{"title":"Rare Books Berlin","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1.5rem;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 0.75rem 2rem; border: 1px solid currentColor; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.875rem; text-transform: uppercase;\" title=\"Sotheran's - Rare Books Berlin\" href=\"https:\/\/library.sotherans.co.uk\/catalogues\/berlin-2026.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e Browse the Catalogue as a PDF \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlights for the Berlin book fair from across our departments, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Find us at the Kronprinzenpalais, Unter den Linden, from 18–20 September. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"baker-henry-beytrage-zu-nuzlichem-und-vergnugendum-gebrauch-under-verbesserung-des-microscopii","title":"BAKER, Henry. Beyträge zu nützlichem und vergnügendem Gebrauch und Verbesserung des Microscopii: in zwey Theilen … Aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche übersetzt.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e‘Animalcules’ Up Close\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBAKER, Henry.\u003c\/strong\u003e Beyträge zu nützlichem und vergnügendem Gebrauch und Verbesserung des Microscopii: in zwey Theilen … Aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche übersetzt. \u003ci\u003eAugsburg: Eberhard Klett.\u003c\/i\u003e 1754.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Contemporary \u003ci\u003ecarta rustica\u003c\/i\u003e, printed spine label; pp. [20], 576, [16 (index)], with large folding engraved frontispiece diagram and 16 folding engraved plates at end; typographic headpieces, woodcut tailpieces and initials; half of spine label wanting, boards somewhat worn, small split to upper joint; lightly browned throughout, a few small wormtracks to inner margin of final quire (not touching text); generally very good; printed ownership label of Joannis Antonii Josephi Scrinci to verso of title and ownership inscription ‘Scrinci’ to recto; early ownership inscription to title, deleted in ink with subsequent ink ownership inscription ‘Ad usum Adamti Voigt Sch. Piar. 1770’; remnant of ?nineteenth-century bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst German edition of \u003ci\u003eEmployment for the Microscope\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in English in 1753 as a companion to his popular guide for amateur scientists \u003ci\u003eThe Microscope Made Easy\u003c\/i\u003e, our copy owned by a contemporary Bohemian professor of medicine, experimental chemistry, and physics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMicroscopist, son-in-law of Daniel Defoe, and teacher of deaf people Henry Baker (1698–1774) won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1744 for his microscopical observations on the crystallization of saline particles, to which much of the first part of this book is devoted. The second part is more concerned with microbiology and includes the first description of dinoflagellates, marine plankton here called ‘Animalcules which cause the Sparkling Light in Sea Water’. Known for his use of simple, easily understood language, Baker ‘had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. This was what made his two books so widely popular’ (\u003ci\u003eDSB\u003c\/i\u003e I, 411).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound as the frontispiece is an engraved advertisement for a microscope sold in Augsburg by Georg Friedrich Brander (1713–1783), a modified version of the microscope developed in London by John Cuff at the suggestion of Henry Baker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance:\u003cbr\u003e1.  \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the library of Johann Anton Joseph (Jan Antonín Josef) Scrinci (1697–1773)\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Bohemian physician and university professor of medicine, as well as of experimental chemistry and physics at Prague’s Charles University. Born into an Italian family of master builders, Scrinci gained renown for identifying an outbreak of ergotism in northern Bohemia, a discovery that led to his appointment at Charles University in 1739.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a full professor, he adopted a practical, demonstration-based scientific method in the manner of Boerhaave, making his lectures particularly popular with students. 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Einladung zur öffentlichen Prüfung und feierlichen Entlassung im hiesigen Gymnasium am 21. und 27. Junius zu den öffentlichen Prüfungen in der zweiten Kreis- oder Handelsschule am 28. und in der russischen Kreisschule am 30. J…","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eDaguerreotypes in Latvia\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEETERS, M[artin] G[ustav].\u003c\/strong\u003e Einladung zur öffentlichen Prüfung und feierlichen Entlassung im hiesigen Gymnasium am 21. und 27. Junius zu den öffentlichen Prüfungen in der zweiten Kreis- oder Handelsschule am 28. und in der russischen Kreisschule am 30. Junius. Vorrausgeschickt ist eine Abhandlung: Ueber das Daguerreotypiren. \u003ci\u003eRiga: Wilhem Ferdinand Häcker.\u003c\/i\u003e  1847.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Disbound as issued, green paper backstrip; pp. [2], 14; small portion excised from title, offsetting to inner margin of 2 pp., light spotting, small crease to lower corner of final leaf; otherwise a very good copy; contemporary blue ink stamp of Riga Municipal \u003ci\u003eReal-Bürgerschule\u003c\/i\u003e (i.e. the publishing institution) and manuscript shelflabel to title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtremely rare first edition of this early treatise on taking photos by applying Dauguerre’s method, written by and given as a public lecture at Riga schools for higher education in the Russian Empire. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeters (1800–1877), a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Riga Gymnasium, opens with a short pre-history of photography from Della Porta to Niépce and touches upon colour theory and the theory of light before explaining Daguerre’s photochemical process in detail, including slightly later improvements of both the chemistry of the process, as well as the development of cameras, especially in relation to Austrian engineers, scientists, and inventors. The Munich artists and photographers Kobell and Steinheil are mentioned, as well as Talbot’s calotypes and the watchmaker Breguet’s invention of ‘printing’ his name inside the watches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaguerreotypes were invented by Louis Daguerre in Paris and introduced in 1839, and the first daguerreotypes were brought to Latvia in 1840 by Domenico de Robiani. Following Deeters’s treatise is a register of teachers at the Gymnasium in Riga – the oldest school in the Baltic states – where Deeters is listed as \u003ci\u003eOberlehrer\u003c\/i\u003e in physics and algebra; teachers are also listed for the Catharinäum – the first school in Riga to offer Russian-language instruction – and the city’s business school. 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Publisher’s original decorative beige cloth, upper board decorated to a geometric design, spine and upper board lettered in brown; pp. [24], 15, [1], 146 pp. photographic plates (of which some in colour), [6], additional photographic plate facing Koch’s introduction; foxing to first few leaves; else a very good copy; Christmas gift inscription (‘Weihnachten 1939 …’) to half-title, ink stamp of the State Scientific Library of Zvolen, Slovakia to title (not before 1954).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, lavishly illustrated, of this work on the house built by the architect Fritz August Breuhaus (1883–1960) for editor and publisher Alexander Koch (1860–1939), a leading figure in the decorative arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis monograph takes its name from Koch’s 1901 architectural competition for the design of a \u003ci\u003eHaus eines Kunstfreundes\u003c\/i\u003e (House for an Art Lover), advertised in his prominent monthly design and architectural magazine \u003ci\u003eZeitschrift für Innendekoration\u003c\/i\u003e. It is for this competition that Charles Rennie Mackintosh submitted incomplete plans for a magnificent Art Nouveau building, later reconstructed in Glasgow from Mackintosh’s designs between 1989 and 1996; he received a prize despite having been officially disqualified due to unfinished drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Koch’s journals promoted and were supported by the avant-garde fine and decorative art and architecture movement at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony on the Mathildenhöhe, established in 1898 under the patronage of Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen. It is thought that the Mathildenhöhe may have been the site envisaged for the House for an Art Lover, should a design ever have been selected for construction, and that behind the competition’s notional client was Koch himself, revealed in the provision in the competition conditions of bedrooms and living rooms for specific family members on the first floor of the house’ (University of Glasgow, \u003ci\u003eonline\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDas Haus eines Kunstfreundes\u003c\/i\u003e comprises an introduction by Koch celebrating the ‘creative joy’ present in all features of his new home and how it fits with the artwork and crafts he had collected over the course of decades; there follows a piece on the house by the visual artist Kuno von Hardenberg, founder of the Hessian bibliophiles’ society in 1918 (Gesellschaft Hessischer Bücherfreunde), and an afterword by Breuhaus, the architect. Koch’s house in Darmstadt was destroyed in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBreuhaus went on to become a major interwar architect, his most famous work being the interior passenger spaces of the zeppelin \u003ci\u003eHindenburg\u003c\/i\u003e, the largest airship ever built. 