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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.

Berlin, J. Ladyschnikow, 1908. Contemporary half calf with gilding to spine. Spine with a bit of wear. A bit of light occasional brownspotting, and a marginal marking in red crayon on one page, but overall very nice. First separate edition - appearing almost simultaneously with the version in the "Znaniye"-compilation - of Gorki's highly influential novel "The Confession"/"A Confession", which created quite a stir when it appeared and caused great distress to both the Russian Orthodox Church, to Leo Tolstoy and to Vladimir Lenin, who mentioned the work specifically on the many occasions when he criticized the attempts to unite Socialism and Christianity. "The Confession" tells the story of Matvei - based upon the real life story of a religious sectarian in Nizhny Novgorod - who becomes a wanderer through Russia seeking a philosophy to live by. The work is of great historical importance, as it embodies the philosophy of the "God-building" movement that arose in the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. The novel expresses Gorky's belief in humanity, when strong individuals are connected to each other, and it reflects Gorky's disgust with injustice, hypocrisy, and conditions that degrade human dignity as well as his faith in human potential. Of the work, Gorki himself said: "I am an atheist. In "A Confession" the idea was to show the means by which man could progress from individualism to the collectivist understanding of the world. The main character sees 'God-building' as an attempt to reconstruct social life according to the spirit of collectivism, the spirit of uniting the people on their way to one common goal: liberating man from slavery, within and without."

Tokyo, Nihon Bijutsu Hanga Kenkyu Kai, 1941, March 10th. Folio (355 x 260 mm). In the original silkcovered sevn boards binding with blue title-label pasted on to front board. 50 woodblock reproduction of Ukiyo-e art all with printed tissueguards describing (in both English and Japanese) the artist and artwork. A very fine copy. A fine work showing the rich tradition Ukiyo-e art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term 'ukiyo-e' translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century, particularly the landscapes of Hokusai and Hiroshige. From the 1870s onwards, Japonisme became a prominent trend and had a strong influence on the early Impressionists such as Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, as well as having an impact on Post-Impressionists such as Vincent van Gogh, and Art Nouveau artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Kbhvn., 1940. Hvert ark måler 28 x 23 cm.. 5 af akvarellerne med alternativ udgave på bagsiden. Alle signerede. Vedlagt "Bogen om Lasse og Dyrene" af Detleff Boolsen. Kbhvn. 1941. Knud Kyhn, 1880-1969, dansk maler og keramisk billedhugger, uddannet 1900-04 på Kunstakademiet og Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler. Kyhn hører til 1900-t.s betydeligste danske dyreskildrere. Han fortsatte traditionen fra Fynboerne, ikke mindst Johannes Larsen, og koncentrerede sig om dyrenes bevægelser og lysets spil i malerier, akvareller, tegninger og keramiske arbejder. Gennem samarbejde fra 1904 med Den Kgl. Porcelainsfabrik, Bing & Grøndahl og Herman A. Kähler nåede hans dyrefigurer, overvejende i glaseret stentøj, ud til et stort publikum. Han illustrerede bl.a. værker af Achton Friis. Fra 1908 udstillede Kyhn med Den Frie Udstilling (afbrudt 1915-17 af Grønningen). Hans bopæl og værksted (fra 1934) i Farum åbnedes 1993 for offentligheden. (Store Danske). På akvarellerne er motiverne forårspløjning, rådyr, harer, ræve, egern, grævling, storke, råger og lappedykkere.

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.

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

Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1740. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae", Tomus VII ad Annos 1734 & 1735. The whole section of "Historica"offered. Title-page to Tome VII (with engraved vignette), halftitle (to the section) a. pp. 345-426, 6 engraved plates. Bayer's paper: pp. 362-426 and 5 engraved plates with numerous chinese characters. Clean and broad-margined. First printing (in part) of the first Western translation of any part of Confusius' influential Chun Cieu, being the fourth volume of his works. "The title Chun Cieu (Chunqiu) signifies the Spring and Autumn. He discourses like an historian of the expditions of diversr princes, of their Virtues and Vices, of the fatigues they underwent... The title is an emblematic title, because that states flourish when their Princes are endowed wit Virtue and Wisdom, which is represented by the Spring, and that on the contrary they fall like the leaves and are utterly destroyed when their Princes are dispirated, or are wicked, which is represented by the Autumn."(James Legge).The section also comprises Bayer. Elementa Calmucia. (1) pp. and 1 engraved plate (numerous characters) and Bayer. De Venedis, et Eridano Fluvvio. Pp. 346-361.

