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Frankfurt und Ulm, (Johann Conrad Kohler?), 1764. 4to. (28),+ 198,+ (4) pp.+ 5 engr. plates. Small dampstain in upper margin, the ptates partly cut within frame. Moderna half vellum, spine from old antifonary and the boards from incunabula leaves, old blue edges. From the library of Eivind Hasslers, with his book plate. Warmholtz 2264. First edition, a second was published in 1766. Christian Nettelbladt (1696-1775) was german but born in Stockholm. He became professor in Greifswald and he produced a lot of both historical and juridical works. He is today most known for his large ”Schwedische Bibliothec”, published in five parts between 1728 and 1736. He was ennobled Nettelbla in 1746. This book about Saint Bridgit monasteries outside Sverige is issued by his son Carl Fredrik Wilhelm Nettelbla. The following monasteries is dealt with: Syon in England, Marienboo in Denmark, Munkalyf in Norway, Mariendal in Reval, Marienwolde in Lübeck, Marien-Cron in Stralsund, Mariensforst och Syon in Cologne, Marienbaum i nSchlesvig, Gnadenberg in Obenpfalz, Maria Altomünster in Bajern and Mariameyingen in Oettingen. The plates depicts a.o. things the dress of a Saint Bridget nun, cross of the order and seals.

München und Berlin, Druck und Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1925. 8vo. (8),+ 88 pp. Illustrated. Sewn as issued, uncut and unopened in well-preserved publisher’s wrappers. Stamp of Deutschen Raketen- und Raumfahrtmuseum, Stuttgart, on first blank leaf. In a later cloth box. Alicke, The Moon in Science & Fiction 181 & 182: ”An incunabulum of space flight”. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1959), p. 506: ”One of the classical works of space travel.” First edition, second issue. First issued in blue illustrated wrappers, the book failed to sell in significant numbers, perhaps partly due to its highly theoretical content and the fact that rockets large enough to carry objects into space was still an abstraction in the mid 1920s. The rest of the edition was later reissued with the plain printed wrappers present on this copy. A total of 1500 copies were printed and both issues are now rare.Walter Hohmann (1880-1945) was born in Hardheim, Germany, and lived in South Africa for part of his youth, during which time he developed an interest for astronomy as he studied the southern constellations together with his father. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich in 1904 and received his Ph.D. from the RTWH Achen University in 1920. Hohmann spent his career working as an engineer and a city planner in Vienna, Hanover and Breslau (Wroclaw), before settling in Essen. In his spare time he revived his interest in astronomy and began to give serious thought to the problem of interplanetary flight. A key element, he discovered, was fuel-efficiency, which eventually led him to calculate and present, in the present work, what is now known as the ”Hohmann transfer orbit”, an orbital manouver using only two engine impulses to move a spacecraft between two coplanar orbits. The publication led to his involvement in the Verein für Raumschiffahrt, a German society of amateurs propagating rocket development and space flight. However, the increased focus on the use of rockets as weapons during the Nazi era led to Hohmann’s disinvolvement from rocketry, as he only wanted to contribute to its peaceful uses.Perhaps a good measure of the importance of ”Die Erreichbarkeit der Himmelskörper” is that an English translation entitled ”The attainability of heavenly bodies” was published by NASA in 1960. For many years the ”Hohmann transfer orbit” was believed to be the most fuel-efficient way to - for example - move a satellite from a lower to a higher orbit, until a more complicated but even more efficient approach, called the ”bielliptic transfer”, was developed. Hohmann also took an interest in many other aspects of spaceflight and proposed, among other things, a separate landing module for a spacecraft travelling to the moon. The latter idea was, as we know today, followed through by the American Apollo project in the 1960s.

