Antiquariat Michael Kühn

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A fine manuscript copy of a supercommentary on al-Tusi famous astronomical treatise al-Tadhkira, which was monumental in its influence on late medieval Arabian and also European astronomy.

The manuscript is a copy of Al-Khidri’s Al-Takmila fi Sharh al-Tadhkira, a commentary on Abū Ali al-Birjandi’s commentary on al-Tusi’s Tadhkira (Memoir of Astrono-my). The Tadhkira was written sometime before 1256 and is a difficult to understand condensed summary of astronomy without mathematics. This may be the ac-count for the large number of commentaries, including this second level derived exposition. The present text was completed in 1525 and attempts to clarify and ex-pand on the unclear elements of the original al-Tusi text. Rajep (1993 no. 11): „although it was written during the assumed precipitous decline of Islamic science (the

author) shows real insight into and understanding of the major problems of hay’a (astronomy)“. It would ap-pear, from the wording of the final paragraph, that this copy reproduces the last words of the author (1525) making the date of this manuscript some time after the original, but it might be a later copy of the text.

Al-Tusi’s major scientific writings in astronomy, in which he worked to reform Ptolemaic theoretical astronomy, had an enormous influence upon late medieval Islamic astronomy as well as the work of early- modern Euro-pean astronomers, including Nicolaus Copernicus. In planetary theory he sought to rid the Ptolemaic system of its consistencies, in particular its violations of the fundamental principle of uniform circular motion in the heavens. The large number of commentaries provide compelling evidence for its enormous influence: they

range in size from Kamal al-Din al-Farisi’s 4 Bll. treatise all the way up to Shirwani’s nearly 400 Bll. commentary on the entire work. All authors are Persians, but they worked and studied in places as far afield as Hamah (Syria) and Samarqand. Ragep [1993] no. 11 [using two copies at Damascus]; Hockey [ed.] BEA II, 1153-55 [al-Tusi]; BEA I, 127 [al-Birjandi] Provenance [?]: Sotheby’s, 15 October 1998, lot 42; Pingree / Kusuba (2002) quo-te three arabic manuscripts of Birjandi’s commentary at Harvard College Library [Houghton MS Arabic 4285], Princeton Univ. Library [Islamic manuscripts, N.S. no. 82], and Institute of Ismaili Studies London.

Arabic astronomy in Copernicus’ time

1 Al-Khidri, Muhammad ibn Ahmad.Al Takmila fi Sharh al-Tadhkira [The Complement to the Commentary on the Tadhkira]. Persian astronomical manuscript on paper, dated 1525, but later copy of the text; 17th. cent. [?] [Persia, copied probably around 1700]. Small Folio [297 x 177 mm]. 292 ff. leaves with geometrical – astronomical diagrams within text and with half- page long ‘Unwan’ in Gold & Colors. Redish-brown morrocco around 1800 with gilt spine and gilt borders to covers. 19 lines per page, written in elegant black Nasta‘lik-style with red ink underlinings. Initial leaf with illuminated headpiece a Qajar replacement, final leaf remargined, some soiling to first leaves, otherwise clean and with good margins, some wear to later red morocco gilt binding, repairs to spine, Qajar owner‘s entries and library stamps to otherwise blank first page.

EUR 12.000.-

A printed copy of his “Geometria Empirica” with inter-leaved manuscript annotations and with a manuscript amendment most probably of some of Jungius’ or Adolf Tassius lectures’ at Hamburg Gymnasium which were only published by Heinrich Siver[s] from the 1670’s onwards, and this manuscript is dated 1645. More work has to be done on the manuscript, which is of unknown hand.

The only published work in his life time, the “Geometria empirica” was first published in 1627 in Rostock, and

later published in Hamburg with the help of Johann Adolph Tassius (1639, 1642, 1649, 1688).

Joachim Jungius wrote his book Geometria Empirica 1627 for the students of the University of Rostock, the later editions, which should have prompted Johann Adolph Tassius, published after 1638 in Hamburg for the students of the Academic Gymnasium. The book was used in the geometric initial lessons. Jungius wan-ted to make his students not only familiar with the strict rules and methods of geometry in the design tasks, but

he took advantage of their existing experience, so he allowed constructions that are based on intuitive ideas and solved by mechanical Try, for example by a ruler is so committed to a circle that you can draw the tangent by eye. In this way, should the students the winning new geometrical insights can be facilitated and remain on the geometry of the joy.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote: „While Jungius of Lübeck is a man little known even in Germany itself, he was clearly of such judiciousness and such capacity of mind that I know of no other mortal, including even Descartes himself, from whom we could better have ex-pected a great restoration of the sciences, had Jungius been either known or assisted.“

Manuscript lecture notes

1 Jungius, Joachim.Joachimi Jungii,… Geometria Empirica; nunc iterum, nonnullis locis auctior, excusa.- Hamburg. Jacob Rebenlin, sumptibus Zacharias Hertel, [1642]. Quarto. [2] Bl., 40 pp. interleaved with white pages; extensively annotated by unknown hand on interleaved paper until page 20.[bound with] 11 blank leaves.[bound with:] Contemporary Manuscript by unknown hand [Jungius / Tassius circle]: “Doctrina de Proportione magnitudinum com-pendiose proposita” [leaf 221-224, 234-236]; leaf 237-242: blank, Cap. 1: De linearum campo confignatione [leaf 243-244, 252-254, 254-253, 245-250; 257-270, 261; erratic pag., misbound ?], Trigonometria [leaf 85-101], blanks [102-125], Chronologia… [leaf 126-174], blanks [175-186], Compendium Geographiae in globo terrestris … magnitudine telluris [leaf 187-194, blanks [195-217]. Contemporary vellum, darkened, spine restored, used copy. Ex Libris on inner covers taken out, old ownership inscription from 1645 on title is unfortunately darkened with ink.

EUR 6500.-

First edition of Magini’s rare work on the theory, prac-tice and the results obtained with spherical mir-rors. The text was written at Galileo’s request in order to facilitate the Grand Duke’s purchase of Magini’s curved mirrors through the mediation of Galileo. In 1602 Magi-ni had also already resolved to publish Ausonio’s Theori-ca, though revisited, corrected and, finally, significantly altered. Galileo was not a mirror maker, but he was so capable of evaluating these craftsmen’s products and their labor procedures that he acted as a mirror broker for the Grand Duke. In 1610 he tried to get the court to acquire concave mirrors designed by the mathematician Antonio Magini.

