A Selection of our offer for The New York Antiquarian Book Fair April

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A Selection of our offer for
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair
April 11-14, 2013
Park Avenue Armory, New York
Booth B6
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First Colour-System based on a Cube
Benson, William.
Principles of the science of colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in
the decorative arts. London, Chapman & Hall 1868. EUR 2600.–
First edition, second issue. The architect William Benson published his cuboid system in 1868, in London. The first colour-system
to be based on a cube after ideas of the physicist James Maxwell. William Benson attempted to master both the additive and subtractive mixing systems. The cube stands on its black corner, and three edges extend outwards to the basic colours of red, green
and blue. From the white tip, the edges lead to a yellow, a “sea-green” and a pink corner. Benson preferred the unusual pink to
the violet one would normaly expect; this, in his opinion, was too dark. VI, [4], 48 pages with num. tables and illustrations in the
text, incl. two hand coloured, 6 lith. pl. and 5 plates with round colour patterns. Cont. half calf.
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Panum, Peter Ludwig.
Physiologische Untersuchungen über das Sehen mit zwei Augen.- Kiel: Schwer, 1858. Quarto [266 x 215 mm] [4], 94 pp., [2] with 57 text woodcuts, of which 4 are color-printed [on two
plates]. Contemporary Halfcloth over marbled boards, stamped three times. Halbleinwandband
der Zeit, etwas berieben.
EUR 1600.–
Only edition, uncommon. „One of the foremost Danish physiologists of the nineteenth century, Panum is expecially noted for
his work in physiological chemistry, collaborating at different times with such figures as Virchow, Koelliker and Cl. Bernard. His
publications on the physiology of vision are not nu-merous, being limited to the present work and a number of articles in Graefe‘s
Archiv für Ophthal-mologie“ (Becker Coll. 288); Hirsch IV, 492ff.; Waller 7098.
Peter Ludvig Panum (1820 – 1885) was a Danish physiologist and pathologist, who studied with Ru-dolf Virchow at the University of Würzburg (1851), and with Claude Bernard in Paris (1852-53). From 1855 to 1864 he was a professor at the University
of Kiel, afterwards relocating to the University of Copenhagen as professor of physiology, where he spent the remainder of his career. In his studies of binocular vision, the eponymous „Panum‘s fusional area“ is derived. This term is defined as the area on the
retina of one eye over which a point-sized image can range, while still being able to provide a single image with a specific point of
stimulus on the retina of the other eye. Therefore, the region in visual space that we perceive „single vision“ is Panum‘s fusional
area, and objects in front and behind this region exist in physiological diplopia (double vision).
“After Wheatstone’s article on the stereoscope (1838) was translated into German (1842) its
impact was dramatic. On the one hand, it argued against the prevailing view of single vision
advanced by Vieth and Müller, and on the other it presented an empiricist interpretation
of binocular vision. It opened up new ways of examining and analyzing combination and
competition between the eyes. One of those to take up the challenge posed by Wheatstone’s
work was Panum. Not only did he introduce the concept of fusional areas that now bear his
name, but he ushered in the stimulus that has been employed more than others for the study
of binocular rivalry – orthogonal gratings. He remarked that gratings pro-duced the strongest
rivalry and that it was difficult to represent the ensuing changes: occasionally complete gratings were briefly visible but the dynamically varying, mosaic-like composites were seen most
of the time. Panum took these to be indices of the physiological processes at play in binocular
vision: “Following the lawful rules that have been stated, the mosaic-like filling of the general
visual field, combined with partial fusion of the impressions taking place, arises from neither
psychological causes, attention, imagination or the like, nor
from any dread of double images, nor from a total alter-native
paralysis of the two retinas, but from very characteristic means
of perception or sensory energies emanating from the simultaneous action of the excitation of corresponding retinal points
on the central organ of vision (in the brain).” [Nicholas Wade]
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3 Cossmann, Hermann.
Die farbige Gestaltung in der Berufsschule. Düsseldorf, Verlag H. Schmincke & Co Künstlerfarbenfabriken, no date (ca 1920). 31 pages with 10 full-page colour schemes for interior decoration, 6 loose plates with colour specimens from the manufacturerer Schmincke. Pub-lisher’s
printed wrappers. 4to (245 x 184 mm). Extremeties worn. Covers slightly soiled. The colour
samples of the plates are handmade in the workshop of the Künstlerfarbenfabrik H. Schmincke
und Co in Düsseldorf. Together with: Illustrated leaflet by the firm with an as-sortment of tempera and paint boxes and a folding leaf with 44 colour patterns of the mark ’Studien- Tempera 25’.
Contents fine. EUR 800.–
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Hydraulics
Comiers, Claude.
Lettre à monsigneuer le marquis de Seignelay, sur l‘excellence, & usages de la nouvelle pompe, &
de la nouvelle machine pour l‘ lever les eaux.- Paris 1682. Quarto [255 x 195 mm]. 8 pp. with 1
copper plate, showing the new hydraulic pomp. Marbled Wrappers, used. Alter Umschlag, gebraucht. Tafel in der oberen Außenecke mit Wasserfleck.
EUR 1200.–
Erste Ausgabe, ein Aufsatz mit ähnlichem Titel erschien im April 1682 im Mercure. Claude Comiers (1600-1693) Prof. der
Mathematik in Paris. Er veröffentlichte über Architektur und Astronomie. Very rare first edition. “Claude Comiers d’Ambrun was a
canon at Embrun, later prof. of mathematics in Paris, who wrote about numerous scientific subjects, frequently published in the
Journal des Scavans. He was well versed in the cabbala, whose mathematical resources may have influenced his cryptologic work.
In 1684 he turned blind and received a royal pension. … In 1690, the blind French author Claude Comiers described the Vigenére
cipher as addition of a key to the plaintext, modulo the alphabet size. The concept of modular arithmetic was then unknown, but
Comiers was well aware of its cyclic nature. This seems to be the earliest description of a cryptosystem in arith-metic terms.”- Vgl.
Hoefer, NBG XI, 335; Poggendorff I, 469.
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Faulhaber, Johann.
Continuatio, seiner neuen Wunderkuensten, oder (wie es die beruembtesten Titulieren) Arithmetischen wunderwercken, welche biß uff die letzte Zeit versigelt unnd verborgen blie-ben, aber
vor wenig Jahren den gelehrten uff allen Universiteten, in gantzem Europa propo-nirt. Und von
dem Authore etlichen Liebhabern dieser Kunst geoffenbart, auch in gutem vertrauen schrifftlich
communicirt. Jetzo aber dem gemeinen nutzen zu gutem, Autoris manu propria außgezeichnet,
und in offenen Truck publicirt, durch: Conradium Holtzhalbium, von Zürich, Mathematischer
freyer Künsten Studiosum. Gedruckt zu Nürnberg, durch Ludwig Lochner 1617. 8 unnumb.
leaves (last blank). Sewn. Small- 4to. EUR 2400.–
Cf. Poggendorff I, 725 and DSB IV, p. 549ff. (both without this
work); Hawlitschek 161. Schneider, Faulhaber p. 233. First
edition. A broadmargined copy. “The reputation of Faulhaber’s
mathematics school extended so far that Descartes studied with
him in 1620. According to Veesenmayer, Descartes had already
corresponded with Faulhaber concerning questions of plane
analytic geometry and had been stimu-lated to write ‘Discours
sur la méthode ...‘. Faulhaber’s lasting accomplishment was the
dissemination and explanation of the logarithmic method of
calculation“ (P. A. Kirchvogel in DSB IV, 550/551). With a typographical specimen on leaf Biii recto “Taefelein, weysend wie
die Cossische Caracteres und quantiteten in diesem Tractätlein
notiert werden“.
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Law of efflux: Newton against the Bernoulli’s
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Michelotti, Pietro Antonio.
De Separatione Fluidorum in Corpore Animali Dissertatio physico- mechanico- medica.- Venice: Pinelli, 1721. [bound with:]
Bernoulli, Johann. De Motu Musculorum, De Effervescentia, & Fermentatione Disserta-tiones
Physico-Mechanicae. Editio secunda priori emendatior. Accedunt Petri Antonii Miche-lotti
Animadversiones X. ad ea, quae Cl. Vir. Jacobus Keill protulit in Tentamine V. quod est de Motu
Musculari.- Venice: Pinelli, 1721. Large Octavo. [viii], 362 pp., [1] errata, fine engraved frontispiece and 1 folding engraved plate; [xxiv], 123 pp., [1], 1 folding engraved plate. Some fine
engraved and woodcut ornaments in both works. Contemporary paper boards, uncut. Boards
somewhat soiled and stained, but internally an excellent copy.
EUR 2400.First Edition of Michelotti’s treatise on bodily fluids, here issued [as always] with Bernoulli’s earliest papers. Both books are
beautifully printed on Michelotti’s expenses. Michelotti’s De separatione fluid-orum was in the most remarkable parts written by
Johann Bernoulli, which is commonly not known. “Pier Antonio Michelotti had published under his name a criticism of Newton’s
corollary [Prop. 36 of book II of the Principia], which actually came from Johann Bernoulli’s pen”. [Maffioli, 385; 402 ff.] Michelotti was a student of Jacob Hermann in Padua and had a close relationship with the Bernoulli family.
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In the first edition of the Principia Newton had shown that the velocity of efflux from a hole pierced in the bottom of a vessel
is equal to the velocity of free fall from half the height of the water in the vessel. Consequently, if the jet is directed upwards
it would rise only half way to the surface. This view was likewise fundamental to the following proofs of the law of efflux of
Varignon, Jacob Hermann and Johann Bernoulli himself. But in the second edition of the Principia Newton changed his mind: both
the height of upward jets and the motive force of issuing streams become twice as great as in the first edition of the Principia.
Newton’s second corollary became an explicit target of Bernoulli-Michelotti’s criticism for several reasons. The most important
is that it subverted Bernoulli’s proof of the law of efflux, and set a rival standard in the dynamics of fluids. Later in 1722 Jacobo
Riccati criticised Ber-noulli/ Michelotti in favour of Newton. The subject in the end becomes fairly close to the one dis-cussed by
Poleni and other protagonists of the vis-viva controversy, namely that of giving the measure of the force of a body in motion.
Second enlarged editions of the first two works of the great Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli, who began his career by
studying medicine. The work on fermentation processes (De effervescentia et fermentatione, 1690) was his first publication,
and the work on muscular motion (De motu musco-lorum 1694), actually his doctoral dissertation, showed his mathematical
inclination despite its me-dical subject. In giving permission for their reprint, Johann Bernoulli recalled that he had written De
effervescentia in his first youth and asked Michelotti to amend the barbarisms in the latin language. Daniel Bernoulli’s detailed criticism of three works written by the English Newtonians James Jurin and James Keill on Newton’s law of efflux and its
application to estimating the force of the heart, which he had communicated in letters, were used by Michelotti [partly word by
word] to write some critical annotations to James Keill’s theory of muscular motion. These ‘Animadversiones’ were inclu-ded in
the reprint of Johann Bernoulli’s dissertations, which was published in 1721 at Michelotti’s ex-penses. “Dating from the same
year and written under the influence of the Italian mathematician and physiologist Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Bernoulli‘s De motu
musculorum is as much a work in mathe-matics as in medicine: „Here, Bernoulli applied integral calculus to describe muscles as
small machi-nes and looked at the pressure of liquids to calculate the rising force of muscles as well as their vigor and tiredness“
( Jack W. Berryman, Ancient and early Influences in Exercise Physiology in: People and Ideas, edited by Charles M. Tipton, p. 15).