Berlin, Johannis Kally, 1627. 8vo. A8-P8. [A1 recto= engr. title]. A few underlinings in green ink. Bound together with:MATTHIAE, Christian. Systema politicum in tres libros distributum, et sub forma theorematum, quæstionum et axiomatum, pertractatum, & exemplis historicis, vitæ civili commodis, illustratum. Editio secunda correctior & emaculatior locupleti item, indice adornata. Giessen, Caspari Chemlini, 1621. 8vo. (8),+ 51, 54-424,+ (10) pp.+ 2 fold. printed tabs. Bound together with:ALTHAMER, Andreas. Commentaria: In P. Cornelii Taciti equitus romnani libellum de situ et moribus et populis Germaniæ. Amberg, Michael Forster, 1609. 8vo. (16),+ 569,+ (blank),+ (30) pp. Ink stain on title and minor stain in upper margin. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, blue edges. Book plate. Sammelband with three different works. Third edition of Gutkius collection of dissertations at the university of Wittenberg. Georg M. Gutke (or Gutkius) (1589–1634), was rector for the gymnasium in Berlin. Christian Matthiae (1584-1655), theologian and teatcher at several universities, for a short time also teatcher at Sorø in Denmark. Second edition of his important contribution to the development of the Political Science, first published in 1618. He made three systematical studies in 1618; on ethic, logic and this on politics. Finally a later edition of Althamer’s important comments on Tacitus’ Germania, first published in 1529. Andreas Althamer (c. 1500-1539) was a Swiss theologian.

Utan ort, (1659?). Folio. 43x48 cm. Skuren vid ramen och uppfodrad på papper. Fuktrand och med smårevor. Lagad reva i mitten. Ur Ericsbergs bibliotek. Snoilsky s. 149, nr. 2. Vy över Köpenhamn och Själland i fågelperspektiv. I förgrunden, framför Kristianshamn, syns kortspelande soldater samt kvinnor och barn. Vid sidan syns Öresund med fartyg och uppe i kanten till höger syns Skåne. Ett separat tryckt textblad med rubriken ”Triomf van Koppenhagen onder Frederick de derde”, som innehåller en lista på de svenska förlusterna och en dikt av J. van den Vondel saknas. Den 11 februari 1659 satte den stora svenska stormningen av Köpenhamn igång efter långvarig belägring. Den misslyckades, delvis på grund av den tillit svenskarna satte till den rekognosering av Köpenhamns försvar som Erik Dahlberg gjort ett halvår tidigare. Han hade där grundligt missbedömt styrkan i försvarsverken, framförallt vid Slottsholmen, där det svenska huvudanfallet sattes in.

Wien, Gesellscaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, 1894-1906. Folio. Engr. extra title,+ (8),+ 170 pp.+ 3 facsimiles,+ 22 engr. plates of which 4 in colour; Engr. extra title,+ (6),+ 202,+ XX pp.+ 8 facsimiles,+ 18 engr. plates; (8),+ 202 pp.+ 2 facsimiles,+ 11 engr. plates; (8),+ 302 pp.+ 50 engr. plates, one in colour; (10),+ 180 pp.+ 31 engr. plates. Richly illustrated in the text, partly with pasted colour illustrations. A few plates with stain in outher margin in part I. Richly decorated publ. white cloth, marbled boards and large metal clasps. Five volumes. The fourth with repaired hinges and lacking the clasp. Library stamps of Kungliga Dramatiska Teaterns bibliotek. A monumental work about the Wiener Hoftheater. The plates and illustrations include reproductions in photogravures and Lichtdrucke of early portraits and set designs, with works of contemporary artists such as Gustav Klimt, Heinrich Lefler, A. F. Seligmann etc. and after photograhs. In part II:2:2 there is also an originalradierung by W. Unger. A fourth part was published in 1909. The parts are:I: Geschichte des wiener Theaterwesens von den ältesten Zeiten bis zu den Anfängen der Hof-Theater. Von Alexander von Weilen. 1899II:1. Das K. K. Hofburgtheater seit seiner Begründung. Von Oscar Teubner. 1896II:2:1. Continuation. Von Oscar Teubner & Alexander von Weilen. 1903.II:2:2. Continuation 1814-88. Von Alexander von Weilen. 1906. With a general index to part I-II.III: Das neue K. K. Hofburgtheater als Bauwerk mit seinem Sculpturen- und Bilderschmuck. Von Dr. Josef Bauer. 1894.

