttab) samt navnetræk. Titelblad jævnt brunet. Et særdeles fint, friskt og rent eksemplar. Den sjældne originaludgave af Hamsuns fjerde bog, som ikke er kommet i komponeret bind. Bogen efterfølger Bjørger og er som de tre tidligste Hamsun-bøger svær at få fat på.

Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1926. 8vo. All five paper bound separately in blank blue wrappers. Extracted from In "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck., Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81."Entire issue 4, 6, 8, 13 and 18 offered. A fine and clean set. [Schrödinger's papers:] Pp. 361-376; Pp. 489-527; Pp. 734-756 (Bd. 79). Pp. 438-490 (Bd. 60). Pp. 109-131 (Bd. 81). First printing and first appearence of these 5 papers which introduces Schrödinger's wave-equations and explains the stationary states of electrons in Bohr's theory of the atom by way of applying de Broglie's concept of electron waves. These papers are among the most important in modern physics and "almost overnight, made Schrödinger famous" (Brandt, Harvest of a Century)."The intensity of Schrödingers work on the problem (he found the earlier Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory unsatisfactory) increased as he saw that he was on the track of "a new atomic theory", and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. On 27 December 1925 he wrote to Wilhelm Wien, editor of the "Annalen der Physik" inMunich that he was very optimistic: "I believe that I can give a vibrating system...thatyields the hydrogen frequency levels as it eigenfrequencies." The frequences of the emitted light rays are then obtained, as Schrödinger observed, by establishing the differences of the two eigenfrequencies respectively. "Consequently the way is opened toward a real understanding of Bohr's frequency calculation - it is really a vibration (or, as the case may be, interference) process, which occurs with the same frequency as the one we observe in the spectroscope. I hope, that I will soon be able to report on this subject in a little more detail and in a more comprehensive fashion" (Schrödinger's letter to Wien)...The so-called Klein-Gordon equations which Schrödinger used gives an incorrect description of the relativistic structures Schrödinger tried to describe. As this equation he tried to use, describes particles without spin, whereas a a description of electrons requires the Dirac equation..."After a brief interruption Schrödinger took up his method again, but this time he treated the electron nonrelativistically. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented a the behavior of the electron to a very good approximation. THE RESULT WAS THE EMERGENCE OF WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY 1926. Schrödinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in the "Annalen der Physik" bearing the overall title "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem." The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first apperarance in the literature of his famous wave equation, written out for the hydrogen atom..."(DSB). In the fifth paper offered, Schrödinger himself shows that there is an essential equivalence of his theory and that of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan's.Brandt, Harvest of a Century, no. 39.

Uppsala, Joh. Edman, 1788-93. 8vo. Four beautiful, excellently preserved contemporary half calf bindings. Gilding and gilt title-labels to spines. (26), 389, (1); (32), 384; (14), 414, (30), 341 pp.Engraved vignette and 10 engraved plates (og which two are folded). With all four half titles (inserted). Printed one fine, good paper and internally very nice and clean. Indbundet i 4 ensartede, smukke og velbevarede samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning og med forgyldte titeletiketter i skind på rygge. Kobberstukket vignet (Goda Hoppet Udda) samt 10 kobberstukne plancher (hvoraf 2 udfoldelige). Med alle 4 halvtitelblade, som dog er indsatte. Trykt på skrivepapir og indvendig meget rene. First edition, in a very fine copy, of Thunberg's account of his famous naturalist and ethnographical travels in Europa, Asia and Africa. Thunberg is sometimes called "the father of South African botany" and "the Japanese Linnaeus". In the first two volumes he vividly decribes the botanical and ethnographical features of South Africa around the Cape."Thunberg’s description of his great voyage, published in four parts in Swedish in 1788-1793 and soon translated into English as Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia (1793-1795), as well as in French and German, contains material of great ethnographical interest." (DSB).