In discussions with Giovan Battistaa Guazzaroni (before 1624) Galileo presumably stated that della Porta’s and Magini’s theories about the functioning of the spherical mirrors were wrong. In particular, first he rejected the theory that the point at which the spherical mirror burns is located at the center of that sphere of which the mirror is a portion, as della Porta had stated in his

Magiae naturalis (1589); second, he further rejected the idea that the location of this same point from the bottom of the mirror is at distance equivalent to one fourth of the diameter of that sphere of which the mirror is a portion, as was postulated in magini’s theory. Magini’s and della Porta’s were among the most im-portant theories on spherical mirrors being taught and discussed in Galileo’s day. Mathematicians often then considered della Porta’s theory to be that of the anci-ents and Magini’s the modern theory. Galileo opposed them with his view that the point at which a spherical mirror burns is variable, and dependent on the size of the sphere and of the portion of this sphere the mirror represents. Galileo also added, finally, that the “point” of burning is not really a point at all, but rather a small area, certainly having noticed the effects of what nowa-days is called spherical aberration. [Valleriani. Galileo Engineer, 65]

Ref.: Riccardi I, ii, 69. 14: “Opusc. Raro e pregiato”; not in Macclesfield, Honeyman, Barchas Coll.; Goldschmidt,

Scientific Thoughts (1934) no 119.; Pogg. II, 11. Sother-an, Bibl. Chem..-math. 11282.

Lit.: Sven Dupre. Mathematical Instruments and the Theory of the Concave Spherical Mirror: Galileo’s Optics beyond Art and Science; in: Nuncius 15 (2000), 551-588. spez. 563-72; Matteo Valleriani. Galileo Engineer. 2010. (= Boston studies … 269); Reeves, Eileen Adair. Galileo’s Glassworks. The telescope and the mirror. 2008; Bonoli/ Zuccoli. On two 16th cent. instruments by Giovanni Antonio Magini; in: Nuncius 14 (1999), 201-212.

Galileo buying optical mirrors

1 Magini, Giovanni AntonioBreve instruttione sopra l‘apparenze et mirabili effetti dello specchio concauo sferico del dottor Gio. Antonio Magini, Padouano, mathe-matico dello Studio di Bologna.- In Bologna: presso Gio:Battista Bellagamba, M DC XI [1611]. Quarto. [4], 34 pp., [2, without 2 ff. blanks] [=A-D4, E2] Later Italian paper boards.

EUR 9.000.-

Second edition, revised and changed, an extremely rare work on comparative neurohistology. Pierre Roudanov-sky or Petr Vasil‘evich Rudanovskii (1829-1888) was lecturing in Kazan as well as in St. Petersburg. He was physician at Nijni Taguil, in Perm by the Ural. He was a pupil of Pierre Paul Broca. This is a second printing of the work with a slightly enlarged and revised text (vii, 8-64 pp) and a reduced atlas of 16 leaves with only 165 individually mounted photo-micrographs. The first edition of 1868 has had 203 photographs on 20 plates.

The text states as third, revised edition.- BL London and Bibl. Nationale France holds the first edition of 1868. Paris-BIU Santé Médecine do not give date of publica-tion. Univ. Leipzig holds 1870 edition. No other copies traceable. Für uns bibliographisch nicht nachweisbar. not in ABPC, not at german auctions since 1975. Denis Canguilhem [ed.] Le merveilleux scientifique. Photogra-phie du monde savant … 172.

Is photography superior to drawing?

1 Rudanovskii, Petr Vasil’evich (1829-1888)Études photographiques sur le système nerveux de l‘homme et de quelques animaux supérieurs d‘après des coupes de tissu nerveux con-gelé par le Doctuer Roudanovsky. Atlas de seize planches contenant 165 figures photographiees. 2e edition, revue et corrigée.- Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1870. 8° [242 x 154 mm] [3] Bll., 7-64 pp. Text in Original- Publ. Wrappers; Atlas: [1] Bll. Title, [16] leaves of plates with mounted 165 photomicrographs and close-ups in folio [465 x 320 mm] in Original folder with printed wrappers mounted. Ori-ginal printed wrappers, handwritten annotation on cover, somewhat rubbed and bumped. Atlas: Halfcloth with original printed boards with 3 ties, spine renewed, handwritten annotation on cover, shop-soiled & some stains. Title page of atlas browned, both parts with slight foxing.

EUR 7.500.-

Hand-drawings made with assistance of a microscope by students (?) in Vienna at the Botanical Institute under the directorship of von Wiesner.

In the last decades of the 19th Century microscopic exercises were introduced in all Central European universities for the training of students in biology and medicine. At the same time there appeared a large number of books on the construction, function and handling of the microscope in histology , embryology and plant anatomy .

Once in the second half of the 19th Century different microscope manufacturers had moved from the purely individual craft production to modern mass production, they could supply their equipment in larger quantities and in a shorter time. Microscopes were thus more

readily available and came to doctors, pharmacists and biologists for routine always more in use . Therefore, it seemed advisable to make students already familiar in dealing with the microscope . While there has been in the 18th Century . and at the beginning of the 19th Century . at German universities here and there , where the first sporadic instruction at the microscope , but it remained the exception . The Breslauer botanist Rosen remembers this time in 1901: „ Even in the forties of the nineteenth century, there were in all of Germany no teaching institution at which the microscope had been taught properly , no better it was in France and England. Who wanted to learn this art, he had to collect all the experiences by himself ... Also in Wroclaw existed in the time when Ferdinand Cohn studied here, no useful mi-croscope.“ [ Gerlach , History of Microscopy, pp . 383 ]

Science or art – the lost craft of scientific drawing

1 Scientific Drawings145 very fine hand-drawings of microscopical plant physiological details made by different persons, probably assistents and students of the Botanical Institute of the University of Vienna, made by different persons between 1890 to 1938. A few of the later drawings are signed, like G. Mender (1936), JG (1910), Gicklhand, stud. Phil, JK (1919) and seems to be by students of that Institute. The quality of the dra-wings, which are always made with microscope, differ from person to person, but mostly they are quite professional and show the mastery of the art of drawing at the beginning of the 20th century in the scienti-fic disciplines.

EUR 3.500.-

Eyes wide open

1 Dekking, H[enri] M[arinus]10 Color Photographs / Farbenphotographien / Photographies en couleurs of diseases of the eye / von Augenkrankheiten / De maladies de l’ oeuil. [No. 1; all publ.].- Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1937 quer8° [160 x 230 mm] 4 pp. text [on one sheet], 10 plates. Original folder, privately stamped with handwritten dedication by the author.

EUR 600.-

Very rare atlas on diseases of the eye in color photography by Henri Marinus Dekking (1902-1966), ophthalmologist in Rotterdam. His dissertation of 1930 was also on the photography of the cornea [Fotografie der Cornea-oppervlakte] and later he wrote a manual on the photographic objective.- KVK: only Berlin [but lost in war]; not in COPAC; OCLC: New York: Center of History of Medicine; Indiana, Chicago.