Sorö, Jonas Lindgren, 1768. 4:o. LXX,+ 804,+ (10) s. Med grav. vinjett på titelbladet och tre grav. faksimil i texten. Enstaka fläckar på s. 7, 115-116, 567-568. Fina marginaler, på s. 371-374 dock något naggade i överkant. Nött grönt samtida pappband, ryggen med lite trasig beige titeletikett, röda stänksnitt. Med J. V. Brobergs namnteckning daterad 1870 på frampärmens insida, och ur Ericsbergs bibliotek. Fiske s. 325. Första upplagan av ”Konungs skuggsjá” (Kungaspegel). Den innehåller även en avhandling av Hannes Finnsson, ”Dissertatio historica-litteraria de speculo regali” (s. ix-lxx). Den danska versionen är utförd av Jón Eiríksson. Utgivningen skedde av sällskapet ”Hid ósynilega félag”, som hade grundats 1760. Detta var dock den enda publikationen som utkom. ”Konungs skuggsjá” är ett norskt arbete, skrivet omkring 1250, och är en praktisk samhällslära, en furstespegel, som i det bevarade stycket vänder sig till köpmän och kungens hird. Ursprungligen fanns även stycken för det andliga ståndet och bönderna, men de har inte bevarats. Den har troligen kommit till som en lärobok för den blivande kung Magnus Lagaböter (1238-80). Johan Valentin Broberg (1825-87) var bokintresserade läkare och var bl.a. verksam som bibliotekarie vid Karolinska institetet. Han var Ledamot av både Svenska läkaresällskapet och av Svenska fornskriftsällskapet.

Basel, Emanuel Tourneisen, 1776. 12mo. (6),+ XXIV,+ 432 pp.+ 3 folding engr. plates,+ large folding map; (6),+ 444 pp.+ 14 folding engr. plates; (6),+ 350 pp.+ 14 folding engr. plates; (6),+ 422 pp.+ 5 folding engr. plates. The folding map in part one with paper reinforcement, part 2 with stain and a spot on p. 160 in part 3. Somewhat worn early 19th century half calf, richly gilt spines with red labels and marbled board papers. Four volumes. This fine work on Switzerland with a total of one large map and 36 folding plates, several with town views but also on minerals and fossils is a compilation made by Johann Georg Altmann (1695-1758), and is based on the earlier works by Abraham Ruchats (1680-1750) and Abraham Stanyans (1669-1732). The compilation was first published in 1730.

London, printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1779. 8vo. Engr. front,+ v,+ (blank),+ iii-vi,+ 578 pp.+ folding engr. map; engr. front,+ iv,+ 558 pp.+ folding engr. map; engr. front,+ (3),+ (blank),+ 520,+ 2 folding engr. maps; engr. front,+ v,+ (blank),+ 513,+ (4) pp.+ 2 folding engr. maps. Fine contemporary full mottled calf, richly gilt spines with red and green labels, boards with gilt frames. Four volumes, slight tear to top of spines and volume two with a crack on rear hinge. Fine copy of the new, revised and expanded edition of Campbell’s Lives made by the learned British physician John Berkenhout (1730-91). The six folding maps are by John Lodge (1735-96) and depicts Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America and the West Indies. Inserted in the historical narrative and also several memoires, in part one memoires of Sir Walter Raleigh, in part two of Admiral Montague and General Monk etc.John Campbell (1708-75) was a very succesul Scotish author of historical works, according to Samel Johnson ”the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature”. His ”Lives of the Admirals, and other Eminent British Seamen” was first publised in 1742 to 1744. A new edition was published in 1785.

London, T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1761. 8:o. xxviii,+ 316 s. Enstaka fläckar. Senare rött saffianband, något nött och blekt guldornerad rygg med upphöjda bind, pärmarna med guldram, inre förgylld bordure och helt guldsnitt (B. M. Pickering). Ur Lord Archibald Rosebery bibliotek, med hans svarta Durdanexlibris av skinn på främre pärmens insida och med hans blindstämpel från Durdans hus i Epson både på titelbladet och på s. 100. Även med Marc Pattisons blindstämpel från Lincoln College Oxon på titelbladet. Ur Säbylunds bibliotek, med dess exlibris. Warmholtz 5788 not. Atabey 413. Ej i Blackmer. Första engelska utgåvan av ”Anecdotes du sejour du roi de Suède a Bender”. Det franska originalet utkom året innan medan en tysk översättning utkom redan 1759.Friedrich Ernst von Fabrice (1683-1750) var hertigen av Holstein-Gottorps minister hos Karl XII i Bender. Hans brevväxling, här utgiven postumt av C. Herold, dels med administrationen i Holstein-Gottorp och dels med holsteinska ministrarna von Goertz och greve Reventlau, är en viktig källa till historien om Karl XII i Bender. På svenska finns breven delvis tryckta i Gjörwells ”Swenska Bibliotheket” del 1, och delvis i ”Förrådet, eller samling af åtskilliga histor. och andra ämnen”, som utkom 1760, även den utgiven av Gjörwell. Ett urval publicerades även i bihanget till Motrayes resor. Den enda kompletta svenska översättningen finns i Floderus “Handlingar hörande till konung Carl XII:s historia”, som utkom 1819-26. Archibald Philip Primrose, femte earlen av Rosebery och förste earl av Midlothian (1847-1929) var engelsk politiker, bl.a. premiärminister 1894-95, och författare. Han skapade en stor boksamling på sitt slott Durdan, och skänkte bl.a. 3000 sällsynt skotska böcker till The National Library of Scotland.