Paris, Beaurin, Poirion, Jombert, 1755-56 Folio. (41 x 30 cm.). 3 uniform contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Light wear along edges. (6),IV,410 pp. With 5 title-pages. 11 large engraved vignettes. Atlasvolumes with 2 engraved title-pages and 147 (of 148 - lacking map 20 in part 4) double-page engraved topographical plans and maps, nearly all with handcoloured positions, symbols and routes. Some maps in triple-folio and folded. Printed on thick paper. 2 textleaves with a faint dampstain in margins. First edition of Jean de Beaurain's main work on the military history of Flanders. Beaurain (1696-1771) was a French geo- and cartographer, who studied under the famous Pierre Moulart-Sanson in Paris. Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing, 12227. First edition. - Brunet I,722.

København, (Copenhagen), 1885-87. 4to. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Even browning as usual, due to the paper quality. An envelope pasted on to front free end-paper containing Danish articles on Marx. Previous owner's name to title-pages. A fine and clean copy with both half-titles present ("Socialistisk Bibliotek" Vol. IV-V). Vol 1: (2), 473, (1); Vol 2: VII; (1); (4), 363, (1) pp. First edition of the first Danish translation of "Das Kapital". The translation is remarkable in several respects - the Danish Social-democratic party was one of the first labour organizations in the world to publish the two volumes of "The Capital", the translation of the first volume preceded both the English and the Italian, and the translation of the second volume is the second in the world to appear, only preceded by the Russian from 1885 - furthermore, these two translations were the only two to appear of volume two until after Engels' death in 1895. After having been in a serious crisis at the end of the 1870'ies, the labour movement in Denmark turned things around in the 1880'ies, primarily with the aid of Marx. Marx' theories and his connection between theoretical and practical politics became the foundation for the Social Democrats. In 1884, the Danish Social Democratic Party got its two first members of parliament elected, and many workers wished to become politically active. Also in Denmark, the class struggle had properly begun.As Marx was the foundation for the beginning success of the Social Democrats, the Party decided that it would translate and publish all the most important works by Marx - of course most importantly "The Capital". This translation was to become "a new and powerful weapon for the Danish Labour Party in the agitation for the socialist principles". The translation of "The Capital" was made by the linguist and journalist Hans Vilhelm Lund (1840-1893), who worked at the paper Social-Demokraten in the 1880'ies and 90'ies. The translation is famed for being extremely true to the original and virtually flawless. In order to reach as wide a relevant audience as possible, the price was kept as low as it could be. It still constituted a full day's wages for a skilled worker, namely 2 kroner - still about 1/7 of the German edition. In spite of all the efforts to distribute the translation, it did not become a bestseller, and in 1911, the remainders were issued with a new title-page in 1911. (PMM 359 - first edition).

Paris, Sonnius, 1594. 8vo. In contemporay vellum with yapp edges with title in contemporary hand to spine. Light soiling to extremities and a small tear to the vellum on the spine. Small worm-tract affecting last two leaves, otherwise a fine copy. (4), 369, (26) ff. Exceedingly rare first edition of Fumée’s work on the Hungarian history from the Battle of Mohács and the death of Louis II in 1526 up until the truce between the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and the Ottoman sultan Murad III.The present work not only presented a narrative history of the sixteenth-century wars in Hungary but also included a geographical description of the region. Fumée explicitly dedicates his history "to you (the French people) and to no other." After vividly portraying the brutality of warfare in Hungary, Fumée urges French readers to contemplate the destructive nature of war. He prompts them to reflect, stating, "When you see the ruins and great desolations of a beautiful and rich country, you see your own at present reduced to an identical state." Fumée draws direct parallels between the sufferings of Hungary and France, both seen as enduring divine punishment. In his conclusion, he asserts, "it seems that we are in a worse condition than Hungary is in." Hungary thus serves as a reminder to the French people of the shared hardships stemming from religious disunity, political turmoil, and civil warfare that continued to afflict both kingdoms. 'Martin Fumée, squire of Mary le Chastel, a high-ranking French aristocrat, based his desciption of the battle of Mohács on the work of István Brodarics (1470-1539), De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz, Cracow, 1527, who in the company of the ill-fated Louis II (1506-1526) was eye-witness to the destruction of the Hungarian army by the Ottoman forces in 1526. Fumée's main source for events following the battle was probably Ascanio degli Hortensii' (Horvath p.26).