The remains of the day

1 Kast, Alfred; Eugen Fraenkel; Theodor Rumpel [eds.]Pathologisch-anatomische Tafeln nach frischen Präparaten: aus dem Hamburger Staatskrankenhäusern. Unter Mitwirkung von Alfred Kast weiter hrsg. von … 26 Installments. [Atlas of pathological anatomy…] Leipzig: Klinkhardt, 1909 ff. Imp. folio with 64 chromolith. plates & 40 colored pl. with 2-4 pp. text for each plate. EUR 2.000.-

Only edition. Alfred Kast (1856–1903) was a German internist, who in 1886 became an associate professor, followed by a directorship at Eppen-dorf Hospital in Hamburg (1888). He 1892 he was named professor of internal medicine at the University of Breslau.

Kast was instrumental in introducing phenacetin and the sulphonal group of drugs into medicine. His name is associated with „Kast’s syndrome“, a condition synonymous to Mafucci syndrome. With surgeon Theodor Rumpel (1862-1923), he was coauthor of an illustrated patho-anatomical atlas called: Patho-anatomical panels for fresh preparations with explanatory anatomical-clinical text.

First german edition, using the plates of the original edition which were taken over by Rosenberg & Sellier. With the engl. translation of the original edition of 1937.- G. & M. 5988.1: “The first atlas of ophthalmo-scopy published in Italy, considered by many to be the most beautiful atlas ever published. German translation 1941. Some copies of the edition contain an English translation of the text by G. Bonaccolto enclosed in a pocket of the binding.” The figures are reproduced from original oil paintings by Miss A. Maggioli, who made her observations with the Gullstrand ophthalmoscope. The fundus pic-tures are not only faithful reproductions but also are remarkable examples of the printer‘s art“ (Keys & Rucker, The Atlases of Ophthalmoscopy, 890).

Light in my eyes

1 Marzio, Quirino di.Ophthalmoskopische Diagnose. Uebersetzung von E. B Streiff. [Mit zusätzlicher englischer Übersetzung von Girolamo Bonaccolto].- Turin, Rosenberg & Sellier, [1941]. Folio. 5 Bll., 52 Bll. text, with 100 superbly colour printed plates depicting 212 figures after oil-paintings of A. Maggioli. Publ. red cloth.

EUR 1500.-

Very rare, privately compiled photographic survey of a new built High Voltage Engineering Research Tool at the Technical University of Braunschweig / Northern Germany built under the supervision of Erwin Otto Marx (1893-1980), which could be used in electrical power distribution, in cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to demonstrate arcing, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and in high power amplifier vacuum tubes and other industrial and scien-tific applications, forming a part of the beginning of Big Science. The photographer might be Hilde Brinckmann-Schröder (1891–1974), who was working from 1920 to 1925 for the Folkwang-Verlag & Museum in Essen, since 1925 she worked freely in Braunschweig, 1933 she worked instead of Walter Hege in Weimar.

When Big Science was new – High-Energy Research

1 High Voltage- Engineering - Apparatus of the Technical Universi-ty of Brunswik/ Germany; constructed after 1929 in the building erec-ted by Carl Mühlenpfordt (1928-29)] Privatly compiled Photography Album [325 x 230 mm] showing the the new High-Energy-Apparatus of the Technical University of Braunschweig constructed under the leadership of Erwin Marx. The album has 16 sheets with 47 mounted original photographs in different sizes showing scientific instruments without men. The size of photographs differ from 175 x 112 mm to 85 x 56 mm. Two photographic images are probably taken out of a printed journal, one photograph is a postcard by the photographer Hilde Brinckmann-Schröder (1891-1974). The album has no title or subtitles.

EUR 1.400.-

This is not a Rothko

1 Original drawingof an educational wallpaper on Streptococcus, named: Kolonien von Streptokokken auf Blutplatte, drawn and signed by Müller Moto Bonn. Chalk and watercolour on linnen. Measure: 1500 mm x 1250 mm [Germany, around 1930]

EUR 2.400.-

Fine original drawing of a blood culture, anticipating modern art, not yet assigned to any particular scientist or artist, not printed ?

In 1881, the organism, known as the pneumococcus for its role as an etiolo-gic agent of pneumonia, was first isolated simultaneously and indepen-dently by the U.S. Army physician George Sternberg and the French chemist Louis Pasteur.The organism was termed Diplococcus pneumoniae from 1920 because of its characteristic appearance in Gram-stained sputum. It was renamed Streptococcus pneumoniae in 1974 because of its growth in chains in liquid growth media. S. pneumoniae played a central role in demonstrating genetic material consists of DNA. In 1928, Frederick Griffith demonstrated transformation of life, turning harmless pneumococcus into a lethal form by co-inoculating the live pneumococci into a mouse along with heat-killed, virulent pneu-mococci. In 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrated the transforming factor in Griffith‘s ex-periment was DNA, not protein, as was widely believed at the time. Avery‘s work marked the birth of the molecular era of genetics.

This information is useless for the image, - just hang it on the wall.

Goethe‘s mineral collection adviser

1 Lenz, Johann Georg.Mineralogisches Handbuch durch weitere Ausführung des Wernerschen Systems von Iohann Georg Lenz. Zweyte durchaus verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage.- Hildburghausen, bey Iohann Gottfried Hanisch, 1796. 8° [198 x 116 mm]. XXXXVIII, 460 pp., [I]-LVI, [2] pp. Marbled boards, red edges, rococo label, fresh and clean copy.

EUR 1.400.-

Very scarce second enlarged edition.- Johann Georg Lenz (1748 - 1832) was a german theologian & mineralogist. He studied theology at the Univer-sity of Jena and became a private docent in the faculty of the department of philosophy. He continued to pursue theological studies for a time, but eventually he became interested in scientific studies, especially mine-ralogy. The study of minerals suited Lenz, and the newly invented system of A. G. Werner, opened new worlds of discovery for him. Lenz choose to pursue a career in the field, and consequently, he was made a professor of mining and mineralogy at the University of Jena. When the University acquired Walch‘s mineral collection, Lenz was made its curator. Lenz was a founding member and driving force behind the Societät für die gesammte Mineralogie in Jena, which was the first Society devoted to exclusively to mineralogical studies. A mineral collection he assembled for his own studies was purchased in 1799 by the Dutchman Marinus van Marum [1750-1837] and eventually incorporated into Teyler‘s Museum in Haarlem.- ADB XVIII, 276-7; Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen: 10 Jahrgang, 127; Pogg. I, 1423-4; Hoover Collection no. 522; no copy in Freilich sale.