Kiøbenhafn, Peder Hake - Jørgen Holst, 1656. 4to. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ægte bind på ryggen. Rig rygforgyldning. Smal rammeforgyldning på permer med hjørnestempler. Lille forgyldt roset på begge permer. Bindet dateret på bagpermen iguld, 1675.Forgyldningerne dog lidt svage. Kobberstukket titelblad og bogtrykt titelblad. (20),359,652 pp. samt upaginerede registre (48 pp.) incl. de 4 titelblade (ialt 1116 pp.). Side 323/24 i stort format og foldet (oversigt over Norges inddeling). De forskellige læg har, som altid, varierende bruning. Ekemplaret er ganske velbevaret. Originaludgaven. Værket udkom med trykkeårene 1650, 1651 og 1652 og med fællestitelbladet dateret 1656. Titelkobberet af Simon de Pas med forskellige landskaber og fæstningen Varberg samt forfatterens portræt og våben. Værket er et vægtigt kildeskrift idet forfatteren selv berejste store dele af Danmark og Norge.Birkelund, 54. - Bibl. Danica II,598. - Bibl. Norwegica III,1854. - Thesaurus II,376.

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

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.

No place, No date, (Paris around 1654). 4to. (275 x 210 mm). Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Corners neathly restored. 2 stamps on foot of titlepage (ouside engraving). With engraved ornamental title-page and 113 engravings on 107 (of 122 ??) sheets. Most of the plates signed (I. or J. or Ian, or Jean) Marot sculp. Wide-margined and internally clean. First edition of the so-called "Le Petit marot". There seems not to be any standard collation of the work as copies in libraries varies a lot in relation to the number of plates. (Lewine's Bibliography lists engr. title and 106 (sometimes 111) plates)."Little has survived of his own architectural work, but his engravings of the works of others, primarily those published in the volumes referred to as the Petit Marot (c. 1654) and the Grand Marot (c. 1670), were highly esteemed by his contemporaries and remain among the most important sources concerning architecture in France up to the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. (Wikipedia).

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.

Amsterdam - Gravenhage, 1652-1698. 4to. All 7 works/tracts bound in one early-1800 century full calf, Cambridge-style binding. Gilt line border and panel stamped in blind. Richly gilt spine with the gilt title on spine: "Hollandck Zee.Rechten, De. Politie". Marbled edges. (8),160 pp., (12),139 pp., (16) pp., 40 pp., 48 pp., (40) pp., (36),276 pp. A fine collection of Dutch maritime laws and commentaries, insurances, shipwrecks, customs duties, penalties and other regulations. - Tjassen's Zee-Politie, 1652 is first edition. Kress, 861.

Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1982 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities, spine with a few light stains. A nice and clean copy. 412 pp. The genealogical tree included in the pagionation on pp. 124-125. First Catalan translation of Darwin's landmark "Origin of Species". Translated by Santiago Alberti and Constança Alberti. Edition by Joan Senent-Josa and Montserrat Vallmitjana; prologue by Thomas Glick. Published on the centennial year of Darwin's death. The same year is the 20th anniversary of thefoundation of the publisher, Edicions 62, whose foundational mission was to publish texts in Catalan, both original and in translation—and not rarely on controversial subjects. This was seenas a political affirmation of the Catalan identity, purposedly crushed by the Franco regime sincethe Civil War. Edicions 62 decided to publish this translation of Darwin's Origin as the very first title of theirseries "Clàssics del Pensament Modern" (Classics of Modern Thought). The Series would go onto include translations of Adam Smith, Diderot, Karl Marx, Montesquieu, Freud, Tocqueville,Einstein, Lacan, and dozens more from the previous three centuries, which had never been translated to Catalán. Previously a 1980-edition (Barcelona, Bruguera, 1980, Blanco & Llorca 63) has been referred to as the first Catalan translation. This, however, is a bibliographical error since the copy referred to is in Spanish. Freeman F2447.Blanco & Llorca 68.

