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Basel, Haus Zum Falken, 1939. 8vo. 2 volumes both uncut in the original printed wrappers. Very light wear to extremities and back-wrapper of volume 2 with a circular tear. Small embossed stamp to half-title of volume 1. A very fine and clean. XX, 327; VIII, 490, (1) pp. First edition of Elias's landmark work in which he attempted to explain how Europeans came to think of themselves as more "civilized" than their forebears and neighboring societies, today regarded as being one of the most influential works in 20th century sociology and the first formal analysis and theory of civilization.The Civilizing Process is today regarded as the founding work of Figurational Sociology. In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed this work as the seventh most important sociological book of the 20th century."Elias examined the interplay among the rise of state monopolies of power, increasing levels of economic interconnectedness among people, and pressures to become attuned to others over greater distances that led to advances in identifying with others in the same society irrespective of social origins. Elias's analysis of the civilizing process was not confined, however, to explaining changing social bonds within separate societies. The investigation also focused on the division of Europe into sovereign states that were embroiled in struggles for power and security." (First edition of Elias landmark work in which he attempted to explain how Europeans came to think of themselves as more "civilized" than their forebears and neighboring societies, today regarded as being one of the most influential works in 20th century sociology and the first formal analysis and theory of civilization.The Civilizing Process is today regarded as the founding work of Figurational Sociology. In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed this work as the seventh most important sociological book of the 20th century."Elias examined the interplay among the rise of state monopolies of power, increasing levels of economic interconnectedness among people, and pressures to become attuned to others over greater distances that led to advances in identifying with others in the same society irrespective of social origins. Elias's analysis of the civilizing process was not confined, however, to explaining changing social bonds within separate societies. The investigation also focused on the division of Europe into sovereign states that were embroiled in struggles for power and security." (Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations).Because of World War II it was virtually ignored, but gained popularity when it was republished in 1969 and translated into English.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1781. 4to. Bound in a very nice contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spine with five raised bands. Black leather title label with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt edges and gilt borders to boards. Spine with light wear, title label lacking lower right corner. Four small holes to hinges. Hinges are, however, firm and strong. First plate lacking a piece of top right corner, not affecting text. Overall a very fine and attractive copy. Pp. (4), 116 + 3 large folded plates. First edition of Necker's seminal work which constitutes the very first public presentation of the French government's income and expenditures.The report stated that ordinary revenues in France were exceeding expenditure by over 10 million livres. The health of the accounts as reported in the Compte rendu boosted confidence among lenders and ordinary people, who saw Necker as a strong financial manager due to his prior work as a banker; the report strengthen his reputation further. As a consequence, the French government was able to raise new loans to pay for the costs of continued involvement in the American War of Independence. Thereby he used his economic skills not only to help the domestic economy but also as a mean of foreign political pressure. "In 1781 Necker's famous Compte Rendu au Roi appeared, addressed rather to the public than to the head of the state. His popularity increased; the success of his report, the first of its class, though incomplete, was great." (The New palgrave)The French bankier Jacques Necker, who was appointed French Minister of Finance during three periods (1777-1781, 1788-1789, 1789-1790), was famous for his opposition to the physiocrats. He replaced Turgot in as Minister of Finance in 1776, and attacked Turgot's plan for free trade in grains. He initiated economic reforms which were designed to help the poor French economy. Instead of using the more traditional method of raising taxes he, on the contrary, raised the interest rates and kept the comparatively low income-tax. His will and ambitions to inform and educate the people together with the fact that he was a commoner made him popular with the people. Partly due to his public popularity, on July 11th 1789 he was dismissed, an act which caused public rioting. These riots, combined with the economic crisis and high inflated corn-prices, led to the storming of the Bastille on July 14th 1789.Einaudi 4094Mattioli 2549

Beograd, Zaklada Tiskare Narodnih Novia, 1933 & 1934. Large 8vo. 2 volumes both in publisher's original embossed blue cloth. Leather title-label to both spine. Extremities with wear and hindges weak. Occassional brownspotting throughout. Last leaf (advertisement) missing outer top corner. 837, (3); 549, (2) pp. The first Serbo-Croatian translation of Marx' landmark work, constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century.Translator Mosa Pijade (1890-1957) is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bileca."In prison he met Rodoljub Colakovic (1900-1983) a member of Crevena Pravda, a group accused of killing interior minister Milorad Draskovic in 1921. Together they translated volume one of "Das Kapital" in Serbo-Croatian and published it under the pseudonyms Milovan Porobic and R. Bosanac. The second volume was translated by Mosa Pijade alone." (karlmarx. lu /Kapitalserb.htm)