Guide for operations

1 Nuhn, Anton, Franz Xaver Wagner [artist]Erklärungen der chirurgisch-anatomischen Tafeln.- Mannheim, [1856] 8°. 336 pp. [and] Nuhn, Anton. Chirurgisch-anatomische Tafeln nach der Natur ge-zeichnet und lith. von F. X. Wagner. 30 lith plates & 30 linear plates.- Mannheim; Bassermann, 1856. Imperial folio (755 x 565 mm) Original half calf, spine repaired, rubbed and soiled, little spotted, else fine.

EUR 4.000.-

Rare first edition of his book of anatomical plates for surgeons. Nuhn integrated a selection of surgical proce-dures with special techniques or ligatures, similar to an earlier work by Bougery and Jacob. Anton Nuhn (1814-1889) was a German anatomist. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he was a student of Friedrich Tiedemann (1781–1861). In 1842 he was a lecturer at Heidelberg, and shortly afterwards worked as prosector. In 1849 he became an associate professor at the institute of anatomy in Heidelberg, and in 1872 re-ceived the title of honorary pro-fessor. „Nuhn‘s glands“, also known as anterior lingual glands, are named after him. They are described as small, deeply placed seromu-cous glands located near the tip of the tongue on each side of the frenulum.

In den Anfängen seiner Karriere fand er die nach ihm benannte Nuhn- auch Blandin-Nuhn-Drüse, oder heute Glandula lingualis anterior genannt, welche sich in der Zungenspitze befindet. Er erforschte die Lymphgefäße und deren Verbindung zu den Venen, und er ist der Namensgeber des Nuhn- Fascientrichters, in der Her-nienchirurgie bis heute als Processus vaginalis fasciae transversalis bekannt.

Nuhn präparierte viel und gerne; seine Veröffentlichun-gen belegen dies eindrucksvoll. Über 40 Tätigkeitsjahre in der Anatomie prädestinierten ihn, seine große Erfah-rung nicht nur an angehende Mediziner, sondern auch an fertige Ärzte weiter geben, die Lust und Liebe an der praktischen Arbeit vermehren und fördern zu wollen.Er schrieb eine Präparieranleitung und erstellte

anatomisch-chirurgische Tafeln, um den Bogen zur topographischen Anatomie, die seiner Meinung nach in Deutschland zu wenig Beachtung fand, zu schlagen. Hier integrierte er, ähnlich wie Bougery et Jacob zuvor in ihrem Anatomie Lehrbuch, eine Auswahl an chirurgischen Eingriffen, die bestimmten Ligaturen oder Schnitttechniken darstellten.

Science or Voyeurism

1 Neisser, Albert

Stereoscopischer medicinischer Atlas. Sammlung photograph. Bilder aus dem Gesammtgebiet der klinischen Medicin, der Anatomie und der pathologischen Anatomie etc. Herausgegeben unter der Mitwir-kung zahlreicher Fachgenossen von Prof. Dr. A. Neisser.- Cassel: Th. G. Fischer & Co., 1895 – Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903. With together 84 stereo-photographs.

EUR 3.000.-

Very rare, only the Bodleian Library seems to hold a complete set / copy of Neisser’s Atlas; other libraries have only parts of it, as here.- Hirsch-H. IV, 350 (not known); not mentioned by Rowley. Medical Incunala; Lit.. Albert Neissers (1855-1916) „Stereoscopischer medicinischer Atlas“: eine ... herausgegeben von Frank Stahnisch, Ulrich Schönherr, Antonio Bergua. (2012)

A lot 6 installments incl. I.) Vierte [4.] Lieferung [install-ment]: Abteilung Chirurgie. Aus der Kgl. Chirurgischen Klinik in Breslau ( J. Miculicz). 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 11 text leaves, 12 plates on heavy card stock with stereo - photographs, numbered 37-48 of the complete set. Original clothbacked portfolio with cover title, ties brocken. Stamped: Georg Weiss. II.) Dreizehnte [13.] Lieferung. 4. Folge der Abtheilung Chirurgie.- Cassel: Th. G. Fisher [sic] & Co., 1896. 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 2

Bll., 12 stereo-photographs on heavy stock, numbe-red 145-156, and 12 text leaves. Loosely inserted in original printed Halbfcloth folder, used and rubbed. III.) Vierzehnte [14.] Lieferung. 3. Folge der Abtheilung Chirurgie.- Cassel: Th. G. Fisher [sic] & Co., 1896. 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 3 pp., 12 stereo-photographs on heavy stock, numbered 133-144, and 12 text leaves. Loosely inserted in original printed Halfcloth folder, used and rubbed. IV.) Achtzehnte [18.] Lieferung: Abteilung Chirurgie.- Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1897. Mit jeweils 12 montierten Stereophotographien und begleitendem Text. Octavo (19 x 14 cm). Lose in original bedruckten Halbleinwand-Portfolios (fleckig und bestoßen, Bibliotheksmarken auf dem Rücken). V.) Einundzwanzigste [21.] Lieferung: Abteilung Chirurgie.- Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. 8°. [190 x 140 mm]. with 12 Stereo-Photographs on heavy stock and text. Loosely inserted in original printed Halbfcloth

folder, used and rubbed. VI.) Achtundvierzigste [und] neunundvierzigste [48. & 49.] Lieferung [installment]. Chirurgie redigiert von J. Mikulicz und C. Partsch. 7. und 8. Folge. Aus der chirurgischen Universitätspoliklinik in München.- Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903. 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 4 pp., 24 stereo-photographs on heavy stock, numbered 565-588. Loosely inserted in original printed Halbfcloth folder, used and rubbed.

Aufklappbare Sonnenuhr mit Kompass und einstell-barem Breitengrad, gefertigt von David Beringer (1756-1821) aus Nürnberg, dem bekannten Hersteller von Sonnenuhren, Globen und anderen mathematisch-physikalischen Instrumenten. Vorliegendes Exemplar in sehr schönem Zustand, außen etwas fleckig und berie-ben, innen tadellos und mit leuchtenden Farben.

Time before the atomic clock

1 Beringer, David.Sun-dial. [Klappsonnenuhr bzw. Reisesonnenuhr mit Kompass].- Nürnberg, um 1790.[88 x 55 x 18 mm]. Holz, beklebt mit kolorierten Kupferstichen und eingelassenem Kompass unter Glas, „Verfertigt von David Beringer“.

EUR 1.200.-

Very rare early astronomical periodical or newspaper only on comets, published in 34 parts. The engravings show comets and comets with star maps. Michael A. Adelbulner (1702 – 1779), a German mathemati-cian, physicist, physician, and astronomer, worked in Altdorf near Nürnberg. His claim to fame resides in his having started with Anders Celsius in 1733 a journal of astronomy called „Mitteilungsblatt zur Förderung der Astronomie / Commercium litterarium ad astronomiae incrementum“, announcing the principal celestial phe-

nomena, and analyzing new publications. This journal enjoyed much reputation in its day. Thirty-four numbers were published. In 1736 he was named a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and in 1742 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Altdorf.- Houzeau-L. 9528 (34 parts); Pogg. I, 12 (30 parts); Kirchner 3190; ADB I, 72 (30 parts); Will, Nürnb. Gelehrten-Lex. I, 5; not in Brüning, in NUC, BM, BN. II.) Houzeau-L. 8862 u. 8865. III.) Brüning 1712.