Strassburg, Balthassar Beck, 1552. 4to. In contemporary blindstamped half pigskin-binding over wooden boards with later marbled paper covering the boards. Endpapers renewed. Upper part of spine with title paper-label. Wear to extremities and front board partly detached. Last blank leaf with annotations in contemporary hand. Internally fine and clean. (6), XCVIII, (7), (blank), (4), CLV, (8) ff. One woodcut illustration in text. Rare later edition of Ryff’s first part of “Kleinen Apoteck” and second part of “kleinen Teutschen Apoteck” - his highly popular manual of domestic medicine and cookery. Ryff in general wrote for a lay audience and his texts were all published in German, rather than Latin. “Ryff had no scruples in appropriating material wherever he could find it. Ryff is known to as one of the most notorious plagiarists who robbed the works of others, and therefore brought on himself the wrath of his contemporaries who showed no mercy for his short comings, either as a man or as an author” (Hagelin, Materia Medica, p. 58). Versalius even called him “the Strasbourg plagiarist.” What his contemporaries criticized him for eventually turned out to be the strength of his publications. He managed to popularize medical knowledge and make, what used to be an esoteric knowledge only available for the few, available to a broad audience. His ability to make medical knowledge available for the layman and the fact that he wrote in German later earned him flattering title of being the “Luther of Medicine”. “Walther Hermann Ryff (c.1500-c.1548) was a German surgeon and author. While little is known about his life, he probably studied pharmacy in Basel. He served as the city apothecary in the northern German town of Güstrow, then moved on to Strasbourg, where he served as city physician from 1532-1540. He left Strasbourg in 1544 following a legal suit involving plagiarism – one of the defining features of his literary career – and went on to Frankfurt, Mainz, Nuremberg, and Kulmbach. He died in Würzburg.” (Bernard Becker Medical Library). Durling 4018Not in Waller

(Various places in Germany, various printers - See below), 1679 - 1728. Folio (310 x 200 mm). In contemporary half vellum. Binding with wear, edges of front board with paper detached. Front free end-paper with index in contemporary hand. Bookblock closely trimmed, occassionally touching text, but internally generally nice and clean. (For collation see below). Extensive and most interesting sammelband containing 31 funeral sermons, orations, memorial writings and funeral music compositions. All work are from Northern and Eastern German-speaking areas, especially Danzig (Gdansk), Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Glückstadt, Hamburg, Berlin, Halle, Zerbst and Wittenberg and are commemorating nobility, various wives of nobles, judges and city officials are commemorated. All are of the utmost scarcity and are never found in the trade. To mention a few: Boguslav Radziwill (1620–1669): A prominent member of the Radziwill family, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Governor of Prussia. Sigismund Guldenstern, a member of the Guldenstern family. Detlev von Rantzau (Graf zu Rantzau) and his wife Dorothea Benedicta AhlefeldtErnst Gottlieb von Börstel: A Prussian officer and noble. Joachim von Sydow: General-Major in service of the Danish King. Friederich Ehlers: Mayor of Danzig. Nicolaus von Bodeck: Another mayor of Danzig. Hans Ernst von der Linde: Mayor of Danzig, appears in multiple funeral publications. Johann Gottfried Diesseldorff: Mayor of Danzig, a high-ranking administrator. Caspar Ziegler (1621–1690): Famous Lutheran jurist, professor at Wittenberg, Matthias Philipp von Lattorff: Member of the Lattorff family. OFFERED PUBLICATIONS: Merckwürdige Gedancken von den Wunden Jesu Des Weyland Magnifici, Hoch=Edeln/ Besten und Hochgelahrten Hernn Caspar Zieglers Weitberühmten Jurisconsulti und Antecefloris auf der löbl. Universität Wittenberg. Wittemberg, 1716. 