Hamburg, A. Cranz [pasted over with: Copenhagen, C. C. Lose], (1823). Oblong 4to. Engr. title,+ (blank),+ 3-23 engr. pp. with music. Stain in front margin, repair on title, pp. 11-14 loose and worn in front. Bound together with:KUHLAU, Friedrich. X walses pour le pianoforte par Kuhlau. Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [pasted over with: Copenhagen, C. C.], (1812). Oblong 4to. Lith. title,+ (blank),+ 11 lith. pp. with music. PN: 1786. Some spotting. Owner’s signature of F. K. Bröndstedt. Bound together with:BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Variations pour le pianoforte composées par Louis van Beethoven. Nr. 1. Bonn, N. Simrock, (1806?). Oblong 4to. Engr. title,+ 2-11 engr. pp. with music. PN: 3. Owner’s signature of Frederikke Bröndstedt. Bound together with:(BRAHMS, Johannes.) Potpourri pour le pianoforte à quatre mains d’aprés des thèmes favris de l’opera Les Huguenots de J. Meyerbeer composé par G. W. Marks. Hamburg, A. Cranz, (1849). Oblong 4to. Engr. title,+ 2-31 engr. pp. with music. Owner’s signature by Frederikke Bröndstedt. Bound together with:(BRAHMS, Johannes.) Die junge Tänzerin. Eine ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten Tänze im leichtesten Arrangement für piano-forte von G. W. Marks. Heft. 3. Hamburg, bei A. Crantz, (1849). Oblong 4to. Lith. title,+ (blank),+ 19-26 engr. pp. with music. Foxing. Bound together with:KUHLAU, Friedrich. Variations pour le pianoforte sur l’air ”Guide mes pas o’ providence” de l’opera les deux journées composées et dédiées a son ami George Gerson par F. Kuhlau. Ouv. 12. Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, (1815). Oblong 4to. Lith. title,+ (blank),+ 3-19 lith. pp. with music. The title with heavy foxing and paper repair, foxing throuhout. Owner’s signature of M. F. Bröndstedt.Mid 19th century flower patterned orange full cloth [velvet], gilt spine, front board with red leather label, gilt and with gilt initials ”F. B.”, blue edges. Stain on front board. Frederikke Koës Bröndstedt (1818-97) was daughter to the Danish archaeologist and traveller Peter Oluf Bröndstedt and his wife Frederikke Koës, who died in 1818 after the birth of Frederikke, their third child.The collection contains two youth works by Johannes Brahms (1833-97), who under the pseudonym ”G. W. Marks” published some piano arrangements and fantasies by the Hamburg firm of Cranz in 1849. Brahms was later assiduous in eliminating all his early works.

Venice, Gio. Antonio Bertano, 1584. 4to. 12,+ 213,+ (3) ll. Title within wood-cut frame and with 6 wood cut illustrations in the text. Foxing in the margins. Contemporary soft vellum, later spine label and later end papers, traces of removed ties. Old owner’s signature on the title page by I. Hagdorff(?). USTC 847907. EDIT16: CNCE 32899. Fine later edition of Petrarca’s work with the commentaries by the poet and scholar Alessandro Vellutello (born 1473), first published in 1525. The wood-cut illustration are after the edition printed by Giolito in Venice 1547. Several editions were published during the 16th century.