An English translation appeared in Browne‘s Myographia nova of 1698. In another appendix to the second dissertation Johann
Bernoulli had proposed an hydrostatic model for the hydrologic cycle [a perpetual motion scheme]. In passing through the pores
of the earth, which works as a sort of huge filter, sea-water is desalinated. The continuous amount of fresh water so obtained is
lifted along underground conduits to the top of the mountains by the differ-rence in pressure due to the greater specific gravity of
seawater pressing the bottom and the sides of the deep cavities of the oceans. In Johann Bernoulli’s opinion, both his hydrostatic
model and the hydrologic cycle were cases of perpetual motion in accordance with the laws of mechanics: while the first was an
artificial construction, the second was a major feature of nature itself. [Maffioli, 392].- Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, 35
[Bernoulli].
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[Fagnano, Giulio Carlo; dei Toschi, conte di]
Lettera del signor Giovanni Galfi al signor Flavio Gangini contenente alcune osservazioni intorno
tre articoli dell‘opera del signor Colin Maclaurin sopra il calcolo delle flussioni.- In Pesaro: nella
stamperia Gavelliana, 1753. Quarto. [ mm] 11 pp., [1, blank] with one plate [early handdrawn
copy of the original plate] Contemporary Wrappers, some spottings and browning throughout
text.
EUR 1200.–
Anonymously published paper by Fagnano dei Toschi alleging that some propositions of Colin Mac Laurin’s work on fluxions
are taken from his works. Giulio Carlo Count Fagnano, Marquis de Toschi (1682 – 1766) was an Italian mathematician. He was
probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. Fagnano is best known for investigations on the length
and division of arcs of cer-tain curves, especially the lemniscate; this seems also to have been in his own estimation his most
im-portant work, since he had the figure of the lemniscate with the inscription: „Multifariam divisa atque dimensa Deo veritatis gloria“, engraved on the title-page of his Produzioni Matematiche, which he published in two volumes (Pesaro, 1750), and
dedicated to Pope Benedict XIV. The same figure and words „Deo veritatis gloria“ also appear here and on his tomb. Fagnano was
member of the Royal Society and the Berlin Academy and maintained correspondence with many contemporaries, esp. Grandi,
Riccati, Leseur, and Jacquier; he was praised by Euler and Fontenelle.
Colin Maclaurin (1698 – 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The
Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him. Maclaurin used Taylor series to characterize maxima,
minima, and points of inflection for infinitely differentiable functions in his Treatise of Fluxions. Maclaurin attributed the series
to Taylor, though the series was known before to Newton and Gregory, and in special cases to Madhava of Sangama-grama in
fourteenth century India. Nevertheless, Maclaurin received credit for his use of the series, and the Taylor series expanded around
0 is sometimes known as the Maclaurin series (Grabiner 1997). - Melzi, Anonime e pseudonime I, 437; not in Tomash; DSB IV,
515-516 [Natucci]. KVK: Berlin [Kriegsverlust]; Stabi München; Göttingen; COPAC: BL London; OCLC: Ann Arbor; Simpson Univ.;
Columbia Univ.; College Western Idaho; Burndy Library.
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Marzagalia, Gaetano.
Nuova difesa dell’ Antica misura delle forze motrici. S’ aggiungono in fine alcuni problemi matematici proposti alla studiosa ….- Verona: per Dionisio Ramanzini, Librajo a San Tomio, 1746.
[235x160 mm] 120 pp. Carta rustica, partly unopened. Fine copy in original form of appearance. EUR 1000. Rare work by Gaetano Marzagaglia (1716-1787), priest and mathematician, on different problems in mechanics, force and mensuration.
Marzagaglia was responsible for the Veronese edition of Christian Wolff’s
Elementa matheseos, which he revised and enlarged. Marzagaglia expresses here opposition to Leibniz’ method for calculating kinetic energy. The
section at the end poses some problems for students. He wrote another
work on ballistic questions: De calcolo balistico.- Riccardi II, 56; Roberts/
Trent 219; not in Tomash Library. COPAC: London Metropolitan, UCL;
OCLC: McGill, Saint Mary’s Halifax, Michigan State, Univ. Michigan, Simpson Univ., CWI Library.
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Selva, Lorenzo.
Sei Dialoghi Ottici Teorico-Pratici. - Venice: Simone Occhi, 1787. Large Quarto (257 x 190
mm). XII, 184 pp. with 4 engraved folding plates (faint damp stain to the 4 plates), a fresh copy in
maybe contemporary paper boards. EUR 3900.–
Rare first edition of this classic work on optics and optical instruments, illustrated with 4 finely en-graved plates. Lorenzo Selva
(1716 – ca. 1790) was the second in line of a family of opticians & instru-ment- makers, working in Venice during the half of the
seventeenth century. Both father and son were the most active opticians in Italy at the time and enjoyed an international reputation for the quality of their various optical instruments. Boscovich, who experimented with optics and published on the sub-ject,
considered Lorenzo - and not Dolland - as the inventor of the achromatic lens; and around the time the Dialoghi was published
the great scientist was, in fact, collaborating with Lorenzo on perfec-ting lenses made of flintglass.
This dialogues contained in this work cover all aspects of optics and glass-making which were of con-cern to the opticians of
the latter part of the eighteenth century: eyeglasses and their corrective func-tion; the various kinds of telescopes - terrestial &
celestial; post- Newtonian lenses, Herschel‘s teles-cope; various experiments with achromatic lenses by Boscovich and the author;
microscopes; bur-ning mirrors and other optical and mechanical devises including magic lanterns, camera obscuras, drawing
instruments, prisms, and electrical machines, etc. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this work is the fact that the Sei Dialoghi
was written not just by a theoretician but a maker in Venice (the center of glass manufacturing in Italy).
He made several optical instruments, which, however, he signed with his father‘s name: „To show my ever- greater awareness
and gratitude, every work of mine, every improvement and invention, will al-ways be stamped, not with my name but with his
beloved one.“ He described his father‘s work and the instruments produced in his optical laboratory in Esposizione delle comuni,
e nuove spezie di Can-nocchiali, Telescopj, Microscopj, ed altri Istrumenti
Diottrici, Catottrici, e Catodiottrici Perfezionati ed inventati da Domenico
Selva ottico [...] (Venice, 1761) and in the work here.- Duncan, Bibliography
of Glass 12157; Boffito, Gli Strumenti della Scienza, p. 150; Riccardi, II, 436:
‚pregiato libro‘.
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New Scientific instruments
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Oliva, Bonaventura.
Esposizione di varie macchine proposte agli amatori delle belle arti dal Padre Bonaventura Oliva,
Minor Osservante.- Parma: Presso Filippo Carmignani, 1783. 8° [184 x 120 mm] 56 pp. with 4
fold. plates showing the instruments. Carta rustica, etwas fleckig. EUR 1200.–
Very rare description of four instruments, a micrometer, hydrometer, a pump, and a fire engine. The title states this a second
edition, but a first I could not locate. Riccardi I,2 261; Murhard
1781 [anderer Titel]. Der Minorit Oliva stellt 4 Erfindungen vor:
ein Mikrometer, ein Hygrometer, eine Feuerlöscheinrichtung
und eine Pumpe, die Erfinder oder Hersteller werden namentlich genannt. Some libraries have the Microfiche, but as book it
is exceedingly rare OCLC: only Los Angeles, not in COPAC, KVK.
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Langenbucher, Jacob.
Beschreibung einer Electrischen Maschine so nach besondern Grundsäzen gebaut ist von dem
Anfertiger Jacob Langenbucher in Augspurg 1779 (Nota: Davon weitlaüffer Beschreibung wird im
J. 1780 zu Augsburg gedruckt). Manuscript on paper. 12 num. pp. Sewn. [together with] Langenbucher, Jacob. Deutliche Anweisung zu dem Gebrauche des neuen elektrischen Werkzeuges,
welches von seinem Erfinder dem Cavallieri di Volta den Namen Elektrophor erhalten ... Den
Liebhabern gewidmet, welche sich dergleichen Elektrophor mit allem Zubehör anzuschaffen
Belieben tragen sollten. No place, no imprint, no date (Augsburg, (?) 1780). Drop-title, 12 pp.,
1 folding engraved plate. Sewn. EUR 4000.–
Poggendorff I, 1369. Motteley p. 389 (footnote). Not in Wheeler Gift. The Augsburg based silver-smith Langenbucher is renowned for his innovations of various electrical devices. In the manuscript he explains some improvements he had made on an electrical device (called electrophor) invented by Volta. The printed version is more or less a sales promotion for the device including
several experiments of entertaining nature not mentioned in the manuscript. These experiments are shown on the folding plate.
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Alchemy - Astrology - Mystical
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[Anonymous]
In Principio erat verbum [title on front fly-leaf] Alchemistic, astrologic, medical, mystical manuscript in German and Latin.- No place, no date. [probably around 1760-1780]. [145 x 110 mm]
8 unnumbered leaves with 7 watercolour paintings of planet symbols. Contemporary grey boards
with gilt frame in contemporary slip case.
EUR 3200.–
A nicely illustrated manuscript showing the seven planets sun, moon, mars, mercury, Jupiter, venus and Saturn as mystical symbols each connected with quotation from the bible: In principio erat verbum (St. John‘s Gospel) plus an angel and a noble metal.
A rare and charming manuscript showing the influence of alchemical and astrological-mystical ideas within the 18th century in
Germany. „Die Sonne wirkt im menschlichen auf das Herz, in der erde auf das Gold und den Karfunkelstein ... Das Gold in seiner
Masse kann für alle Herzensgebrechen in aurum potabile mutiert werden. Setzt man diesem potabile die Sulphura metallorum zu
so giebt es eine Tinctur und ein hohes particulare.“ [Text within manuscript]
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Prechtl, Johann Joseph.
Praktische Dioptrik als vollständige und gemeinfaßliche Anleitung zur Verfertigung achromatischer Fernröhre. Nach den neuesten Verbesserungen und Hülfsmitteln, und eigenen Erfahrungen. Mit vier Kupfertafeln. Wien, Heubner 1828.
EUR 1600.–
XII, 296 pages, four folding lithogr. plates. Cont. cloth, gilt title to spine. Engelmann, Bibl. mechanico-technologica 291. ADB
XXXV, 539. First edition. Slightly browned throughout. – together with: Prechtl, Johann Joseph. Traité d’optique. French manuscript on paper. Anonymous translation of the text. No place, no date (ca 1830). 517 numbered pages, 7 unnumb. pages with
index, without the plates. Half calf around 1890. Gilt title to spine “Prechtl. Traité d’optique“. Small 4to. (205 x 155 mm). I could
not trace a printed French version of the book.
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Linné, Carl von [Linnaeus, Carolus].
Des Ritters Carl von Linné,... vollständiges Natursystem des Mineralreichs nach der zwölften
lateinischen Ausgabe in einer freyen und vermehrten Uebersetzung von Johann Friederich Gmelin,... . Erster [bis] Vierter Theil [= cptl.]. Nürnberg: bey Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1777 - 1779.
8°. [2], [2], 652 pp., 5 gefalt. Tafeln; [2], [12], [2], 496 pp., [8; Errata], 9 gefalt. Tafeln; [3],
IV - LXIV, 528 pp., [10, Errata], 30 gefalt. Tafeln. Halb-Lederbde. d. Zt., berieben u. bestoßen,
Rotschnitt, Titel gestempelt, innen nur wenig stockfl., insgesamt schönes Exemplar.
EUR 2800.–
Scarce. A very much expanded „translation“ by Johann Friedrich Gmelin from the mineralogical section of the 1766-8 Latin
edition of Linné‘s Systema Naturæ. Volume one contains introductory material including a general description of the science, an
extensive and important bibliography of mineralogical science and the first portion of the descriptive mineralogy. The remaining
volumes contain the bulk of the descriptive mineralogy. At the end of volume four is a comprehensive index. In these mineral studies he describes many fossils and expound his views on the age of the world. Edited and commented by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
(1748-1804) who was the father of the physician and chemist, Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853]). He was professor of medicine at
Tübingen and professor of philosophy and medicine at Göttingen. In the spirit of his time, Gmelin worked in the fields of natural
history, mineralogy, chemistry, entomology and botany.- Hoover 542; Freilich
360; Soulsby 100a. Erste und einzige deutsche Ausgabe des mineralogischen
Teils des „Systema Natura“, übersetzt und bearbeitet von Johann Friedrich
Gmelin (1748 Tübingen - 1804 Göttingen), Prof. für Chemie, Botanik und Mineralogie an der Universität Göttingen, der zu den ersten Chemikern gehörte,
die ein Unterichtslaboratorium für Studenten in Deutschland einrichteten.