Basel, Daniel Eckenstein, 1750. - Zürich, Chez David Herrliberger... Chez Conrad Orell & Comp., 1752. Folio. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Richly gilt back with raised bands, 7 compartments. Gilt red titlelabel in leather. Wear to bottom corners. Spine ends having small tears. Covers and back a little rubbed. Covers with a few scratches. General title in red/black and 5 engraved part-titles in German (Heilige Ceremonien...dated 1744-45). 32,14 pp. of text and 170 fine engraved plates (of 221 as listed in the listing of the plates), of which 18 are double-page and 4 large and folded. Plates fine and clean. Depicting in fine engravings religious ceremonies and customs from all over the world, and from all times. It seems to be only a plate-volume collecting plates from all 8 parts of the work (170 of 221 plates), text only in form of description of the plates.

London, Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Knight, 1634. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Wear to extremities. A few holes to front board and front board partly detached. Contemporary annotations to front free end-paper. A few worm-tracts to lower and outer margin, primarily affecting pp. 187-236, with some loss of text. (12), 419, (1), (2), 29, (1) pp. Rare seventh edition of Maxey’s sermons preached before the king. Originally published in 1605 containing only three sermons, the work was reprinted with additional serimons in 1610, 1614, 1619 and the present 1634-edition containing the following nine sermons: 1, The golden chaine of mans salvation. 2, The fearefull point of hardening. 3, The churches sleepe. 4, The agonie of Christ. 5, The vexation of Saul. 6 The sacrifice of Abraham. 7, Hallelu-jah. 8, A marriage sermon. 9, The wise-men guided by a starre. “Anthony Maxey served as the dean of Windsor and was believed to have hailed from Essex. He received his education at Westminster School and was later admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in April 1578. His compelling pulpit oratory and aversion to tobacco caught the attention of James I, who appointed him as his chaplain and later as dean of Windsor and registrar of the Order of the Garter in 1612. Maxey was known for his corrupt practices, as he attempted to gain preferment through bribery, offering money to Sir Henry Hobart and bidding for the vacant see of Norwich before his death in May 1618. He was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, having outlived his wife and leaving provisions in his will for his relatives and servants, except for his cook Roger and clerk Robert Berry, whom he accused of misconduct with tobacco and alcohol. His bequest included his books, which he left to be taken by the authorities for the public library, likely referring to the University of Cambridge's library.” (DNB). Allthough reprinted several time copies are scarce in the trade - all editions are rare.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1854. Contemp. marbled boards. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Vierte Reihe Bd. 3, (= Poggendorff Bd. 93,). Entire volume offered. Two stamps to titlepage. X,632 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Clausius's paper: pp. 481-506. Internally clean and fine. First printing of this milestone paper in thermodynamics, which together with his paper from 1850, established the second law of thermodynamics. In the offered paper Clausius introduces the symbol T for the universal function of temperature (a + 1) and he introduces the concept of "entropy" (the greek word for 'transformation'), but without using the word (Clausius introduced the word later in 1865), he calls this new theorem "the principle of the equivalence of transformations". This principle paints a dramatic picture of the end of the world, the so-called "heath-death of the universe"."Entropy, on the other hand, of the complementary experience of water seeking its own level, of hot bodies cooling, of springs untensing, of magnetism wearing off and electrical charges leaking away, of a destiny suchThat no life lives forever; - That dead men rise up never; that even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea: a world getting old and running down."(Gillespie in "The edge of Objectivity" p. 400-01.)."Clausius discovered that if he took the ratio of the heat content of a system and its absolute temperature, this ration would always increase in any process taken place in a closed system. (A closed system is one that loses no energy to the outside world and gains no energy from it.) With perfect efficiency, which is never realized in the real world, of course, the ratio would remain constant, but i would never, under any circumstances, decrease."(Asimov). - Parkinson: Breakthroughs 1854 C.