12 ff. Leich- Procession Bey des Durchläuchtigen fürsten und Herrn Boguslav Radziwilln. Königsberg, Friderich Reusnern, (1670). (16) pp. Geistliche Rechenkunst Der Tage Menschlichen Lebens Zum ... Ehren- Gedächtnüss Des ... Herrn Boguslav Radziwiln ... Stadthaltern des Hertzogthumbs Preussen ... Als desselbigen am letzten Tage des 1669sten Iahres ... entseelter Cörper den 6 Maji des 1670 Iahrs zur Erden Königsberg, Friderich Reusnern, (1670). 35 pp. Stella Lucida Matutina Christus Jesus: Oder Christus Jesus Der helle Morgen-Stern/ und welche sich dessen zu erfreuen haben/ zeitlich/ und ewig Bey Hoch-ansehnlicher Beerdigung und Begleit Des ... Herrn Sigismundi Guldenstern/ Freyherr auff Lundholm und Vogelwick/ Castellanus auff Dantzig ... Welcher den 30. Iunii 1666. Jahres zum Strumb ... entschlaffen/ Dessen entseelter Co¨rper aber bey der Pfar-Kirchen zu St. Marien ... den 23. Septemb. bemeldten Jahres ... ist beygesetzet worden Danzig, Rhete, 1666. (4), 40 pp. Die verachtete Eitelkeit, aus den letzten Reden der Weyland ... Frauen Dorothea Benedicta [geb. Ahlefeld] ... Gräfin zu Rantzou und Löwenholm etc. des ... Herrn Detlev ... Grafen zu Rantzou ... Ehe-Gemahls, wie Dero erblaszter Cörper den 3. Sept. des 1696 Jahres zu Itzehoe ... eingesetzet worden, in diesem geringen Leich-Sermon von dem Castro Doloris ... su Glückstadt : Bey Reinhard Janssen, 1696. 20 pp. Kurzer Entwurff Der Trauer-MUSIC, Womit Der Weyland Hochgebohrnen Gräfin und Frauen Frauen Dorothea Benedicta / Gräfin zu Rantzou und Löwenholm / Frauen auf Breitenburg / &c. Als Dero entseelter Cörper den 3. Sept: Anno 1696. zu Itzehoe mit HochGräflichen Ceremonien beygesetzet worden / Gehorsamst aufgewartet Augustus Christianus Prætorius, Organist in Crempe. Glückstadt, Reinhard Jansen, (No year). (8) pp. Kurzer Entwurff Der Trauer-music, Womit Der Weyland Hochgebohrnen Gräfin und Frauen Frauen Dorothea Benedicta Gräfin zu Rantzou und Löwenholm Frauen auf Breitenburg / &c. Als Dero entseelter Cörper den 3. Sept: Anno 1696. zu Itzehoe mit HochGräflichen Ceremonien beygesetzet worden / Gehorsamst aufgewartet Augustus Christianus Prætorius, Organist in Crempe. Glückstadt, Reinhard Jansen, 1696. (14) pp. Leich-Predigt Bey der Hochansehnlichen Leich-begängnüss Dess ... Hn. Friederich Ehlers/ Wolverdienten Herrn Burgermeisters der Königl. Stadt Dantzig. In der Pfarr-Kirchen daselbst Anno 1665. den II. Iun: Gehalten. Dantzig, Reiniger, 1667. (6), 52, (8) pp. + folded title-page. Gott der Herr Sonne und Schild / Gnade und Ehre der Frommen. Das ist: Christliche Erklärung der Worte des LXXXIV. Psalms Im 12. und 13. Versichet enthalten. Bey sehr Volckreicher / und Ansehnlicher Leich-Begängnüß Des Weyland Wohl-Edeln / Gestrengen / Besten und hoch-Wolweisen HERREN / Hn. Nicolai von Bodeck / Der königlichen Stadt Dantzig gewesenen Woll- verdienten Bürgermeister / und der Höchstlichen Regie- rung wohlverordneten Administrato- ris, &c. Welcher Anno 1676. den 21. Juli in dem Herren JESU seinem Erlöser sanfft und selig entschlaffen / Und darauf den 30. desselben Monats in der Obersten Pfarr- Kirchen zu S. Marien mit Ansehnlicher und Adelreicher Proces- sion, wie auch gebührlichen Ceremonien / zur Erden bestattet worden. Vorgestellet Und auff Begehren zum Druck herausgegeben von Abraham Heyse, Abgedachter Kirchen Pastore.Danzig, Simon Reiniger. 