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He had begun writing the \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e in 1912, but a combination of private and personal circumstance (the approaching war uppermost) led to a depressive illness which postponed their completion for nearly a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWera Ouckama Knoop, a childhood friend of Rilke’s daughter Ruth, was the daughter of his friends Gertrud and Gerhard Ouckama Knoop. In 1921, Werner Reinhart invited Rilke to stay at the Château de Muzot near Veyras in the Rhone Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere, Rilke wrote his \u003ci\u003eSonette an Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e, galvanised by a long letter from her mother, Gertrud, ‘with whom he maintained a correspondence … in which she recounted the details of Wera’s incapacitating illness and how when Wera was no longer able to dance, she turned to music, and finally to drawing. 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Famously allusive (and elusive), the figures of Orpheus and Eurydice permeate rather than dictate the sequence, the titular Orpheus acting “as an agent of transition and transformation” (Görner) in poems where instability, metamorphosis, and the connection of seeming opposites – life\/death; nature\/culture – are paramount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe inscription to our title, ‘In memoriam Hiddensee’, is dated only a few months after the work’s publication. The Baltic island resort of Hiddensee was frequented by the likes of Einstein, Kafka, Wilder, Brecht, Freud, Fallada, Kästner, Mann, Trier, and by some accounts Rilke himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHünich, p. 92; Ritzer E46; Sarkowski 1357; Wilpert\/Gühring 39. 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Buchdrucker J.D.A. Eckhardt’.\u003c\/i\u003e 1784.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[PRAYERBOOK.] Tägliches Gebetbuch. Bestehend in Morgen- und Abend-Segen auf alle Tage der Woche. Nebst Buss-Beicht und Communion-Gebeten. Altona: ‘zu haben beym Buchbinder H[einrich] C[hristian] Gutacker, am Rathhausmarkt. [S.a. (c. 1784–86)].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[and:]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[COLLECTS, EPISTLES, and GOSPELS.] Die Collecten, Episteln und Evangelia auf alle Sonn-und-Fest-Tage durchs ganze Jahr … Altona: ‘zu haben beym Buchbinder H[einrich] C[hristian] Gutacker, am Rathhausmarkt. [S.a. (1784)].\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. [xxiv], 1200, [24 (contents)]; Gebetbuch: pp. 48; Collecten: pp. 72; woodcut cypher of Christian VII to title of Gesangbuch, woodcut Danish royal emblems to A2v and A3r, text in two columns, typographic headpieces; sometime subtly rebacked with original spine relaid, joints now splitting but holding firm; 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, trans.); 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 Gesangbuch, 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’ (Deutsche Biographie, trans.); 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 1797 wedding of Jochim Stehr and Catharina Sophia Breckwoldt 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 (née Stehr), passing to her daughter and thence by descent to P.J. Kröger in 1949.\u003cbr\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\/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). Prayerbook: VD18 14318466. Collects: VD18 10168672. 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Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1798. \u003ci\u003eLauenburg: ‘gedruckt mit Berenbergschen Schriften [i.e. Eberhard Friedrich Justus Heinrich Berenberg] und 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, housed in a modern drop-backed box of burgundy buckram; 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 rosh chodesh, 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. The 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. ‘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. Much of the royal women’s time was spent at Kew and Frogmore reading, drawing and making paper cut-outs’ (Royal collections, online).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe find a single copy of the 1798 Staats-Kalender outside Germany, at the Bodleian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVD18 90282272.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124916\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313374503289,"sku":"2124916","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124916.jpg?v=1779379312"},{"product_id":"mccormick-harold-fowler-from-my-experiences-concerning-aviation-aus-meinen-erfahrungen-uber-das-flugwesen","title":"McCORMICK, Harold F[owler]. From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Psychology of Flight\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCORMICK, Harold F[owler].\u003c\/strong\u003e From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen. S.l.: s.n. [\u003ci\u003eZurich.\u003c\/i\u003e 1917.