Leipzig, Naumann, 1898. Small 8vo. Uncut in the original green printed wrappers. Spine with a bit of wear and minor wear to extremities. A very fine and clean copy in the scarce original wrappers. A 4-line presentation-inscription by Friedrich Jodl to front free end-paper, dated "23.8.98". The rare first edition of Nietzsche's poems and maxims, the first complete collection of his poetry, which furthermore constitutes the first appearance of all nine, properly corrected, "Dionysian Dithyrambs" in one volume.This one of 1.000 copies printed of the first run, without "Second Edition" on the title-page, as the other 1.000 copies of the first edition had. According to Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Nietzsche's sister who has assembled the present collection "[t]his collection of poems and maxims shows the entire poetic development of my brother over a period of 30 years. It begins at a time when the earliest stuttering poetical expression has been overcome and ends with the highest rising of the poetic spirit, who in order to find words can now only speak in dithyrambs." (own translation, from the Introduction, p. [XIII]). Numerous of the poems have never been printed before, and many are printed from the original manuscripts, which Elizabeth had in her possession.Though Nietzsche is primarily understood and remembered as one of the greatest philosophers of all times, his poems occupy a central place in his literary production and many of them (e.g. the Dithyrambs) are intimately linked with the philosophy for which he is so famous today. Furthermore, the present volume underlines the popular modern view of Nietzsche as the not only philosophical, but also literary and artistic genious. The first edition of the work is difficult to find and is rarely seen for sale.THE PRESENT COPY HAS BELONGED TO FREIDRICH JODL (1849-1914), the famous German philosopher and contemporary of Nietzsche, and bears his signature as well as a 4-line dated presentation-inscription to front free end-paper. Jodl ranks as one of the most significant representatives of German expressionism and is still remembered for his original ontological works with their constant focus on empiricism as the only true strand of philosophy. He has also written a number of important works within the history of philosophy and ethics, psychology and aesthetics, which for decades counted as standard works, and he is among the first to develop the intellectual environment that ultimately led to, among many other things, the founding of the Vienna Circle. His main task was to develop and spread a purely naturalistic ethics free of any religious or metaphysical elements, and he is considered a modern "Enlightenment philosopher", whose consistent empiricism, well-founded philosophical ideas, optimistic theories of culture, ethics, the value of life & the progress of man inspired many later thinkers and furthermore helped promote important political and social ideas, such as free popular education, etc. His main works, which are now standard works within ethics and psychology, and which were printed over and over again, are "Geschichte der Ethik als philosophischer Wissenschaft", in which he presents man's cultural development as the process of liberation from religious and metaphysical ideas and the change from a theocentric to an anthropocentric foundation of ethics. This work is followed up by his purely epirically founded "Lehrbuch der Psychologie", which grounds the same ideas psychologically. After having been Privatdzent in Munich, he was named professor of philosophy at the German University in Prague, and in 1896 he accepted a professorship of philosophy at the University of Vienna. He was greatly successful in Vienna and was considered the most prominent liberal professor here, whose numerous lectures and articles against the reigning "Ultramintanismus" and the clerical influence in schools and universities found great resonance with scholars and students. He had a huge number of followers, not only at the university, but also in the public, as a political figure as well. He is partly to thank for the emergence of an intellectual climate in Vienna in the 20th century, which later led to Neopositivism and the founding of the Vienna Circle."We need no other mediator between us and nature except our understanding and a courageous will, nor any mystery behind nature to console us for her; we are alone with nature, and we feel secure because we possess intellect and she behaves according to laws" (Jodl, Vom wahren und vom falschen Idealismus, p. 40).

London, Cadell and Davies, 1897. Royal 8vo. Bound in 3 fine contemp. full longgrained morocco. Raised bands. Inside and outside gilt borders. All edges gilt. A few scratches to spines. XIX,VIII,572;VIII,618;VII,612 pp. and 110 !! beautifull engraved aquatint plates by William Daniell. Internally fine and clean, printed on good paper (wove paper). An exceptional copy with 50 additional plates as it has 110 plates instead of 60, a number recorded recorded in all listed library copies and in the copies for sale.Casey A. Wood, p. 635. - Nissen, 4460 (only calling for 60 plates).