Ettbladstryck med graverad bild. Utan ort, (1632). Folio. 37,7x30,5 cm (bild:14,7x22,5). Breda marginaler. I hörnen uppklistrad på papper. En reva utan textförlust och ett litet hål i marginalen, fläckig. Rubriken delvis tryckt in på den graverade bilden. Skarpt avdrag. Denna variant ej i VD17 men jämför 1:090819E. Paas P-1714. Snoilsky s. 50. Planer III, 38, variant. Detta är varianten med rubrik i tre rader. Berömd antikejserlig pamflett i vilken general Tilly avbildas som krum vagabond på väg till Rom för att söka skydd från svenskarna. Han bär på ryggen en tunna med ”Mala conscientia” och en korg med ”Nimiae exactiones”. Bredvid honom går en get och i bakgrunden syns staden Rom medan en stark vind, ”Vindicta divina”, blåser emot dem. ”Miserere mei”, säger Tilly. Under bilden tryckt dikt i två spalter: ”Hilff Gott! wie muß sich doch der gute Tylli leiden, [...]”.

Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, (1801). Oblong folio. Lith. title,+ (blank),+ 176 pp with printed music (pp. 174-176 with Verlagsverzeichniss). Stain on title and first 40 pages, foxing. Contemporary somewhat worn half calf, spine with raised bands, marbled but faded board papers, the front with handwritten label, stain on front board. Hoboken 1417 (XXI:3). The first printed edition of Die Jahreszeiten (Les Saisons, The Seasons) published the same year as the first performance, and shortly before it was published in Mus. Magazin (Hoboken). This edition is for piano and vocals with the text in German and English. The first partitur and a similar piano score as this with the text in German and French were published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1802. The title vignette is signed by Schubert del. and F. W. Nettling sc. The last 3 pages contain a list of published works from Breitkopf und Härtel.The Seasons and The Creation were the two great oratoriums of Haydn’s later years. They both have their texts from English poets. The Seasons is by James Thompson and The Creation is based on Milton’s Paradise Lost. Haydn’s friend Baron Gottfried van Swieten translated both poems for the German librettos.

Copenhagen, 1935-40. Large 4to. (4),+ XXIV,+ 5-90,+ (6); 105,+ (7); 96,+ (8); 119,+ (9); 105,+ (7) pp; (4) pp.+ 200 colour chromolithographic plates. Slightly worn contemporary half calf, gilt spines and with green marbled board papers. Two volumes. Owner’s signatures of Harry G. Svensson and Anders & Karin Bohlin Volbracht 1124. Uellner 927. Nissen 1132. Stafleu 4187. The ”Flora agaricina Danica” by the danish mycologist J. E. Lange (1864-1941) is described by Ainsworth as both scientifically invaluable with more than a thousand species described and a superb example of modern printing (p. 56). Contains descriptions of over 1100 species. Collaborators were N. F. Buchwald, M. P. Christiansen, C. Ferdinandsen, Poul Larsen, F. H. Møller, Ø. Winge et al. Anders Bohlin (1936-2020) var botaniker och mykolog, författare till bl.a. ”Halle- och Hunnebergs flora”. Han var tillsammans med hustrun Karin välkänd som svampkännare och ledare av svampexkursioner.