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II: pp. v, 377; lithographic frontispiece to vol. I, four lithographic folding maps with hand-colouring in outline; sometime rebacked with original spine relaid, slight wear to corners; light toning throughout, some marginal spotting to frontispiece; else a very clean and fresh copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English edition of Prince Adalbert of Prussia’s account of his travels in Brazil, \u003ci\u003eAus meine Tagebuche\u003c\/i\u003e 1842–1843, which had first been printed in German for private circulation in 1847; this edition is the first to contain a preface by the polymath and explorer Alexander von Humboldt\u003cbr\u003e(1769–1859).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA grandson of King Frederick William II of Prussia, Prince Adalbert (1811–1873) was a naval expert who consulted several governments and travelled widely. His travel diary gives a vivid picture of Brazil during the early 1840s, with observations on trade and economy,  wildlife (including hunting occasionally) and vegetation, encounters with indigenous peoples, and rambles in the Amazon basin. His account was ‘only designed and printed for private distribution among the Prince’s immediate friends’ (vol. I, p. ix).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumboldt’s preface is extracted from a letter to one of the translators of this edition, the German-born explorer for Great Britain Robert H. Schomburgk (1804–1865). Humboldt had contributed the preface for the German edition of Schomburgk’s \u003ci\u003eTravels in Guiana and on the Orinoco\u003c\/i\u003e seven years earlier. Schomburgk was the first European to mention the Waiwai indigenous people, having encountered them on both sides of the border between Brazil and British Guiana; he travelled to British Guiana and the Orinoco river region from 1835 to 1839, and again in 1843.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher and editor John Edward Taylor (1799–1844) – who printed this edition for David Bogue in partnership with his uncle, Richard Taylor – was the founder of the \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (now \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e). 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His account describes the city of Khiva in western Uzbekistan – known for its inner town, Itchan Kala, which is surrounded by ten-metre brick walls and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site – and the surrounding region. Khiva was a major trading hub along the Silk Road and was historically the ‘last resting-place of caravans before crossing the desert to Iran’ (UNESCO, \u003ci\u003eonline\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBotanist Theodor Basiner (1816–1862) was born in Tartu (present-day Estonia) and studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat between 1836 and 1840; he was subsequently a conservator at St Petersburg’s Botanical Garden and became its librarian in 1845. Between 1842 and 1843 he was a member of Grigory Danilewsky’s Russian Expedition of 1842, in which Danilewsky and his men, under the orders of Tsar Nicholas I, crossed the Kazakh (Kirghiz) Steppe to the Khanate of Khiva to stabilise relations with the Khan, survey unmapped areas of Central Asia, and guarantee the release of captured Russian slaves. This expedition was a follow-up to the failed Khivan campaign of 1839–40, a Russian attempt to conquer the Khanate of Khiva (in which Vasily Perovsky and his men were forced to turn back halfway after losing most of their camels).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBasiner describes the progress of the expedition itself in the first part of the work, and the second half gives a description of the Khanate of Khiva. 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George at head of the first page of the main text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond English edition, a reprint of the first, of this ambitious geographical, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and antiquarian work on the northern and eastern territories of the Russian Empire, written by a Swedish officer after over a decade of captivity in Siberia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilip Johan von Strahlenberg (\u003ci\u003ené\u003c\/i\u003e Philip Johan Tabbert, 1676–1747) was taken captive by the Russians after the 1708 Battle of Poltava and was detained for some thirteen years in Siberia. During his time in Tobolsk (1711–1721) he was able to explore vast stretches of eastward land and compile material for the present work, one of the most important sources of historical, geographical, and ethnographic information about Siberia and beyond. 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To this material he added texts from the Northern European anti-curial tradition, as well as his own compositions, including \u003ci\u003ePasquillus extaticus et Marphorius\u003c\/i\u003e, a poetic dialogue between Pasquino and another of Rome’s talking statues, Marforio (pp. 427–529).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume includes eulogies of Martin Luther (notably pp. 282–295), Ulrich von Hutten’s satirical \u003ci\u003eTrias Romana\u003c\/i\u003e in both Latin and German (pp. 192 ff.), and the \u003ci\u003eJulius exclusus e coelis\u003c\/i\u003e, a pointed satire traditionally attributed to Erasmus (pp. 317–324).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdams P-390; BM STC German, p. 676; USTC 682981; VD16 C 6433; Brunet IV, col. 410 (‘peu commun’).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2122132\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55994190561657,"sku":"2122132","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2122132_bdde82e1-fb0a-4427-954e-c522d7d442fd.jpg?v=1787055701"},{"product_id":"brenner-domnok-histoire-des-revolutions-de-hongrie-ou-lon-donne-une-idee-juste-de-son-legitime-gouvernement-avec-les-memoires-du-prince-francois-rakoczy-sur-la-guerre-de-hongrie-depuis-1703-jusqua-sa-fin-et-ceux-du-comte-betlem-niklos-sur-les-af","title":"[BRENNER, Domokos Antal Ignácz]; Francis II RÁKÓCZI. 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Walker to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, simultaneously published by Néaulme in quarto and duodecimo, of this history of Hungary from Stephen I (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1001–1038) to Rákóczi’s War of Independence against the Habsburgs (1703–1711), this copy with interesting English provenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before Hungarian self-determination, this was a seminal text of Hungarian historiography. The final 258 pages comprise the first appearance of important memoirs on the war by Francis II Rákóczi (II. Rákóczi Ferenc, 1676–1735), now considered a Hungarian national hero. He began composing his \u003ci\u003eMemoires\u003c\/i\u003e in exile, beginning his first draft in 1717 during his stay at the monastery of the Camaldoese de Grosbois near Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Only after the completion of the \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e [handed over to the Grosbois monks in August 1717] did he revise, also in Turkey, the \u003ci\u003eMemoires\u003c\/i\u003e. The manuscript was corrected by César de Saussure [...] and handed over to Louis Molitard, a member of Rákóczi’s bodyguard, in 1734 with the instruction that it should be published only after his death’ (\u003ci\u003eNLN\u003c\/i\u003e 67:3 and 4 (2019), pp. 227–28).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDomokos Brenner (c. 1675–1721) was a Hungarian priest-turned-diplomat who followed Rákóczi into exile in Paris. He served as Rákóczi’s envoy to the Pope in 1707–08, and in 1711 was envoy to Tsar Peter I; he gained French citizenship in 1712 and was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1721 for mishandling aid money he received from the French court; he committed suicide whilst in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e1. Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent (1671–1740), British politician and courtier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781–1859), of Wrest Park in the parish of Silsoe, Bedfordshire, British Tory statesman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Thomas Alfred Walker (1862–1935), historian, dean, bursar and librarian at Peterhouse, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTCN 289332095; see Brunet I, col. 1221n (26525).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124864\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56919633068409,"sku":"2124864","price":900.