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‎Acta Medica & Philosophica Hafniensia. Ann. 1671&16721673 1674.1675.1676." 1677.1678. 1679. Cum aeneis figuris/Figuris aeneis illustrata. 5 vols (all). - [ONE OF THE FIRST MEDICAL PERIODICALS]‎

‎Copenhagen, Peter Haubold, 1673-80. 4to. A very nice recent full calf pastiche binding with four raised bands and gilt red title-label to spine. blindstamped borders to boards. Old owner's inscription (""Sven Borgh/Lund 1840"") to title-page. A very nice and clean copy with only a bit of brownspotting and some evenly browned leaves. A tear (with no loss) to one leaf and one leaf (vol. V, L3) with a neat marginal restoration, far from affacting text. The following two leaves with minor loss to blank upper margin (far from affecting text). The large double-page folded plate with Stensen's lymphatic glands (vol. II, p. 240) with a neat restoration to verso, no loss. Annotations and corrections in the same early, neat hand throughout. Woodcut vignettes and initials. All four title-pages (part III & IV have a joint title-page) printed in red and black. (16), 316" (20), 376 (16), 174, 216" (8), 342 pp. With ab. 60 woodcut illustrations in the text, many of them quite large, two of them full-page, and all 62 engraved plates (of which two are on a folded leaf), four of which are folded. A truly excellent, fully complete copy with all five volumes and all 62 plates.‎