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original black goatskin, lettered and ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, gilt metallic endpapers in imitation of watered silk; pp. 78, 78; text in facing English and German, numerous diagrams in the text; a few minor scuffs to boards, small abrasion to lower joint, short splits to joints expertly repaired; else a fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExtremely rare first edition of this privately printed bilingual work, printed in facing English and German, based on a lecture given in December 1917 at the Psychological Club in Zurich, co-founded in 1916 by Carl Gustav and Emma Jung in collaboration with the author and his wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller and a former patient of Jung’s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChicago-born businessman Harold Fowler McCormick (1872–1941) was born into American industrial aristocracy and developed an early interest in aviation. An officer in the Aero Club of Illinois (est. 1910), he set up a commercial commuter airline connecting Chicago’s North Shore suburbs and Grant Park with the South Shore Country Club of Chicago, of which he was a founder; the endeavour lasted only a year due to treacherous winds and an unfavourable climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, McCormick explores flying as ‘the concrete realization of many phantasies, dreams, hopes, and aspirations […] It has finally given reality in form to the former symbol, and in turn furnishees new form for new symbols with which the ever searching mind of man seizes and turns and twists for new productions to come’ (pp. 2–3). Touching on the Icarus myth, Leonardo, \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, the Edda, and the Panchatantra, amongst other sources, McCormick discusses man’s long-standing unconscious desire for flight, innovations in aviation (including the recent use of war planes during the First World War), and the physics behind flight, illustrated by numerous diagrams in the text. \u003cstrong\u003eThe final section is a curious psychological assessment of the aeroplane itself\u003c\/strong\u003e: its ascents and descents ‘are like the ascensions and dips of life’, the biplane is characterised as an extrovert and the monoplane as an introvert, and the plane itself as a means of symbolising ‘development, under analysis, to the point of unity between “thoughts” and “feelings” in “\u003ci\u003etranscendental function\u003c\/i\u003e”’ (pp. 71–1).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe translator of the speech is unknown, but the fact that it was given at the Zurich Psychological Club is thanks to the work of Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872–1932), married to McCormick from 1895 until their acrimonious divorce in 1921. Rockefeller had been treated for depression by Jung in 1913, later becoming a Jungian psychoanalyst in her own right; she financially supported the Zürich Psychological Club, providing the society with a physical location, and was instrumental in funding translations of Jung’s writings into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC records copies of this edition in Switzerland only; no copies of any edition traced in the UK.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123157\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57347039003001,"sku":"2123157","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123157.jpg?v=1780042596"},{"product_id":"brioschi-othmar-christian-hulsen-introduction-villa-d-este-in-tivoli-die-originalzeichnungen-befinden-sich-im-besitz-sr-k-u-k-hoheit-des-erzherzogs-franz-ferdinand","title":"BRIOSCHI, Othmar; Christian HÜLSEN ( introduction ). 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. After 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. The portfolio is introduced by an essay on the history of the Villa d’Este by the German classical archaeologist and epigrapher Christian Hülsen (1858–1935).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, OCLC finds two copies in the US (Berkeley and Emory). Not on Library Hub\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125740\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039902609785,"sku":"2125740","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125740.jpg?v=1784817097"},{"product_id":"hebrew-bible-םיטפושו-עשוהי-joshua-and-judges","title":"[HEBREW BIBLE.] םיטפושו עשוהי [Joshua and Judges.]","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePocket Prophets\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[HEBREW BIBLE.]\u003c\/strong\u003e םיטפושו עשוהי [Joshua and Judges.] \u003ci\u003eGeneva: Kefa Elon\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ei.e. Pierre de la Rouvière\u003c\/i\u003e). 5377 (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 1616 or 1617).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[\u003ci\u003ewith:\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[—.]\u003c\/strong\u003e [Samuel.] שמואל.