1677. (8), 62, 24 pp. Christliches Bende- und Ehren-Mahl Auf Dem Grabe der Beliebten/ Alss innerhalb fünff Monathen/ Die immerhalb fünf Monathen/ Des hoch-Edlen/ Gestrengen/ Besten und Hochweisen HERRN Hrn. Hans Ernst von der Linde/ Hoch-meritirten/ und jetziger Zeit Prædirirenden Bürgermeisters dieser königlichen Stadt DANZIG Hertgeliebte Ehe-Gattin/ Die weiland hoch-Edle/ Hoch-Ehren- und Tugend- begabte fraw Fr. Sophia Elisabeth. Danzig, Johann Zacharias Stollern, (no year). (4), 120 Schmieden, Des hoch-Edlen, Gestrengen, und Hochweisen Herrn, HERRN Johann Gottfried Diesseldorff hochverdienten Burger-Meisters der Königl. Poln. Stadt Danzig und des Höchsten Gebiets daselbst Administratoris Herzlich liebgewesenen Ehe-Genossin/ als nach Dero Anno 1723. am 2. Septembr. seligen Absterben Der entseelte Leichnam, unter hochansehnlichem Gefolge in der Ober-Pfarr-Kirchen zu S. Marien/ am 16. Septembr. zu seiner Ruhe gebracht worden/ aus denen von Ihr Selbst beliebten Sprüchen Röm. VIII. 18. 1. Corinth. XV. 19. 2. Corinth. IV. 17. 18. Danzig, E. Rhetius, (no year). (2), 46, (10) pp. Eines frühzeitig-sterbenden Gerechten getrostes Hertze im Tode Bey Christ-Adelicher und Hochansehnlicher Leich-Begängniss Der ... Johanna Christiana von Lattorff, geb. von der Saahla, Des ... Herrn Matthias Philipp von Lattorff. Zerbst, Tietze, 1728. 71, (29) pp. Letztes Ehren-Gedächtnis… Dantzig, Johann Daniel Stollen, 1712. (2), 39, (1) pp. Das Liebe Land Welches Die weiland Hoch-Edle Gross-Ehr- und Tugendreiche Frau Fr. Margareta Elisabeth Ahrends gebohrne Scheffelin / Des Hoch-Edlen / Hochgelahrten und Hocherfahrnen Herrn Johann Georg Ahrnden Glückstadt, Reinhard Jansen, 1699. 12 pp. Invicta Mortis Victoria, Die Unüberwindliche Todes-überwindung Der gläubigen Kinder Gottes Bey angestelletem Hoch-Adelichen Leich-Begängnüs Dess… Hall in Sachsen, Salfeld, 1678. 26 ff. Die Ursachen umb welcher willen die Glaubige stets an Gott bleiben : Aus Psalm. LXXIII, 23. 24. Bey dem wolverdienten Ehren-Gedächtniss/ Welches Der ... Frauen Mariae Loysae… Königsberg, Friedrich Reusners Erben, (1699). (2) 92 pp. Piorum in Cruce Jubilum. Das ist/ Frommer und gla¨ubiger Christen Freude in ihrer Angst und grossem Leide… Helmstat, Müller, 1679. (88) pp. Des Glaubens Erkäntnuss und vergewisserte Erwahrung dessen Beilage Auf der II. Epistel an Timoth. am I. Cap. v. 12. In einer Leich-Predigt vorgestellet Bey Hoch-Adlicher und Hochansehnlicher Leichbegängnuß Des Weyland hoch- und Wolrdlegebohrnen Herrn Hr. Albrecht Friedrich von Rauschen. Königsberg, Friedrich Reusners, (1692). (4), 68 pp. Ein Kron- und Helm-würdiges Haupt Eines recht glücklichen und Wohlsehligen Consistorial-Rahts Doctoris, Praepositi und Pastoris Bey Hochansehnlicher Beerdigung Des ... Hrn. Andreas von Cronhelm. Hamburg, König, 1696. (4), 51, (1) pp. Das gute Zeugnüss Welches Von Dem Wohlseligen Ende Des ... Hrn. Andreae von Cronenhelm… Hamburg, Ziegler, 1697. (16) pp. Honor Supremus, viro magnifico et generoso Domino Dn. Andreæ á Cronhelm. Hamburg, Kaenigi, 1696. (34) pp. Memoria Friderici Corfeyi Iusti Cum Laudibus. Oder Eine Leichen-Rede/ Bey Hochansehnlicher Beerdigung Des HochEdlen Gluückstadt, Janssen, 1696. (44) pp. Die grossmütige Heldtin im Leben und Tode, welche zum unsterblichen Nachruhm der ... Frauen Anna Catharina Schultzin, gebohrnen Heldtin, am 30. Glückstadt, Reinhard Janssen, 22 pp. Die unvergleichliche Süssigkeit der Göttl. Rechte; Aus dem 19. Vers des 94. Psalms Ich hatte viel Bekümmernisse etc. Bey ... Leichbestattung Des ... Hrn. George Friedrich Scholtz von Schollenstern. Tietze, Immanuel, 1695. 