Sein 1783 in Göttingen eröffnetes öffentliches chem. Laboratorium wurde
unter Stromeyer in den Lehrbetrieb einbezogen.
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Bardeleben, Karl [von].
Beiträge zur Anatomie der Wirbelsäule.- Jena. Dabis, 1874. Quarto [290 x 225 mm] 39 pp. mit
4 Textholzschnitten, 3 plates with mounted photographs [243 x 190 mm; of which two are bound
together]. Original Publisher half cloth. EUR 1400.–
First edition, uncommon: on the architecture of the spinal
column with original photographs. The photographs were
made by Carl Bräunlich jr. (1850-1900), a photographer
of Jena, working mainly as photographer of card-de-visite
Portraits but also as photographer of architecture. Karl
von Bardeleben (1849 – 1919) was a German anatomist
born in Giessen. He was the son of surgeon Heinrich
Adolf von Bardeleben. From 1873 he worked as prosector
at the University of Jena, where he later served as an
associate professor (from 1878) and full professor (from
1898). Bardeleben specialized in the fields of topographic
and comparative anatomy. In 1886 Bardeleben was founder of the Anatomischer Anzeiger (Annals of Anatomy),
which is considered to be one of the better publications
on anatomical mor-phology. The journal contains many
original treatises on topographic and clinical anatomy,
embry-ology, cell and tissue research, as well as microscopic and „submicroscopic“ biology.- von Engelhardt I, 32.
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Pioneer of scientific micro-cinematography
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Storch, Otto.
Collection of thousands of micro-photography, contact prints, enlargements and microscopic
shots of small organisms living in water, usually mounted on paper, indicating the species and the
recording specifications. Most probably material for a scientific film on microorganisms.- Graz,
Department of Zoology, University, ca 1920-1930. One Box [550 x 380 x 230 mm] with more
than 60 folders with 10 and more single sheets with more than one mounted microphotographs,
altogether thousand photographs, contact prints of small organisms living in water. In paper folders, often dated or indicating what is shown inside.
Coming with a letter the german optical company: Askania-Werke, Berlin-Friedenau of 3. 3.
1931, thanking Otto Storch for sending the photographs and giving the company permission to
use them in a catalogue. There is also an indication of an instrument: “Mikro-Gerät” and an indication that the material was used for a film [“Kino” / Cinema]. Some photographs are in folders
by Wellington & Ward Ltd. (1893-1938 ?), a firm for photographic paper and film material; this
might indicate that the material was made before 1929, because they were taken over by Ilford Ltd.
in that year.
EUR 10.000.Mikrofotografische Sammlung tausender Kontaktabzüge, Vergrößerungen u. mikroskopischer Aufnahmen von Kleinorganismen in
Gewässern, meist montiert auf Papier, mit Angabe der Spezies sowie der aufnahmetechnischen Daten.- Graz, Zoologisches Institut
der Universität, ca. 1920-1930.
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Otto Storch (1886-1951) was an Austrian Prof. of Zoology at Graz University for limnology. He was one of the german pioneers
of scientific micro-cinematography: In the 1920’s he produced a scientific film: Eine Welt im Wassertropfen [an universe within a
water-drop] which helped to promote his sciene to a wider audience.
See the original film of 1920: http://www.oesterreich-am-wort.at/treffer/atom/018AA0BD-111-018EF-00000484-0189A3E5/
With the optical company Askania / Bamberger, Berlin he developed an instrument which could produce photographs through a
microscope.
Timelapse microcinematography was done by taking an image of the microscopic subject at evenly spaced intervals — for example, a minute—and then projecting the resulting film at a much higher speed, 16 or 24 frames per second. This accelerated very
slow movements so that previously impercep-tibly slow change was rendered accessible to observers, opening a whole realm of
biological phenome-na to examination and experimentation. One practitioner, after seeing films of microsurgery in which living
cells were punctured or cut or injected with foreign substances—the effects of which would be inaccessible without recording
the operation and watching the living cells’ reactions accelerated by time lapse — reported being “literally haunted” by the films
because of the “infinitely varied” experi-ments they suggested to him.
The first scientific films ever produced [around 1910] were of bacteria and blood cells, recorded in “real time” — that is, the time
of the filming coincided with the time it took the film to unroll in projection. The flexible properties of film and projection were
soon used to supplement these tempo-rally faithful reproductions of movement as the human eye would normally see it.
Whether in the microscopic or the macroscopic realm, film presented the haunting possibility of cap-turing over time phenomena
that had escaped static means of representation such as histology, photography, or drawing. This led to an explosion in experiments with and on film in scientific and medical disciplines from astronomy to psychiatry.
The French Comandon produced films that were simultaneously scientific investigations of biological phenomena, money making
features of the Pathé Frères salons and catalogue, and teaching films for students of science and medicine. Other production companies, such as Charles Urban (England) and Gaumont (France), also had scientific filmmakers on staff, and scientific films were an
integral part of their early catalogues, although these were more overtly designed to reach a popular audience.
In 1938 Storch had to resigne his post at the University because of the Nazi’s. On his life see the film of 1995 by Reinhard Kikinger in german: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Otto Storch – Zoologe und Pionier der wissenschaftlichen Mikrokinematografie.
See a film on his biography: http://www.oesterreich-am-wort.at/treffer/atom/018AA99A-0A2-02536-00000484-0189A3E5/
Lit.: Hannah Landecker. Microcinematography and the History of Science and Film; in: ISIS 97 (March 2006). Oliver Gaycken.
Swarming of Life: Moving Images, Education and Views through the microscope. In: Science in Context Jan. 2011 and the works
by Curtis Scott, Evanston.
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Deluxe-Edition of Raphael
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Reiffenberg, Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de.
Les Loges de Raphael. Collection complète de 52 tableaux peints a fresque, qui ornent les voutes
du Vatican et représentent des sujets de la Bible, dessinés à l‘ aquarelle et gravés en taille-douce
par J(oseph) C(harles). de Meulemeester [...], terminés sous la direction de M. L. Calamatta
[...], et accompagnés d‘un texte par le Baron Reiffenberg (...). 14 instalments (= all publ.).- Bruxelles, Arnold Lacrosse 1845. With handcoloured engraved title and 52 hand-coloured engraved
plates. (2), X, (104) pages with descriptive text. Publisher’s printed wrap-pers. Imperial folio
(750 x 570 mm). Together with loosely laid in 8-pages prospectus in quarto of the work serving as
an invitation for subscription.
EUR 15000.–
First edition. A monumental reproduction of Raphael‘s frescos in the Vatican‘s Loggia, also known as Raphael‘s Bible, after the
death of Meulemeester posthumously finished by Calamatta. While the work could be obtained in three different states - printed
in black and white on ordinary paper (1), on China (2) or handcoloured on Whatman (3) - the copy for sale here is one of a few
hand-coloured, which al-ready at the time of publication cost ten times the price of the standard edition (100 instead of 10
Francs per plate and its description).
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Raphael‘s compositions were always admired and studied, and became the cornerstone of the training of the Academies of art.
His period of greatest influence was from the late 17th to late 19th centuries, when his perfect decorum and balance were greatly
admired. He was seen as the best model for the history painting, regarded as the highest in the hierarchy of genres. Text lightly
browned, all plates with publisher’s blind stamp in blank margin. A few unobtrusive brown spots and a few plates margi-nally
frayed. The elaborate colouring was designed to catch the real impression of the frescos, there-fore the colours oftenly cover the
engraving, resembling paintings more than printed illustrations. Complete sets of the Deluxe-edition are very difficult to find. Cf.
Thieme-B. XXIV, 450. Höp-per G 8.2. Weigel, Kunst-Catalog XV, 14112; Brunet IV, 1110.- OCLC: Newton Gresham Library; Boston
Athenaeum; Bowdoin College; Watson Library; New York Public; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Univ. of Iowa, Cleveland Museum of
Arts. [all not mentioning their state !]
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus.
Der grossenn Wundartzney / das Erst [ander ...] Buch/ Des Ergründten vnd bewerten/ der
bayden artzney/ Doctors Paracelsi/ vñ allen wunden/ stich/ schüß/ br[ae]nd/ thierbiß/ baynbrüch/ vnd alles was die Wundartzney begreifft / mit gantzer Haylung vnd erkantniß aller züfäll
/… Getruckt nach dem ersten Exemplar/ so D. Paracelsi handgeschrifft gewesen Geschriben zu
dem ... Herrn Ferdinanden [et]c. R[oe]mischen Künig/ ... Außgetaylt inn drey Tractaten. ...
[Die große Wundarznei; Der grossenn Wundartzney das Erst (ander ... ) Buch Des Ergründten
vnd bewerten der bayden artzney Doctors Paracelsi vñ allen wunden stich schüß braend thierbiß
baynbrüch vnd alles was die Wundartzney begreifft ... Getruckt nach dem ersten Exemplar so D.
Paracelsi handgeschrifft gewesen. Geschriben zu dem ... Herrn Ferdinanden [et]c. Roemischen
Künig ... Außgetaylt inn drey Tractaten. ...] Getruckt zu Augspurg bey Haynrich Stayner/ Jm
Jar. M.D.XXXVI. [T. I:] (am xxviii. tag Julii) [T. II:] (am xxii. Tag Augusti) [Augsburg: Heinrich
Steiner], 1536. Folio [274 x 185 mm] [8], LXI Bl.; [6], LX [eig. LXI], [1] Bl. [= dritter Theil
beginnt ab LV] [= A8 B6-L6; A-K6 L8] Späterer Halb-Pergamentband im Stile der Zeit, Vorsätze
erneuert, innen gebräunt und etwas fleckig, wenige alte Anmerkungen in Tinte, letzte drei Blätter
mit kleinem Wurmgang, evtl. neu beschnitten, doch gutes Exemplar.
EUR 35000.–
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First [or second] edition, due to Sudhoff, the most relevant edition, because of Paracelsus looking after the printing. It was printed
very fast between 28 of July 1536 and 12. August 1536: Sudhoff thought that the publisher wanted the book to be out of press
before the Ulm Vanier printing was distributed. A very scarce edition, not at recent auctions.
In 1536 Paracelsus published his masterwork Der grossen Wundartzney, which restored his reputation virtually overnight. He
grew wealthy, was sought by royalty and the elite, and his fame reached greater heights than ever before. In 1541 he ceased his
wanderings to take an appointment under the prince-archbishop, Duke Ernst of Bavaria, in Salzburg. Shortly thereafter he died in
mysterious circumstances at the White Horse Inn. He was 48.
Due to his interest in alchemy, philosophy, and the mystical aspects of science that were prevalent in the medieval and Renaissance worldview, Paracelsus has become an iconic figure for those interested in the occult and new-wave subjects. But it‘s important to remember that, in his time, this somewhat flamboyant and arrogant celebrity was also a serious scholar, teacher, writer
and doctor who made outstanding advances in medical science.
Extrem seltene erste oder im Jahr der Erstausgabe erschienene Ausgabe seines Hauptwerks. Nur noch in wenigen Exemplaren
erhalten. Seit Jahrzehnten nicht auf deutschen und englischsprachigen Auktionen. Laut dem Bibliographen und Herausgeber der
Gesammelten Werke von Paracelsus, Sudhoff, ist dies’ die relevante und wahrscheinlich erste Ausgabe, zeitgleich erschienen mit
der Ulmer bei Va-nier erschienenen Ausgabe. Wie alle zu Paracelsus Lebzeiten erschienenen Werke [nur 4 Werke] von äußerster
Seltenheit.