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeneva: Kefa Elon (i.e. Pierre de la Rouvière). 5377 (i.e. 1616 or 1617). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo parts in one volume, 16mo. Eighteenth-century sheep, spine richly gilt in compartments, board-edges roll-tooled in gilt, red gilt brocade endpapers; Joshua and Judges: ff. [3 (blank)], [130], [3 (blank)], with part-title to Judges; Samuel: ff. [3 (blank)], [151], [6 (blank)]; titles within architectural woodcut borders and start of text within woodcut cartouches; hinges starting, boards lightly rubbed with a few minor abrasions, worming to upper joint with small loss; internally clean and bright; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo portions, comprising Joshua and Judges as well as Samuel, of the handsome eighteen-part, pocket-sized Hebrew Bible printed in Geneva by Pierre de la Rouvière, sold as individual fascicles which could be bound together (as here) or in sets of four volumes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Christian printer Pierre de la Rouvière (1574–1622, \u003ci\u003efl\u003c\/i\u003e. 159–1622) is here listed on the title-page as ‘Kefa Elon’, a literal translation of his name ('Rock Oak’); he is elsewhere known as Cephas\/Cafa Elon or Petrus Quercetanus and was the printer of the first bilingual Josephus (1611) as well as a Hebrew–Greek Bible (1609). The two discrete parts bound together here form part of what Steinschneider calls the \u003ci\u003eBiblia Eliana\u003c\/i\u003e – known also as the Petrus Bibles – issued shortly after the 4to Hebrew edition, also published in 8vo with interlinear Latin translation. All are based largely on earlier Venetian Hebrew Bibles, especially those printed by Giustiniani in the sixteenth century, to which they are typographically related.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present work evidently makes use of Picard’s square Sephardic Hebrew typeface (Lubell’s Hb27), first used by Robert Estienne in 1543 and ‘most probably the first complete Hebrew type specimen ever recorded’ (Lubell, p. 258). De la Rouvière had used the same type for his 1614 \u003ci\u003eThesaurus linguae sanctae\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished by the ‘lamed with its distinctive flagged ascender, the shin with the squared termination on the middle stroke and the gimmel with the bent middle stroke and calligraphic termination to the baseline […] The attributions for this Picard typeface show a very wide distribution: Geneva, Gießen, Frankfurt and Hanau in Germany’ and were likely spread by André Wechel, who re-established his business in Frankfurt in the aftermath of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and likely ‘managed to have some of his type brought to Frankfurt by Denis du Val, his associate in Paris’, or by Robert Estienne, who brought much of his type to Geneva after 1549 (\u003ci\u003eibid\u003c\/i\u003e., pp. 259–60). Geneva (גנווא) is often mistaken in the imprint as Genova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title-page to each fascicle gives the date of 5377, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 1617, but the colophon of the last portion, \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, gives the date of 13 Av 5318, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c\/i\u003e 28 July 1618 and the name of ‘the German Johann Caspar from Oeder’ (\u003ci\u003etrans\u003c\/i\u003e.), whose name also appears at the end of the \u003ci\u003eBook of Esther\u003c\/i\u003e. We have been un-able to identify the handsome gilt brocade endpapers, depicting acanthus leaves and flowerpots and signed ‘B.L.sC’, although the interlacing geometric borders bear a resemblance to motifs employed by Georg Christoph Stoy (\u003ci\u003ecf\u003c\/i\u003e. Kopylov 38).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBM STC, p. 99; Darlow \u0026amp; Moule 5121 (dividing the work into fourteen parts rather than eighteen); Roest I, p. 168; Steinschneider 420b. 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Late seventeenth-century mottled calf, boards double-filleted in gilt, fleurs-de-lys 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 (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spine bears tools associated with bindings produced for Louis de France, the Grand Dauphin (1661–1711), eldest son of Louis XIV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, OCLC and Library Hub find three copies in the US (Florida Atlantic University, Newberry, and Wisconsin) and five in the UK (Aberdeen, Bodleian, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Trinity St David), to which CLC adds Carlisle Cathedral.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCLC H981; USTC 1819058; STCN 061448036.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125331\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039911555449,"sku":"2125331","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125331.jpg?v=1784817213"}],"url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/collections\/berlin.oembed","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}