Stockholm, 1910. 4to. 3 orig. printed boards. Externally with a few scratches to covers. All the sections are separately paginated. (848+844+636) pp., 87 fine photographic or collotype-plates (4 in colours). Textillustr. incl. map. Clean and fine, unopened. First titlepage a little browned in lower margin. First edition. "This is one of the most valuable records of exploration in to the wilds of East Africa we posesses. The approaches and plateaux of the highest mountain in Africa are the habitat of many rare faunal and floral species described and depicted by the author and his collegues." (Casey A. Wood p. 569).

Leipzig, S. Hirzel, (1909). 4to. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in fine later hmorocco. (Bound by Anker Kyster Eftf. 1968). Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering on frontcover. Offprint (Sonderabdruck) from "Physikalische Zeitschrift", 10. Jahrgang. No. 3. Seite 104-111, here paginated as offprint pp. 1-8 and with textfigs. Clean and fine. First edition - in the scarce offprint-issue - of this milestone paper where Minkowski was the first to conceive that the relativity principle formulated by Lorentz and Einstein led to the abandonment of the concept of space and time as separate entities and to their replacement by a fourdimensional "space-time", THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. In the opening passage Minkowski declared: "Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fadeaway in the shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."The work was simultaneously published in "Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung". Leipzig 1909, in "Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte". Leipzig, 1909 (a shorter version) and as here.The paper was read 20th of September 1908 at a Conference in Cologne only a few months before his death. Here "he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum.... Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception; thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature." (PMM No. 401).

Kjøbenhavn, 1867. Lidt senere hldrbd. m. rygforgyldning. Indre false forstærkede. Stadig lidt svag i falsen.De første blade forstærkede i inde fals. Materien pæn og ren. The scarce first edition of Ibsen's magnum opus, one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays of all time. Primarily due to the present work, which was originally performed, to the music of Edvard Grieg, in 1876, Ibsen is widely regarded as "the father of realism" and as one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.On November 14, 1867, the first edition of a print run of 1.250 copies appeared. This first edition sold out quickly, and two weeks later, a second issue, of 2.000 copies, appeared.

Haarlem, Bohn, (1889-) 1900. Large4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear. Spine miscoloured and edges of boards with scratches. Previous owner's (Dr. Gunnar Hagens) stamp to front free end-paper. The few first and last leaves a bit creased. Slightly evently browned in outer margin throughout, otherwise internally nice and clean. Inner hindge split after plate no. LIX. (8), 6, [1 plate], 6, 6, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 2, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 11, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 10, [1 plate], 18, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 14, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4 [1 plate]. Complete with 93 photos (94 counting plate 41 as two, since two photos are fused into one) on 60 plates. First and only edition of Noman’s semial work on dermatology being one of the very earliest to use photography to improve the study of dermatology and to help doctors and students in recognizing the various types of skin diseases. “Dirk van Haren Noman (1854-1896) succeeded Chanfleury in 1886. He accepted his position with a lecture entitled “The concept of disease in the doctrine of Dermatology”. He had a comprehensive knowledge of histopathology and bacteriology and dedicated his laboratory to their study. Developments in the relatively new medium of photography allowed him to publish a collection of dermatological images in 1889 that ultimately resulted in a standard work “Casuistique et diagnose photographique des maladies de la peau” (The present) - French still being the European language of science at the time. By this period, dermatology had increasingly become a discipline of external etiological factors and external therapeutic modalities. This is an important co-factor in explaining the rather eccentric position of dermatology, resulting in a certain distance from other medical specialisms still felt to this day. After Van Haren Noman’s death in 1896 the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases was temporarily transferred to the Wilhelmina Gasthuis due to a lack of space at the Binnengasthuis.” (Menke, Dutch contributions to dermatology). Not in Garrison & Morton.