Sudhoff vermutet, dass dies’ die eigentlich erste
Ausgabe ist, da der Druck in nur 14 Tagen veranstaltet wurde, vermutlich um der Konkurrenz Ausgabe in Ulm zuvor zu kommen. Sudhoff hält diese
Ausgabe für relevant, da Paracelsus Sie auf Fehler
überprüft hat.
Paracelsus brach schon früh mit der zu seiner Zeit
gültigen Medizin des Mittelalters. Besonders vehement sprach er sich gegen die Vier- Säfte- Lehre (i.e.
Blut, Schleim, schwarze & gelbe Galle) des Galen
(um ca. 400 v. Ch. tätig) aus. Galens Lehren blieben
jedoch auch lange nach Paracelsus bis ins 19. Jhdt.
angesehen und bilden beispielsweise die Grundlagen von H. von Bingens und S. Kneipps Thera-pien.
Paracelsus forderte die Begründung einer medizinischen, empirisch begründeten Systematik, die
auf die Beobachtung der Natur, Durchführung von
Experimenten und Nützung von Chemie zur Heilung
von Kranken basieren sollte. Zusätzlich dazu sollten
auch Magie, Gottvertrauen und persönliche Erfahrungen (z.B. aus anderen Kulturkreisen erlernt) die
Heilungschancen fördern.
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Er erkannte und beschrieb etliche Krankheiten systematisch (z.B. Blasen- und Nierensteine, Infektio-nen) und erhob die Chirurgie
in den Status einer eigenen medizinischen Disziplin. Seiner Systematik nach gab es fünf Hauptquellen (entia) von Krankheiten:
Gestirnseinflüsse, Einflüsse durch aufgenommenes Gift, Vorherbestimmung (Konstitution), den Einfluss von Geistern und den
direkten Einfluss von Gott. Diese entia müssen bei der Erstellung der Diagnose immer in ihrer Gesamtheit begutachtet werden, da
sich die Wirkung eines ens durch ein schwaches zweites ens verstärken könnte.
Seiner Zeit war Paracelsus weit voraus; so musste er sich wegen seiner ungewöhnlichen Methoden oft vor Gericht verteidigen
(z.B. Anklage wegen Vergiftung). Er behauptete u.a. dass Krankheiten sehr oft durch körperfremde Einflüsse verursacht würden
und demnach durch Einsatz von chemischen Substanzen auch wieder geheilt werden könnten.
Ein Teil von Paracelsus’ Alchemie war die Signaturenlehre die von der äußeren Erscheinung von Pflanzen Rückschlüsse auf deren
Wirkung interpretiert (z.B. herzförmige Blüten gegen Herzkrankheiten, stachelige Disteln gegen Stechen in der Brust, etc.). Außerdem nahm Paracelsus Rücksicht auf die geschlechterspezifischen Wirkungen von Heilmitteln.
Dies stand ebenfalls im Gegensatz zu Galen, der auf pflanzliche Heilmittel setzte. Paracelsus schuf so-mit auch für die Pharmazie
und Chemie eine wichtige Basis, die ihre Gültigkeit bis ins 16. und 17. Jahrhundert behielt.
Doch der Heilungsprozess war Paracelsus Auffassung nach auch stark an die Selbstheilungskräfte des Einzelnen gebunden und
galt daher bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Die zentrale Ansicht in seiner Einstellung war für Paracelsus das Wechselspiel von Mikround Makrokosmos, anders gesagt, das Wechselspiel der Menschen mit dem Universum und der Schöpfung. Dies sei besonders für
die Ärzte wichtig zu wissen, da Paracelsus den Heilungsprozess an sich als Rückführung des Kranken in die göttliche Ordnung der
Natur sah, wobei der Arzt in diesem Prozess einen göttlichen Auftrag zu erfüllen hatte.
Zur Ausbildung von Ärzten, meinte Paracelsus, seien
vier Disziplinen entscheidend: „Weisheitsliebe“ (im
weitesten Sinne Philosophie), die Wissenschaft von
den inneren Gestirnen (im weitesten Sinne Astronomie), die Alchemie und die Redlichkeit (proprietas).
Bekannt wurde er u.a. auch als Alchemist, Astrologe,
Mystiker, Laientheologe und Philosoph. Er gilt als ein
Wegbereiter der modernen Heilkunde und organischen Chemie („Vater der Toxikologie“) am Scheidepunkt weg von den mittelalterlichen Einstellungen.
Weiters benannte Paracelsus das Element Zink,
beschrieb Merkmale zahlreicher Krankheiten (z.B.
Kropf und Syphilis), und setzte Stoffe wie Schwefel
und Quecksilber als mineralische Heilmittel unter
der Annahme „Gleiches könne durch Glei-ches
geheilt werden“ ein, wodurch er auch zum „Vater
der Homöopathie“ wurde.- VD16 P 452; Sudhoff
15. VD16 P 453 [Ulm: Vanier, 1536; Sudhoff 14];
Garrison-Morton 5561 [Ulm 1536]; Letztes angebotenes Exemplar Hill Kat. 64 (1992), no. 110 [Ulm
Vanier 1536]: 46.000 $ = 44.000.- Euro.
KVK: Stabi Berlin; Wolfenbüttel; SuStB Augsburg;
Bern; COPAC: Univ. Wales; Glasgow [Ulm, 1536];
not in Wellcome [only Reprint of Ulm, 1536]. OCLC:
not in NLM, Indiana Univ., NYAM, Trinity College
Hartford; Univ. Michigan; Becker Medical; Yale
University [partly dated 1537; second edition with
variant printing]
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Ulstadt
Ulstadt [Ulsted], Philip.
Coelum Philosophorum. Von heymlicheyt der Natur / das ist / wie man nit alleyn auß wein sonder
auch auß allen metallen/ früchten / fleysch / ayern /... vnd auß vil anderen dingen mer sol distillir
Aquam Vite z[uo] erhaltung der gesundtheyt menschliches c[oe]rpers Eyn kurtz klares/ vnd nützlichs B[uo]ch/ durch fleiß Philippi Vlstadij von Norimberg ... z[uo]samen inns Latin geschriben/ aber jetzunt von neuwe verteutscht ... Jtem Marsilij Vicini Regiment desz lebens/ mit essen/
trincken/ wonungen [et]c ... Darbei viel g[uo]tter Recept für aller handt kranck=heyten/ dem
Gemeynen Mann eyn wolfeyle vnnd gar nützliche Apoteck.- [Straßburg: Cammerlander, Jakob,
1536] Getruckt z[uo] Straszburg durch M. Jacob Cammerlandern von Mentz. Anno M.D.XXXvj.
Folio [275 x 190 mm] [4] Bl., LV, [1] Bl. Leaves 6 / 7 and 19-30 with wormhole inside the text,
missing a few letters & part of a diagram with minor loss. Browning throughout, little short cut,
else fine. Later vellum period style. Pergamentbd. Im Stile der Zeit, gebräunt und gering fleckig,
etwas eng beschnitten, auf einigen Seiten nahe an rausgestellte Worter, auf Blättern 6-7 & 19-30
durch kleine Wurmspur Verlust weniger Lettern. Sonst ordentl. Exempl.
EUR 6000.–
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Second translation into German of the Coelum Philosophorum of Ulstad (florished 1500), a physician and professor at Nuremberg who taught medicine at Fribourg, Switzerland. Originally published in latin (Straßburg 1525), this is the second translation
into the vernacular after the Strassburg 1527 edi-tion. The work reprints the title woodcut of the former edition on its title. It
is a very important mile-stone of early distillation literature. The Coelum Philosophorum gives recipes for spiced wines, claret,
hypocras, etc. and describes the preparation of spirit of wine (aqua vitae) by distilling wine in an alembic with the neck packed
with sponges soaked in oil, and alembics for “circulation” which was thought to enrich the wine in spirit. The strength of the spirit
was tested by pouring it on linen and lighting it, when all should burn away. The ‘epistel’ is dated Friburg 1525, as in the latin
original, and at the end (folios 45-55) is the commentary Regiment des Lebens by Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499). Ulstadt was
closely connected with Hieronymus Brunschwig (1450-1512), and each used the same woodblocks in their books on distillation.
Apart from the influence of Brunschwig, Ulstadt’s work is based on those of John of Rupecissa, Raymond Lull, Arnald of Villanova,
and Albertus Magnus.
“The lucidity of his technical directions was a major reason for the influence exerted by Ulstad. His discussion of apparatus and
manipulative procedures afforded the 16th century investigator an accu-rate summary of the best distilling theory then available.” [Fichman in DSB]
The book was very popular and was translated from latin into german and french editions in various forms appearing throughout the sixteenth and early 17th centuries. Newton owned a copy of the Lyon 1572 edition and also another of 1630. Of great
rarity. On a discussion of the work see: Edward R. Atkinson; Arthur H. Hughes. Journal of Chemical education March 1939, pp.
103-107.- VD16 U 123 bzw. VD16 F 960 [Ficino,
Marsiglio: Regiment des Lebens mit Essen, Trinken,
Whonungen ... = De triplici vita <dt.>]. Brüning
0201: Erste deutsche Ausgabe [wrong]; Ritter
II, 2366; Rosenthal 846; Waller 9742; Benzing,
Cammerlander 130; Neville Historical Library [1527
ed.] II, 571. Gruber, Al-chemie 271 dating the 1551
edition as first german edition, which is wrong. DSB
XIII, 535; Edelstein 2332; Ferguson II, 482/83 [lat.
Ed.]; Ferguson Coll. 715; Partington II, 84-86: „all
editions of the book are rare“; KVK: Stabi München;
Gotha ; Köln; Mainz.
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Sehr frühe und äußerst seltene deutsche Ausgabe. Nicht auf deutschen Auktionen in den letzten De-cennien [ JAP]. Der aus
Nürnberg stammende und in Fribourg [Schweiz] als Arzt tätige Ulstad[t] sieht sich selbst als Bewahrer und Erneuerer altehrwürdiger alchemistischer Traditionen, die er hier in seiner populären und oftmals aufgelegten Anleitung zur Destillation vorstellt. Er
empfiehlt z.B. zur sanften Erwärmung alchemistischer Substanzen erstmals die Bestrahlung mit Sonnenlicht. Die vielen teils blattgroßen Textholzschnitte zeigen verschiedene Destillieröfen und Retorten. Sie lehnen sich an Brunschwig und die bei Grüninger
erschienenen Folioausgaben des Geber an.- Ferchl 547.