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124864a_4ef53cdc-16d2-420f-914c-597878f49aeb.jpg?v=1787055133"},{"product_id":"marx-karl-samuel-moore-and-edward-aveling-translators-capital-a-critical-analysis-of-capitalist-production-translated-from-the-third-german-edition","title":"MARX, Karl; Samuel MOORE and Edward AVELING ( translators ). Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production … Translated from the Third German Edition … Stereotyped Edition.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eA Hat-Maker's Copy of \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARX, Karl; Samuel MOORE and Edward AVELING (\u003ci\u003etranslators\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production … Translated from the Third German Edition … Stereotyped Edition. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Swan Sonnenschein and Co\u003c\/i\u003e. 1889.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[with:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHAZELL, A.P. A Summary of Marx’s “Capital”. Being a Concise Exposition of Marx’s Theory of Value. \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Twentieth Century Press\u003c\/i\u003e. 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarx\u003c\/i\u003e: 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, blind-stamped borders, spine lettered directly in gilt within gilt-ruled border; pp. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 816; hinges and head of spine expertly repaired, extremities lightly rubbed, a few marks to boards and spine, spine a little toned; a few marks to first and final few leaves; but overall a very good, clean copy; early twentieth-ownership inscription ‘H Cottrell 25 Church Street, L-Edmonton’ in ink to half-title (see below), loosely inserted note on paper headed ‘Cottrell \u0026amp; Drew, Hat Materials Merchants … Luton’, dated 2 May 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHazell\u003c\/i\u003e: 8vo. Original stapled paper wrappers, with photographic portrait of Marx to front cover; pp. 20; uniform browning, central crease from folding, extremities a little rubbed, overall very good; ‘H Cottrell 25 Church Street, Edmonton’ in ink to front wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst stereotyped edition of \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e (vol. I), apparently the second edition of Karl Marx to be published in English and the first to be issued in a single volume, with a copy of a 1907 penny pamphlet on the work.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Moore (1838–1911), a lawyer and translator active in the Manchester branch of the First International, was commissioned by Friedrich Engels to prepare an English translation of \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e shortly after Marx’s death in 1883. A close friend of both Marx and Engels, Moore had studied the work in depth since the publication of volume I in 1867 (volumes II and III followed posthumously in 1885 and 1894, respectively). In 1884 Moore was joined by Edward Aveling (1849–1898) – who in the same year began his relationship with Marx’s daughter, Eleanor – and their translation was published with Engels’ full approval by Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, \u0026amp; Co. in January 1887.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition comprised five hundred copies –  including two hundred for the American market – and was issued in two volumes. Based on the original German text, the translation also incorporates the substantial revisions Marx made for the French edition, published in forty-four instalments between September 1872 and November 1875.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis stereotyped issue (printed from metal plates, called stereotypes, rather than composed movable type) constitutes the second UK edition of \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e. It reproduces the text of the 1887 two-volume first English edition but is issued here for the first time in a single volume. The book was also distributed in the United States by D. Appleton \u0026amp; Co. of New York, whose name appears as co-publisher on the title-page of American copies. When bearing this imprint, the edition is regarded as the first US edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the library of Henry Cottrell, co-proprietor of Cottrell \u0026amp; Drew, Hat Materials Merchants in Luton. Evidently a Marxist, Cottrell presented this copy of Marx, together with a second edition of A. P. Hazell’s summary, to his friend Dale and to Dale’s son in 1946: ‘Dear Dale, Your son has written asking […] if I can lend him Marx’s Capital (which his father failed to read) – same is enclosed – sorry I haven’t the later volumes. Why not train your son to be a reasonable citizen – let his literary food be the \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; make it yours as well. Hope you are all well. Yours Cott.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee PMM 359 for the first German edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123974\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57180318007673,"sku":"2123974","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123974b.jpg?v=1777545500"},{"product_id":"fugger-wolfgang-ein-nutzlich-und-wolgegrundt-formular-manncherley-schoner-schriefften-als-teutscher-lateinischer-griechischer-unnd-hebrayscher-buchstaben","title":"[FUGGER, Wolfgang.] [Ein nutzlich und wolgegrundt Formular manncherley schöner Schriefften. 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A1 (title), A2–B1 (dedication, note to reader), L2 (italic minuscule) and 2C4 (colophon); rear hinge cracked, final quire loose, quire B reinforced at inner margin; numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text; light marginal dampstaining at head (heavier to quire B), light spotting and toning; else a good copy; small booklabel removed from front pastedown at an earlier date, eighteenth-century German bibliographical note to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare second edition – the contents unchanged save for the colophon – of the Nuremberg printer Wolfgang Fugger’s (1519–1568) extremely important calligraphic manual (first 1553), printed by Katharina Dieterichin (d. 1605), widow of Dietrich Gerlach.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFugger’s manual is ‘supreme as an example of engraving. The specimens are cut in relief, apparently on soft metal, with extreme accomplishment, and in this respect it surpassed earlier writing-books in beauty and clearness […] the book was intended, secondarily, as an aid to cutters of printers’ types, and it has a place in the history of typography as the earliest to deal in any way with the design of types’ (Carter, preface to 1955 reprint). In his dedication to Joachim Tetzel, Fugger writes, ‘How could art and knowledge exist if there were no art of writing? […] Any language which is not well written (being ugly or illegible) is a disadvantage; for a clumsy hand appears ugly to all men’ (ibid., trans. Plaat).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present writing manual describes how to properly cut a quill and the appropriate position of the hand and the arm for writing (showing examples of ‘clumsy’ and proper techniques) before detailing a variety of German (Kurrent, Kantzlei, Fraktur), blackletter (Textura and Rotunda, the description of the latter making reference to the Schwabacher and Wittenberger types), Roman (italic, antiqua, Roman capitals), Greek, and Hebrew scripts. \u003cstrong\u003eA significant portion of the text is dedicated to Hebrew, including passages from the Book of Esther, an explanation of the theory of gematria, and three pages of sheet music; Fugger also makes reference to the work of Hebraist Sebastian Münster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eighteenth-century German bibliographical note mentions the earlier calligraphic work of Johann Neudörffer the Elder – Fugger’s teacher (to whom he refers in the present text) and the author of the first notable German calligraphy manual in 1519, who in turn had collaborated with Durer – adding a reference to Doppelmayr’s 1730 \u003ci\u003eHistorische Nachricht von den nürnbergischen Mathematicis und Künstlern\u003c\/i\u003e. Fugger also owes much to Dürer, his geometric Roman capitals in the final portion reminiscent of Dürer’s 1525 \u003ci\u003eUnterweysung der Messung\u003c\/i\u003e. The second edition reuses the plates of the first and the content of the text is unchanged, the date of 1553 from the first edition appearing as a part-title to both editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerlach (also known as Dieterichin) likely acquired the plates from the heirs of the printer of the 1553 edition, Valentin Gessler (d. 1576). 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Collectively, OCLC finds ten copies in the US (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, LoC, Morgan, Newberry, SMU, Stanford, Yale) and only two in the UK (BL, NAL).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecker 56; BM STC German, p. 327 (imperfect); Brunet II, col. 419 (1553 edition but not mentioning printer); Graesse II, p. 645 (‘Nürnb. 1553’); Jessen 2269; VD16 3336\/3338. 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Buchdrucker J.D.A. Eckhardt’. \u003c\/i\u003e1784.