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Philo, Judaeus. In Libros Mosis. De Mundi Opificio, Historicos, De Legibus... Andriani Turnebi, Parisis, 1552. Folio (35 x 24 cm). [12], 736 [recte 720], [48] pp. index, printer‘s woodcut device on title, title-page in Greek and Latin, index in Latin, all text in Greek; some foxing, library stamp. Contemporary limp vellum; spine slightly chipped, later vellum label pasted to top portion of spine.
Attractive copy, in contemporary vellum, of the first edition in Greek of Philo‘s systematic work on Moses and his laws, with biographies of the Jewish Patriarchs. The printer, Adrien Turnebe (1512-65) was an eminent French humanist and scholar. He succeeded Robert Estienne as the French Royal Printer for Greek. Adams P1033. Provenance: "Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati" with duplicate stamp (to sell) of the library.
Preis: 3900,- EUR
Kellner, David. Kurtz abgefastes sehr nütz- und erbauliches Berg- und Saltzwercks-Buch [...] einer neuen Invention aus Koch-Saltz Salpeter zu machen. [With]: Wohlangerichtetes ærarium chymicum antiquo-novum, oder alt- erneuert- und reichlichst vermehrte chymische Schatzkammer [...] L. Martin Schmuckens. [With]: Praxis metallica curiosa, oder curieus-angestellt und experimentirte Schmeltz Proben. I. C.C. Neuenhahn, Frankfurt and Leipzig; II. J.H. Kloss, Leipzig; III. Neuenhahn, Nordhausen, 1701-2. 3 works in one volume 8vo (15.9 x 9.8 cm). [12], 561, [22] pp., title page printed in red and black, folding engraved frontispiece, slightly trimmed, woodcut diagrams on pp.446/447, also slightly trimmed, woodcut initials and tailpieces; [22], 389 [recte 386]; [30] pp., title-page printed in red and black, 2 woodcut diagrams in text; [6], 355, [21] pp., woodcut diagram in text. Contemporary vellum, title lettered in English on spine, light staining and dust-soiling to vellum, else a fine and tight copy.
Fine sammelband of three alchemist works in first editions. Not much is known of David Kellner, a native of Gotha. He received his degree in medicine in 1670 and wrote works on surgery and bone injuries. He later developed an interest in metallurgical chemistry, a discipline he wished to release from the influence of alchemy, such that in 1700 he wrote a baroque comedy about the "the harmful Society of Alchemists". Partington ii, 731; Ferguson i 456; Wellcome iii 383. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown and blindstamp to first leaves).
Preis: 2200,- EUR
Murray, John. Switzerland. Handbook for Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. Including the Protestant valleys of the Waldeneses. John Murray and Son, London [and] Maison, Paris. 1839. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. xcix, 517, [3] publisher‘s list ar rear, engraved frontispiece, one engraved folding panorama, without? map, bookplate on front paste-down. Contemporary half morocco, mottled boards, rubbed and worn, spine gilt lettered "The Handbook for Switzerland"; overall a fairly attractive copy.
First edition of the first handbook to Switzerland published by Murray, second "pirate" issue. These "pirate" issues are extremely scarce and rarely seen. This copy has slightly different pagination to the copy in the Lister bibliography. It also mentions a map on the title-page and at end of the introduction but there is no map in the book. There is an engraved frontispiece of Berne and an engraved folding panorama of the "Lac du Zurich dessine depuis L‘Hotel Baur". This edition is much smaller but contains more pages than the "official" first edition published a year earlier in 1838. Lister 51.
Preis: 600,- EUR
Mountaineering - Rey, Guido. The Matterhorn [...] with an introduction by Edmondo de Amicis translated from the Italian by J.E.C. Eaton. T. Fisher and Unwin, London, 1907. Royal 8vo (29 x 19 cm). Limitation page numbered and signed by publisher in ink, 336pp., 14 tipped in coloured plates on green paper including frontispiece, 23 illustrations after pen-and-ink drawings by Edoardo Rubino, 11 photographs, tissue guards, with a duplicate set of all full-page plates on Japanese vellum, bookplate on rear paste-down. Publisher‘s half vellum gilt, a near fine copy.
A great Alpine rarity - the deluxe edition limited to 15 copies on Japan Paper. One of the principal books on the early history of the Matterhorn, written by a wealthy Italian climber with a great passion for the mountain. This book was originally published in Italian as "Il Monte Cervino" in 1904. This special deluxe edition of only 15 copies on Japan paper and contains a complete set of full page duplicate plates. This particular copy has been numbered and signed by the publisher "Fisher Unwin" on the limitation page. There appears to be only one copy in institutions (National Library of Scotland no 3) and no copies have appeared in auction during the last twenty years. Very scarce. - Neate R25; Perret II 3664. Provenance: bookplate "JECE".
Preis: 10800,- EUR
Akhmatova (pseud. for Gorenko), Anna (Andreevna). Belaya Staya [White Flock]. Petropolis and Alkonost, Skt. Peterburg and Berlin, 1923. 8vo (19 x 13.5 cm). 142 pp. including half-title and title. Original printed wrappers; frayed at edges, spine slightly worn.
Provenance: Akhmatova, by presentation to Salome Andronikova. Very good association copy of the fourth, enlarged edition of this celebrated collection of poems (which includes also ‘U samogo morya‘), inscribed by Akhmatova to her close friend Princess Salome Andronikova, the subject of her poem ‘Ten‘ [Shade]. Andronikova was a well-known literary hostess before the Revolution and later went into exile. This copy was incribed to her by Akhmatova in 1965, one year before her death, when the two friends were reunited in London after nearly fifty years apart. Turning away from the paganism of her first works, and moving beyond her very personal early style, ‘Belaya staya‘ begins a new, prophetic phase in Akhmatova‘s career. Though lost love remains an important theme (indeed a number of poems touch upon the disintegration of her marriage to Nikolay Gumilyov), the experience is now explored within the larger horror of the World War, and reflects Akhmatova‘s deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Akhmatova commented later "For some reason everybody thought that this book was less successful than ‘Chetki‘. The book was published under a very difficult situation. Transportation was shut down - it was impossible to send books even to Moscow. The whole printing [of the first edition] was sold in Petrograd."
Preis: 2500,- EUR
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