Washington, NASA, November 12, 1970. 35 vintage glossy black and white photographs, with blue carbon copied text on reverses, (ca 254 x 205 mm). All photos somewhat warped, a few creases. 1970s Space Dreams. An interesting series - here complete with all 35 photos - showing the different stages of an imagined space shuttle mission to a space station, including launch preparations, launch, flight stage, docking, work and leasure at the station and the return to Earth. The space shuttle shown here are of the model first proposed and patented by NASA engineer Max Faget, with a smaller straight-winged orbiter mounted on a larger and equally straight-winged booster. This concept was eventually abandoned for the reusable, delta-winged orbiter, mounted on an expandable propellant tank, that became the final design. North American Rockwell, the company behind these concept sketches, also became the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle Orbiter that eventually was used in the American space program.The series contains the following photos: 1. Space shuttle roll-out (NASA Photo no. 70-H-1429; 70-HC-1008). 2. Space shuttle readied (70-H-1430; 70-HC-1009). 3. Space shuttle readied (70-H-1431; 70-HC-1010); 4. Space shuttle insertion (70-H-1432; 70-HC-1011). 5. Space shuttle boarding (70-H-1433; 70-HC-1012). 6. Space shuttle orbiter (70-H-1434; 70-HC-1013). 7. Space shuttle on pad (70-H-1435; 70-HC-1014). 8. Space shuttle mission/launch control (70-H-1436; 70-HC-1015). 9. Space shuttle liftoff (70-H-1437; 70-HC-1016). 10. Space shuttle boost phase (70-H-1438; 70-HC-1017). 11. Space shuttle passengers/liftoff (70-H-1439; 70-HC1018). 12. Space shuttle staging (70-H-1440; 70-HC-1019); 13. Space shuttle orbiter crew (70-H-1441; 70-HC-1020). 14. Crew in space shuttle (70-H-1442; 70-HC-1021). 15. Space shuttle activity (70-H-1443; 70-HC-1022). 16. Orbiter/space station rendezvous (70-H-1444; 70-HC-1023). 17. Space shuttle/cargo module deployed (70-H-1445; 70-HC-1024). 18. Space shuttle/space station docking (70-H-1446; 70-HC-1025). 19. Space shuttle/space station cargo transfer (70-H-1447; 70-HC-1026). 20. Space station activity (70-H-1448; 70-HC-1027). 21. Space station activity (70-H-1449; 70-HC-1028). 22. Space station activity (70-H-1450; 70-HC-1029); 23. Space shuttle undocking (70-H-1451; 70-HC 1030). 24. Space station activity (70-H-1452; 70-HC-1031); 25. Space station comforts (70-H-1453; 70-HC-1032). 26. Space station laboratory (70-H-1454; 70-HC-1033). 27. Space station activity (70-H-1455; 70-HC-1034); 28. Space shuttle orbiter (70-H-1456; 70-HC-1035). 29. Space shuttle alternate mission/EVA (70-H-1457; 70-HC-1036). 30. Space shuttle orbiter (70-H-1458; 70-HC-1037). 31. Space shuttle orbiter (70-H-1459; 70-HC-1038). 32. Space shuttle orbiter (70-H-1460); 70-HC-1039). 33. Space shuttle completes a mission (70-H-1461; 70-HC-1040). 34. Space shuttle refurbishment (70-H-1462; 70-HC-1041). 35. Space shuttle activity (70-H-1463; 70-HC-1042).

Paris, au Palais, chez Theodore Legras/ Jean de Nully/ veuve Delaulne/ Hague, Jean Neaulme, 1734-45. 8vo. Some volumes with stain and foxing. In part four is the title page replaced with the half title, which is lacking in the other. The preface to part 14 continues in part 15. Somewhat worn contemporary marbled paper boards, spines with beige and green labels. 22 volumes. Owner’s signature are on several title pages pasted over. From the library of Nils S. von Koch at Augerum. The complete collationation on demand. From part 11 (1738) printed in Haag by Jean Neaulme and with the authors name.Gayot de Pitaval, François (1673-1743) was a French lawyer and mostly known for this famous collection of criminal and scandalous cases, from the famous medieval ”The Return of Martin Guerres” to his own times. It was first published in 20 volumes in 1734-43 but several were immediatly reprinted and also followed by extra supplements, and by other works like ”Der neue Pitaval”, with the name Pitaval becoming a synonyme for collections of criminal cases. Many notable authors drew their plots from Pitaval's editions, for example, E. T. A. Hoffmann.Nils S. von Koch (1801-81) was an influential Swedish liberal jurist and politician, married to Francis Eliza Lewin from England. He was very engaged in the social questions of his time like education, penalty laws and prisons, voting rights etc. Thanks to his wife he also had a broad English network.