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003ebound with\u003c\/i\u003e:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[PRAYERBOOK.]\u003c\/strong\u003e Tägliches Gebetbuch. Bestehend in Morgen- und Abend-Segen auf alle Tage der Woche ... \u003ci\u003eAltona: ‘zu haben beym Buchbinder H[einrich] C[hristian] Gutacker, am Rathhausmarkt\u003c\/i\u003e. [S.a. (c. 1784–86)].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003eand:\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[COLLECTS, EPISTLES, and GOSPELS.]\u003c\/strong\u003e Die Collecten, Episteln und Evangelia auf alle Sonn-und-Fest-Tage durchs ganze Jahr … \u003ci\u003eAltona: ‘zu haben beym Buchbinder H[einrich] C[hristian] Gutacker, am Rathhausmarkt\u003c\/i\u003e. [S.a. (1784)].                                          £2,250\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Sumptuously bound in eighteenth-century shagreen with silver clasps, centrepieces, and bosses to both boards, all engraved to a floral design, centrepiece to upper board engraved with initials ‘JC BW’ and to rear board ‘JO St.’, dated 1796; edges gilt and gauffered to a floral design, makers’ marks ‘FAL’ and three-tower Copenhagen assay mark surmounting the letter ‘F’ to inside of clasps, floral gilt brocade endpapers; pp. [24], 1200, [24 (contents)]; \u003ci\u003eGebetbuch\u003c\/i\u003e: pp. 48; \u003ci\u003eCollecten\u003c\/i\u003e: pp. 72; woodcut cypher of Christian VII to title of \u003ci\u003eGesangbuch\u003c\/i\u003e, woodcut Danish royal emblems to A2v and A3r, text in two columns, typographic headpieces; sometime subtly rebacked with original spine relaid, upper joint split but holding; light foxing throughout, sporadic light browning; else very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare fourth edition (first 1780) of this Altona-printed hymnal issued under King Christian VII of Denmark as Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, with proceeds benefiting schoolmasters, orphans, and the poor, our copy in a magnificent Danish binding dated 1796 and bound with rare Altona-printed prayers and Gospels.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAltona, the westernmost portion of present-day Hamburg, was granted municipal rights by Frederik III, King of Denmark and Duke of Holstein, in 1664. The privilege of the present hymnal grants publication rights exclusively to the orphanages of Schleswig, Flensburg, and Thurn; the school for the poor at Meldors; and the schoolmasters’ seminary at Kiel ‘in such a way that they may procure, at common expense, the printing of two editions of [the Schleswig-Holstein], one in finer print and one in coarser print, and as often as artistically necessary, through those local printers with whom they can best collaborate’ (f. A2, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). A quarter of the resulting profit was to go to the schoolmasters’ seminary and the remainder to be distributed equally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eGesangbuch\u003c\/i\u003e, containing over nine hundred hymns, was edited by German theologian, lyric poet, and hymnist Johann Andreas Cramer, who wrote almost two hundred and fifty of the hymns and whose ‘religious songs and his adaptation of the Schleswig-Holstein hymnal prioritized the educational aims of the people over the expression of religious feeling’ (\u003ci\u003eDeutsche Biographie, trans\u003c\/i\u003e.); written in the spirit of the Enlightenment, it also included the rewriting of several older hymns as well as some sixty contributions from Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Christian Christian Furchtgott Gellert, and, interestingly, multiple hymns on epidemics (see Hettrick, ‘Old Hymns for Our Time’ (2022)).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur copy is in a beautiful contemporary binding of shagreen with silver furniture, dated 1796, the bosses bearing the three-tower assay mark of Copenhagen. The handsome silver centrepieces are respectively engraved ‘JC BW’ and ‘JO St | 1796’, likely bound as a gift for the engagement or 1797 wedding of Catharina Breckwoldt and Jochim Stehr of Blankenese, a suburban quarter of Altona. The endpapers bear (largely in a twentieth-century hand) a continuous family provenance spanning a century and a half, beginning with the ownership inscription of their daughter, Catharina Sophia Tiemann (\u003ci\u003enée\u003c\/i\u003e Stehr), passing to her daughter and thence by descent to P.J. Kröger in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHymnal: We find no copies of this edition outside Germany and Denmark. Prayerbook: no copies traced outside Germany. Collects: Library Hub finds a single copy, at the Bodleian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHymnal: VD18 13372599 (calling for only 22 pp. of contents); Holzmann \u0026amp; Bohatta II 6166. This edition not in Bibliotheca Danica (see vol. I, col. 381). 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Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1798. \u003ci\u003eLauenburg: ‘gedruckt mit Berenbergschen Schriften\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003ei.e. Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich Berenberg\u003c\/i\u003e] \u003ci\u003eund zu bekommen bey dem Burgermeister Meyer’.\u003c\/i\u003e [1798.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. In a handsome contemporary binding of white silk, upper board with the cypher of King George III worked in silver threads and embellished with sequins surmounted by his crown embroidered in red, rear board with cornucopia embroidered in green, brown, pink, and metallic threads, both boards with floral sequin cornerpieces and within an embroidered foliate border with red flowers embellished with small sequins, original bright green endpapers; pp. [xxxii], 264, 34, [16]; woodcut crowned cypher of George III against ground of clouds to f. C1r, British Royal coat of arms to title; outer border of small sequins removed at an earlier date, sequins to foliate border largely perished, neatly rebacked in oatmeal cloth, some wear to boards with loss of some threads to central panels, slight tarnishing and discolouration; some foxing to flyleaves; else internally clean and bright; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rare almanack-cum-bureaucratic directory for 1798, provincially printed in Lauenberg in honour of George III – the first British Hanover monarch to be born in England – as King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, our copy in a handsome embroidered binding bearing his crowned cypher.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough George III spoke English as a native language and was the first British Hanover monarch not to have travelled to Germany, this almanack is indicative of his political significance as Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The calendar provides notable feast days and holidays as well as a Jewish calendar marking the Sabbath and \u003ci\u003eRosh Chodesh\u003c\/i\u003e, and is followed by a register of thousands of members of the Royal Electoral Ministry (featuring an orchestra, three librarians, a copper-engraver, and a bookbinder) and of local administration throughout Lower Saxony, including an index of physicians; there follows a list of officers, a list of professors at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, a list of cloisters and monasteries detailing the names of dozens of nuns, and an index of nobles and their lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe almanack also includes the names and birth dates of George III, Queen Charlotte, and their children, as well as those of several influential noble families throughout Germany, also noting the religious denomination of each family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first almanack in the series printed by Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich Berenberg, whose father, Johann Georg Berenberg, had recently died, as reported in a prefatory note by Ludwig, Count of Kielmansegg, himself a member of the House of Hanover and here described as ‘Royal British Privy Councillor appointed to the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg’; Eberhard’s privilege allowed him to continue to donate a portion of the almanack’s proceeds to the orphanage at Celle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe find other examples of the Lauenberg Staats-Kalender bound in calf with the cypher of George III blocked to both boards in gilt, as well as examples in embroidered bindings similar to ours on Berenberg almanacks printed c. 1789–1801. A copy of the 1799 edition in an embroidered binding was sold by Sotheby’s (The Property of the Dowager Viscountess Wolseley, of Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex, 17 October 1918), described as ‘for K. George III, by one of his daughters’. Queen Charlotte was an expert embroiderer (see the 1781 needlework pocketbook made by her at the Royal Collections), providing financial support to the needlewoman Mary Knowles and of Mrs Pawsey’s school for ‘embroidering females’, and it is possible that these bindings were made for presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The works of art made by Queen Charlotte’s daughters are inevitably linked to those of their mother, who ensured that they stayed at court and continued to work alongside her for much of their lives. 