„Der ursprüngliche Text ist von Brunschwig, der ihn deutsch verfasste, Ulstad übersetzte ihn ins La-teinische, worauf ein unbekannter Übersetzer wiederum die Rückübersetzung ins Deutsche vornahm, so dass ein beträchtlich vom Original abweichender
Text entstand, der des ungeachtet in den ersten Jahren mehrere Nachdrucke erlebte. Brunschwigs rezipierte lullischen und
arnoldischen Texte wie auch Teile Rupecissa, auf die er zurückgriff, sind arg verstümmelt. Ulstad wollte aber trotz der Mängel
den Lesern rasch eine funktionierende „Gebrauchsanweisung“ geben, die Abbildungen sind durchaus als Bauanleitung für ein
alchemistisches Labor zu betrachten.“ [Brüning]
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First description of the Klein Clock / Planetarium
20 Stepling, Joseph.
Exercitationes geometrico-analyticae de Ungulis, aliisque frustis Cylindrorum, Quorum Bases
sunt Sectiones Conicae infinitorum generum Adjungitur Descriptio Automati Planetarii.- Prag
[Prague], Soc. Jesu ad S. Clementem, [1751] Quarto [212 x 170 mm]. Cont. boards, marbled paper [braunes Kleisterpapier] over wooden boards, spine lacking, boards thus a bit loose. Old annotations to title-page („Bibliotheca Dappaviensis/ Sokol:/ Ciarum“). A few leaves a bit „creased“,
but overall nice and clean. Laid in at end is a piece of folded paper w. cont. neatly hand-drawn
geometrical figures. (32) ff. [= 2 leaves unsigned, A-F4 G²] [being: pp. 1-2: title-page, 3-4: dedication, 5-7: preface, 8-50: main text, 51-55: Descriptio Automati Planetarii, 56: blank, 57-59:
notice-leaf & dedications, 60-64: Nomina Illustrissimorum … 2 geometrical plates with several
figures on them & 2 large fold. engraved plates by I. Frey showing the astronomical instrument
[planetarium] from two sides. EUR 4000.–
The exceedingly scarce first edition of Stepling‘s first mathematical work, his „Geometric-analytical Exercises“, which foreshadowed much of Euler‘s „Institutiones calculi integralis“ (published in 1768) and included as appendix [„Descriptio Automati
Planetarii & Cyclographici in Magna Aula Carolina palám exhibiti”] the descriptions of the Klein Clock exhibited in Prague. The
two beautiful large fold. engraved plates for the automatic Planetarium / Clock were drawn by I. [ Johann Jakob ?] Frey, Pragae
1751. Johannes Klein (1684-1762), a Jesuit astronomer, is today mainly known as instrument- maker and inventor of astronomical clocks after the theory of Huygens. From 1732 he worked at the Collegio Clementino in Prague and designed three famous
astronomical clocks, still to be seen in Prague and Dresden. Stepling describes the one showing the tychonic world-view, being
constructed in 1751. Joseph Stepling (1716-1778), the first Bohemian mathematician to make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, was born in Regensburg in Germany but built his career in Prague. His fields included astronomy, physics and
mathematics. At the age of 17 he documented with great accuracy the 1733 lunar eclipse. Later Euler was among his long list of
correspondents. He transposed Aristotelian logic into formulas, thus becoming an early precursor of modern logic. Already adopted the atomistic conception of matter he radically refused to accept Aristotelian metaphysics and natural philosophy. In 1748,
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at the request of the Berlin Academy, he carried out an exact observation of a solar and lunar eclipse in order to determine the
precise location of Prague. During Stepling‘s long tenure at Prague, he set up a laboratory for experimental physics and in 1751
built an observatory, the instruments and fittings of which he brought up to the latest scientific standard. He was very interested in cultivating the exact sciences and founded a society for the study of science modelled on the Royal Society of London. In
their monthly sessions, over which he presided until his death, the group carried out research work and investigations in the field
of pure mathematics and its applications to physics and astronomy. Stepling corresponded with the outstanding contemporary
mathematicians and astronomers: Christian Wolff, Leonhard Euler, Christopher Maire, Nicolas- Louis de Lacaille, Ma-ximilian Hell,
Rudjer Boskovic, and others.- ADB XXXVI, 108; Zinner, Instrumente 408 [Klein; not mentioning Stepling]; KVK: Berlin [Kriegsverlust]; Darmstadt; Bamberg; Neuburg Donau [2 plates only]; OCLC: Michigan, Simpson University; College of Western Idaho;
COPAC: no copy.
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21 A landmark in the history of baseball
Gutsmuths, Johann Christoph Friedrich.
Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Körpers und Geistes.- Schnepfenthal, Buchhandlung der
Erziehungsanstalt, 1796. 8°. mit gestoch. Frontisp. von G. F. Stoelzel nach J(ohann) H(einrich)
Ramberg u. 4 Kupfertafeln. XVI, 492 pp., 6 Bl. Läd. Hldr. d. Zt
. EUR 6400.–
The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the
town‘s new meeting house. By 1796, a version of the game was well-known
enough to earn a mention in a German scholar‘s book on popular pastimes.
As described by Johann Gutsmuths, „englische Baseball“ involved a contest
between two teams, in which „the batter has three attempts to hit the ball
while at the home plate.“ Only one out was required to retire a side. This book
also illustrates for the first time the game. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, also called Guts Muth or Gutsmuths (1759 - 1839) was a teacher and
educator in Germany, and is especially known for his role in the development
of physical education. He is known to be the Great Grandfather of Gymnastics.
He introduced systematic physical exercises into the school curriculum, and he
developed the basic principles of artistic gymnastics. In 1793, GutsMuths published Gymnastik für die Jugend, the first systematic textbook in gymnastics.
In 1800, his work on physical education was translated into English and published in England under the title „Gymnastics for youth: or A practical guide
to healthful and amusing exercises for the use of schools“ where it became a
standard reference. Erste Ausgabe. – NDB VII, 351. HKJL III, Sp. 455-463. LKJL
I, 514: „Das erste pädagogisch fundierte Spielbuch. Es wurde wegweisend für
die pädagogische Spielliteratur, ist aber vorwiegend als Anregung für Eltern
und Erzieher gedacht.“
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Lueder, Franz Hermann Heinrich.
Botanischpraktische Lustgärtnerey nach Anleitung der besten neuesten brittischen Gartenschriftsteller, mit nöthigen Anmerkungen für das Clima in Deutschland. Erster [bis] Vierter
Band. [= alles erschien.].- Leipzig: bey M. G. Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1783. L, 430 pp.,
[2] with 14 plates;
EUR 3500.First edition, an early german practical guide fort he use of garden architecture, with descriptions of plants for use in the garden.
Based on English works by Hanbury and by Thomas Mawe & John Aber-crombie, this manual was published by Christian Cay
Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742-1792) on request of the author (1734-1791) with the idea to have a practical sequel to the former’s
Theorie der Gartenkunst.- Stafleu-C. 5072; Pritzel 5682; Dochnahl 98. Erste Ausgabe. Versteht sich als Supplement zu Hirschfelds Standardwerk „Theorie der Gartenkunst“, dieser arbeitete das Werk mit aus und überwachte auch die Drucklegung.
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Wolff, Caspar Friedrich.
Theoria Generationis cum 2 Tabvl. Aen. Avctore D. Casparo Friderico Wolff Anatom. Et Physiol. In Academ. Petropolit. Profess. Editio Nova, Aucta Et Emendata.- Halae Ad Salam [Hal-le
an der Saale], Typis Et Svmtv Io. Christ. Hendeli[i], 1774 8°. [215 x 130 mm] LXIV, 231 pp., II
gefalt. Bl. Kupferst. Einfache Kartonage der Zeit., stockfl., unbeschnitten. EUR 1800.Second revised latin edition, after the first lat. edition of 1759 and the german edition of 1764.
Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735 – 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryo-logy. Wolff‘s research
covered embryology, anatomy, and botany. He was the discoverer of the primi-tive kidneys (mesonephros), or „Wolffian bodies“
and its excretory ducts. He described these in his dissertation „Theoria Generationis“ after observing them in his studies on chick
embryos. According to Locy, since he assumed a total lack of organization in the beginning, he was obliged to make develop-ment
„miraculous“ through the action on the egg of a hyperphysical agent; from a total lack of organi-zation, he conceived of its being
lifted to the highly organized product through the action of a „vis es-sentialis corporis.“ In 1768-1769, he published his best work
in embryology on the development of the intestine; of which Baer said, „It is the greatest masterpiece of scientific observation
which we possess.“ Again, according to Locy, while Wolff’s investigations for „Theoria Generationis“ did not reach the level of
Marcello Malpighi’s, those of the paper of 1768 surpassed them and held the position of the best piece of embryological work up
to that of Heinz Christian Pander and Karl Ernst von Baer.
In it he foreshadows the idea of germ layers in the embryo, which, under Pander and von Baer, became the fundamental conception in structural embryology - he laid the foundation for the germ layer theo-ry. Wolff foreshadowed the germ layer theory by
showing that the material out of which the embryo is constructed is, in an early stage of development, arranged in the form of
leaf-like layers. Locy recog-nizes Wolff as the foremost investigator in embryology before von Baer. Wolff contended that the organs of animals make their appearance gradually and that he could actually follow their successive stages of formation.
„Im Jahr 1764 folgte mit Die Theorie von der Generation eine Erweiterung der Dissertation in deut-scher Sprache, in der er vor
allem die Fragen seiner Bekannten und Freunde aufgriff und seine Theo-rien nochmals verständlich und mit Beispielen belegt
darstellte. Die erste Fassung erschien nur in handschriftlicher Form für seine Bekannten, nach dem Beginn seiner Lehrtätigkeit in
Berlin veröffent-lichte er das Werk auch, um es seinen Studenten zugänglich zu machen.
In einem einführenden Teil erklärte Wolff die Begriffe „Anatomie“, „Physiologie“ sowie insbesondere sein Verständnis von dem
Begriff „Generation“, wobei er einen geschichtlichen Abriss von Aristoteles bis in seine eigene Zeit vorlegte. Den wichtigsten
Abschnitt des Werkes bildet allerdings eine Recht-fertigung seiner Epigenesis-Theorie gegenüber den Vertretern der Präformationslehre, und er antwor-tete detailliert, teilweise deutlich polemisch, auf die Kritikpunkte, die Albrecht von Haller und Charles
Bonnet an der Epigenesis äußerten. Im Zentrum dieser Abhandlung steht der Gedanke, dass die Natur aus sich heraus in der Lage
ist, eine Fülle von Veränderungen zu bewirken.
Im zweiten Teil der Theorie von der Generation wiederholt er die Ergebnisse seiner Dissertation, wo-bei er an den hinterfragten Stellen deutlicher wurde und vor allem bei der Entwicklung der tierlichen Organe sowie bei dem, was er als „Conception“
benennt, deutlicher und klarer wurde. Er stellte in die-sem Teil regelmäßig Parallelen zwischen der Entwicklung der Pflanzen und
der Tiere dar und stellte deren Gemeinsamkeiten heraus. Außerdem beschrieb er den Aufbau sowohl der Pflanzen als auch der
Tiere auf der Basis von drei Organisationsstufen: den „Bläschen“ oder Zellen, die die einfachen Teile bilden, den aus Geweben
zusammengesetzten Strukturen wie das Mark der Pflanzen oder die Musku-latur der Tiere, sowie die komplexeren Organe. Nach
Wolffs Theorie entstehen die Strukturen ausein-ander, entweder durch „Excernierung“ (Strukturen werden von anderen Strukturen gebildet) oder durch „Deponierung“ (Strukturen werden mit anderen Strukturen zu neuen verbunden). Dabei glaubte er (im
Gegensatz zu der im 19. Jahrhundert aufkommenden Theorie der Vermehrung von Zellen), dass sich alle Strukturen aus einer bis
dahin unorganisierten Keimmasse entwickeln, in der noch keine Strukturen vorhanden sind. Die „Conception“, also der Plan für
die Differenzierung der Lebewesen, entsteht nach seiner Ansicht durch die Zuführung einer neuen Nährsubstanz, dem Pollen bei
der Pflanze oder dem Spermium beim Tier.“ [wikipedia]
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Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm.
Beschreibung und Abbildung eines ungebornen Elephanten nebst verschiedenen bisher ungedruckten Nachrichten die Naturgeschichte der Elephanten betreffend. Herausgegeben von …
Erlangen: bey Wolfgang Walther, 1783. Quarto [250 x 200 mm] 16 pp., one folding plate showing in three figures the elephant, etched by I. Nußbiegel. Inner font cover with Ex Libris:
Dr. J. M. W. Baumann[i]: Natura doceri. Contemporary boards with handwritten label on cover.
EUR 2800.First edition, very rare. Description of an elephant from Ceylon in the Natural History Cabinet of Her-zog Anton in Braunschweig.
It was acquired by Feronce von Rotencreuz in Holland and shipped to Germany. Zimmermann describes the specimen and cited
the relevant literature by Camper, Forster, Buffon, Perrault and others.- Holdings: COPAC: Royal Society, NHM London; OCLC:
Kenneth Spen-cer; Univ. of Chicago; AMNH New York; Acad. of Natural Sciences Philadelphia.
Lit.: Petra Feuerstein-Herz. Der Elefant der neuen Welt. Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann und die Anfänge der
Tiergeographie. 2006.