‎The very rare first edition of all five volumes of Bartholin's groundbreaking medical journal, which constitutes the first scientific periodical in Scandinavia and one of the very first medical periodicals in the world. Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the leading physicians of his time, now remembered, among many other things, as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. He ""was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe"". (Kronick, p. 81). He is considered ""a typical representative of the ""Curiosi naturae"" of the 17th century with all their learning, diligence and insatiable spirit of curiosity... He belonged with all his heart to the learned period, and yet he made an anatomical-physiological discovery of high mark when he found, and demonstrated, a hitherto entirely unknown vascular system in animals, and later in man - the lymphatic."" (Meisen, p. 25). He was a hugely influential and extremely productive man. Apart from his seminal discovery of the lymphatic system, he wrote a number of highly influential treatises, published a series of very influential anatomical papers, published his vast correspondence with other scientists, which has the character of a scientific archive at a time when there were not yet periodicals of natural science, provided us with the most extensive information about medicine in Denmark and about the conditions of the physicians, called attention to the significance of pathological anatomy, etc., etc., and ""[y]et the greatest importance is to be attached to his ""Acta medica philosophica Hafniensia"", in 5 volumes, that was published from 1673 to 1680, when he died. It is a scientific periodical, wide in its scope, one of the first of its kind."" (Meisen, p. 28). ""The Copenhagen biologists, under the quickening influence of Thomas Bartholin, produced five volumes of transactions known as the Acta medica et philosophica Hafniensia, which is now very rare."" (Hagenströmer)The leading contributors to the periodical, besides Bartholin himself, was the great Niels Steensen (Steno), Holger Jacobsen (Jacobaeus), Caspar Bartholin, Ole Borch (Borrichius), Ole Worm, Simon Paulli, Johan Rohde, Caspar Kölichen, etc., but the contributions were not confined to Danes or Scandinavians. For instance, the English anatomist Edward Tyson (1650-1708) also published here, as did several other internationally famous physicians and scientists. Interestingly, the ""Acta Hafniensia"", as it is known, has a great focus on the odd and curious, the astounding and marvelous, the unnatural and abnormal. Thorndike claims that ""Monsters and freaks of nature receive perhaps the most attention."" (vol. VIII, p. 234). However, the journal was far from limited to this. ""Thomas Bartholin describes the male mandrill illustrated by three anatomical plates (Male genitalia) and a figure of the entire animal, which had died of disease in the Royal Menagerie. Holger Jacobsen describes the scorpion, the salamander, snakes, several birds, the heron and the parrot (based on dissections and figures by Steno). He also investigated the fascinating and unique anatomical puzzle of the tongue of the black woodpecker (with plate). He gives an exceptionally interesting account of the mole cricket, Gryllotalpa, which is important as being one of the first in which the elongated segmental heart of insects is described and figured. This memoir is a commendable piece of zootomical research, and it is all the more outstanding because the subject of it was an invertebrate (Cole). The most outstanding contributions in the entire periodical, however, are the 12 by Niels Steensen (Steno), which are all printed here for the first time. Steensen was the most gifted of Bartholin's disciples, and when he returned to Denmark in 1672, he immediately took up anatomical demonstrations and dissections, the fruits of which he published here, in the first three volumes of the ""Acta Hafniensia"". His contributions constitute important finds in the fields of The Brain, The Heart, The Muscles and General Embryology. ""Steno's dissections of the muscles of the eagle, Aquila (1673) is one of the most remarkable essays in zootomy published up to his time, and it is perhaps more detailed and reliable than almost any other."" (Cole). (Gosch 24).In the paper ""Embryo monsto affinis Parisiis dissectus"" (Gosch 15), we have the first known description of the ""tetralogy of Fallot"" (Garrison & Morton no 2726.1). ""Bartholin was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe. He was professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen and later became Dean of its Medical Faculty. The publication seems also to have associated with the activities of a scientific society, although there seems to be little evidence for Neuberger's statement that the ""Acta"" were the proceedings of this society. The preface to the translation of the ""Acta"" which are included in the ""Collection Académique"" gives the following account of its origins: ""The Academy of Copenhagen was founded by Frederick III, who was aware how much glory it brought to him and to Denmark by encouraging the sciences and by attracting and holding scientists in his kingdom. One finds little to clarify the history of this academy, even in the five published volumes. The editing of the memoirs was principally under the care of Bartholin, the first Dane to publish medical observations. His aim was first to make a collection which embraced all parts of science"" but, deterred by the immensity of the task, he limited himself to the different parts of medicine and to those observations that were offered to him. His sponsor was Count Griffenfeld, the grand chancellor of Denmark, who obtained an edict enjoining all Danish physicians to render exact correspondence with the Dean of the Faculty of Copenhagen and to inform him of all singularities in medicine and natural history observed in different parts of the kingdom. Bartholin had great hopes for this collection and one can truly find in the five volumes which he published many discoveries which would have been lost or perhaps not have existed if this correspondence had not brought them to light and encouraged him."" The ""Acta"" consisted primarily in short original observations on medical and natural scientific subjects, although it also contained a few abstracts of books."" (Kronick p. 81). Waller: 712 (listing only 39 plates)Wellcome: II, p. 108 (listing 61 plates)Gosch: III, pp 58-59 & I, pp. 137-38Hagströmer Library has only vols. I-IVBartholin papers: Gosch: Bartholin 30-43Steensen-papers: Gosch: Steno 15-26" Garrison&Morton: 2726.1Cole, F.J.: A History of Comparative Anatomy, pp 369-93Thorndike: History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. VIII, Chapter 30Kronick, David A.: A History of Scientific and Technical Periodical 1665-1790, p. 57 & pp. 80-82Meisen: Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages, pp. 25-28‎

‎Om Oprindelsen til Uligheden blandt Menneskene, og dens Grundstøtter. Et kronet Priisskrivt. Oversat af det Franske af Salomon Soldin. - [FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ONE OF ROUSSEUS'S MAIN WORKS]‎

‎København, Soldins Forlag, 1800. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title-label. A bit of overall wear, mostly to extremities. Two ex libris to inside of front board, one being that of Anton Thomsen (Danish philosopher, 1877-1915), also with his signature and date on front free end-paper. Old owner's signature on title-page (A.D. Finns). Occasional marginal pencil notes and underlinings, otherwise nice and clean. (x), (2), 221 pp.‎