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[\u003ci\u003eStrasbourg: Johann Knobloch\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e]. 1511].          £2,500\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo works in one volume, 4to. Sixteenth-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 3 cords, borders roll-tooled with pomegranates, two-headed birds flanked by small six-pointed stars, and flowers in pots, two brass clasps and catchplates, spine lined with manuscript waste, seventeenth-century paper spine label; \u003ci\u003eLactantius\u003c\/i\u003e: pp. [20], 433, [1 (errata)], final leaf k6 (printer’s device, blank) excised; \u003ci\u003eSymmachus\u003c\/i\u003e: ff. [55], [1 (blank)]; title of Lactantius within elaborate architectural woodcut border by Hans Holbein the Younger, woodcut initials and headpieces; short split to upper joint, lower compartment of spine rubbed and discoloured , pinhole wormholes to upper board, slight wear to corners and extremities, lower corner of rear free endpaper excised; first two quires of first work slightly loose, sporadic light toning to both works, Lactantius with small wormtrack to Book I of \u003ci\u003eDivinae institutiones\u003c\/i\u003e (touching one or two words per page but not affecting sense),\u003cbr\u003eshort closed tear to upper corner of i1, small marginal loss to upper corner of i2, sporadic light toning, short closed tear to o3 fore-edge not touching annotations or text; very good copies; early sixteenth-century motto to title of Symmachus, cancelled in mid-sixteenth-century red ink, mid-sixteenth-century initials ‘FC’ and motto ‘sua ?cuique sors ferenda [est]’ to both titles, contemporary annotations in red and occasionally dark brown ink to c. 100 pp. of Lactantius in the same hand, partially cancelled ownership 1580 inscription ‘Ex Libris Michaelis Rhommeysen’ and 1589 reading note ‘perlegendo finii’ to front pastedown (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), seventeenth-century ownership inscription ‘Collegii Societ[at]is Jesu Fuldae’ to title of Lactantius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHandsome first Cratander edition of the works of Lactantius, bound with a very rare Strasbourg edition of fifteenth-century letters spuriously attributed to Sultan Mehmet II, with over one hundred pages of near-contemporary annotation and with the 1589 reading notes of a Catholic canon from Rasdorf; this volume was soon afterwards transferred to the newly established Jesuit college in nearby Fulda, the site of one of the largest witch trials in Germany at the start of the seventeenth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCratander (born Andreas Hartmann, \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1485–\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1540) published editions of Lactantius’ works in 1524, and with Johann Bebel in 1532. He collaborated on several occasions with Holbein and was particularly notable for his editions of the classics; the ornate woodcut border to the title, employed here for the first time, incorporates putti, Cratander’s device, portrait medallions, Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, and Lucretia (Johnson, ‘The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein’, Basel 9).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his preface, Cratander brings to light his efforts to compare multiple manuscripts to minimise error, at some points in the text arranging ‘for another reading to be added: thus, if you have once acquired this single booklet, you can claim that you have obtained many and different copies of Lactantius’ (\u003ci\u003etrans.\u003c\/i\u003e Manuwald), \u003ci\u003ee.g.\u003c\/i\u003e providing variant readings in the form of printed marginalia on p. 51. Bound with the Lactantius are the letters of the Roman statesman and orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, and the Zacchia’s purported translation of the letters of Sultan Mehmet II to Turks living in various parts of the Christian world, in fact a literary invention by Zacchia himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume was owned by a mid-sixteenth-century reader (whose initials, F.C., appear on the titles of both works), with over one hundred pages of annotations demonstrating a careful reading of the text, providing lists of relevant philosophers mentioned by Lactantius as well as concise summaries of complex points, the annotations largely to books I and II of Lactantius’ \u003ci\u003eDivinae Institutiones\u003c\/i\u003e, a defence of Christianity dismissing paganism as absurd and rooted in superstition. A motto to the title and to one page of the Symmachus in a greyish ink indicate the presence of an earlier reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1580, the volume was in the hands of Michael Romeisen (also Rommeysen or Rhommeysen), canon of the collegiate church of Rasdorf. Little is known of Romeisen’s life, but he produced two cartularies in Rasdorf, one of which commissioned by the church’s provost, and in 1587 he produced a manuscript choirbook-cum-processional for the church. Other books from his library frequently note start and end dates, as here: \u003cstrong\u003eon the front free endpaper, he notes that he began reading in 1580 and finished nine years later, on 20 December 1589\u003c\/strong\u003e. His copy of Laurentius Surius’ legends (now at the University Library of Marburg) was given to the Jesuit College at Fulda in 1628, and later to the Princely Abbey of Corvey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present volume was likewise given to the Fulda Jesuits, with the college’s early seventeenth-century inscription to the title of the first work and final page of the second in dark brown ink.Rasdorf’s collegiate monastery had been a subsidiary monastery of Fulda’s since the eighth century. Fulda and Rasdorf, situated within the largely Protestant region of Hesse, were important Catholic strongholds during the Counter-Reformation. The vehemently anti-Protestant Prince-Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach, a Benedictine monk at the monastery in Fulda, had invited the Jesuits to Fulda in 1571 to found a college and a school, and, in 1584, a Jesuit papal seminary college under Pope Gregory XIII as a means of promoting the cause of the Counter-Reformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVon Dernbach ‘had not previously known [the Jesuits] or seen one of their colleges; only their reputation … and most likely urgent recommendations from the Elector of Mainz persuaded him to do so. The summoned religious men arrived with delightful haste from Mainz and Trier and established a joint colony there. [Von Dernbach] built them a house and a school and provided them with income … he laid hands on Protestant religious practice in the main church and the subsidiary churches of the city of Fulda, managing to eliminate the Protestant clergy … and replace them with Catholic clergy of the strictest order, often Jesuits. Finally, these measures were extended to other towns of the Prince-Bishopric … and to the surrounding countryside using the same methods’ (\u003ci\u003eDeutsche Biographie, trans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLactantius’ documentation of the persecution of early Christians ironically coincides with the growing oppression of Protestants in Fulda, fomented by the presence of the Jesuits: in the coming years, von Dernbach would banish Protestants from Fulda, and the Fulda Witch Trials of 1602 to 1606 – one of the four largest witch trials in Germany – resulted in the deaths of some 250 people, largely used to target suspected crypto-Protestants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSymmachus: OCLC finds only four copies outside continental Europe, two in the US (Michigan, Yale) and two in the UK (BL, Bodleian).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLactantius: Adams L-18; USTC 671383; VD16 L 38; this edition not in BM STC German (see p. 480 for the 1524 edition). Symmachus: BM STC German, p. 846; USTC 695348; VD16 S 10391; not in Adams. 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Glingler, Rome, upper board lettered in red, six vellum ties with vellum tassels, patterned paper pastedowns; pp. [4], with 17 collotype prints after drawings by Othmar Brioschi mounted on blue card; boards lightly soiled, ties stiffened; internally very clean; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, very rare, of this portfolio reproducing Othmar Brioschi’s seventeen drawings of Tivoli, originally commissioned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the last private owner of the Villa d’Este.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn into an Austrian family of theatre painters of Italian origin, Othmar Brioschi (1854–1912) settled permanently in Rome after winning the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1882. Working within the city’s German-speaking artistic community, he became known for his atmospheric landscapes characterised by subtle effects of light, mood, and perspective. His 1898 commission from Archduke Franz Ferdinand for a cycle of seventeen views of the sixteenth-century Villa d’Este at Tivoli established him as the leading Austrian landscape painter active in Italy. In 1905 he was appointed professor at the Accademia di San Luca. Commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este (1509–1572), the Villa d’Este passed into Habsburg ownership in 1796.