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Müller, Otto Frederik.
Hydrachnae, quas in aquis Daniae palustribvs detexit, descripsit, pingi et tabulis XI aeneis incidi
curavit … .- Leipzig: Siegrfried Lebrect Crusium, 1781. Quarto [240 x 190 mm] LXXXVIII, 11
etched plates depicting 71 species, all in fine hand-colouring. Contemporary halfcalf, gilt spine in
compartments, edges and covers slightly rubbed, else fine copy. Paper a little browned. Printed on
thick paper. Ownership inscription on marbled inner cover paper: Lundblad, 14/8/1919. EUR 1200.First edition of Müller‘s important work on this new animal group, Hydrachnics (water mites), which family he established as
„Hydrachnae“. He describes 71 species of which 49 were completely new.- Nissen ZBI 2931; Bibl. Danica II, 181.
“Otto Frederik Müller (1730-1784) made an important contribution to invertebrate zoology by invent-ting the first dredge. An
adaptation of a device used by oystermen, his dredge could scrape specimens off the ocean floor, and other naturalists soon
began using dredges to discover new invertebrate forms. On the scientific voyages of exploration in the early nineteenth century,
every naturalist brought along, and used regularly, a dredge, and this included Charles Darwin.
This treatise, however, studies an arachnid that is found in fresh-water ponds and swamps. Popularly called a water mite, it is now
placed in the subclass Acarina. Linnaeus had named it Acarus aquaticus and knew only the one species. Muller expanded it to a
genus, Hydrachna, and he distinguished forty-nine species, each of which is given a valid Linnaean name and is illustrated by a
color drawing. This is a fairly typical example of the explosion of knowledge about invertebrates that occurred between 1760 and
1860.
Linnaeus had shown little interest in invertebrates, since he had his hands full sorting our mammals, birds, and fish (to say
nothing of plants). Consequently, he lumped all invertebrates into just two classes, Insecta and Vermes, or, roughly, Bugs and
Worms. Lamarck, in 1809, enlarged these two clas-ses into ten, adding mollusks, crustaceans, polyps (cephalopods), and radiates
(echinoderms), among others. In ensuing decades, naturalists greatly expanded their collecting efforts to include these spine-less
wonders. Charles Darwin was introduced to the world of invertebrates at Edinburgh, collected them on the Beagle, and would
later become the world’s authority on one group of crustaceans, the barnacles. One of the first non-insect invertebrates to be
investigated was Daphnia. It was first ob-served and illustrated by Jan Swammerdam in 1669, but few others took much interest,
and Linnaeus omitted it entirely from his System of Nature.” [Linda Hall. The Grandeur of Life. No. 24 with illustration]
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Costa, Emanuel Mendes da.
Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or The British Conchology; Containing the Description and Other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland. [engl./
frz.].-London, printed for the Author, Millan, B. White, Elmsley and Robson, 1778. Small-folio
(309 x 248 mm.) pp. xii, (2), 254, viii, with 17 engraved and hand-coloured plates. Recent half
brown morocco, spine with red gilt lettered label. Printed in English and French in parallel columns.
EUR 2400.First edition, a rather uncommon work. It was issued with plain as well as coloured plates. The list of subscribers lists 111
persons, indicating coloured and plain copies. 22 were Fellows of the Royal So-ciety, the list of names gives some measure of his
rehabilitation. The work is dedicated to Sir Ashton Lever [Museum Leverianum] who surely must have bought many specimens
from da Costa and he may have helped him in other ways. Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717 – 1791) was an English botanist,
naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable shells, notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati. He was one
of the first Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and became its librarian. He was also a fellow of the Antiquarian
Society of London; a member of the Botanic Society
in Florence, the Aurelian Society, and the Gentleman‘s
Society at Spalding. His publications included A Natural
History of Fossils 1757; Elements of Conchology, or An
Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells 1776 (illustrated by Peter Brown); British Conchology 1778; several
important papers in the Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society; and other scientific publications.- B.M.
(N.H.) I, 389; See also P.J.P. Whitehead, Emanuel Mendes
da Costa... ‚Bull. Br. Mus (Nat. Hist.) Historical series 6,
1‘. Nissen, IVB, 2785. Brunet II, 321.
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The first comprehensive study
of conchology
‘Naturall History is much injured, through the little incouragement, which is
given to the Artist, whose Noble performances can never be enough rewarded;
being not only necessary, but the very beauty, and life of this kind of learning.’
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Lister, Martin
Historia sive synopsis methodica conchyliorum. Editio tertia, recensuit et Indice locupletissimo
instruxit L. W. Dillwyn.- Oxfordii [Oxford]: e Typographeo Clarendoniano [Clarendon Press],
1823. Folio [410 x 250 mm]. [iv], 1084 engraved figures on 439 leaves, xiii, [1, blank], 48 pp.
Some very occasional light spotting and offsetting, blindstamp to first leaves and a few others outside the image, but generally a very clean, fresh copy in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving
original spine. EUR 4400.Very rare third edition of Lister‘s classic conchology, which had first appeared in a series of various issues between 1685 and
1695 [with only a few plates]. This third edition reprints the second edition of 1770 and has a new index by L. W. Dillwyn.
Lister presented the plates and his shell collection to the Ashmolean Museum, and in 1768 it was decided to publish them in an
edition of 250 (300 were in fact printed), accompanied by notes by Lister that the editor, William Huddesford, keeper of the Bodleian Library, had discovered on a set of proof plates, and indices, one based on Lister‘s nomenclature, the other on the Linnaean
system.
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Lister‘s work was the first major shell iconography, the second conchology per se (only preceded by Buonanni‘s Recreationi of
1681), and the first attempt at a systematic classification of mollusca. Lister published no accompanying text, but instead had
brief descriptions, including locations, engraved on each plate. The plates were engraved by William Lodge and Anna and Susanna
Lister after drawings by the two latter, Lister‘s daughter’s respectively.
To maintain as much ‘creative control’ over his work and its publication as possible, he taught his two daughters, Susanna (bap.
1670, d. 1738) and Anna (1671–ca. 1695–1704), how to limn and engrave images. Lister later claimed that their engravings for
Historiae ‘could not have been performed by a Person else for less than 2000 l. Sterling; of which Sum yet a great share it stood
me in, out of my Private Purse.’ From 1694 Lister and his daughters were regularly using a microscope in the creation of scientific
illustrations.
“Because Lister used microscopes as aids to the dissection of molluscs and his
poor vision obviated the use of a simple microscope, an early compound instrument in conjunction with a hand lens would have been more than sufficient for his
purposes. Despite the prominent decorative image of the compound instrument
in Hooke‘s Micrographia, Hooke turned to the single-lens microscope to produce
his spectacularly magnified and detailed engravings that demonstrated the very
power of the instruments to mitigate the Baconian idols of the senses, his aim to
provide ‘a full sensation of the Object’ [my italics]. In contrast, Lister‘s purpose was
to present the essential features of the molluscan external structure and internal
anatomy for the purposes of taxonomy in a visually pleasing manner. Hooke‘s flea
dazzles; Lister‘s mollusc classifies.“ [Ross]
Many are within elaborate ornamental borders. The engravings of the gastropods
are not reversed. There are also several plates of fossils, particularly ammonites.
Sir Hans Sloane, the founder of the British Museum, lent Lister specimens from his
travels in Jamaica
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The plates are numbered up to 1059 together with 22 anatomical plates. Of the 1059 numbers the following were omitted: 89,
164, 195, 196, 222, 923, 961, and the following 10 extra plates added: 101a, 101b, 168a, 512+ , 822b, 846b, 883, 931,
965b, and 990b.
The editor, Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 – 1855) was a British porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and Member of Parliament.
His father, a Pennsylvanian Quaker had returned to Britain in 1777 during Philadelphia‘s worst period in the American War of
Independence and settled at Higham Lodge, Wal-thamstow, Essex, UK. William Dillwyn was a vociferous anti-slavery campaigner
and toured England and S. Wales in his work for the Anti-Slavery Committee. On his tours of S. Wales he arranged to buy the lease
of the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, Glamorganshire from George Haynes, appointing Haynes as manager. In 1802 Lewis was sent
by his father to Swansea to take control of the pottery. Although he had no previous experience of ceramics manufacture, he was
enthusiastic and the quality of the pottery made there was improved under his management. In 1814 the pottery took over the
workforce of the Nantgarw Pottery and began to make porcelain. Lewis Weston Dillwyn however was also re-knowned for his published works on botany and conchology, including his work The British Confervae an illustrated study of British freshwater algae,
published 1809. Dillwyn is credited with discovering several species of the Conferva genus.
Keynes 50 and pp. 21-35; Dance (second edition) pp. 23-25; Carter, History of the Oxford University Press p. 396 and 590 n. 10;
Nissen ZBI 2530. Lit.: Anna Marie Ross. The Art of science: a ‘Rediscovery’ of the Lister Copperplates. N. Rec. R. Soc. 2011.
KVK: Stabi München; COPAC: National Library Wales, Oxford, BL London, V&A Libraries, NHM Lon-don: “consists
of a reprint, from the second edition, of Lister‘s „Notes
and Observations“ with the „Tabularum Anatomicarum
explicatio,“ and Dillwyn‘s „An Index to the Historia Conchyliorum of Lister,“ &c., which last was also issued as a
separate work” OCLC: some libraries.
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[Souvenir]
Red morrocco album [box] around 1830 with 12 hand-coulored paintings of
European birds mounted on velin and laid in, together with two stitched
flower paintings, dated 1838, a silk embroidery with text at the back, dated
Zittau 1822 „Charlotte Friederike Meißner or Münchner“ and a embroidery with
souvenir on top.
EUR 2000.Charming Album amicorum with professionally hand-coloured pintings of European birds [maybe they are lithographs, but very
professionally highten with gum arabicum in bright colours; difficult to decide) A give away between women in that period,
probably with some interest in bird and flowers The birds are not labelled or named, but there are: an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula
arctica), a Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), a Hoopoe (Upupa epops), a Rock Ptarmigan, a Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus),
a white Wagtail (Motacilla alba). The album amicorum was collected between 1822-1838 in Lower Saxony (Zittau).
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Unknown manuscript copy of Churchman’s proposal
for the longitude problem – a curious Americana
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Churchman, John [Jean].
Atlas Magnétique ou cartes de variation partout le globe terrestre. … Londre: Darton & Harvey,
1794. French Manuscript on paper. France, around 1795. Small quarto. 132, (4 blank) numbered pp. with 4 fold. manuscript maps in pen and ink of which two very large and with wash-colour
showing the northern and southern hemispheres with their magnetic orbits. Contemporary half
leather with sprinkled edges, partly rubbed, else fine. EUR 14000.
Unknown & unpublished French manuscript translation of John Churchman’s (1753-1805): “The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation
Charts of the whole Terraqueous Globe; comprising a system of variation and dip of the needle, by which, the observations being
truly made, the longitude may be ascertained” which was published four times from 1790 to 1804 in English to promote his
solution of the problem of longitude. This French translation according to preliminary notes on page 3 was made for the French
astronomer Vidal by a French lawyer Borelli initiated by a French engineer Mercadier. All of them lived probably in Foix, main city
in the Département Ariège in Southern France. When his
theory for the longitude problem faced mixed reactions
in the USA, he went to Europe. In 1796 he visited first
Copenhagen, and then proceeding on to St. Petersburg,
where he was well received by the authorities. There
his theory proved to be of such sufficient interest to the
Imperial Russian Academy that it was proposed for an
award. Although he did not receive the award, Churchman was elected to membership in the Academy on the
director‘s personal recommendation.
“An interesting footnote from a self-taught American
scientist to the eighteenth century history of navigation
in general and the search for a method of measuring
longitude in particular.