First magazine on comets

1 [Adelbulner, Michael A.].Merkwürdiger Himmels-Begebenheiten … Erstes [- Vier und Dreyßigtes Stuck] [=all publ.]. Nürnberg, Selbstverlag, 1736-1740. 1-184 pp. u. 369-456 pp. [= compl.]. with 27 copp. pl. within text. Fine contemporary vellum over boards. Ex libris. [bound with] Kindermann, Eberhard Christian.Vollständige Astronomie, oder: sonderbare Betrachtungen derer vornehmsten an dem Firnament befindlichen Planeten und Sternen. Ferner: woher alle Phaenome-na, Cometen und dergleichen ungewöhnliche Himmels-Zeichen ihren Ursprung nehmen, oder was selbige nach sich ziehen können. 2 Tle.- Rudolstadt u. Dresden u. Leipzig, Deer, 1744-1747. Quarto. [215 x 167 mm] 6 Bll., 396 pp., [6]; 7 Bll., 220 pp. with 35 (3 fold.) plates. [with:] [the same] Astronomische Beschreibung und Nachricht von dem Cometen 1746. Und denen noch kommenden, welche in denen innen besagten Jahren erscheinen werden.- Dresden: Hilscher, 1746. 2 Bll., 14 pp. with one copp. pl.

EUR 4.000.-

Simon Plössl (1794, Vienna - 1868, Vienna), Austrian optical instrument maker at what. Initially trai-ned at the Voigtländer company, he set up his own workshop in 1823. His major achievement at the time was the improvement of the achromatic microscope objective. Today he is best known for the eponymous Plössl telescope eyepiece, Which follows his 1860 design, and is extensively used by amateur astronomers since the 1980s.

Peeping Tom

1 Telescope made of brass -. Vienna, Plössl, [ca 1860]. Total extended length 18.5 cm; pushed together: 9.8 cm. Diameter 3.8 cm front, rear 4.9 cm. With sealing cap made of brass. In calf leather-etui. Supplied with removable screw on the bottom, which is intended for mounting on a tripod. With thread protection. On the tube „Plössl in Vienna“ signed. Etui somewhat rubbed.

EUR 900.-

First edition of Keeler‘s remarkable series of photo-graphs of spiral nebulae, which revealed their abun-dance amongst nebulous objects in the sky, and led to the realisation that they were exterior galaxies. This work is a triumph of astrophysical and observational skills, astrophotography, and of photo-gravure as a medium of astronomical illustration.

The work documents James Edward Keeler‘s inve-stigations with the Crossley reflector at the Lick Observatory. Keeler died in 1900, while awaiting a slitless spectrograph he had designed for use with the Crossley telescope. His work on the spiral nebulae was completed by Charles Dillon Perrine (1867–1951), who oversaw the publication of this volume. This publication includes a reprint of Keeler‘s ‚The Crossley reflector of the Lick Observatory‘, which originally appeared in the Astrophysical Journal, vol 11, 1900, pp 325-329. “Lick Observatory director James Keeler used the Crossley

telescope to produce early photographs of nebulae, fuzzy-looking areas in the night sky, in the hopes of better understanding their nature. To his surprise, he saw many fainter nebulae in the background of his Orion Nebula images. Previously, astronomers had thought that all nebulae were pretty much the same, and that they were rare phenomena. Keeler’s photos with the Crossley reflector showed that nebulae were in fact quite common. They also showed a variety of dif-ferent types of „nebulae.“ Some of these were areas of interstellar dust that we still call nebulae today. Others were actually spiral galaxies filled with billions of stars. Such detailed photographs were possible because this reflecting telescope focused light more effectively than the 36-inch refracttor. Thus Keeler’s photos also showed the superiority of reflectors to refractors for modern astronomical research.”

Finest photogravures of the sky

1 Keeler, James Edward.Photographs of Nebulae and Clusters Made With the Crossley Reflec-tor.- Sacramento, W. W. Shannon / University of California Pub-lications, 1908. (= Publications of the Lick Observatory Vol. VIII.) Quarto (296 x 240 mm), pp 46, with inserted addendum slip, title vignette, 4 illustrations, & 70 photogravure plates (frontispiece and plates 1-68, including 30a and 30b), with tissue overlays; a fine copy in contemporary maroon morocco, silk endleaves, gilt edges.

EUR 1.500.-

The center of this partial estate is a projected (and yet unknown ?) 70.000 kg german flying boat which should transport passenger over the atlantic. It was similar to the other german flying boat: Blohm & Voss BV 238. The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was the heaviest aircraft ever flown when it first flew in 1944, and was the largest aircraft produced by any of the Axis powers in World War II. The empty weight was only 55.000 kg instead of the projected 70.000 kg of the Heinkel engine. The aircrafts were planned already in 1937 in a competitive tender made by the german civil airplane company Lufthansa between Heinkel, Dornier and Blohm & Voss to use the airplane as intercontinen-tal flying machines. The german army took over the planning, maybe with the idea to bring soldiers and equipment over the sea or ocean. A prototype of this machine was never built until the end of the war.

Another folder includes „aerodynamical notes“ regarding the He 177 (Greif), which was the only ope-rational long-range bomber to be flown in combat by the Luftwaffe during World War II. In general terms, the He 177 had payload/range capability similar to strategic bombers in the USAAF and RAF, although it had much higher cruise and maximum speeds.

The type eventually matured into a usable design, but too late in the war to play an important role. It was built and used in some number, especially on the Eastern Front where its range was particularly useful. It is noted for its use in mass raids on Velikiye Luki in 1944, one of the few late-war heavy bombing efforts by the Luftwaffe.

These folder includes designs of a cockpit with ejection seat which were first developed independently during World War II by Heinkel and SAAB. Early models were

powered by compressed air and the first aircraft to be fitted with such a system was the Heinkel He 280 prototype jet-engined fighter in 1940. One of the He 280 test pilots, Helmut Schenk, became the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat on 13 January 1942 after his control surfaces iced up and became inoperable. Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with the pioneering examples of a successful liquid-fueled rocket and a turbojet-powered aircraft in aviation history, with both Heinkel designs‘ first flights occurring shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.