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a prolonged period of neglect, it was restored to its former glory by Cardinal Gustav von Hohenlohe (1823–1896), who transformed it into a hub for German artists, musicians, and writers in Italy. Among its most celebrated visitors was Franz Liszt (1811–1886), who drew inspiration there for his works \u003ci\u003eAux cyprès de la Villa d’Este\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLes jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este\u003c\/i\u003e. Franz Ferdinand was the last private owner of the villa before it passed to the Italian State after the First World War. 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Late seventeenth-century mottled calf, boards double-filleted in gilt, fleurs-de-lis cornerpieces, centrepiece incorporating Christogram ‘IHS’ and Three Nails, spine gilt in compartments with crowned dolphin and fleur-de-lis gouge at foot (Olivier pl. 2522 fer 17, \u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), edges sprinkled red; pp. [16], 389, [27 (index)]; title-page engraved, woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces; upper hinge with 60-mm split but holding firm; minute abrasion to upper board, corners worn, tailcap chipped, subtle restoration to endcaps and joints at head; the occasional small spot, light toning to first and final ff.; overall a very good, crisp copy; early ownership inscription ‘Colleg[ium] Rotomag[ensis] Societ[atis] Jesu’ in brown ink to title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of this uncommon collection of essays on history and politics by the Protestant historian Georg Horn, our copy bound for the library of the Jesuit College of Rouen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorg Horn (Georgius Hornius, 1620–1670), a German Protestant scholar and professor of history at the universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, was among the most widely read historical writers of the Dutch Golden Age. His \u003ci\u003eDissertationes historicae et politicae\u003c\/i\u003e gathers essays on a wide range of subjects, including the origins of the Batavians, the Aztec Empire, democracy and aristocracy, India and Vasco da Gama, and the rise of the Saracens, with discussions of Muhammad and the origins of Islam. Like his other, better-known works, notably \u003ci\u003eDe originibus Americanis\u003c\/i\u003e (1652) and \u003ci\u003eArca Mosis, sive Historia mundi\u003c\/i\u003e (1666), the \u003ci\u003eDissertationes\u003c\/i\u003e reflects Horn’s ambition to present universal history through the lens of contemporary Protestant scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy comes from the library of the Jesuit College of Rouen, one of the most important educational institutions in early modern France. Established in 1593, its alumni included Pierre Corneille, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and the explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Following the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1762, the institution continued as the Collège Royal; its buildings now house the Lycée Pierre-Corneille. 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Publisher’s glazed wrappers printed in red; pp. 28, [4 (advertisements)], with large letterpress folding table bound after p. 28; wrappers slightly dusty; offset from wrappers to title, small tape repair to verso of table; else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of this satirical critique of the Victorian hospitality industry in contrast to the luxurious hotels of the Continent, by the mountaineer, journalist, and founding member of the Alpine Club Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this entertaining diatribe, Smith demands a greater variety of food (dreaming of ‘something beyond “Chop, sir, steak, boiled fowl for dinner”’), the abolition of candlelight in favour of gas light, better service, and an office for information and complaints, and laments the state of England’s ‘bow-windowed, old-chamber-maided, stone-passaged, tobacco-odoured’ inns in comparison to the ‘perfect science’ of European hotels. He also adds a responsibility which ‘all those travelling with a family will readily appreciate’ and which ‘rests entirely with ourselves - the recognition of the presence of ladies in the coffee-room, as in the \u003ci\u003esalle-à-manger\u003c\/i\u003e’, spaces from which women were largely excluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith had spent a great deal of time on the Continent as a mountaineer, and his dramatic and theatrical recounting of his ascent of Mont Blanc at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly was instrumental in turning mountain climbing into a Victorian craze. The publication of the present pamphlet sparked controversy with Charles Dickens, then editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e, who resented Smith’s characterisation of English hotels and deployed his apprentice journalist, George Augustus Sala, to write a ‘contradictory article for \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e on the subject. According to Sala, writing in retrospect in \u003ci\u003eLondon Up to Date\u003c\/i\u003e (1894), “Dickens, although a Radical in politics, was curiously Conservative in many social matters, and he was rather opposed than favourable to Grand Hotels”. Sala disappointed Dickens and backed Smith’s call for the importation of American-style hotels. 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Publisher’s mauve and pale green boards illustrated by Beardsley, upper board lettered in gilt and black, spine lettered in gilt (gothic letter), yellow patterned endpapers, edges stained red; pp. 192, 48 (advertisements), photographic frontispiece of Egerton with tissue guard, title-page repeating design by Aubrey Beardsley (adapted from first edition of \u003ci\u003eKeynotes\u003c\/i\u003e), lithographic floral headpieces; corners and spine ends lightly rubbed; sporadic light foxing; a very good copy; 1918 ownership inscription of Elizabeth Laska to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery rare third edition, published three months after the first, of the first translation of George Egerton’s \u003ci\u003eKeynotes\u003c\/i\u003e into German, with a title-page by Beardsley adapted from the first English edition seemingly not present in the first German edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne (1859–1945), Egerton’s Keynotes was instrumental in shaping the New Woman movement. 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Near-contemporary half sheep with pastepaper sides, contrasting yellow and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine, edges stained red, marbled endpapers; \u003ci\u003eNathan der Weise\u003c\/i\u003e: pp. [4], 276; \u003ci\u003eDer Mönch\u003c\/i\u003e: pp. 296; sporadic light spotting, some dampstaining to a few pp., A8 and first few ff. of text subtly reinforced at inner margin; nonetheless very good; early ownership inscription ‘Hartwig’ to front free endpaper verso, near-contemporary German purchase note to title of \u003ci\u003eNathan der Weise\u003c\/i\u003e, near-contemporary authorial attribution to title of \u003ci\u003eDer Mönch\u003c\/i\u003e, manuscript verse to front flyleaf (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), nineteenth-century ink stamp ‘M. 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He consequently decided to see if he could ‘preach undisturbed’ from his ‘old pulpit, the stage’, as he wrote to his brother in August 1778 – having published no plays since \u003ci\u003eEmilia Galotti\u003c\/i\u003e in 1772 – in the hope of playing a ‘vexatious prank on the theologians’ with his masterful Enlightenment treatment of religious tolerance. 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This is Muncker’s variant B, in which the line ‘Der reicher Jude’ appears instead of ‘Der reichre Jude’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy has been bound with the first edition of \u003ci\u003eDer Mönch vom Libanon\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequel conceived by the clergyman and friend of Schiller, Johann Georg Pfranger (1745–1790) who felt that Lessing had ‘undermined the honour of the Christian religion’ (\u003ci\u003eDeutsche Biographie, trans.\u003c\/i\u003e). Heinrich Heybruch printed this edition at Dessau – hometown of prominent Jewish \u003ci\u003eHaskalah\u003c\/i\u003e philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, close friend of Lessing and the model for the sage Jewish protagonist of \u003ci\u003eNathan der Weise\u003c\/i\u003e – on behalf of the Allgemeine Buchhandlung der Gelehrten (General Bookshop for Scholars), established in Dessau during the Enlightenment to promote self-published works. 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For three weeks, Gleim wrote to Lessing in July 1779, ‘\u003ci\u003eNathan der Weise\u003c\/i\u003e was my only companion. I have studied it; I have read it aloud. Oh, how I would love to prove that you could not have created anything better in a book of twenty-four sheets. Everything is excellent: plot, verse, expression’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGleim’s poem would seemingly not be published until 1783, where it appeared in Issue 112 of the \u003ci\u003eBerliner Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e and was reproduced in Winkopp’s \u003ci\u003eBibliothek für Denker und Männer von Geschmak\u003c\/i\u003e in the same year. 