İstanbul, Matbaa-i Ebuzziya, 1301 [1884]. 8vo (180 x 120 mm). Uncut, unopened. Unbound without wrappers as issued. Turkish in Arabic script. 11 loose stapled gatherings, as issued. Extremities with soiling and first leaf missing lower 5 mm, far from affecting text. Last leaf detached. Internally clean. A good copy of a very fragile publication. 176 pp. Extremely rare first Turkish translation Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice - The first work by Shakespeare, translated directly from English, to be published in Turkey, one of the very first translations of any English literature into Turkish. As Ottoman power was waning, some sultans developed a passion for Shakespeare. Sultan Abdülhamid II, who ruled about 34 years and earned fame as a despot, was a theatre buff with an intense interest in Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies. It was rumored in the late 19th century that when The Merchant of Venice was presented at the special exclusive palace theatre in ?stanbul, and Shylock began to sharpen his knife to take his revenge, the Sultan became apprehensive, actually so scared that he ran out screaming and caused the play to come to an abrupt end. The Sultan later reportedly said: "Abandon such frightening scenes; instead, present performances that will make us laugh". "The young translator, while adhering to the original, added the translator's notes to explain to the Turkish reader certain cultural features of the text [8, p. 43]. The translator himself remarked that, despite having a good command of the English language due to the specifics of Shakespeare's style, he sometimes needed to refer to French translations of the work to clarify certain points. Some translation tricks that Hasan Sirri resorted to at the time were interesting and justified. In most Shakespearean replicas with the word Jew he replaced the name of the hero - Shylock, probably in order to bypass possible conflicting moments [8, p. 45]. After all, Hasan Sirri himself occupied the position of a civil servant at the time of the translation and, given the national diversity of the Ottoman state at that time, his decision to "avoid sharp corners" was correct. Reading the translation of Hasan Sirri, it is also interesting to observe its accuracy in relation to the Turkish cultural heritage" (Prushkovska1, TURKISH TRANSLATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS) Kitabhane-i Ebüzziya was a series published by the Turkish publisher Ebüzziya Mehmet Tevfik Bey in order to present classical and contemporary literature to a wider Turkish speaking audience.

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1857-1859. Royal8vo. Bound completely uncut with all the original printed wrappers in four fully contemporary full cloth bindings with gilt titles to spines. Dampstain affecting inner magin of vol. 1, Pp. 32-46. Light brownspotting throughout. Overall an excellent copy. (4), XCII, 440 pp.; (4), 616 pp.; (4), 692 pp. + 1 folded map.; (4), VI, 851 pp. Scarce first edition of Bourbourg's famous account of the culture and the indigenous people of Central-America, one of the most important works on that area's people and language. Due to his discoveries of important texts and codes of ancient Mexico, Bourbourg was one of the pioneers of archeology and pre-Columbian history: "He studied on the spot the primitive Mexican civilizations, collected important material on the geography, antiquities, and ethnology of Mexico and Central America, edited numerous curious texts such as the Manuscrit Troano [...], and published works which, like the 'Lettres' [...] , but especially [the present work], assured him of a fine reputation as a scholar of America." (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).Several sections of the present work deal with the languages of Mexico. The work contains an introduction by Bourbourg's fellow-archaeologist, Joseph Marius Alexis Aubin, in which Aubin demonstrates how Mexican pictographs were used not only to represent objects, but also to stand for the syllables forming a word. Having spent much of his time trying to decipher the Mayan hieroglyphs, the present work, with its ingenious introduction, paved the way for Bourbourg's announcement in 1863 of his discovery of a key to the Mexican hieroglyphs. The key difference between the Mayan script and other logosyllabic Mesoamerican writing systems that allowed for its linguistically more precise decipherment was a large corpus of inscriptions and its continued use into the Colonial period. In 1862 Bourbourg discovered Bishop Diego de Landa's redacted manuscript Relación de las Cosas de Yucatan (Tozzer 1941), which contained a rudimentary Mayan "alphabet." Following this discovery and his equally important find of a section of the Madrid Codex, Bourbourg attempted a phonetic approach to glyphic decipherment. Sabin:7429.