Heidelberg, Karl Groos, 1819. Contemp. marbled boards. Title-label with gilt lettering probably of more recent date. A stamp on titlepage. XIV,(2),207 pp. Very light browning to a few leaves and margins, otherwise fine. Scarce first German edition of this ground-breaking work. It is the translation of Laplaces's work from 1814 with the title:"Essai philosophique sur la probabilités" as a separate work of Laplaces introduction to the second edition of his "Theorie analytique des probalités". "It contains the famous passage to the effect that the future of the world is completely determined by the past and that one possessed of the mathematical knowledge of the state of the world at any given instant could predict the future." (Morris Kline)."The long introduction that Laplace added to the second edition (of Theorie analytique...) was also published separately in the same year, as "Essai philosophique sur les probabilités"....This essay was extremely popular and influential, unlike the "Theorie analytique..." it required no guide and was widely read and quoted. The "Essay" was itself the product of years of thought by Laplace; four different versions saw publication even before the first edition appeared !.....it presented the ideas of the "Theorie analytique..." to a broad popular audience while serving as a synopsis of the full treatise, in part mirroring it in organization. (S.M. Stigler in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics...edited by Grattan-Guiness).

Lemgo, Meyerischen Buchhandlung, 1766. 4to. Contemp. full sprinkled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. A small crack in fronthinge at upper compartment. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. XVI,344 pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 5 engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, light toning to plates. First German edition of one of the fundamental texts of Siberian scholarship. With detailled accounts of the zoology, geography and botany of the region as well as on the language and culture of the Itelmen and Koryak peoples.

Paris, Henry Le Gras et Edme Pepingvé, 1651. 4to. Contemp. full calf with 5 raised bands, profusely gilt compartments. Covers slightly rubbed. A small nick to lower edge of backcover. Engraved title-page (and printed). (60),420,(1) pp. and 20 engraved plates. Pastedown inside frontcover a bit soiled. Front-free endpaper with some calculations in old hand. Old name in lower right corner of title-page partly erased. A small faint brownspot in upper margin of the first leaves. A few leaves with faint brownspots, otherwise fine and clean. The plates having a brownspot in upper left corners, but outside image. Second French edition (translated from the first edition (Latin) of "Principia philosophiae", 1644 by L'Abbe Picot). Descartes here published his general system of epistemology and physics - including his Vortice-theory, the impossibility of a vacuum, etc. - with its Copernicanism mitigated by the idea that all motion is relative.In Descartes’s letter prefaced to this French translation of the Principles, he writes that two, and only two, conditions determined whether the first principles proposed could be accepted as true: "First they must be so clear and evident that the mind of man cannot doubt their truth when it attentively applies itself to consider them"; and secondly, everything else must be deducible from them. But he went on to admit,"It is really only God alone who has perfect wisdom, that is to say, who has a complete knowledge of the truth of all things." Brunet II:611.

(London, War Office, 1860-70). All of the large maps are lithographed (one signed "lith. James Ferguson") with positions in colour. The measures given are paper sizes, comprising: 1. Movements of the two Armies after the Repulse of Marshal Massena's Attack upon the Position of Busaco. (68 x 82 cm.).- 2. Battle of Talevera de la Reyna fought on the 27th & 28th July 1809. (113 x 68 cm.). - 3. Battle of Busaco. General Position of the French and allied Armies on the 26th September 1810. (68 x 100 cm.). - 4-6. Battle of Fuentes D'Onoro, Fought on the 3rd and 5th May 1811. Map 1-3., each (68 x 100 cm.). - 7-15. all with the heading title Massena's Retreat No. 1-3 and 5-10 each around (51 x 67 cm.). At end one untitled map. Some foldings strenghtened with tape. We have been unable to decide whether these maps are a part of a series or just published separately.The Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and Bourbon Spain, for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, previously its ally. The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814, and is regarded as one of the first wars of national liberation, significant for the emergence of large-scale guerrilla warfare.

Kiøbenhaffn, (Hans Zimmermann), 1562. Lille 8vo. Senere helpergamentsbind. Helt guldsnit. 150 blade, uden de 2 sidste blanke blade. Træstukket portræt af Chr. III trykt på titelbladets bagside. På bagsiden af kolofonbladet rigsvåbnet i træsnit. Velbevaret eksemplar, trykt på godt papir med lettere brugsspor. Dette er det yderst sjældne andet optryk af ordinantsen - det første udkom 1553 - af den reviderede og endelige udgave af Danmark og Norges reformations-ordinans fra 1542. Den var gældende i Norge op til 1607 hvor Norge fik sin egen.Laur. Nielsen, 1217. - Thesaurus, 72.

Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1867. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. In: "Oversigt over det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger... i Aaret 1867". X,273,49,(3) pp., textillustrations and plates. (Entire volume offered). Lorenz's paper: pp. 26-45 and pp. 9-16 (Resumé en Francais). Clean and fine. Scarce first edition of Lorenz' landmark paper, which contains his important studies on the electromagnetic theory of light in which he - less than two years after, but independently of, Maxwell - found that LIGHT MIGHT BE INTERPRETED AS ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, and that his equations lead to the CORRECT VALUE FOR THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT. "The procedure which Lorenz followed was that of which Riemann had suggested in 1858, namely, to modify the accepted formula of electrodynamics by introducing terms which, though too small to be appreciable in ordinary laboratory experiments, would be capable of accounting for the propagation of electrical effects through space with a finite velocity...The (Lorenz-) equations are, however, the fundamental equations of Maxwell's theory; and therefore the theory of L. Lorenz is practically equivalent to that of Maxwell, so far as concerns the propagation of electromagnetic disturbances through free aether.....he suggested that ALL LUMINOUS VIBRATIONS MIGHT BE CONSTITUTED BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS, and hence that there was 'no longer any reason for maintaining the hypothesis of an aether, since we can admit that space contains sufficient ponderable matter to enable the disturbance to be propagated" (Edmund Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I", p. 267-70).

Wien, Prag und Triest, Trattnern, 1759-60. 4to. Bound in 7 contemp. uniform hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Small tear to two top of spines. Stamps on title-pages. Engraved portrait as frontispiece, Engraved titlevignettes, fine engraved vignettes in the text and 146 engraved plates (mainly double-page and folded, all called for in the plate-index) and 3 folded engraved maps. Some rather faint, mainly marginal, scattered brownspots. Graesse V,396 - Rumpf:237.

St-Pétersburg, Thieblin & Co., 1864-72. 4to., Elephant-folio (82 x 57 cm.) a. folio (54 x 42 cm.). Textvolumes: 4 contemp hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-pages. 6,III,XXXVIII,323,(2);(4),III,324-727,(2) - (4),II,III,448,(2);VIII,546,(2) pp.+ "Anhänge" 129 pp. (in "Erster Theil"). Wide-margined, internally clean and fine. - 2 Atlases in elephant-folio: both with printed title-page and printed leaf: "Erklaerung der Karten un Plaenen". Both in original printed portfolios with ties (wear to extremities). The first having 7 maps (a preliminary atlas ??), the second having 14 (I-XIV) maps and some of the 7 maps from the first are repeated in the second portfolio. The maps and plans numbered XV-XXVII are bound in 2 contemp. hcalf. As some of the maps in the first atlas are not repeated in the second, the whole set of maps and plans exceeds 30. The larger maps are lithographed with toning, some of the plates and plans are engraved. Some of the larger maps are strenghtened in folding on verso. A few plans are handcoloured.A supplementary-volume attached: Atlas der Plaene und Zeichnungen zu der beschreibung der vertheidigung von Sebastopol, nebst Angabe der Geschuetz-Armierung. Sanct-Petersburg, 1864. Folio-oblong. Original printed wrappers. Having 8 (of 27 ??) lithographed plates. Scarce first German edition. During the Crimean War, Totleben was instrumental in organizing the defense of Sevastopol’ (1854-55). Improving on the theories of A. Z. Teliakovskii, he adapted fortifications to the terrain, siting them so as to preclude outflanking; arranged batteries to fire at a single target; made use of lodgments to prepare firing positions; and made extensive use of buried land mines.

Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth. Wear to hinges, missing some of the cloth, especially to top of spine. Some brownspotting to first leaves, but a good and sturdy copy. Printed on good paper and with good margins. LXXIV, 325 pp. The highly important first translation into any modern language - and overall the second edition to appear - of the seminal Gothic tale that is Beowulf. This monumental work appeared merely five years after the first printing of the text (in Latin, 1815) and 13 years before the first English edition of Beowulf. With this edition, Grundtvig founded the study of Beowulf. "In the British Library there is a manuscript, its edges scorched and brittle, of "Beowulf", one of the very earliest poems in English and its first great literary masterpiece. It exists only in this one vellum codex and has survived for a thousand years, telling of an even earlier time, when the heroic age still was remembered by a Christian audience....In 1786, an Icelandic scholar, came to the [British] Museum, looking for documents relating to Denmark, where the first part of "Beowulf" takes place. He made two complete copies of the manuscript, the first time this had been done, one by a professional copyist and the other, himself, and returned to Copenhagen to study them.But then calamity. Denmark was occupied during the Napoleonic Wars and, in 1807, the English bombarded Copenhagen... [The] manuscript for an edition of "Beowulf", which just had been completed, was destroyed." The two transcripts were saved, however, work on them was begun again, and in 1815 the first printed edition of "Beowulf" appeared, in Latin, printed in Copenhagen.In 1820 the first translation of the seminal poem appeared, that into Danish, translated by the great Danish author Grundtvig, sparking the interest in Beowulf that persists until this day. In 1833, the first English edition of Beowulf appeared.

Hafniæ, Godiche, N. Möller, 1772-92. - (VIII, 1834 og Registerbind IX, 1878). Folio. Bind 1-7 i samtidige hellædrbind i flammet kalv. Ophøjede bind. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte tome- og titelfelter i skind. Nogle kapitæler slidte. Bind 8, som ikke udkom i samtiden, men først 1834, er i originalt papbd. med shirtryg. Bind 9, som først udkom 1878 er i nyere hfableabd. De 7 første bind indeholder en del foldetabeller, kobberstukne faksimiler af håndskrifter, kobberstukne foldekort etc. Disse 7 bind har tilhørt retshistorikeren J.L.A. kolderup-Rosenvinge. The largest collection of Danish medieval texts. In 1834 - 30 years later - a supplementary volume was published (called Vol. VIII), this is present here together with the Index-volume published more than 100 years after the first volume. - From vol. IV P.F. Suhm was editor, after the death of Langebek.

London, Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1783. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", vol. 73. Including title-page of volume. A few leaves reinforced in margin. (3), iv, (247)-284 pp. + three folded plates. First appearance of Herschel's famous paper in which he documented his discovery of the movement of the sun and of the entire solar system with it. "Between 1780 and 1821 Sir Herschel produced some seventy papers, mostly published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These were the results of his astronomical observations which have earned him the title of 'Farther of sidereal astronomy'. The present paper is one of the most important in the series." (PMM 227)"Herschel analyzed the individual motions of a small number of stars, showing that most of their observed motions were actually the result of the movement of our solar system through space." (Norman).PMM 227 Norman 1059

[Rome, AD 79-80]. 18 mm. diameter. Dolphin entwined around anchor on one side, and Draped bust of Tutus, turning right on the other side. An excellent, near mint specimen. 3,05 g. Obverse: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, laureate head rightReverse: TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, dolphin coiled around an anchor.RIC 26a, RSC 309. Good specimen of the beautiful and rare coin that inspired Aldus Manutius' famous printer's device, the dolphin-and-anchor, the most famous logo in the history of book printing and the trademark of the Renaissance. The Aldus coin is the only book- or printing-related ancient coin in existence.Aldus Manutius, the most famous printer of all times, had been given a copy of the Titus coin, with the dolphin-and-anchor logo on the verso, as a gift by Pietro Bembo. He was extremely taken by the magnificent logo, that in Roman times, by Titus Vespasian, had been used to illustrate the proverb "Festina lente" ("make haste slowly"), and was so inspired by it that he began using it as his printer's device at the very beginning of the 16th century. Before it appears as his printer's device for the first time, he used it as an illustration in one of his most magnificent books, Colonna's "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", 1499.In his "Adagiorum Collectanea", the collection of classical proverbs that he kept revising throughout his life, Erasmus Roterodamus had composed a lengthy essay on the "festina lente" proverb, which intrigued him immensely. Erasmus traced the motto back to the emperor Titus Vespasian, who had minted a coin with the emblem (i.e. the present coin), and had the rare opportunity to inspect that very coin - namely that which belonged to his printer, Aldus Manutius, who had been given it by the great Italian scholar Pietro Bembo. The second edition of Erasmus' "Adagiorum Collectanea" was published by Aldus in Venice in 1508, and Erasmus subsequently praises his printer to the skies in the course of explaining "festina lente". Erasmus explains the motto as such: "the circle as having neither beginning nor end represents eternity. The anchor, which holds back and ties down the ship and binds it fast, indicates slowness. The dolphin, as the fastest and in its motions most agile of living creatures, expresses speed. If then you skillfully connect these three, they will make up some such principle as "Ever hasten slowly", and adds that by claiming it as his own (recognizable and marketable) emblem, Aldus gave "fresh celebrity to the same device that was once approved by Vespasian". Not only is it "most familiar, it is highly popular among all those everywhere in the world to whom sound learning is either familiar or dear." Erasmus seems to also suggest that the device had perhaps become too popular: "the city of Venice, with its many claims to distinction, has none the less become distinguished through the Aldine press, so much so that any books shipped from Venice to foreign countries immediately find a readier market merely because they bear that city's imprint."And he might have been right. In fact, the Aldine press was so successful and renowned, and Aldus' printer's device as taken from the Titus Vespatian coin, so incorporated a symbol of elegant, correct printing and higher learning, that it was imitated by printers all over Europe. By using the dolphin-and-anchor device, other printers, although much inferior, would benefit from the authority and prestige of the Aldine press. In spite of Erasmus' attempts to make the public aware of this by praising the efforts of Aldus and opposing them to "those common printers who reckon one pitiful gold coin in the way of profit worth more than the whole realm of letters", publishers kept using the Aldus device for centuries. Aldus Manutius, Grolier Club: no 129RIC 26a, RSC 309.