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O7 not affecting legibility; 1672 ownership inscription ‘Bibliotheci Nicolspurgensis Scholarum Piarum’ to title; early twentieth-century bookplate of Emma Radio von Radiis Pantolska to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery rare first edition published in Italy of this humorous, dialogic polyglot handbook in parallel Spanish, Italian, German, and French, the second edition to include Italian and German, which had been added in 1650 by the author’s son; our copy has seventeenth-century Piarist provenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrench Hispanist, translator, grammarian, and lexicographer César Oudin (1550–1625) was secretary and interpreter of foreign languages to Henry IV and was the first to translate any part of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e into French. Seven of the eight dialogues in this volume first appeared in Paris in 1608 as César Oudin’s \u003ci\u003eDialogos muy apazibles, escritos en lengua española y traduzidos en frances\u003c\/i\u003e, itself plagiarised from John Minsheu’s 1599 \u003ci\u003ePleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English\u003c\/i\u003e (the English portion of the dialogues was abandoned in Oudin’s versions).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1640, César’s son Antoine (1595–1653), Spanish and Italian translator and interpreter for Louis XIII and Louis XIV, produced the \u003ci\u003eCuriosités\u003c\/i\u003e, a dictionary of French idioms; he was also responsible for significantly revising his father’s grammars and linguistic works. In 1650 Antoine added German and Italian translations to his father’s French and Spanish. The eighth dialogue, in which Polyglottus and Philoxenes discuss a trip to Spain, was added by César to the 1622 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntoine explains in his preface to the present edition that, in this expanded adaptation of his father’s work, he has modernised the French and rendered more idiomatic the Italian and German translations; he has also purged the dictionary of ‘certain vulgarities befitting only those of very low station’. The dialogues – which cover waking up; buying and selling; travel; a banquet; a discussion between two pages; ‘some curiosities’ (a conversation among two Englishmen and two Spaniards); the qualities of an ideal soldier; and a trip to Spain – are highly amusing and not without a certain amount of colourful language despite Oudin’s best efforts. This ‘process of “bowdlerization” was not very extensive, and the “plusieurs endroits” [which Oudin claimed to have expurgated] are no more than six or seven’ (Instituto Cervantes, online, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first dialogue, for example, Don Pietro criticises his servant, Alfonso, for mistaking the time of day, the weather outside, and for the delayed delivery of his laundry:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Pietro\u003c\/i\u003e: You idiot! You’ve given me my coat before my shirt. Do you want me to look like I’ve just been screwed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfonso\u003c\/i\u003e: The laundress hasn’t brought your shirt back yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Pietro\u003c\/i\u003e: So go and get it then, you son of a whore!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is discussion of how avid wine-drinking ensures salvation (’Good wine makes good blood, good blood leads to good nature, good nature creates good works, and good works get you to Heaven’, p. 224) and how if women were banned from drinking there would be no women left at all (p. 326); and whether love thrives in warm or cold climates. The sixth dialogue consists mostly of jabs at the English, with a raised eyebrow from two Spanish visitors at the English practice of kissing in public and the snide remark ‘if we Spaniards ate as much as the English, we’d all be dead’ (pp. 359-60).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: 1672 ownership inscription of the Piarist School at Nikolsburg (now Mikulov, Czech Republic), established in 1631. The Piarists, or the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, are the oldest Catholic religious order dedicated specifically to education, founded by Spanish Priest St Joseph Calasan, who opened Europe’s first free public school in 1597. Founded in 1631 with eight teachers and nine students, the school expanded to over one hundred students within its first month. The library was dispersed in 1873 following educational reforms across the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the nationalisation of the school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds a handful of copies in continental Europe and only one in the US, at Cornell; no copies traced on Library Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUSTC 1713537; see Brunet IV, col. 260 (recording the 1611 French and Spanish edition only); not in BM STC Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125778\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64528772104569,"sku":"2125778","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125778a.jpg?v=1789110331"},{"product_id":"jewish-youth-magazine-judische-jugend-zeitschrift-fur-die-judische-jugend-osterreichs-nr-1-i-jahrg-nr-6-iii-jahrg","title":"[JEWISH YOUTH MAGAZINE.] Jüdische Jugend. Zeitschrift für die jüdische Jugend Österreichs. [Nr. 1. I. Jahrg.–Nr. 6. III. Jahrg.].","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eYouth Magazine for Viennese Jews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[JEWISH YOUTH MAGAZINE.]\u003c\/strong\u003e Jüdische Jugend. Zeitschrift für die jüdische Jugend Österreichs. [Nr. 1. I. Jahrg.–Nr. 6. III. Jahrg.]. \u003ci\u003eVienna: Victoria-Druckerei\u003c\/i\u003e. [September\/October 1935–June 1937.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty issues (of twenty-four?) bound in two volumes. Original wrappers printed in dark brown, bound together in contemporary half navy cloth with marbled sides, blue endpapers; small tear to upper joint of vol. II neatly repaired; browning to wrappers of a few 1936 issues, light toning throughout; else very well preserved; December 1935 issue with 5-Groschen stamp and postmark to title, address labels of Professor E.M. Klarmann to several issues (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty issues of this very rare Viennese magazine for Jewish youth, printed on the eve of the Anschluss and featuring contributions by the likes of Stefan Zweig, Chaim Bloch, and Chaim Nachman Bialik.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magazine was issued by the Jüdisch-Kultureller Elternbund (Jewish-Cultural Parents’ Association), established in 1934 as part of an initiative on the part of Jewish teachers to support Jewish schoolchildren in Vienna in religious and cultural matters. The association established a youth library, organised events and holiday celebrations, gave lectures, and arranged excursions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJüdische Jugend\u003c\/i\u003e provides an extraordinary glimpse of Jewish life in Vienna immediately before the Anschluss. It includes, \u003ci\u003einter alia\u003c\/i\u003e, book recommendations, a chess column profiling famous Jewish chess players, a ‘photo corner’ featuring reader submissions, and a column with photographs and political reports from Palestine, jokes and crosswords in Hebrew, a crafts section (with instructions for making wallet bindings, portable watercolour sets, and Purim masks), and articles on the history of the Jews of Split, Rembrandt’s Jewish subjects, Tomáš Masaryk, Ludwig Zamenhof (creator of Esperanto and author of the first Yiddish grammar), a life of Richard Beer-Hoffmann written on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, a Jewish institute for the blind, and much more. The inaugural issue (September\/October 1935) opens with a preface by David Feuchtwang, chief Rabbi of Vienna, who died the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also contributions by student readers, including Elfriede Pick, then aged sixteen; due to Nazi intervention she would later be expelled from the University of Vienna after a single term studying mathematics and physics. \u003cstrong\u003eThe October 1936 issue features Stefan Zweig’s \u003ci\u003eDie Legende der dritten Taube\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of the Third Dove\u003c\/i\u003e), an allegorical, anti-war story written during the First World War inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark\u003c\/strong\u003e: here, a third dove is sent out from the ark to find dry land, but instead of returning to the ark finds a peaceful spot and chooses to stay there. It is reproduced here with the permission of Dr Martha Hofmann, who had included the short story in her 1925\/26 \u003ci\u003eJüdischer Almanach auf das Jahr 5686\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary annual featuring contributions by the likes of Werfel and Schnitzler with illustrations by Floch, Chagall, and others. \u003cstrong\u003eAlso included is an extract from Chaim Bloch’s 1925 tale of the Golem of Prague (\u003ci\u003eDer Prager Golem\u003c\/i\u003e, here published as \u003ci\u003eGolem-Geschichten\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as the poem ‘Nach meinem Tode’ by Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, from the 1922 collection \u003ci\u003eAusgewählte Gedichte\u003c\/i\u003e (translated into German by Ernst Müller).