Super Airliner & ejection seat – Nazi‘s at war

1 Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Rostock.Partial Estate of air plane constructor R. Stahl, working during the Third Reich for the Heinkel factory in Rostock. 10 folders with test protocols of different models, designs in comparison with American airplanes [“Naca”], original diagrams and tables, blue prints, pho-tographs of experiments, for different Heinkel aircraft models, often dated from September 1938 / 1939 to 1944. A rare and fine survivor.

EUR 9.000.-

Komplettes Taschenset zur Berechnung von Winkeln, wahrscheinlich für Kanoniere, bestehend aus Winkel-maß (sign.) mit Gravuren „4 pouces du Rhin“ (Maßein-heit: halber königlicher Fuß), Proportionalwinkel (sign.) mit gravierten Skalen und Beischrift „Les parties egales“, „Poligones“ etc. mit klappbarer Arretierung für den rechten Winkel, zwei kleinen Zirkeln, davon einer mit austauschbarer, Reißfeder aus Messing mit Stahleinsatz, Gradbogen (sign.) mit gravierter Skala, kurzem Lineal aus Ebenholz (11,5 cm, ohne Skala) sowie aufsetzbarem Messingknopf.

A. Turner, Early Scientific Instruments, London 1987, Nr. 144 (S. 155), und M. Hambly, Drawing Instruments, London 1988, Nr. 130 (S. 136). Zur Biographie und den Schriften und Instrumenten von Michael Butterfield (1635-1724) siehe: Poggendorff I, 353: „Butterfield, Mechanicus, der sich unter Ludwig XIV. in Paris nieder-liess und den Titel: Ingenieur du Roi bekam. Erlangte grossen Ruf in der Graduirung astronomischer Instru-mente, namentlich Quadranten, und der Construction tragbarer Sonnenuhren mit Bussolen“, und M. Daumas, Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles, Paris 1953, S. 107-09.

Instrument for architects

1 Michael Butterfield.Set of compasses in ten parts, probably for military use, made of brass and steel, partly engraved. Paris, Butterfield (three parts signed), around 1700. Complete pocket set for the calculation of angles, probably for gunners. Light signs of wear. In calf strongbox (12,5 x 7 x 2,5 cm) with functioning clasp and wood application as holder (a little scratched). Zirkelset (drei Teile sign.) zehnteilig incl. Etui.- Paris, Butterfield, um 1700.

EUR 3.000.-

A fine german 18th century manuscript showing the contents in the education of surveyors and cartographers, most probably at a military institution. The text show the reader the elements of geometry as codified by Euclid. The instructions in german begin with: how to draw a line, show than how to draw platonic bodies, and how to calculate surface areas. Then instruments are introduced and how to survey with them. The chapters are titled: “1.Linien, 2. Winkel, 3.+4. Flächen, 5. Körper, 6. Reguläre platonische Körper, 7. Messkette, Winkelmaßstab, Feldtisch; II. part: 1.–3. Aufgaben aus Geometrie; 4.–5. Aufgaben von den Winckeln; 6.–7. Aufgaben von den Flächen; 8. Aufgaben von Ausmessung der Flächen“

Education of surveyors & cartographers

1 Practical mathematical education; ManuscriptGeometrie von Martin Dänniker. 1778. Handwritten watercolour and ink pen manuscript on practical mathematics in german. Folio. [400 x 260 mm] 27 [7, 20] leaves without title. Cited from the cover lable. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morrocco label on cover. Traces of use, but fine

EUR 5.000.-

A curious collection of hand-drawn butterflies, most probably copied from a real natural history collec-tion of butterflies as the second title speaks about a collection: Register über diese Schmetterlinge in dieser Sammlung [= Register of butterflies in this collection]. The manuscript seems to be made in early 19th century, around 1805. The images are semi professional and show a lot of item from oversea. The second page cites the name of butterflies in different languages [Namen der Schmetterlinge in verschiedenen Sprachen] The butterflies are then ordered in different classes and in this way mounted and labelled by hand in ink: I. Nym-phen, Danaiden, Tribunen, etc. II. Pap. Eques Achives Gringise Ritter; III.) Pap. Eques Trojares Ritter; IV. Einige der seltensten Sphyrae. The index at the end for the

last class indicates that these butterflies were collected in Hungary [Europäische Arten, besonders Ungarische Schmetterlinge Prof. Espers Abbildung linke und rechte Seite].

In the collection of mounted specimen are a lot of butterflies that came from oversea ( Jamaica, India, and other places are cited) which also show that this is a pa-per museum of a then existing collection of butterflies. Maybe the author doesn’t have had the money to buy actual specimens from oversea. The teacher, land owner and natural history author Christoph Füldner (fl. 1798–1804) might be a candidat as a possible author. Not much is known about him, but he wrote a book published 1804 in Weimar called: Die Garten- Feld- und

Waldraupen und die Mittel zu ihrer Vertilgung. At the inner front cover are four mounted nature-printed butterflies which were presented by Esper to the au-thor [Ein Andenken von Herrn Prof. Esper in Erlangen]. Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810) was a German entomologist. Born in Wunsiedel in Bavaria, he was professor of zoology at Erlangen university. He directed the department of natural history in Erlangen from 1805. Thanks to him the university collections of minerals, birds, plants, shells and insects grew very rapidly. During his leisure hours Esper devoted himself to the study of nature and the preparation of manu-scripts relating to natural history. He was the author of a series of booklets entitled: Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen which were published between 1776 and1807. These were richly illustrated.

Paper Collection of Butterflies

1 Butterflies; Manuscript‚Schmetterlinge 292 handgemalte Abbildungen ca. 1780’ [= Buterflies 292 hand-drawn images] titled by later label. Papercovered marbled boards, very worn, rubbed and with paper missing, later label as cited. 4 pages text [title, index], 31 leaves with mounted hand-drawn images of different butterflies, mounted one sided of the leaf. The images were drawn with ink and handcolored, not really professional (more a scientist than an artist). The images all are pin-holed as have been mounted before like a real specimen. This could indicate that they were nature printed, but then hea-vily overdrawn with ink and color. Last leaf with index for the last class of butterflies [which came from Hungary]. Ex Libris on inner front cover: Wolfgang Kraemer, 1930, old book seller price of 2 RM (1915, Munich). Handwritten title with poem, most probably from Johann Caspar Fuessli’s Magazin der Entomologie of 1778/79. At the bottom signed: Füldenr.