44 pp. Christ-schuldiges Andencken Bey Hoch-ansehnlicher Leich-Begängniss Des weiland Hoch-Edlen Bestreengen Vesten und Wohlweisen Herrn HERRN CONSTANTINI. Danzig, Zacharias Stollen, (1714). (6), 50 pp. Der hochgeachtete Todt der Frommen : bey dem Hoch- Adelichen Leich-Begängnüss des ... Ernst Gottlieb von Börstel ... Cölln an der Spree (Berlin), Ulrich Liebpert, 1687. (48) pp. Ehren-Gedächtnis, Des Weyland Hoch=Edeln, Hochweisen, Festen und Hochbenamten H. R. R. Herrn Michael Rycken… Dresden, Schreiber, (1726). 34, (6) pp. Symbolum Constantiae Aus dem Denck- und Wahl-Spruch. Psalm LXXIII. 25. 26. Der ... Frauen Constance Louyse/ gebohrne von Prön/ Des ... Hn. Ernst Gottlieb von Borstel, Sr. Churfürstl. Berlin, Salfeldische Witwe, 1691. (2), 52 pp. Christliches Ehren-Gedächtnüss, welches bey Volckreicher Leich-Begängnu¨ß, dem Weyland ... Herrn Ottoni Dieterico Voegedingio. Dantzig, Johann-Zacharias Stollen, (1700). 42 pp. Ein geistlicher Krieges-Held/ Aus II. Tim. 3.4.5. : Als Der entseelte Leichnam Des ... Hn. Joachims von Sydo Auff Blumenberg ... Erbsassens Bey Königl. Majest. zu Dennemarck und Norwegen gewesenen General-Major. Danzig, Rhete, 1687. (2), 34, (11) pp. Die plötzlich überfallende Böse Todes-Zeit, das ist Christliche Leich-Predigt ... bey Volckreichem Leich-Begängnüss des ... Hn. Benjamin Gabriel Koopmanns ... Als Derselbe den 16. Novembr. Anno 1687 ... in Königsberg ... zu Tode geschlagen. Dantzig, Johann-Zacharias Stolle,

Paris, Aux Bureau du Journal, 1879-88. 4to. Bound in 29 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering.Top of spine on 3 vols. with wear. A nick to spine on 2 vols. 4 vols. with some wear to spines. A few vols. slightly rubbed. Internally fine. More than 14000 pp. Profusely illustrated with fine woodcuts in the text. The work is known for its fine executed illustrations of machinary and apparatus. This is the first journal entirely devoted to theory of light and electricity in its practical applications, documenting the early history of Telegraphy and Telephony. It describes and depicts the new inventions of electrical apparatus used in industries and communications. It describes the installments of telegraphy in Amerika as well as in Europe. It describes arch-lamps, Eddison-lamps, the Telephoneworks of Gray, Edison, Bell and others, the introduction of electric lightening in houses and towns, applications of electricity to railways, electro-motors and dynamoes, electromagnetism, microphones etc. etc. It contains importent papers on the theory of electricity and magnetism as well.- Weaver, Cat.of the Wheeler Gift, No. 5919.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1820. Contemporary half calf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine slightly rubbed. "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 66. Small stamps on verso of title-pages (2) and verso of plates. (12), 426 pp., 1 folded table a. 3 engraved plates. The entire volume offered. Oersted's paper: pp. 295-304. Internally clean and fine. First edition of the first German translation (by Gilbert) of Oersted's epoch-making announcement of his discovery of electromagnetism, printed in the same year as the Latin original. The work originally appeared in Latin as "Experimenta circa effectum conflictus electrici in acun magneticam. Hafniæ, 1820"; this Latin pamphlet is impossibly scarce and only a few copies are known, as it was privately printed in a very small number and was only distributed to colleagues in Europe. This discovery and confirmation of the connection between 2 forces, electricity and magnetism, must be considered one of the happiest events in the history of science, both with regard to scientific and practical results."From the moment that Ørsted's discovery became known it created an enormous sensation. The results communicated were so