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magazine came under fire by the Stadtschulrat für Wien, the city’s educational authorities. Synagogue and school services were ‘jointly organised by the Jewish Community of Vienna and the Stadtschulrat, as with Christian denominations. What the Austrian school authorities demanded in these years was patriotism. In 1936, the Stadtschulrat refused permission to use the magazine \u003ci\u003eJüdische Jugend\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the Zionist Judisch-kultureller Elternbund, in religious instruction’ (Spevak, p. 604, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.). The October 1936 issue features a brusque letter from Privy Councillor and State School Inspector Oskar Freund complaining that the preceding issue had advertised a lecture he was to give at the inauguration of Vienna’s Jewish Commercial school, noting that he had ‘expressly declined the invitation of the founder of the school […] citing its incompatibility with [his] official position’ (p. 7, \u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two bound volumes contain issues up to June 1937; the magazine seemingly ran until December 1937, a mere three months before the Anschluss. Although there is – likely deliberately – little explicit mention of mounting antisemitism in Austria, the March 1937 issue advertises the Victoria-Druckerei’s newly published work ‘\u003ci\u003eNicht nur die Juden geht es an\u003c\/i\u003e’ (\u003ci\u003eIt’s Not Just about the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e), a collection of articles by the Austrian-Jewish journalist and correspondent for the British Jewish Chronicle Bruno Heilig arguing that the Nazi persecution of the Jews would affect society as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: Several issues bear the printed address label or manuscript ownership inscription of Prof. Dr E.M. Klarmann of Gebhardtgasse 1\/14 in Vienna. Klarmann was the official distributor (and likely also the producer) of Haivri, a weekly instructive magazine in Hebrew featuring glossaries in four languages (\u003ci\u003eDie Stimme\u003c\/i\u003e, 17 January 1936). We have been able to find little other information about Klarmann, but he would have lived in the same building as the philologist Walter Otto, who had used his flat as a collection point for donations for the financial support of Else Lasker-Schüler \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1913. \u003cstrong\u003eThere is one article, on the Jews of Poland, by a Dr Moschéh Elijahu Klarmann (October 1936), who may be a relative of the Dr E.M. 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O3–P4 touching the odd character, wormtrack to last two quires touching a few words but not affecting sense; else a good copy; 1830s bibliographical notes to endpapers; upper outer corner of rear endpaper cut away, 1861 Cyrillic collector’s stamp to final blank verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of the earliest firsthand European account of the preparation and consumption of coffee, a landmark travelogue of the Levant and Mesopotamia by physician, botanist, and pioneering traveller Leonhard Rauwolf (1535–1596).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRauwolf (also Rauwolff) here describes his 1573–75 expedition as physician and commercial agent, funded by his brother-in-law, the Augsburg merchant Melchior Manlich, who hoped that Rauwolf would return with profitable medicinal herbs. Manlich’s close trade relationship with the Levant involved the export of Nuremberg-made hardware, mechanical goods, and textiles, as well as the import of spices, pearls, precious stones, and silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter nine months in Aleppo, Rauwolf – who had a keen interest in early botanical sources in Arabic and Greek  – travelled through Mesopotamia, descending the Euphrates to the ruins of Babylon and Baghdad. His plans to continue to India were abandoned when news arrived of the bankruptcy of the Manlich trading house, forcing his return westwards through Kurdish territory. He reached Tripoli in May 1575, travelling through Lebanon before making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRauwolf’s observations combine natural history with vivid descriptions of the people, customs and commercial life of the Levantine world. His account is particularly celebrated for its description of coffee: whilst in Aleppo he describes the coffee berry as well as the beverage, \u003cstrong\u003emaking him the ‘first modern botanist to collect and describe the preparation and consumption of coffee’\u003c\/strong\u003e (Hünersdorff and Hasenkamp, \u003ci\u003eCoffee\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 1221). His is also the earliest firsthand description of coffee by a European, and the second European description of coffee in any capacity, second only to that of botanist Carolus Clusius (Charles de l’Écluse, 1526–1609), whose 1574 description of the coffee plant – rather than the beverage – was based solely on seed samples received from an Italian correspondent; Rauwolf had incidentally visited Clusius ten years earlier. Rauwolf calls the beverage – then unknown to European readers – as \u003ci\u003echaube\u003c\/i\u003e, ‘almost as black as ink, and very beneficial for illnesses, especially those of the stomach. They drink it early in the morning, also in open places, before everyone [...] from earthenware and porcelain bowls, as hot as they can endure; they often put [the bowls] to their lips, but take little sips, and immediately pass them on’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is also notable as the first modern European account of the route from Baghdad to Mosul, and for Rauwolf’s descriptions of Jerusalem and religious life in the Near East, written from the perspective of an early Protestant pilgrim. His botanical observations were pioneering: the tropical genus \u003ci\u003eRauwolfia\u003c\/i\u003e was later named in his honour. Rauwolf was ‘the first modern botanist to collect and describe the flora of the Near East. [The present work] provides a fascinating illustration of the difficulties and dangers of early scientific field trips. Not for another two hundred years did other botanists identify and more fully describe the plants of the areas which Rauwolf visited’ (Dannenfeldt).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRauwolf expanded on his botanical discoveries in a fourth part added to the 1583 edition, featuring forty-two full-page woodcuts of Middle and Near Eastern plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds nine copies in the US (Boston Athenaeum, BPL, Chicago, Harvard, LoC, NLM, NYPL, Princeton, Yale) and four in the UK (Aberdeen, BL, CUL, Glasgow).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBM STC German, p. 727; USTC 672364; VD16 R 430; Brunet IV, cols 1122–23. Wellcome I 5346. Not in Atabey or Blackmer; for the 1583 edition, see Linda Hall, One Hundred Herbals 92; Pritzel 8373. 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Publisher’s printed wrappers with pocket to rear wrapper, front cover with map of Jezreel Valley; loosely inserted 8-pp. pamphlet and 16 loosely inserted photographic plates by Zipporah David; crude tape repair to interior spine of wrappers, a few chips to extremities of wrappers not affecting text; light toning to pamphlet; else very well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rare and very early ephemeral publication documenting the progress of Kibbutz Ein Harod – the first large Kibbutz to be established in Mandatory Palestine – produced two years after the acquisition of the land as part of the Sursock Purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEin Harod was founded near the village of Nuris in 1921 by members of the Third Aliyah, largely Eastern European Jews. The pamphlet describes Jewish labourers arriving in the previously ‘uncultivated and swampy’ area (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.) and reproduces a letter from workers in the nearby kibbutz of Heftziba, founded in 1922 by Jewish migrants from Germany and Czechoslovakia. The development of the kibbutz described here was ‘made possible largely by means of machinery, equipment, and workshops procured with funds from the German branch of Keren Hayesod’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pamphlet describes budgetary constraints, economic and sanitary concerns, the draining of the swampland (including the construction of a water pipeline following the closure of the Arab irrigation canal), the creation of a vegetable garden, a list of newly erected buildings with their dimensions, and inventory of machinery and vehicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis report was produced for Keren Hayesod, the fundraising organisation for the State of Israel founded in 1920 at the World Zionist Congress in London. 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