The Lancet, 1867. 4to. Wrappers blank. Extracted from "The Lancet": I. pp.326-329 (March 16) - II. pp. 357-359 (March 16) - III. pp 387-389 (March 30) - IV. pp.507-509 (April 27) - V. pp. 95-96 (July 27) - VI. pp.353-356 (Sept. 21) - VII. pp. 668-669 (Nov. 30). First editions of these highly important papers (3 works in 7 parts), among which we find Lister's first work on the antiseptic principle in surgery. Lister believed that bacteria could enter wounds and cause suppuration and putrefaction and that it was necessary to kill the bacteria already in wounds and to apply dressings impregnated with some bactericidal substance. He finally hit on carbolic acid for this purpose. When this work was done it had not yet been proved that bacteria were the cause of disease. (Garrison & Morton No 5634). - Having realized the significance of Pasteur's work on fermentation, Lister evolved the idea of the antiseptic prevention of wound infection. This and the preceding papers represent two of the most epoch-making contributions to surgery. (Garrison & Morton, No 5635). Through a presentation of several case studies, Lister illustrates the variations called for in the treatment of specific wounds. - Hundred Books famous in Medicine (Grolier) No. 75 - Sparrow, Milestones of Science No. 138 - Printing and the Mind of Man 316 c - Norman: 1366 - Gedeon:54

Christiania (Oslo), 1885-1985. Lex8vo. Bound up to vol 81 in 52 fine solid hcalf. Vol. 82-100 in clean parts. Incl. Indexes for vol. 1-40 and 41-100.