Venice, Aldi et Andreae Soceri, 1521. 8vo. 56,+ 310,+ (2) ll. The last leaf with the Aldus’ anchor. Reoccuring light stain in lower part, more heavy on the last 10 leaves, the last with minor hole, ink stain on leaf 65. Later limp vellum from 17th-century, spine with title later written in ink, fine gauffered gilt edges. Book plates of Biblioteca Rosales Bernate resp. Lars Olof Larsson. Renouard 1521:1. Schweiger p. 527. Dibdin II, p. 165. Moss p. 193 ”This edition is very rare and seldom found complete”.This is the fourth part of Aldus’s five volume set of Livy in 8vo which also contains Lucius Florus and Polybios, ”Polybii historiarum libri qvinqve in latiam conversi linguam, Nicolao Perotto interprete.” With the blank leaf 68 and the last leaf with the Aldine printer’s device, the anchor. Livius is in the first pagination, Lucius Florus on ll. 1-67 in the second and the five books of Polybios on ll. 69-310. Polybios is edited with a septarate preface by Giovanni Francesco Torresani and an introduction by the translator Nicoló Perotti (1429-80).The first part of Aldus’ Livius edition, ”Titi Liuii Patauini Decas prima”, was published in 1518, the second, Titi Liuii Patauini Decas tertia” in 1519, the third ”Titi Liuii Patauini Decas quarta” in 1520, and the fifth and final part in 1533. The editor to this important edition was Giovanni Francesco Torresani, the son of Aldus Manutius’ business partner Andreas Torresani of Asola. In the preface to the first part Giovanni Francesco complains about the counterfeit edition being published in Florence by the Giunti.

Utan ort, 1652. 4:o. ):(4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, 3A4-3D4, 3E3. Saknar det sista blanka bladet. Enstaka samtida understrykningar och marginalanteckningar med bläck. Hfrbd från slutet av 1800-talet, guldornerad rygg med röd titeletikett och upphöjda bind, alrotsmarmorerade pärmpapper. Ur Gustaf Holdo Stråles bibliotek, med hans exlibris, och ur Ericsbergs bibliotek. VD17 23:311817Z. Klemming, Sveriges förhållanden, s. 106. Warmholtz 8305. Av hävd åtnjöt staden Bremen nästan full självständighet gentemot det omgivande ärkestiftet som den formellt tillhörde. När det stod klart att området i Westfaliska freden skulle komma att tillfalla Sverige fruktade man naturligt nog att detta självbestämmande inte skulle komma att respekteras av svenskarna. Man utverkade då ett frihetsbrev av kejsaren, 1646, i vilket Bremens ställning som fri stad formaliserades. Detta senkomna dokument (som lär ska ha kostat Bremens borgerskap en ansenlig summa) erkändes dock inte av Sverige, orsakerna till vilket detaljerat redovisas i denna skrift. Frågan kom att leda till två väpnade konflikter mellan Bremen och Sverige (första och andra Bremiska krigen, 1654 respektive 1666) vilka båda ledde till kompromisser till Sveriges fördel, men där Bremens självständighet trots allt bestod. Hermann Conring (1606-81) var professor i medicin i Helmstad från 1637 och i politik från 1650, och ansågs vara en av sin tids främsta jurister. Han verkade dessutom åren 1650-51 i Sverige som drottning Kristinas livläkare.

Riga, Georg, Matth. Nöllers, (1689). 4to. (2),+ 168,+ (3) pp. Title with wood-cut vignette. Worn half calf from early 18th-century, spine with raised bands, marbled paper over wooden boards. Small holes on spine and front board with torns lower part. Title leaf with overdrawn owner’s signature, and signature of Gustaff Ad. Strömfelt(?) From the library of Ericsberg. VD17 23:240915T. Inleds med den kungliga resolutionen av 1671 och med en tryckt befallning av Clas Tott (1630-74) att åhöra förordningarna. Tott var generalguvernör över Livland 1665-72. Den mer sällsynta första, mindre utgåvan av Livländische Landesordnungen, en samling av svenska förordningar rörande Livland. En större utgåva publicerades i Riga 1705, med ett nytryck 1707.

Stockholm, Henrici Keysers, 1651. 12:o. *1, A12-G12, H6. Samtida pergamentband, med handtextad ryggtitel. Fina samtida bläckantedckningar på försätsbladen. Bortriven namnteckning på sista försättsbladet. Collijn sp. 530. Almquist s. 116. Första sällsynta upplagan. Den andra utkom 1665 och en tredje 1674. Johannes Loccenius (1598-1677) som föddes i Holstein blev doktor i juridik i Leiden 1625. Samma år blev han inkallad till Sverige av Gustav II Adolf till en professur i historia i Uppsala. År 1628 blir han professor Skytteanus, 1648 universitetsbibliotekarie, 1651 rikshistoriograf och 1667 assessor i antikvitetskollegiet. Som forskare i svensk rätt och som lärare introducerade Loccenius rättsvetenskapen i Sverige, och behovet av ett lexikon som definierade och översatte det ålderdomliga svenska rättsspråket till latin var stort. Loccenius arbetade även ständigt vidare på detta lexikon och varje ny upplaga innebar förbättringar. På slutet finns ett ”Explicatio perigrinarum aliquot dictionum feudalium”, i vilket en mängd feodala termer förklaras ha germanskt (d.v.s. langobardiskt och gotiskt) ursprung.