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The first edition of the present work was published in 1790 under the title An Explanation of the Magnetic Atlas, or Variation
Chart. In 1794, Churchman published a much expanded edition of his work under a new title, The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation
Charts of the whole Terraqueous Globe; comprising a system of variation and dip of the needle, by which, the observations being
truly made, the longitude may be ascertained, which was followed by an 1800 and a 1804 edition. The text presents a rich history of navigational accounts and scientific speculation on the subject of magnetic variation and offers methods for determining
longitude based on the revolution of magnetic points around the Earth‘s north and south poles. A final chapter poses an interesting hypothesis on major shifts in coastal boundaries based on „magnetic tides,“ and the appendix prints numerous excerpts
of responses to Churchman‘s work. The folding charts, all dated July 1, 1794, include „A Stereographic Projection of the Sphere
on the Plane of the First Magnetic Meridian“ and two large hand-colored charts (of the northern and southern hemispheres with
their magnetic orbits).
John Churchman (1753-1805) was a Pennsylvania-born surveyor who published two maps of the Dela-ware and Chesapeake
Bays in 1778 and the early 1780s. During the time of his surveying work, Churchman was privately speculating on problems
concerning the variation of the compass, „why it should change, at one time quick, at another time slow, now become stationary,
and then retrograde“ – phenomena that had never been sufficiently explained by science (p. iv). In 1787, he presented a geographic chart of magnetic variation and his theories surrounding it to the American Philosophical Society, where he received „mild
encouragement“ (Smith, p. 83). He continued to pursue his invest-tigations for the remainder of his life, publishing four editions
of this work on the subject between 1790 and 1804, corresponding with numerous notable scientists and learned societies, and
speaking at learned societies throughout Europe. He died at sea in 1805.
Bibliography: J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1881); Sabin 13026 (another
ed); Murphy D. Smith „Realms of Gold“ A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia,
1991). Lit.: Silvio A. Bedini. John Churchman and His Magnetic Atlas, Part I & II. In: Professional Surveyor Magazine, November &
December 2000.
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Lecoq, Henri; Jean- Baptiste Bouillet.
Vues et Coupes des Principales Formations Géologiques du Département du Puy-de-Dome,
Accompagnées de la Description et des Échantillons des Roches Qui les composent.- Paris:
Levrault et St. Clermont-Ferrand, 1830.
8° [205 x 130 mm] xxx, 266 pp., Atlas with 31 leaves of plates, some col. [220 x 275 mm] Original printed boards, rubbed and
soiled, darkened, with partly heavy foxing. Spine of Atlas missing. [with :]
Lecoq, Henri; Jean- Baptiste Bouillet.
Itinéraire du département du Puy-de-Dôme contenant l‘indication: des principales formations
géologiques, du gisement des espèces minérales des volcans anciens et modernes, et de tous les
lieux remarquables soit par leurs productions naturelles, soit par les anciens monumens, que l‘on
y rencontre, ou par leur aspect pittoresque; accompagné d‘un carte coloriée, itinéraire géologique
et hydrographique.- Paris: Levrault, 1831.
8° [220 x 140 mm] XVI, 178 pp. with a fold. map, partly colored.
EUR 1400.–
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Raspe, Rudolph Erich.
Specimen historiae naturalis globi terraquei praecipue de novis e mari natis insulis.- Amsterdam
and Leipzig: J. Schreuder & P. Mortier, 1763. 8° [200 x 120 mm] title printed in red and black,
3 engraved, fold. plates. Marbled paper boards period style, title with little repairs, stamped on
second leaf, else fine and clean copy. EUR 1400.First edition. Raspe found his inspiration in the almost completely forgotten Lectures and discourses on Earthquakes by Robert
Hooke. Raspe decided that the major purpose of his theory of the Earth would be to present historically proven data on new
islands and mountains, demonstrating that non-volcanic islands and continents with their bedded and fossiliferous strata could be
explained, as Hooke maintained, by the uplifting of the sea bottom through the forces of earthquakes and subterranean fires. [Carozzi] “It was the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 that led Raspe to seek explanations for such catastrophic events by producing
his own theory of the earth.” [Hoover]. The resulting work, Specimen, was well-received and led to Raspe’s election as a fellow of
the Royal Society. He was expel-led six years later, however for his role in a scandal involving purloined medals and coins in Germany. Raspe later went on to write the famous Baron Münchhausen stories. The title reads: An introduction to the natural history
of the terrestrial sphere principally concerning new islands born from the sea and Hooke’s hypothesis of the earth on the origin
of mountains and petrified bodies to be further established from accurate descriptions and observations. Charles Lyell in his great
geological classics devoted a chapter to Raspe’s theory.
Raspe (1736-1794) was born in Hanover, studied law and jurisprudence at Göttingen and Leipzig and worked as a librarian for
the university of Göttingen. In 1762, he became a clerk in the university library at Hanover, and in 1764 secretary to the university library at Göttingen. He had become known as a versatile scholar and a student of natural history and antiquities, and he
published some original poems and also translations, among the latter of Leibniz‘s philosophical works and of Ossian‘s poems. He
also wrote a treatise on Thomas Percy‘s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
In 1767, he was appointed professor in Cassel, and subsequently librarian. He contributed in 1769 a zoological paper to the 59th
volume of the Philosophical Transactions, which led to his being selected an honorary member of the Royal Society in London,
and he wrote voluminously on all sorts of sub-jects. In 1774, he started a periodical called the Cassel Spectator. From 1767, he
was responsible for some collections of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. He had to flee to England in 1775 after having
gone to Italy in 1775 to buy curios for the Landgrave. He was found to have sold the Landgrave‘s valuables for his own profit. In
London, he employed his knowledge of English and his learning to secure a living by publishing books on various subjects, and
English translations of German works, and there are allusions to him as “a Dutch savant” in 1780 in the writings of Horace Walpole, who gave him money and helped him to publish an Essay on the Origin of Oil-painting (1781). But Raspe remai-ned poor, and
the Royal Society expunged his name off its list.
From 1782 to 1788, he was employed by Matthew Boulton as assay-master and storekeeper in the Dolcoath mine in Cornwall.
At the same time, he also authored books in geology and the history of art. The Trewhiddle Ingot, found in 2003, is a 150-yearold lump of tungsten found at Trewhiddle Farm. This may predate the earliest known smelting of the metal (which requires
extremely high tempera-tures) and has led to speculation that it may have been produced during a visit by Raspe to Happy-Union
mine (at nearby Pentewan) in the late eighteenth century. Raspe was also a chemist with a particular interest in tungsten. Memories of his ingenuity remained to the middle of the 19th century. While in Cornwall, he seems to have written the original version
of Munchausen, which was subsequently elaborated by others. He also worked for the famous publisher John Nichols on several
pro-jects, among which was a descriptive catalogue he compiled of James Tassie‘s collection of pastes and casts of gems, in two
quarto volumes (1791) of laborious industry and bibliographical rarity. Raspe then went to Scotland, and in Caithness found a
patron in Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, whose minera-logical proclivities he proceeded to impose upon by pretending to discover valuable and workable veins on his estates. Raspe had “salted” the ground himself, and on the verge of exposure, he absconded. He
finally moved to Ireland where he managed a copper mine on the Herbert Estate in Killarney. He died in Killarney, County Kerry, of
typhoid, in November 1794.- not in Schuh; Hoover 673; Ward & Carozzi 1834. Freilich Sale 452.
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Moretus, Theodor.
Tractatus Physico-Mathematicus de Aestu Maris.- Antverpiae [Antwerp]: apud Jacobum Meursium, 1665. Quarto. [VIII], 127 pp., [2, errata] with woodcut vignette on title, text woodcuts,
including two global projections showing America, other woodcut diagrams, head- and tailpieces.
Modern quarter calf antique. Title slightly dust- soiled, neat restoration to upper inner corner of
title. Inscribed “Hasely Court” (Boulton Family) on title. EUR 2000.First edition.- Sotheran II, 1206: “interesting as an early work treating exclusively on the theory of the tides. Very rare.” Theodore
Moret[us], a Jesuit from the printer family born in Antwerp in 1602, taught philosophy and mathematics for thirty years in
Prague, and afterwards in Breslau, where he died in 1667. He was educated and assistant to Gregorius St. Vincent and he was
a correspondent of Hevelius.- “Moret (1602-1667), from Antwerp, was a fine mathematician and had joined the Jesuit Order
when he was twenty years old. After spending time as SaintVincent‘s assistant, he taught at the Academy in Olomouc.
By this time Saint-Vincent‘s reputation was high and the
Madrid Academy made him a tempting offer of a position in
1630. Sadly his health was still not robust enough to allow
him to accept such an offer and he was forced to decline.”
Lit.: Henri Bosmans: Théodore Moretus de la Compagnie de
Jésus, mathématicien, (1602–1667). D’après sa correspondance et ses manuscrits. In: De Gulden Passer. Driemaandelijksch Bulletijn van de Vereeniging der Antwerpsche
Bibliophilen. Nieuwe reeks. 6 (1928), S. 57–163; Georg
Schuppener: Theodor Moretus (1602–1667) – ein Prager
Jesuiten-Mathematiker. In: Cemus, Petronilla (Hrsg.): Bohemia Jesuitica 1556–2006. Bd. 2. Prag/Würzburg 2010, pp.
661–675
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Lambert, Johann Heinrich.
Cosmologische Briefe über die Einrichtung des Weltbaues; Ausgefertigt von J. H. Lambert. Augspurg: Bey Eberhard Kletts Wittib [= Maria Jakobina Klett], 1761. 8°. XXVIII, 318 pp., [1] gef. Bl.
Kupfer. Contemporary black boards, little rubbed and used, else fine copy. Schwarzer Pappbd. d.
Zt., innen und außen frisch, Vorsatz mit altem Besitzvermerk: Stenzel, Zerbst e bibl. Schick.
EUR 2600. First edition, uncommon. In his „Cosmologische Briefe“, Johann Heinrich Lambert
gives a theoretical description of the universe as it was known at his time. One important aspect is his effort to extend the Newtonian physics, which was well established for the planets, on the one hand on comets, and on the other hand to the
stellar universe beyond the solar system. Moreover he gives a hierarchical theory
of cosmology. A child of his time, he had a so-called „teleological“ view of the universe, assuming „somebody“ who defines a „purpose“ of everything. Perhaps the
most important part of this work, based on his 1749 idea, is the theory of Milky
Way as a disc, a system formed by thousands of stars surrounding the sun, with the
Milky Way plane resembling the „ecliptic for the stars“, and assuming that every
star is a sun with a planetary system. Also, he assumed that there may be other
Milky Way systems, potentially forming a higher-order system. When publishing his
theory of the Milky Way in 1761, Lambert was unaware of similar ideas by Thomas
Wright (1750) and Immanuel Kant (1755), of which he learned only after publication. There are some differences though: E.g., Lambert was inconclusive on the
nature of the „nebulae“, once viewing them as extragalactic stellar systems (as Kant
always did), and another time as central bodies for galactic substructures. Also in
difference to Kant, Lambert argued for a finite cosmos. But like Kant and Wright, he
assumed that all celestial bodies, even stars and comets, are inhabited.- HouzeauL. 8886; Pogg. I, 1355; Steck I,6; Brüning 1774; DSB VII, 598.
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Merrett, Christopher.
Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum, continens vegetabilia, animalia, et fossilia, in hac insula
reperta inchoatus. London, T. Roycroft 1667. (32), 223,(1) pages. Cont. vellum. Paper labels to
spine. DSB IX, 312. Cobres I, 253,3. Agassiz III, 586. Horn-Schenkling III, 14989. Graesse IV,
499 “Premier livre, dans lequel un essai sur l’entomologie anglaise a été donné“.
EUR 1500.–
Second issue of the first edition. “William How’s ’Phytologia (1650)
was still in demand when it went out of print. At the publisher’s request Merrett (1614-1695) wrote ’Pinax’ to replace it. Since he was
not fieldworker but a sedentary and inexpert naturalist, he enlisted
all the help possible and revealed a wide knowledge of the relevant
literature by giving more precise references than his predecessors
had. … Although the large botanical section with over 1400 species
and synonyms from Gerard and John Parkinson, was soon superseded, the section on mammals and birds is important as the first
attempt to construct a British fauna” (L. M. Payne in DSB, IX, 313).