‎Scarce first Danish edition of one of Rousseau's main works, being one of the most important works of political thought in general: The ""Discourse on the Origins of Inequality"" (original Discours sur l’origine de l’inegalité, 1755) is considered Rousseau's first important work and the work that lays the foundation for his later thought.The work was translated by the editor and publisher Salomon Soldin (1774-1837) as his first independently published work. S. Soldin became famous for his work as editor, between 1804-1825 (and publisher, after 1811), of the renowned biweekly magazine Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn, which, in addition to his own numerous articles, contained contributions from well-known authors such as Rasmus Nyerup, K. L. Rahbek, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and others (Frøland 2026). It was one of the most important magazines during its lifetime, where many of the most important literary feuds were published.According to Sørensen (2016): ""The cult of Rousseau also reached Denmark, and it is well known how Johann Friedrich Sturensee raised Crown Prince Frederik, according to a literal interpretation of Émile. Nevertheless, Danish interest in Rousseau remained within a narrow cultural environment, and after the turn of the century, Rousseau's influence faded."" (original in Danish"" 2016: 5). Like Rousseau's ""Discourse on the Sciences and Arts "" from 1750, the ""Discourse on the Origins of Inequality"" was written as a response to an essay competition from the Academy of Dijon. This work is thus often referred to as the ""Second Discourse"". Unlike the first, this did not win him a prize, even though it is was also at the time considered a far more accomplished work and now counts as one of his three main works (together with the ""Contract Social"" and ""Émile""). It is in the present work that Rousseau begins to develop his theories of human social development and moral psychology and it is furthermore this work that for the first time clearly divides him from the Encyclopédiste mainstream of the French Enlightenment. The work is famous for Rousseau's portrayal of a multi-stage evolution of humanity from the most primitive condition to something like a modern complex society, which has gone down in history as one of the most important portrayal of man and society. But furthermore the work is famous for its long preface.When Rousseau had converted to Catholicism, he also lost his rights to the status of Citizen of Geneva. This right was regained in 1754, though, when he reconverted to Calvinism, and a large part of his ""Discourse on the Origins of Inequality"" consists in a dedication to the state of Geneva. This preface is probably one of the most famous prefaces in the history of modern thought as it constitutes, not only a highly ironical and satirical praise of his birthplace, but also a masterpiece of utopian political thought. Geneva is praised as the good republic worthy of admiration for the stability of its laws and institutions, the common spirit of its inhabitants, the well behaved women that inhabit it, and the good relations with neighbouring states. Not only is this piece of political fiction that provides us with an imminent insight into how a state should ideally be according to Rousseau an ironical description of what Geneva was not, it was also a fierce attack on Paris. According to OCLC, merely five libraries world-wide own a copy (two in Switzerland, and one in Denmark, UK, and Germany respectively). ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sources and further reading: Cranston, Maurice. ""The Social Contract"". Encyclopedia Britannica. 11 Mar. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Social-Contract. Accessed 1 July 2026.Frøland, Aleks. ""Salomon Soldin"". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Salomon_Soldin. Accessed 1 July 2026 Nygaard, B. (2011). Rousseau and Revolution in the Making of a Modern Political Culture: Denmark 1750-1850. I M. Thorup, & H. R. Lauritsen (eds.), Rousseau and Revolution (s. 114-129). Bloomsbury Academic. Sørensen, A. D. (2016). Opdragelsens filosofi: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierk. Aarhus Universitet. https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.133.116‎

‎Histoire d'Ala Al-Din ou la lampe merveilleuse. Texte Arabe Publié avec une notice sue quelques manuscripts de Mille et une Nuits. (""The Story of Ala Al-Din, or the Wonderful Lamp. Arabic text published with a note on some manuscripts of One Thousand... - [FIRST INDIVIDUAL PRINTING OF ALADDIN]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1888. Large 8vo. (185 x 276 mm). Uncut in a recent black half cloth with paper covered boards (same colour as the original wrappers) with the original wrappers (blank part to top and bottom cropped, so smaller format, but no loss of imprint) pasted on to front and back board respectively. Paper labels to spine. A bit of spotting and browning to the wrappers. Also internally some brownspotting and a few pencil underlinings in the text (a couple in red crayon). A few marginal pencil annotations in the Arabic text. (4), 70 (French text)" (4), 86 (with Arabic numbering) pp. ‎