astounding that they were received with a certain distrust, but they were stated with such accuracy that it could hardly be permitted to entertain any doubts. In the course of a short time the treatise was translated into all the chief languages." (Kirstine Meyer). In a note Gilbert says, that it is a word by word translation of Oersted's small Latin pamphlet, "Eine fast wörtliche Uebersetzung des einzeln gedruckten, lateinischen, de 21 Juli 1820 geschriebenen Viertel-Bogens, de von Hrn. Oersted mehreren zugeschicht worden ist..."When Oersted's discovery became known to European physicists they became busy with testing Oersted's results; thus, this volume of "Annalen" contains some important papers on electromagnetism in German: Gilbert: Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des geschlossenen galvanisch-electrischen Kreises uaf die Magnetnadel. pp. 331-391; Biot & Savart: Von einer Abhandlung über die Magnetismus der Voltaischen Sáule (The Law of Biot & Savart), pp. 392-394 (German extract); Yelin: Ueber den Zusammenhang der Electricität mit dem Magnetismus...mit einigen Zusätzen von Gilbert.; Muncke: Einiges die Polarisierung des Lichtes und die Oersted'schen Versuche betreffend... The volume also contains first German editions of papers by Biot, Gay-Lussac, G.G. Schmidt, Humphrey Davy, etc.Dibner:61 - PMM: 282 - Horblitt: 3 b. - Sparrow: 152.

Tallinn, Kirjastusühing "Soprus", 1936 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with light wear and corners bumped. Housed in a nice full black cloth clamshell box with black leather title-label to spine with lettering in silver. Otherwise fine and clean. (8), 9-43, (3), 640 pp. The rare first complete Estonian translation of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital'. The comparatively late translation was due to the fact that German was Estonia’s official language and the language of grammar school and higher education prior to 1918/1920. It was replaced by Russian starting in the 1890s. Translator Nigol Andresen (1899-1985) worked as a teatcher at various Estonian High Schools from 1918 to 1932. In 1932 he was dismissed for political reasons because of his membership in the Estonian Social Democratic Labor Part. In the same year he was elected to the Estonian Parliament, to which he formally belonged until 1937. In 1934 Andresen was expelled because of his contacts with the Communist Party from the Social Democratic Labor Party. He was then union secretary and became, after the Sovietization in 1940, a proponent of the new communist system. In a short period under the Vares Cabinet he functioned as foreign minister.At the outbreak of the German-Soviet War in 1941 he went to the Soviet Union and lived in Moscow. After returning to Estonia, he was from 1946 to 1949 Member of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. However, at the infamous eighth plenum of the Estonian Communist Party of March 1950 he fell out of favor and was imprisoned. Only in 1955 he was released from custody.

Kiøbenhavn, Godiches Arvinger, 1781. 4to. Samtidigt hldrbd. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titel-og tomefelter. Forreste fals fint repareret. Stort eksemplar på skrivepapir. Stempler på titelbladet. (16),961 pp. samt 34 kobberstukne plancher (alle udfoldelige) bestående af kort, byprospekter, byplaner m.v., heriblandt 3 landkort: Generalkort over Slesvig, Kort over Als, Kort over Ærøe og Femern). Nogle svage brunpletter på de første 3 blade, eller et aldeles rent og frisk eksemplar på svært skrivepapir. Originaltrykket og et komplet eksemplar af sidste bind af Pontoppidans Atlas, som beskriver Slesvig. Med alle topografiske kort og plancher.