EUR 4.500.-

Aquarelle von hohem ästhetischem Reiz, zugeschrieben an Franz Anton von Scheidel (1731-1801), den Wiener Naturalienmaler u. den im Umfeld des berühmten Botanikers N. von Jacquin tätigen Illustrator. Über den Menschen Franz Anton von Scheidel ist kaum mehr als seine Lebensdaten bekannt, jedoch belegen tausende Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Kupferstiche seine ungewöhnlich hohe künstlerische Meisterschaft. Als sogenannter „Naturalienmaler“ spezialisiert er sich wohl schon früh auf zoologisch und botanisch exakte Tier- und Pflanzendarstellungen. Viele Naturhistoriker, Botaniker und Naturforscher ließen ihre oft mehrbän-digen enzyklopädischen Werke mit den detailgetreuen Bildtafeln von Scheidel illustrieren. Nikolaus Josef von Jacquin (1727-1817), Direktor der Schönbrunner Gärten in Wien, publizierte unter anderem 1770-76 das drei Bände umfassende Werk „Hortus Botanicus

Vindobonensis“ (Der Botanische Garten von Wien) und 1773-78 die fünfbändige „Flora austriaca“ (Die Österreichische Pflanzenwelt) mit jeweils mehreren hundert kolorierten Kupferstichen nach Vorlagen von Franz Anton von Scheidel. Nicht weniger berühmt sind Scheidels prächtige Muschel-Bildtafeln für Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini‘s (1729-1778) mehrbändiges „Neues systematisches Konchylien-Cabinett“. Scheidel war „nach Jacquin’s eigenen Worten im Zeichnen äußerst geschwind, so daß er noch für andere Liebha-ber der scientia amabilis an die 7000 Pflanzenbilder schaffen konnte, dazu einige Tausend Conchylien, Tiere und andere Naturalien“ (Nissen).- Nissen, BBI 185; Thieme/B. XXX, 13; Wurzbach XXIX, 166 f. Ref.: Simon Weber-Unger. Wissenschaftliches Kabinett Simon We-ber- Unger. Katalog 2005/ 06. pp. 5: „Sechs Aquarelle“ mit ähnlicher Nrn. Bezeichnung.

‚Wunderkammer‘ specimens drawn

1 Franz Anton von Scheidel [attr.]5 verschiedene Seesterne. Num. 131.13 verschiedene Seeigel-Fossilien. Num. 136 Korallenzweig. Num. 150. 3 Aquarelle über Bleistift. Auf Bütten (mit Wasserzeichen „Bekrönte Lilie“ darunter „JH&Z“). 36/37 x 50,5/51 cm (14,1 x 19,8 inch), fast blattgroß. 1770-1790er Jahre. Kaum fleckig, linker Blattrand oben mit dünner Papierstelle u. kl. Randeinriß. Naturwis-senschaftl. Illustrationen von hohem ästhetischem Reiz, jeweils hs. in Tinte num.

EUR 3.600.-

Natural History of Syria

1 Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried.A nice set of original drawings for the publication of Symbolae Physicae, seu icones et descriptiones corpo-rum naturalium novorum ... per Libyam, Aegyptum, Nubiam, Dongolam, Syriam, Arabiam et Habessiniam ..., published in Berlin from 1828. The drawings are attributed to F. Müller and Samuel Weber and show some differences to the printed lithographed plate in the publication

EUR 3.500,–

A set of original drawings for the publication of Ehrenberg / Hembrich‘s Symbolae Physicae, made by different painters, like F. W. Müller: drawn are a dessert fox, a Syrian bear, scorpions, and a squirrel, partly in pencil, but also in ink wash. Not signed. The scorpions plate from the book is present with the drawings. Zhe plates are titled: Androctonus (Samuel Weber), Sciurus Syriacus I. (F. müller), Ursus syriacus I., Canis syriaecus 16.

In 1820–1825 Ehrenberg, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, coll-ected thousands of specimens of plants and animals. He investigated parts of Egypt, the Libyan desert, the Nile valley and the northern coasts of the Red Sea, where he

made a special study of the corals. Subsequently parts of Syria, Arabia and Abyssinia were examined. Some results of these travels and of the important collections that had been made were reported on by Humboldt in 1826.

After his return, Ehrenberg, who was the only survivor of the expedition, published several papers on insects and corals and two volumes Symbolae physicae (1828–1834), in which many particulars of the mammals, birds, insects, etc., were made public. Other observati-ons were communicated to scientific societies. Most of the other parts of the Symbolae left unpublished at his death and were published until 1900.- Junk Rara 138

These are professionally made sketches by an anonym. architect or artist with very detailed descriptions, fine drawings and sketches of different buildings, historic and then modern, and landscape, partly annotated by hand: beginning in Auxerre (St. Pierre, Helle au Bled), Chablis, Tonnerre (Hospice, Hotel Le Ville), Dijon (S. Michel, div. Maisons, Palais des Etats), Beaune, Chalons, Macon, St. Cyr (Rhone) (Fabrique d’Indiennes), Lyon (espec. Musee des Beaux- Arts, built in 1801; Hotel de Ville, Temple des Protestants, Caserne de Gendarmerie, Prison dated 1830, Salle des Festins, Douane). The second volume: “1829 Voyage en Auvergne” [pencil] begins with Mozat [Mozac] pres Riom, Riom; Clermont (Fontaine des Jacobins, dated 25. Aout 1829; Notre Dame du Port, 28. Aout; Musees des Antiques, 6 Obre 1829; Noie Romaine), Mont d’Or /Montdore ( Juillet 1829), Bort [Bort-les-Orgues] (aout 1829); Ydes (12. Aout 1829); Peyroux (11. Aout 1829). Later images are signed with monogram: M [or AA] struck through with a Z [?]. The sketches seems to be mounted later [around 1860 ?]

As a survey of the picturesque monuments, ruins, and legendary places of successive provinces, the Vogages pittoresques de Charles Nodier, Baron Isidore Taylor and Alphonse de Cailleux (1820–1878, 21 vols.) was an encyclopaedic enterprise rather than a real travelogue or guide. Taylor had the idea of making a visual record of the monuments and scenery of France, hoping to ca-talogue all the stones of antiquity, the middle ages and renaissance. At the time of Baron Taylor’s idea, France was a relatively unexplored country. They desired to expand the knowledge of little-known regions of France by means of accurate drawings rendered on the spot. The volumes on the Auvergne were published in 1829-1833, around the time our sketch books were made, which might be used for it ?

Taylor & Nodier’s Voyages inspired a lot of artist to travel to the Auvergne: Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1876) accompanied by his uncle Delecluze, undertook a three-month pilgrimage in the summer of 1831 to

the provinces of Auvergne, Lyonnais, Provence and Languedoc. Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (1812 – 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, reacted against his narrow academic training by travelling to the mountainous Auvergne region in 1830. Here Rousseau sought out rugged views, such as this rocky outcrop, which lacked any obvious picturesque interest. Nicolas-Marie-Joseph Chapuy (1790-1858) a French officer , architect, and painter of veduta, drew illustrations of important architectural landmark, used for the art lover market. From the year 1823 in cooperation with the archaeologist and author Théodore de Jolimont, they toured through France and recorded graphically the most remarkable natural and architectural monuments of the individual regions. Provenance: Collection of Prin-ce and Princess Henry De la Tour d‘ Auverge Lauraguais, Sothebys London 03.05. 2012, lot. 309.