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[Rohault de Fleury, Charles]
Batiment de l’exposition à Londres. Juin 1851. Fragment d’un ouvrage en publication donnée par
de Digby Wyatt et calques de mes croquis (manuscript title and signature by Rohault). 32 pages
letterpress text with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. 12 mounted original pendrawings
with architectural details by Rohault on tracing paper. Cont. plain wrappers. Small 4to (255 x 178
mm). Slightly soiled and spotted. Included are two manuscript letters, one by Rohault, the other
by someone of the Ministère des travaux publics.
EUR 2000.Fine example of an early reception of Crystal Palace Architecture in France. Rohault, an expert in glas / iron architecture, commented here an english publication and made drawings of part of the Crystal Palace, maybe to be published in an French Journal.
Charles Rohault de Fleury (23. 7. 1801 - 11. 8. 1875) was trained at the École Polytechnique and the École des Beaux-Arts
from 1820 to 1825, where his teachers included Jean Nicolas Louis Durand and Louis Hippolyte Lebas respectively. A successful
career followed, initially in practice with his father Hubert, and then continuing on his own with designs for houses and villas,
experiments with iron and glass, and official appointments. In 1833 he succeeded Jacques Molinos as architect of the Muséum
nationale d’ Histoire naturelle and in 1846 was named official architect of the Paris Opéra. The appointment to the Opéra was to
be both the highlight and the great disappointment of his career. After losing the competition for the Opéra, Charles Rohault de
Fleury effectively retired from practice, devoting most of his later years to writings on Christian art and architecture. The printed
text with heading ’construction of the building’ gives a very detailed account of technical and architectural constructions and
materials used for the building.
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Petzold, Eduard.
Beiträge zur Landschafts-Gärtnerei. Zur Farbenlehre der Landschaft. Mit 7 kolorierten Farbkreisen auf 4 Tafeln sowie 3 Textabbildungen. Jena, Frommann, 1853. Quarto (227 x 180 mm).
IX, 68 pages with 3 text-illustrations, 4 plates with handcoloured colour charts. Contemporary
black boards, gilt label to spine.
EUR 2600.Rare first edition of a thorough research into the science of colours and perspective applied to landscape gardening. Carl Eduard
Adolph Petzold (1815-1891) was park and garden inspector to Prince Pückler at Muskau and the duke of Weimar, and finally
Prince Frederik of the Netherlands. Convinced that colour and perspective have to be dealt with in a variant way in works of
nature compared to works of art, the author devoted a lifelong study to this subject, resulting in the present work. Apart from
an introduction into the basic knowledge of the science of colours, optics and perspective it contains a lengthy and important
treatise on the special working of colours in the landscape as a result of the perspective of the light and the air, the composition
of the sky, etc. The author‘s revolutionary discoveries produced a great effect on the contemporary common practice of landscape
gardening.-Dochnahl 119. Not in Vagnetti; Springer p. 86, et passim.
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Architectural Drawings
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Verzeichniss der Zeichnungen von den Koeniglichen Ablager und Jagd-Gebaeuden zur Göhrde
(drop-title). German manuscript on paper. (Hanover around 1800). 1 leaf manuscript index of
plates, 1 folding map with ink washes and water colours (300 x 640 mm), and 14 architectural
pen-and ink and wash-colour drawings on laid paper. Cont. half calf, oval shaped red morocco
label to front cover. Oblong-folio (310 x 470 mm). Covers rubbed. EUR 9000.- A finely drawn map of the surroundings of the royal hunting seat Göhrde near Luneburg, and 14 arcitectural drawings of the
various buildings, with detailed elevations, cross-sections and plans with extensive manuscript captions. The palace and the other
structures were built between 1706-1709, after designs by the French architect Louis Rémy de la Fosse (1659-1726) on behalf
of the duke of Braunschweig- Luneburg. In 1819 several buildings and in 1827 the palace itself were torn down and the whole
complex reshaped. These drawings seem to be a general survey of the buildings before 1819. Contents fine. A remarkable survivor showing built architecture of the early 18th century in Germany for the higher nobility with detailed manuscript annotations.
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Krupp Panorama for the Paris exhibition 1867
38 Werden, Hugo van [working: 1863 – 1911] [Photogr.]
Kruppsche Gussstahlfabrik. Innere Ansicht. 6 Albumin photographs attached to each other to
form a panorama. [1865 - 1872]. 180°-Panorama, sechs Teile, zusammen 67 x 267 cm.
Fine impression, as new. EUR 24.000. Mit dem Panorama entwickelte sich im 19. Jahrhundert das ausschnitthafte Landschaftsgemälde zur totalen Rundumsicht.
Grundlage der Panoramatechnik waren neue Erkenntnisse über die Funktions-weise des menschlichen Sehens. Die Eroberung
des Raums erfolgte dabei durch Experimente mit kurvenlinearen Perspektivformen. Die Landschaft erschien im verkleinerten
Maßstab wirklichkeits-getreu und zugleich beherrschbar. Die Illusionswirkung verhalf den Panoramen zu Popularität. Durch die
Verfügbarkeit fotografischer Verfahren wurde das Spiel mit der Imitation von Wirklichkeit noch gesteigert. Die Panoramen von
Industrieanlagen und -landschaften machten den Betrachter zum Augenzeugen technischer Neuerungen und prosperierender
Wirtschaft, aber auch landschaftlicher Zerstörung durch Industrie. Die Aneignung des Raumes und die Übertragung des panoramatischen Blicks mit malerischen und fotografischen Mitteln verdeutlicht, dass das Sehen eine Frage des Standpunktes, die
Erkenntnis eine Frage der Perspektive geworden ist.
Die Gussstahlfabrik in Essen, 1811 von Friedrich Krupp gegründet, wurde nach dessen Tod 1826 von seinem Sohn Alfred
übernommen und im Verlauf von nur sechs Jahrzehnten zu einem der größten gewerblichen Unternehmen Europas und zur weltgrößten Gussstahlfabrik ausgebaut. Der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung der Firma wurde vor allem durch den Ausbau des Eisenbahnwesens in Deutschland getragen. Krupp stellte die ersten brauchbaren Gussstahlwalzen und -achsen sowie nahtlose Eisenbahnradreifen her, die 1875 in Form von drei sich überschneidenden Räderkreisen zum Firmensymbol wurden. Die Produktion von
Bessemerstahl und Großaufträge für die Rüstungsindustrie machten Alfred Krupp zum erfolgreichsten Fabrikanten und sein Werk
zum Inbegriff deutscher Industrie. Die intensive Werbearbeit, die Krupp für sein Unternehmen betrieb, und die Firmenpräsenz
auf Gewerbe- und Weltausstellungen war nicht unwesentlich am Erfolg und an der wirtschaftlichen Expansion der Firma beteiligt.
Krupp setzte vor allem das noch neue Medium Fotografie zur Selbstdarstellung und Dokumentation seines aufstrebenden Unternehmens ein. Neben einer geschichtlichen Abteilung, die 1861 gegründet wurde, richtete Krupp werkseigene Fotoateliers ein.
Nicht nur die einzelnen Produkte, sondern auch die Firma als Ganzes wurden mittels des fotografischen Bildes inszeniert.
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Hugo van Werden, der 1854 bei Krupp zu arbeiten begonnen hatte, avancierte zu Beginn der 1860er Jahre zum Firmenfotografen. Die 180° Panoramaansicht der Gussstahlfabrik nahm van Werden vom Hammer Fritz-Kamin auf. Von hier blickte man nach
Westen über das Werk in die Umgebung von Essen. Rechts im Vordergrund ist das Gartenhaus zu sehen, in dem die Familie Krupp
von 1861 bis 1864 wohnte. Gab diese Ansicht noch im distanzierenden Ausschnitt eine Übersicht über einen Teil der Werksanlage mit einem weiten Ausblick in die Landschaft, so bildete das 360° Panorama einen Bilderkreis, der den Betrachter vollkommen
umschloss und den Blick in die Umgebung auf einen schmalen Streifen am Horizont minimierte. Die Fotografien, die auf Wunsch
von Krupp für die Weltausstellung in Paris 1867 angefertigt wurden, nahm van Werden vom Turm der Kanonenwerkstatt auf.
Krupp selbst gab die Anweisung, die Fabrik an einem Sonntag mit „Staffage und Leben auf den Plätzen, Höfen und Eisenbahnen“
zu fotografieren, weil „die Werktage zu viel Rauch, Dampf und Unruhe mit sich führen“.
Der erhöhte Aufnahmestandpunkt bietet eine Übersicht über die Ausmaße der Fabrikanlage, die am Horizont in die Landschaft
übergeht. Der Rundblick über die Dächer der Werkshallen, entlang der Schornsteine bis zur Landschaft, vermittelt den Eindruck
einer in sich geschlossenen Welt. Die arrangierte Szenerie – die teilweise noch im Bau befindlichen Werkshallen, die Arbeiter und
Dampfloks, die Eisenbahnräder und weitere Stahlgüter durch das Werk transportieren – suggerieren den Eindruck des wirtschaftlichen Leistungsvermögens und Aufbruchs, dessen Grenzen noch nicht abzusehen waren. Der 360° Rundblick transformiert somit
den allumfassenden Anspruch Krupps, eine Fabrik als neuartiges Gemeinwesen geschaffen zu haben, in eine visuell erfahrbare
Gestalt. [see: Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Inv. Ph 2001/137] Ausst. Kat. Bonn 1993; Tenfelde 1994 (Zitat Krupp S.
41); Gall 2000; Ausst. Kat. Oberhausen/Dortmund 2000; Wolbring 2000.
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Österr. Reserveoffiziers-Hilfsfond (ed.). Im Fluge über Wien. ... Unterstützungsaktion für
bedürftige Kriegskameraden und für Hinterbliebene von Frontkämpfern. (Vienna, privately
published around 1919).
EUR 550.–
2 ll. (title and index) with 21 original photographs (each ca 115 x 154 mm - silverprints) on grey cardboard mounts. Photos with
title and number in the negative, and blindembossed stamp of the firm ’Jetbild Wien’ on mounts. Loosely contained in publisher’s
cloth portfolio, with title and vignette on front cover. 4to (330 x 240 mm). Minimally dust-soiled and rubbed. Not in Heidtmann.
An interesting collection of aerial photographs of various parts of Vienna. Fine.
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Architectural game inspired by Bauhaus
40 Clauss, Erich [designer].
Raum-Mühle. Sie spielen zu 2, 3 und 4 Personen (= title on the lid). Georgenthal, Franz
Schmidt, (around 1928). Complete game with all wooden parts partially coloured and the original table housed in two original cardboard boxes with mounted illustrated title-shields. Printed
instruction-for-use-leaves for the game and the table are mounted inside the lids. Various sizes ca
360 x 190 x 20 mm and 560 x 125 x 60 mm. Boxes rubbed with a few old repaired tears. Slightly
dust-soiled. EUR 4500. An extremely rare game, especially complete with all parts and together with the original table. It’s a kind of three dimensional
nine-men’s morris, developed out of the usual two dimensional game. Both, the design of the instruction leaves and title - shields
are in the style of the “Neue Typographie”, whereas the rather abstract design of the game itself shows a rather modernist
Bauhaus-like approach. Erich Clauss the designer of the game is only traceable as a book-designer and illustrator shortly after the
Second World War. The “Raum-Mühle” was together with a kind of modernist jigsaw puzzle „The big and the small Klaus“, the only
games he developed for the firm of Franz Schmidt which had a certain reputation for its dolls. The archive of Schmidt (nowadays
Steiner toy factory) burned down in 1955, and most documents about the firm’s own history had been destroyed. A few unobtrusive abrasions to the coloured parts of the game, else in remarkable good condition.

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