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HOST, NICOLAUS THOMAS.

Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum. Vol. 1-3 (of 4). - [THE MOST MAGNIFENT WORK ON GRASSES EVER PRODUCED]

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Vindobonae (Vienna), Matth. Andrae Schmidt, 1801-1805. Large folio. (50x35,5 cm.) Bound in three contemporary half longgrained red morocco bindings, with gilt lettering to gilt. Corners and edges slightly rubbed, minor scratches to the marbled covers; overall an excellent copy, completely uncut and very nice and clean. Text as well as plates printed on fine, thick paper. Plates with tissue-guards and in very fine original hand-colouring. (8), 74; (1), 72; (1), 66 pp. + 300 (100+100+100) hand-coloured engraved plates.

A wonderful, tall, large, uncut copy printed on good paper of this magnificent work on grasses by the first director of the botanical garden in Vienna. A fourth volume, also comprising 100 plates, was issued 4 years later in 1809 - it is not present here. The beautiful plates are unsigned but drawn by Johannes Baptista Jebmayer (J. Ibmayer). The work is one of the finest works on grass ever produced, even while in production, it was praised for the "elegance and correctness" of the plates - "Both adjectioves are justified; the botanical details, in particular, are beautifully done, and often - to those of us who think of grass as being simply green - surprisingly colourful." (Coats)"The work is a product of the golden Age of Viennese botany, when Hapsburg patronage attracted many botanists, and paid for lavish publication of their work. The present work is dedicated to the Emperor Francis I and his subsidy was particularly necessary as grasses are a 'difficult' group with restricted appeal; no other work on the family can approach this one in magnificence." Nikolaus Host was personal physician to Franz I and director of the botanical garden in Vienna, which was founded by the emperor on the advice of Host. Host "established a botanic garden for the cultivation of Autrian plants, in the grounds of the Belvedere in Vienna, and travelled all over the country to collect them; but his great "Flora Austriaca" was still unfinished when he died at the age of seventy-three." (Coats). Blunt, Great Flower Books p. 103Nissen No. 935Pritzel No. 4285Coats no. 92
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Plantæ Utiliores; or Illustration of Useful…
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BURNETT, M.A.
Plantæ Utiliores; or Illustration of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine. 4 vols. - [SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF MISS BURNETT'S STUNNING MEDICINAL PLANTS]
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London, Whittaker & Co. 1842-1850. Large 4to. Bound in four beautiful, contemporary, uniform black full calf bindings with richly gilt spines, gilt red leather title-labels, and five raised bands, also gilt. Gilt double line borders to boards, all edges of boards gilt, and inner blindstamped dentelles. All edges gilt. Spines with some wear, corners slightly bumped, and some overall signs of use. Front hinge of vol. four professionally restored with black morocco. A lovely set. Vol. I: (26) pp. (being title-page + Subsribers List), 6 ff. of index (later, machine-written, and inserted between the Subscibers List and the first plate) + 60 plates, all plates accompanied by text, between 1 and 3 ff. for each; Vol II:title-page, 68 plates, accompanied by 2 pp. of text for each; Vol III: title-page, dedication-leaf, and 64 plates, each accompanied by a leaf of text; Vol. IV: Title-page + 68 plates, each accompanied by two pp. of text. Text-leaves unnumbered. Most plates numbered in pencil in upper right corner. A wonderful, fresh, and clean copy with all 260 fine hand-colored lithographed plates, with practically no offsetting or foxing, all with tissue guards. With a gift-bookplate from Mary C. L. Williams to Margaret Anne Hussey, dated 1915, to all four volumes. (Chabot's Zinc, Skinner st.). First and only edition of this beautiful book of medicinal plants, with 260 magnificent plates my Miss M. A. Burnett in stunning hand-colouring. Mary Ann Burnett was one of the foremost femaile Victorian-era botanists, as well as author, and illustrator. She is primarily famous for her stunning botanical artwork, most natable of which is the grand four-volume Plantae Utiliores. The 260 plates in this wonderful work are known for their scientific precision as well as their beauty and vibrant colours. This Victorian-era work of medicinal plants with its scientific descriptions and accounts of the medicinal and culinary uses of the plants brings to mind the herbals of preceding centuries, but has a rare artistic appeal - and is the work of a female artist and scientist. Part of the text is by botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Miss Burnett's brother. The work is rarely found in coplete state as here. BMC NH. Vol. 1, p.291. has only 130 plates. Nissen; 305; Pritzel 1400. "Most of the text was drawn from notes left by Miss Burnett's brother G.T.B." (The Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Liechtenstein. Sotheby's Sales Catalogue. 1975. No. 118). Sitwell: p. 83.