8vo. Each with (4) pp, one with seal and address. The English architect and archaeologist Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) took part in the excavations of the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina in 1811 and he was to become an important promoter in the archaeological field. He is nowdays -as an archaeologist- perhaps most remembered for removing the reliefs from the temple of Apollo at Bassae, which are now in the British Museum. When Cockerell returned from Greece he stayed with Gell in Naples, where they planned to write a book on Pompeii together, and he visited Pompeii with both Gell and in June 1815 with Mazois, whom he had met earlier in 1815 in Rome. In these two fine letters he tries to encourage Mazois that he must continue with the publishing of his monumental work on Pompeii. Cockerell has just received the first ”livraison”. Mazois (1783-1826) was finally able to publish the first two parts of the work, while the remaining parts were published by Franz Christian Gau.

Haag, Pierre de Hondt, (1742)-48. 4:o. Grav. front,+ (4),+ IV,+ VII-XXIII,+ (1),+ 533,+ (23); (4),+ 653,+ (38) s.+ stor utvikbar grav. plansch; (2),+ IV,+ 380 s.; (2),+ XVI,+ 320 s. Flera grav. vinjetter i texten. Titelbladen tryckta i rött och svart. Genomgående med lätta lager- och småfläckar. Första delen med återkommande fläckar i nederkant och en ful fläck s. 214-215, andra delen med liten fläck s. 510-511, del tre s. 59 och s. 257-258 i del fyra. Oskurna, i något nötta samtida bruna hfrbd, guldornerade ryggar med upphöjda bind och röda resp. gröna titel- och deltiteletiketter. Fyra volymer, volym ett med liten lagning på övre kapitäl och med en liten skada på bakre fals i volym fyra. Med exlibris från det von Tümpling’sche Fideikommis-bibliothen auf dem Thalstein bei Jena och med handskrivna etiketter på ryggarnas övre fält. Warmholtz 5954 not. Hesse 1407. Fint exemplar av den andra upplagan, titelupplaga, av den franska översättningen av Nordbergs stora historik över Karl XII, översatt av Carl Gustaf Warmholtz. Den tryckets 1742 av Husson i Haag och försågs 1748 med nya titelblad av De Hondt. I detta exemplar föreligger två dedikationsblad till S. L. Neale från Hondt, som normalt inte förekommer. Warmholtz var själv mycket kritisk till denna översättning och önskade att han hade haft arbetet ogjort, ”... jag hade kunnat nyttigare och angenämare använda min tid”. Även en tysk översättning utkom, åren 1745-51. Den graverade frontespisen med en bröstbild av Karl XII i en medaljong är graverad och tecknad av J. v. Schley. Vignetterna är graverade av alternerande denne och av P. Tanjé. Den stora planschen i andra delen visar slaget vid Poltava och del fyra innehåller "Liste des médailles frappées pendant la vie de Charles XII".

London, printed by Cooper and Graham, 1796. 8vo. xvi,+ 152 pp.+ 7 engr. plates with printed colours and gilt frames. Spotting, the first plate with paper repair in top margin with slight off-setting to the title page. Rebound full calf, contemporary boards with gilt frames and modern spine gilt with red label. From the library of Robert Ellis Cunliffe, with his book plate and with his gilt arms (a Greyhound dog) on the front board. Summers p. 264. The first ”Jeffery's Edition” of Walpole’s classical Gothic novel with ”...sophisticatedly executed color-printed plates and ornamental borders unique to each copy of the book. It is one of the monuments of English color printing at the end of the eighteenth century” (Sandro Jung). Re-issues was published in 1800, 1801 and 1804. ”The Castle of Otranto”, first published in 1764 is generally recognised as the first Gothic novel. It was published anonymously and claimed to be based on a sixteenth century manuscript from Naples.