Architectural sketches & drawings exploring Southern France

1 Two Albums of pencil & watercolour architectural and landscape sketches by a professional hand [with monogram: AA ?] in 2 volumes.- [Auvergne, 1829/1830] Small folio [358 x 234 mm], approx. 144 pages of mounted pencil architectural drawings, sketches and water-colours, on paper or tracing paper, and an engraved plan of Lyon (1827) tipped in at end of one volume. Uniform plain green half morocco, bindings slightly rubbed. Inner cover with trade mark: “Jules Berville, rue de la chaussee d’Antin 29, Papeterie et Couleurs fines. Paris”

EUR 7.000.-

A work of art or just the hobby of some wealthy germans?

The story is told that this was done as sort of a party game: drunk or blinded the persons have to draw a pig freehanded. The drawings in the first part are with black ink, later they were drawn in pencil. Some names of the persons who have signed their art work: Elisabeth von Eschwege, Mary E. Cooper, A. Hutton, Bronsart von Schellendorff, Josephine Hall, O. Thomaszik, M. Nicholl, Hayter, Käthe von Gilsa, Freiherr von Wangenheim, von Goltz, Maria v. d. Trenck von Königsegg, Hedwig Müller (Coburg), Carl Graf von Harderberg, Margaret von Totberg, Fedor von Drigalski, P. von Mühlberg, Fritz von Thielemann, Friedrich Graf zu Waldeck, etc. Other interpretations or associations are welcome.

Pigs of noble birth

1 Album with drawings of Pigs in ink and pencil, signed and often dated, originating from 1895 to 1900 in different places in Germany like Weimar, Coburg, etc. 39 leaves, 10 blank. Contemporary silk binding, worn and used.

EUR 2.500.-

A fine set of engravings out of old provenance, together 171 copper engravings out of series from Melchior Küsel’s Iconographia, out of the library of Christoph Wenzel Graf von Nostitz (1643-1712) with his Ex Libris and partly with older inscription by Johann Bernhard II. von Heberstein (1630-1685), Landeshauptmann von Breslau und Glogau. The engravings show italian gardens, villas, landscape, sea pictures, biblical and mythological scenes, 24 scenes from the passion of christ, allegorical scenes, etc. A late night sensual and aesthetic pleasure.- Jantz 456; vgl. Berlin Kat. 4294; Kat. Augsburger Barock, 612; Gier/Janota, Augsburger Buchdruck (1997), 851, Note 178.

Television in former times

1 Küsel, Melchior (1626-1683); Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607-1642).

I. Iconographia.- Augsburg: Küsel, 1670. quer-fol. Title, 35 plates, [numb. 8-11,13-25,27-30, 64,113-122,124,125. [no. 11 double, but different image]II. Iconographia. Erster Theil, begreift in sich die ganze Passion und Auferstehung Christi. Darbei … .- Augsburg: Küsel, 1682. title and 37 plates with 33 different plates bound after.III. + IV. [Collection of 66 plates] 2 vols.- Augsburg, um 1640-1675. Quer-Folio. Contemporary vellum binding, partly rubbed and dama-ged, but overall a fine set in modern box.

EUR 4.800.-

One of 30 numb. copies (of 35 in all). Marianne Brandt (1893–1983), German painter, sculptor, photographer and designer who studied at the Bauhaus school and became head of the metal workshop in 1928. Today, Brandt‘s designs for household objects such as lamps, ashtrays and teapots are considered the harbinger of modern industrial design. Brandt is also remembered as a pioneering photographer. She created experimental still-life compositions, but it is her series of self-portraits which are particularly striking.These often represent her as a strong and independent New Woman of the Bau-haus; other examples show her face and body distorted across the curved and mirrored surfaces of metal balls, creating a blended image of herself and her primary medium at the Bauhaus.These photographs from the early 1930’s were reproduced here from the original glass negatives (9 x 12 cm) on Agfa Record Rabid. The selection was made from a bundle of 150 negatives that the Bauhaus Archive had received as a gift and are now preserved in Berlin.

Strong and independent ‚New Woman‘

1 Brandt, Marianne „bauhausfotos. 10 original fotografien. Herausgegeben von Sabine Hartmann und Karsten Hintz für die Bauhaus-Archiv GmbH.“ Ber-lin, Bauhaus-Archiv, 1993. with 10 Original-Photographs mounted on heavy card stock with Passepartout Verso stamped by Bauhaus-Ar-chivs and numb. Image: 235 x 175 mm, Passepartout: 448 x 348 mm. Folio. Original cloth folder, fine.

EUR 3.900.-

Exceedingly rare first edition of the book later published as the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) – arguably the most important philosophical work of the 20th cen-tury, and the only book by Wittgenstein published in his lifetime. It was written during the First World War while Wittgenstein was a soldier in the Austrian army.‘Upon the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian army in No-vember 1918, he was taken prisoner by the Italians. It was not until August of the following year that he could return to Austria. During the major part of his captivity, he was in a prison camp near Monte Cassino in south Italy. When Wittgenstein was captured he had in his rucksack the manuscript of his Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung ... He had completed the work when on a leave of absence in Vienna, in August, 1918. While still in captivity he got in touch with Russell by letter and was able to send the manuscript to him, thanks to the aid of one of his friends of the Cambridge years, Key-nes. He also sent Frege a copy’ Wittgenstein was keen

to have Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung published immediately. After his return to Vienna in August 1919 he started offering it to publishers, but, despite a testimonial from Bertrand Russell (and eventually a full-blown Introduction by him), the book was several times rejected. ‘Wittgenstein wrote to Russell, in July 1920, that he would take no further steps to have it pu-blished and that Russell could do with it as he wished. The following year it was published in London with a parallel English translation, under the title Tractatus Logico-philosophicus’ When it came to preparations for the subsequent London edition, there was of course discussion about which new title the book should have: ‘Ostwald had published it under Wittgenstein’s German title ... Russell had suggested ‘Philosophical Logic’ as an alternative, while G.E. Moore – in a conscious echo of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus – had put forward “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” as “obvious and ideal”.

Hidden Genius - Wittgenstein‘s Tractatus

1 Wittgenstein, LudwigLogisch-philosophische Abhandlung‘ in Annalen der Naturphilo-sophie, XIV, 3/4. Leipzig: Verlag Unesma, 1921. 8vo, [185]-308, [4] pp., original orange printed wrappers with woodcut illustration, slight darkening towards edges in two places, minor chipping at fore edge and foot of spine, short tear at top of front hinge, uniform light age-toning, almost completely unopened, a fine copy, housed in a protective cloth folder.

EUR 55.000.-

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