Hafniæ, Paulli, 1737. Folio. Contemporary full mottled calf with Luxdorph's blindstamped super ex libris to front board. Six raised bands to richly gilt spine. Spine and all extremities worn. A bit of leather missing at capitals, and cords showing at hinges. Even though the hinges are worn, the binding is still tight. Internally very nice and fresh with only very light occasional brownspotting. Front free end-paper with three annotations: 1) from the "Bibliotheque Germanique. Amst. 1720"; 2: Frederik Münter (noting that it was bought at the auction after his father); 3: Ex Dono-inscription by Luxdorph (perhaps the most important Danish book collector of all times), stating that the book was given him by Johannes Gram (the editor). (42 - including half-title and frontispiece portrait (which is often lacking) ), 139, (1), 478, 136, (36) pp. First edition, with an truly excellent provenance, of this important work of the history of Denmark, which due to Krag's untimely death only spans the first 16 years of the history of King Christian III. When Krag, the first official Danish historiographer, died in 1602, Krag had been working on the work throughout the 1590’ies. The manuscript was not finished and ended up remining unpublished for more than a century, until Hans Gram finally, in 1737, arranged for a beautiful edition of it to be printed. This wonderful first edition also contains other contributions to the history of King Christin III. Krag’s work is important in several ways. First of all, it focuses mainly on Danmark’s foreign relations during the period, making it an invaluable contribution to the history of Denmark’s international history of the late 16th century. Second, the work is both politically and linguistically important in its choice of Latin as the authorial language. It is written in an excellent classicist Latin that was to mark Denmark as part of the united European cultural sphere; in short, it was meant to represent Danmark as belonging to the civilized world. Krag’s excellent, stylized Latin history of Christian III constitutes the best example of applying classical historiography stylistically to the history of Denmark. The work is Roman in all its aspects. The vocabulary and the syntax are in accordance with classical Roman norms, and Krag also adopts the principle of the Roman historians of never quoting other text. The prose is his own all the way through. Also in his choice of relating the diplomatic relations of the King and the country, he stays true to the classical authors. Another noteworthy feature of this novel historical work is the fact that all Danish proper names are Latinized, not only cities, but also people (eg. the Danish nobleman Eske Bilde has been given the name Aeschylus). Crag took this so far that Hans Gram found it necessary to make an explanatory list of Crag’s Latinizations. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Provenance: The copy was given by the editor and publisher Johannes Gram to his student Bolle Luxdorph (1716-1788). Luxdorph was a famous Danish historian, poet, and state official. In bibliophile circles, however, he is most known as a book collector – one of the most important in the history of Danish book collecting. Bindings with his super ex libris (an elephant) are very sought after. Luxdorph was matriculated at the University of Copenhagen 1733 and had Hans Gram as private preceptor. He studied both theology, philosophy, classical philology, and history. Frederik Münter (1761-1830) was a famous Danish church historian, archaeologist, and Bishop of Sealand from 1808 till his death.

Stockholm, Anders J. Nordström, 1783. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. A very small nick at top of spine. Spine blindtooled and with titlelabel. Spine slightly rubbed. XV,766 pp., 9 folded engraved plates and 1 map (the map in facsimile). The first 8 leaves with a faint dampstain. A few scattered marginal brownspots. The scarce first edition (the first part only, but alone-standing) of Sparrman's famous travelling account which has been called the '"most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it" that had been published in the 18th century. The work is one of the most importent investigations of the South African fauna in the second half of the 18th century. He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to take up a post as a tutor. When James Cook arrived there later in the year at the start of his second voyage, Sparrman was taken on as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. After the voyage he returned to Cape Town in July 1775 and practiced medicine, earning enough to finance a journey into the interior.

Paris, Crochard, 1825. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", tome 29. Entire volume offered. Very light occassional foxing, otherwise a fine and clean copy with no institutional stamps. Pp. 381-404; 373-381. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + folded plate]. First appearance of this famous memoir, in which Ampère presented his collected results on electrodynamics to the French Academy, creating the foundation of 19th century developments in electricity and magnetism. In the words of James Clark Maxwell, "We can scarcely believe that Ampère really discovered the law of action by means of the experiments which he describes. We are led to suspect, what, indeed, he tells us himself, that he discovered the law by some process which he has not shown us, and that when he had afterwards built up a pefect demonstration he removed all traces of the scaffolding by which he raised it." The offered memoir was published BEFORE the famous "Theorie mathématique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques uniquement déduite de L'expérience", which did not appear until 1827. That 1827-Memoire incorporates, together with a new presentation of Ampère's results from 1820, 1822, 1823, the offered memoir (1825). (Horblit: 100 - Dibner: 62). "From 1814 until 1820 Ampére did not perform the kind of research that would have made it into the annals of the histrory of science, but on September 11, 1820 when he heard Francois Arago speak about Oersted's work, he got fresh inspiration and started the work that made him famous. Arago related how Oersted had found that a steady electric current influences the orientation of a compass needle. After a weak Ampère had determined experimentally that that two straight, parallel, and current-carrying, wires execute a force on each other. The magnitude of the force is inversely proportional to the distance between the wires and proportional to the strenghts of the current..... During the following years he continued his researches, both experimentally and theoretically. he built an instrument for measuring electricity that later was developed into the galvanometer. Finally in 1825 he presented his collected results to the Academy IN ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MEMOIRS IN THE HISTORY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (The paper offered)." (Citizen's Compendium, p. 2). - Norman No 47. The volumes contain many other notable papers by: Wöhler, Fresnel, Marcet, Berzelius, Felix Savart, De la Rive, Braconnet, Boussingault, Magnus, Poncelet, Vaugelin, Poisson, Gay-Lussac, Faraday, Laplace etc.