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Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum.…
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HOST, NICOLAUS THOMAS.
Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum. Vol. 1-3 (of 4). - [THE MOST MAGNIFENT WORK ON GRASSES EVER PRODUCED]
Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S
lyn62793
Vindobonae (Vienna), Matth. Andrae Schmidt, 1801-1805. Large folio. (50x35,5 cm.) Bound in three contemporary half longgrained red morocco bindings, with gilt lettering to gilt. Corners and edges slightly rubbed, minor scratches to the marbled covers; overall an excellent copy, completely uncut and very nice and clean. Text as well as plates printed on fine, thick paper. Plates with tissue-guards and in very fine original hand-colouring. (8), 74; (1), 72; (1), 66 pp. + 300 (100+100+100) hand-coloured engraved plates. A wonderful, tall, large, uncut copy printed on good paper of this magnificent work on grasses by the first director of the botanical garden in Vienna. A fourth volume, also comprising 100 plates, was issued 4 years later in 1809 - it is not present here. The beautiful plates are unsigned but drawn by Johannes Baptista Jebmayer (J. Ibmayer). The work is one of the finest works on grass ever produced, even while in production, it was praised for the "elegance and correctness" of the plates - "Both adjectioves are justified; the botanical details, in particular, are beautifully done, and often - to those of us who think of grass as being simply green - surprisingly colourful." (Coats)"The work is a product of the golden Age of Viennese botany, when Hapsburg patronage attracted many botanists, and paid for lavish publication of their work. The present work is dedicated to the Emperor Francis I and his subsidy was particularly necessary as grasses are a 'difficult' group with restricted appeal; no other work on the family can approach this one in magnificence." Nikolaus Host was personal physician to Franz I and director of the botanical garden in Vienna, which was founded by the emperor on the advice of Host. Host "established a botanic garden for the cultivation of Autrian plants, in the grounds of the Belvedere in Vienna, and travelled all over the country to collect them; but his great "Flora Austriaca" was still unfinished when he died at the age of seventy-three." (Coats). Blunt, Great Flower Books p. 103Nissen No. 935Pritzel No. 4285Coats no. 92
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Mikaël. - [DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.]
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BANG, HERMAN.
Mikaël. - [DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.]
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København & Kristiania, Gyldendal, 1904. 8vo. Indbundet i et samtidigt halvlæderbind med forgyldt rygtitel. Ryg falmet og med kantslid. Med egenhændig, uadresseret dedikation fra Bang, skrevet på tværs af smudstitelbladet: "Nu kan jeg dø roligt, for jeg har sét en stor Kærlighed. / 30.9.1905 Herman Bang." Ren og pæn indvendig. Dedikationseksemplar af originaludgaven af et af Bangs hovedværker. Citatet er Mesterens sidste replik på dødslejet, bogens s. 375. Herring, p. 568 (30.03.1904).Posselt, Bibliofiler 21, Paul Sandberg samling af Herman Bang-dedikationer, nr. 63.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a…
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MALTHUS, T.R.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occations. A New Edition, very much Enlarged. - [THE MAIN WORK ON POPULATION]
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London, Printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803. Large 4to. Later brown hcalf with four raised bands, single gilt lines and red leather title-label to spine. First three and last 14 leaves a bit brownspotted, title-page and last two leaves marginally repaired at hinge, otherwise a very nice, clean, and solid copy. VIII, (4), 610 pp. The Great Quarto-edition of Malthus' milestone work, the first and most influential book on population. Although being the second edition, after the anonymously printed first of 1798, it is so significantly altered, revised, and expanded that it is considered a new work rather than a new edition. Malthus himself also thought of it as such. It is nearly four times the length of the 1798 essay, the title has been changed (the title of the first: "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculation of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers"), and it is published with Mathus' name as the author, not anonymously. All later editions were minor revisions of this heavily expanded and altered second one. "In the course of this inquiry, I found that much more had been done, than I had been aware of, when I first published the essay. The poverty and misery arising from a too rapid increase of population, had been distinctly seen, and the most violent remedies proposed, so long ago as the times of Plato and Aristotle. And of late years, the subject had been treated in such a manner, by some of the French economists, occasionally by Montesquieu, and, among our own writers, by Dr. Franklin, Sir James Steuart, Mr. Arthur Young, and Mr. Townsend, as to create a natural surprise, that it had not excited more of the publick attention" (Preface to the second edition, p. IV). The controversial views, because of which the work became so influential, are most provocative and eyeopening in the second edition, in which Malthus for instance for the first time advocates moral restraint (meaning sexual abstinence and late marriage) and elaborately explains his comparison between the increase of population and food. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe.... "Parson" Malthus, as Cobbett dubbed him, was for many, a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted... But his influence on social policy, whether for good or evil, was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." (PMM 251). Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), called the "enfant terrible" of the economists, was an English demographer, statistician and political economist, who is best known for his groundbreaking views on population growth, presented in his "Essays on the Principle of Population", which is based on his own prediction that population would outrun food supply, causing poverty and starvation. Among other things this caused the legislation, which lowered the population of the poor in England. Malthus actually turned political, economic, and social thought upside down with this work, which has caused him to be considered one of the 100 most influential persons in history (Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential Persons in History, 1978). Malthus was, naturally, condemned by Marx and Engels, and opposed by the socialists universally, but the work had an enormous impact on not only politics, economics, and social sciences, but also on natural sciences. For instance, both Darwin and Wallace considered Malthus a main source in their development of the theory of natural selection, considering him a great philosopher and his Essay on Population one of the most important books ever. "Malthus’s idea of man’s "Struggle for existence" had decisive influence on Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. Other scientists related this idea to plants and animals which helped to define a piece of the evolutionary puzzle. This struggle for existence of all creatures is the catalyst by which natural selection produces the "survival of the fittest"... Thanks to Malthus, Darwin recognised the significance of intraspecies competition between populations of the same species (e.g. the lamb and the lamb), not just interspecies competition between species (e.g. the lion and the lamb). Malthusian population thinking also explained how an incipient species could become a full-blown species in a very short timeframe." The second edition must be considered the most important of all the editions. This is far more a work on the problems of over-population than it is a response to Godwin and Condorcet on their works (whic is the main concern of the first edition). "Not so much shocked by his own conclusions, in his "Essay on Population" (first ed. 1798), as driven by a naturally inquiring mind, he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics and then published a second edition (1803)." (Catlin, A History of the Political Philosophers, 1939, p. 377). PMM 251 (first edition).
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Skibet, Vaudeville i een Act. Bearbeidet efter…
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ANDERSEN, H.C.
Skibet, Vaudeville i een Act. Bearbeidet efter Scribes og Mazeres "La Quarantaine". - [ONE OF THE SCARCEST ANDERSEN-TITLES]
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Kjöbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1831. Bound in a very nice, elegant brown half calf binding with gilt spine (Kyster). Upper edge gilt. Partly uncut and printed on good paper. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. A very nice copy. Exceedingly scarce first edition of Andersen's second theatre-performed piece. The work is extremely rare and almost never turns up in the trade. Apart from his debut book, "Ungdoms-Forsøg"/"Palnatokes Grav", this is presumably the scarcest Andersen-title. Hans Christian Andersen inaugurated his dramatical production with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn" in 1829, a genre that came to mean a lot to him, and for which he continued producing plays for forty years, amounting to about as many plays. The question as to acceptance from the theatre and the the set-up of the plays, however, -especially at the beginning of his career - would often postpone the actual theatre debut by many months, sometimes years. And thus, although Andersen had translated/ re-written two other plays for the stage, before he re-wrote "Skibet" ("The Ship"), after Scribe and Mazere's "La Quarantaine", "Skibet" came to be the very first re-worked play by Andersen that was performed at the theatre and only the second play at all, following his own "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn". Together with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn", "Skibet" constitutes his dramatical/theatre-debut and was of immense importance to him. After "Skibet", he continued to re-write foreign pieces for the stage and gained more and more success in this endeavour. BFN 166.
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Stille Eksistenser. Fire Livsbilleder (Min Gamle…
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BANG, HERMAN.
Stille Eksistenser. Fire Livsbilleder (Min Gamle Kammerat. Enkens Søn. Hendes Højhed. Ved Vejen.) - [DEDIKATIONSEKSEMPLAR.]
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Kjøbenhavn, Andr. Schous, 1886. 8vo. Indbundet i et samtidigt helshirtbind med forgyldt titel på ryg. Ryg, og især kapitæler, med en lidt slitage. Med egenhændig dedikation from bang skrevet på tværs af titelblad: "Isca Jørgensen / Venligst Minde om Herman Bang / August 89". Indvendig ren og pæn. Nydeligt dedikationseksemplar af et af Bangs hovedværker. Det har ikke været muligt at identificere modtageren. Posselt, Bibliofiler 21, Paul Sandberg samling af Herman Bang-dedikationer, nr. 18.
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