‎Very rare first edition of the first individual printing of Aladdin in Arabic, published by French orientalist and Arabist H. Zotenberg (1836-1894). It is now known that Aladdin is an orphan tale – a tale with no known textual origins. It was first incorporated in One thousand and one nights in the first European translation by the French orientalist and archaeologist Antoine Galland (1646-1715). Galland’s main text source was a three-volume Syrian manuscript - also known as the Galland manuscript – which is broadly estimated to 1350-1450 and is considered the earliest extensive manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights. Galland’s translation comprises 12 volumes (1704-1717), of which some contain stories from oral and other sources, Aladdin being one of them. His translation remained standard until the mid-19th century, and parts were even retranslated into Arabic. Over a century later, while working as a manuscript curator at the French national library, the Arabist scholar Herman Zotenberg (1836-1894) came across Galland’s archived diaries. There it was noted that Galland’s source for Aladdin or The story of the lamp was Hanna Diyab, in 1709. Zotenberg thus claims to have published for the first time the Arabic version of the story, based on two manuscripts, both from learned men employed at the Royal Library in Paris: one from 1787 in the hand of a Syrian Christian priest, Dom Denis Chaves" the other, from 1805-8 by Michel ?abbagh. The latter claimed to be a copy of a manuscript written in Baghdad in 1703. However, researchers have suggested that both manuscripts were back-translations of Galland’s French version (see Irwin 2005). Zotenberg writes the following in his note to the Arabic text: “The text printed below [e.g. the Arabic text] is found in folios 94 vo to 147 in the manuscript of the National Library, Arabic Supplement 2523, copied by Michel Sabbagh, and covers nights 514 to 591 […]. In this edition, these incipits and explicits have not been reproduced.” (p. 69) “The tale of The Wonderful Lamp, as we possess it, is modern. It presents a fairly faithful picture of the customs of Egypt under the reign of the last Mamluk Sultans […]. Perhaps, even, its composition does not date back that far [-1517]. Moreover, it is less the subject of the story that charms the reader or listener than the way in which it is developed. In this respect, the tale of The Wonderful Lamp is a literary work of undeniable merit. Its lasting success is due to the talent of the Arab novelist and, in part, also to that of Galland […].” (p. 70) It is noteworthy that the first printed edition of One Thousand and One Nights in Arabic was published in 1775. However, no copy is known to have survived, although it was the basis for a later edition from 1835, possibly the first Arabic version published by a non-European. Further reading: Irwin, Robert (2005). The Arabian Nights. A Companion. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Razzaque, Arafat A. (2017, September 14). Who “wrote” Aladdin? The Forgotten Syrian Storyteller. Encycl. Britt.: ""The Thousand and One Nights"".‎

‎V.N. Finns Kravchenko: One Sail, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal. In Russian /Kra‎

‎V.N. Finns Kravchenko: One Sail, One Soul, One Dream, One Goal. In Russian /Kravchenko V.N. Finn: odin parus, odna dusha, odna mechta, odna tsel Moscow Sport 2016. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. The delivery of this book might be delayed beyond the usual timeframe due to extended processing and preparation before shipment, and faster shipping options are not offered. Please inform us if you need the order by a certain date or have a deadline. SKUalbdb0d7a53f0c1a8ba‎

‎ONE. One-Punch Man. Book 7. In Russian /ONE. One-Punch Man. Kniga 7.‎

‎ONE. One-Punch Man. Book 7. In Russian /ONE. One-Punch Man. Kniga 7. Graphic Novels. Manga. ABC. 2024. 416 You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKUalbf704de2c4229214b‎